Orochimaru failed to notice that among the kunai filling the sky, one with a five-pointed star engraved on its handle flew past him and embedded itself in the tree trunk behind him.
Or perhaps he had never considered that possibility at all!
"Rasengan..."
The next second, with a flash of golden light, Naruto appeared behind Orochimaru in an instant.
At the same time, a blue sphere of Chakra condensed in his right palm.
"What?!"
Orochimaru's vertical pupils widened, his face filled with shock!
Damn it, at this speed and distance, there's no time to shed my skin!
The next moment, the Rasengan slammed viciously into Orochimaru's lower back.
Boom, boom, boom, boom, boom!!
The Rasengan tore through Orochimaru's body as it spun before exploding.
Orochimaru's lower body was directly shredded by the indiscriminate rotational force. His upper body was flung high into the air by the shockwave, then crashed heavily into a large tree, his body wedged between the broken stump.
The blast startled the entire Forest of Death. Teams testing one another in the distance stopped and looked in this direction.
Sasuke, who was dragging Sakura away through the forest, suddenly turned around. "What kind of battle is that dead last going through...?"
Sasuke's pupils trembled violently as he clenched his teeth.
At the scene
As the white smoke dispersed, the place where Orochimaru had stood had been blasted into a shallow hemispherical crater nearly three meters in diameter by the Rasengan.
His lower body had vanished entirely. His upper body lay beside a short stump, the edges of his body torn apart like a ruined clay doll.
Naruto did not relax at the sight.
He knew Orochimaru would not be defeated so easily!
Good and Evil Perception activated.
Within his Good and Evil Perception, the Chakra inside