Everyone only saw Naruto charging and flailing with seemingly disorganized punches, leading them to think Naruto had lost his cool out of desperation.
In reality, a small movement during Naruto's charge harbored hidden murderous intent.
Sasuke was also clearly careless, failing to analyze Naruto's left hand closely and instead focusing all attention on the charged strike of Naruto's right hand.
Whoosh...
Faced with Naruto's charged punch, Sasuke disdainfully tilted her head to dodge, following suit with an effortless counter-punch aimed at Naruto once again.
Yet right at that moment.
Naruto actually bore the brunt of this punch head-on, refusing to be driven back in a series of stumbles like before.
Taking Sasuke's punch head-on, Naruto not only failed to show a painful expression, but on the contrary, the corners of his mouth actually broke into a trace of a smile.
Not good!
Because Sasuke had activated the Sharingan, her gaze was extremely sharp, and seeing Naruto's micro-expression caused her heart to skip a beat.
Yet it was already too late.
Just as Sasuke moved to retract her arm, her wrist was grabbed in a death grip by Naruto's long-prepared left hand. Instantly, a massive force surged from the wrist, and under the influence of this immense power, Sasuke's posture shifted involuntarily.
At this moment, Sasuke clearly saw an arm wrapping around her neck.
Perhaps in terms of smooth and sharp movements, Naruto fell short of Sasuke.
Yet after using the Active Cell Enhancement Potion, Naruto's strength was clearly superior to Sasuke's; it was only because Sasuke had the assistance of the Sharingan to dodge time and again that Naruto had never been able to leverage his own advantage.
This time, he went directly counter to expectations.
First, he intentionally exposed an opening, feigning that he had been driven frantic and was launching messy attacks, causing Sasuke's guard to drop and making her ignore the position of his left hand.
Just as Naruto expected.
Even having turned into a girl, Sasuke still carried the innate trait of the Uchiha Clan in her bones-extreme arrogance.
From the start of the battle, Naruto had more than once taken Sasuke's punches head-on, planting the subconscious illusion in Sasuke that this was the extent of his strength. Then, the moment he spotted an opportunity, he erupted with all his might in an instant.
After taking Sasuke's punch head-on one last time, Naruto immediately unleashed the left hand stored under his armpit like lightning, tightly gripping Sasuke's arm as she tried to pull it back, and yanked violently. Sasuke gasped as her posture grew unstable and turned slightly sideways, while he stepped half a pace forward and smoothly used his right arm to lock tightly around Sasuke's neck.
Though spoken of slowly, it all happened in an instant.
Even if executed in one fluid motion, such a high-difficulty move was countered by Sasuke's reflexes being over a dozen times stronger than an ordinary child's. Immediately, she crouched slightly, using her hands to counter Naruto's arms, intending to execute a shoulder throw and shake off Naruto's restriction.
How could Naruto possibly let Sasuke succeed when presented with such an opportunity?
He immediately sank his legs, his left hand instantly pressing down on Sasuke's lower back to push her forward.
The focal points of force for a shoulder throw were the tailbone and the lower back; with these two points of force restricted, the shoulder throw simply could not be successfully executed.
"Still want to throw me?"
Because Sasuke possessed a solid foundation in taijutsu family techniques and sharp movements, paired with the assistance of the Sharingan, Naruto had previously been forced into passive defense.
Yet after being crushed by a girl for so long, his heart was blazing with anger. If he did not exact revenge now, when would he?
"Taste my move: Love Stronger Than Gold: Seven-Day Love Lock!"
Naruto roared, his arms wrapping tightly around Sasuke's neck while his legs curled and wound firmly around Sasuke's legs.
Naruto was now like a piece of scorched dog-skin plaster, stuck fast to Sasuke's back.
Unless they used blades to carve off the skin, the two of them in their current state simply could not be separated.
Because Sasuke's taijutsu was stronger than Naruto's, even if Sasuke was a cute twin-tailed girl in this situation, Naruto still tightened his arms with great force-showing mercy to a fair maiden did not exist.
Instantly, the one-sided crushing battle immediately turned into a scenario where dealing a thousand points of damage to the enemy cost him eight hundred to himself.
In this situation, either Sasuke would be choked to death by Naruto.
Or Sasuke would arch backward time and again, bringing her back to the ground to crush Naruto to death.
Otherwise, without snuffing one of them out, it was completely unresolvable.
Truth be told.
Ever since Naruto had transmigrated, right up until seeing Sasuke turned into a girl, he still found it somewhat hard to believe all this was real.
Yet at this moment, the two of them were at such close quarters.
Naruto immediately smelled the unique fragrance belonging to a girl radiating from Sasuke, and this made things feel very real.
[Ding, received 90 shock points from the Anbu Elite!]
[Ding, received 90 shock points from the Anbu Elite!]
[Ding, received 200 shock points from Sasuke Uchiha!]
The continuous prompts sounding by his ear left Naruto astonished.
Looking at Sasuke, who was continuously struggling in an attempt to shake off his restriction, Naruto thought to himself, Giving me 200 shock points at once? Is she a treasure of a girl?
"Ngh... ugh-ah..."
Just as Naruto was feeling shocked in his heart.
Suddenly, Sasuke leaped up fiercely, her body arching backward in mid-air.
Naruto felt the world spin, and then his back slammed heavily onto the ground.
"Bang!"
Instantly, Naruto felt a sweetness rise in his throat, feeling as though his bile was about to be smashed out of him.
At that moment, Naruto had the urge to curse his ancestors-dammit, was this the combat strength a seven-year-old girl ought to have?
Seeing that Sasuke was still stubbornly refusing to admit defeat and intended to get up to throw him again, Naruto gritted his teeth and continued to tighten the arm locked around Sasuke's neck.
"Bang!"
Thrown heavily a second time, Naruto practically spat blood.
"Dammit... if you don't surrender, I'll choke you to death!"
Naruto was also provoked into a temper by being thrown. His left hand pulled desperately to clasp his right hand around Sasuke's neck, his hands crossing to exert force.
Sure enough, once he increased the pressure again, even with Sasuke practicing taijutsu from childhood, she was unable to stand back up.
A hoarse "ugh-ugh" sound issued from her throat, clearly indicating she was on the verge of going into shock.
Yet the arrogance of the Uchiha Clan made Sasuke refuse under any circumstances to admit defeat to a loser like Naruto.
The top student in the class, the rising-generation prodigy girl of the Uchiha Clan...
This was the final dignity remaining to Sasuke after losing her parents, her clansmen, and her sister; she could not lose it, absolutely not!
Naruto was also somewhat shocked-why was Sasuke so stubborn after turning into a girl?
Did she not know that persisting any further would get people killed?
Suddenly.
Naruto seemed to have figured something out.
Her final stubbornness?
Immediately, Naruto purposefully leaned close to Sasuke's tender ear, panting heavily as he enlightened her.
"If you die, all your goals and wishes will vanish into thin air. If you can't even face your own failures, what qualification do you have to talk about goals and dreams?"
Sure enough, once spoken, these words instantly dismantled the will Sasuke was desperately holding onto.
Her body trembled noticeably, and her source of strength rapidly disintegrated.
"When your life is gone, what qualification do you have to fight me for the Hokage Position?"
The backup chuuni dialogue added here was to prevent Sasuke from growing suspicious of him, and it was likewise the message he wanted the Anbu Elite monitoring him from afar to receive.
Yet Naruto would have been better off not saying this. The moment he spoke, whether because she had been suffocated for too long or because she was angered directly to a faint by these chuuni words, Sasuke rolled her eyes and collapsed unconscious to the ground.
Otherwise, missing the chance, Sasuke would surely have roared, Ghosts want to be Hokage! I just feel that losing to a loser like you is an embarrassment to the Uchiha Clan!!
"Bang!"
Because Naruto was locked tightly to Sasuke's back, Sasuke's fainting and collapsing meant she fell backward.
Thus, from the start of the exchange until now, Naruto had suffered three whole impacts.
Upon sensing that Sasuke was no longer struggling, Naruto immediately released his right arm. In the event that he choked Sasuke to death right at the start, he would then be unable to use Sasuke's defection to escape from Konoha.
"You really are vicious, Sasuke?"
Naruto panted heavily, pinned underneath Sasuke.
At this moment, the setting sun was about to sink behind the western mountains, and the surrounding twilight was gradually spreading.
Right at that moment, the system prompt sounded by his ear once again.
[Ding, received 90 shock points from the Anbu Elite!]
[Ding, received 90 shock points from the Anbu Elite!]
"An ordinary villager only gives 1 negative emotion point as a reward, whereas an Anbu Elite actually gives 90 points at a time after being shocked... If the rewards are judged based on ninja ranks, then why did Sasuke give me 200 points all at once?"
Though filled with doubts in his heart, Naruto's stamina was nearly exhausted at present; panting for breath, he was in no mood to question the system.
"Junk food ruins people; is this body really that frail?"
Slowly pushing Sasuke to one side, Naruto struggled to sit up.
Yet right at that moment, the visual fields of the two Anbu Elite slowly vanished from his person.
Full five breaths of time passed, and the two fields of vision still failed to reappear.
"Off work? Or shift change?"
Filled with doubt, Naruto did not probe deeply. Anyway, once the Insightful Vision talent was activated, as long as someone was monitoring him, he could detect it at any time.
Looking at Sasuke lying beside him in an unconscious heap, Naruto felt that perhaps it was better if no one was monitoring him at this moment, lest the Anbu grow suspicious when Sasuke woke up and he stated his demands.
Of course, Naruto did not know what the Anbu shift-change schedule was, and he also wanted to seize the time to reach an agreement with Sasuke.
"Hey, Sasuke, wake up... Hey..."
Naruto first shook Sasuke's arm, then pinched the fair, upturned bridge of her nose.
Yet Sasuke still showed no movement, and not even the eyelids beneath her long eyelashes twitched in the slightest.
This scene falling into his eyes caused Naruto to secretly think not good, and he immediately brought his finger close to Sasuke's philtrum to test her breath.
Instantly, Naruto's expression changed slightly-Sasuke's breathing was actually growing weaker and weaker, running the risk of acute shock.
If acute shock was not treated in time, a massive number of brain cells would suffocate to death, and even if she were rescued, Sasuke would likely end up a fool.
By then, let alone the plan to defect from Konoha, he would be hunted to the ends of the earth by the sister-con Uchiha Itachi.
Yet as luck would have it, if the Anbu Elite who had previously monitored him saw such a crisis, there was a very high probability they would come out to rescue Sasuke-after all, if Sasuke died, Itachi would be the first to seek out the Third.
Yet at this moment, aside from himself, there was not another soul around.
Seeing this, Naruto also sighed. "Fine, big brother's first kiss it is!"
Having made his decision in his heart, Naruto let go of his hesitation. Consider it the price paid for tricking you.
Fortunately, Naruto pried open Sasuke's small mouth, took a breath of fresh air himself, and met her directly.
Suck-exhale.
Suck-exhale.
Suck-exhale.
PS------
To explain, the total gender reversal refers to the Konoha 12; ninety-nine percent of the rest are treated as free gifts thrown in with a phone top-up, with only an extremely small fraction retaining their original genders. I'm mentioning this in advance so nobody flames me later, haha.
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