The encirclement formed by kunai was instantly reduced to the shimmering gold of Naruto's countless clones weaving through it and the dazzling light of their Rasengan.
Not a single speck of green light remained visible.
Even the battling tailed beasts and all the powerful fighters present stopped in unison, staring at the immense chakra that had appeared nearby, their eyes filled with horror.
"...No wonder my Original Body kept telling me to hurry."
The Nine-Tails clone wearing a fox mask stared blankly at the scene. Then a look of understanding crossed his face beneath the mask, and he vanished.
There was no explosion, no roar, none of the spectacle that should have accompanied such a powerful ninjutsu.
The glowing sphere of chakra simply remained there in silence. Only the repeated sonic booms of Rasengan could be heard—it seemed the clones flying around inside were not even colliding.
"Pop~~~"
A moment later, the shadow clones' kunai puffed into smoke and disappeared one after another.
With a hiss, the sole real kunai, no longer striking any others, fell straight down and embedded itself in the ground, right beside the Original Body of Naruto's foot.
Naruto calmly bent down and picked up his Flying Thunder God Kunai.
When the sound of the Rasengan died away, the Konoha Ninja led by Hiashi lowered the arms they had raised to protect themselves. With all those kunai flying through the air, they had thought stray projectiles might come their way...
"He avoided us that precisely... during such a saturation attack? Wait, it's already over?"
Hiashi and the others were stunned.
Before Naruto, Shisui Uchiha lay on the ground, his body utterly mangled. Forget wounds—there was not a single intact spot left on him.
Naruto held out one hand, maintaining his Water Release: Vortex Rasengan to suck