Konoha: Superman template, the spoiled brat becomes strong.

Two azure chakra lions bit into the closing spatial rift, and her leaping figure drew a graceful arc in the moonlight, the chakra orb in her palm shining brighter than ever before.

Naruto saw ice crystals shimmering in her flowing hair, and the black runes were momentarily frozen under her gentle fist.

But as he tried to step forward to help, the wedge-shaped mark on the back of his hand suddenly burst into a burning pain.

The Nine-Tails growled a warning deep within his consciousness, and its crimson chakra surged uncontrollably toward Hinata's location.

Amidst the swirling snowflakes, he saw a black vortex quietly emerging behind the girl—from within it stretched a pale arm entwined with the Rinnegan pattern.

Chapter 343 Affectionate Bonds

The moment Hinata's chakra lion bit into the spatial rift, countless black runes suddenly flowed upstream along the azure lion's body.

Her pure white pupils reflected the distorted kaleidoscope patterns deep within the vortex, and the fingertips of that pale arm gently touched her chest.

"Gentle Fist Technique..." Before the girl's move could be fully formed, a strange black lotus flower bloomed on her chest.

Naruto heard the cracking sound of bones breaking.

He saw Hinata fall like a kite with a broken string, the blood trail she left on the snow winding like a crimson ribbon in the moonlight.

The explosion of the Nine-Tails' chakra cloak drowned out all other sounds. When he caught the girl, the scorching heat of the cloak caused the snow around them to evaporate into white mist.

"Cough... Naruto-kun..." Hinata's haori front was stained dark red, her trembling fingers gripped the ribbon of Naruto's headband, and spiderweb-like black cracks appeared at the edge of her Byakugan.

The runes that were surging through her meridians were devouring her chakra, but they strangely stopped the moment she looked at Naruto. "Don't worry about me... that technique will..."

Sasuke's Chidori spear pierced the night sky, but was swallowed up by a spell barrier that appeared out of nowhere when it touched the mysterious ninja.

Blood tears suddenly streamed from his right Rinnegan eye, and he barely managed to keep his body afloat by plunging his Kusanagi sword into the ground.

"The worst of the worst! His technique is absorbing eye power!" Before the words were even finished, the Rasenshuriken formed from the Nine-Tails' chakra had already torn apart the entire snowfield.

Naruto's pupils shrank into vertical lines like those of a beast.

His left hand, which was holding Hinata, erupted with crimson-gold chakra, and the tailed beast cloak revealed dark red patterns in its fury.

As the mysterious ninja formed hand seals again, twelve shadow clones simultaneously pounced from different angles, each with a Rasengan mixed with black energy spinning in its palm.

"Eight Trigrams Palm Reversal!" Kakashi's exclamation was drowned out by the roar.

Hinata, who should have collapsed from serious injury, suddenly broke free from Naruto's embrace, her pure white eyes burning with pale blue flames.

Her Heaven-Returning Barrier, wreathed in ice and snow, formed a tornado that forcefully shattered the spatial rift that was about to close.

Before the muffled groan from beneath the mysterious ninja mask could even escape, Sasuke's Amaterasu black flames had already seeped in through the cracks in the broken barrier.

Killer Bee's eight tail tentacles then wrapped around the enemy's feet.

The rapper's eyes, hidden behind sunglasses, were bloodshot, and a lightning barrier composed of seven swords trapped the mysterious ninja in a small space.

"Yo~ you idiot~" His hoarse rapping voice carried a hint of blood, "Try the taste of takoyaki!"

Two completely different torrents of chakra collided in the center of the battlefield.

As Naruto's Rasenshuriken tore through the mysterious ninja's breastplate, Sasuke's Indra's Arrow pierced the opponent's throat.

But to everyone's horror, the fallen enemy's body turned into a sticky black mud, and the wriggling incantations fled in all directions like maggots.

"Sealing Evil Seal!" Kakashi pulled off his headband, revealing his Sharingan, but his fingertips, which were forming the hand seal, suddenly froze.

He was horrified to discover that his chakra was being drawn by some kind of force, and the rattling sound of chains rattling came from the Kamui dimension.

Just then, Hinata stumbled and fell into Naruto's arms, and the black lotus mark on her back suddenly swelled up.

The Nine-Tails' chakra surged uncontrollably towards the girl's wound.

Naruto felt as if the wedge-shaped mark on the back of his hand was about to burn through his bones, and the incantations that were raging in Hinata's meridians were beginning to flow back into his own body.

He saw the girl in his arms' pupils gradually dilate, and between the opening and closing of her pale pink lips, she uttered broken murmurs: "Don't...don't touch that..."

Sasuke's Kusanagi sword suddenly emitted a buzzing sound.

The magatama in his Rinnegan spun wildly, and wherever his gaze fell, every drop of blood on the snow reflected a strange kaleidoscope pattern.

"Something's wrong!" he roared, as Amaterasu's black flames transformed the entire blood-stained snowfield into a sea of ​​fire. "These incantations are reforming!"

As if to confirm his warning, the black mud in the center of the battlefield suddenly condensed into a vortex.

Onoki's Dust Release: White Light and Raikage's Heavy Flow Burst simultaneously struck the center of the vortex, but they vanished without a trace like pebbles thrown into a deep pool.

The sealing array composed of gold dust and puppet strings twisted into a pretzel shape as soon as it touched the edge of the vortex.

Hinata's fingers suddenly gripped Naruto's clothes tightly.

Her pure white eyes were clouded with a gray haze, yet a gentle smile curved her lips: "I've always... been watching Naruto-kun..." The girl's blood-stained finger touched Naruto's brow, and pale blue chakra seeped into his skin like moonlight, "Gentle Fist Technique: Sealing Points..."

The Nine-Tails roared deafeningly from the depths of its consciousness.

Naruto felt the black runes surging within his body being frozen by some kind of clear, cool power, while dark tears of blood were seeping from Hinata's eyes.

Just as he tried to grab the girl's falling wrist, the vortex in the center of the battlefield suddenly erupted with a suffocating pressure.

The wind and snow stopped for a moment.

The falling snowflakes solidified into glistening ice beads, the burning black flames froze in a fleeting moment, and even Kakashi's unfinished Lightning Blade was frozen into the shape of purple lightning.

Only the pitch-black vortex slowly expanded in the silence, and a terrifying aura that surpassed even the chakra of the tailed beasts made the hairs of all the Kage-level powerhouses present stand on end.

"The game is over."

A voice that sounded neither male nor female came from the depths of the void, each syllable making everyone's insides tremble.

Before the figure slowly emerging from the center of the vortex had fully solidified, Sasuke's Rinnegan was gripped by a tearing pain.

He saw his shadow on the snow suddenly twist into a snake shape, and the lightning on the Kusanagi sword flowed uncontrollably toward the center of the vortex.

When Naruto handed the unconscious Hinata to Temari, he noticed that his Nine-Tails chakra cloak was fading.

The dark red lines receded like the tide, retreating into the wedge-shaped marks on the back of his hand, while the pale fingers that emerged from the vortex gently beckoned to the girl in his arms.

Chapter 344 Explain yourself! What key?

The frozen ice beads refracted an eerie purple light, and the chakra cloak remaining on Naruto's fingertips dissipated into starlight.

The pale finger that reached out from the center of the vortex was only three inches away from Hinata when the gravitational vortex, carrying black mist, suddenly rolled the blood and tears at the girl's temples into threads.

"Don't touch her!"

The Nine-Tails' chakra burst forth again the instant it faded, its golden-red light interspersed with ice crystal fragments.

As Naruto pushed Hinata toward Temari, the wedge-shaped mark on the back of his hand suddenly spread out into tree-like patterns, and three Wood Release barriers suddenly rose up in the snow.

The Sand Village female ninja staggered backward, carrying the unconscious Hinata, while the bell on the Kazekage's hat rang crisply in the absolute silence.

The moment the mysterious leader fully revealed himself, the Third Tsuchikage's Dust Release beam just grazed past his ear.

The white light, which should have been able to dissolve everything, scattered and splashed like a stream hitting a reef. Onoki's small body, which was suspended in mid-air, suddenly sank three meters, and the cold sweat seeping from his wrinkles instantly froze into ice shards.

"Sand Rain!"

Gaara's sandfall shattered into dust before it could even take shape. The Raikage's heavy fist, wrapped in lightning armor, slammed into the void barrier, and the exploding arcs of electricity drew black curse marks in mid-air.

Sasuke covered his bleeding Rinnegan, and only managed to steady himself by plunging the Kusanagi sword into the snow. He saw Naruto transform into a golden streak of light and crash into the center of the vortex, while the flames ignited by the nine tails gradually turned inky black.

"Interesting." The mysterious leader's voice caused Kakashi's frozen Lightning Blade to shatter completely.

He raised his hand to catch Naruto's full-force attack, and his fingertips, wreathed in black mist, gently tapped the air, causing the ice beads within a ten-mile radius to tremble and reveal blood-red tomoe.

"You dare to make a fool of yourself with the tricks of the Sage of Six Paths?"

The terrifying gravitational field forcibly pulled the Nine-Tails' chakra into a vortex shape, and Naruto felt as if his heart was about to be sucked away by the wedge mark.

Suddenly, a cool touch pressed against the back of his neck. Killer Bee was playing a strangely rhythmic lightning guitar, and shards of his sunglasses pierced his bronze cheek: "Idiot~ You need to match the octopus leg rhythm~"

Just as the eight-tailed tentacles wrapped around Naruto's waist and pulled him back sharply, Tsunade's monstrous punch slammed into the spot where the mysterious leader was standing.

Amidst the rumbling of the earth cracking open, Shikamaru's shadow quietly extended along the arc of electricity that Raikage had not yet dissipated.

He held the senbon in his mouth and observed the flow of chakra around the leader's body, discovering that whenever a lightning release attack was launched, the cursed seal on the leader's left shoulder would experience a 0.3-second delay.

"Nine o'clock!" Shikamaru's roar mingled with the sound of ice crystals exploding.

Naruto, who was gathering Rasenshuriken, suddenly flipped his wrist, and the surface of his Wind Release chakra was suddenly coated with lightning transmitted by the Raikage.

As the mysterious leader raised his hand to defend, the curse mark on his left shoulder was indeed a beat too slow. The golden ball of light grazed his black robe, tearing it open to reveal the pale skin beneath.

Sasuke's Rinnegan suddenly intensified with pain, and he saw that his skin was covered with wedge-shaped marks similar to those on the back of Naruto's hand.

The mysterious leader took a half step back for the first time, and as his black robe billowed, six soul lamps hanging at his waist were revealed, three of which were flashing with the Uchiha clan emblem.

"The struggle of an ant." The Soul Lamp suddenly spewed out black flames, scorching the Raikage's Lightning Release armor.

Kakashi's Kamui vortex was distorted by some force as soon as it took shape, and Onoki's Dust Release barrier began to erode the caster in reverse.

Naruto seized the opportunity to rush to extremely close range, only to discover that his reflection in the other's pupils showed fox-like pointed ears growing from his forehead.

Shikamaru's shadow suddenly wrapped around Naruto's ankle: "Don't look him in the eye!" The Sand Village puppet strings attacked from the side just in time, and the Chikamatsu Ten Ninja, controlled by Granny Chiyo, were shattered into wood chips, but it bought Naruto a moment of opportunity.

As the Rasengan, infused with Sage Mode chakra, was pressed against the mysterious leader's back, a sharp cracking sound of chains breaking suddenly echoed throughout the world.

All the frozen ninjutsu began to flow again. Kakashi's Lightning Blade and Sasuke's Chidori Stream collided in mid-air. In the burst of energy turbulence, the mysterious leader's black robe finally shattered completely.

Blood seeped from the numerous wedge-shaped marks covering his pale body, yet a pleased smile played on his lips.

As Naruto prepared to press his advantage, he discovered that his Sage Chakra was flowing back rapidly through the point of contact with the attack.

"The game has been upgraded." The leader licked the blood from his fingertips, and the six soul lamps suddenly merged into a bone throne.

The oppressive aura emanating from him as he sat there caused three of the eight-tailed octopus tentacles to instantly carbonize.

Naruto landed panting and found that the mark on the back of his hand had spread to his collarbone, and in the spatial rift that was slowly unfolding behind the throne, the same Byakugan pattern as Hinata's was faintly visible.

The pale moonlight was refracted into distorted phosphorescent light by the bone throne, and the ice crystals that Naruto stepped on as he staggered backward made a crisp sound like bones breaking.

The wedge-shaped mark on his collarbone was consuming his Sage Chakra, and he saw black veins similar to those of the mysterious leader appearing on his palm.

Is this the taste of resonance? The mysterious leader stroked the Uchiha clan crest that had risen from the armrest of the throne, and the torn pieces of his black robe suddenly transformed into thousands of kunai.

Sasuke's Rinnegan suddenly contracted, and he saw that the tip of each kunai was condensed with Amaterasu fire, and the flames were churning with the Hyuga clan's Reiten crest.

Raikage's roar tore through the frozen air: Cloud Flow - Thunderous Storm! The giant axe, crackling with cyan lightning, cleaved toward the throne, but was instantly shattered into a shower of iron filings upon contact.

Killer Bee used his octopus tentacles to swirl up the flying Raikage, a shard of his sunglasses leaving a fresh bloodstain on his cheek: "You idiot brother~ The rhythm should be like the Eight-Tails' rhyme~"

Suddenly, a surge of gold dust rose into the sky, and Gaara's Eye of Sand bled in the storm.

Temari's three-star fan whipped up a hurricane, accelerating the gold dust into a metallic storm, while Granny Chiyo's puppet strings precisely weaved through the gaps in the sand.

The mysterious leader flicked his fingertips, and the three soul lamps suddenly transformed into phantom images of Hyuga Tokuma, Uchiha Shisui, and Senju Tobirama. Their legendary skills from their lifetimes turned into a colorful torrent that crashed into the allied forces.

Sage Art: Lava Release: Rasenshuriken! The crimson-gold sphere of light that Naruto had condensed in his palm was suddenly entangled by Sasuke's Chidori Stream.

The two looked at each other and simultaneously took different steps, but their trajectories were disrupted by the other's chakra as they lunged forward.

Sasuke's Kusanagi sword grazed Naruto's ear, and the few strands of golden hair he severed were engulfed by black flames before they even hit the ground.

Those at the very bottom of the line, get out of the way!

I should be the one saying that!

The mysterious leader let out a pleased sneer, and six bone spikes suddenly extended from the bone throne.

Two of the arrows pierced Naruto's right shoulder and Sasuke's left leg, while the other four pinned Kakashi and Killer Bee, who were trying to provide support, to the frozen ground.

The blood was absorbed by the throne before it could drip, and a chilling swallowing sound came from the soul lamp.

Hinata's weak Byakugan suddenly bulged with veins: Naruto-kun... your chakra pathways are reversing... She coughed up blood and tried to form hand seals, but Temari held her trembling hands down tightly.

Shikamaru's shadow quietly spread along the kunai left behind by Neji, and he discovered that the bone spurs were harmonizing the two of their chakra into the energy needed for some ancient ritual.

Kurama! The sealing chains in Naruto's consciousness suddenly tightened, and the Nine-Tails' claws tore through the darkness. Use that! The crimson Tailed Beast Cloak and the azure Susanoo erupted simultaneously, but were distorted by the gravitational field released by the Throne at the moment of fusion.

Sasuke's Rinnegan suddenly reflected the afterimage of the Sage of Six Paths, and he heard his mother Mikoto's dying words echo in his ears.

Indra and Asura

As the bone spikes began to draw power from the depths of their bloodlines, Onoki's Dust Release barrier finally broke through the Soul Lamp's seal.

The short, earthen shadow traced a zigzag path in the air, projecting an extremely concentrated beam of decomposition towards the throne base: These young people nowadays, they don't even know how to destroy the array's core when they fight!

Within the pure white area created by the explosion, Tsunade's Hundred Healings Technique blossomed with blue patterns.

She charged forward, stepping on the shadow path that Shikamaru had laid out beforehand. The moment her powerful punch struck the leader's temple, black liquid suddenly seeped from the Yin Seal on his forehead—it was the Corpse Bone Vein poison that had been reflected back.