Naruto: Konoha Spring of the Uchiha Prodigies

A barrage of shuriken rained down on Naruto. Naruto glanced back and quickly adjusted his direction, trying to escape through the gaps in the shuriken rain. However, Sasuke was even faster. He gently twisted the steel wire in his hands, causing the shuriken to collide in mid-air and change their flight paths.

Seeing this, Naruto prepared to take several shuriken head-on with his body.

However, just as he accelerated, his legs were suddenly entangled in the steel wire, causing him to lose his balance and fall to the ground.

Sasuke seized the opportunity to stand in front of Naruto, looking down at him and coldly asking, "Fool, where are you planning to go?"

"You still caught up with me, Sasuke. I don't want to fight you." Naruto sighed and used his chakra to break the steel wire wrapped around his leg.

"Answer my question first, where are you planning to go?" Sasuke said coldly. "Do you know how worried everyone is about you?"

"I want to travel around the ninja world," Naruto said, "and then find my own ninja way."

"Just for that reason?" Sasuke frowned, looking at Naruto and said, "I believe you can understand the current situation in the ninja world. The village is about to face war, and it is precisely at this time that your strength is needed. Yet you want to leave the village for such a reason?"

“That’s why I left,” Naruto said. “The ninja way I pursue doesn’t allow me to use my power for the killing in war.”

"You are also a disciple of the master. Have you forgotten what the master said? Our war to unify the ninja world in the future is to end the years of conflict in the ninja world and bring about final peace?" Sasuke felt that Naruto was being unreasonable.

“I know,” Naruto nodded. “I also know that the teacher and everyone else are working hard towards this goal, but what I saw on the battlefield that day made me realize that no matter what the purpose is, killing only brings the purest pain. So, I want to try to reduce this pain as much as possible, at least to prevent this pain from falling on civilians.”

"Is this what you were thinking about on the battlefield that day?" Sasuke took a deep breath and asked Naruto, who seemed quite different from before.

“Yes, so please let me through. I don’t want to fight you,” Naruto said.

"Judging from your tone, you seem to think you've got me cornered, right?" Sasuke took a deep breath. "As for stepping aside, I'm sorry, I can't. I can't just watch my friend become a rogue ninja. So, even if I break your legs, I'll bring you back to the village."

A silence fell between them, broken only by the gentle murmur of flowing water.

The two looked in the direction from which the sound of flowing water came almost simultaneously.

"Is that place... the Valley of the End?" Naruto muttered to himself.

Chapter 230 Fated Showdown (Part 1)

A golden light appeared on Naruto's body, and the wind-attribute chakra billowed up the hem of his coat.

Purple lightning also erupted beneath Sasuke's feet.

The next instant, the two of them sprang up almost simultaneously. Naruto ran wildly toward the direction from which the sound of water came, while Sasuke gave chase.

The two quickly arrived at the Valley of the End, where two enormous statues stood facing each other at opposite ends of the waterfall. Naruto took the lead, leaping high onto the statue of the First Hokage, Hashirama Senju.

"Stop right there!" Sasuke caught up and threw a heavy punch at Naruto in mid-air.

Naruto turned around and saw Sasuke coming at him menacingly. He twisted his body in mid-air and kicked Sasuke squarely in the stomach, sending Sasuke flying back.

Sasuke, who had suffered a severe abdominal injury, landed on top of the statue of the First Hokage, Hashirama Senju. He clutched his abdomen, enduring the nausea, and gritted his teeth as he looked at Naruto, who was perched atop the statue of Madara Uchiha.

The spray from the waterfall rose, and in the damp, cold wind and mist, Naruto's blond hair clung wetly to his forehead. The flames that once danced in his blue eyes were now replaced by a peaceful calm. However, Sasuke's eyes saw a resolute determination as firm as a rock beneath this calm.

"Sasuke, don't waste your energy. I have my own path to walk, and my ninja way is not in Konoha," Naruto said calmly. "I don't want to hurt you either."

"Shut up!" Sasuke snapped, his anger rising. "Who do you think you are? A savior? Without Konoha, you are nothing! Wake up!"

Before he finished speaking, he suddenly exerted force with his feet. A small piece of gravel shattered on the slippery stone surface, and Sasuke's figure transformed into a pale purple lightning bolt that tore through the air! He was so fast that he only left a blurry afterimage in Naruto's eyes, almost merging with the cascading waterfall. Sasuke's figure drew a sharp zigzag in the air, instantly passing in front of Naruto. A cold, sharp edge silently emerged from Naruto's back, targeting his heart. But when it came time to exert force, Sasuke gritted his teeth and slightly deflected the tip of the purple lightning blade to the right.

"laugh!"

The blade sliced ​​through the air and water mist with a faint whistling sound, but it only pierced the orange coat that had been suddenly torn apart.

Naruto vanished. Just as the blade touched his body, a violent, visible swirling current of air exploded beneath his feet! The current carried a piercing, sharp shriek.

"Sasuke, I'm faster than you now." Naruto's voice came from Sasuke's side and above, carrying the whistling sound of rapidly flowing wind.

Sasuke's pupils contracted sharply, and the three tomoe of his Sharingan spun wildly, instantly locking onto his target. Without the slightest hesitation, he twisted his waist and spun around, the purple lightning in his hand, carrying blinding purple light, slashing upwards like a venomous snake's tail! The lightning crackled and tore through the air, aiming straight for Naruto's waist and abdomen!

Faced with Sasuke's counterattack, Naruto's body twisted backward in mid-air in a strange way, almost defying common sense. Wind-style chakra flowed rapidly across his body, forming an invisible airflow that narrowly deflected the deadly lightning. A few strands of his golden hair broke off and scattered under the spinning wind blades. Before his feet had fully touched the ground, his toes touched the slippery stone statue's shoulder below, and his body sprang up again, transforming into a golden hurricane that spun close to the ground, actively engulfing Sasuke!

Highly compressed and condensed wind-style chakra formed a rapidly spinning, sharp-edged cone-shaped storm in front of Naruto's palm, slamming towards Sasuke with a piercing shriek! The speed was astonishing; the wind pressure even instantly pushed aside and cut the water droplets splashing from the surrounding waterfall into finer mist!

Sasuke pushed his Sharingan to its limit, frantically trying to capture the trajectory of the deadly storm with his three tomoe, but Naruto's speed was simply too fast, already exceeding the visual limit of his three tomoe Sharingan.

Naruto sighed softly. When his attack reached Sasuke, the wind-style chakra that had been spinning and cutting at high speed just a second ago was instantly compressed and then released in a more peaceful way.

A loud popping sound rang out in front of Sasuke. The force generated by the compressed chakra sent his body flying uncontrollably backward, crashing heavily onto the shoulder of the statue of Hashirama Senju. Cracks spread out, and the next moment, Sasuke's body was swept into the pool by the rushing waterfall.

"I'm sorry, Sasuke." Naruto, having withdrawn his fist, looked down at Sasuke, who had fallen into the pool below, and said softly. Then, Naruto picked up his jacket, the hem of which had been partially torn by the purple lightning, and turned to leave.

After realizing his own path and reconciling with the voice in his mind, Naruto's strength increased to an incredible level overnight. He, who was originally at most on par with Sasuke, now completely suppressed Sasuke.

However, just as Naruto turned around, a cacophony of sounds, like a thousand birds singing in unison, came from behind him.

Sasuke's figure was wrapped in purple lightning as he rushed towards Naruto. Although he didn't know why Naruto's speed had increased so much compared to a few days ago, Sasuke knew that the only way to catch up with Naruto's current speed was to use unconventional methods. Chidori, a ninjutsu that sacrifices agility for explosive linear speed, became Sasuke's only option at the moment.

"Sasuke..." In Naruto's eyes, Sasuke's figure was getting closer and closer. In almost the time it takes to breathe, the figure wrapped in purple lightning was already in front of him. At this distance, Naruto could clearly see the determination in the other's Sharingan eyes with their three tomoe.

"Kid, it seems you won't be able to leave until you completely defeat him," the Nine-Tailed Fox, who had been watching the drama unfold for most of the day, reminded him from inside the sealed space.

"Well, I'll have to trouble you, Kurama-nii-san," Naruto said.

"Being able to beat up those Uchiha brats? Sounds pretty good." Inside the sealed space, Kurama stood up, its nine tails swaying, and golden chakra flowed through the sealed gate into Naruto's body.

"Brother Kurama, hold back a bit, don't really hurt him." At this moment, Naruto's whole body was suddenly filled with golden light, and golden chakra transformed into a divine garment on his body. His azure eyes also turned into eerie vertical pupils, and his powerful chakra surged around him like golden flames.

Sasuke's breath hitched. The information from his Sharingan overloaded him instantly! The energy level contained in that pure golden chakra was like facing a volcano about to erupt! The resolute will in those eerie vertical pupils was colder than the water of a waterfall! An unprecedented sense of crisis gripped his heart like a cold iron clamp!

Retreat? No! The pride of the Uchiha clan, the fury at being "betrayed" by the person before him, and the tearing feeling deep in his heart of being completely abandoned, which he himself was unwilling to admit, instantly overwhelmed his fear!

"Stop joking!!!" Sasuke roared like a wild beast, pouring all his fear, anger, and confusion into the lightning in his right hand!

"Chidori—!!!"

A deafening explosion, like the simultaneous screams of a thousand birds, tore through the roar of the Valley of the End! More violent and dazzling than ever before! An unprecedented amount of lightning-attribute chakra was frantically compressed and condensed in his right palm! It was no longer a sharp, thrusting lightning spear, but an extremely unstable ball of lightning, purplish-black, constantly emitting thick arcs of electricity! The destructive energy caused the surrounding air to distort violently, the crackling arcs of electricity leaping and turning half of his face deathly pale, his Sharingan glowing crimson in the lightning!

He staked all his bets, all his resentment, and all the pain of being left behind on this one strike!

Naruto's expression turned serious, and the golden chakra cloak around his body shone brightly! He slowly raised his right hand. No longer the sharp, wind-attribute chakra, but a deep, heavy hum, as if emanating from the depths of the earth, as pale blue chakra surged and compressed wildly into his palm like a storm! Its speed surpassed even Sasuke's Chidori! The chakra density was astonishingly high, forming a rapidly spinning sphere in his palm with an incredibly precise internal structure! The powerful wind generated by the high-speed rotation tore through the surrounding mist, emitting a deep and terrifying howl!

"Spiral pills!"

In Nine-Tails Chakra Mode, the speed at which this A-rank ninjutsu is condensed and the energy it contains reach an unbelievable level!

The two, one shrouded in darkness by the raging lightning of the Thousand Birds, and the other enveloped in burning golden flames, moved simultaneously like two poles of destiny!

No detours, no probing! It was a direct, primal, and brutal head-on collision! For completely different paths, for the uncompromising beliefs in each other's hearts!

"Naruto—!!!" Sasuke's roar was drowned out by the shriek of Chidori.

"Sasuke—!!!" Naruto roared, accompanied by the roar of the Nine-Tails' chakra!

Gold and purple, light and electricity, like two meteors flying in opposite directions, collided violently between the palms of the giant stone statues of Hashirama Senju and Madara Uchiha, above the roaring waterfall abyss!

"Buzz—!!!!!!!!!!"

Time seemed to be stretched infinitely in that instant, and then compressed to the extreme!

There was no earth-shattering explosion at the moment the Rasengan made contact with Chidori.

First to erupt was a silent annihilation field formed by the clash of extreme energies! A terrifying sphere, distorting light and swallowing sound, instantly expanded! Inside the sphere, golden chakra and blue-white lightning frantically tore and annihilated each other! The destructive energy turbulence, like billions of invisible blades, shattered the surrounding space into pieces! The enormous stone hand beneath their feet, its hard rock, silently turned into the finest dust, collapsing and dissipating like a sandcastle!

Immediately afterwards, the destructive energy that had been compressed to its limit finally broke through the critical point!

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Chapter 231 Sasuke's Kaleidoscope

A deafening roar echoed throughout the Valley of the End, the entire earth groaning and cracking under the explosion! A tangible shockwave, forming a ring, exploded outwards at supersonic speed! Wherever it passed, the air was compressed into white walls of vapor, and the raging waterfalls beneath were abruptly severed, whipping up towering waves! Countless tons of water were instantly evaporated into scorching white steam, then brutally torn apart by the shockwave! The stone statues of Hashirama Senju and Madara Uchiha, which had stood there since that battle, enduring the daily ravages of wind and rain yet remaining unmoved, shattered like fragile plaster statues from the neck up under this cataclysmic impact! Countless massive fragments of rock were hurled high into the air like a meteor shower, then crashed back down into the churning steam and towering waves below!

At the heart of this destructive storm, Sasuke's vision was a blinding white and chaotic blur! The immense impact made his bones groan! His right arm was writhing in excruciating pain, as if it would be utterly crushed by the raging golden power in the next second! The lightning of Chidori, under the endless spinning of the Rasengan and the terrifying brute force of the Nine-Tails' chakra, emitted a piercing wail, its light rapidly dimming!

Was he going to lose? Was his arm going to break? No! Absolutely not! How could he lose to this loser who left without permission! He was going to break this guy's legs and take him back to the village! The loneliness of being abandoned, the anger of being left alone, burned in his heart like poisonous fire!

"Ughh ...

A desperate and unwilling roar, originating from the deepest part of his soul, burst forth from Sasuke's throat! The extreme desire for power that erupted in the face of despair, the obsession with turning the tide, was like a red-hot iron and a special chakra flowing from his body, fiercely burning into the depths of his wildly spinning three-tomoe Sharingan!

"Snap—!"

A crisp sound, seemingly from the depths of his soul, that only he could hear!

The three magatama that were spinning wildly in his vision suddenly froze, and then, in a fraction of a second, they seemed to be pulled, twisted, and exploded by an invisible force! An indescribable pain instantly pierced through his brain! At the center of the exploded crimson fragments, a brand new, bizarre, and complex pattern instantly formed and solidified!

The pattern was deep and cold, carrying a mysterious and ominous quality, as if it could see through the trajectory of fate. The instant the pattern took shape, a new, cold, and powerful torrent of ocular power, like a glacier that had been dormant for millennia suddenly collapsing, crashed into Sasuke's eyes and flowed throughout his entire body! The Mangekyou Sharingan!

The world suddenly changed in his eyes! The flow of energy became clearer than ever before, and every minute detail of the chakra circulation in Naruto's ferocious Rasengan was as clear as the lines on his palm! Furthermore, a cold power instantly awakened and condensed within the Chidori in his right arm, which was on the verge of collapse!

"Sizzle—!"

A tiny yet perfectly condensed arc of black electricity, like a blade from the underworld slicing through chaos, suddenly burst forth from the core of Chidori! Ignoring the Rasengan's high-speed spinning defense, it carried a power of annihilation, instantly piercing through the golden chakra's outer shell and heading straight for the core of Naruto's Rasengan!

"What?!" Naruto's eerie vertical pupils suddenly contracted, and his Nine-Tails Mode senses instantly detected the danger of that dark arc of electricity! It was a power that could erode and disintegrate the very essence of chakra! He instinctively wanted to withdraw, but the momentum of the all-out clash was unstoppable!

The moment the jet-black electric arc pierced the core of the Rasengan was like a drop of cold water being poured into a boiling oil pan!

"Bang—!!!"

The second explosion occurred! It wasn't an external shock, but rather an energy explosion triggered by the black arc of electricity eroding and destroying the internal structure of the Rasengan! The highly compressed chakra lost its restraint and exploded uncontrollably in Naruto's palm!

"Pfft!" Naruto was struck hard, spitting out a mouthful of blood. He was blasted backward by his out-of-control ninjutsu! His golden chakra cloak fluctuated violently, flickering and almost dissipating!

Sasuke was also violently thrown back by the force of the explosion, crashing heavily into a large, not yet completely collapsed rock wall behind him, creating a spiderweb-like crater and sending debris raining down. He knelt on one knee, panting heavily, the wound on his left arm and the excruciating pain in his right arm tearing at his nerves, his brain spinning and throbbing from the activation of the Mangekyou Sharingan. But he suddenly raised his head, his newly formed eyes, flowing with cold and eerie patterns, locking onto the flying Naruto, his pupil power like a tangible cold current, piercing through the billowing smoke and mist.

Smoke and water vapor, like a tattered curtain, slowly settled and tore apart amidst the violent aftershocks of energy. The Valley of the End seemed to have witnessed a divine war, leaving it in ruins. The colossal stone statues were reduced to broken torsos, and the once roaring waterfall was blasted apart, forming a massive water vapor cavity from which murky water gathered again, emitting a mournful sound.

Naruto staggered and steadied himself on a huge rock jutting out of the water in the distance. Bloodstains remained at the corner of his mouth, and his golden chakra cloak burned flickeringly like a candle in the wind. Sasuke's cold, unfamiliar Mangekyou Sharingan, which contained a new and terrifying power, was reflected in his eerie vertical pupils. His heavy breathing aggravated the pain in his chest, and each breath was filled with the smell of blood. He slowly raised his right hand, his palm charred and mangled, evidence of the injury he had sustained from his out-of-control Rasengan.

Sasuke, leaning against the cold rock wall, endured the tearing pain in his left arm and the burning sensation from the Mangekyou Sharingan deep in his brain, and slowly straightened up. His newly awakened eye power flowed coldly in his eyes, clearly taking in Naruto's disheveled appearance, his charred right hand, and the undisguised pain and exhaustion in his eyes.

"Hahaha...hahaha...hahahahaha!" Sasuke laughed loudly, and after he had laughed enough, he looked at Naruto again: "Naruto, you can't escape this time."

"The Mangekyou Sharingan..." Inside the sealed space, Kurama stared solemnly at the slowly rotating Mangekyou Sharingan patterns in Sasuke's eyes.

"This time, we really have to get serious." Naruto took a deep breath, steam rising from his injured right hand, which then healed in a few breaths. "Let's go, Kurama-nii!"

Naruto's body was once again engulfed in golden flames as he entered Kurama Mode.

The two, standing on opposite sides of the pool, said no more and charged at each other. Their fists and feet clashed with swords. As Naruto attacked, his chakra condensed into claws and attacked Sasuke. Sasuke, whose body was wrapped in black and purple lightning, calmly used the bones of Susanoo to block. For a moment, the two went back and forth, neither able to gain the upper hand.

However, during the fierce battle, Sasuke seized the opportunity, first using his purple lightning to force Naruto back, then closing in and staring intently into Naruto's eyes.

Mangekyou Sharingan Genjutsu, activated!

Caught off guard, Naruto's movements slowed down, and Sasuke seized the opportunity to invade Naruto's sealed space.