Seeing Sasuke charge over, Naruto smiled and said to Kurapika, "Perfect... I've got an opponent now. Let me show you how strong my Nen beast is!"
Sasuke also spotted Kurapika standing beside Naruto. Seeing an adult there had initially made him a little nervous, but when Kurapika actually took a few steps back, his confidence immediately returned.
"Drop dead, you bastard, Naruto!"
As he spoke, Sasuke kicked toward Naruto's stomach.
Naruto dodged Sasuke's attack with ease.
Sasuke had been trained by Uchiha Itachi, and his Taijutsu was fairly good. At the very least, ordinary children his age were no match for him.
Sasuke kept throwing punches and kicks, but Naruto easily avoided them all.
Before long, Sasuke was panting with his hands braced on his knees.
"Out of steam already?"
"In that case, it's my turn to attack!"
With a thought from Naruto, his Nen beast clone charged toward Sasuke.
Although Sasuke had no idea what this faceless thing was, he was certain Naruto had created it.
Seeing the Nen beast charging toward him, Sasuke prepared to meet its attack.
Just as the Nen beast came within a meter of Sasuke, its figure flickered and vanished from the spot.
Sasuke hadn't caught the Nen beast's movements, but Kurapika, who had been watching the entire time, had. The Nen beast had just used Shave, one of the Six Powers.
The Nen beast was now crouching behind Sasuke, assuming the starting stance for Thousand Years of Death.
When Kurapika saw the Nen beast's hands, he froze.
He finally understood... why the Nen beast's five fingers looked so strange.
The five fingers on the Nen beast's hands could be joined together in different configurations.
For example, joining its two index fingers formed a cone.
Joining its two middle fingers formed a sphere.
Joining