At this moment, Shintaro had released his transformation technique and jumped out the window to escape from the central building.
He landed on the ground outside the fortress and climbed over the side wall.
Seeing this, a group of Sunagakure Ninja behind him immediately gave chase, but as they jumped over the wall, they were stunned by the explosive tags planted in the wall.
This gave Shintaro enough time to escape. By the time these Sunagakure Ninja climbed the wall again, he had disappeared.
"Damn it!" One Sunagakure Ninja cursed, pounding his chest in frustration.
"What happened?!"
A woman's voice startled the Sunagakure Ninja.
"P-Pakura-sama, someone just broke into your office and escaped that way!" The panicked Sunagakure Ninja reported.
Pakura had just arrived at the fortress from another location. Before she could even receive the news about the two rebel ninjas being killed, she was informed that her office had been broken into.
Furious, she shouted, "What are you doing for food?! You quickly check what information is missing, I will chase him!"
With that, Pakura immediately ran off into the distance.
The Sunagakure Ninja exchanged hesitant glances and then could only follow her orders, quickly returning to check what information had been lost.
Pakura was very fast and soon caught sight of Shintaro from a distance.
She quickly closed the distance and entered Shintaro's field of vision.
Shintaro had seen Pakura's picture in the office. She had dark green hair tied into a bun, with two orange bangs hanging down the sides of her forehead. She had a proud chest, with her back almost completely exposed.
Such distinctive features allowed him to recognize Pakura at a glance.
One person fled while the other chased. They navigated obstacles along the way, delving deeper into the interior of the Land of Rivers, with the surroundings gradually transforming into dense forest.
The distance between them closed from an initial kilometer to just two hundred meters.
Shintaro initially thought there would be many pursuers behind him, but now he realized Pakura was the only one following him.
"How can this woman be so confident?"
He was slightly surprised, and his mind immediately became alert.
Behind him, Pakura followed the trail left by target. She finally saw Shintaro's back, so she shouted: "Uchiha Shintaro! I know it's you! Drop the information, and I can spare your life!"
Shintaro's footsteps finally stopped, causing Pakura to smile and quickly catch up.
"You know what—"
Before she could finish speaking, two shurikens flew past her side, grazing her cheek and flying into the forest behind her.
"You! Then don't blame me."
After dodging the shurikens, Pakura extended her hands and summoned six orange fireballs.
With his Six Eyes, Shintaro could clearly see that these basketball-sized fireballs contained extremely terrifying power, mixed with the extreme dryness of the wind element and the high temperature of the fire element, enough to instantly mummify a person.
"Is this Shakuton?" Shintaro was curious.
He had learned about Shakuton from Pakura and her renowned reputation within Sunagakure from the information obtained at the fortress.
This Shakuton seemed more dominant than Terumi Mei's Futton and Yoton.
But perhaps it was just a difference in the users, as Pakura was already famous and powerful, whereas Terumi was still growing.
The burning fireballs were directed by Pakura like arms, forming a circle and flying toward her opponent.
Shintaro used [Suiton: Suiryūdan no Jutsu] while stepping back.
The water dragon bullet shot out from his mouth, hitting the six fiery spheres around him.
After a fierce collision, the sound of water evaporating into steam was heard.
Although the water dragon bullet blocked the fireballs, it also evaporated. This high-temperature steam was also a deadly weapon.
Seeing the large-scale water dragon bullet, Pakura thought her opponent indeed had the strength of a Jonin, and she became more serious.
"An Uchiha with a high-level water element."
She became curious about the other's strength. After all, she had only heard that the enemy was very strong before.
Though the water dragon bullet temporarily blocked the fireballs, it quickly evaporated, while the fireballs remained intact.
The fireballs quickly pursued, forcing Shintaro to continually change direction.
*BOOM*
A fireball hit the ground and exploded.
When the dust and smoke cleared, the ground turned dry and cracked, as if it had suffered severe drought for over a decade.
However, Shintaro was so fast that the fireballs could never catch him.
Pakura circled around with a kunai in hand, attacking with fireballs back and forth. But Shintaro seemed to have eyes in the back of his head, countering Pakura while dodging fireballs from all directions behind him.
Shintaro, Pakura, and the fireballs danced a deadly dance in the dense forest.
*BAM*
He struck Pakura's chest with his palm. Shintaro used Cursed Energy, making his palm strike very powerful.
Fortunately, Pakura's proud twin peaks provided a significant cushion, preventing her ribs from breaking.
Pakura was slapped away, causing the other fireballs to fall into the air, turning the ground into cracked and scorched earth.
Shintaro nimbly flipped back to avoid the fireballs and lifted his palm as if reminiscing about the special touch earlier.
Pakura retreated dozens of meters, covering her chest with one hand in shame and anger, while controlling the fireballs with the other hand to gather in the air into a massive fireball with a diameter of two to three meters, as hot and dazzling as a small sun.
"Go to hell!"
The fireball instantly expanded and exploded in the air, covering everything within a fifty-meter radius.
The earth turned scorched, trees at the center of the explosion became void, and those on the edge turned into dead wood.
A vast open space suddenly appeared in the dense forest.
The dust and smoke from the high-temperature explosion had not yet dissipated.
But on reflection, the other party should have no bones left.
Pakura stood outside the explosion range, pondering this, when suddenly two shurikens shot out from the open space.
She easily dodged them and was surprised that the other party was still alive.
At this moment, she felt a cold touch on her bare white arm.
Pakura looked back in shock.
She saw that the two shurikens just now were actually connected to invisible thin threads. They flew back in a circle and moved the thin thread from the first two shurikens.
Four thin threads formed a grid, trapping her inside. The grid quickly shrank, binding her body and tying her to a large tree behind her.
Pakura gritted her teeth and raised her palm to summon a fireball, intending to burn the thin wire.
But for some reason, the fireball slipped from her hand and was sucked into the opponent's hand.
She saw Shintaro's face full of excitement, and he said to himself: "Blue? I finally mastered this again..."
Shintaro casually threw the fireball to the ground, then walked toward Pakura and said: "I never planned to kill you from the start, but you attacked me so ruthlessly."
"Sure enough, beauties are like snakes or scorpions."