Naruto: I, Uchiha, Just Want to Die

Chapter 21: Come on, Kill Me! Open the Door, It's Time for Me to Show Off!

A fist slammed hard into Moroi's face, causing his cheek to cave in as his back collided with the barrier wall.

Bang!

"Urgh... Pfft!"

Moroi groaned, spitting out three bloodied molars. 

Before this, he had already expended nearly half of his energy due to constant travel. He'd used the Body Replacement Technique, the Fire Sealing Technique, and the Binding Formation twice, while also getting injured by Uchiha Ci's combined jutsu. His entire body was covered in cuts.

Finally, after using the large-scale Sealing Jutsu: The Wrath of a Million Anguished Souls, his chakra was nearly depleted, with only about 20% left.

Now, due to excessive exhaustion from chakra usage, he was panting heavily, trying to ease the fatigue on both his body and mind.

But he never expected that after being hit by the Million Anguished Souls, Uchiha Ci could still get up and attack him!

Seeing the grimace on Uchiha Ci's face, his eyes bloodshot and filled with madness as he crawled toward him like a demon, Moroi couldn't help but feel his heart waver. It was as if a demonic hand gripped his heart, sending a tremor through his entire body.

Uchiha Ci grinned wickedly, his single tomoe Sharingan spinning rapidly in his eyes. He forced himself to stand, delivering a brutal front kick to Moroi's face, slamming his head against the barrier wall. Moroi's hands instinctively shot up to clutch his face as he howled in pain.

Next, Ci followed up with a side kick, striking Moroi's left cheek hard. The force of the kick sent Moroi, a Special Jonin from the Hidden Cloud Village, spinning through the air, crashing into the rubble of a collapsed wall.

At this moment, the world through Uchiha Ci's eyes became extraordinarily clear; he could even see the path of the falling dust.

Despite his body reaching its limit, a surge of new strength seemed to well up from somewhere deep within.

But this new strength did nothing to ease the anger and fear boiling inside him—anger at the interrupted process of his death, and fear of the uncertainty that the future now held.

Uchiha Ci clenched his fists, tearing off an explosive tag from his body that hadn't been soaked in ink, then drew the last kunai tied to his pants. He wrapped the explosive tag around the tip of the kunai.

His lips trembled as he walked slowly toward Moroi, his Sharingan glaring intensely, a twisted, ferocious expression on his face, blood and ink mixing together and dripping from his chin onto the ground.

But if you looked closer, you'd see he was shaking—his jaw clenching, his face twitching, his pupils trembling.

This was the face of a demon, mixed with the peak of rage and fear.

Moroi, lying in the rubble, spat out a mouthful of blood, shaking his head vigorously. His vision was filled with golden stars, and he could no longer hear anything in one ear.

After a long, intense bout of ringing, he vaguely heard someone shouting his name outside the barrier—

"Moroi!"

"Moroi!"

It was Senior Rami and Senior Dodai...

Moroi's head cleared as he looked out toward the barrier.

Rami was shouting frantically, "Snap out of it!"

"Moroi, can't you see?"

"He's only using taijutsu! His chakra has been sealed by the Million Anguished Souls!"

Moroi snapped back to reality!

But by then, a kunai was already flying towards him!

Moroi quickly gathered his chakra, flipped to his feet, and grabbed Uchiha Ci's wrist.

But Ci just let out a sinister laugh and with a sickening crunch, forcibly twisted his own arm out of its socket.

With his other hand, he tore the explosive tag from the kunai and slapped it onto Moroi's face.

The tag began to glow!

Boom!

Two explosions rang out as the blast's shockwave hurled both men to the ground.

Moroi gasped for breath, his face filled with terror.

"Lunatic, lunatic, lunatic!"

"A life-for-a-life, you want to die that badly?!"

If Moroi hadn't slapped the explosive tag out of Uchiha Ci's hand at the last moment, both of them would have been blown to bits!

Uchiha Ci wobbled as he stood, his blood-red eyes seething with rage.

"You think I'm crazy?"

Ci bared his teeth, lifting his head, his Sharingan glaring down at Moroi with disdain.

"What are you, huh? Did you ever receive nine years of compulsory education?"

"Do you know what a truly peaceful world looks like?"

"Have you ever enjoyed sipping on soda in a cozy apartment, tapping away on a keyboard, chasing your dreams?"

"I had everything, but because of some bullshit reason, I was thrown into this goddamn world!"

Uchiha Ci roared with fury:

"You don't understand anything!"

"You, the Hidden Cloud, the Hidden Leaf, all of you are nothing but uncivilized savages!"

"You, with your broken brain, aren't even good enough for a zombie to bother chewing on, and you think you can lecture me?"

Uchiha Ci covered his face and burst into wild laughter:

"Hahahahahaha!"

"I've had enough!"

"Enough, enough, enough, enough!"

"This boring world—no Wi-Fi, no funny videos, no games, no movies, nothing to enjoy, no one I care about, no desires, nothing, nothing, nothing!"

"Nothing at all!"

Uchiha Ci suddenly stopped, his single tomoe in the Sharingan spinning wildly, filled with malevolence, coldness, arrogance, and scorn.

And a rage that could burn everything to the ground!

"This world is meaningless! It's all a void!"

As if he had seen through it all, Uchiha Ci looked at Moroi, but his gaze seemed to pierce through him, staring at the entire world beyond.

He beckoned at him with disdain:

"Come on, kill me!"

Moroi's eyes grew cold as he took a deep breath.

He didn't understand what Uchiha Ci meant by Wi-Fi, videos, games, or whatever else, but he could tell that this lower-rank ninja, this barely awakened one-tomoe Sharingan user who was just a slightly bigger pawn in the Third Ninja War, was mocking him!

"You're asking for death!" Moroi's eyes narrowed with a dangerous gleam.

With that, he drew his sword, taking a stance with the blade raised, ready to strike.

Now that he knew Uchiha Ci couldn't use chakra, things were clear.

Though he was also low on chakra and couldn't perform any ninjutsu, with his level of taijutsu as a Special Jonin, this brat was no match for him—a mere flick of the wrist, and Uchiha Ci would be subdued.

Uchiha Ci didn't waste any words. He lowered his stance and charged, one hand hidden behind his back as if ready to draw a weapon from his ninja pouch.

Moroi smirked and stepped forward, swinging his blade.

This strike was from the Cloud Village's Cloud Style Swordsmanship: Deceptive Slice.

A simple horizontal slash with a katana designed to deceive the opponent into thinking it was a normal slash.

It forces the opponent to dodge,

If they dodge left, they would fall into the follow-up technique, Cloud Style: Hidden Slash, a rotating strike aimed at the opponent's exposed back.

If they dodge right, they would be met with the lethal Cloud Style: Crescent Moon Slice!

However, in the next moment, Moroi's smirk froze.

Uchiha Ci didn't dodge at all...

He let the blade cut from his left shoulder to his right, leaving a deep, gaping wound.

Then he grabbed the blade, blood seeping through his fingers as he stared at Moroi with a crazed, grim expression:

"This is a Jonin's swordsmanship?!"

"Not enough! It's not enough!"

"Come on, kill me!"

"Use all your strength and kill me!"

Moroi's face twisted in shock, a hint of fear rising within him as he cursed this lunatic in his heart.

At that moment, from outside the barrier,

a voice roared:

"Enough!"

"Moroi, release the barrier!"

"I will kill him!"

Dodai's face was twisted with rage as his hands flew through a series of hand signs, a trace of madness flickering in his eyes.

Moroi was useless at this point.

The pressure from Uchiha Ci was driving him to the brink of losing his sanity.

Now, he only wanted to use a large-scale ninjutsu to bury Uchiha Ci, Uchiha Setsuna, and even Moroi all at once.

Earth Release: Opening Earth Rising Excavation!

Lava Release: Great Lava River!

Two A-rank ninjutsu were ready to unleash!