"Up next, making his grand entrance..."
Naruto's entire body became wrapped in a golden Chakra Cloak.
He used the Nine-Tails Chakra he had taken earlier, then connected with the Nine-Tails inside the seal through Adamantine Sealing Chains and his powerful, dark will.
"Kurama! Your power is amazing!"
Naruto had never thought much of his earlier Partial Tailed Beast Transformation.
This was the real deal.
"Of course!"
The Nine-Tails replied with something he had no choice but to admit.
"Ta-da!"
"Behold the Golden Legend, standing right above you!"
"Nine-Tails Chakra Mode!"
Naruto slammed down a punch.
The savage force made Shukaku lower his head.
"Stinky Fox! You said you hadn't given in! He's transformed into a Tailed Beast!"
Shukaku cursed furiously.
Naruto spun and launched a roundhouse kick.
He used Chakra Enhanced Strength, empowered by Nine-Tails Chakra Mode.
The kick sent Shukaku sprawling to the side.
"Spiral Barrage!"
Naruto was even faster in Nine-Tails Chakra Mode than before.
He was the Body Flicker Technique among Body Flicker Techniques.
He quickly formed nine little hands from Nine-Tails Chakra, shaped a Rasengan in each, and hurled them all at once.
Shukaku had just been kicked to the ground and was trying to get up when the barrage pounded him!
"Stinky Fox! You teamed up with a human to bully me again!"
Shukaku angrily punched the ground.
Luckily, he found a chance to get back up.
His one and only tail swung wildly.
Knowing full well he couldn't defeat Naruto, who had the Nine-Tails' Chakra, he was caught between advancing and retreating.
"Would you believe me if I said he stole the Chakra?"
The Nine-Tails said helplessly.
"Liar! Naruto just said you were strong, and you gave him a bunch of Chakra! Shameless!"
The One-Tail refused to admit the Nine-Tails was stronger. He couldn't help thinking that the bastard had just been lucky enough to get more Chakra.
That was all!
If they had equal amounts of Chakra, Shukaku was absolutely confident he would win!
"Is that so? But this kid really is strong. Don't say I didn't warn you—he still has a few trump cards he hasn't used."
"I heard about a rogue ninja with the nickname Tailless Tailed Beast recently. Be careful, or a human might take your place."
The Nine-Tails teased the One-Tail, too.
"Damn it!"
Shukaku was even angrier.
What was this Tailless Tailed Beast nonsense?
He was just a human. Why did he have to come and steal his spot?
Mockery might have been a joke to others, but it genuinely stung Shukaku.
"Void Bullet!"
Shukaku turned and attacked Naruto again.
He couldn't use a Sealing Technique to capture him at this speed, and close combat was out of the question, too.
That left long-range ninjutsu!
"Let's finish what we started!"
Naruto blurred away with the Body Flicker Technique, dodging the Void Bullet.
This time, he didn't even need the Flying Thunder God Technique, which made Shukaku even angrier.
"Nine-Tails Chakra Hand!"
One after another, giant hands made of Nine-Tails Chakra sprouted from Naruto's body.
They pinned Shukaku forcefully to the ground.
"Naruto can fight even a Tailed Beast now?"
Seeing this, Sasuke was completely drained of strength.
Unable to believe what he was seeing, he collapsed, his Chakra severely depleted.
"This is Tailed Beast bullying!"
Shukaku was furious at being pinned down by so many Chakra hands.
"Quit whining."
"I've got one more move!"
Naruto once again gathered Nine-Tails Chakra in his hand.
Several small Rasengan spun around the largest one.
Planetary Rasengan!
It should have been a technique created after learning about a planet's rotation and revolution.
But Naruto wasn't going to use it just as it was.
Another, much larger Rasengan appeared, crackling with the power of Thunderstorm Rasengan.
"Naruto! What are you doing?!"
Shukaku actually spoke directly to Naruto.
"I'll make the Rasengan explode while setting off the other Rasengan to make them collide with one another."
"What I'm going to do is compress them together for a moment, forming a Chakra sphere in which the Rasengan spin. I'll release it for just one-thousandth of a second."
"Once released, it'll create a terrifying force from the collisions. I don't know exactly how powerful it'll be."
Naruto just wanted to imitate the collision of celestial bodies. How powerful would it be if two stars crashed into each other?
He had no idea.
But the answer no longer mattered.
A Rasengan wasn't a planet, much less a star.
He was only imitating the simplest form of rotation.
"I'm not human, but you're somehow even more Tailed Beast than a Tailed Beast!"
Shukaku knew of a technique that released Yin and Yang Chakra in a certain ratio as an attack.
The Tailed Beast Bomb!
Naruto's technique was straightforward, but it might really multiply the power!
"Sorry about this. I heard Tailed Beasts can't be killed, so just think of it as helping me experiment."
"Oh, right."
"I'm calling this move..."
"Mini Nuclear Rasengan!"
As the Rasengan shot forward,
Naruto used the Flying Thunder God Technique to get away.
Boom!
The Nine-Tails Chakra Cloak quickly repaired itself, and Naruto's injuries healed along with it.
It had been extremely dangerous just now. The blast's distance had been so great that Naruto's body had been damaged, too.
Blinding lightning rumbled as a huge sphere shot forward.
Then the Chakra sphere exploded.
The resulting shock wave followed right after.
The surrounding area was destroyed for miles.
The forest trees snapped one after another.
But Naruto wasn't afraid of the remaining force.
He appeared at the battlefield again.
There was nothing in the huge, semicircular crater.
Shukaku was gone. Only Gaara lay peacefully asleep at the bottom of the crater.
"You're not bad, Shukaku. You blew yourself back into your Jinchuriki, and he's still alive."
Hmph!
Shukaku said nothing. For now, he couldn't speak, either.
"Still ignoring me? This is for your own good. Otherwise, you might get killed the first time you meet an explosion artist."
Naruto picked Gaara up, then went over to the unconscious Sasuke and grabbed him, too.
"Is the mission complete? Never mind, there's still the advanced mission."
Naruto turned and raced toward Konoha.
He passed the Konoha 11 one after another.
Their battle wasn't even over, yet Naruto had already returned in triumph.
Kankuro and Temari were both pale with fright.
At the Chunin Ninja Exams arena,
the Four Violet Flames Formation set up by the Sound Four still stood firm.
Naruto came back carrying two people and tossed them onto the spectator stand.
Inside the barrier,
Hiruzen Sarutobi was locked in a fierce fight with Orochimaru.
"Teacher, you're going to lose. Even the once-famous Professor of Ninjutsu has grown old and weak."
Orochimaru had used Impure World Reincarnation to bring back the First Hokage and Second to gang up on the Third Hokage.
"The Will of Fire will burn on forever!"
Hiruzen Sarutobi was already badly injured. He had to make sure Orochimaru didn't escape with his life.
But facing Hashirama Senju and Tobirama Senju, brought back through Impure World Reincarnation, was bound to consume a great deal of Chakra.
"Enma! Give me your strength once more!"
Hiruzen Sarutobi gripped the Adamantine Ruyi Staff, determined to break through every obstacle and strike at Orochimaru.
"Of course, Hiruzen!"
Enma shared a fiery old-age bond with Hiruzen Sarutobi, too.
"The God of Shinobi is nowhere near his prime. What a disappointment."
Atop a tree,
Naruto was rubbing his fists together.
"Naruto!"
Hiruzen Sarutobi was astonished.
With Orochimaru's men keeping the barrier in place, how had Naruto gotten in?
But he was soon even more astonished by Naruto's current state.
What incredible Chakra!
Could Naruto already use the Nine-Tails' Chakra?
"Where did you come from, kid?"
Orochimaru was baffled.
It was a shame he hadn't managed to kill Naruto Uzumaki.
"Come from where?"
Naruto pulled a Kunai out of the vines.
"What if I told you I had a whole bunch of Kunai, and I'd scattered them in every corner, each marked with a formula that couldn't be erased? Would you believe me?"
Flying Thunder God!
Orochimaru's mouth twisted into a grin.
He claimed to have mastered every ninjutsu, yet he couldn't use Flying Thunder God. Minato Namikaze could, and even Naruto Uzumaki could!
A Kusanagi Sword shot out of his mouth.
He tried to send it flying to cut off Naruto's head!
"Who gave you the nerve to challenge me with ninja tools?"
Naruto caught the Kusanagi Sword between two fingers and snapped it with a crack.
In an instant,
Hashirama Senju and Tobirama Senju, both brought back through Impure World Reincarnation, stood to Naruto's left and right.
"Kurama, it's time to help you get over a little of that Wood Style trauma!"
At some point,
Naruto had placed a hand on each of Hashirama's and Tobirama's shoulders.