A ninja who had been implanted with Hashirama's cells and could use Wood Style... This was bad!
Wood Style countered all Tailed Beasts. Naruto had never expected Konohagakure to send him after her! But it made sense. To deal with a Tailed Beast, they naturally needed Wood Style, which could suppress one. Those people from Konohagakure had really put a lot of thought into this!
"Nine-Tails, I'm panicking... That ninja has been implanted with the First Hokage's cells and can use Wood Style."
"Wood Style..."
The Nine-Tails frowned. It had once been brutally beaten by the First Hokage's Wood Style. That experience had nearly become its psychological trauma.
"However, his Wood Style is less than one ten-thousandth as powerful as the First Hokage's. Even so, against you, who can only use the power of three tails, I think it will be enough... probably..."
Naruto felt uncertain.
"Nine-Tails, should I undo the seal?"
"No!"
The Nine-Tails pressed down on Naruto's hand as she reached for the seal. Gritting its teeth, it said, "Run, Naruto!"
The Nine-Tails had never imagined that, as a Tailed Beast, it would one day say the word "run." But if it was for Naruto, what was wrong with saying it once?
Naruto froze when she heard the Nine-Tails' words, then a smile curled across her lips. She had never expected to hear the word "run" from the Nine-Tails.
"I understand. If we can't win, then we'll run!"
At that moment, Naruto keenly realized just how weak she was. She had thought that with the Nine-Tails' power, she had nothing to fear. Yet that had only been a moon reflected in water, a flower in a mirror—an illusion brought about by the Nine-Tails' immense power.
"Yamato, move!"
"Yes, senpai!"
"Wood Style: Thorn Killing Technique!"
Vine-like wood coiled around Naruto, Yakushi Nonō, and Mikoto Uchiha's
bodies. Several wooden stakes rose around the three of them to prevent their escape.
"Isn't capturing me enough?"
"Since they're with you, naturally we're taking them back too." Yamato clasped his hands together, and the vine-like wood wrapped around the three suddenly tightened.
Yakushi Nonō was a medical ninja and could use Chakra to heal her own injuries, but Mikoto Uchiha could not!
Mikoto Uchiha's severe injuries had not yet fully healed. When the Wood Style suddenly tightened around her, she let out a pained groan, and blood trickled from the corner of her mouth.
"I see..."
Seeing the blood at the corner of Mikoto Uchiha's mouth, Naruto lowered his head. The Nine-Tails' violent Chakra began to spill from her body, and the wooden stakes around her immediately extended more wood to bind her, trying to stop her from breaking free.
"Aaaah!!!"
"Naruto! Stop! Your body can't handle—"
"Don't stop me, Nine-Tails! If we want to escape now, we can only gamble on it!"
One tail!
Two tails!
Three tails!
Four tails!
Dark clouds gathered overhead, and a beam of blood-red light shot into the sky!
The howling wind carried waves of chill, sending a shiver down everyone's spine.
"Haaah!"
Yamato forcefully clasped his hands together, making the wood tighten as hard as it could, trying to bind Naruto firmly within the Wood Style.
"Bang!"
The constricting wood suddenly swelled under the pressure of the Nine-Tails' violent Chakra, then shattered into splinters that rained across the ground.
On all fours, Naruto's face could no longer be seen. Four tails swayed behind her before suddenly smashing apart the wood binding Yakushi Nonō and Mikoto Uchiha.
"I'm taking them with me. Let's see who dares stop me!"
Naruto's voice had become hoarse, carrying a metallic edge. Chakra flowed through her tails and into the two women whose waists were wrapped by them. It was an extremely faint amount of the Nine-Tails' Chakra, forming a thin Tailed Beast Cloak around them.
"Wood Style: Forest Creation Technique!"
"I've had enough of your Wood Style!"
Naruto opened her mouth. Under the Nine-Tails' control, Chakra gathered in a bizarre shape. A pitch-black sphere formed before Naruto's mouth. She instinctively swallowed it, her body suddenly expanding as she opened her mouth and fired a beam of light!
The beam annihilated everything in its path! After flying some distance, it erupted in a violent explosion!
"Boom—!"
A mushroom cloud slowly rose into the sky!
After the explosion, scorched black smoke rose from the earth. An arched wall formed of wooden pillars emerged from the ground. After Yamato dispelled Wood Locking Wall, he looked at the huge hole blasted through the forest wall before him, his expression turning grim.
"What kind of technique was that... The Nine-Tails' power is too terrifying..."
Cruel Naruto (1/2)
"Kakashi! Captain Hyuga is missing!"
When Nine-Tails-Transformed Naruto fled, he did not forget to take the valuable Haruki Hyuga with him. Kimura, who had been unconscious beside Haruki Hyuga, was left behind.
Despite using the power of four tails and losing most of his consciousness, Naruto had still remembered to take Haruki Hyuga away. His obsession with money ran deep in his bones.
"Pakkun, I'm counting on you."
"H-Hey! Kakashi, you can't be serious, can you? If we catch up to him, we might get killed by that rampaging Jinchuriki!" Pakkun tucked his tail between his legs in fear, trying to look calm as his legs trembled nonstop.
"Just follow from a distance. Find an opportunity to rescue Haruki Hyuga."
"Got it."
Pakkun nodded, sniffed Naruto's scent in the air, and chased after him.
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