Uhers who were thinking Darui might have won, Darui was not so delusional.

  'He smirked just before taking that attack head-on,' he thought, weaving hand signs once again.

  But as the smoke began to clear, the spectators' eyes widened in shock. Kaida stood there, unharmed, his body now covered in dark lines—a sign of his Mitotic Regeion Seal.

  “You didn’t think it’d be that easy, did you?” Kaida smirked, the lines across his body glowing faintly as his injuries healed. Aside from some small burn marks, he was almost fully healed. Than Another set of seals became visible, especially on his arm, f something akin to a gau.

  Kaida sidestepped anhtning bolt ing toward him, but he didn’t use any jutsu to evade it. His raw speed in this form was enough with high amount of chakra enhang his speed and strength while Sharingan increasing his rea speed, he became much faster than many shinobi out there. but The amount of chakra he was ing was astonishing. If not for the Yin Seal on his forehead, he would have been out of chakra in just two minutes. Healing and strengthening at the same time was no easy task, but with the seal, it became child’s py for Kaida.

  Especially after healing was pleted, the chakra ption became normal once again, well normal for him he was usig 3 time the chakra to get same effect that he would get if he used ohird of his chakra, but still he didn’t had any problem with that at all

  'all that pain was worth it,' Kaida thought while he formed a hand seal, summoning three shadow es. Two of them went to distract Darui, who was readying atack, while the other e transformed into a massive hammer.

  Seeing the two es ing toward him and Kaida preparing something else, Darui decided to go all out.

  *Lightning Release: Eleagic Murder*

  A B-rank jutsu that releases a wave of electricity in the surroundings. It was highly chakra-ing, but effective against shadow es. Both of Kaida’s shadow es were dispersed, but their job was done, and Kaida was ready with the hammer.

  The crowd went silent, seeing Kaida—a young boy covered in bck seals, wielding a war hammer covered in spikes, which most likely weighed more than 150 kilograms. What surprised them even more was his speed. Kaida, who had been standing quite a distance from Darui, suddenly appeared o him, his hammer threatening to crush every bone in Darui's body. Darui, not wanting to test his defense against su attack, swiftly dodged.

  “SMASH! BOOM! SMASH! SMASH! BOOM! BOOM!” After a series of attacks, the stadium was in shambles, with various pits all around the ground. Kaida attag with spped faster than wind, while Darui dodging like lightning

  But after swinging that giant hammer for so long, while also dodging and tering Darui’s attacks, Kaida was starting to get tired.

  'Let’s finish this now,' he thought and used the Body Flicker Jutsu to appear 20 meters away from Darui. Darui swiftly raised his guard to defend against any attack, but Kaida just pointed his fioward him. Suddenly, everything around Darui went bck—there was nothing he could see.

  'Genjutsu?' he thought, quickly dispersing his chakra to e out of it, but the process was too slow. By the time he broke free from the genjutsu, Kaida was already standing in front of him, his hammer just timeters away from his chest. With no time to dodge, Darui used his hand to block the attack, reinf his whole body with chakra.

  *SWOOSH!* He flew back at astonishing speed as soon as the attaded, only stopping after colliding with the stadium wall. Even after blog and reinf himself, many of his bones were broken. When the dust settled, Darui limped out of the crater, blood p from his mouth.

  The proctor first looked toward Darui to see if he wao tihe match. Getting no signal iurn, he raised his hand and announced:

  “Winner, Kaida Uchiha!”

  The crowd erupted in appuse, though some were dissatisfied because Darui, the ninja from their vilge, had lost. For others, it was a great fight—both sides gave their best and won fair and square. Most importantly, it was very eaining, so the appuse drowned out any dissatisfa from the crowd.

  Kaida appeared o Darui and offered him a hand, helping him to his feet. “Good fight,” he said simply.

  Darui nodded, still catg his breath. “ime… I’ll be stronger.”

  “I’m sure you will,” Kaida replied, but—

  'Puck.'

  Darui puked some blood.

  “Wait a minute,” Kaida said, using his chakra to analyze Darui's injuries.

  “Mediow!” he shouted. Hearing the urgen his voice, several mediinja ran toward him and Darui with a stretcher in their hands.

  “Lay him down,” Kaida ordered. They plied, sensing the authority in Kaida’s voice.

  “What happened?” one of the medics asked.

  “A bone in his ribcage has punctured his lung,” Kaida said, using his chakra scalpel and hands to gently remove the bone from Darui’s lung before using Healing Palm Jutsu to give emergency treatment.

  Just as he fihe Raikage appeared o them.

  “We will take it from here,” he said, pg his hand on Kaida’s shoulder.

  Kaida just he only reason he was doing this was because he didn’t want to find out what would happen if Darui died because of their fight. Kaida looked toward the wall Darui had collided a metal pipe was ing out of that wall

  ‘he was just unlucky’ it was not Kaida’s attack that injured Darui that much, but that metal pipe because of the surprise

  …

  “Man, you overdid it,” Kabuto said.

  “It wasn’t my fault. He was really tough. If I hadn’t activated the seal, the position would have been reversed by now,” Kaida replied.

  “But where’s brother and sensei?” Kaida asked.

  “They went to collect the mohey won from the bet,” Itachi said.

  “Bet?”

  “They bet on your match. I almost saw a heart attaing toward them when you took that attack head-on,” Kabuto said, chug.

  “Well, it’s all fine, but why are you still here? Isn’t your match about to start?” Kaida asked.

  “See the dition of the stadium after yht? They asked us to wait for some time until they repair it a little,” Kabuto said, pointing toward the various pits iadium.

  “Hahaha.” Kaida ughed awkwardly.

  “Hey, good job, Kaida,” Shisui said, returning with a huge smile on his face.

  “How much money did you bet on me, brother?” Kaida asked.

  “5 million Ryo,” Shisui said.

  “And how much did we win?” Kaida asked.

  “10 million Ryo,” Shisui replied, his smile growing bigger with each sentence.

  “Great! Let’s bet all of that on Kabuto for the round,” Kaida said.

  “Huh? Are you sure? That’s a very, very huge amount to bet like that,” Kabuto, who had faced poverty head-on, knew how much that money was actually worth. It was enough to take care of his orphanage for decades.

  “I believe in you, bro,” Kaida said, patting Kabuto’s shoulder.

  “We ’t bet all anyway. The maximum limit is 5 million per person,” Shisui said with a sigh.

  “5 million,” Kaida poi himself, then at Shisui, “5 million.” There’s no problem at all.

  “If mother found out I allowed you to participate in gambling, she would skin me alive,” Shisui said, a shiver running down his spine.

  “Brother, it’s not gambling. We are sure of the oute, and it’s a form of trust in my teammate. There’s nothing wrong with that,” Kaida said.

  “Fine,” Shisui said, knowing that opportuo make such easy money didn’t e often.