Chapter 95: Wind Release · Rasenshuriken!
Kakuzu stood up unsteadily from the pile of black debris.
The Akatsuki Organization robe on his body had become tattered rags, and although the tentacles of the four masked monsters on his back had been shredded, he still had a final reserve of Chakrawithin him.
This was the confidence he possessed as a veteran Ninja who had once clashed with the First Hokage.
"Since my tentacles have been destroyed, I will use this last body to blast you all into dust!"
Kakuzu's eyes turned blood-red, and he formed hand seals, preparing to release his final composite Ninjutsu.
But just at that moment.
A sharp, piercing buzzing sound suddenly rang out.
Zzzzt—zzzzzt—!
Everyone turned back in surprise.
They saw that Uzumaki Naruto had somehow already stood at the very front of the group, his expression serious.
He held his right hand high, and a rapidly rotating sphere of Chakra was expanding quickly.
Giant wind blades extended from around this sphere of light, forming the shape of a shuriken and emitting a terrifying sound.
The powerful airflow even carved cracks into the ground.
"Everyone, step back!"
Naruto did not look back; his silhouette in the raging wind looked very reliable, "Leave this guy... to me!"
Shizune and Sakura had to raise their hands to cover their faces; this violent Chakra made them almost unable to breathe.
"What... is that Ninjutsu?" Asuma looked at the sphere of light in Naruto's hand in shock, "This density of Wind Release nature transformation... could this be the new technique he completed during his training?"
Not far away, the Kumogakure duo, Samui and Nii Yugito, were also stunned by this terrifying power.
Especially Samui.
This cold, beautiful woman from Kumogakurelooked at the Blonde Youth's not-so-tall silhouette, watching as his right arm began to split open with tiny wounds due to maintaining this highly unstable technique, with blood dripping down his fingertips...
Not only did she not feel fear, but through the heavenly curtain, she heard an internal monologue that almost cracked her icy exterior.
[Oh man! My hand hurts, hurts, hurts! Even with my Uzumaki constitution, I feel like my bones are about to have a layer of skin ground off!]
Everyone had originally been moved by Naruto's act of sacrificing his own well-being to protect his companions, but his next second of inner thoughts took a one-hundred-and-eighty-degree turn.
[However... this pain is worth it!]
[Look at this composition! In this gloomy underground sewer, the only holy light is the Rasenshuriken in my hand! I am standing alone in front of the Akatsuki Organization's immortal duo, my arm bleeding, and my expression must maintain the determination of burning my life to protect the women behind me!]
[Hiss—yes, that's the frowning expression! The eyes need to be more tragic! This is all to leave a deep impression on the big sister Samui I just met!]
The corner of Samui's usually cold and beautiful face couldn't help but twitch.
Through the heavenly curtain, she could even clearly see the post-battle script Naruto was outlining in his mind:
[Once this strike lands, Kakuzu will definitely be reduced to nothing. By then, I will fall magnificently due to exhausting my Chakra and suffering a severe arm injury.]
[Here is the main point! The direction I fall must be precisely calculated! I must fall, without deviation, right into Samui's arms!]
[Is that just an ordinary embrace? No! That is a top-tier cushion! In that instant, my face will be buried deep in that snow-white expanse, and then, amidst her exclamation of 'Ah! Naruto-kun did this for us...', I will rightfully use it as a facial cleanser to heal my wounds! This is the treatment a wounded hero deserves!]
[For this, even if this hand is ruined, it's worth it! Charge!]
Samui felt a wave of heat rush directly from her neck to the top of her head.
In all her life, she had seen men who wanted to pursue her line up from Kumogakure to the border of the Land of Lightning, but she had never seen such a shameless oddball who would actually risk his life for an embrace!
This guy... was all that heroism just for this?
Although her reason told her she should feel disgusted, for some reason, under the rendering of the heavenly curtain's narration, watching Naruto's bleeding arm, she inexplicably felt a trace of... amusement?
And a trace of a dangerous anticipation that she herself hadn't even noticed?
[Ding!]
[Detected that host "Samui" has been shocked by the core target's bitter scheme and lecherous behavior. Although the logic is absurd, this determination to risk an S-rank forbidden Ninjutsujust to pick up girls is judged as a certain twisted form of true manliness.]
[Reward judgment: Activated special status, Maternal Instincts Overflowing (tolerance for the severely injured blonde idiot increased by 200%).]
"Wind Release · Rasenshuriken!"
In reality, Naruto had no idea that his little thoughts had been heard by all the female Ninjapresent. He roared and charged toward Kakuzu.
Boom—!
The giant shuriken was violently thrown.
The moment it made contact with Kakuzu, the world seemed to stand still.
There was no flash of fire, only a rapidly expanding wind barrier that engulfed Kakuzu. Inside that semi-circular barrier, countless wind blades, fine down to the cellular level, were performing billions of microscopic slashes.
It was a destruction so absolute that not even a scream could be uttered.
"This... what is this power..."
Asuma, Shikamaru, and the others stared dumbfounded at the terrain ahead, which had been blasted into a giant crater; Kakuzu, who had been so arrogant just a moment ago, was now exactly as Naruto's inner voice had described—reduced to nothing, as if he had been erased from this world entirely.
The smoke and dust dissipated.
Naruto knelt on the ground, gasping for air; the sleeve of his right arm was completely shattered, and his arm was covered in fine wounds, looking quite terrifying.
But he was not in a hurry to receive treatment.
Because the most important performance was just beginning!
"Ugh..." Naruto let out a weak groan, his body swaying twice.
His eyes were half-closed (in reality, he was frantically aiming with his peripheral vision), and his heel gave way, seemingly unintentionally.
Fall!
The angle was perfect! The distance was perfect! The wind resistance calculation was perfect!
That direction was exactly toward Samui, who was looking shocked and possessed a generous bosom!
[It's coming, it's coming! My holy site for healing! Catch me, big sister from the Kumogakure ice mountain!]
Naruto cheered inwardly at his impending success, his body falling straight toward Samui with momentum.
Watching the figure falling toward her, a rare flush appeared on Samui's face. The term "facial cleanser" from the heavenly curtain swirled in her mind, and the maternal instinct triggered by the system made her subconsciously extend her hands, with no intention of dodging.
Just when Naruto's long-awaited face was only 0.01 centimeters away from that patch of white.
Just when he could even smell that cool and pleasant fragrance.
Swoosh!
A figure with a faint blue afterimage moved with unreasonable speed, forcefully cutting in from the side and blocking the space between the two.
Plop.
Naruto crashed headfirst into another embrace. It wasn't the one he had expected, but one that was a size smaller, yet equally well-endowed, and radiated a familiar body temperature.
"In your dreams!"
Although Nii Yugito's clothes were tattered from the previous battle, revealing large areas of skin with a wild beauty, her expression at this moment was three parts tsundere and seven parts jealous.
She clamped her arms tightly around Naruto's head, forcing him down onto her chest—which, while not as large as Samui's, was still superb—and whispered in a voice that was almost grinding her teeth:
"Since you were injured saving this non-renewable resource that is me... don't even think about running off to someone else to seek comfort!"
"Huh?!"
Naruto was stunned.
He blinked in Nii Yugito's arms, feeling the warm sensation on his cheek and the sound of that unyielding heartbeat.
[Eh? What's going on? Where is my facial cleanser? Where is my big sister ice mountain?]
[Although the feel of this cat-eared girl is also very good, very elastic and with a firmness that comes from regular exercise... but! But those are two completely different flavors! I was aiming for someone like big sister Samui... mmmph mmmph mmmph!]
Nii Yugito seemed to hear that Naruto was still thinking about the larger-sized Samui in his heart, and her face turned even redder with anger; she applied a little more force with her hands, burying Naruto's face deeper and physically silencing him.
"Shut up! Focus on healing your injuries!"
Nii Yugito glared fiercely at Samui, who was standing to the side and seemed slightly... disappointed because she hadn't caught the person.
Her gaze seemed to be declaring territory:
He is my savior; want to repay him with your body? You'll have to get in line!
Standing to the side, watching this scene of a hero saving a beauty turn into a scene of interception in a romantic battlefield, Kurenai Yuhi helplessly held her forehead.
"Although we won... I just feel that the future of our Konoha is going to head down a strange path and never return."