Kushina Yukiei spoke. "The Demon Fox stole your life. So give it all up and hand your power over to me. What's wrong with that?!"
Naruto's Shadow Clones were all destroyed, and he himself was sent flying. Sasuke, who had just gotten back up, barely managed to catch Naruto.
"Sasuke, help me!"
Naruto spoke to Sasuke.
Sasuke froze for a moment, then smiled.
"Yeah. Don't die, idiot."
The two charged at Kushina Yukiei again, one from the left and one from the right.
Though Kushina Yukiei could not use her hands, she leaped backward and formed hand seals with her feet in midair.
She stomped her foot, and countless ice crystals instantly appeared in the air.
"Ice Style: Swallows Snow Blizzard!"
The countless ice crystals turned into shuriken and came raining down from above, completely sealing off the path ahead. There was nowhere in the cave to take cover.
"This is bad. We can't dodge it!"
Sasuke immediately realized that this attack could not be evaded.
"Thousand Senbon Like Rain..."
However, he immediately recalled the ninjutsu Sparkle had used before, Thousand Senbon Like Rain. White had demonstrated how to avoid it then. But he had no cover now.
No, if it was Ice Style, someone else had demonstrated a way to counter it.
And that person had happened to say they would teach him a ninjutsu.
In that split second, Sasuke thought of that hand-signless technique.
"Fire Style: Blazing Sky!"
A swirling sphere of flames spread outward, intercepting Kushina Yukiei's Ice Style.
Fire Style: Blazing Sky.
It was the ninjutsu Sparkle had once used, and the Fire Style ninjutsu she had promised to teach Sasuke.
Though the name was borrowed, the technique itself was original—a hand-signless ninjutsu Sparkle had created through a Fire Style Nature Transformation based on the Rasengan.