Double-transformation: I, Sakura Haruno! Will crush the pirates!

The tailed beast's cloak, which was originally semi-transparent, completely solidified, turning into a viscous, flowing solid substance.

"Roar--!"

The roar of the beast unleashed an irresistible shockwave, warping and shattering countless concrete floors, which then ricocheted off as tiny bullet fragments.

Naruto was blown away by the violent airflow, but Sakura stepped forward and pressed him down with one hand, stopping him.

"Satisfied?"

Sakura tilted her head and glanced at Naruto, then chuckled.

"Ah, thank you for tolerating my willfulness. I'll leave things to you from now on..."

Although the chakra resonance connection couldn't be stopped, Naruto closed his eyes peacefully at this moment because his absolutely trustworthy comrade was right beside him.

Three tails had grown from the tailed beast cloak on his body, and the fourth tail appeared the moment he closed his eyes.

The second tailed beast-transformed monster appeared, and ominous chakra spread out immediately. Due to the barrier, the high-density chakra directly formed a cloud of flames above the capital.

"This guy is still the same as when he was a kid, he hasn't grown up at all!"

Sakura shook her head, walked up to the two monsters, and clasped her hands together.

Stepping onto the concrete ground that has turned into a green lawn, the girl strolls lightly among the sea of ​​flowers, where countless vines grow and spread.

—Since talk-no-jutsu isn't working, then it'll be time to switch to wood-style techniques!

Chapter 274 Wood Release: Wood Human Technique

"Damn it, what happened?"

Kazuma, who had rushed out of the Daimyo's mansion, stared at the Nine-Tails' chakra soaring into the sky in the distance, his teeth practically grinding to powder.

It could have happened anytime sooner or later, but it just had to happen right when the second son of the daimyo was succeeding to the throne.

Just hours ago, we received a report that everything was normal, but now someone else has detonated a dirty bomb on our own turf!

So he immediately summoned three of his subordinates, called upon the wandering monk who had given him advice, and mobilized hundreds of ninja from below the temple to rush toward the direction where the Nine-Tails' chakra was erupting.

"This is...?"

When Kazuma and his men arrived outside the red-light district, a scene of utter devastation came into view.

The once luxurious and bustling streets are now nothing but ruins, the earth is scarred with fragments of buildings, flames are spreading, and vines are spreading.

On this ground where crimson and emerald hues intertwined, two scarlet beast shadows flashed rapidly, each collision unleashing a tremendous storm that shook the earth.

"This chakra is... the Nine-Tails!"

He let out a ferocious grin as his Adam's apple bobbed up and down.

It seems that his weapon finally matured after being taken away by the people of Konoha. It was worth all the effort he put in to find it in the ruins of the Fire Temple and then torture and destroy his heart!

Thinking of this, Kazuma took out a talisman covered with incantations from his pocket. "It would be a waste for you to cause such a ruckus in the capital now. Let me send you to Konoha and then you can show off your talent!"

Just as Kazuma unleashed his talisman at the rapidly galloping Nine-Tails, the earth churned, and countless vines grew and intertwined under the immense infusion of chakra, eventually transforming into a vast sea of ​​trees.

In an instant, dragons and snakes rose from the land!

Kazuma and the other ninjas were caught off guard and scattered by the suddenly appearing sea of ​​trees.

In this ruin where grass suddenly grows lush and flowers bloom, the roots and vines of the forest bind them tightly, efficiently extracting their chakra through the predatory nature inherited from the divine tree.

Kazuma was taken aback. The wandering monk who had been following him quietly vanished and took advantage of the chaos to head straight for Daming Prefecture.

"Wood Release?! How could it be Wood Release?!" Kazuma's eyes gradually turned bloodshot.

She had painstakingly planned for fifteen years, even going so far as to use her own son as a sacrificial vessel to cultivate a pseudo-Nine-Tails.

Just as he was about to send the bomb to Konoha and destroy that troublesome country within a country.

It was as if fate had played a cruel joke on him, allowing the ninja god's escaping technique, which had once subdued the nine-tailed fox, to reappear in the world.

Fifteen years of forbearance, planning, and effort were all for naught in an instant, and he himself became a complete clown.

"No, I still have my subordinates and that technique, there is still hope, it's not too late!"

The malice and resentment grew stronger, and Kazuma struggled to cut off the vines around his body, preparing to release the soil he had stolen from the ruins of the Fire Temple, thus activating the ultimate Earth Release resurrection technique—Earth Release: Creation of the Dead!

Unfortunately, before he could finish forming the hand seals...

A highly condensed purple chakra ball fell from the sky and was placed directly in front of him.

"Damn it..." Kazuma didn't even have time to leave his last words.

The chakra sphere in front of him burst into bright light, like a burning sun releasing its flames.

boom!

Extreme light and heat engulfed everything, and the flames from the explosion shot straight into the sky. The expanding destruction pushed the barrier surrounding the capital of the Fire Kingdom to its limit, causing it to shatter with a deafening roar.

Below, Sakura used her Observation Haki to detect the disappearance of Kazuma and the others, and hummed softly in a good mood.

"Now we can loosen up a bit!"

The girl's emerald eyes turned to the two wild beasts raging in the distance, and she clasped her hands together.

Countless intertwined vines extended from the smoke and dust, and the chaotic branches twisted together, piling up in layers to a height of hundreds of meters.

A massive wooden hand emerged from it, and a giant wooden figure with a winding wooden dragon wrapped around its body slowly rose to its feet, becoming a landmark that could be seen throughout the entire capital.

—Wood Release: Wood Human Technique!

"Go ahead and cause a ruckus! It's time to put an end to this corrupt daimyo system!"

The girl standing atop the wooden figure cast a cold gaze, her intense aura of dominance rising within her.

Dark lightning, carrying the will of a tyrant, spoke of the order she craved, and finally crashed into two beasts that were wreaking havoc in the city!

"Roar--!"

Instinctively sensing danger, the two maddened monsters roared and turned around.

His eyes, gleaming with white light, moved and locked onto Sakura, who was standing on top of the wooden figure.

Under pressure, the two tailed beasts, who share the same chakra source, actually chose to cooperate. They opened their huge mouths at Sakura at the same time, and the chakra mixed with Yang Release and Yin Release was combined in proportion to compress the shape change to the extreme.

The Tailed Beast Ball, swirling with crimson chakra, shot out, radiating a blazing light capable of melting steel.

"Oh, it seems they're not entirely rabid; they still have the wisdom to work together!"

Sakura laughed and raised her hand, and the wooden figure beneath her made the same movement.

The wooden dragon that was wrapped around the wooden figure's shoulder began to sway and moved up the figure's broad arm.

—Wood Release: All Cloth Bag Technique!

The enormous wooden figure grabbed the Tailed Beast Ball with its bare hands, and, enveloped in Wood Release chakra, crushed it in its palm before hurling it back at the two Tailed Beasts.

The unwilling beasts were pressed into the ground by the wooden golem's large hand. Then, scorching light burst forth from the Tailed Beast Ball, accompanied by a thunderous roar caused by the tremors of the earth, transforming into a blazing light that reached the heavens and the earth.

boom! ! !

Terrifying flames rose from the explosion, and the terrifying heat spread, transforming into a twisted wall of fire that inch by inch devoured the land of the Fire Kingdom's capital, turning this city, which had existed for thousands of years, into scorched earth.

"Roar!"

Having suffered immense trauma, the tailed beast cloaks on Naruto and the black-haired boy were somewhat disintegrating, under the control of the Nine-Tails within the seal.

The tailed beast that Naruto transformed into opened its mouth and bit into the tailed beast that the black-haired boy had transformed into, chewing and devouring his chakra.

Immediately afterwards, more intense burning light erupted from its body, and on the basis of the tailed beast cloak, a skeleton belonging to the Nine-Tails began to grow.

The black-haired boy, whose tailed beast chakra had been drained, fell to the ground, while Naruto, who had grown a fifth tail, circulated chakra that sliced ​​through the wooden golem's giant hand like a sharp blade.

The beast, now free, climbed up the wooden doll's arm with incredible speed, its body almost contorted, and aimed directly at Sakura on the doll's head.

"Hmph, clever beast!"

Sakura raised her foot and stomped on the wooden doll's head. With a surge of chakra, dozens of arms, all imbued with the Bag Technique, sprouted from the wooden doll's body and reached out to grab it.

The running tailed beast swung its claws, and wind blades produced by the tailed beast's chakra sliced ​​through its arms, opening a path between Sakura and it.

The tailed beast, emitting a deep, rumbling roar, leaped high into the air, condensing a small, high-density tailed beast ball in mid-air. It then opened its massive maw and swallowed the ball, its abdomen swelling as it did so.

"Oh, you can play it like that?"

Sakura raised her fingers to form a Ren character seal, and used the trees beneath her feet to create a wooden shield shaped like a fanged demon face, which enveloped her.

—Wood Release: Ranking Technique!

The tailed beast in the sky compressed its chakra to the extreme, crookedly aimed at the ground below, and spewed out a torrent of flames.

As the blazing pillar of light fell to the earth like a meteor, the tailed beast chakra, mixed with death and destruction, filled the entire sky.

In the suburbs outside the capital, Asuma, Kakashi, and the Haruno couple, who had evacuated there, looked up with concern in the direction of the explosion.

"Sakura..."

Chapter 275 The Eighth Tail, the Beginning of Reform

Inside the dark water dungeon, the walls on all sides were cramped.

Dark red chakra spread across the water, extending all the way to a huge cage, causing the giant beast hidden in the shadows to reveal a pleased smile.

"Ah, where am I?"

The blond boy, who was floating on the water, suddenly woke up and sat up in the water.

"Naruto Uzumaki..."

The tailed beast, hidden in the shadows, revealed its enormous form. Its mountain-like claws slammed into the seal in front of it, only to be forced back by a burst of lightning.

"That damned Fourth Hokage!"

The fox bared its sharp teeth and growled.

"Nine-Tails, what are you trying to do? Let me go back right now!"

Instinctively channeling his chakra, Naruto flipped himself to his feet, glaring angrily at the tailed beast before him.

"What I want to do, isn't all of this driven by your desires?"

With its two front paws crossed, the Nine-Tailed Fox lay on the ground, resting its head on them, displaying a leisurely posture.

"Is it your subconscious that craves power, yearns to catch up with those two? Every night your dark side comes to me shouting for power, power. Now that I've given it to you, you don't want it anymore?"

"You bastard, stop spying on my mind."

Like a high school girl caught red-handed, the blushing boy pointed at the Nine-Tails and angrily stomped his foot on the water, shouting, "And give me back my body!"

"Humph!"

Kurama glanced at him dismissively, completely unconcerned about Naruto's raging anger.

It was clearly this idiot in front of me who had excess energy, allowing the shadow in his heart and the malice of the tailed beast chakra to merge together.

Now, his dark side, in conjunction with the external Nine-Tails chakra and the resonance of his own chakra, is continuously stealing its chakra from the seal. This process cannot be stopped unless Naruto himself realizes it.

Even though Kurama knew how to stop Naruto, why did it tell the container that sealed it?

Let the container destroy everything it cherishes, plunging it into an even deeper abyss of despair.

How wonderful it would be to be able to watch the show from the sidelines and escape trouble!

"You're utterly useless. Your talent isn't even as good as that woman you were fighting!"

Lezihu smiled smugly, secretly stirring up trouble with malicious intent.

"Ah, that's true, Sakura-chan has been incredibly talented since she was little~"

Realizing he couldn't escape, Naruto sat down cross-legged, and then smiled brightly when Kurama mentioned Sakura.

Nine-Tails: ? ? ?

What's going on? Where's your jealousy? Where's your malice? Where's your resentment?

Like a louse in a dark, damp environment, it was caught off guard by the sun and got sunburned, feeling as if its whole body was being burned.

Hmph, if you like watching, then watch! Watch how I beat up your goddess!

With a wave of its hand, Kurama caused the water on the ground to reflect the scene of Naruto and Sakura fighting in their half-tailed beast forms.

Outside, Naruto, having received more support from the tailed beast's chakra, grew a sixth and seventh tail.