Naruto: Starting with Tsunade

Chapter 287 No more pretending, I'm laying my cards on the table: I have the Sharingan.

However, even though she took the hit head-on, Ichihime didn't seem to suffer any fatal injuries. Instead, she seemed to see the Sharingan and, recalling the massacre of her clan in the past, she became enraged, her pupils turning blood red, almost as red as the Sharingan.

Aokiji's expression twitched.

Why is it so mushy?

At this moment, he suddenly remembered something. In the original work, Shennong seemed to have both physical activation and physical regeneration techniques. Could it be that this woman also possessed both of these techniques?

However, it was too late. Having taken a hit from a Rasengan, Ichihime turned around and kicked Aokiji away, saying, "Die!"

The blue pheasant crashed heavily against the wall with a loud bang, and smoke billowed out.

"Clatter..."

A hand gripped the wall, loose stones fell, and Aokiji emerged from the cracked and recessed wall.

He spat out a mouthful of blood.

Asking the "beast" for a favor, Aokiji pleaded with the Five-Tails within him, "Little Five, quickly give me your chakra, I can't hold on much longer. You don't want me to be killed, do you?"

Zero-Tails has a limit to its ability to absorb chakra; once that limit is exceeded, it will be unable to absorb any more.

Aokiji's own chakra alone certainly wouldn't be enough to satiate Zero-Tails, but Five-Tails' chakra should be enough to saturate it.

Next, Aokiji will take advantage of this. Without the restriction of chakra, he is confident that he can launch a desperate counterattack.

The five-tailed beast's eyes gleamed with mockery: "Are you begging me?"

"Big brother, my big brother, I beg you to give me your chakra quickly, I really can't hold on much longer."

At this point, Aokiji no longer cared about saving face.

Once the Queen of the Sky Country learns that I am from the Uchiha clan, she will definitely act recklessly. If I accidentally cripple her, that would be a real problem.

"All right……"

Seeing his sincerity, the Five-Tails prepared to give him chakra.

After all, it would be very distressed if Aokiji were to die by accident.

Gouwei emphasized, "You owe me a favor."

"Thanks, boss."

Before Aokiji could even rejoice at the sight of Go-Ou letting go, the wall beside him suddenly exploded.

Aokiji was startled.

What's going on?

Then, a group of people slowly emerged from the smoke.

"Sorry, it took me a little time to get there."

Tsunade's voice came through the smoke.

Aokiji was overjoyed; finally, someone had arrived.

"what?"

Aokiji was taken aback: "What's wrong?"

Some people noticed the obvious change in Aokiji's eyes; the three tomoe were so conspicuous that they couldn't help but ask in surprise, "Aokiji, your eyes?"

"My eyes?"

Aokiji was stunned for a moment, then seemed to realize something and almost cursed.

Gan.

This is just too bad luck!

Aokiji: ...

"Aokiji, you have the Sharingan!?"

Hyuga Hiten, who was entrusted by the Third Hokage to monitor Aokiji, was quite surprised.

Aokiji only activated his Sharingan a moment ago, and even though he had the Byakugan and had been monitoring him the whole time, he only just found out.

"Well……"

Aokiji gave Tsunade a look of utter resentment, his eyes seeming to say:

You really know how to pick your timing; you had to come to my rescue right now.

The Sharingan was immediately exposed, and Tsunade was momentarily speechless.

With an extremely reluctant expression, Aokiji forced a smile: "Aren't you surprised and delighted?"

Someone chimed in, "Uh, that's quite a surprise."

Aokiji: ...

Some people are puzzled and don't understand: "Why do you always claim to not have Sharingan?"

"Uh, it's probably because I'm a natural-born ninja with two bloodline limits. I'm afraid that other people would feel inferior or pressured if they were with a genius like me."

"Now that you've discovered it, I'm not going to pretend anymore. I'll lay my cards on the table. I actually possess two bloodline limits—no, I mean, I'm now a super genius with three bloodline limits..."

Everyone, including Tsunade: ...

Aokiji's smug expression is so infuriating that someone immediately commented, "Tsunade, your boyfriend is so annoying, can I beat him up?"

Aokiji pleaded, "Stop it, you can't beat me..."

"..."

"Tsunade, you've always known that Aokiji has the Sharingan, haven't you?"

Ritian guessed.

Tsunade nodded, tacitly agreeing to the matter.

Since the matter was witnessed by sheer coincidence, there was no point in hiding it anymore.

Ritian fell silent for a moment.

He now understood why Aokiji had gained control of the Tailed Beasts' power so quickly.

So he has the Sharingan, no wonder...

Thinking of this, he glanced at Aokiji silently. He would then report the situation to the Third Hokage.

If that person knew that Aokiji possessed the Sharingan, they would probably have some interesting thoughts...

Seeing that everyone was going on and on about his Sharingan, Aokiji quickly interrupted them: "Have you finished talking nonsense? Can you help me take care of these two guys first?"

After saying that, he pointed to Zero and Ichihime inside the room.

Everyone looked over and saw unfamiliar faces, and they were taken aback. "What kind of things are you fighting?"

Speaking of this, Aokiji was furious: "It's all because your intelligence was wrong. You said I could easily take them down by myself, but the other side was incredibly strong. Even I almost got caught off guard and lost."

"Is it really that strong!"

Some people were a little skeptical. They knew Aokiji's strength. How could the small Land of Sky have someone that even he almost couldn't defeat?

Ichihime swept her gaze across the crowd, her eyes cold: "Have you finished your last words?"

Having said that, he ordered Zero-Tail to attack, and yellow tentacles surged from his body like waves, combining speed and range.

"Don't use ninjutsu."

Aokiji spoke up to remind them, but it was too late; someone had already hastily used their skill.

"Fire Release: Great Fireball Technique".

The fireball in mid-air shrank like a deflated balloon, until it was only the size of a flame when it reached the tail.

A Konoha ninja exclaimed in surprise, "What on earth is going on?!"

"I told you not to use ninjutsu, this thing absorbs chakra."

Aokiji kindly reminded him again.

The veins around Ri Tian's eyes bulged as he stared intently, using the penetrating power of his white eye to detect a clue about the stone tablet, and spoke up to warn him:

"Everyone, attack that stone tablet. That stone tablet must be what controls that creature."

"Don't even think about it."

With her secret discovered, Ichihime lost her composure. She clapped her hands together, summoning a large number of thorns to attack the Konoha ninja.

Countless thorns surged like waves, and several Konoha ninjas who were slow to react were knocked away on the spot.

Tsunade dodged the attack with lightning speed, exclaiming in surprise, "That's Wood Release?"

Aokiji denied it, saying, "Didn't you hear what she just said? That's Thorn Release."

Tsunade was slightly taken aback, having never heard of this technique: "Thorn Release?"

Based on the actual situation, Aokiji concluded: "Judging from its expressiveness, it should be a weakened version of Wood Release."

Thorn Release doesn't seem to have the ability to absorb chakra; it only has pure physical attack capabilities.

Although Thorn Release is just a low-end version of Wood Release, it still produced a very powerful effect when used by Ichihime.

Ordinary Konoha ninjas would have been no match for him, and couldn't help but wonder how Aokiji managed to hold out against these two monsters all by himself.

"No, it's impossible to get in touch with these two people."

Both Ichihime and Zero-Tails possess the ability to manipulate matter and fight flexibly. When they cooperate with each other, the Konoha ninjas cannot get close enough to destroy the stone tablet.

"Damn it, I should have brought Ryoma with me at this time."

Based on the opponent's abilities, Tsunade deduced that the insects of the Yujo clan would be more useful in this situation.

Just then, a figure rushed out, stepping on the tentacles that surged in the waves, and quickly approached the huge tombstone behind Zero.

Don't even think about succeeding. Ichihime manipulates countless thorns to chase after her, while Aokiji leaps and dodges, cutting the thorns with his weapon.

"You're really causing trouble."

Upon seeing this, Tsunade immediately ordered her team to employ a strategy of "besieging Wei to rescue Zhao" in order to rescue Aokiji.

"Annoying guy."

Ichihime took action, manipulating thorns to attack Tsunade and the others.

With the thorns gone, Aokiji seemed to have just relaxed his guard when countless smaller tentacles sprouted from the huge yellow tentacles beneath his feet, taking advantage of his unpreparedness to first entangle his feet, then his legs, waist, and torso...

Tsunade cried out in alarm, "Aokiji—!"

"Haha, I've got you." Shennong, who was controlling Zero-Tail, gave a triumphant laugh.

"Hmph, so you really caught me?"

Aokiji used the chakra he borrowed from the Five-Tails and released it directly.

"Hey, you don't have to do this if you want to die." Shennong felt the massive chakra behind him and let out a neurotic laugh.

Using too much chakra at once can be life-threatening. Shennong, with his superb medical skills, was well aware of this and knew it all too well.

However, his laughter didn't last long and soon came to an abrupt end.

Zero-tail's body arched backward dramatically, its body bloated and swollen, its mouth wide open, dripping yellow saliva, and it emitted a painful, shrill cry.

"This is terrible, what's going on with this abnormal chakra?"

Aokiji released too much chakra, exceeding the Zero-Tails' absorption limit.

Even Shennong, the manipulator, was finding it hard to bear and was unable to control Zero Tail.

Taking advantage of the opportunity, Aokiji broke free from Zero-Tail's restraints and landed on the ground, shouting to the group, "Run!"

Everyone was stunned, but fortunately Tsunade reacted quickly and knew what Aokiji was going to do, so she quickly ordered everyone to evacuate.

After his companions retreated to the safe zone, Aokiji had no more worries. Ichihime, unaware of what was going on, manipulated Aokiji, who was wielding thorns, to launch an attack.

Aokiji took a breath, gathering his strength slightly: "Ice Age..."

In an instant, centered on himself, he unleashed his unparalleled ice-attribute chakra, and the powerful chill swept over everything around him, silencing all sound and covering everything with a thick layer of ice.

In the instant the cold wave spread, even though Ichihime stopped using Thorn Release and used her agile movements to dodge the ground's icy force and freezing corrosion, Zero-Tails wasn't so lucky and was directly frozen into ice along with the entire space.

(End of this chapter)