I, Uchiha Sasuke, Just Want the Mystic Heavy Ruler! What's Wrong with That!!

Naruto's Rocket Headbutt not only stunned Zabuza.

Even Kakashi was frightened out of his wits. Just watching the man fly away made his own stomach ache faintly.

It was hard to imagine what state that enemy was in right now.

But...

If Naruto hit him like that, wouldn't he end up bruised black and blue?

Sasuke glanced at the enemy who had been sent flying, lightly biting down on his teeth as a sense of imbalance rose in his heart.

Judging by the way the man had turned to attack Naruto, he clearly had not taken Sasuke seriously at all.

On top of that, his earlier moves had not caused the enemy even a bit of damage, making Sasuke feel even worse.

He remembered their previous battle with Kakashi Sensei, when Naruto had mocked him...

Saying something about how his moves looked fierce as a tiger, but his damage output was less than 0.5.

At first, he had not understood it, but as time passed, Sasuke gradually realized Naruto was mocking him for failing to land a single attack on the enemy.

"Damn it!"

"You actually dare look down on me!"

A surge of anger rose in Sasuke's heart once more.

Since when...

Had enemies started ignoring the Uchiha Clan!?

The thought of being ignored by that man made Sasuke's eyes turn red with rage.

The scarlet Two-Tomoe Sharingan spun madly in his eye sockets. Then, Sasuke pulled out a scroll from inside his shirt.

This Sealing Scroll contained a thousand Shuriken. He had another ten such scrolls on him.

Influenced by Naruto, Sasuke had gradually developed a fear of insufficient firepower.

To deal with Itachi Uchiha in the future, he had even sold his house and used all the money to buy Exploding Tags.

With a flick of his thumb, Sasuke easily untied the string around the scroll. He formed hand seals with one hand, then swung the scroll horizontally with the other.

Whoosh, whoosh, whoosh—

Hundreds and thousands of Shuriken flew toward Zabuza, mixed with a small number of kunai tied with Exploding Tags.

Having learned from what happened before, Sasuke immediately shouted at Naruto.

"Naruto!"

Hearing Sasuke's voice, Naruto immediately understood what he meant and tossed several Light Gates into the path of the Shuriken.

However, because Sasuke had thrown the Shuriken too densely, quite a few failed to enter the Light Gates.

Zabuza had only just regained his footing and had not even recovered from the previous attack.

Right now, he felt as if his intestines were about to twist themselves into knots.

Zabuza stared at that blond brat and began forming hand seals.

Finally taking a loss at the other's hands had cleared his mind a little.

When he formed the twenty-sixth seal, eight Purple Light Cocoons suddenly unfolded around him. Their faint glow reflected across Zabuza's face, as though reminding him in garish purple.

Why was it this thing again?

Though Zabuza did not understand, he knew nothing good could come of the current situation.

Whoosh, whoosh, whoosh—

The next second, the Purple Light Cocoons fired a dense barrage of Shuriken.

With his sharp eyes, Zabuza also spotted plenty of kunai mixed among them, each tied with an Exploding Tag.

His pupils contracted violently. He did not even have time to think about what was happening.

Having lived on the edge of death for so long, his battle instincts and will to survive drove him to raise the Kubikiribōchō and shield his vital points.

At that moment, he suddenly remembered that Purple Light Cocoons had also lit up beside that other brat earlier...

So that was it!

Was this Space-Time Ninjutsu?

After figuring it out, Zabuza casually picked a Light Cocoon with fewer Shuriken, raised the Kubikiribōchō, and charged straight into it through the barrage.

Since the Kubikiribōchō could not block every attack, many Shuriken embedded themselves in Zabuza's body.

But that amount of pain was nothing to him.

Boom, boom, boom—

The instant he disappeared, a continuous series of explosions erupted where he had been standing.

"Got him!"

Sasuke's face lit up with joy when he saw his attack hit.

That guy had nowhere left to run now, right?

A whole Sealing Scroll's worth of Shuriken and kunai still can't kill you instantly!?

Naruto had never had the habit of celebrating victory halfway through a battle. He threw down a Space Gate and rushed over to Zabuza's location to check the situation.

However, when he arrived, apart from bloodstains all over the ground, there were also numerous thrown weapons scattered around...

"Fool Sasuke!"

"Watch out for the enemy!"

Naruto turned and saw that brat grinning foolishly. Then he saw Zabuza, covered in blood, emerge from the Purple Light Cocoon in front of Sasuke.

This was the first time an enemy had used the Space Gates against them.

Naruto, as their user, had considered this possibility before, but he did not really care.

After all, his taijutsu was ridiculously strong. If an enemy stubbornly charged through a Space Gate and appeared beside him, they were basically handing themselves over for free.

But the key problem was...

Sasuke, who had been having far too much fun, had not expected this situation at all. When he saw Zabuza burst from the Light Cocoon, he froze slightly.

In that brief instant, Zabuza's Kubikiribōchō had already slashed toward his head.

Fortunately, the Sharingan's freakishly sharp dynamic vision allowed Sasuke to barely react. He leaned back, and the Kubikiribōchō brushed past his nose.

Had he been a second slower, his head would have been sliced off.

But in that instant, he drove the Lightning Release Chakra within his body at full force.

Under the effects of Lightning Release Chakra stimulating his cells, Sasuke's speed increased severalfold.

After dodging the Kubikiribōchō, Sasuke immediately launched a counterattack against Zabuza.

Sasuke lightly twisted his wrist and kicked at the wrist holding Zabuza's sword.