Watching Kimimaro charge at him with bone spikes covering his body in the Dance of the Camellia,
Naruto wasted no time unleashing the new ninjutsu he had developed using Wood Release as its foundation.
Against a fighter like Kimimaro, restraint was the best approach.
Smack!
Naruto clapped his hands together. "Wood Release: Snake Dragon Dance!"
If Kimimaro's charge was a streak of white light, then the Snake Dragon Dance was an indiscriminate sweep of binding tendrils.
Hundreds of legless serpent dragons with horns sprouting from their heads intercepted Kimimaro in an instant.
At first, Kimimaro could dodge with his agile footwork, but more and more wooden serpent dragons coiled toward him.
Even Kimimaro, unrivaled in close combat, could only be bound beneath layer after layer of tough serpent dragons.
"This is... Wood Release?"
Kimimaro was trussed up like a twisted rope, but he refused to give up, trying to hack through the serpent dragons with the bone spikes of his Dance of the Camellia.
Yet the wood produced by Wood Release was anything but ordinary.
"You really are strong, but this isn't enough to defeat me."
Kimimaro now regarded Naruto with profound wariness.
As he spoke, black spots began spreading across his chest, then rapidly crept over his entire body.
"The earth cursed seal? Too bad. Once my wooden serpent dragons have you bound, struggling is pointless."
Naruto gripped his right wrist with his left hand and aimed his right palm at Kimimaro.
With a thought, he commanded, "Absorb!"
The Snake Dragon Dance was a binding ninjutsu Naruto had adapted from the Wood Dragon, combining restraint, sealing, and absorption.
Calling it a miniature version of the Wood Dragon Technique would not have been an exaggeration.
Sure enough, once the Snake Dragon Dance took effect, the power of Kimimaro's earth cursed