"An opening!"
Seeing this, Yamato immediately used Wood Release.
Trees grew from the ground, heading toward Kabuto Yakushi and the blue spinning charge... no, toward Orochimaru, who was charging in a spin.
Orochimaru was bound. Kabuto Yakushi, meanwhile, ran off.
However, at that moment, Orochimaru's mouth suddenly opened wide. Then, another Orochimaru crawled out from that battered, ruined body.
A completely unharmed Orochimaru. Meanwhile, the Orochimaru originally caught by the Wood Release had already turned to ashes.
"What... is that?!" Sakura Haruno was utterly stunned.
But Yamato was not frightened. His Wood Release immediately pursued Orochimaru again.
Orochimaru nimbly evaded the pursuing Wood Release, then twisted his body like a snake and dodged Naruko's successive Rasengans.
With a sweeping roundhouse kick, two clones shattered on impact.
"Is that all you've got?" Orochimaru mocked.
Though the exchange had been brief, Orochimaru had already realized that this so-called "Menma" was strong, but only relatively speaking.
This was the composure of a powerful man.
"That person you mentioned who looked a lot like Sasuke—I have indeed seen him. Ah, what a pity..."
"!!!"
The moment she heard those words, Naruko's entire aura changed.
This person knew something about Sasuke! Sasuke... could something have happened to him?!
"You bastard!"
Naruko's fighting spirit was roused as well.
She no longer cared about tactics. The surrounding Shadow Clones swarmed forward.
"I was saying that about her—yet she got provoked too?!" Naruto Uzumaki happened to see it from nearby.
The two of them were equally impulsive.
Orochimaru smiled with delight.
Once she lost her reason, she would be much easier to subdue.
"Shadow Snake Hands!"
Countless venomous snakes surged outward, smashing all of Naruko's Shadow Clones.
Naruko's real body was exposed as a result.
Then Orochimaru opened his mouth and spat out a snake.
Naruko immediately retreated