Naruto: Starting with the Two Kamui

Ninja Art: Multiple Shadow Clone Technique!

Boom! Without needing to coordinate with the Flying Thunder God Technique, Naruto unleashed two thousand Shadow Clones at once, all forming hand seals and facing Miyamoto below.

Wind Release: Gale Palm!

boom!

Strong winds are building up from all directions!

Naruto forms hand seals!

A stream of toad oil sprayed from its mouth.

—Fire Release: Toad Oil Flame Bullet!

boom!

The raging wind-style attack fueled the flames relentlessly, and the power of that fire-style attack was now truly approaching that of the Great Fire Extinguisher!

But that's not all!

Before disappearing, the two thousand shadow clones threw kunai with explosive tags attached into the flames...

Rumble!!!

The addition of the explosive tags amplified the scale of the explosion, making it so intense that even hundreds of meters away, Sasuke and Sakura could feel the hellish heat!

Boom! Boom! Boom! The shadow clones disappeared like bubbles, leaving only two!

Sasuke was horrified: "Is this Naruto's true strength...? Are you kidding me?! He wasn't even fighting seriously when he fought me!!"

"It's not over yet!!!"

Sweating profusely, Naruto roared and unleashed the "Wood Release: Great Forest Technique" with his right palm facing the flames!

Yes, Wood Release can also fuel fire!

Naruto maintained his Wood Release technique with one hand, while reaching behind him with the other. The two remaining shadow clones moved closer, one responsible for releasing, rotating, and compressing chakra, and the other responsible for injecting nature transformation!

Sizzle!

Amidst a sharp cutting sound, the Rasengan gradually blurred, its blades protruding and growing larger...

It's Wind Release: Rasenshuriken, Naruto has mastered it!

Sasuke stared intently at Naruto's left hand: "Impossible!!! Such a high density of chakra... there's no way Naruto could throw it right now!! How can he possibly use that move to attack the enemy under these layers of flames!"

Yes, the Rasenshuriken... cannot be thrown before mastering Sage Mode!

Now is the time to reveal the answer.

Noisy!

Naruto's right eye has turned into a kaleidoscope pattern!

Whoosh! The spiral shuriken in his hand vanished!

Click!Click!

With his right hand, Naruto released Wood Release, which created a path through the flames. His right eye locked onto the indescribable thing at the end of the flames!

—Pupil Technique: Konohana Chihyu!

Bang! ! !

An unbelievable scene unfolded: the vanished Rasenshuriken exploded right where Naruto's eyes were locked!

This is Konohana Chiryu, who can directly apply ninjutsu to the target!

boom!!!

The storm whipped up flames, causing the entire Netherworld Valley to boil over!

"Huff..." After the curtain fell, even Naruto collapsed to the ground, too exhausted to move: "Huff, huff, is that all..."

Suddenly, his face turned deathly pale. He turned his head to look at the black hole in the ground in the distance, where Miyamoto had previously smashed it open. There, Miyamoto, holding his demon sword, slowly rose into the air, shrouded in purple flames: "I remember now..."

His aura was completely different from before!

He withstood all my attacks!? No, that's absolutely impossible! Could it be...?

Naruto had a terrifying thought: Could it be that my attack... missed him?!

Real combat is not like hitting a pile driver... Naruto, you miscalculated!

"Sasuke, Sakura!! Run!!!" Naruto shouted almost without hesitation.

Under the shadow of despair, Sasuke and Sakura fled.

Miyamoto glanced at her coldly out of the corner of his eye, then casually swung his sword...

Swish! A flash of light cuts through...

Sakura's body suddenly snapped off at the waist while she was running, her upper body crashing heavily to the ground, while her lower body continued running due to inertia...

Naruto's eyes widened, and then, echoing through the Ghost Valley, came his agonizing scream: "Sakura!!!"

Chapter 444 The sorrowful cries lingered for a long time!

Thump! Sakura ran ten meters before collapsing, her legs convulsing uncontrollably...

Sakura crawled forward with her arms toward Sasuke, calling out, "Sasuke...-kun!"

Thump! Sasuke collapsed to the ground, his eyes wide open!

Although he was cold towards Sakura, they were still considered companions!

His companion was now cut in two, and one half was crawling toward him, leaving a long trail of blood!

Fear took over!

Sasuke backed away, saying, "No, don't come any closer."

"Sasuke...-kun!!" After saying that, Sakura coughed up a lot of blood. She was too weak to crawl, her eyes were unfocused, and she reached out her hand towards the blurry figure in front of her.

"sorry!"

After saying the last three words, she let her hand fall limply, the life in her eyes completely gone, and she lay there, utterly silent.

That girl named Haruno Sakura... died right in front of the person she loved!

If only life could be like the first time we met.

For some reason, Sasuke recalled the scene from the first Chunin Exam, the first time he met Sakura.

"Um... do you want to see my answer?"

Why would you help me for no reason?

"Um, that, I, I..."

"Enough! Bring the test paper over here!"

"If it's too obvious, it will be discovered..."

"My eyes have an extraordinary ability to see, so I won't be discovered!"

Wow, that's amazing!

From then on, he and this inexplicable girl developed an unbreakable bond.

In the second exam, Konoha came up with a unique idea: to shuffle the team formation order... He and Sakura, who came from different villages, were grouped together again. After the Chunin Exams, Sasuke continued on his path of destruction... and the special girl named 'Snow' officially entered his life.

Occasionally, I would think of Sakura, that troublesome, clingy crybaby, and smile faintly, thinking to myself, "There was such a person back then."

Just when Sasuke was about to completely forget about it, the girl came all the way from afar. She hadn't become much stronger, but she had become even more persistent.

"Sasuke-kun, here's the bento I made for you..."

"Take it!"

"Sasuke-kun, can I practice with you?"

"Get out of the way. What can someone like you do?"

"Even being a punching bag would be fine..."

"Are you out of your mind?!"

Sakura left dejectedly, but she would come back the next day, like a stubborn plaster that she couldn't shake off no matter what she did...

But Sasuke finally remembered one thing: whether he was down on his luck or doing well, Sakura had always stayed by his side...

Sakura's misfortune was that, while she was alive, she never entered Sasuke's heart.

Fortunately, when she died, she finally truly entered Sasuke's heart, even if only in a small corner.

Sasuke's heart was already filled with revenge; there was too little room for love.

Sasuke reached out and closed Sakura's eyes, speaking in a calm yet gentler tone than ever before: "You don't need to apologize to me. I chose to come here myself, but I should have driven you away sooner, then you wouldn't have died..."

Then he stood up, knowing that his chances of survival were slim and that the enemy was someone he could not possibly defeat!

Swish!

Naruto arrived, his expression grief-stricken. He didn't say a word, but picked up Sakura's lower limb, which had fallen to the ground, and reattached it to her severed upper limb. Then he used wooden strips to bind it in place: "At least, I have to bring Sakura back intact!"

Sasuke gazed at the blood moon in the sky: "Go back...can we ever go back?"

"We can go back!" Naruto said firmly, lifting his shirt to reveal the Bagua seal pattern on his abdomen!

Bear! Bear! Bear! Bear! Bear!

On each of his five fingers, a cluster of blue flames ignited. He pressed down hard and twisted it forcefully!

call out!

The Bagua seal has been broken as it rotates!

"Ugh!!!" A massive amount of chakra surged out from the seal, causing Naruto to be in so much pain that he could barely move!

Sasuke stared in astonishment at the golden chakra continuously surging from the spinning vortex within Naruto's chakra: "This chakra!!"

Naruto laughed and said, "Ah, the Nine-Tails' chakra was left in my body by Uncle Shadow when I was born. It is said that it was entrusted to me by an important old friend of my mother. This power has been dormant in my body. I am not strong enough to control it yet, so if I were to actively release the seal like this, I would probably be in grave danger. But at least it can buy you some time."

Sasuke asked with a complicated expression, "Why, why did you go to this extent..."