Naruto: Let the glory of the giants spread throughout the ninja world!

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Akira Ryukura, who was watching Ryukura Akira's fighting style in the consciousness space, pressed his forehead.

"Eh... this form's fighting style is really... uh, insidious? Or should I say it's the hunting instinct of a wild beast?"

Finally, consciousness can return. Luckily, I prepared the form in advance, otherwise I wouldn't be able to let them have their way. The environment here is too advantageous for Ryukura Akira. By the way, can Manda swim? Ryukura Akira's swimming skills are so good. I feel like he can go toe-to-toe with Kisame Hoshigaki in the water.

Having just opened his eyes from the water and casually swatted away Naruto's shadow clone, Ryukura Akira saw Sasuke crash into him along with a giant water dragon.

Akira Ryūkura's assessment of this was that the hot spring was excellent.

"How is this possible?" Sasuke exclaimed in disbelief.

Ryukura Akira opened his mouth wide, and a thick green poisonous mist spewed out from the depths of his throat, instantly enveloping a five-meter radius around Sasuke.

The dragon people's poison even comes in three types: purple, which corrodes muscles and tendons; green, which causes excruciating pain; and red, which causes mental confusion.

Sasuke held his breath and retreated, but the poisonous fog spread extremely quickly, and his arms and face immediately felt a burning pain when they came into contact with the fog.

"Sasuke-kun!" Sakura's expression changed drastically, but she had no means of antidote or medical treatment, so she could only desperately shout, "Get out of that fog!"

Ryukura Akira did not give chase, but instead dived back into the water, leaving only ripples spreading outwards.

Kakashi calmly observed all of this.

He had already seen through Ryukura Akira's characteristics: his scales had extremely high defensive power, and even a lightning ninjutsu of the Chidori level could only leave superficial wounds; he was incredibly strong and could tear apart a ship's hull with his bare hands; his poison mist was an area-of-effect attack, suitable for weakening enemies in narrow terrain like the sea; and most importantly, he always relied on the sea to fight, attacking and then diving away, never giving anyone a chance to continue attacking.

"We can't fight it in the water," Kakashi quickly decided. "We have to lure it out and get it out of the water."

"How do we induce it?"

Kakashi glanced at Naruto. Naruto immediately understood, grinning, "Leave it to me!"

Naruto took a deep breath and created four shadow clones, making a total of five with his original body.

The five Narutos ran in different directions at the same time, actually jumping between the floating platforms, but they deliberately made a lot of noise, splashing water everywhere and shouting.

"Come on! You big purple lizard!"

"Come out and fight if you dare!"

"I'm here!"

Hearing this brat's words underwater, Ryukura Akira was speechless. Was he being treated like a teddy bear?

Ryukura Akira was annoyed and didn't want to cooperate, so he decided to ignore him.

"Not enough." Kakashi gestured to Sasuke, "Add more fuel to the fire."

Sasuke gritted his teeth and stood up, his right hand flashing with Chidori once again.

This time, instead of attacking the water's surface rashly, he released the Thousand Birds into the air, and the piercing sound of electricity reverberated throughout the entire sea.

At the same time, Naruto's hand began to condense a Rasengan, and a ball of chakra gradually took shape, with the rapidly rotating airflow stirring up the surrounding sea fog.

Two powerful chakra energies appeared simultaneously, creating violent chakra fluctuations on the water's surface.

Underwater, Akira Ryukura finally saw an opportunity to release the water, and Akira Ryukura launched his attack!

"Aww!"

The sea suddenly exploded, and a huge purple body shot into the sky from the water, heading straight for the location where Sasuke and Naruto were located, where the chakra energy was most concentrated.

It opened its mouth wide, and the poisonous mist spewed out first, the crimson mist like a large net covering the two of them.

"Now! Get out of the way!" Kakashi's voice came from the side.

Sasuke and Naruto jumped to the sides at the same time, and the poisonous mist passed between them and fell into the sea, where a bunch of dead fish immediately floated to the surface.

Ryukura Akira missed his target, and his massive body landed on a large floating board, finally leaving the water completely.

Kakashi had been waiting for this moment.

"Raikiri!"

Kakashi instantly appeared to Ryukura Akira's side, and with his left hand, he thrust his Raikiri at Ryukura Akira's right shoulder joint, where the gaps between the scales were relatively large.

Raikiri's electric current drilled into the gap, and Ryukura Akira finally felt the pain, letting out a low roar, and his right arm's movement was noticeably slower.

However, the electric shock did not cause a fatal injury; the current only burned a layer of muscle under the scales.

"Naruto!"

"Rasengan!" Naruto leaped down from above, his Rasengan striking precisely on Akira Ryukura's neck—an area with thinner scales.

The Rasengan exploded, and Akira Ryukura's head slumped downwards. Several scales on the back of his neck shattered, revealing the dark purple skin underneath, but it still didn't penetrate.

"You're still a long way off, guys. Keep it up!"

Ryukura Akira turned around abruptly, his tail sweeping across, sending a floating board, along with Sakura and Yukie on it, flying away.

Sakura hugged Yukie in mid-air, and before landing, she used the Substitution Jutsu to swap herself and Yukie with two pieces of broken wood, barely avoiding the impact damage. However, after the Substitution Jutsu, she fell into the water, choked on several mouthfuls of seawater, and still clung tightly to Yukie.

"Sakura! Yukie-san!" Naruto tried to come to the rescue, but Ryukura Akira had already pounced on him, his claws slashing at him.

Naruto could only retreat and try to interfere with the attack using his shuriken, but the shuriken bounced off Ryukura Akira.

Kakashi struck again, and Raikiri once more hit the vulnerable spot behind Akira Ryukura's left knee.

Ryukura Akira staggered, but then turned around and swung his claw. Kakashi barely dodged it, but his vest was torn open with three cuts by the claw tip. It didn't hurt his flesh, but it was extremely dangerous.

"Its defense," Kakashi said, slightly out of breath after landing, his Sharingan in his left eye already feeling strained, "is only able to break through the surface with Chidori and Rasengan, not reach the inside."

Sakura climbed out of the water onto a piece of wreckage, settled Yuki in place, and then quickly surveyed the battlefield.

Her mind remained clear. Although she didn't have any powerful offensive moves, she could see the situation clearly: everyone was consuming chakra, Ryukura Akira's poisonous fog was still spreading, and a thin layer of green mist had already covered the sea surface, making every breath feel burning.

If this drags on any longer, they will lose their fighting ability due to the poisonous fog without Ryukura Akira even having to lift a finger.

"Kakashi-sensei!" Sakura shouted, "It won't stay out of the water for long. If we can't defeat it here..."

"I know." Kakashi's breathing grew heavier, but his eyes remained calm.

He stared into Ryukura Akira's cloudy yellow eyes, the three hooks of his Sharingan slowly rotating.

Akira Ryukura charged again, this time targeting the wreckage where Yukie was.

Kakashi didn't use Lightning Blade to block, but instead used Body Flicker to stand in front of Yukie, meeting Ryukura Akira's gaze head-on.

Ryukura Akira's yellow eyes met Kakashi's left eye.

"Sharingan, Genjutsu, Naraku-sight Technique"

The three hooks suddenly accelerated their spin, and Ryukura Akira's body instantly froze. Its outstretched giant claws stopped less than half a meter in front of Kakashi, its muscles frozen as if completely still.

"It's a success." Kakashi's left eye was bloodshot; maintaining this level of genjutsu was extremely taxing on his Sharingan. "The genjutsu won't last long. Don't linger, retreat at full speed!"

Before Naruto could say anything more, Sasuke grabbed him by the back of his collar and dragged him backward.

Sakura dragged Yukie along, running while constantly looking back to check on Akira's condition.

Kakashi was the last to leave, slowly retreating in front of Ryukura Akira, his left eye never letting its guard down.

ten seconds.

Twenty seconds.

After they retreated nearly fifty meters, Ryukura Akira's body suddenly trembled, and the illusion was dispelled.

A deafening roar came from behind, the entire sea trembled, poisonous mist sprayed everywhere, and the seawater was churned up like boiling water.

Until that purple figure was completely swallowed by the mist and darkness and could no longer be seen.

Everyone collapsed onto a piece of shipwreck wreckage that was barely big enough for them to fit in, gasping for breath.

Naruto's arm was covered in red rashes from the poisonous mist, Sasuke's vision was still a little blurry, Sakura had scraped her knee, and Yuki was trembling but unharmed.