You're My Special (SI-OC/Naruto) ENG

9: Yin Release

9: Yin Release

In an instant, the calm of the night was disturbed.

BOOM!

Crashing in the middle of the clearing, two figures, like blurry smudges, collided repeatedly with each other, making the wind swirl, swaying the nearby grass and stirring the tall trees around.

Fists, kicks, elbows, and knee strikes—agile, fast, and precise movements—were executed without hesitation in barely a breath.

Eyes as red as blood glowed intensely as their bearer easily blocked and deflected every attempt to reach her.

'he's strong,' a thought and assessment that came to her mind after exchanging more than a dozen moves against her opponent.

'But not strong enough.' Sharpening her gaze, the girl did not hesitate, and determined to end this senseless fight, she stepped forward, causing the ground beneath her feet to sink, and her blurry figure appeared in front of Sukuna in an instant.

Seeing this, Sukuna didn't waver either and lunged without fear, beginning an even fiercer and closer exchange than before.

'She's reading me completely.' The pink-haired boy smiled with excitement as he saw and felt how each movement, each punch and kick, was predicted with absolute ease.

It was like a chaotic dance where Sukuna tried every possible way to land a hit, and the Uchiha simply deflected and blocked each attempt as if it were a pre-rehearsed routine for both of them. Nothing he did seemed to faze her in the slightest, and Sukuna couldn't have been happier about it.

"If this is all you can do, then this fight ends here," she said in a cold voice as she blocked his next strike and, without hesitation, counterattacked without a shred of mercy.

Sukuna barely saw the counterattack that nearly knocked out several of his teeth. In swift and practical movements, the girl unleashed a flurry of punches, elbows, and kicks on his body, making his insides churn uncomfortably.

He tried to block them, of course, but his defense seemed nonexistent in the eyes of the red-eyed girl.

"Ugh!" Sukuna spat out a stream of blood, his body recoiling with his feet digging two trenches several meters long into the ground until he finally stopped, crashing into a tree, splintering its wood into shards and raising a cloud of dust.

The Uchiha exhaled the air from her lungs slowly as she clenched her fists and looked in Sukuna's direction. Was that it? She couldn't help but feel deeply disappointed for some reason, while that frustration inside her seemed to worsen even more due to the dissatisfaction of such a brief exchange.

She should feel happy. Being so strong, being the strongest, was her goal, after all.

But for some reason, she didn't feel content.

Before she could delve further into those thoughts, a broken laugh filled the clearing, interrupting her and making her raise an eyebrow.

"Ha-hahaha! This is exactly what I was looking for!" Sukuna stood up with a leap as if the damage he had just taken hadn't bothered him in the slightest.

"You..." The girl snapped out of her surprise and once again took a combat stance, ready to continue the fight with an almost imperceptible glint of excitement in her eyes.

"Izumi." Her voice came almost as a whisper, making Sukuna raise an eyebrow.

"My name is Uchiha Izumi."

"Oh? So I finally get the honor of knowing your name, and here I was thinking you wouldn't say it," he couldn't help but mock, completely ignoring the fact that he had done something similar to Anko not too long ago.