The Power of the Late-Game Version

"Get out of here! You huge idiot!"

Little Sasuke's voice suddenly rose, reverting to its previous cold tone. The protectiveness and concern he had shown just moments before had completely vanished.

"Get out of here! This is none of your business!"

He struggled to break free from Big Naruto's grip, yelling at Little Naruto, but of course, Little Naruto wouldn't listen.

"Don't talk nonsense!"

Little Naruto's eyes were filled with stubbornness and determination. He stared intently at Little Sasuke, his gaze seemingly trying to root the boy to the spot.

"I will absolutely not let you go to Orochimaru's place!"

His voice was so loud that even the roar of Waterfall couldn't drown it out. "He wants your body as a vessel!"

"So what?!"

Little Sasuke's dark eyes burned with a crazed flame. "Following you so-called Konoha comrades, will I gain power?!"

As he shouted, he swung his other hand out and punched Big Naruto!

The punch was fast and powerful, but Big Naruto simply sidestepped it.

Little Sasuke threw another punch, which was dodged again.

Another punch, still dodged.

He was like a child playing with an adult, but no matter how hard he tried, he couldn't touch the other person at all.

The Big Naruto moved with excessive ease, and his face, which resembled the Little Naruto by a significant margin, remained calm throughout.

"And you too!" Little Sasuke shouted through gritted teeth.

"Impersonator!" He struggled fiercely, trying to get the man to release him. "That's enough!"

"You want power, don't you?"

Big Naruto spoke up, his face showing no anger whatsoever, only the patience of an adult dealing with a child throwing a tantrum.

Little Sasuke was taken aback for a moment.

"That's right!"

He quickly regained his composure, his voice louder and colder. "So what exactly do you want?!"

"Even if you have this face, if you dare to get in my way—I'll kill you!"

As soon as he finished speaking, Little Sasuke shuddered violently.

A chilling killing intent swept over us without warning!

The killing intent was so intense, so immense, so suffocating that Little Sasuke's knees buckled involuntarily.

He almost collapsed to his knees, but Little Sasuke struggled to steady himself, panting heavily, his young face filled with terror.

This murderous intent...

He had felt the killing intent.

During the mission in the Land of Waves, Zabuza, a Kirigakure missing-nin from Zabuza, exuded a strong killing intent. At that time, he felt that it was the most terrifying thing he had ever seen.

But only now did he realize that compared to the killing intent before him, what was Zabuza's killing intent? No, there was also Orochimaru. He had witnessed Orochimaru's killing intent before, but what was Orochimaru's killing intent compared to that?

It's not even comparable to a hair; that's the difference between a high mountain and a hair!

Who is it?!

Little Sasuke looked around in panic.

But there was nothing around him; apart from the Big Naruto in front of him and the Little Naruto not far away, he couldn't see any other faces.

Looking at him like this, Big Naruto felt a surge of emotion. This was Sasuke from this timeline.

9.9 points for arrogance, 0.1 points for coquettishness.

She was so worried about that Little Naruto just a moment ago, but now she's putting on this cold and aloof act.

What a good child, driven to this state by his older brother.

"Then..." Big Naruto spoke again. "Take a look, is this power enough for your revenge?"

He sensed his surroundings.

For miles around, there was only a desolate forest. There were no villages, no houses, and no one except for Satsuki, who was hiding in the shadows.

After confirming that no one would be accidentally hurt, Big Naruto raised one hand.

Chakra began to condense.

The color of that chakra ball wasn't ordinary blue, nor was it the bright color that Naruto usually used.

It's black.

A deep, all-consuming black.

The black sphere spun in Naruto's palm, surrounded by a faint halo, like the rings of a planet.

It's not big, only about the size of a fist.

But the aura it emitted froze the air throughout the Valley of the End.

"[The Great Spiraling Ring]."

Big Naruto pronounced the name of the technique.

Little Sasuke was stunned because he recognized the technique.

The last time he fought Naruto, the Ninjutsu Naruto used at the end—although its power was far inferior to the black sphere before him—had the same shape and aura.

That was when he realized in that instant that Naruto's strength had surpassed his own Ninjutsu.

"A black... Rasengan?"

Little Naruto's voice came from the side, his eyes wide open, staring intently at the spinning black sphere in Big Naruto's palm.

The sphere wasn't large, but its deep black color, the surrounding halo, and the suffocating sense of oppression it exuded—instilled in him an instinctive fear.

"Hey! Who are you?!"

He shouted, his voice filled with incomprehension and confusion.

"Why do you use the Ninjutsu of the Pervy Sage and the Fourth Hokage?! Wait, why do you look so much like me?!"

"You've been holding onto Sasuke! What are you trying to do?!"

He shouted as he strode forward, ready to charge at any moment.

At that moment, the black sphere was slowly rising.

It detached from Big Naruto's palm and drifted towards the desolate forest in the distance.

Then--

Little Sasuke stopped; he finally quieted down.

He stopped struggling, stopped shouting, and stopped trying to break free from Big Naruto's grip.

Because he realized it.

I realized what this person was going to do.

"Haven't used it in a long time."

Big Naruto gazed at the receding black sphere and muttered to himself, "This should be enough, right?"

The words had barely left his mouth.

"Boom--!!!"

A white light swept into everyone's field of vision.

At first, it was just a blinding flash of light, like the sun suddenly rising on the horizon. But the light expanded so quickly that it was impossible to react.

In the next instant, it transformed into a pure white wave that devoured everything, spreading wildly in all directions!

The shockwave spread at an alarming speed!

Wherever it passed, the earth was torn apart, lifted up, and thrown into the air like fragile pieces of paper! Towering trees were carbonized in a fraction of a second, and then completely vaporized by the high temperature, leaving not even ashes behind!

In the distance, the mountains twisted and collapsed under the intense heat, their hard rocks melting into crimson magma that sprayed outwards like a volcanic eruption!

The lava was then dispersed by the following shockwave, turning into a rain of fire that scattered to even more distant places!

The light was so bright that it was blinding.

The sound was so loud that it momentarily deafened people, leaving only a buzzing roar.

The temperature was so high that even from this distance, Little Sasuke and Little Naruto could feel the scorching heat.

I don't know how much time passed.

It might be a second, or it might be a minute.

finally.

The light faded, the shockwave subsided, and the earth fell silent once more.

Little Sasuke and Little Naruto stood still, motionless.

They looked into the distance.

That place was originally a continuous forest and a lush, verdant mountain range.

At this moment—there is nothing left.

All that remained was a huge, bottomless pit.

The crater was at least tens of kilometers in diameter. Its edges were so clean it looked like something had bitten it off. The bottom of the crater was pitch black, so deep that the end could not be seen.

The forest is gone.

The mountain is gone.

Everything is gone.

Little Naruto just stood there blankly, mouth agape, eyes wide, as if his soul had been ripped away.

He had never witnessed such power before, a power that seemed completely unlike anything a human should possess.

Even the Hokage... even all the previous Hokage... could they achieve this?

He didn't know.

And Little Sasuke —he finally stopped struggling.

He stood there motionless, his fist held tightly by Big Naruto, staring at the huge crater in the distance, at the land that had been completely wiped out.

After the initial blankness, something began to burn deep within his eyes.

That light did not emanate from any negative emotion.

It's flames and desire, specifically a burning desire for Big Naruto.

He looked at Big Naruto, at those calm blue eyes that seemed to say nothing had happened, at the man who had so effortlessly destroyed an entire land—he wanted that power.

He needs this power.

With this power, he could take revenge.

With this power, he could kill that person.

With this power, he no longer needed to go to Orochimaru, nor did he need to walk that dark path.

He stared at Big Naruto, his eyes burning with an unprecedented intensity.