Hearing Kamishiro Kirito's call, Seimei and Reina looked at each other before turning their head at the man walking toward them simultaneously.
Seimei let out a sheepish smile and asked, "What is it, Kirito-sensei?"
Kirito stood before them, crossing his arms, and gave Seimei and Reina a scrutinizing look. "You're going to spar again, aren't you?"
Reina nodded. "Yes, this time, we will use the Academy Training Ground No.4." Then, she paused for a moment before continuing. "It should be empty, right?"
Kirito sighed. "Yes, it's empty. But that's not the problem."
Kirito narrowed his eyes and said, "But do you know how much damage you two cause whenever you spar with each other? I can't even remember how many training grounds the academy had to repair because of your actions."
This time, Seimei interjected, "Yes. But Sensei, isn't it the Academy's duty to provide its students with the environment and resources to grow stronger?"
Kirito held his right hand in front of Seimei, signaling him to stop.
Then, he replied with an exasperated look on his face, "I am not asking you not to spar. Just keep it within limits."
"Do me a favor. Don't destroy the school property again, you battle maniacs! You can spar, but you are limited to using only C-rank or lower-ranked Jutsu. Using any Ninjutsu or Taijutsu technique above C-rank is banned."
"And don't even think about supercharging your Ninjutsu."
"No blue flames or purple lightning either."
"Plus, you will only spar for ten minutes at most, regardless of the final outcome of the battle."
Hearing this, Reina and Seimei wanted to complain, but they stopped themselves after seeing the deadpan expression on Kamishiro Kirito's face.
Kirito's looks were literally screaming, 'If you don't agree, I will personally fight you to death, even if I can't win, and then I will kick you out of the school.'
Yeah, his expression screamed murder.
It was better not to provoke this man anymore.
Fighting with C-rank Ninjutsu worked for them, too.
Having a pure close-combat spar with low-rank Ninjutsu every once in a while was fine. It would help them refine their anti-personnel combat skills further.
They were not losing out.
So, to hone their close-combat skill, they agreed with Kamishiro Kirito's condition.
Not at all because they were afraid of trouble.
In the end, Seimei and Reina both agreed to follow Kamishiro Kirito's condition and moved to the training ground.
They hadn't had a good spar with each other for a while. It would be a good chance to gauge the other party's progress and their own strengths.
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In an empty academy training ground, Seimei and Reina stood ten meters apart, stretching their bodies to loosen their muscles.
"So, are you ready?" asked Seimei as he finished his stretching exercise.
Reina also finished her stretches, breathed out, and closed her eyes.
At the next moment, she opened her eyes. Her eyes, which were originally as black as night, turned bright red, glowing with a subtle crimson hue.
Three pitch-black tomoe in her crimson irises rotated slightly as she stared intently at Seimei's ocean-blue eyes with beautiful, tendril-like flower patterns, glowing with a royal blue light.
She tilted her head with a bright smile and replied, "Always!"
Seimei felt that this girl was indeed cute, especially her bright smile. [A/N:I would like to know if Seimei would still think the same after discovering that Reina's mental age was at least six hundred years.]
But he quickly wiped out the distracting thoughts from his head. Instead, he focused on Reina, whom he would be fighting in a few moments.
With that, Seimei declared, "Alright. Regardless of the result, we will only battle for ten minutes, or Kirito-sensei will surely come after us. Then, let's get started."
However, before Seimei even finished saying the word 'started', he already hurled multiple kunai at Reina.
Seeing this, Reina let out an amused smile. "You aren't expecting these cheap tricks to fool my eyes, are you, Seimei?"
While saying that, she also threw several kunai of her own to intercept the incoming kunai.
Clang! Cling! Clang! Clang! Clang! Cling!
Kunai after kunai collided mid-air, causing loud metallic noises to echo in the training ground.
At the same time, Seimei's hands crackled with blue electricity discharge.
Lightning Release: Lightning Rat Violent Quake
The discharged electricity condensed several destructive disks of lightning, which immediately shot toward Reina. Those disks of lightning had enough momentum to knock people back, cause lightning damage, and leave the ninjas paralyzed.
But Reina was ready.
She used just one hand seal and puffed her chest.
Wind Release: Great Breakthrough
Reina blew wind from her mouth, which soon turned into a violent gust.
Crackle! Crackle! Whoosh!
The wind chakra in Reina's Jutsu easily countered the destructive disks of lightning. Thanks to the elemental disadvantage, the lightning disks were quickly dispersed with a blooming lightning firework before they could even reach Reina.
Whoosh! Whoosh!
The sound of a sharp blade cutting through the air was heard just as Reina stopped casting her Great Breakthrough technique.
The three magatama in her Sharingan spun as she saw two shurikens, covered in dense wind release chakra that created sharp vacuum blades around them, increasing the shuriken's lethality and damage range, coming at her rapidly.
Yeah, those were the same, lethal vacuum shuriken blades the old Danzo used against Sasuke in the original Naruto Anime series.
The fan-like, circular vacuum blades around the spinning shuriken were so lethal that they could cut through iron weapons and thick rocks like a hot knife through a block of butter.
It was best to dodge them or redirect them.
Reina dodged one while throwing two kunai toward the last one coming her way.
Cling!
Just as the two kunai reached under the horizontal vacuum blade shuriken, the kunai clashed with each other, causing one kunai to hit the inner ring of the shuriken.
Clang!
With another sharp metallic noise, the kunai successfully redirected the vacuum blade shuriken's trajectory.
But Reina didn't have time to breathe in relief.
Seimei had already charged another shuriken with wind chakra and circular vacuum blades before hurling it at Reina at a diagonal angle.
Unlike old Danzo in the anime, Seimei didn't even need to breathe wind chakra from his mouth to create the vacuum blades around the shuriken.
With his expert manipulation of wind chakra, he directly released wind chakra from his palm's tenketsu and skillfully controlled it to create rotating vacuum blades around the shuriken in the blink of an eye.
It shortened his Jutsu casting time, giving the enemies fewer chances to dodge his vacuum blade shurikens.
Evidently, Reina was now in a pinch.
However, she showed no fear. She let the incoming vacuum blade shuriken hit her. And the moment the extended vacuum blades touched her, she turned into a log of wood with a puff of smoke.
Obviously, Reina had dodged the attack, forcing the innocent wooden log to be cut in two pieces.
However, Seimei, who had already located Reina's position with his Tenseigan, had started gathering golden bolts of lightning around him.
Lightning Release: Lightning Ball
Twelve basketball-sized orbs of brilliant golden lightning were condensed around Seimei, who hurled them all at Reina.
But the magatama in Reina's Sharingan spun again as she dodged eight lightning orbs narrowly before jumping high in the air to dodge the remaining four lightning balls.
Crackle! Crackle! Booom! Boom!
Lightning balls smashed against the ground, leaving behind shallow craters that still had lingering lightning sparks.
Meanwhile, Reina, who was in the air, formed a hand seal.
Fire Release: Phoenix Sage Fire Technique
Reina exhaled numerous tennis ball-sized, blooming fireballs at Seimei, who had just finished casting his Ninjutsu.
Watching the incoming fireballs, Seimei chose the most efficient option.
He simply dodged them.
Boom! Boom!
The fireballs missed their target and hit the ground, triggering a blast that kicked up quite a lot of dust and flames in the air.
As the dust was cleared, Seimei could see tens of shadow craters and lingering flames on the ground.
And by the time Seimei dodged the fireballs, Reina had also landed on the ground and stared at Seimei with her pair of Sharingan.
Seimei also met her gaze boldly.
A smile tugged in the corners of his lips. "So, shall we start the second round?"
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