Naruto: Missing the Nine-Tails Jinchuriki from the Start
Chapter 28

Achieving Dreams with Both Hands

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Landing a strike, Sasuke broke free from Orochimaru's hand and brandished his shuriken. "I can feel the gap in our strength. My power is still not enough."

With his Sharingan active, Sasuke's mind grew sharper. He judged that Orochimaru was not attacking with full force, but rather seemed to be guiding him toward unlocking a new power.

Seizing this opening, Sasuke took his chance to sever the snakes binding Uchiha Mikoto and Izumi Uchiha, then retreated to a distance.

"Mother, hold on." Sasuke was helpless; verbal support could not heal Uchiha Mikoto's wounds.

Izumi Uchiha had fallen into a coma due to snake venom.

In the eastern district of the Uchiha Clan residential area, Tobi was intercepted by three Uchiha Clan jonin.

"Do you know what the urge to defecate feels like?" Tobi asked, full of curiosity. "Oh, none of you know, yet you want to kill me. But even if you kill me, I still won't know what that urge is. So, you are the ones who must die. Can you understand that?"

"We will never let him go." The Uchiha Clan jonin charged forward in a rage.

Tobi swayed. "Wood Style: Cutting Technique."

Sharp wooden spikes erupted from Tobi's entire body, piercing into the flesh of the Uchiha Clan jonin. Then, countless more spikes burst out from within the bodies of the Uchiha Clan jonin, claiming their lives.

No one could block Tobi's path.

"Kisame, I will kill him myself and turn him into my puppet." Sasori was preparing to craft a puppet with a Sharingan when a boy with monstrous strength and green flames descending from the sky nearly kicked his Hiruko puppet to pieces. If Kisame hadn't blocked the boy's follow-up strike in time, Sasori would have been forced to reveal his true form.

Sasori was furious, enraged that his art had been desecrated.

The boy with monstrous strength was Naruto, who had come to deliver eye bandages to Body Flicker Shisui.

Originally, Naruto and Shisui had been chatting while Karin was busy cooking in the kitchen, when a hurricane suddenly blew in.

Shisui's small house was pulverized into splinters by the gale.

Naruto's eyes revealed a deep sorrow. "That man you killed greeted me this morning. He told me he was going to the river to fish, and if he caught something good, he'd give me one. You, hiding in your shell, perhaps you cannot feel my sorrow and only wish to kill me. Since you possess great power but use it so recklessly, I will use even greater power to become your absolute nightmare."

Naruto's consciousness locked onto Sasori, and he vanished in a flicker.

Kisame prepared to assist Sasori.

A figure blocked his path, wearing a red eye-band with a sentence written in gold paint: I use my hands to fulfill your dreams.

It was abrupt and somewhat amusing.

Shisui appeared, his right hand drawing his blade in a downward slash. "Your opponent is me."

Kisame sidestepped and threw a brutal punch. "Not everyone is a match for me."

"A clone?" Kisame was clearly stunned, his fist meeting no resistance.

Shisui appeared to Kisame's left. "Fire Style: Dragon Flame Jutsu."

A powerful, linear blast of flame surged toward Kisame.

Kisame was pushed back by the flames, but he sustained no fatal injuries.

Sasori controlled the tail of his Hiruko to lash out at the approaching Naruto.

Naruto didn't bother to dodge, judging that it would at most scratch his skin and not affect the outcome. "Wind Style: Rasenshuriken."

Guided by Shisui and Itachi, Naruto had finally pushed the nature transformation of his wind-style chakra to the limit, successfully creating a new jutsu: Rasenshuriken.

"No matter how hard your shell is, I can break you open."

Naruto pressed the Rasenshuriken into the center of the Hiruko puppet.

Sasori dodged just in time, ejecting from the back of the Hiruko. "What a sharp jutsu; it actually destroyed my meticulously crafted Hiruko. However, art is eternal; it will always have a place in my heart. And since you have been struck by the special poison on my tail, your death is already at hand."

Yet, the next moment, Sasori watched in shock as his special poison was purged from the boy's body.

Naruto's Super Self-Healing feared no poison. "Is that all? The next move will be for you yourself."

Sasori unfolded the scroll at his waist, formed hand seals, and pressed them against the scroll. "Do you think I only have this one puppet? I will let you see what a truly powerful puppet is."

The seals were finished and his chakra flowed, but the scroll remained unchanged. Sasori was left completely bewildered, unable to comprehend what had happened.

Naruto smiled slightly. So this was the unique effect of the system: he could carry his own space, but under this unique effect, no one else could utilize other dimensions.

To make carrying gear convenient, ninjas would store their tools in scrolls within different dimensions. When they wanted to use them, they would form seals and touch the scroll to release the items inside.

"I told you, you're out of chances." Naruto increased his speed. "Fire Style: Great Burst Rasengan."

Without his puppet, Sasori's true body was no match for Naruto, who had opened the Eight Inner Gates. He was filled with despair. "Kisame, save me!"

BOOM.

Sasori's cry for help rang out, but Kisame was being pulled further and further away by Body Flicker Shisui, unable to break free.

The flames crackled as they scorched Sasori.

The steel blades and cables hidden within Sasori's true body were also glowing red-hot.

"To think you'd go so far as to turn your own body into a puppet—I truly don't understand what you were thinking." Naruto continued his crushing assault, focusing all his strength into punches against Sasori's true body, interweaving them with Rasengans to ensure Sasori had no chance to counterattack.

"Ah! Art is eternal!" Sasori let out the final cry of his life.

Sasori's true body shattered into pieces, and his glowing Core flickered out. His life as a puppet had finally found release.

The most absurd accident occurred.

Tobi, having finished off the Uchiha clansmen in his sector, ran over happily, wanting to show off his strength to Kisame and Sasori, only to see Sasori beaten to death by a child, completely unable to fight back.

"Good heavens, Sasori is feeling the urge to go, and I want to as well." Tobi leaped high into the air: "Wood Style: Deep Forest Emergence."

Trees erupted from the ground beneath Naruto with startling speed.

The trees moved as a single entity, coiling around Naruto to crush him.

Another one? Deep within the thicket, Naruto continuously shattered the trees attacking him. I need to carve a path out first.

"Wind Style: Hurricane Rasengan."

Countless trees were swept away by the hurricane, but just as many sprouted from the earth to surround Naruto once more.

"Hurry up and become nutrients for the trees." Tobi seemed to possess infinite chakra, maintaining the ninjutsu without a hint of fatigue.

Naruto attempted a Fire Release, but the surface of the trees was damp, rendering the flames ineffective. Since neither wind nor fire yielded results, Naruto chose to sprint toward the east. Only by escaping the range of the opponent's ninjutsu and locating his true position would he have a chance at victory.

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