Konoha Ninja Art

"Caught me?"

Obito Uchiha heard Naruto's words and instinctively froze. If he had not been able to clearly feel the temperature of Naruto's organs and blood, he would have almost believed that he had struck nothing but a clone.

Seeing Naruto's upturned lips and turned profile, Obito Uchiha vaguely felt as though he were looking at his teacher, Minato Namikaze.

So it was him...

His teacher's son.

When Naruto had just been born, Obito Uchiha had nearly killed him. He had not expected to encounter him again today. Konoha's management of its Jinchūriki truly was careless.

A smile flickered in the eyes beneath the mask. Obito Uchiha looked at Itachi Uchiha lying unconscious on the ground, then at the boy who was even more handsome than his teacher.

He made up his mind to take this opportunity to cause another uproar in Konoha.

To release the Nine-Tails once more.

No sooner said than done.

In an instant, Obito Uchiha had decided what to do. Without any hesitation, he immediately crushed Naruto's heart.

"Sorry, but I caught you—and the Nine-Tails inside you!"

[Mother's Protection -1.]

[Mother's Protection remaining: 10.]

The moment Obito Uchiha's hand pierced through his chest, Naruto felt his life force rapidly draining away. Then the system's voice rang out.

[Please select a revival location.]

A cold wind rushed toward him.

Before Naruto's consciousness faded, his gaze shifted slightly. Then, as though he had never existed at all, his body, his blood, everything about him vanished into thin air.

That included the warm blood and body heat staining Obito Uchiha's hand.

Then...

A faint sound came from behind Obito Uchiha.

"Sorry, but it really was me who caught you."

Obito Uchiha's pupils suddenly contracted. What was going on?

What kind of Clone Technique was this?

And how had Naruto suddenly appeared behind him?

At such a young age, had he already learned the Flying Thunder God?

By then, it was already too late for Obito Uchiha to react and use the Kamui in his right eye to phase through the attack.

His butt—his third eye—had already sensed an intensely scorching, numbing pain.

Lightning Release: Lightning Blade!

This technique wrapped lightning around a weapon, giving it a certain magical attack effect.

Enemies struck by the current suffered both electrical damage and paralysis.

Naruto had once thought carefully about it. There seemed to be quite a few ninjutsu in the original story that enchanted weapons like this. He wondered whether Fire Release could work too!

He really wanted to combine them into a Lightning-Fire Sword.

So Naruto gave it a try.

It was difficult, to say the least. Forcibly wrapping both Lightning Release and Fire Release around a kunai failed to achieve the effect he wanted.

The moment they gathered together, they exploded, directly ruining the kunai. If he was careless, he could even blow himself up.

So Naruto temporarily called this move "Lightning-Fire Sword: Instant Burst Technique." It could be classified as a forbidden technique.

However, if he could teleport behind an enemy and place this kunai infused with lightning and fire chakra inside the enemy's body at extreme speed, avoiding the blast himself...

Then this move could be used in actual combat.

As it happened.

Mother's Protection revived him directly at full strength at a designated location visible to the naked eye.

Naruto chose a spot behind Obito Uchiha. Combined with his naturally short stature, the first thing he saw was Obito Uchiha's butt.

So Naruto immediately thought, why not use this chance to test my unfinished Lightning-Fire Sword?

His mind immediately entered the sealing space. He mobilized the tiny amount of Nine-Tails chakra he could draw upon to boost his speed, while activating the Lightning-Fire Sword: Instant Burst Technique.

"Konoha Ninja Art: Lightning-Fire Slaughter!"

With a wet squelch.

The entire kunai pierced through his pants. Lightning and fire tore through every obstruction and entered Obito Uchiha's body at incredible speed.

The next moment.

Obito Uchiha's eyes went unfocused as the scorching heat of fire and the paralyzing sensation of lightning intertwined within him.

It felt so good... and so painful. What was this feeling?

Obito Uchiha could not help letting out a muffled groan. "Ah~!"

Then...

"Bang—!"

With a muffled blast, the kunai exploded inside his body. Obito Uchiha's butt was blown in half, and as his body twisted from the explosion, he could clearly see that his lower half had split apart.

All other feeling had vanished from his lower body. Only that scorching, numbing sensation remained beneath him.

"You're not dead? Sigh, it really is an immature ninjutsu. Its power is still a little too weak. But I imagine your intestines, kidneys, and other lower organs must have been blown apart pretty badly."

There was some regret in Naruto's voice, but he immediately continued channeling chakra. A Rasengan instantly formed in his left hand, and with the Nine-Tails chakra enhancing his speed, he charged straight at Obito Uchiha.

As for this warmhearted big brother who, in the original story, had held Naruto when he was young and thoughtfully stuck a warming patch on him...

Naruto had only one feeling toward him...

He wanted to kill him!

If he could kill Obito Uchiha, the future might become much easier.

"Bastard!"

"Such an amazing technique as the Flying Thunder God, and you use it with such a low-level ninjutsu?"

"You don't deserve to use the Flying Thunder God at all!"

Obito Uchiha was shocked and furious. As he swiftly regained his senses, he watched Naruto charge at him with a Rasengan. In a daze, he seemed to see the teacher who had fought him years ago when he invaded Konoha—Minato Namikaze.

Back then, he had suffered badly at Minato Namikaze's hands, taking a brutal Rasengan to the back.

Now he had suffered another huge loss at the hands of Naruto Uzumaki, who resembled Minato Namikaze. The resentment that had built up in his heart instantly erupted.

After cursing, Obito Uchiha prepared to use Kamui and suck Naruto into the Kamui space the instant he arrived.

But the next moment, Naruto threw a kunai at him first, making him recall once again the details of how he had lost to Minato Namikaze.

Damn it!

Both father and son were this devious? Were they trying to use the same move against me?

I'm not that stupid. I won't get hit by the same move again and again.

After glancing at Itachi Uchiha lying on the ground and his own completely numb lower body, Obito Uchiha made a snap decision and immediately grabbed Itachi Uchiha to leave.

"Naruto Uzumaki, I'll remember what happened today. Just wait—I'll definitely kill you!"

Bang—!

Naruto's Rasengan struck nothing but air, smashing a huge crater into the ground.

But there was nothing he could do about it. He was still too weak, and Kamui's mechanics were simply too unfair. There was basically no way for him to deal with it right now.

If he had not copied the Fourth Hokage by throwing kunai and pretended to know the Flying Thunder God to scare Obito Uchiha, Naruto felt he might have lost several more layers of Mother's Protection today.

But it did not matter.

It was not as though he had gained nothing. At the very least, today's objective had been perfectly accomplished.

Mikoto Uchiha and Izumi Uchiha had not died, and the Uchiha Clan had not been exterminated.

And...

Looking at the half of Obito Uchiha's butt that had been blown off and left on the ground, Naruto saw that it was pure white. It was probably a White Zetsu prosthetic body created from Hashirama Cells.

Naruto had an idea. He walked over, cut off a small piece of the skin tissue Obito Uchiha had left behind, then used Fire Release to burn all the rest.

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