"Uchiha Sasuke." The Anbu's voice came through the mask, low and cold.
"Give up resistance and come with us."
The other two Anbu did not speak; their hands were already forming seals, ready to strike.
Sasuke turned around slowly.
His gaze swept across the three Anbu; his Sharingan took in their positioning, Chakra flow, and the subtle tensing of their muscles.
At the corners of his mouth, that cold arc appeared once again.
"Just with you?" His voice was equally cold, yet carried a condescending indifference.
Before the words had even faded, his figure suddenly blurred.
"Earth Release: Headhunter Jutsu!" The Anbu reacted extremely quickly, launching the Ninjutsu almost at the same time Sasuke moved, diving into the ground, and an arm shot out like lightning, grabbing toward Sasuke.
However, they grabbed nothing.
Szzzt—!
A piercing, sharp sound, as if a thousand birds were chirping in unison, rang out above the Anbu's head! Sasuke's figure, like lightning tearing through the night, appeared out of thin air above him.
Chidori Sharp Spear, moving faster than sound, slashed directly at the crown of the Fox-masked Anbu's head.
Seeing this, one Anbu's hand-sealing speed increased explosively.
"Wind Release: Vacuum Wave!" Several invisible, sharp wind blades crisscrossed and cut toward Sasuke in the air, attempting to relieve the siege by attacking the attacker.
In that life-or-death moment, the Anbu's rich experience allowed him to react quickly, desperately twisting his body while holding his Kunai horizontally above his head.
Pfft! Boom!
The Chidori Sharp Spear grazed past his shoulder blade, bringing up a spray of blood mist and the smell of burnt flesh, completely piercing through his left shoulder along with part of his collarbone.
The intense pain made him grunt, and his movements were distorted.
At the same time, Sasuke's left hand had drawn the kusanagi sword at some unknown point; without even looking, he backhanded a perfect arc, followed by several crisp clanging sounds as he precisely blocked and deflected all the incoming Vacuum Wave wind blades, sending sparks flying everywhere!
Seeing this, the other two Anbu immediately changed their tactics, and several sharp stone spears erupted from around Sasuke's landing point.
Sasuke was in mid-air with nowhere to leverage, but his Sharingan had already perceived everything; he sheathed his sword and formed seals with both hands.
"Fire Release: Great Dragon Fire Technique!"
Massive amounts of Chakra instantly transformed into searing flames, condensing into a ferocious dragon head that smashed into the ground between the three of them.
With a thunderous boom, the flames exploded, and high heat and thick smoke instantly permeated the area, destroying the attacks while obscuring their vision.
"Cough!" The three Anbu were forced to retreat slightly by the shockwave and thick smoke of the explosion.
In this split second of Chaos, Sasuke's figure flashed, and relying on the Sharingan's extraordinary dynamic vision and keen perception of Chakra, he precisely captured their weak points.
The cold light of the kusanagi sword, like the Grim Reaper's scythe, pierced through the smoke and effortlessly slashed across their necks.
The Anbu didn't even have time to make any effective defense or evasion; they only felt a chill on their necks, and their vision tilted uncontrollably.
"Bastard!" The remaining Anbu's eyes were bloodshot with rage as he violently threw three Kunai tied with Explosion Tags toward the direction where Sasuke might move, while his left hand struggled to reach for the signal flare at his waist.
Another Anbu's hands flew rapidly, releasing Wind Release.
A violent whirlwind attempted to blow away the smoke and lock onto Sasuke.
The moment the smoke was blown away, Sasuke's figure had already appeared behind the Anbu, the tomoe in his Sharingan spinning at high speed.
He only felt a flash of scarlet light before his eyes, his consciousness instantly plunged into a bloody Chaos, his body stiffened, and his seal-forming movements came to an abrupt halt.
Sasuke did not finish him off; his cold gaze fell on the Anbu who was preparing to fire the signal flare.
He wanted to release a Ninjutsu to escape, but it was too late.
Blinding lightning, centered on Sasuke, instantly spread like a violent electric net.
The Anbu's body, just as he was leaping up, was fiercely struck by the rampaging electrical net, falling from mid-air with a scream, his whole body charred and twitching, the signal flare in his hand rolling to the ground.
The battle ended quickly.
Silence returned to the forest; only the smell of burnt flesh, the scent of blood, and the faint smoke in the air bore witness to the brief and deadly clash that had just occurred.
Sasuke walked slowly to the side of the twitching, dying Fox-masked Anbu, looking down at him from above, the tip of his kusanagi sword dripping with the Anbu's blood.
"The night is deep, disappear."
...
Hokage Office.
The light of the Crystal Ball had gone out.
Hiruzen Sarutobi had witnessed everything; he had successfully confirmed Sasuke's location.
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