70Rinnegan and KotoamatsukamiAI Model: kimi-k2-instruct-0905Chapter 70 – Rinnegan and Kotoamatsukami
Outside Konoha Village.
Uchiha Sasuke stared coldly at the Ichibi Shukakubefore him.
A second ago he'd thought himself strong and charged straight in.
The next second, Gaara transformed.
"Sasuke, don't be reckless—that monster's beyond us!"
Sakura's voice cracked as she clung desperately to his sleeve. "Let's wait for Kakashi-sensei, or—"
"Shut up!"
Sasuke flung her hand away.
"Stay out of my way! If you're scared, crawl back to the Village and hide!"
In his world, if he couldn't handle a sand monster his own age, how could he ever avenge his clan?
How could he ever kill that man?
"Screeech—!"
The piercing chirp of Chidori rang out again.
At the same instant, Sasuke tapped the power of the Cursed Seal.
Take down the real body—kill the sand-wielding lunatic—and the beast will fall!
With that conviction he lunged.
Lightning danced madly around his left hand; he kicked off the ground and became a blur.
The next moment Shukaku's hideous maw yawned wide.
Wind Release: Drilling Air Bullet!
Boom—!
A sphere of hyper-compressed air slammed into the afterimage with titanic force.
The Chidori's lightning was snuffed out without the slightest resistance.
Sasuke felt his sternum shatter in a sickening cascade, body flung like a kite with its string cut.
He smashed through several massive trees and finally embedded in a cliff face, life or death unknown.
"Sasuke!!!"
Sakura screamed in despair.
The next instant Shikamaru yanked her away.
"Move! Retreat—now!"
Not far off, Temari and Kankuro were equally at a loss.
According to the original plan, they were supposed to be the spearhead of the invasion of Konoha.
Now everything had fallen apart.
Gaara had completely lost control, becoming a calamity even they couldn't contain.
"W-what do we do?"
Kankuro's voice trembled.
Temari bit her lip hard.
What she feared most was for Gaara himself.
She knew that once he fully rampaged, the Tailed Beast's power would devour him.
Just as it had every failed Ichibi Jinchuriki before him.
Apart from the first, Bunpuku, no host had ever met a good end.
At that moment the air twisted without warning.
In a flash, a Yellow Flash appeared abruptly before the cliff where Sasuke had crashed.
Temari's pupils shrank when she spotted him.
Among the rubble, Sasuke lay covered in blood, breathing faintly.
Another heartbeat and he would have died right there.
"Brain fried?"
Naruto glanced at the boy beneath him, then pressed a palm to Sasuke's chest.
A stream of refined Chakra poured into him.
Shattered ribs were forcibly set.
Ruptured organs stopped bleeding.
A dying heart was yanked back above the danger line.
"Hack—!"
Sasuke coughed up a mouthful of blood, life preserved for the moment, and slipped into unconsciousness.
"Good. Now for my medical fee."
In the next breath he plucked out one of Sasuke's Sharingan and replaced his own right eye with it.
Lightning Release: Neural Network Restoration!
Thanks to the precise treatment, Naruto adapted to the new eye in moments.
And what followed was exactly as he'd foreseen.
As the Ashura power within him fused with the Indra power of the eye, the three-tomoe Sharinganspun faster and faster.
The red hue faded.
At the center of the pupil, the first pale-purple ripple appeared.
Then a second, then a third.
Like rings on water, they spread outward.
Naruto snapped his head up.
His right eye had changed completely.
No longer a Sharingan,
but a pale-purple Rinnegan etched with six concentric circles.
In that instant he instinctively understood its abilities:
gravity and repulsion,
the power of the Six Paths,
and a unique ocular jutsu of his own—Amatsumikami.
Put simply, it granted absolute dominion over vectors.
Whether physical forces like gravity and impact or formless Chakra Ninjutsu,
once Amatsumikami was active he could rewrite their direction at will.
The cost, however, was immense:
every second it remained active consumed as much Chakra as a single Planetary Devastation.
Even he couldn't keep it up for long.
The next instant Shukaku opened its gargantuan mouth again.
Wind Release: Drilling Air Bullet!
The target was still Uchiha Sasuke, and an even larger, wilder blast of air roared forth.
Wherever it passed, the earth was plowed into deep furrows and trees were uprooted and flung aside.
Yet Naruto simply stood in place.
The Rinnegan flared; the instant Amenominaka activated,
the air cannon froze less than three meters in front of him.
It hadn't been blocked.
It was as if an invisible hand had seized it and twisted its direction.
BOOM—!!!
The Air Bullet reversed course, and on its way back it was forcibly compressed and layered upon itself.
The next second,
it slammed into Shukaku with several times the fury it had possessed on launch.
"Aaaargh—!!!"
A piercing howl tore through the forest.
The immense sand body was hurled backward, rolling, and a tsunami of grit swept the surroundings.
In the distance,
Shikamaru, Kankuro, and Sakura stood rooted to the spot.
Right then,
a slender figure rushed forward without heed.
"Uzumaki Naruto!"
Temari stumbled up to him, her fan slipping from her grasp; her knees buckled and she dropped to the ground.
"Please… please save Gaara…"
"If this keeps up, Shukaku will devour him completely… just like the other Jinchuriki before…"
She lifted her head, staring at the boy who felt both familiar and foreign.
Though he had once toyed with her again and again on the Chunin Exams field,
after witnessing that near-Tailed Beast-level power moments ago, Temari finally understood one thing:
Only the youth in front of her now had any chance of rescuing Gaara.
At this moment she no longer had the right to speak of positions, factions, or a Ninja's pride.
She was merely an older sister terrified of losing her little brother.
"Please… Naruto."
It was the first time Temari had ever called him by name.
"As long as you can save Gaara… I'll agree to anything you ask."
Naruto looked at her quietly.
After a moment he nodded.
He lifted his gaze toward the still-tumbling, roaring One-Tail Shukaku.
The Tailed Beast's crimson eyes locked onto him in turn.
In the next instant,
Shukaku raised its head to the sky and opened its maw.
Chakra compressed and spiraled madly within—
a black core took shape.
Tailed Beast Ball.
Though the Cursed Seal Sage Mode had already faded,
Naruto, feeling the surging ocular power in his right eye, showed no change of expression.
The Six Paths power lifted his body, rising gently into the air.
The next instant, his palms came together.
Adamantine Sealing Chains.
BOOM—!
Dozens of golden chains shot from Naruto's back, coiling viciously around Shukaku's limbs, torso, and neck.
It was the Uzumaki Clans most fundamental power, designed specifically to suppress Tailed Beasts.
"ROAR—!!!"
Shukaku thrashed in frenzy.
The forming Tailed Beast Ball was forcibly interrupted; the violent Chakra backlashed inside its body, wringing a cry of agony from it.
But that wasn't the end.
Naruto's right-eye Rinnegan shifted slightly.
"Planetary Devastation."
The next moment,
a terrifying gravitational force erupted with Shukaku at its center.
The earth split apart.
Rocks, soil, giant trees, and seas of sand were all torn, dragged, and drawn together!
Before the almost stupefied onlookers, a colossal sphere of surface matter took shape.
Then it began to fall,
driving Shukaku trapped inside it straight toward the ground.
CRASH—!!!
The ground quaked and groaned.
Smoke and dust shot sky-high,
as though the very veins of the earth were wailing.
In the next instant,
a golden flash lit up once more.
Naruto was already standing atop the now powerless Shukaku.
Gaara stood there quietly, eyes shut, face pale.
Without a single extra word,
Naruto raised his hand.
Smack—!
A crisp, clean slap landed squarely on Gaara's cheek.
"Wake up."
That slap shattered the Feigning Sleep technique and yanked Gaara's consciousness forcibly out of its nightmare.
As the host awoke, the titanic remnant of Shukakuloosed an unwilling howl and dissolved into cascading yellow sand that scattered on the wind.
Gaara's eyes snapped open.
Confusion and disorientation still swirled within his pupils.
In that instant,
Naruto's left-eye three-tomoe Sharingan spun rapidly.
"Kotoamatsukami."
No Chakra ripple spread outward;
a command that overrode will itself was quietly implanted in the deepest part of Gaara's mind.
"Become Kazekage."
"Control the Land of Wind."
"And submit to me!"