Konoha Ninja Art Ultimate Technique

"Did you catch me?"

Obito Uchiha heard Naruto's words and instinctively froze. If he could not clearly feel the warmth of the other boy's organs and blood, he would have almost thought he had struck nothing but a clone.

At that moment, seeing the curl of Naruto's lips and his turned profile, Obito Uchiha seemed, in a daze, to see his teacher, Minato Namikaze.

So it was him...

My 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 was truly careless.

A hint of amusement rose in his eyes beneath the mask. Obito Uchiha looked at Itachi Uchiha, who lay unconscious on the ground, then at the boy who was even more handsome than his teacher.

He made a decision. He would take this chance to cause another great upheaval in Konoha.

And release the Nine-Tails again.

No sooner said than done.

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

"Sorry, but I'm the one who caught you—and the Nine-Tails inside you!"

[Mother's Protection -1.]

[Mother's Protection remaining: 10.]

The instant Obito Uchiha pierced through his chest, Naruto felt his vitality rapidly draining away. Then the system's voice rang out.

[Please select a revival location.]

The cold wind hit his face.

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

This included the damp blood and bodily warmth staining Obito Uchiha's hand.

Then...

A faint sound came from behind Obito Uchiha.

"Sorry, but I really am the one who caught you."

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

What kind of Clone Technique was this?

And how did he suddenly appear behind me?

At his age, he had already learned the Flying Thunder God?

By the time Obito Uchiha tried to react and use the Kamui in his right eye to turn intangible, it was already too late.

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

Lightning Release: Lightning Blade!

This technique wrapped lightning around a weapon, granting it a certain magic attack effect.

Enemies struck by the current would suffer lightning damage as well as paralysis.

Naruto had carefully considered this before. There seemed to be quite a few ninja arts in the original story that enchanted weapons in a similar way. He wondered whether Fire Release would work too.

He wanted to create a Lightning-Fire Sword.

So Naruto gave it a try.

It could only be described as barely workable. Forcing Lightning Release and Fire Release to wrap around a kunai at the same time did not achieve the effect he wanted.

The moment they gathered together, they exploded, directly ruining the kunai. If he was not careful, 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, at an extremely fast speed, place this kunai infused with lightning and fire chakra inside the enemy's body, avoiding the blast himself—

Then this move could be used in actual combat.

As it happened—

Mother's Protection revival directly restored him at full condition to a designated location visible to the naked eye.

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

So Naruto immediately thought, Why not use this chance to try out my unfinished Lightning-Fire Sword?

His mind immediately entered the sealing space. He drew upon the tiny amount of Nine-Tails chakra he could mobilize within his body to boost his speed, while simultaneously 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 became unfocused under the intertwined assault of the flames' searing heat and the lightning's numbing sensation.

It felt so good. It hurt so much. What was this feeling?

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

Then—

"Boom—!"

With a muffled blast, the kunai exploded inside his body. Obito Uchiha's butt was blown in half. As the blast knocked him crooked, he could clearly see that his lower body had split apart.

All other sensations had vanished from his lower body. Only that scorching, numbing feeling remained in his senses.

"You're not dead? Sigh, it really is an immature ninja art. Its power is still a little too weak. But I think your lower organs, like your intestines and kidneys, were probably blown to hell."

There was some regret in Naruto's voice, but then he continued to channel chakra. A Rasengan instantly formed in his left hand, and with the Nine-Tails chakra boosting 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 little and thoughtfully stuck a warming patch on him—

Naruto had only one feeling toward him...

He wanted to kill him!

If he could kill him, perhaps the future would be much easier.

"Asshole!"

"Such an incredible technique as the Flying Thunder God, and you used it together with such a low-level ninja art?"

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

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

Back then, he had suffered a huge loss 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 he had been suppressing instantly erupted.

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

But the next moment, Naruto flung another kunai at him first, making him recall the details of his defeat to Minato Namikaze once again.

Damn it!

Both father and son were this underhanded? They wanted to use the same move against me?

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

Glancing at Itachi Uchiha lying on the ground, then at his 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!"

Boom—!

Naruto's Rasengan struck nothing but air, blasting a huge hole into the ground.

But there was nothing he could do about that. He was still too weak, and Kamui's mechanics were simply too unfair. Right now, there was basically nothing he could do against it.

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

But that was fine.

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 wiped out.

And also...

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

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