Chapter 322: Completely Losing It
Sasuke walked expressionlessly behind "Uchiha Fugaku" and thrust forward with a Chidori Sharp Spear, piercing straight through the ill-fated couple.
Puchi.
The two exploded into a lump of ink, splattering all over Sasuke's face.
He wiped his face with his hand, treating the ink like blood. Staring at Sai, he licked the ink off his fingers, then suddenly frowned.
"Why does this taste weird?"
As the second son of the once-great Uchiha clan, Sasuke had, like many children, accidentally tasted ink before. He knew what ink was supposed to taste like.
But this one… why did it have…
…the taste of the sea?
"Oh, sorry. I ran out of ink on the way here, so I borrowed some from Killer Bee-san. I asked the Eight-Tails to spray a little…"
"It's fine, it's edible. Sasuke, haven't you ever had rice mixed with squid ink?"
Sai scratched his head and explained with a squinting smile.
"..."
Sasuke had indeed eaten squid ink seafood rice before.
But this ink came from Killer Bee. And when he thought about what Killer Bee had done to Naruto… and how exactly this "ink" was produced…
Buzz.
Without any warning, Sasuke appeared in front of Sai in the next instant, with Chidori in hand.
Naruto had been watching closely. The moment Sasuke moved, he shoved Sai aside and grabbed Sasuke's wrist with both hands, struggling to hold him back.
"Sasuke, calm…"
Naruto almost said "Sasuke, calm down."
But he immediately caught himself. Their mission was to provoke Sasuke, not calm him down.
So he changed his words.
"If you're cold, why are you dressed like that?"
Sasuke glanced up and down at Naruto. A sleeveless top on his upper body, shorts on his lower body, he looked like he was about to go swimming at the beach.
(Naruto: I 'was' going to the beach!)
"Naruto, let go. I'll deal with him first, then we'll talk."
Sasuke tried to pull his hand free from Naruto's grip, but failed.
"No…"
"Ninja Art: Super Beast Imitation Drawing."
While Naruto and Sasuke were still locked in close confrontation, Sai, who had just regained his balance, decided to strike while Sasuke was restrained.
This was the perfect moment to attack freely.
A small, entirely white Six-Tails slug-like creature appeared.
Without hesitation, it began spraying white sticky liquid at Sasuke.
Sai's drawn creatures didn't possess real combat strength. They had no physical power of their own.
Their attacks relied purely on basic physical movements and the ink that came with being ink drawings.
Fortunately, the ink itself had some effect.
Sai's ink carried sealing properties, and the Eight-Tails' ink did as well. Even simple ink attacks could have an effect.
But Sai deliberately avoided using the sealing ability.
Sasuke was splashed head-to-toe in ink.
Then he realized something horrifying.
Sai's Super Beast Imitation Drawing didn't just use black ink.
There was also white.
The black ink came from the Eight-Tails, an octopus-like creature.
So where did the white ink come from?
And why did it also have… the smell of the sea?
"Naruto, let go of me! Don't push me!"
Sasuke still didn't want to use Chidori Stream on Naruto.
He knew Naruto's body was already in bad shape.
But if Naruto kept stopping him again and again, he wouldn't hold back.
Just as he had said at the beginning, even if he had to break Naruto's limbs, he would take him back.
"Naruto, do you remember? You said you wanted to become Hokage. Look at yourself now!"
Sasuke, pushed to the edge, actually started using talk-no-jutsu on Naruto.
"It's fine. Naruto has now become the Raikage's man instead. Same thing."
Sai added fuel to the fire from the side, thoroughly enjoying the chaos.
"Ugh!"
Sasuke finally snapped. A burst of Chidori Stream surged out, shocking Naruto and making his body tremble uncontrollably.
Breaking free, Sasuke drew the Kusanagi sword from his waist and slashed straight at Sai.
Unbelievably, even at that moment, Naruto still forced himself up from the ground, shoved Sai aside, and used a mysterious force to block Sasuke's attack.
"Is that Naruto's Frog Kumite? Was he already gathering Sage Mode energy? No…"
Killer Bee, having spent days with Naruto, immediately recognized the technique.
Without any visible tailed beast chakra, Naruto's speed had surged. The only explanation was Sage Mode.
Sure enough, when Naruto lifted his head, his eyes had turned into frog-like pupils, with markings around them.
But it only lasted a few seconds before fading.
Sage Mode ended.
Either he hadn't gathered enough natural energy, or his emotions were too unstable to maintain it.
And the reason Naruto could enter Sage Mode so quickly…was Sasuke's Chidori Stream.
Naruto silently marveled. Sasuke's lightning style could stimulate him, helping him enter Sage Mode faster, while his own wind style and toad oil could enhance Sasuke's fire techniques.
Their bond felt like it was destined by heaven. It was unbreakable.
"Naruto, what are you trying to do?!"
Sasuke was completely furious now.
He felt that Naruto was taking advantage of his earlier restraint, recklessly interfering again and again.
"I just don't want you to hurt him. He's also a comrade of Konoha. I can't let your hands be stained with a comrade's blood."
After calming himself, Naruto explained.
His reasoning was simple.
He knew this was all an act, so he couldn't let Sasuke actually kill someone. Even injuring someone had to be controlled.
But in Sasuke's eyes…
"I…"
Puchi.
Before Sasuke could finish, Sai, from the side, created two small water guns with his drawings and sprayed black and white ink straight onto Sasuke's face.
"You're afraid I'll hurt him, but aren't you afraid he'll hurt me?!"
Sasuke slapped Naruto's hand away and roared.
At that moment, dark clouds gathered overhead, and rain began to fall.
Sasuke smirked coldly, raising his hand high into the air.
"Naruto, I'm going to use Kirin now. Let's see if you can still protect him!"
"What?"
Naruto looked up in shock.
Without Sage Mode, his sensory abilities had dropped significantly. But after entering it so many times, his perception of natural energy had still improved.
Right now, he could sense a massive amount of natural energy gathering in the sky.
The technique Sasuke mentioned, Kirin, was likely extremely powerful.
"Nine-tails…"
[My name is Kurama!]
"Kurama, help me!"
(End of this chapter)