Bang! Bang! Bang!
The heavy blows kept coming.
Yet Sasuke's Sharingan saw it clearly: the moment his stone-shattering attacks touched that seething red Chakra Cloak, much of their force was lost.
Worse, the bruises and gashes he had just inflicted on Naruto were healing before his eyes!
That recovery is monstrous! Sasuke's pupils contracted.
Naruto endured the barrage and let out a garbled roar. "My turn!!!"
He formed Hand Seals. "Shadow Clone Technique!"
Poof! Poof! Poof! Poof!
In an instant, hundreds upon hundreds of Shadow Clones wrapped in scarlet Chakra appeared, crowding the water and rocks of the Valley of the End!
Even more terrifying, a Rasengan was rapidly forming in every clone's hand, Chakra compressing into a tight spiral!
Hundreds of dangerous blue spheres lit the dark gorge like daylight!
"Uoooh!" Countless Narutos charged Sasuke from every direction like a flood bursting through a dam, heedless of their own survival!
At first, Sasuke could weave through the clones with the Sharingan's foresight and the Rabbit Talisman's speed. Each slash of his Zanpakuto and each precise Kunai throw sent several Shadow Clones vanishing in puffs of white smoke.
His movements remained graceful and deadly.
But there were simply too many Shadow Clones! They pressed forward without fear, one wave after another.
Rasengan explosions hammered the water and rock without pause, throwing up towering jets and showers of rubble.
Sasuke's room to dodge kept shrinking. His stamina and Chakra drained at an alarming rate, and his breathing grew ragged.
"They just keep coming! As annoying as cockroaches!" Irritation and anger flashed in Sasuke's eyes.
He knew he could not keep this up.
"Graaah!" With a low growl, he let the Curse Mark spread from his neck as though it were alive. Black markings swept across half his body and face, granting