Chapter 27 Yoruha's Golden Lightning
After finishing condensing the ninjutsu, a faint glimmer flashed through Yoruha's eyes.
"Lightning Release·Chidori."
"Crack, bang, rumble..."
The instant Yoruha launched his attack,
it was like a meteor slamming into a planet—violent tremors erupted across several hundred meters around him.
At the center of the explosion, the dazzling light illuminated everything within several thousand meters as bright as broad daylight.
Countless strands of golden lightning also connected heaven and earth, and within several hundred meters around Yoruha, it looked like a marsh of thunder.
The terrifying energy was as dreadful as the end of the world itself.
The fearsome lightning raged on for a full ten seconds.
And during those ten seconds, Konohagakure's back mountain looked as if it had been struck by a high-density Tailed Beast Ball.
The earth shook, the mountain split, and everything within several hundred meters of where Yoruha had unleashed the ninjutsu was utterly destroyed.
Too terrifying.
When the thunder finally scattered, all that remained was a giant crater several hundred meters wide and dozens of meters deep.
And at the center of that crater, Yoruha lay sprawled within it.
More than ten seconds later, Kakashi appeared at his side, picked him up, and vanished from the spot.
If he didn't leave now, Yoruha would soon be spending time in prison.
Sure enough, one minute later, several ninjas wearing animal masks appeared around the giant crater.
These people were naturally Anbu ninjas.
Such a huge disturbance was no less than the explosion of a Tailed Beast Ball back then.
Looking at the crater before them, the few Anbu ninjas all sucked in a cold breath.
"Th-this... who in the world did this?"
"Could Kurama have broken through the seal?"
To them, only a Tailed Beast could cause such horrifying destruction.
Not even the Third Hokage could create devastation on this scale.
"Could it be an outside enemy invading?"
But that theory was quickly dismissed.
"The barrier didn't react in the slightest. No matter how powerful a ninja is, they can't break through the barrier without causing any disturbance."
"It should be someone from the village—and it's probably Kurama."
"Maybe the Nine-Tails jinchūriki rampaged."
The Anbu immediately locked their suspicions onto Naruto.
After all, in Konohagakure, only he could do something like this now.
Or rather, only the Kurama inside him could cause this level of destruction.
"Let's head back and report to Hokage-sama first."
The Anbu vanished from beside the crater in an instant.
By then, it was already deep night, and ninjas were leaping over rooftops all throughout the village.
The disturbance Yoruha had created was simply too great.
It was no different from the uproar caused during the Nine-Tails Attack.
Meanwhile, after taking Yoruha home, Kakashi immediately headed to gather at the Hokage building.
He was one of Konohagakure's Elite Jonin. If he wasn't there, suspicion would fall on him first.
On the way to the Hokage building, Kakashi's expression was grave.
"What exactly is that power inside Yoruha?"
"It's too terrifying—even more terrifying than the Kurama inside Naruto."
Kakashi was worried about Yoruha.
Yoruha still hadn't woken up.
What worried him even more was what that power inside Yoruha really was.
It didn't look like a Tailed Beast, but the electric arcs Yoruha had released really did seem almost alive.
And their power had been horrifying. Yoruha clearly didn't have that much Chakra, yet he had released such an enormous amount of it.
Kakashi knew very well that aside from a Tailed Beast Ball, no ninjutsu should have been capable of producing that level of destructive force.
That was power enough to reshape the terrain.
Kakashi still didn't know how powerful Madara and Hashirama had been.
Those two had long surpassed the imagination of present-day ninjas.
Even Kakashi didn't truly understand just how terrifying Hashirama and Madara were.
Of course, even if those two had been here, they would still have been deeply shocked by the power Yoruha released.
After all, Yoruha was only twelve years old.
And what Yoruha had released was high-density Natural Energy.
That's right—the power Yoruha had released just now was high-density Natural Energy.
The reason it caused such destruction was that before Natural Energy was converted into Senjutsu Chakra, it was incomparably violent.
And uncontrollable.
The Natural Energy Yoruha released wasn't just high-density—it was controllable.
If it had truly been uncontrollable, then the instant he released it, his body would have been blasted to ashes by that Natural Energy.
The reason he survived was that at the very moment he released the lightning, equally powerful Natural Energy had formed a protective barrier around him.
And those energy barriers really were conscious—their will was to protect Yoruha from harm from the lightning.
But even with Natural Energy protecting him, Yoruha still fainted after having all his strength drained away.
What Yoruha had done just now actually counted as a failure.
He hadn't controlled his Chakra properly, causing all the Natural Energy inside his body to be drawn out, while also sending the surrounding Natural Energy into turmoil.
The amount of Chakra in Yoruha's body absolutely could not have triggered that level of destruction on its own.
The trigger was the excessive output of the Natural Energy inside him, which in turn affected the surrounding Natural Energy.
Kakashi simply didn't know that. He still believed some kind of hidden power was sealed within Yoruha.
And he also knew that the Chakra inside Yoruha's body was Senjutsu Chakra, just like when Jiraiya entered Sage Mode.
After thinking for a moment, Kakashi said, "Yoruha may have been born with Senjutsu Chakra. Senjutsu Chakra is far more powerful than ordinary Chakra. Maybe because his Chakra is Senjutsu Chakra, producing the same amount of Chakra led to this kind of result."
Kakashi had found himself an explanation.
But what he didn't know was that even if all the Chakra in Yoruha's body were Senjutsu Chakra, it still would have been absolutely impossible to unleash power that terrifying.
Forget Yoruha—even Jiraiya couldn't do it.
Yoruha himself couldn't, either.
Soon, Kakashi arrived on the roof of the Hokage building.
Dozens of ninjas were already standing there.
The weakest among them were at least special Jonin.
When Kakashi appeared, Guy was the first to walk over.
His expression was solemn. Clearly, even Guy was deeply troubled by the terrifying power just now.
It was power no less than that of a Tailed Beast.
"Kakashi, what do you think it was?"
Guy asked the moment he came over.
Kakashi hesitated a little over whether he should tell the Third Hokage about Yoruha.
Right now, he didn't know whether the power inside Yoruha posed a threat to the village.
But when he thought of how Yoruha had spoken with him earlier that night, he still chose to hide it from the Third Hokage.
After all, he was already watching over Naruto, a Nine-Tails jinchūriki. He felt he could watch over Yoruha too.
Not to mention that compared to Naruto, Yoruha was far more stable.
"It's very likely some powerful outsider who broke into Konohagakure."
Guy shook his head. "I don't think so. The village barrier didn't show any reaction."
"And if a powerful outsider really entered the village, why didn't they attack it?"