Chapter 18: Sasuke's Loss
"What! Stupid Sasuke, you only know how to act cool!"
Naruto, who was outside the field, saw Sasuke's arrogant appearance, and immediately felt displeased.
He shouted, "Ryosuke, teach Sasuke a lesson."
Ryosuke turned his head and smiled at Naruto, followed by looking at Sasuke on the opposite side.
"Stop talking nonsense, let's start directly." Sasuke said impatiently.
Hearing this, Ryosuke also nodded.
Then the two formed the seal of opposition, and the battle began.
The figures of the two disappeared at the same time.
Boom! Boom!
There were two collision sounds in the air.
The two young figures punched and kicked each other, and in the blink of an eye they had exchanged several moves.
"He's faster than me, and he's stronger than me. I'm no match for him in taijutsu."
After fighting for a while, Sasuke had realized that it was impossible to defeat Ryosuke by relying on taijutsu alone.
However, the ninjas of the Uchiha clan have never relied on taijutsu to fight against an enemy.
Ninjutsu and genjutsu are the real skills of the Uchiha clan.
But, Sasuke hasn't awakened his Sharingan yet, so he doesn't have any genjutsu in his arsenal.
But when it comes to ninjutsu, he has already learned the Fire release ninjutsu of the Uchiha clan - Great Fireball Technique!
"Ryosuke, try to defeat me."
Sasuke instantly made a clone to confuse Ryosuke, and then he pulled back and created some distance.
He then quickly formed seals with both hands.
Sasuke's seal making speed was faster than Ryosuke.
At a speed of about 4 seals per second, the seals of the Great Fireball Technique was quickly completed.
"Fire release: Great Fireball Technique!"
A fireball with a diameter of more than one meter was ejected by Sasuke and it quickly flew towards Ryosuke in front.
"My God! It's a ninjutsu!
"It's Fire release. Sasuke knows Fire release ninjutsu."
"It's too bad, Ryosuke will lose."
"He will lose. I didn't expect Uchiha Sasuke to know a Fire release ninjutsu. This is incredible. I have an uncle who is already a Chūnin, but he has only learned two C-rank ninjutsu."
The students around were shocked by Sasuke's Great Fireball Technique.
Sasuke had never shown his ability to use ninjutsu in previous duels.
It had always been easy for Sasuke to win the championship only by using shurikens and taijutsu.
But today, Sasuke, who knew that he couldn't match Ryosuke in taijutsu, finally showed his ability to use ninjutsu.
"Not good! Ryosuke!"
Iruka standing outside the field did not expect that Sasuke had already learned C-rank Fire release ninjutsu such as the Great Fireball Technique.
Seeing that the fireball was about to engulf Ryosuke over there, he immediately wanted to rush to save him.
After all, for the students of Ninja School, the lethality of C-rank ninjutsu is still too terrifying.
If one is not careful, it may cause death.
At that time, he, the teacher, will also be to blame.
But at this moment——
"Water release: Waterfall Basin Technique!"
Facing the Great Fireball Technique in front of him, Ryosuke could actually dodge directly, after all, he had not shown his true speed from the beginning.
He has only used about 50% of his speed and strength.
However, Ryosuke did not choose to escape.
When Sasuke performed the seals of the Great Fireball Technique, he had noticed the movement of Sasuke's hand, and guessed that Sasuke should be preparing to use the Great Fireball Technique to end the battle.
So he also used his water release ninjutsu at the same time.
It's just that Ryosuke's seal speed was slower than Sasuke's by a bit.
In the end, he guessed right.
Sasuke really intended to end the fight with the Great Fireball Technique.
However, Sasuke apparently did not expect that Ryosuke had also learned a C-rank ninjutsu.
And it happened to be a Water release ninjutsu that counters Fire release ninjutsu.
The moment the fireball approached Ryosuke, an astonishing stream of water spit out from Ryosuke's mouth, forming a large water curtain that enveloped the attacking fireball.
When the water and fire collided, a stream of water vapor rose instantly.
With the cover of water vapor, Ryosuke also instantly bypassed the two ninjutsu in the middle, came to the position behind Sasuke, and stabbed the back of Sasuke's neck with the wooden kunai in his hand.
Boom!
The moment Sasuke's body was stabbed, it turned into a wooden stake and flew out.
Then, the real Sasuke appeared behind Ryosuke, and a side kick instantly hit Ryosuke's body.
Boom!
"What!"
Sasuke opened his eyes wide, looking in disbelief at Ryosuke who had turned into a wooden stake in front of him.
At this time, a hand was placed on Sasuke's shoulder, and a wooden kunai was placed in front of his neck.
"Sorry. You lost."
Ryosuke's voice sounded in his ears.
Sasuke's eyes widened, and he froze in place.
He thought his reaction was fast enough.
In the second after Ryosuke cast the water release ninjutsu, he immediately realized that Ryosuke was likely to launch a sneak attack when the water vapor rises.
So Sasuke also deliberately cooperated and left a double on the spot, standing there instead of himself as the target.
It turned out that Ryosuke had actually predicted his prediction.
He thought he was on the third floor, and Ryosuke was on the second floor, but he didn't expect that he was indeed on the third floor, but Ryosuke was on the fourth floor.
"How did you know that was a substitute?" Sasuke asked unwillingly.
Hearing this, Ryosuke also smiled and said, "I didn't know, but I never underestimate my opponent, so I don't mind making extra preparations."
Sasuke: "..."
Sasuke, who was speechless. He did not expect that he would lose because of this cautious mentality of Ryosuke.
This shouldn't be the way a ten-year-old child should do things, right?
"Winner, Ryosuke!"
At this time, Iruka outside the court also announced the result.
"These two children are really surprising!"
Iruka looked at Ryosuke and Sasuke over there. If Sasuke's performance was expected, then Ryosuke's performance today really scared him a little.
He thought he would be helpless against the Great Fireball, but he didn't expect this kid to have such an excellent Water release ninjutsu up his sleeve.
He performed that water release ninjutsu even better than him.
Iruka never thought that Ryosuke, the certified second to last in the class, would actually be able to reach this point one day.
He even beat the top student of the class, Uchiha Sasuke.
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