"Since they've caught up to us, we should strike first! With the Byakugan's scouting ability, it'll be hard to escape once they spot us. Rather than play cat and mouse, I'd rather take them down!"
"Your injuries have only just healed. Just rest! Besides... they're here for me!"
Naruto closed her eyes. When she opened them again, her azure eyes had turned blood-red, their pupils vertical like a beast's.
"Nine-Tails, let's go!"
"Roar!"
The Nine-Tails and Naruto trusted each other. If it had not feared that removing the seal would harm Naruto's body, Naruto would have torn that seal off long ago.
Even with the seal in place, the trusting Nine-Tails and Naruto could pass Chakra between them without any obstruction, as if the seal did not exist.
"Nine-Tails, how much of your power can I use?"
"The limit is Three-Tails. You can't maintain the Three-Tails state for long, Naruto. End this quickly! Don't get tangled up with them for too long!" The Nine-Tails watched Naruto's body anxiously, its voice filled with concern.
"Nine-Tails, trust me. The Uzumaki clan's bloodline isn't that fragile. After all..." This was a world that valued bloodlines and eyes...
Naruto only spoke the rest in her heart. Three tails swayed behind her as she transformed into a red blur and charged at the Konohagakure ninja who had come to capture her. The gale she kicked up struck their faces before she even reached them.
"Whoosh—!"
Naruto appeared before the Konohagakure ninja. With a wave of her hand, dark-red claws seized one ninja and casually hurled him into the air, while the three tails behind her stabbed toward the others in succession.
Bang—!
The ninja pierced by the three tails turned into wooden logs after the smoke cleared.
As expected of Jonin. After a moment of stunned hesitation, they reacted and used the Substitution Technique in time to escape death. If they had been Chunin, Naruto would likely have killed them in that first exchange.
Naruto, using the Nine-Tails' Three-Tails power, was undoubtedly terrifying. No one understood the Nine-Tails' power better than she did.
Her confident killing blow had actually been evaded. Naruto narrowed her eyes, murderous fury filling her scarlet gaze.
Jonin really were hard to deal with. The next strike would take your lives!
The Lady Is Amazing! (1/2)
♂ So fast! Was this the Nine-Tails' power?!
Seeing the Nine-Tails Chakra covering Naruto's body, the Konohagakure ninja understood their gap after just one exchange. But ninja did not rely solely on the amount of Chakra they possessed!
Even against Naruto Uzumaki using Nine-Tails Chakra, they could still bring Naruto Uzumaki, who was not even a Genin, back to Konohagakure! Confidence was a good thing, but unfortunately, they had underestimated Naruto and the Nine-Tails' power.
Water Style: Exploding Water Colliding Wave!
Water Style: Water Colliding Wave!
Lightning Style: Moving Earth!
The water spewed from the Konohagakure ninja's mouths crashed down like ocean waves, covering the ground in several centimeters of water. At the same time, one Konohagakure ninja spat a stream of water at Naruto, while another rapidly formed hand seals. Lightning flashed in his hand, and the Lightning Style Chakra traveled through the conductive water, wrapping around Naruto almost instantly. Even protected by the Tailed Beast Cloak, Naruto felt her entire body go numb, and her charge toward the Konohagakure ninja stalled.
"Byakugan!"
Haruki Hyuga activated his Byakugan and rushed to Naruto's side, taking up the Eight Trigrams stance.
Gentle Fist Art: Eight Trigrams Thirty-Four Palms!
"Two Palms! Four Palms! Eight Palms! Thirteen Palms! Thirty-Two Palms!... What?!"
Haruki Hyuga rapidly struck thirty-four of Naruto's acupoints. When he reached the thirty-second palm, hands formed from Nine-Tails Chakra grabbed both of his hands.
"You're hurting me a little!"
Just as Naruto was about to snap Haruki Hyuga's hands, he sensed the danger. Chakra burst from the acupoints across his body, and an enormous repulsive force actually blasted away the hands formed from Nine-Tails Chakra. He was a Jonin after all—not as easy to handle as Naruto had imagined.
Rotation!!!
"Naruto, watch your back!"
Lightning Style: False Darkness!
The instant Naruto was blasted away by Rotation, a blinding bolt of lightning struck her at incredible speed. It was simply too fast to dodge; by the time Naruto reacted, it was already too late.
Naruto screamed and lowered her head, wisps of smoke rising from her body. Nine-Tails Chakra rapidly healed the wound on her back.
"How could this be?!"
The Konohagakure ninja who had used Lightning Style stared in shock. He had poured all of his Chakra into Lightning Style: False Darkness in order to kill Naruto in one strike. What he had not expected was the Tailed Beast Cloak formed from Nine-Tails Chakra.
The Tailed Beast Cloak not only granted Naruto immense power, but also provided formidable defense. Even his full-force strike had merely broken through the cloak surrounding Naruto, leaving a burn on her back that looked vicious but was not actually very serious.
Naruto charged at the ninja who had attacked her with Lightning Style on all fours. The ground shattered beneath her feet, and the violent wind swept up mud and water, causing a rain of muddy water to fall over the area.
Naruto grabbed the head of the Konohagakure ninja who had exhausted his Chakra and lifted him up. The tails behind her swayed before piercing his body!
"Nozawa!"
"So his name was Nozawa."
Naruto tilted her head toward the Konohagakure ninja glaring at her in fury, as though he wished he could tear her to pieces. She glanced at the corpse, which had stopped struggling and no longer breathed, then casually tossed it to the ground.
"I told you long ago, I won't show mercy when I encounter Konohagakure ninja... Next, it's your turn!"
"Naruto Uzumaki! If you don't want them to get hurt, stop resisting obediently!"
"Oh, so this is what Konohagakure ninja do? Hold sharp blades to the throats of defenseless women who cannot resist?"
Naruto stood up, her three tails swaying behind her. She did not look worried in the slightest about the women being used as hostages by the Konohagakure ninja.
"Heh..."
Mikoto Uchiha lowered her head and let out a soft laugh. She had never imagined that one day she would be regarded as a defenseless woman.
"What are you laughing at?! Don't make any sudden moves, or I'll kill you!"
"Then try killing me!"
When Mikoto Uchiha raised her head again, she activated her Sharingan. The moment the man saw her Three Tomoe Sharingan, he had already fallen under Mikoto Uchiha's genjutsu. Wooden logs suddenly appeared all around them, squeezing their bodies and leaving them unable to move.
"Genjutsu?!"
"Those eyes, you're from the Uchiha Clan..."
Mikoto Uchiha snatched the kunai from his hand and, with a swift backhanded motion, cleanly slit the throats of the two Konohagakure ninja.
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