"Let me go, you bastard! Let me go!"
Ringo screamed as she frantically formed hand seals, unleashing streaks of lightning that crackled behind her.
Naruto didn't even flinch. He simply swung her around like a toy, faster and faster, laughing as if he were playing with a child.
Ringo grew dizzy, her limbs going limp as her body went numb from the spinning.
"Lord Kira, that's enough!"
Yagura's sharp voice cut through the air, his expression dark with fury.
The Mist Shinobi around him were seething. Though Ringo was hot-tempered, she was beloved in Kirigakure — their little prodigy, their village's "mascot."
Seeing Naruto play with her like a rag doll was intolerable.
"Water Style: Giant Water Wrist Technique!"
A white-haired young man appeared beside Naruto. His arm swelled with muscle and chakra before he swung a crushing punch straight at Naruto's head.
Boom!
The blow landed squarely — but Naruto simply turned his head and stared at him, his eyes saying, "Is that all?"
"Mist's Seven Ninja Swordsmen… Ghost of the Hidden Mist, Mangetsu Hōzuki?" Naruto muttered. "This timeline really is messed up."
The white-haired youth was sent flying, his body flipping midair. He quickly formed his hand into a gun shape and aimed.
"Water Style: Water Gun Technique!"
Jets of water bullets blasted toward Naruto's head.
Naruto didn't move. He just smiled, watching Mangetsu's effort as though it were a child's play.
Ringo, Mangetsu — none of them could even scratch him.
Mangetsu's face went pale. "Not even a scratch… That armor—how hard is it?"
"Full Moon! Get back!" someone shouted.
Mangetsu's body turned to liquid just as a tall, muscular figure lunged forward, swinging a massive blade down at Naruto's neck.
Clang!
The sword shattered on impact, pieces scattering across the ground. Naruto casually kicked the man away.
"Samehada—extend!"
The spiked, living sword lashed out, biting Naruto's shoulder.
"Let's see how much chakra I can drain from you," the orange-haired wielder growled, teeth bared.
Crack!
Samehada screeched in pain as its barbs snapped and teeth shattered. It couldn't absorb a drop of chakra — only despair.
Naruto grabbed the sword and crushed it with one hand, lifting both Samehada and its wielder, the hulking Kisame Hoshigaki, into the air.
They thrashed helplessly before Naruto slammed them both into the dirt.
Boom!
Kisame lay unconscious in a crater.
In seconds, multiple elite Mist Jonin were down.
Nearby, the shark-faced man and a red-haired woman in a blue tube-top froze, their confidence melting into disbelief.
Even Ringo Ameyuri — still dangling from Aoiha's arms — stared wide-eyed.
Each of those fighters had been legends in Kirigakure — the new generation of the Seven Ninja Swordsmen: Mangetsu Hōzuki, Zabuza Momochi, the Pufferfish Ghost… and all had been crushed like insects.
"How… how can someone be that strong?" Ringo whispered.
Even Fourth Mizukage Yagura's expression hardened. For the first time, he truly believed the rumors — that Kira of the Red Sun Society had once forced the Third Hokage to bow.
Kirigakure, even at full power, couldn't hope to match that.
Then the voice came — dark, commanding, echoing in Yagura's mind.
"Kill him. Use everything. No matter the cost."
Yagura's glazed eyes turned crimson. His will slipped away, replaced by a killing instinct.
"All units—attack! Surround him!"
At his order, the Mist forces surged forward, unleashing a storm of water and lightning.
Their humanity vanished — they were executioners now.
Even Ringo's life no longer mattered.
"Lord Mizukage…" murmured the red-haired woman in blue, hesitating. But she stayed silent.
Ringo closed her eyes as a flood of kunai and jutsu rained down. She knew she'd been abandoned.
"Then…"
Suddenly, she felt herself lifted away from the chaos.
Aoiha held her tightly, carrying her out of harm's way.
Ahead, Naruto stood alone, calm and unmoving — one hand behind his back.
Boom!
A single punch shattered the entire wave of attacks. Kunai turned to dust, water techniques burst apart into mist, and the battlefield fell silent.
"You bastard!"
Kisame roared, leaping high.
"Water Style: Great Shark Bomb Jutsu!"
A massive torrent surged forward, followed by a barrage of combined techniques — water dragons, iron bullets, thousands of water needles.
For a moment, the entire battlefield was a raging sea.
But then Naruto vanished.
All their jutsu struck only the ground, blowing open deep craters.
"Kisame, behind you!"
Mangetsu's warning came too late. Naruto's kick sent Kisame flying, folding him in half midair.
Mangetsu tried to defend. "Water Style: Hydration Technique!"
His body turned to liquid — but Naruto's hand still came down, pressing him flat against the earth.
The ground exploded. When the dust cleared, Mangetsu lay sprawled in a crater, trembling and unable to move.
Samehada tried again, its barbs flaring — only to be grabbed and crushed once more. The sword whimpered audibly, terrified.
Its wielder, the Pufferfish Ghost, couldn't even react before Naruto hurled him like a rag doll into the dirt.
Boom!
Unconscious.
"Damn you!"
Zabuza charged next, blade raised.
Crack!
His sword shattered like glass, and a single grab from Naruto dropped him into the ground beside his fallen comrades.
Only one remained — the red-haired woman in the blue dress.
"Lava Style: Melting Monster Jutsu!"
Terumi Mei's lips parted, unleashing a torrent of blazing, corrosive acid.
It poured toward Naruto like liquid fire.
Naruto casually waved his hand through the air.
Boom!
The molten acid vaporized instantly, dispersing into harmless dust.
"Got anything else?" Naruto asked with a teasing grin. "Go ahead — show me everything you've got."
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