"The Red Sun? How arrogant!"
"Take one of my punches and see if you're still so confident!"
A was not intimidated in the slightest by Uchiha Ren's reputation or achievents. Instead, his fighting spirit burned even hotter. With a sudden burst of speed, he charged forward and threw a punch straight at Ren!
Uchiha Ren's expression did not change.
His pupils turned crimson, and three black tomoe appeared within them, allowing him to clearly track A's every movent.
The Sharingan—the kekkei genkai of the Uchiha clan, and one of the Three Great Dōjutsu of the shinobi world.
With Ren's powerful ocular ability, the Sharingan's dynamic vision was pushed to its absolute limit.
Even at A's current speed, he could not escape Ren's gaze.
Ren stepped back with one leg and lowered his center of gravity. Then he threw a punch of his own, eting A's incoming fist head-on.
"A direct clash? Perfect!"
Although A's Lightning Release Chakra Mode was not as well-rounded as that of his father, the Third Raikage, and leaned more toward enhancing speed, the boost it gave to his strength and defense was still far beyond that of ordinary shinobi.
When it ca to a straightforward clash of power—
A had never feared anyone.
With contempt in his heart, he poured even more strength into his punch.
The two fists closed in.
Compared to A's lightning-wreathed fist, Ren's looked several sizes smaller—almost delicate by comparison.
But just as the two fists were about to collide—
Whoosh!
Flas suddenly erupted from Ren's fist.
"Fire Fist!"
Ren gave a low shout.
The ground beneath his feet shattered inch by inch as scorching flas burst from his fist, instantly engulfing A.
Orange flas ford a massive blazing fist, carrying A's body dozens of ters away. Trees were knocked down one after another as a charred trench was carved into the ground.
"Brother!"
"Lord A!"
Killer B and the Kumogakure ninja cried out in shock.
They could hardly believe that A had been overpowered in a direct clash of strength.
"There's nothing surprising about it," Ren said calmly as he shook his slightly aching hand. "The very nature of fire is explosive power and extre heat."
Although his tone remained relaxed, Ren inwardly grew more cautious toward A—the man long known across the shinobi world as a reckless powerhouse.
Uchiha Ren was not originally from this world.
Due to an accident, he had transmigrated here and beco an ordinary jōnin of the Uchiha clan, an orphan whose parents had died long ago.
His past life was no longer worth ntioning.
According to the original storyline of Naruto, being reborn as a mber of the Uchiha clan could practically be described as a nightmare starting point.
Externally, the clan was suppressed by the Hokage faction led by the Third Hokage, Hiruzen Sarutobi, and the so-called "Half-Hokage" Danzo Shimura, known as the Shadow of Konoha.
Internally, many clan mbers were arrogant and blind to the political reality, practically courting disaster.
And to make matters worse, several emotionally unstable individuals within the clan were basically ticking ti bombs.
Ren's situation could hardly be described with a single word like difficult.
Fortunately, Ren had arrived relatively early.
The night of the Uchiha Clan Massacre was still far in the future.
There was still ti to change the clan's fate.
Moreover—
Like most transmigrators, Ren possessed a cheat ability.
Although compared to others it seed sowhat modest.
It was simply a Devil Fruit from another world.
The Fla-Fla Fruit (ra ra no Mi).
Yes—
The sa Logia-type Devil Fruit that many One Piece fans jokingly say "not even a dog would eat."
But from Ren's perspective, he was extrely satisfied with it.
The Fla-Fla Fruit granted its user the power of fire.
To control flas.
To beco fire itself.
The fruit's previous user—"Fire Fist" Ace—had not demonstrated its full potential and ultimately died at the hands of the Magma Fruit user, Akainu.
In the world of One Piece, many fighters could already produce fla-based attacks. It seed like everyone had so kind of fire ability.
Because of that, the Fla-Fla Fruit gained the unfortunate reputation of being a "worthless" Logia.
But was it truly weak?
Or was the power of fire itself weak?
In Ren's opinion—
Absolutely not.
Although the canon lore of One Piece states that the Magma Fruit is superior to the Fla-Fla Fruit, Ren believed the difference wasn't that simple.
Both magma and fire shared two fundantal traits:
Explosive force and high temperature.
Because magma was a physical substance, it had greater explosive impact.
But in terms of temperature, fire held an overwhelming advantage.
The maximum temperature of magma was roughly 1,400°C.
But fire could continuously increase its temperature through heat accumulation, with virtually no upper limit.
In his previous world, special thods could raise flas to over 500 million degrees—thirty tis hotter than the sun's core.
The difference spoke for itself.
The Fla-Fla Fruit possessed nearly limitless potential.
Fire had never been weak.
Just like the old man in another series who wielded fla power—hailed as the strongest Shinigami in two thousand years—whose fla sword was sealed almost every ti he appeared in battle.
The power itself was never the problem.
The problem had only been its user.
Having lived through the information explosion era of his previous world, Ren believed his understanding of the Fla-Fla Fruit far surpassed that of Ace.
Combined with the native power system of the shinobi world, he would never disgrace this ability.
And this Devil Fruit had given Ren the confidence to change everything.
Over the past several years, he had quietly strengthened himself—building power in secret, cultivating influence, and gathering allies.
All the while accumulating the strength needed to reshape this world.
Now the Third Great Ninja War was nearing its end.
And Ren's preparations were complete.
He could hardly wait to end the war and finally begin making his mark on the world.
"Minato, leave the Eight-Tails' jinchūriki to you," Ren said, slowly exhaling as he looked at Minato Namikaze. "Try to capture him alive."
Not only was Minato incredibly fast, but because of his relationship with his girlfriend Kushina Uzumaki, he was exceptionally skilled in sealing techniques.
Among them, he was the best candidate to deal with Killer B.
Although in the original story Minato died sealing the Nine-Tails, the Eight-Tails was nowhere near as powerful as the Nine-Tails.
In a true fight, Gyūki couldn't even match half of Kurama's strength.
Moreover, Minato's death during the Nine-Tails incident had likely been due—at least in part—to his choice to sacrifice himself alongside Kushina.
After all, the couple had already largely subdued the Nine-Tails, and Konoha's reinforcents were on their way.
Even other villages that weren't particularly skilled in sealing techniques could handle rampaging tailed beasts.
Could Konoha's Sealing Team, which inherited the techniques of the Uzumaki clan, really fail to deal with a restrained Nine-Tails?
In the end—
Minato had simply chosen to bear everything himself.
"Understood. Leave that guy to ."
Minato gave a bright smile, speaking with complete confidence.
"Then let's finish this quickly."
As Ren spoke, flas burst across his entire body.
Wrapped in blazing fire, he shot forward through the air, chasing toward the spot where A had been blasted away.
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