Naruto Uzumaki VS Tsunade Senju

Tsunade's complexion instantly changed from faintly flushed to livid.

The veins on her forehead bulged one after another, and her long golden hair began to stir without wind.

The air around her started to tremble violently. The stone slabs beneath her feet cracked inch by inch, fissures slithering more than ten meters away like venomous snakes.

A terrifying chakra storm, suffocating in its intensity, suddenly erupted outward from her!

The roadside signs were shredded to pieces, the casino's wooden doors collapsed with a thunderous crash, and even the distant trees swayed wildly.

"Naruto Uzumaki!"

Tsunade's voice seemed to squeeze through clenched teeth, filled with rage powerful enough to destroy the heavens and earth:

"You're asking to die!"

She stomped down with her right foot, turning into a streak of golden lightning. Carrying monstrous strength capable of shattering mountains, she threw a punch straight at Naruto's face!

Before the fist wind even arrived, the ground had already been pressed into a shallow crater.

"Tsunade! Don't get too worked up! Don't beat him to death again!"

Jiraiya was scared out of his wits. He reached out to grab her, but caught only an afterimage.

He knew all too well how powerful Tsunade's punch was. Even a Kage-level fighter would suffer shattered bones and torn tendons if struck head-on.

Watching the fist rapidly enlarge in his vision, Naruto's eyes lit up, and he whistled.

"Not bad!"

The moment the words left his mouth, brilliant golden chakra surged explosively from within him!

It lacked the savagery and evil of the Nine-Tails Chakra from the original story. There was only pure, warm, yet incomparably vast power.

One tail, two tails, three tails...

A fourth golden tail slowly swayed, gleaming beneath the sunlight like glazed crystal.

"What?!"

Tsunade's pupils shrank sharply, and her fist stopped rigidly in midair.

She had seen the Nine-Tails lose control. She had seen that scarlet chakra capable of destroying the heavens and earth.

But she had never seen... Nine-Tails Chakra so tame, so perfectly controlled!

Jiraiya was equally stunned, his mouth hanging wide enough to fit a fist. "What kind of joke is this?!"

"F-four tails? Perfect control? How is that possible?!"

He had personally witnessed Kushina suppressing the Nine-Tails, and he had seen the scene when Minato sacrificed himself.

No one understood better than him just how violent the Nine-Tails' chakra was.

And yet a twelve- or thirteen-year-old brat could perfectly control the power of four tails?

It was simply absurd!

Naruto flexed his wrist, feeling the surging strength within him, and muttered inwardly:

Nine-Tails Power, Uzumaki Physique, Basic Sage Body... I should be fine trading a punch with her, right?!

He clenched his fist and smashed it fiercely into Tsunade's incoming punch!

BOOM—!!!

The deafening crash, like metal striking metal, made everyone's eardrums ache.

A terrifying shockwave spread outward in a ring with the two of them at its center!

The ground instantly collapsed, shattered rocks flew everywhere, and the surrounding buildings were directly flattened.

The stone slabs beneath Naruto's feet shattered completely. He staggered back three steps, each one leaving a deep footprint in the ground.

Tsunade, meanwhile, only took half a step back.

"Damn, that Monster Strength really lives up to its reputation."

Naruto shook his numb fist, but an excited smile curled across his lips.

"In taijutsu, I'm not backing down! Eight Gates!"

"Gate of Opening! Gate of Rest! Gate of Life! Gate of Pain! Gate of Limit! Gate of View!"

Six Gates Opened!

Scorching white steam burst from Naruto's body and shot into the sky. His skin instantly turned dark red, and veins bulged all over his body.

A force several times more violent than before swept across the entire area!

For the first time, Tsunade's expression became incomparably grave. She took a deep breath, the muscles in her arms suddenly swelling as she raised her strength directly to ninety percent!

"Again!"

Naruto let out a low shout and charged forward once more!

Another earth-shaking collision erupted!

This time, the ground at the center sank more than a meter deep, forming an enormous crater.

The shockwave blew away every piece of rubble nearby, even ripping the entire roof off a casino over a hundred meters away.

Naruto retreated two steps, then planted his feet firmly.

Tsunade, however, took one step back, and the stone slabs beneath her feet crumbled completely into powder.

Jiraiya slumped to the ground. Looking at the scene before him, his mind went completely blank.

"Holy shit... are forbidden techniques just something you can use whenever you want?"

"Eight Gates! That's a forbidden technique that can kill you if you're not careful! This brat just opened it whenever he felt like it—and he went straight to six gates? Is he even human?!"

Tsunade shook her slightly trembling fist, her eyes filled with shock as she looked at Naruto.

Her Monster Strength was a gift of the Senju Clan, the foundation she had relied on to dominate the Ninja World for decades.

But now, a twelve-year-old brat could clash head-on with her in taijutsu without falling behind?

"Very good."

Tsunade slowly straightened, her gaze sharp as a blade.

"I'm going all out now. I hope your strength isn't just for show!"

A diamond-shaped mark faintly emerged on her forehead.

Naruto smiled faintly and thought to himself:

Going all out is good. Since you're dropping the act, I'll activate my cheat too. What a joke—my strength isn't some inflated power gained by force-feeding. The system added it bit by bit. How could it be hollow?!

"System, exchange for the Intermediate Sage Body!"

[Ding! 10,000 Darkness Value consumed. Intermediate Sage Body exchange successful!]

[Current Darkness Value balance: 21,300]

In an instant, warm and immense vitality flowed into every limb and bone of Naruto's body.

A faint glow radiated from his body. The wounds cracked open by the collision healed at a visible rate, while his chakra reserves directly doubled!

Immediately afterward, orange markings silently spread around the corners of his eyes.

Sage Mode, activated!

Golden Nine-Tails Chakra, white Eight Gates steam, and orange sage chakra.

Three completely different powers fused flawlessly within him, creating an aura terrifying beyond measure.

Watching Naruto pile power onto himself endlessly as though stacking buffs, Tsunade was completely numb.

She had lived for more than fifty years. She had seen countless geniuses and countless powerful fighters.

But she had never seen anyone this outrageous!

A Nine-Tails Jinchuriki who knew the Eight Gates and Sage Mode?

Any one of those three abilities would be enough to make someone one of the Ninja World's strongest.

Yet this brat possessed all three, and had trained every one of them to the utmost limit?

Tsunade swallowed, with only one thought in her heart:

If this guy grew up, then aside from Hashirama Senju back then, there was probably no one in this world who could defeat him.

She gritted her teeth, preparing to activate the Strength of a Hundred Technique.

Even if she had to give it everything she had, she wanted to see exactly where this brat's limit lay!

Just then.

A cold, sinister laugh suddenly came from behind the ruins.

"Things are pretty lively here, aren't they?"

A man dressed in a black robe slowly walked out. A strange smile rested on his pale face as his tongue licked his lips like a snake's.

"What do you say, Tsunade? I'm still waiting for your answer. Do you want to see them? Dan, and Nawaki."

"Orochimaru."

Tsunade's expression changed instantly, and her fist clenched tightly.

Naruto glanced at him, snorted as if looking at a clown, and sneered:

"Well, if it isn't that freak Orochimaru. Didn't getting stabbed by the man in black last time satisfy you? You came back to experience getting stabbed through the heart by me?"

"If I remember correctly, it was your left lung that got stabbed last time, right? What, did it grow back already? Or did you switch to another spare body?"

"Tsk, tsk, tsk. Changing bodies every day like changing clothes—aren't you afraid of catching a skin disease?"