The bluenette immediately ducked when Naruto brought another kunai from his left cuff to stab her torso, only barely managing to respond in time, and kicked out her foot to knock out his legs from under him.
In turn, the blond jumped up from her attempt to trip him up and soared over her head, stopping himself short as he threw his hand out and grabbed the crown of her head with his limb.
Like that, he was literally hand-standing on top of the hero's head.
Before she could even register what he had done, the young man quickly pushed himself off of her head, flipping over her, and kicked the back of her head as he moved away, knocking her onto the hard ground all the while.
Crashing down and sent sliding, the teenaged female forced her fingers into the ground to slow down her fast movement, successfully doing so after a few parse seconds.
Quickly getting up and turning to where she last saw her erstwhile enemy, getting back into a defensive position and looking at him with wary eyes.
This wasn't going as well as she'd hoped, he was moving faster than she expected.
Or rather, he was moving at comparable speeds to his fight with those stray devils, but whenever he had to dodge her attacks, his speed would increase a bit in those exact moments.
Just enough to make sure he ended up unharmed from her attacks as a matter of fact.
In those exact instances, he would become a blur to her...
Such an increase shouldn't be possible...unless he was holding back?
No, that was illogical. She saw how strong and fast he was when he fought those stray devils before, all while aiming to save the devil princess and her succubus.
He would have no reason to hold back then since he was fighting to save them.
The only reason he would hold back in such an instance would be if he noticed her spying on them during the battle, but that couldn't be the case since he was surprised by her knowledge about his intervention.
So how was he moving faster...?
Was she, perhaps, overthinking this?
Was he doing this on purpose in order to confuse and distract her?
As Yuki continued to hesitate due to her own doubts, Naruto raised an eyebrow at her new cautious approach. "Hey, hey...what's wrong Nonaka-san? I thought you were gonna beat me? How are ya gonna do that by standing all the way over there?"
The hero peered up at her enemy, narrowing her eyes at him as he continued to speak.
"Ya know..." the shinobi input, confidence in every faucet of his manner and tone. "We can stop this whenever you want, especially since you can't beat me."
As expected, his opponent bristled at his goading, much to the blond's amusement.
Because, to be blunt, he had ample reason to be sure of his chances against her.
He had yet to use anything except pure taijutsu so far, and if this kept up, then he wouldn't have to use anything more either.
Which was a good thing, as the less he showed her of his abilities, the less she could report back to her faction.
Especially since he really didn't want to kill her and become a full-blown enemy of this...'Hero Tribe'.
He honestly held out hope that there could be a way for him to stop this incident from making him a target of this group that she was a part of, but that wouldn't happen if he killed one of their own.
So he waited, prepared for her next move.
Yuki grit her teeth at his confidence, trying not to let Uzumaki's words get to her as she considered her options.
Obviously she needed to get one clean hit on him at the very least, if she could then his little 'speed boosts' should be negatively affected at the very least, as well as his overall ability to dodge her attacks.
She could beat him...she just needed to let go of her restraints.
So, taking a deep breath as she closed her eyes, the young woman began to center herself, tapping into something...within.
Naruto, who figured that she was just calming herself for their next clash, raised a single brow as her body began to glow with a yellow aura, enveloping the young hero completely.
That aura pulsed as it surrounded her body and quickly dispersed after a parse few moments, with Yuki standing at the same spot as before, completely unchanged.
It was only when she opened her eyes again that he noticed the...change.
A change that temporarily brought back memories of red eyes and spinning tomoes...
Thankfully for the sake of his sanity, her eye color didn't change, but her eyes had gained a new appearance thanks to...what looked like a pair of cross-hairs that were placed over her pupils, with a circle conjoining in the middle.
Naruto couldn't help but feel that the fight was about to change.
Eye powers tended to do that.
For a half-second, the bluenette didn't make any move whatsoever, content with holding his eye, before she finally spoke again.
"Congratulations, Uzumaki Naruto." Nonaka Yuki started, genuinely impressed by her enemy's speed. "You have forced me to rely upon my trump card, as your abilities obviously outclass my own by this point."
Clutching her katana's handle tightly, she continued, the edge of her lips twisting upwards a bit. "My hidden power...very few have faced me with my True Sight in battle, and only two have actually managed to defeat me with it activated. I hope , for your sake, that you've prepared yourself for a hard fight."
Naruto blinked, not responding one way or another, having faced way too many eye powers back in the Elemental Nations to truly be intimidated.
Honestly, he should be a little wary, but all he really felt was a sense of exasperation at this 'new' eye power.
So, splitting the difference, he decided to simply end this all in one shot by moving at speeds she couldn't follow, not letting her eye powers give her a chance to turn this battle around.
With that in mind, Naruto charged in with clear supersonic speeds and aimed a fist at the hero's stomach, keeping her cross-hairs in sight, making sure that she didn't try anything funny with those eyes.
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