Fierce Battle, Part Six

Naruto looked down at the sword at his chest, blood dripping from it onto the ground. Naruto then looked up at Sasuke, only to see Sasuke's cold, blood-red eyes.

"Sasuke..." Naruto muttered weakly, "Why?"

Sasuke's expression remained unchanged as he drew his sword, and a spurt of blood gushed from Naruto's chest, staining the ground red.

"Naruto..." Hinata screamed as she watched the blood, rushing towards Sasuke.

Sasuke's eyes flashed, but he showed no mercy and kicked Hinata hard. Hinata was filled with grief and anger, and for a moment she charged forward head-on. With a bang, she was sent flying like a rag doll, crashing heavily into a large tree. She spat out a mouthful of blood, clearly having injured her internal organs.

Naruto clutched the wound on his chest, his face deathly pale, and he knelt weakly on the ground. Naruto felt his vision blurring, but he still stared intently at Sasuke, trying to see Sasuke's familiar yet unfamiliar face clearly. But before he could see it clearly, everything went black, and he completely lost consciousness, collapsing to the ground.

Just then, a large swarm of insects flew in, weaving between Naruto and Sasuke. In a flash, Hinata and Shino rushed to Naruto's side, with Hinata immediately picking Naruto up.

"Naruto, Naruto... Naruto..." Hinata called out anxiously, trying to cover Naruto's wound with her hand, but the blood was still flowing out.

Suddenly, a voice came. "Naruto, what's wrong? What happened?"

Sakura ran over from a distance, clearly seeing Naruto collapsed in Hinata's arms, and looked somewhat anxious. Sai followed closely behind and arrived as well.

Sakura rushed to Naruto saw the wound on his chest. Without caring what had happened, she immediately said, "Hinata, let me do it." Sakura was a powerful medical-nin, and she immediately knelt down, extracted Chakra, placed her hand on the wound, and began to treat Naruto. Because she was in such a hurry, she didn't notice Sasuke, who was surrounded by a cloud of insects.

Sai, on the other hand, immediately noticed and stood in front of Sakura and Naruto, becoming deeply vigilant.

On the other side, Sasuke was about to deal with the insects when he saw the swarm approaching, but when he heard Sakura's voice, he was a beat too slow and was completely surrounded by the insects.

Sasuke frowned, lightning crackling around him, and swarms of insects immediately fell from the insect cloud. He then leaped out of the insect cloud and landed on a giant tree behind him.

Shino and Sai kept their eyes fixed on Sasuke, not daring to relax for a moment.

Sasuke glanced at the unconscious Naruto and Sakura, who was being treated by Naruto, but did not make another move. With a flash, he disappeared from the spot, and after a few more flashes, he vanished from everyone's sight.

Shino and Sai didn't give chase. Now Yamato and Naruto both injured, especially Naruto, and we don't know how he is.

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With a swift "Hell Hound" move, Uzumaki Hane viciously grabbed at the chest of the Human Path.

Almost simultaneously, Jiraiya unleashed the "Wild Lion's Mane Technique," his long hair whipping around from behind Pain Human Path Pain. In an instant, the Human Path Pain was caught in a pincer attack.

Just as Uzumaki Hane and Jiraiya's attacks were about to strike, Human Path Pain rolled away, narrowly avoiding their attacks, but was still scratched by Jiraiya's long hair. Seeing this, Uzumaki Hane and Jiraiya were about to continue their attack.

At that moment, the remaining three Pain made their move. The Asura Path Pain unleashed five missiles, striking towards Uzumaki Hane. The Preta Path Pain also instantly appeared behind Jiraiya and delivered a powerful punch.

Uzumaki Hane snorted coldly, opened his mouth and spewed out a stream of magma, engulfing the incoming missile. Boom! It exploded instantly, with countless magma fragments flying everywhere. Immediately afterward, Uzumaki Hane's right hand swelled to ten times its original size and punched the Human Path Pain who was getting up.

Suddenly, Uzumaki Hane felt a surge of power strike her. Caught off guard, Uzumaki Hane was sent flying backward and crashed heavily into the wall behind her. With a loud bang, countless cracks appeared in the wall.

Meanwhile, Jiraiya the Preta Path behind him, had already spotted his opponent. "Sage Art: Frog Kata," he unleashed a powerful right-hand strike to his back.

Bang! The Preta Path directly took Jiraiya's attack head-on, punching Jiraiya so hard he staggered back several steps.

At the same time, the Uzumaki Hane on the wall stood up again and realized that two more Pain had appeared beside the Animal Path Pain. Clearly, he must have been attacked by the Deva Path earlier.

Jiraiya flashed away from the Preta Path in a few movements, landing beside Uzumaki Hane. He then questioned the six Pain in front of him, "Who exactly are you? Why do you all possess the Rinnegan?"

Several Pain would be grouped together. Deva Path stepped forward Jiraiya, "Jiraiya-sensei, it's been a long time. Actually, you should say that the six of us combined make Pain."

Jiraiya pointed at the Deva Path and exclaimed in surprise, "You're Yahiko! How do you possess the Rinnegan? What's going on?"

"Jiraiya-sensei, the dead don't need to know so much," Deva Path said calmly.

At this moment, Uzumaki Hane spoke up, "Jiraiya-sensei, no matter what happened, let's fight first." After saying that, Uzumaki Hane unleashed a powerful attack with his right hand, "Crimson Canine Red Lotus," sending a lava hound charging towards Pain.

Before the lava hound even reached Deva Path, it disintegrated. Immediately afterward, the six Pain transformed into afterimages and charged towards Uzumaki Hane and Jiraiya.

Uzumaki Hane calmly watched Pain's figure, Great Eruption playing on his lips. He clasped his hands together and unleashed a massive lava Rock Fist that slammed forward, engulfing all six of Pain.

With a deafening roar, the ground melted away like tofu wherever the Rock Fist passed. Then, the Rock Fist rammed into the wall, blasting a large hole in it. The wall collapsed instantly, sending countless pieces of rock flying.

"Is it resolved?" Jiraiya asked in a deep voice, looking at the destruction caused by the Rock Fist.

"Not yet," Uzumaki Hane replied decisively.

Sure enough, the two discovered six Pain above them. Among them, the Asura Path Pain pulled open his arm and then swung it, sending several missiles flying out of that arm, rapidly heading towards Uzumaki Hane and Jiraiya below.

With a deafening roar, in an instant, the area where Uzumaki Hane and Jiraiya were located was covered by missiles, and a mushroom cloud rose up.