The Third Hokage's Fury

"You! Do you know what you've done?!"

Hiruzen Sarutobi was utterly furious.

His aged face twisted into a particularly ferocious expression.

This was Konoha, the number one ninja village in the Ninja World.

And he was Konoha's Hokage, Konoha's foremost figure.

This was clearly Hiruzen Sarutobi's home ground.

Sasuke was the weaker party, while he was the dominant one!

If anyone was going to slap someone's face, it should have been him slapping the other party's face!

But now—

What the hell was this situation?

Hiruzen Sarutobi could even feel the strange looks the Konoha ninja around him were giving him.

Even his Shadow Guard were looking at him with doubt in their eyes.

As if they were saying:

Our Lord Hokage is way too weak! He actually got slapped in the face so easily!

Could it be that the strongest Hokage in history was just a boast?

Humiliated so badly in front of so many subordinates, Hiruzen Sarutobi's mentality nearly exploded.

His eyes were bloodshot as he stared fixedly at Sasuke, his voice even becoming distorted.

"Brat! You have no honor! You ambushed a sixty-nine-year-old old man! You're finished! You won't even have a chance to beg for mercy!"

"Attack! Kill this brat! Don't leave a whole corpse! Beat him into ashes! Ignore Elder Danzo!"

The Third Hokage issued the order viciously.

"Hiruzen, you bastard!"

Danzo cursed furiously upon hearing that.

"Danzo, for Konoha, your sacrifice is worthwhile. I trust you understand! After your death, you will be a hero of Konoha. This old man will choose the finest burial site for you!"

Hiruzen Sarutobi's voice was cold and utterly emotionless, like an icy machine.

No matter what, this man who had dared to slap him in the face had to die here.

Even if Danzo had to die for it, it did not matter.

After all, Danzo's life was not worth mentioning compared to his dignity as Hokage.

"Bastard! Hiruzen, you really are a hypocrite!"

Danzo could only curse helplessly.

Just as despair rose in his heart—

With a bang, the ground beneath them cracked apart, and a ninja wearing a Root mask and wielding a ninja sword sprang out.

"Lord Danzo, do not panic! Your subordinate will rescue you at once!"

The Root ninja gripped his sword with both hands and slashed upward at the arm Sasuke was using to hold Danzo.

For a moment, Danzo thought he had seen hope.

But it turned out to be such a fool.

The man was likely a Root ninja stationed on the outskirts, so he had no idea about Sasuke's physical defense.

He thought that by launching a surprise attack, he could sever Sasuke's arm, rescue Danzo, and earn great merit.

Danzo's eyes went blank. He knew the result without even looking.

Sure enough, the ninja sword struck Sasuke's arm with a loud clang.

Beneath the mask was a frozen smile.

"You... what kind of physical defense is this?!"

Bang!!

Sasuke could not even be bothered to waste words. He kicked out.

A bloody hole was blasted through the man's chest. His body flew more than ten meters before hitting the ground, utterly dead!

Although that Root ninja's sneak attack had accomplished nothing, it sounded the horn for Konoha's assault.

Crackle!!

Just as Sasuke kicked the Root ninja away, thunder suddenly exploded behind him.

—Lightning Release: Chidori!

Kakashi, wearing a dog-head mask, charged forward at high speed with blinding lightning clutched in his hand.

Beneath the mask, his Three-Tomoe Sharingan flickered wildly as he tried to capture Sasuke's possible evasive routes.

Yet Sasuke did not move at all, as though he had no intention of dodging.

"Tch! Not planning to dodge? Looks like you're quite confident in your physical defense!"

"But my Chidori can pierce through anything! It's not comparable to ordinary blades. If you refuse to dodge, then regret your arrogance! I'll punch a huge hole through you!"

Kakashi fiercely thrust the Lightning Cutter in his hand forward.

Amid the flashing lightning, he seemed to have already seen Sasuke's heart being pierced.

However—

Bang!!

Kakashi stared at the scene before him in shock, his expression beneath the mask as if he had seen a ghost.

The Lightning Cutter had struck Sasuke's back, but aside from slightly charred skin and a few traces of blood seeping out, it had achieved nothing else.

To Kakashi, it did not feel like he had struck a human body at all. It felt more like he had hit a mountain.

"You... what kind of monster are you?!"

Kakashi looked up and asked in shock.

"Oh, not bad! As expected of the Chidori that claims to pierce through everything. Since I took four serum injections, you're the first one who's managed to make me bleed!"

Sasuke glanced at the faint blood flowing from his back, raised an eyebrow, and could not help praising him.

"Are you praising me?!"

Kakashi's face darkened. Hearing the other party call it the "Chidori that pierces through everything," he felt it was blatant mockery.

"Think whatever you want. But right now, you'd better get the hell out of my way!"

Sasuke slapped at him, fast as lightning. Before Kakashi could react at all, his head was blown apart.

But what exploded was not flesh and blood, but a mass of lightning!

More accurately, Kakashi's entire body had transformed into a huge mass of lightning.

—Lightning Release: Lightning Clone!

The exploded lightning instantly crawled over Sasuke's body.

Both Sasuke and Danzo were bathed in lightning.

But this level of electricity was like a comfortable electrotherapy massage to Sasuke—tingly and rather pleasant.

It was a completely different matter for Danzo.

His hair stood on end, his entire body was charred black from the electricity, and there was even a faint smell of roasted meat. Then his eyes closed, his head tilted, and he fainted on the spot.

"Everyone, be careful! This guy's physical defense is absurdly powerful. Ordinary attacks are completely ineffective against him. If you want to hurt him, you must use stronger attacks."

From the ruins of a collapsed building, shattered wooden boards were pushed aside, and Kakashi crawled out.

The moment he emerged, he revealed the intelligence his clone had obtained.

Sasuke raised a hand, aimed it at Kakashi, and said calmly:

"That's not how you use Chidori. This is how it should be used!"

Kakashi frowned upon hearing this, pondering the meaning behind Sasuke's words.

Could the other party use Chidori too?

But he had never taught it to him!

Just as he was puzzled, blinding lightning suddenly lit up in Sasuke's outstretched hand.

"This is... Chidori! How do you know it? I don't recall teaching Chidori to anyone! Or did you learn it after seeing it once?!"

Kakashi's face turned grim. His signature ninjutsu had been copied by an enemy so easily, putting him in an extremely foul mood.

"My Chidori is the real one! Yours is fake Chidori. Goodbye, white-haired bastard!"

Sasuke said calmly.

Then chakra poured into the lightning in his hand, and the next moment—

Whoosh!!

A blue-white beam shot out in an instant.

—Lightning Release: Chidori Sharp Spear!

Pfft!!

Blood spilled from the corner of Kakashi's mouth as he looked at the blue-white beam that had pierced through his chest, his face filled with disbelief.

Chidori could be used like this?

They were a full twenty meters apart, yet he had been attacked instantly.

The Chidori Sharp Spear retracted.

Looking at Kakashi, who was half-kneeling on the ground, Sasuke said calmly:

"Looks like it went off target. I was originally aiming for your head. But it won't miss this time!"

With that, he raised his hand and aimed at Kakashi's head, lightning flashing in his palm.

"Stop!"

Just one second before the Chidori Sharp Spear was about to fire, a ninja clad in a green jumpsuit, sporting a bowl cut and surrounded by green waves of energy, appeared in time.

Bang!!

A heavy kick slammed into Sasuke's muscular arm. Although it caused no substantial damage, it knocked his aim aside.

The Chidori Sharp Spear that finally formed only pierced through a half-collapsed residential house.