A New Breakthrough: Wind Ball Technique

After Naruto killed Yamanaka Fū, he regrouped with Kurenai Yuhi.

"Where's Sakura?" Naruto asked her.

"She ran that way." Kurenai pointed ahead and to the left. "But Hinata's already gone after her!"

As she finished speaking, a sudden stab of pain shot through her right shoulder, turning her face pale.

Naruto stepped closer and saw that the Scythe had nearly severed her shoulder. The blade was still lodged in it.

Clearly, Kurenai could not join the pursuit.

"I'll go after her myself." Naruto headed toward Hinata.

As for treating Kurenai's wound? Forget it.

As far as he was concerned, her injury was a good thing. Now no one would see some of his true abilities.

The Flying Thunder God Technique, for example.

Once he was far from Kurenai, Naruto took cover behind a boulder, sensed Hinata's position, and vanished.

The next instant, he appeared beside her!

But the moment he arrived, he grabbed Hinata and vanished again, returning to the distant boulder where he had left Kurenai.

At the same time, the faint rumble of an explosion reached them from far away!

It came from where Hinata had just been!

"That was close! One second later and I would've lost you!" Naruto said, shaken as he looked at Hinata in his arms.

Then his expression darkened.

"Who did it? Sakura?"

His voice was cold as winter wind.

He had made up his mind. Even if Sakura had done it, he would hunt her to the ends of the earth and kill her without hesitation!

To hell with Sasuke! You two can be star-crossed lovers in the afterlife!

"It wasn't Sakura!" Hinata shook her head. "It was a young ninja riding a strange black-and-white bird."

Root? A strange black-and-white bird?

Wasn't that Sai, the live-in son-in-law?

Damn it!

Holding Hinata, Naruto