Even if You Aren't a Jinchuriki, I Can Still Beat You to a Pulp!

Menma dragged his feet as he prepared to walk toward the battle arena, but suddenly, as if remembering something, he darted back over to Sasuke. "Bro, bro, do me a favor!"

"Speak!" Sasuke was concise.

"I heard the Sharingan of you Uchiha can be used right out of the box. Go ahead and gouge out those two eyeballs of yours to lend me for a bit!" Menma said something shocking.

"Get lost!" Sasuke was still concise.

"Will do~" Rejected, Menma happily trotted back to the field.

A gust of wind blew in circles, stirring the hair at Menma's temples and lifting Utakata's bangs.

"You've come," Menma said with a cold face. "You shouldn't have come, but you came anyway."

"..." Utakata's lips twitched slightly without speaking.

"What made you brave hardships to break through the blockade of the Mist Village ANBU, crossing oceans across a great distance just to bully a Genin like me?" Menma asked curiously.

Hearing this, Utakata's face flushed slightly before recovering his composure. "I'm sorry, I have a reason I must do this."

"It's for someone, right!" Menma guessed.

Utakata stayed silent, which served as confirmation.

"This person is very important to you, and was captured by Konoha, right?" Menma continued to ask.

"...I'm sorry, I cannot say..." Utakata kept his mouth shut.

"Understood. You have a reason you must fight me, and I have a reason I cannot afford to lose this battle. Let's see our true skills with our own hands!" Menma said.

"Many thanks!" Utakata offered his thanks to Menma, and then pulled out the bubble pipe tucked at his waist.

Bullying the weak as the strong was already shameful enough; did he really have to make the first move against a child? Utakata muttered apologies in his heart, waiting for Menma to attack.

"Since you aren't coming, I won't be polite." Menma also understood Utakata's thoughts.

"Please be sure to use your full strength to fight me! I will pull back my punches in time and won't hurt you," Utakata said.

"As you wish!" Menma unzipped his jacket, pulled up the undershirt inside to reveal his belly, shaped his right hand into a claw, grabbed around his navel, and gave it a hard half-turn.

Four Symbols Seal, Release!

As his words fell, a massive amount of Chakra flooded Menma's meridians, and then Menma formed a cross seal with both hands:

Multiple Shadow Clone Technique!

Streams of smoke appeared along with a series of bang, bang, bang, bang sounds!

After the smoke cleared, there were patches upon patches of Menma! Looking at a glance, it was dense, numbering in the hundreds and thousands!

"What?!" X 7

Everyone present widened their eyes.

"Are these your Konoha Genins? Tell me which Genin can create so many clones!" Zabuza grabbed Kakashi by the collar and shook him hard.

"I don't know either..." The shock in Kakashi's eyes didn't look fake.

Utakata was also very surprised, but he immediately raised the bubble pipe, placed it by his mouth, and blew bubbles one after another that floated around him.

"I'm sorry, I take back what I just said. I might not be able to hold back!" Utakata said to the Menma army before him.

"Here we go!" x N

The Menma army shouted and swarmed forward, launching an attack toward Utakata.

Utakata held the bubble pipe and swung it, countless bubbles flying toward the Menma army.

Menma knew the power of the bubbles well; how could he dare let them get close? Dozens of Menma stood in place and began to form hand seals.

Wind Release: Great Breakthrough!

Dozens of whirlwinds appeared from the mouths of the Menma army, converging in the air into four ultra-large tornadoes.

As soon as Utakata's bubbles got close, they were swept into by the huge wind and burst with bang, bang, bang sounds.

Then, the tornadoes were like horned dragons, rushing toward Utakata on the ground from four directions.

Utakata was unhurried, tucked the bubble pipe back into his waist, formed hand seals with both hands, and slammed them onto the ground: Water Release: Fourfold Water Wall!

Four pillars of water rose from the ground, perfectly surrounding Utakata within.

In just an instant, the tornadoes crashed into the water wall. The powerful water flow blocked the invasion of the tornadoes, and the strong wind also disturbed the water wall, stirring up towering splashes of water.

After a long while, the wind scattered and the water fell, leaving everyone present looking as disheveled as if they had been caught in a rainstorm.

Utakata drew the bubble pipe out again, waved it hard, and countless tiny bubbles shot toward the Menma army like buckshot.

Caught off guard, the Menma clones at the front of the army formations were hit one after another.

Like balloons pierced by needles, accompanied by bang, bang, bang sounds, dozens of Menma clones dissipated into smoke.

"Shooting guns? I can do that too!" the Menmas shouted in unison, taking a deep breath. Wind Release: Vacuum Sphere!

Countless ultra-high-pressure compressed air bullets shot toward Utakata.

Utakata couldn't see the transparent air bullets, but the bubbles that were continuously pierced revealed the trajectory of the attack.

So Utakata also took a deep breath, mobilized a large amount of Chakra, and constructed a mountain of bubbles in front of himself using bubbles.

This was precisely Utakata's unique defensive ninjutsu, Water Release: Adhesive Foam.

This ninjutsu involved Utakata using chakra to create a massive amount of sticky foam, delaying and blocking the enemy's projectile attacks through the mutual adhesion between the bubbles.

Countless air masses slammed into the foam mountain, denting it in places before those indentations were restored to their original state by new foam generated by Utakata.

The two fell into a stalemate.

Seeing this, Menma's true body shot a kunai that stuck into the foam mountain, commanding, "All of you, aim at that kunai and fire!"

Hearing this, the Menma army slightly adjusted their directions one after another, concentrating their firepower to aim at the center point of the foam mountain and launch Vacuum Jade.

Utakata felt his chakra consumption growing larger and larger, and the replenishment speed of the foam could no longer keep up with the rate of destruction; at this rate, having his defense breached was only a matter of time.

"Sorry, Konoha ninja!

Six-Tails, lend me some power!"

Just as the foam mountain was about to be breached, Utakata let out a loud shout, and red chakra instantly enveloped him, protecting him just before the Vacuum Jade attacks reached his body.

"Boom!" A large amount of compressed air struck Utakata's Tailed Beast cloak and the ground, bursting out plumes of dust and smoke.

Before the smoke and dust had even scattered, two red chakra tentacles suddenly darted out from within the smoke, wildly lashing toward the Menma army.

"Damn it! The Tailed Beast cloak is out already, are you playing dirty?" Menma cursed loudly while dodging the attacks of the chakra tentacles.

Due to the constraints of the terrain, the vast majority of Menma clones had no room to dodge and were struck into plumes of smoke by the chakra tentacles.

When the smoke cleared and the tentacles retracted, only a panting Menma true body and Utakata wrapped in the red Tailed Beast cloak remained on the field.

Under the force of that very attack, Menma had taken three heavy hits, to the point where he was a bit unsteady on his feet now.

If the shadow clones hadn't protected the true body at any cost, it would have been a question whether Menma could still stand here intact and complete right now.

I admit that the tone of my voice just now was a little loud, so can we please calm down first?

Menma smiled bitterly as he looked at Utakata, who now had two tails manifested.