At this moment, An Lushan, who was manipulating the puppets to attack Uzumaki Naruto from behind the scenes, became impatient with the prolonged stalemate and decided to use a powerful move to directly eliminate Uzumaki Naruto.
So, several puppets opened the Chakra cannons on their faces and began to gather Chakra. Naruto naturally detected the danger immediately and was about to go around behind a tall tower to take cover.
However, An Lushan wouldn't give him that chance. He had already anticipated Naruto's move and had a team of puppets ambushing behind the tall tower.
When Naruto went around the tall tower, thinking he could finally relax, he was immediately surrounded by the puppets from behind. Even though Naruto used Rasengan and chakra metal short swords to kill a few puppets,
his two fists couldn't defeat four hands. He was still seized by one puppet and knocked onto a bridge between two tall towers. Before he could get up, the Chakra cannons of several puppets aimed at him and fired.
Kyōri, seeing a scene somewhat different from the original plot, feared that Naruto would be killed by the Chakra light cannons of a dozen puppets. She immediately used Wind Release: Wind Cut Technique.
However, her Wind Cut Technique only sliced up the dozen or so puppets facing her. There were still a few puppets in her blind spot, and their Chakra light cannons hit Naruto on the bridge.
"Uh, a Jinchuriki shouldn't be killed by a few Chakra light cannons, right? It shouldn't be, right?"
Kyōri felt that Naruto would most likely not be in mortal danger. With half of the Nine-Tailed inside him, if the Nine-Tailed didn't want to die, it would surely use Nine-Tailed Chakra to protect Naruto.
As Kyōri expected, when the smoke on the ground cleared, Naruto was just sitting on the ground, wincing in pain, with even his clothes undamaged.
However, the Nine-Tailed probably wanted to teach Naruto a lesson and didn't completely protect Naruto's body, leaving a weak Nine-Tailed Chakra defense on his thigh, which resulted in a bloody gash on Naruto's left thigh.
Kyōri's appearance immediately caused most of the puppets to surround her, intending to attack her. It seemed that in An Lushan's mind, Kyōri posed a greater threat.
"Water Release: Water Severing Wave!" Kyōri immediately formed hand signs and used the infamous Ninjutsu of the evil Tobirama. A high-pressure torrent of water shot out from Kyōri's mouth, sweeping across dozens of puppets and even cutting the tall tower in half.
The fall of the upper halves of a dozen tall towers caused a huge commotion, which quickly drew Minato Namikaze, who was closest to Kyōri. Even Kakashi and Shisui in the tall towers on the city's edge heard the massive roar.
"Yabai! It seems the power of Water Severing Wave was a bit too much. Good thing there were no living people in these tall towers."
Kyōri cleared out the puppet army with just a few sweeps of Water Severing Wave, but Water Severing Wave's penetrating power was too strong, even collapsing the tall towers.
"Damn Konoha Anbu! How can they be so powerful!" An Lushan, sensing that a large number of puppets had gone offline, immediately wanted to control the puppets in the surrounding tall towers to continue attacking this short Konoha Anbu.
Unfortunately, all the puppets in this area had been dismantled by Kyōri, who took their chakra metal. After sensing for a long time, An Lushan had no choice but to control the puppets in the tall towers a thousand meters away to come and besiege Kyōri.
Kyōri naturally had no intention of wasting time fighting An Lushan to the death and unhesitatingly headed towards the ground. At this moment, Naruto was facing an attack from three puppets.
Facing the large number of Ninja tools thrown by the puppets, even if Naruto swung his Chakra short sword with elaborate flourishes, he couldn't avoid being constantly cut.
Naruto naturally also saw a short Ninja wearing a mask who had dealt with most of the puppets, which prevented his injuries from being too severe.
Seeing the short Ninja who saved him being surrounded, he wanted to help but was powerless. Then he witnessed the feat of a Water Severing Wave sweeping through numerous puppets and cutting off a dozen tall towers.
Before he could be shocked by how powerful that short Ninja was, he found himself trapped by three puppets. The recovery speed of his leg injury seemed to be suppressed by the Nine-Tailed, and it was still bleeding.
As soon as Kyōri landed, she saw Naruto being surrounded. Before she could go to rescue him, Minato Namikaze, who had arrived, used a Body Flicker Technique to grab Naruto and rush out of the encirclement.
Seeing the Yellow-Haired Brat save the Yellow-Haired Brat, Kyōri had no choice but to clean up after them. She unleashed a Wind Release sword qi, disassembling the three puppets. Before the distant puppet army could arrive, she followed Minato to a temporarily safe place.
"What's going on with those puppets?"
Naruto noticed that these puppets were much stronger than ordinary puppets, not only in defense but also in attack power, enough to make a Chunin feel troublesome.
"It seems they've been strengthened by the Chakra of the Dragon Veins."
Minato initially only helped this Yellow-Haired Brat because he also wore a Konoha forehead protector. Now, for some reason, a feeling of closeness emerged.
"By the way, who are you?" Naruto looked at the masked, yellow-haired older brother beside him, feeling a strange sense of familiarity.
"You are a Konoha Ninja, aren't you? We are from Konoha." Minato removed his Anbu mask, revealing the Konoha forehead protector symbol on his forehead.
"You need to treat your wound quickly, Kyōri, I'll trouble you to treat his wound."
Minato Namikaze saw Kyōri approaching and called her by her Anbu codename, asking her to heal Naruto's injury.
Kyōri came in front of Naruto, knelt down, and a surge of Yang Release Chakra appeared in her hands, beginning to heal Naruto's wound. To be honest, if the Nine-Tailed hadn't been mischievous, Naruto's wound would have healed long ago.
"Eh! Short Ninja, you're from Konoha too? Thank you for saving me just now."
Naruto's thick-headedness finally registered who was treating his wound. He immediately pointed at Kyōri, looking greatly surprised.
As soon as Kyōri finished treating Naruto, she heard Naruto's "short Ninja" comment, and veins immediately bulged on her forehead. What's wrong with being short? Am I eating your family's rice?
Kyōri stood up and immediately gave Naruto a knuckle chop, instantly clearing Naruto's eyes. Then he held the large bump on his head and cried uncontrollably.
"Ouch! It hurts so much! Why does it hurt more than Sakura's punch!"
Naruto, holding the large bump on his head, took a while to recover. He looked resentfully at the short Ninja who had healed him and then given him a heavy blow.
Minato Namikaze couldn't help but sweat when he saw this. For some reason, seeing a young Konoha Ninja being hit, he also felt a phantom pain.
"Who are you people?" Naruto looked at the masked Minato Namikaze and Kyōri, a bit curious why he had never seen them in Konoha.
"I cannot answer that question." Minato Namikaze had already guessed something based on the spatial-temporal fluctuations, so he didn't say much.
"What, then where is this place?"
"This is Rouran."
"What... no way?" Naruto clearly remembered that the abandoned, dilapidated city was Rouran.
"There's no time for detailed explanations. During our mission, please leave this city." Minato Namikaze didn't want this Konoha Ninja from another dimension to encounter danger.
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