Young Obito was a well-behaved, obedient boy.
After listening to the off-field coach, Madara Uchiha, he actually activated the Hashirama cells in his body and used Wood Release to seal off the entire goal completely!
"Ref."
A ninja from a certain clan could not help speaking up. "Blocking the goal like that has to count as a serious foul, right?"
"What a pain," Shikamachi Nara said, rubbing the little ponytail sticking straight up from his head. "We're ninjas, after all. This much doesn't count as a foul."
This was so absurd it had gone beyond speechless and circled right back home.
"He actually used my clan's secret Wood Release technique to block the goal! Scoring is definitely going to be much harder now." The Senju ninja was almost furious enough to explode.
Kushina Uzumaki's presence was no weaker than Madara Uchiha's. She yanked up her long skirt and, even more domineering than Madara-sama himself, planted one foot on the back of a front-row spectator's chair.
The goalkeeper for the Senju-Uzumaki team was a young boy from the Uzumaki Clan.
"Perfect!" Kushina roared aggressively.
She shouted at the young Uzumaki boy, "Use Fūinjutsu!!! Seal the entire goal!!! Let's see how they score now!!"
"Tsk! We should've brought Mito! She already knows how to use Adamantine Sealing Chains!!" Ashina Uzumaki clicked his tongue. "Forget it, Jin's barrier technique isn't bad either."
The boy named Jin Uzumaki took the order and immediately used Fūinjutsu to seal off the entire goal.
Neither Togekiss nor Bulbasaur has anything on how ridiculous you are!
The Uchiha and Hyūga clans nearly spat blood. They had forgotten the Uzumaki Clan could use Fūinjutsu, and they had never imagined they would be shameless enough to seal the entire goal inside the Twelve-Seal Formation.
Hashirama Senju, watching from the sidelines, burst into laughter. "Good thing they don't have enough chakra. If they had used the Four Red Yang Formation, that really would have been troublesome."
The audience was completely baffled by this ninja soccer match.
How were they supposed to keep playing now?!
They had already prepared themselves to watch both sides waste an entire day without either team scoring.
But who could have expected that.
On the green field, Sasuke Uchiha got the ball again and actually kicked it toward his own goal?!
"Damn! Do you Uchiha specialize in shooting at your own goal?!"
"Good thing there's Wood Release. So Wood Release wasn't defending against the Senju and Uzumaki, it was defending against the Uchiha themselves?!"
"Hahahahaha! Have the Uchiha's eyes stopped working? He actually kicked the ball toward his own side?"
The field burst into laughter.
But then!
Sasuke Uchiha made a few ninja hand signs to Obito Uchiha, and Obito Uchiha, combining them with his special Mangekyō Sharingan, immediately understood Sasuke's plan.
He caught Sasuke's pass with his chest!
After all, the Wood Release was blocking the goal!
As the goalkeeper, Young Obito directly abandoned his own goal and dribbled the ball toward the Senju-Uzumaki goal!
"Stop him!"
The brothers Young Hashirama and Young Tobirama reacted first!
Young Tobirama was even faster. He went in with a sliding tackle, trying to trip Young Obito!
Eek.
The Mangekyō Sharingan put Young Obito fully into a state of Intangibility! Even the ball at his feet was inside Kamui's Dimension!!
No matter how fast Young Tobirama was, his sliding tackle hit absolutely nothing!
"What?!"
"What's going on?!"
"It's Intangibility!!"
Adult Obito shot to his feet on the sidelines in excitement!
"That's the Intangibility effect of Double Kamui!!!"
Kakashi, whose stance was not especially firm because he had students on both teams, also clenched his fists.
Before anyone else could react!
On the green field, the young Obito Uchiha passed straight through every obstacle and arrived directly in front of the Senju-Uzumaki team's goal!
"Bang!"
"Whoosh!"
The only thing that could make the Uzumaki Clan's Fūinjutsu seem so useless was Obito's Mangekyō Sharingan Space-Time Ninjutsu!
The ball passed straight through the Uzumaki Clan's Fūinjutsu and flew into the Senju-Uzumaki team's goal!!
The spectators on the sidelines still had not understood what had happened and were all frozen in place.
Picking up another freshly roasted sweet potato, Taishi Akimichi calmly announced, "One point for Uchiha-Hyūga. 2:1. Senju-Uzumaki still leads."
Madara Uchiha curled his lips, folded his arms, and sat back down in his chair.
"Hmph! Now that's more like it."
The spectators replayed that goal in their minds. The image of the white-haired boy's sliding tackle passing right through the Uchiha goalkeeper, and the moment the ball pierced through the Fūinjutsu and entered the goal.
"The Fūinjutsu didn't work?!"
"I remember now! Isn't that kid Obito Uchiha from the footage? The masked man?! His ability is disappearing all of a sudden like a ghost!!!"
Competition always has a strange kind of magic.
Before they knew it, the other ninja clans, the civilians, the wealthy merchants, and even the Daimyō were getting completely caught up in the match.
The current score was two points for Senju-Uzumaki and one point for Uchiha-Hyūga.
Both sides calmed down and started thinking about how to break through the other side's defense and score more points.
Obito Uchiha's Intangibility was truly troublesome.
Before they could think of a countermeasure, he had already scored another goal.
Two to two! The Uchiha-Hyūga team had tied the score!
"Against Obito's offense, the Senju-Uzumaki team has no answer at all! Especially now that the ball is firmly under Uchiha-Hyūga's control. Senju-Uzumaki's early two-point advantage has already been erased. Will Senju-Uzumaki find a way to stop them from taking the lead next?!"
Tobi Yamanaka used the Mind Transmission Technique to provide commentary, and his passionate play-by-play pushed everyone's curiosity to the limit, making the atmosphere even hotter than before.
Even Minato Namikaze was starting to wish he could use the Flying Thunder God Technique to join the match.
Naruto walked over to Young Kakashi. "I have a plan."
The two boys whispered a few words to each other, then bumped fists.
Adult Obito said, "What are they discussing? When you were a kid, you didn't have my Sharingan. There's no way you could stop my Intangibility goal."
"Who knows? But Naruto always manages to surprise people when he's backed into a corner." Adult Kakashi was starting to look forward to it too, wondering how Naruto would break through Young Obito's Intangibility and Wood Release.
Young Hashirama and Young Tobirama charged ahead, tying down Young Madara and Young Izuna.
Myoko spat out a Great Fireball to help his two older brothers break free, but it collided with Tobirama's Water Release and instantly created a large cloud of steam.
Tennin used Eight Trigrams: Palm Rotation, spinning like a rotating fan, and blew away all the steam.
Young Kakashi, holding the Lightning Release: Shiden, rushed toward the Uchiha-Hyūga goal. It looked like he intended to destroy the Wood Release covering the goal.
Goalkeeper Young Obito carried the ball toward the Senju-Uzumaki goal, preparing to use the same method to score a third goal.
Naruto's numerous Shadow Clones blocked him.
Sasuke hesitated for half a second between assisting Obito and intercepting Young Kakashi, then ultimately chose to assist Obito by keeping Naruto Uzumaki occupied.
A large number of Naruto's Shadow Clones were defeated by Sasuke, and Obito had already brought the ball in front of the Senju-Uzumaki goal.
At the same time, Young Kakashi had also reached the Uchiha-Hyūga goal.
Young Obito kicked the ball!
"It's in!!!"
The field and the stands both erupted into cheers!
However...
The sharper spectators noticed that Taishi Akimichi still had not said anything?!
At the same time, Naruto Uzumaki's voice rang out.
"Rasengan!!"
The Young Kakashi charging at the Uchiha goal had turned into Naruto Uzumaki?! The Shiden in his hand had also become a Rasengan!
The Rasengan smashed through the Wood Release on impact!
Kakashi, who had disguised himself as one of the Uchiha boys on the field, dropped his disguise at that moment, caught the ball sent over by Naruto's Shadow Clone, and performed a bicycle kick in midair, shooting it straight into the Uchiha-Hyūga goal, where even the goalkeeper had run off!
"Wait! Why."
"What is going on?!!"
Taishi Akimichi finished his roasted sweet potato, then took out some other snacks and started eating.
Before eating, he did not forget to announce, "Senju-Uzumaki team scores one point. They lead three to two."
"Wait! Why doesn't the goal I just scored count?!!" Young Obito went to argue with the referee.
Shikamachi Nara pointed at the goal. "Take a look. Did it go in?"
Bang.
The goal Obito Uchiha had kicked the ball into was Naruto Uzumaki's Shadow Clone!
And the real Senju-Uzumaki goal...
Jin Uzumaki removed the Fūinjutsu, and only then did the real goal appear!
The boy named Jin Uzumaki rubbed his nose. "Don't underestimate the Uzumaki Clan's Fūinjutsu! The Uzumaki Clan's Fūinjutsu isn't limited to defensive barriers!"
He looked a little like Nagato as a child, cute and gentle, but actually very dependable.
"Our clan can even make use of the Shinigami. Simply hiding an object is one of the most basic forms of Fūinjutsu."
Young Obito and Young Madara were both so angry they stomped their feet. "You actually set up a fake goal to trick us!!!"
Adult Obito covered his face from the sidelines. Now he finally understood how Madara Uchiha had felt earlier.
Madara Uchiha's face was cold, but that goal had not been lost unfairly.
The advantage of playing soccer with ninjutsu was that you did not have to watch a group of people chase the ball for twenty or thirty minutes without anyone scoring, because ninjutsu could always deliver unexpected surprises.
For example, during the second half, when the score had finally become seven to seven again.
Young Hashirama also pulled out his trump card.
Secret Technique: Bringer-of-Darkness Technique!!
This was a secret technique even the Uchiha's eyes could not break! It was specially developed by the future Hashirama Senju and Tobirama Senju to counter the Uchiha!
"Hashirama! You actually taught them that too?!!"
Madara Uchiha questioned Hashirama Senju unhappily.
"I don't believe you and Izuna didn't tell them how to deal with the Senju."
Tobirama Senju replied coldly, and Madara Uchiha snorted, saying no more.
"Hmph!"
With both sides tied at seven to seven, the Hyūga's Byakugan, Gentle Fist, and Eight Trigrams Formation had already been used in combination countless times, while the Uchiha's Fire Release, Sharingan, and even Young Obito and Sasuke's Mangekyō had also been shown several times.
It was the same on the Senju-Uzumaki side. Naruto, Young Kakashi, and the young Senju and Uzumaki ninjas from the Warring States Period were also nearly out of options.
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