Chapter 87: Where the Hell Is My Purple Lightning Hammer, System?
As soon as Moonlight Hayate announced the start of the match,
Akadō Kai condensed blue chakra in his right hand and charged straight at Sasuke like a spear.
Sasuke wanted to dodge,
but the pain from the Heaven's Curse Mark flared up again.
His movement lagged by half a beat.
In the next instant—Akadō Kai grabbed his head!
One-sidedly pinning him to the ground.
Something in Sasuke's body was rapidly draining away.
Finally reacting, Sasuke gritted his teeth.
"Damn it… my chakra is actually…"
Akadō Kai sneered.
"Heh… you only just noticed?"
Up on the high platform, Orochimaru watched everything unfold.
As if she had anticipated it all along.
This way, Sasuke would have no choice but to use the power of the Heaven's Curse Mark.
The more times Sasuke used it,
the deeper the erosion would become.
Raising Sasuke up and then taking his body later—wouldn't that be child's play?
But something Orochimaru hadn't expected happened.
Sasuke didn't use that power.
Instead, relying purely on his own strength,
he once again created distance from Akadō Kai.
"He's just a test subject that Orochimaru-sama is interested in—so what are you acting so arrogant for?"
Akadō Kai clicked his tongue inwardly.
Then he tried the same move again.
Trying to grab Sasuke's head once more.
But every time—Sasuke narrowly avoided it.
From the viewing angle on the high platform,
Sasuke—who couldn't use his own chakra—looked like he was being one-sidedly beaten.
There was zero entertainment value.
Gaara instantly lost interest.
"I heard the Uchiha clan of Konoha—famous for their bloodline limit—were supposed to be overwhelmingly strong. Now that I see it… just average. Too much hype."
As time passed,
Sasuke finally seized an opening for a counterattack.
He beat Akadō Kai half to death.
He wanted to finish with his self-created secret technique—Lion Barrage.
But at that moment—
something changed.
The Heaven's Curse Mark on Sasuke's back erupted uncontrollably.
Dark red markings spread across most of his body once again.
Orochimaru suppressed her surging excitement.
The other Konoha teammates also broke into cold sweat for Sasuke.
After all—blood is thicker than water.
They were familiar with Sasuke.
As for this Akadō Kai guy—
even though he was from the same village, they weren't childhood classmates.
There was still a gap in closeness.
Naruto yawned.
Among everyone present, he looked the most relaxed.
This little curse mark—if you couldn't control it,
it didn't even deserve to be a simp male lead's cheat.
cough cough…
Not necessarily male simping for female.
Maybe male wanting to simp for male.
Thinking about Sasuke's recent tsundere behavior,
Naruto suddenly felt a chill.
Good thing Sasuke was still behaving.
If something weird really happened,
Naruto would be the first to object!
This young master only likes fair-skinned, beautiful, long-legged, young and pretty girls.
If they're not young but still very beautiful—that's fine too.
Back on the arena—
in the next instant,
Sasuke actually relied on his own willpower
to forcibly suppress the Heaven's Curse Mark back inside.
This scene stunned everyone.
Even Orochimaru hadn't expected it.
After doing all that, Sasuke let out a huge sigh of relief.
A faint smile appeared at the corner of his mouth.
With a flip—he drove an elbow straight into Akadō Kai's heart.
"Cough!"
Akadō Kai coughed up a mouthful of blood.
But it wasn't over.
In mid-air, Sasuke followed with a whip kick.
Akadō Kai coughed up another mouthful of old blood.
What the hell did I do to deserve this?
Until the end—
Sasuke finished his combo.
Bang—
Akadō Kai crashed down from mid-air.
Smashing a huge crater into the ground.
The surrounding tiles cracked like spiderwebs from the violent impact.
At this moment Sasuke had used up every last bit of strength.
As Moonlight Hayate announced his victory in this match,
Sasuke's body involuntarily fell backward.
But in an instant—Kakashi appeared.
Still as cool as ever.
Holding his little yellow book.
He caught Sasuke with his knee just before he hit the ground.
"Not bad."
Somewhere in the crowd, Orochimaru had already left unnoticed.
Before departing—
the greed in her eyes was impossible to hide.
Kakashi carried Sasuke away from the arena.
He needed to apply a seal to the Heaven's Curse Mark.
Naruto had thought about stopping him—duck, no need.
Sasuke—you want to dance too?
If so—don't let Kakashi seal it for you.
Cheating feels so good!
Having a cheat and not using it—isn't that just giving yourself up for free?
But Naruto held back.
After all—he knew that sooner or later,
Sasuke would come to love this feeling.
People instinctively resist unfamiliar new power at first.
Once, twice, three times… eventually it becomes normal.
Sasuke's departure
didn't mean the end of the preliminaries.
The matches continued.
The second match was Aburame Shino vs. Zaku.
Sasuke's match had been quite spectacular.
Everyone still hadn't fully recovered from it.
Actually—Shino's match
was also quite intense.
In the end—Shino won, of course.
After all—Naruto kept glancing into the arena from outside.
Every time he looked over,
he wasn't targeting anyone specifically.
But Zaku always felt like some terrifying beast was staring at him.
His whole body would break out in goosebumps.
Zaku wanted multiple times to complain to the referee Moonlight Hayate:
That blond kid over there is cheating.
He keeps staring at me from outside.
Get him out of here.
Good thing he didn't say it—or everyone would've called him crazy!
The third match—Shikamaru vs. Kin.
The strategist won.
One match after another.
Several more fights passed.
Finally—it was Naruto's turn.
His opponent was once again Inuzuka Kiba.
Why "once again"?
Others might not know,
but Naruto—as a transmigrator who knew the original story—understood perfectly.
Let's just say—Kiba brother, wrong place, wrong time.
Sakura: "Naruto-kun, do your best!"
Before leaving, Sakura smiled and said.
Naruto just gave a small wave.
But his gaze fell
on little Hinata standing off to the side.
Right now Hinata had her small hands clasped over her chest, eyes occasionally darting toward him.
She wanted to cheer for Naruto.
But Kiba was her teammate.
Saying it out loud would be inappropriate.
So the little girl felt very conflicted.
Naruto grinned at her and didn't say anything more.
He walked toward the arena.
"Woof woof!"
Dog relying on human power.
Good grief!
As soon as it started, Akamaru immediately barked twice at him.
As if trying to give Naruto an intimidation display.
Inuzuka Kiba wiped the cold sweat from his forehead.
"Naruto—I admit you're very strong!"
"But I'm not weak either!"
Having seen some of Naruto's moves before,
Kiba didn't have much confidence when saying those words.
But he was someone who dreamed of becoming Hokage in the future!
How could he give up just because of a little difficulty?
Naruto shrugged. "Yeah, yeah."
Just a kid.
Before a fight—always throw out some tough talk.
Whether you can win or not—
at least you save some face later, right?
Suddenly a voice rang in Naruto's ear.
"Ding—Triggered optional quest."
"Option 1: Defeat Inuzuka Kiba."
"Reward: S-rank ninjutsu – Purple-Gold Lightning (Released lightning takes on a purple-gold color, greatly enhancing the power of lightning-style ninjutsu)"
"Option 2: Be defeated by Inuzuka Kiba."
"Reward: Turtle King Title (When equipped—grants one Little Green Turtle)"
"What the fuck???"
Naruto's mouth twitched.
This Option 2 was clearly just here to disgust him, right?
As for Option 1—
Purple-Gold Lightning this heavenly cultivation collapsing heaven and earth Purple-Gold Hammer.
Don't just make it purple-gold colored.
At least send the actual hammer over, right?
But purple-gold lightning
did have pretty high style points.
If Naruto remembered correctly—
Kakashi in his later years used Sharingan to release lightning-style ninjutsu
that was purple and extremely gorgeous!
Purple-gold colored.
The visual impact it would bring
would definitely be more than just one or two levels above plain purple.
Be defeated by Inuzuka Kiba?
Are you kidding me!
Naruto grinned inwardly: "I choose Option 1!"
"Ding—Congratulations to the host for successful selection!"
"Obtained S-rank ninjutsu – Purple-Gold!"
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