The Complete-Body Susanoo's long blade descended with the force to cleave mountains and rivers. Naruto did not try to block it.
The instant the blade touched his scalp, the mud beneath his feet exploded. He did not retreat. He charged forward.
Naruto shot along the spine of Susanoo's blade like a golden bullet. The Nine-Tails Chakra Cloak formed hydraulic-piston-like structures at his joints, and every step boomed like an engine.
"Trying to get inside? Naive."
Madara snorted, and Susanoo's other arm swept toward him.
Naruto's gaze turned cold. He twisted his waist in midair and chopped down with his right leg like an axe, driving his heel straight into a chakra node on Susanoo's wrist.
"Inch Power: Collapse."
Crack!
The enormous arm veered off course, grazing Naruto before smashing into the ground. Using the rebound, Naruto lunged straight at Madara.
"Come out!"
Naruto spread the fingers of his right hand into a claw. Black Death God Runes wound around his fingertips, and he tore a gap through Susanoo's hard crystalline shell as though ripping cloth.
Madara frowned slightly. "You tore open Susanoo with your bare hands?"
The next instant, Naruto slipped inside. In the cramped space, less than half a meter separated them.
That was Naruto's plan: turn a clash of chakra into a fight to the death at close quarters.
Madara reacted instantly. He raised the Uchiha Gunbai across his chest, catching the knife-hand Naruto thrust toward his throat.
Clang!
Metallic ringing burst through the air.
Naruto did not pull back. Twisting at the waist, he drove his left elbow toward Madara's temple like a battering ram. Madara tilted his head. His Sharingan had already read the strike's path, and he brought his right knee up toward Naruto's abdomen.
Naruto did not block. He took the knee on his