My Villainous Life Starting with Naruto

Chapter 59 Multiplication of Explosive Tags and Stages of Self-Positioning

Somewhere in the Frost Country, in an inconspicuous mountain valley.

Hyuga Yuto hid in a newly dug hole. The hole was deep, with traps at both the entrance and exit. It was close to a water source, and the soil was soft enough to be dug again. It was a textbook example of a temporary shelter.

The boy who had separated from his family lay deep in the cave, panting heavily without any regard for his image.

His right arm was still sore; the initial stab had actually damaged the bone. Hyuga Yuto endured the pain and fought against the powerful enemy, and it was fortunate that he managed to escape.

He didn't even have the chakra to use the Palm Healing Technique, so he could only lie on the ground, gulping down water and eating a few soldier pills, waiting for his chakra and energy to recover.

"He's as strong as a monster... Killer Bee."

Hyuga Yuto muttered to himself, feeling a lingering fear.

Not counting the training sessions with Tsunade and her master, this was the first time he had encountered an enemy of this caliber.

He possesses a body as tough as steel, honed ninjutsu to perfection, rich combat experience, an indomitable will, and excellent judgment in the face of adversity... and sealed within him is a tailed beast that is like a natural disaster.

Killer Bee, who is seventeen years old at the time, is already a true Kage-level ninja. Jinchuriki are such overpowered beings; once they don their Tailed Beast Cloaks, an ordinary Jonin would die in a single encounter.

Moreover, even without the Eight-Tails, Killer Bee's fighting power is still above that of Hyuga Yuto.

Throughout the battle, Killer Bee did not use his full strength, nor did he use his best ninjutsu, "Lightning Blade". In the end, Hyuga Yuto had no choice but to throw out the A-rank ninjutsu "Mutual Explosion Tags", which he had not yet learned, to intimidate his opponent and take the opportunity to escape.

Yuto Hyuga was already quite satisfied that he had managed to escape unscathed. The worst outcome he had imagined was being killed on the spot by Killer Bee and becoming one of the casualties in the early stages of the Third Shinobi World War.

"I wonder if I'll be able to be resurrected during the Fourth Shinobi World War now that I'm dead...tsk." Hyuga Yuto thought to himself with a wry smile, as he pulled out a special explosive tag from his pocket.

The exploding tags were multiplied together; this was the "reward for being promoted to Jonin" given to him by Hiruzen Sarutobi.

Originally, there were very few mid-to-long-range ninjutsu suitable for the Hyuga clan, and Hiruzen Sarutobi couldn't find a suitable one for the time being. But when Tsunade described Yuto's fighting style to him that day, the Third Hokage had a flash of inspiration and came up with this technique.

The speed of a straight-line assault is even faster than Lei Shunshen, which is truly remarkable. A series of tactics can be developed around this strength.

The key to defining mid-to-long-range ninjutsu lies in the effective range at which it strikes the enemy. For speed-type ninjas, this effective range can be greatly reduced.

Short-range, medium-range, and long-range are actually relative terms.

With speed on the level of Minato Namikaze, no matter what kind of ninjutsu it is, it becomes a long-range technique in his hands!

With the speed of Lion's Fang Bite, Hyuga Yuto can easily get close to the enemy. At that point, it won't be difficult to either plant explosive tags around him or stick them directly to the enemy.

After the Second Hokage developed this technique, he often combined it with the Impure World Reincarnation, attaching the "mother tag" of the Mutual Explosion Tags to the resurrected person for a suicidal attack.

In his previous life, when Hinata Yuto read the manga, he thought this attack method was silly. But he never expected that after he transmigrated, his method of using the multiplication of explosive tags would be even less clever than that of others. He actually just held it in his hand and charged forward!

Of course, this is just the current attack method. Hyuga Yuto has been thinking about more application scenarios and ninjutsu combinations these past few days.

He valued this technique highly; the Multiplying Explosive Talisman was the kind of technique that seemed unremarkable at first glance but was actually very powerful.

Its core is an automatically released séance. When one explosive tag explodes, four more explosive tags are summoned. When four explosive tags explode, sixteen more are summoned immediately, and so on, until all the prepared explosive tags are used up.

In the blink of an eye, thousands upon thousands of explosive tags are summoned, creating endless explosions that cannot be shaken off. During the Fourth Shinobi World War, Tobirama Senju, resurrected through Edo Tensei, used this technique against Obito Uchiha, the Ten-Tails Jinchuriki, with great success.

Before parting, Tsunade gave Hyuga Yuto a box of explosive tags to help him train in this technique. Although the branch family boy hasn't finished yet, he already has several special explosive tags in his possession that he can use to imitate the technique. They unexpectedly came in very handy today, fooling Killer Bee.

Fortunately, it was a battle with the Hidden Cloud Ninja. If it had been the Hidden Mist Ninja or the Hidden Stone Ninja, they might not have even recognized them.

After lying on the ground for a long time, Hyuga Yuto felt that his chakra had recovered a lot. Leaning against the rock wall, he used the Palm Healing Technique to begin healing his body.

This is where the value of mastering medical ninjutsu becomes apparent. While ordinary ninjas can only pitifully pull out medical kits and stick them on themselves, Hyuga Yuto can heal himself, greatly increasing his chances of survival.

The power of the Palm Healing Technique penetrated into the skin and deeper. Because it was his own chakra, the healing was even easier. The necrotic tissue was cleaned up, new cells grew rapidly, and the injured bones became hard again.

"Next time I see Killer Bee, I'd better run." Feeling that he had enough, Hyuga Yuto stood up and tried to move his right arm.

This battle made him clearly aware of his current combat strength.

In a one-on-one fight, using only the "standard techniques" of Gentle Fist, Super Strength, and Byakugan, one is at the Jonin level.

Using the Lion Fang Bite, one charges straight ahead. If the enemy chooses to fight head-on, even a Jonin would be unable to withstand it and might be killed on the spot.

But as the saying goes, intelligence is the lifeblood of a ninja. As the war progresses, his fierce and aggressive fighting style will inevitably attract more attention, and the tactics against him will become more and more sophisticated. Flanking attacks and attrition tactics are foreseeable countermeasures.

Although Lion Fang Bite is indeed very fast, it is not a space-time ninjutsu, and it is not fast enough for anyone to handle.

Multiplying explosive tags is a deadly move for infinite explosions. It works best when used unexpectedly. Learning it is icing on the cake, but it hasn't reached the point of causing a qualitative change. You must master more power and combine them in order to try to challenge higher-level masters.

"The task is arduous and the road ahead is long," Hyuga Yuto sighed inwardly, rubbing his headband in the dim light of the underground.

Today is the third day since I left the advance team. According to Minato Namikaze's marching speed, we should be able to reach the border of the Land of Hot Water and the Land of Frost before dark. The Cloud Village should be at a similar speed. Killer Bee has already arrived, so how far away can the famous son of the Third Raikage be?

It's time for a head-on confrontation... heh.

Hyuga Yuto used his Byakugan to inspect the cave, and after confirming that there were no problems, he left and returned to the surface.

He glanced at the sky; the sun was high in the sky, and he estimated that there was still some time before the battle broke out.

"I can rest for another two hours, eat something, and recharge," Hyuga Yuto licked his lips.

(End of this chapter)