Naruto: Naruto's Uchiha girlfriend is too arrogant

Chapter 630 The Power of the God of Ninjas

"Ouch! Ouch! That hurts! You bastard! It hurts so much!"

Hidan crashed heavily to the ground from mid-air like a piece of carelessly discarded trash, his body shattered by the explosive tags.

His left arm was blown off at the shoulder, his right leg was completely gone below the knee, and his abdomen was blown open with a huge hole, revealing his internal organs clearly.

For any normal person, such injuries would be enough to kill them four or five times over. But Hidan lay in the rubble, his face covered in blood, yet he was still shouting at the top of his lungs.

"Hahaha! Useless! I'm immortal! You can't kill me! Cutting me into pieces or blowing me to smithereens won't work! Hey! Kakuzu! Come here and sew my body back together! Did you hear me?! Get over here right now!"

"That idiot!"

Kakuzu stood at a distance, veins bulging on his forehead. He was both angry and anxious, wishing he could rush over and sew Hidan's still-shouting mouth shut with his own hands.

What's with this idiot being so arrogant? Doesn't he know the state of his own body right now? He's been blown up and is lying on the ground like a fish on a chopping board, unable to move a single finger. Any random genin could cut off his head and use it as a football! And this guy is still yelling!

They're still mocking each other! They're still using that "you can't do anything to me" tone to talk tough to the two men who stand at the pinnacle of ninja history!

Kakuzu had absolutely no confidence in rescuing people right under the noses of the First and Second Hokage.

Kakuzu's battle intuition told him that if he dared to take a step to stitch Hidan's body up, the Second Hokage would instantly activate that strange space-time ninjutsu, piercing his heart with a kunai before he could react.

"The two brothers... are both incredibly strong, like monsters."

Kakuzu clenched his teeth. Hashirama Senju and Tobirama Senju, these brothers had swept through the chaotic Warring States period, killing countless ninjas far stronger, fiercer, and more arrogant than Kakuzu. How many rounds could he, Kakuzu, last against them?

However, not fighting was not an option right now. Retreating was useless, and running away was even more impossible. Kakuzu forced his legs to stop trembling, planted his feet firmly on the ground, straightened his knees, and straightened his back.

He took a deep breath. Yes, it had been almost several decades since he assassinated the First Hokage.

Hashirama Senju has been dead for a long time, sleeping in the Pure Land for countless years, while I have been fighting non-stop for the past few decades.

From a stray dog ​​betrayed by his village to the treasurer of Akatsuki, he killed countless people, collected hearts one after another, remained immortal, and kept growing stronger. Nightmares that time cannot erase have only one solution—face them, and defeat them!

If he were to flee again on this battlefield today, he would live in the shadow of Hashirama Senju for the rest of his life, never able to escape that nightmare.

Kakuzu began to form hand seals, mentally encouraging himself again and again. With the resolute courage to completely overcome the psychological trauma of decades ago, Kakuzu finally attacked the First Hokage once more after decades.

Two masked monsters emerged from behind Kakuzu, their bizarre masks crookedly fixed to the ends of his tentacles, corresponding to the hearts of Wind Release and Fire Release respectively.

"Wind Release: Pressure Damage!"

One of the masked monsters suddenly opened its mouth, spewing out a huge and sharp cutting storm from the depths of its mouth!

The wind was so strong that all the pebbles on the ground were swept into the air and then shredded into powder by the wind blades. The edge of the storm formed a visible sickle-shaped vortex that swept horizontally toward Hashirama Senju.

"Fire Release: Head Carving!"

Another masked monster followed closely behind, spewing out a deluge of explosive flames. The flames expanded violently the moment they came into contact with the wind-style pressure, as if a bucket of fuel had been poured on them. The wind fueled the fire, and the fire was amplified by the wind; the two already formidable ninjutsu combined to create a devastating sea of ​​fire!

"Wood Release: Advent of the World of Trees"

Hashirama Senju clasped his hands together once more, and blue chakra erupted from his body. In an instant, the earth rumbled, and countless thick trees burst forth from the ground, their roots spreading wildly in all directions. The trees grew so fast after breaking through the soil that only a blurry afterimage could be seen with the naked eye!

New trees sprouted endlessly, instantly forming a primeval forest that covered the entire battlefield. Kakuzu's raging inferno collided with the torrent descending from the tree world, like a tiny spark hitting a high-pressure jet of water from a fire hose—it was extinguished without even a struggle.

...I don't know how to type it.

Kakuzu stared blankly at the overwhelming torrent of trees rushing towards him, watching his proud combination of wind and fire ninjutsu being extinguished without even making a splash in the face of that green torrent of life.

He watched as the thick tree roots, powerful enough to crush every cell in his body, spread towards him at a speed from which he could not escape. He felt like an ant standing at the mouth of a flash flood, facing a green tsunami thousands of feet high.

All the courage I had just mustered, all the self-encouragement I had spent so long giving myself, all the resolute determination I had made to overcome my psychological trauma—all vanished the moment Hashirama Senju clasped his hands together. The nightmare in my heart hadn't disappeared; now, it had grown even bigger.

"This is the amount of chakra a ninja can possess?! It's monstrous!"

Deidara rode on a giant clay bird, his mouth agape.

"Hey! Kakuzu! Are you stupid?! What are you standing there for?!"

Deidara glanced down at the ground in terror and saw Kakuzu standing motionless, dumbfounded. Deidara gritted his teeth and slammed his hands down on the back of the clay giant bird—"Bang!"

A burst of white smoke erupted, revealing an even larger white clay dragon—the C2 dragon.

C2 Dragon swooped down in the air, opened its huge mouth and grabbed Kakuzu, who was still standing there, in one bite. Then it swung its head and threw Kakuzu onto its back.

Immediately afterward, its wings flapped violently, and its entire massive body soared into the sky, rapidly ascending into the heavens.

Deidara's judgment was correct. Since the ground was completely blocked by the Tree World Advent, they should fly to a height that the trees could not reach.

However, Hashirama Senju tightened his grip even more with his clasped hands.

"boom--!!!"

Huge trees rise from the forest, regenerating new trunks from existing ones, layer upon layer, growing at a rate that completely defies the laws of physics.

The C2 dragon was already flying very fast, but the trees grew even faster, and in the blink of an eye, they caught up with the C2 dragon, which was still desperately trying to gain altitude.

"What?!"

A thick tree root lashed out from the side and wrapped itself around Deidara's waist. Deidara immediately formed hand seals, preparing to use an explosion to blast the root binding him. But after completing the seals, nothing happened.

Deidara's eyes widened as he sensed that the chakra within his body was being drained away at an incredible speed by the tree roots wrapped around him.

This is the most terrifying aspect of Wood Release: it can absorb chakra.

"My...art..."

Deidara's hands slid limply from their hand seals, and his eyelids began to droop. At the top of the thick tree trunks descending from the Tree World, enormous flower buds bloomed, slowly opening and releasing pale yellow pollen.

With their chakra completely absorbed and the continued effects of the hypnotic pollen, Deidara and Kakuzu both fell into a deep sleep in the embrace of the Tree World.

After losing its chakra supply, C2 Dragon turned into a wisp of white smoke and dissipated. The two were slowly supported by the tree roots and finally placed next to the soft flower buds in the canopy.

"Phew, problem solved."

Hashirama Senju lowered his clasped hands, flexed his fingers, and then raised his hand to wipe his forehead, which was clean and dry, without a single drop of sweat.

He didn't care about how easy the battle was; after all, in all the battles he had experienced, except for the fight with Madara Uchiha, the others had all been quite easy.

But then again… Hashirama stroked his chin, lost in thought. That ninja named Kakuzu… had he seen him somewhere before? He seemed vaguely familiar.

Although the features of the veiled face were obscured, those green eyes and that gaze felt familiar, as if we had met in some distant past. Who was it?

Hashirama scratched the back of his head, his memories slowly turning the pages in his brain.

"Big brother!! Look what you've done!!"

Suddenly, a slap landed lightly on the back of Hashirama's head, abruptly interrupting his thoughts.

"What are you doing, Tobirama!"

Hashirama covered the back of his head, which didn't hurt at all, and turned to look at his younger brother's face, which had turned as black as the bottom of a pot, with a wronged expression.

The calm and composed Second Hokage who was just facing the Akatsuki trio is gone, replaced by a younger brother whose veins are throbbing with anger at his older brother's actions.

Tobirama Senju stretched out his finger and pointed forcefully at the scene in front of him—a vast primeval forest that had appeared out of nowhere in the very center of the ruins of Konoha.

Moreover, it wasn't an ordinary forest; it was the kind of super-sized trees where each tree was so thick that it would take more than a dozen people to encircle it, and whose canopies were so tall that they could block out the sunlight. The overwhelming root system completely transformed the ruins of Konoha, which originally still had some remnants of the street outline, into a primeval jungle from the Jurassic era.

"You've created this mess right in the middle of Konoha! How are Tsuna going to deal with it?! How long would it take ordinary ninjas to chop down all these Wood Release trees with kunai?!"

"what?"

Hashirama Senju finally realized, a beat too late, what he had done. He had gotten too carried away with the fight and unleashed a Tree World Advent without considering the issue of post-disaster reconstruction.

He turned his head away guiltily, his gaze drifting to the blue, fully-formed Susanoo soaring into the sky in the distance. "Well... I'll ask Madara for help later. His Susanoo is pretty good at cutting down trees. I can always apologize to him."