A Divine Weapon Delivered Right to My Door? No Way I'm Turning It Down

Just as Sasuke stood there in a daze, Orochimaru extended his five-meter-long tongue, wrapped it around Naruto, and dragged him before him.

Naruto struggled in midair. "Let me go, you dead snake freak!"

"The Nine-Tails brat? Even the seal has surfaced. I suppose I'll reinforce it for you."

Orochimaru ignored the fists Naruto swung wildly in the air.

Instead, he spread open his palm, and purple chakra representing metal, wood, water, fire, and earth gradually appeared on his five fingers.

"Five Elements Seal."

Orochimaru slammed a hand into Naruto's abdomen, adding another sealing technique atop his original seal.

Naruto's vertical Nine-Tails pupils gradually gave way to blue eyes.

"D-Damn it."

As the Nine-Tails Power was sealed away, he also passed out from excessive chakra depletion.

Orochimaru glanced at Naruto, the corners of his lips curling slightly as he violently flung his long tongue backward.

The unconscious Naruto flew like a kite with its string cut, crashed into a tree trunk, and fell downward.

"Naruto!"

Sakura swiftly threw a Kunai, piercing precisely through Naruto's clothes and pinning him to the tree.

After Sakura's relentless Talk no Jutsu, Sasuke finally snapped out of it.

"I'm not a coward."

Having recovered, Sasuke instantly activated his Two-Tomoe Sharingan and stared intently at Orochimaru.

Orochimaru dismissed his summoned beast, stuck out his tongue to lick his nose, and chuckled. "Let me test your strength."

The two charged at each other and engaged in close combat.

Kanami watched until he grew sleepy, his head bobbing from time to time.

Before long, Fūka noticed something was off and shot him a disdainful look.

"Hey, didn't you say we needed to gain experience? Why are you falling asleep again?"

"What?!"

Kanami instantly woke up.

Yuzuki hurriedly covered his mouth and made a shushing gesture.

Only then did Kanami remember that they were currently infiltrating.

"Who's there?"

Orochimaru's gaze turned cold as he spat a Kunai from his mouth toward the bushes where Kanami was hiding.

Fūka was alarmed. "Oh no!"

She hurriedly gathered chakra, and an ice crystal gradually appeared before her.

Clang!

Kanami rushed out first and slapped the Kunai away.

He looked straight ahead, his lips moving ever so slightly.

"Don't reveal your Ice Release in front of him."

Orochimaru stared at Kanami with a cold gaze.

"Where did this rat come from?"

Sasuke and Sakura also turned their attention toward Kanami.

After seeing his face clearly, Sakura covered her mouth and cried out, "Kanami?!"

Why was he here?

Sasuke said flatly, "You know him?"

"He's Kanami. We're in the same class."

Sasuke frowned.

Kanami?

"That dead last who's about as good as Naruto?"

Once he remembered, his brow furrowed even tighter, and he stopped looking at Kanami.

In his eyes, anyone without the slightest self-awareness who still dared to spy on this fight was simply courting death.

Sasuke threw a Shuriken at Orochimaru and charged toward him.

"This isn't a battle a dead last like you can take part in. Hide already!"

Kanami froze at his words.

"Worried about me? You're actually pretty nice."

Orochimaru charged at Sasuke again. As long as Kanami did not interfere, he could not be bothered to deal with him right now.

Behind him, Fūka whispered, "Let's slip away while we can."

"Slip away? He cares about me so much! How could I possibly leave? He's my very, very best friend from the Ninja Academy!"

Kanami shouted in mock indignation.

He had no intention of leaving. This was precisely the time to show off what he could do.

His original plan had been to strike when Orochimaru planted the Curse Mark and cut off Orochimaru's head, but now he had been forced to move ahead of schedule.

Fūka and Yuzuki wore strange expressions.

He had such a helpful side to him?

Hearing him shout so loudly, Sasuke inwardly cursed him as another hot-blooded idiot.

And who was your very, very best friend? I don't even remember us talking.

"I'm coming, Sasuke!"

Kanami leaped into the air and threw a Shuriken at Orochimaru's back.

Fūka and Yuzuki looked at each other.

"Big sister, what do we do?"

"So far, he's been the one doing all the work. Let's listen to him."

Fūka nodded.

She watched the battle carefully, ready to rush out and rescue Kanami the moment things turned against him.

Orochimaru swiftly evaded their pincer attack.

"Rats that lurk in the shadows ought to cower and tremble in the corners."

Orochimaru coiled around the tree trunk like a snake slithering forward, rapidly closing in on Kanami as he spat out the blue Kusanagi Sword.

"Idiot! Didn't I tell you to run?!"

Sasuke shouted furiously and threw a Shuriken toward Orochimaru.

But Orochimaru moved too quickly as he coiled around the tree, and the Shuriken could not hit him at all.

Orochimaru opened his mouth wide, his tongue wrapping around the Kusanagi Sword as it stabbed toward Kanami's throat.

The unexpected strike was incredibly fast.

If Kanami had not known Orochimaru had this trick, he would definitely have reacted too late and been pierced through.

With Cell Activation enhancing him, his body might have been able to withstand Shuriken, but he had no confidence in testing whether it could withstand the divine Kusanagi Sword.

He suddenly burst forward at top speed, hurriedly twisting aside and grabbing Orochimaru's long tongue.

In an instant, he brought his hand down like a blade.

The moment Yin-Yang Power touched the tongue, it split into two.

Orochimaru recoiled his tongue in pain.

"Damn rat!"

Kanami tossed away Orochimaru's severed half-tongue with a disgusted expression.

He hurriedly cast a simple sealing technique on the Kusanagi Sword, preventing Orochimaru from summoning it back again.

"Since you've already called me a rat, you won't mind if I take one of your Kusanagi Swords, right?"

He turned and tucked the Kusanagi Sword away.

Sasuke stared at Sakura in confusion.

"Is he really that Kanami?"

"Probably..."

Orochimaru narrowed his eyes at Kanami, deep in thought.

If he used his full strength and Hiruzen Sarutobi noticed, it would certainly affect his ultimate plan.

"Let's end the test here, Uchiha Sasuke."

He gave a sinister laugh and rapidly formed hand seals.

Then he suddenly extended his long neck toward Sasuke.

In an instant, it crossed ten meters and bit down on Sasuke's neck.

"Perfect chance."

Kanami gripped the Kusanagi Sword and slashed at Orochimaru's neck.

"Sasuke!"

Sakura stood nearby with her trembling legs pressed together, staring blankly as Sasuke was bitten.

"Stab him in the neck with a Kunai!"

Fūka was even more anxious watching from the bushes.

Shing!

Even after being sealed, the Kusanagi Sword still cut through iron like mud. The moment it touched Orochimaru's neck, it sliced cleanly through.

Fūka and Yuzuki cried out when they saw it. "It worked!"

Everyone present let out a sigh of relief, except Kanami.

He knew that Orochimaru, that cheat, could not be killed.

He immediately stabbed at Orochimaru's beheaded body.

Splat—

The Kusanagi Sword easily pierced Orochimaru's body through the heart.

That easily?

Something was wrong!

His expression changed, and he immediately turned back and leaped toward Sasuke.

By then, Orochimaru had already planted the Curse Mark. He licked Sasuke's neck, and another body instantly crawled out from his mouth.

Looking at Kanami charging through the air, he said coldly, "Red-Hair rat, I'll remember you."

After leaving those words behind, he slithered around the tree trunk like a snake and vanished from everyone's sight.

"Sasuke!"

Sakura hurriedly supported Sasuke, whose face was twisted in pain.

Kanami looked at the deflated head of the Grass Ninja.

"At least the objective was accomplished."