"Hurricane Style: Wind Release – Hurricane Punch!"
A torrent of Wind Release chakra condensed into a violently spinning fist, crashing directly into Deidara's twisted face.
Boom!
Fueled by Naruto's rage and hatred, the devastating blow sent Deidara flying backward. His face was mangled by the impact as he slammed into the ground like a cannonball, leaving behind a massive crater.
"How is that even possible?!"
Deidara stared in disbelief at Uzumaki Naruto, who was rising into the sky.
"Didn't my C3 No. 18 blow you to pieces?!"
Naruto was breathing heavily as well.
That had been far too close.
The moment the explosion was triggered, he had rushed down, grabbed Gaara's body, and immediately surrounded both of them with his newly learned Wind Release: Global Barrier while reinforcing it with Fluid Wind Armor. He then hid inside a deep crater left behind from an earlier battle.
The combined protection of the Wind Shroud, Global Barrier, and Fluid Wind Armor barely shielded him from the devastating explosion.
Afterward, Naruto created a Shadow Clone to secretly carry Gaara's body away from the battlefield. Meanwhile, the real Naruto burst out of the smoke behind Deidara, catching him completely off guard and landing a devastating strike.
Deidara was both shocked and enraged.
He couldn't believe his art had been rendered completely ineffective.
Even Uchiha Itachi wouldn't dare underestimate his explosions.
Yet this spoiled little brat had survived them!
It was unbearable.
Already gravely injured by Naruto's Hurricane Style: Wind Release – Hurricane Punch, Deidara could barely remain standing.
Then, without warning, he burst into manic laughter.
"Hahahaha... Hahahahaha!"
"I never imagined I'd be defeated by a brat like you!"
"I underestimated you..."
"But even if I lose..."
"My art will never lose!"
"Now witness..."
"My greatest masterpiece! Hmm!"
Naruto clenched his fists, his eyes bloodshot with fury.
"You bastard!"
"Killing Gaara wasn't enough!"
"Now you won't even spare his corpse!"
"Scum like you..."
"Deserves to die a thousand times over!"
Their killing intent reached its peak.
At that very moment, both of them unleashed their strongest trump cards.
Deidara laughed wildly.
"Enough talking!"
"You wretched brat!"
"Witness my supreme art!"
"The entire world will be shocked!"
"They will admire it!"
"They will stand in awe!"
"My final masterpiece will be remembered throughout the entire Ninja World!"
"This..."
"Is my art!"
"EXPLOSION!!"
At that instant, Deidara activated his ultimate technique—
C0: Self-Detonation!
Naruto didn't hesitate for even a second.
He unleashed his ultimate finishing move.
"Hurricane Style: Wind Release – Magnificent Rasengan!"
A colossal sphere of swirling wind instantly formed in Naruto's hand.
Its core was pitch black, compressed like a miniature black hole, while a brilliant ring of light revolved around it like a galaxy of stars.
This was Naruto's strongest attack—
His ultimate technique.
The Magnificent Rasengan!
Driven completely mad by rage, Deidara finally unleashed his final masterpiece.
It was the ultimate sacrifice.
C0 – Self-Destruction.
Once activated, it would annihilate everything within its range, leaving neither the enemy nor the user behind.
Originally, Deidara had reserved this technique for Uchiha Itachi.
But now...
That day would never come.
He even regretted never having the chance to use C4 Karura against Itachi.
He had wanted to unleash it upon Naruto as well, but his severe injuries made that impossible.
Cornered with no escape, he chose mutual destruction instead.
Countless streams of chakra surged wildly through his body, gathering toward his heart.
With one violent motion, he tore open his Akatsuki cloak, exposing the grotesque mouth embedded in his chest.
He fed every remaining piece of Explosive Clay into it.
The mouth devoured the clay greedily while simultaneously consuming every last drop of chakra within his body, compressing it into the deadliest explosive core imaginable.
As Deidara laughed hysterically, all of that power condensed into a single point, forming a dense, black sphere resembling a miniature black hole.
His body gradually turned pale and transparent, as though every ounce of life had been drained from it.
"Hahahahaha!"
"Hahahahaha!"
"Suffer!"
"Despair!"
"Scream!"
"This..."
"Is my greatest art!"
"Art..."
"IS AN EXPLOSION!!"
BOOM!!!
With Deidara's final roar, beams of light suddenly emerged from the black sphere within his chest. At first, there were only one or two, then seven or eight, then dozens—until they erupted all at once.
Boom!!
At that instant, an unprecedented explosion, centered on Deidara, engulfed the battlefield.
A deafening roar shook the heavens and the earth.
Wherever the blast reached, the ground was scorched, trees were reduced to ashes, and everything in its path was annihilated and turned to dust.
This was Deidara's ultimate masterpiece.
The explosion covered a radius of nearly ten kilometers.
Everything within its range was utterly destroyed.
But Naruto was equally consumed by rage.
Pouring every last drop of his remaining chakra into a single attack, he unleashed the deadliest technique he had ever created.
"Hurricane Style: Wind Release – Great Rasengan!"
In theory, Naruto's technique had already surpassed even Uzumaki Menma's.
Menma's power lay solely in the Great Rasengan, but Naruto had elevated it further by integrating Wind Release Chakra Mode into the technique.
That was its true essence.
The core of the Rasengan had been compressed to an extreme degree, imitating the overwhelming compression principle of the Tailed Beast Ball. Yet it contained even more than that. It also incorporated the Flow principle of Fluid Wind Mode and the Rotation principle that formed the very foundation of the Rasengan.
These three concepts fused together perfectly, creating a technique capable of shattering everything in its path.
The brilliant ring of light surrounding the black core resembled a galaxy of stars. Though beautiful and dazzling, it concealed terrifying destructive power.
This represented another profound aspect of Wind Release—its mastery over cutting and severing.
In other words, this seemingly simple attack embodied nearly every profound principle Naruto had mastered.
Flow.
Rotation.
Compression.
Cutting.
Severing.
All of those concepts merged into a single technique—
The Great Rasengan.
A move whose destructive force rivaled that of a nuclear explosion.
Uzumaki Menma's technique, Parting Gift, had once possessed enough power to destroy the entire Hidden Leaf Village.
Naruto's version had now surpassed even that.
Fueled by his overwhelming rage and hatred, every remaining ounce of chakra poured into the Great Rasengan, transforming it into a technique that seemed capable of tearing apart heaven and earth.
Then—
It burst forth.
"Hurricane Style: Wind Release – Great Rasengan!"
Naruto charged directly toward Deidara's self-destruction.
For the briefest instant, the two ultimate techniques collided.
Crash!
Impact!
Entanglement!
Explosion!
The resulting shockwave was unlike anything before it.
Blood instantly burst from Naruto's ears.
Blood streamed from all seven of his facial orifices.
For a single moment, Naruto saw nothing.
He heard nothing.
His vision was consumed entirely by a blinding white light capable of destroying the world.
Only a faint ringing remained in his ears.
But unlike Deidara, Naruto had no intention of dying.
Using the tremendous shockwave created by the collision of the two ultimate techniques, Naruto allowed himself to be blasted backward and high into the sky.
His body shot away like a butterfly caught in a hurricane.
Ironically, that violent recoil greatly reduced the damage he suffered from the explosion itself.
Protected by the Wind Oscillation Global Barrier and Fluid Wind Armor, Naruto was hurled high into the distant sky but avoided any fatal injuries.
The next moment—
The full force of both explosions spread across the battlefield.
Everything within a radius of more than ten kilometers was mercilessly swallowed by destruction.
Mountains, valleys, rivers, forests, and every trace of civilization were flattened without exception.
The massive mushroom cloud that should have formed from Naruto's Great Rasengan instead twisted into a gigantic spiral galaxy. Though narrower than a conventional explosion, its overall scale expanded to more than ten times its original size.
The explosion's thunderous roar echoed across the heavens.
Not only the Land of Wind, but also the neighboring Land of Fire, Land of Rain, Land of Rivers, and other surrounding nations felt the violent tremor, as though a natural catastrophe had struck the world itself.
Far away from the center of the explosion, Hinata and Grandma Chiyo continued their fierce battle against the real Sasori of the Red Sand.
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