"Naruto, take me away from here. They want to bite me. They want to bite me to death just like they did to my mom. I don't want to be bitten anymore. I want to leave this place." Karin looked up, crying out all her grievances.
"Okay."
Naruto looked down into Karin's eyes. "But before I take you away, Karin, do you want revenge?"
"The harm they caused you, the years of imprisonment and oppression—I can help you pay them back."
Karin was taken aback.
Revenge...
This word had existed in her mind countless times, but she had never thought about actually achieving it.
She was too weak. Her Kekkei Genkai was healing rather than attacking, and right now, she couldn't even defeat a Genin of Kusagakure, let alone the entire village.
"Is it really possible?" Karin asked with a hint of disbelief.
Naruto nodded.
Karin fell silent for a few seconds, then raised her head, a light burning in her eyes that had never been there before.
"The people in this village like to plagiarize the Ninjutsu of other ninja villages. From seeking refuge with major nations to betraying alliances, everyone only talks about self-interest."
"My mom had her very last drop of blood squeezed dry by them in their calculations of self-interest. I want to end all of this, to make sure they can never do the same thing to anyone else again."
"I understand."
Naruto nodded and let go of Karin, slowly raising his right hand.
A blue Rasengan formed in his palm, and immediately after, Wind Chakra fused into it. Visible wind blades emerged on the surface of the Rasengan, spinning at high speed on the sphere's surface and producing a sharp sound.
It then began to expand and grow at an incredible speed. The wind blades intertwined as they expanded, their spinning frequency growing higher and higher.
"Amazing..."
Karin stared at the Rasenshuriken illuminating the entire room, murmuring to herself.
It wasn't that she had never seen powerful Ninjutsu, but the Ninjutsu cast by the Kusa ninjas compared to this high-speed spinning Chakra shuriken in front of her was like a candle flame compared to the blazing sun.
At the same time.
In the hallway outside the room, several Kusa ninjas were walking toward Karin's room, talking and laughing.
The ninja walking at the very front, clamoring to heal his leg injury, had a look of entitlement on his face.
"That girl should still be awake. Let's grab a quick bite and go back to sleep."
"Speaking of which, our village really hit the jackpot to pick up such a treasure. Karin's healing ability is even stronger than her mother's. Just one bite can even mend bones. She's simply a godsend recovery tool."
A middle-aged ninja next to him, whose arm was wrapped in blood-stained bandages, nodded.
Just as he was about to chime in, his footsteps suddenly halted. He raised his head, his brows furrowing.
"Do you guys feel something's off?" The relaxed expression on his face completely vanished. "There is a wave of Chakra in Karin's room. No... not just a wave, it's..."
Hearing this, the others stopped in their tracks and exchanged bewildered glances.
They weren't sensory ninjas, but at such close range, the Chakra fluctuations radiating from Karin's room were already so massive that even the most obtuse Genin could sense them.
Just then, the sound of rushing air echoed from the end of the hallway.
The three Jonin staying behind in Kusagakure arrived at the scene at the same time.
A middle-aged Jonin with graying hair landed in front of the crowd, his eyes locked onto the direction of Karin's room.
"What's going on? Why is there such a strong Wind Chakra fluctuation inside the room?"
The others shook their heads simultaneously. They had only come to bite Karin and had no idea what was happening inside.
The scarred Jonin's face darkened. Just as he was about to step forward and push open the door, the terrifying Chakra spreading from the room suddenly stopped.
In the next second, a storm exploded from the cramped room. Countless high-speed spinning wind blades gushed out from the shattered walls, tearing everything in their path to shreds.
The several Kusa ninjas standing in the hallway who hadn't reacted yet, including the pondering Jonin, turned to dust the instant their bodies made contact with the wind blades.
The storm swept past their bodies and soared into the sky, detonating right in the center of Kusagakure.
The shockwave swept across the entire area with unstoppable momentum, leveling all the surrounding buildings to the ground.
Stones and wooden planks shredded by the wind blades turned to dust in the shockwave and were swept away by the howling wind.
After the explosion, a crater was left behind, with all buildings within a radius of several hundred meters completely erased.
The entire explosion lasted less than ten seconds, but for Kusagakure, these ten seconds were more tragic than any war in their history.
After the explosion ended, the surviving Kusagakure ninjas tremblingly gathered around the edge of the crater. Kneeling on the ground and staring at the erased area before them, they trembled all over, unable to utter a single word.
No one knew what had actually just happened.
No one knew why there was an existence capable of unleashing this level of Ninjutsu in Karin's room.
They weren't even sure if it was a single person or an entire army.
Swish!
Just then, the sound of rushing air rang out.
By the time everyone snapped out of it, they saw a Kunai marked with a peculiar pattern embedded in the crowd.
"What?!"
"What is this?"
The surrounding ninjas looked at the Kunai on the ground in confusion, wondering why a Kunai had been thrown here.
Who threw it?
But in the next instant, a golden flash gleamed in front of the Kunai and then vanished.
Before anyone could see what it was,
a storm identical to the previous one exploded in the crowd.
Rumble!
In an instant, everyone was swept into the storm. Before they could even scream, they were turned to dust amidst countless wind blades.
It wasn't over. Across other areas of Kusagakure, following flashes of golden light, storms erupted one after another, swallowing their surroundings.
In moments, the entire Kusagakure vanished amidst countless storms.
Soon, news of Kusagakure's destruction spread like wildfire across all the neighboring small countries.
From Takigakure to Yugakure, from the Land of Rice Fields to the Land of Iron, every ninja village leader who heard this news fell into silence.
No one knew who this powerful Wind Release master was, nor did anyone know what level of existence Kusagakure had provoked.
The only certain piece of information was that all the staying-behind ninjas of Kusagakure had been killed, and the entire Kusagakure was completely destroyed.