Naruto: Reborn as an Otsutsuki

Wind Release: Slicing Repelling Tornado

Masaru swung his giant folding fan in a wide arc, which instantly transformed the Wind Release Chakra into a ferocious tornado filled with countless wind blades and surrounded him from all directions.

Screech~

The sharp wind blades rotated rapidly around the tornado, emitting an ear-piercing screech.

Soon, the meat-grinder-like tornado surrounding Masaru began to expand, ready to tear the flesh and bones of Seimei and Sorata, who were approaching Masaru with their blades.

A sense of crisis instantly rose in both Seimei's and Sorata's hearts.

Not good!

Seimei thought as he quickly retracted his blade, which was crackling with arcs of purple lightning.

He swiftly gathered a large amount of chakra into his left leg and meticulously controlled it with fine precision.

Within the tenth of a second, he stomped his left leg on the ground and detonated the chakra gathered in his sole and leg the moment his foot touched the ground.

Chakra Enhanced Strength

The ground under his foot immediately cracked and caved in, while a strong shockwave was generated by the detonating chakra, rendering the incoming wind blades useless.

Then, within the blink of an eye, Seimei jumped back using the reaction force generated by stomping his left foot on the ground and swiftly retreated tens of meters away from the dangerous tornado.

Of course, he didn't forget to throw three kunai, each laced with three explosive tags, at Masaru, who was protected by his tornado.

The wind of the tornado will protect you.

But can it protect you from the blistering heat generated by the flames of explosive tags?

When the flames blend into the wind and the wind fuels the flame…

Will you still stand there to become a roasted chicken as your wind tornado turns into a flaming one?

Jie jie jie…

Seimei thought in his mind as he saw his kunai hit the tornado, causing the explosive tags to detonate violently.

Boooom! Booooom! Boooooom!

The shockwave from the ear-splitting explosions caused the wind around the tornado to falter a little before the tornado was engulfed by raging red flames generated by the explosive tags.

At the same time, Uchiha Sorata, who was also retreating from the expanding tornado using the Body Flicker Technique, formed three hand seals and shot out a large amount of flames that condensed into a giant fireball.

Fire Release: Great Fireball Technique

Boooooooooom!!

The already large fireball grew even larger as it approached the tornado before hitting it and exploding, generating a horrifying shockwave along with scorching fire.

Dust, debris, and tongues of fire leaped into the air. Finally, the combination of explosive tags and the Great Fireball Jutsu dissipated the protective tornado filled with sharp wind blades.

However, Masaru's figure was nowhere to be seen.

"Escaped?" muttered Uchiha Sorata. However, he was still alert. The enemy could be lurking nearby, ready to cut him down. He couldn't afford to let his guard down unless they took Masaru down.

Sorata felt like he had seen a photo of Masaru and his information somewhere, but he couldn't exactly pinpoint it.

On the other hand, Seimei kept looking at the earth. His Tenseigan glowed slightly with an ocean-blue light before his mouth formed a smirk.

Did he just use the Earth Release: Hiding Like a Mole Technique?

So, you think you would be safe just because you're staying and moving underground?

Seimei mocked him in his heart. After all, he had already seen through it and found the location of Masaru.

Although Seimei could have used the Earth Release: Opening Earth Rising Excavation technique to dig him out, he chose not to use such a big landscape-transforming Jutsu.

They were inside one of the critical border towns of the Fire Country.

If he rampaged and unleashed one after another destructive Jutsu and caused heavy financial loss and civilian casualties, the Fire Daimyo would be absolutely livid.

Similarly, Masaru also refrained from using Jutsu, which made too much noise or caused heavy area-effect damage.

Due to the surge of unusual activities and an increase in troublesome rogue ninjas, Konoha deployed a lot of its elite forces in the border towns of the Fire Country.

And this Kitakari town was one of them.

During his investigation, Masato had already found four active Konoha Elite Jonin and tens of experienced Jonin constantly investigating and patrolling this town for the last couple of weeks.

And that was before Seimei and his group entered the town.

Even though he was a powerful Elite Jonin who was just a step away from joining the ranks of the S-rank ninjas, he still didn't dare to face such a concentrated force at once.

If he had to face them, even if he didn't die and successfully fled, he would still lose a limb or two.

And who knows how many Konoha ninjas were watching the town from the shadows?

Those ANBU ninjas from Konoha were ruthless after all. One regular ANBU Chunin could decimate at least three or four regular Chunin before dying from a group assault of at least ten Chunin-level regular ninjas.

Who knew what kind of hell the Konoha's higher-ups made them go through to enhance the ANBU ninja's combat power to this degree?

They hid in the dark and struck when you were most vulnerable.

So, he had to show restraint not to cause too big of a commotion that could attract other Konoha ninjas patrolling the town.

Otherwise, those Elite Jonin and ANBU ninjas would converge here like a group of opportunistic vultures who had smelled blood.

He just found a child and a lone Uchiha Jonin, and thought that he could suppress and capture them easily without going all out.

Who would have known they would be such a nuisance?

He really didn't have it easy.

While Masaru was lamenting his fate and trying to slip away under the cover of the earth, Seimei was ready to dig him using any means possible.

And he had a perfect solution to make the mole come out to the surface.

Without further ado, Seimei formed a single-handed seal with his left hand and gathered a lot of lightning chakra on his palm.

Lightning Release: Chidori Sharp Spear

Chirp!! Chirp!! Crackle!!

The sound of a thousand chirping birds came from the densely packed purple lightning covering Seimei's left palm.

Countless big and small lightning bolts slithered around the ground and Seimei's body, waiting for Seimei's command to unleash their power.

Seimei flashed through the air, leaving a trail of lightning behind, and covered more than 150 meters within less than a second before stopping near a particular open spot.

He pointed his left arm, which held highly lethal lightning, to the ground and said with a smile, "Found you, bastard!"

At the next moment, the lightning from Seimei's palm extended, creating a thick, sharp, and straight spear of highly destructive purple lightning that pierced through the ground.

The tip of the lightning was quickly moving toward the location where Masaru was hiding underground, twelve meters below the surface.

But Masaru was a seasoned Elite Jonin who had spent his childhood fighting enemies during the Warring States Era. His danger instinct screamed at him to move away.

Plus, with his mastery over the earth chakra nature, he quickly sensed the disturbance within the earth, as if something was about to pierce through his location.

So, he quickly moved.

Unfortunately for him, the Chidori Sharp Spear moved too quickly and still managed to impale him in the left side of his stomach.

"Ahhhhh"

"Damn it."

Resisting the pain and the destructive rampage of lightning around the left side of his stomach, Masaru forcibly moved his body, which caused blood to flow out like a fountain from his wounded abdomen.

Then, he used a lot of wind chakra to eliminate the traces of lightning from his body and wound, causing the paralyzing effect of lightning to wear off without much impact.

He gritted his teeth and pressed his open wound with a special cloth from his storage seal, trying to stop the bleeding.

However, he still moved through the earthly path underground. Because if he stopped now, he would be captured by those damned Konoha ninjas.

Seimei, who saw all this with his Tenseigan, was about to move his Chidori Sharp Spear Jutsu to finish Masaru off and bury him underground.

But alas! Perhaps the fickle fate didn't agree with him.

Swish~ Swish~ Swish~ Swish~ Swish~

Before he could even move, a barrage of dozens, if not hundreds, of senbon needles shot toward Seimei's position like raining metal.

He could clearly see the black, purple, and green substances that the needles were covered with.

It was obviously poison. And it was fucking obvious that it was from the Sunagakure ninjas.

"They are not even trying to hide their affiliation anymore," said Seimei before he used the Body Flicker Technique to retreat to a safe location, avoiding the barrage of senbon needles easily.

On the other side, Uchiha Sorata was also subjected to similar attacks, forcing him to retreat repeatedly.

Soon, more than fifteen ninjas, most of whom were Chunin-level and a few Special Jonin-level combatants, appeared before Seimei and Sorata.

A few of them even had combat puppets.

They have been hiding until now.

So, why did these guys suddenly launch full-scale attacks?

Did the extreme desert heat finally fry their brains?

Or did they do it to let the guy we were fighting run away?

Seimei thought internally as he looked at the enemy ninjas, who were glaring at him with murderous intent.

"Tsk! By the time we deal with these busybodies, that Masaru guy will get away," said Seimei while looking at the group of ninjas who were literally itching to tear him apart. "Oh well, let's clear these guys first."

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