Finally, seeing Mizuki gnashing his back teeth, his cheek muscles twitching uncontrollably from extreme anger and humiliation, his entire face flushed crimson like a pig's liver, as if he truly had a ridiculous red ball on his nose and could go directly to the circus to play a clown or be printed on playing cards as a joker, Naruto could no longer suppress the laughter he had been holding back.
"Pfft... Hahahahaahaha!!!"
He burst into loud laughter, unreservedly directed at Mizuki's twisted and distorted face.
Sure enough, when people do bad things and disguise themselves, they become especially patient... but once the disguise is torn off and their true face is exposed, they become especially ridiculous!
However, this mocking laughter completely stimulated Mizuki's fragile nerves!
"Bastard!!!"
Mizuki let out a roar of extreme shame and indignation, and slammed the fake scroll, filled with "idiot," onto the ground!
He once again swiftly picked up the heavy giant shuriken, this time without any hesitation or wasted words, and hurled it at Naruto!
"Die!!!"
The giant shuriken, with a shrill tearing sound, spun through the air, heading straight for Naruto's face!
However—
"Bang!!!"
A crisp and loud metallic clang suddenly rang out!
Naruto, who had been laughing heartily a second ago, his eyes instantly grew calm, his right hand already holding a kunai in a reverse grip, he fiercely flicked it upwards from below!
An incredibly precise block! The powerful and heavy giant shuriken was actually deflected by this single strike, flying off mournfully at an angle, and embedding itself deeply into the trunk of a nearby large tree with a "thud."
"Wh-...?" Mizuki's sneer instantly froze on his face, his brain unable to even process the incredible scene before him!
And in the instant he was stunned—
Swish!
The next second, Mizuki only felt a gust of wind in his face! Naruto had already appeared directly in front of him as if teleporting, his body completing a smooth rotation in the air, utilizing his momentum!
"Leaf Whirlwind!"
A powerful, spinning kick swept fiercely towards Mizuki's chest and abdomen!
Mizuki subconsciously tried to form the hand signs for the Body Replacement Jutsu, but his hand sign speed was incredibly slow in the face of Naruto's sudden and swift attack, like a slow-motion replay.
"Boom!!!"
An incredibly heavy thud exploded!
Naruto's kick landed squarely on Mizuki's chest! A huge impact force instantly erupted, Mizuki couldn't even fully let out a scream, his entire body flew backward uncontrollably like a broken sandbag hit at full speed!
His body traced an ugly arc, finally crashing heavily, back-first, into the trunk of a large tree that required two people to embrace its girth!
"Crack!" The bone-chilling sound of bones breaking was clearly audible.
Dust and leaves from the impact rustled down.
When the dust slightly dispersed, Mizuki was seen slumped at the base of the tree in a twisted posture, his head lolled to one side, his eyes rolled back, blood spilling from his nose and mouth, completely unconscious and out cold.
Naruto landed lightly on the ground, looked at the figure like a pile of mud in the distance, and gave a very concise evaluation.
"...So weak."
After completely dealing with the trouble of Mizuki, Naruto did not just wait for the Third Hokage and Iruka to arrive and clean up the mess.
He slowly walked towards Mizuki, who was slumped at the base of the tree, completely unconscious.
He vaguely remembered that in the original story, this guy also seemed to have been implanted with a Cursed Seal by Orochimaru. To be on the safe side, and to prevent this ill-intentioned fellow from causing any trouble in prison in the future, Naruto decided it would be safer to add an "insurance" measure beforehand.
Although directly eliminating this scumbag would be simpler...
Naruto glanced at the unconscious Mizuki, "but if I did that, Iruka-sensei and the Third Hokage would probably find it hard to accept, and they'd look at me strangely..."
He walked in front of Mizuki, quickly forming a series of hand signs in front of him. As Chakra condensed, the pattern in his palm formed arcane sealing runes.
"Eight Trigrams Sealing Style!"
Naruto let out a low cry, and his palm, covered with sealing runes, pressed precisely onto Mizuki's abdomen!
The next moment, those runes, like living beings, rapidly spread from Naruto's palm, flowing quickly throughout Mizuki's body along his meridian system!
The goal of these sealing jutsu was to completely lock down all of the target's Chakra points and meridian system! They precisely cut off and sealed every path that could generate and circulate Chakra.
At the same time, the sealing power also quickly captured and wrapped around the Cursed Seal energy belonging to Orochimaru, hidden in Mizuki's arm, firmly suppressing, enveloping, and finally completely isolating it!
The entire process lasted about ten seconds. When the runes were completely hidden within Mizuki's body, the jutsu was complete.
At this moment, Mizuki's entire Chakra system was completely locked. He could no longer extract even a trace of Chakra, his meridians were like completely dried up and abandoned riverbeds, and Chakra could not flow through them at all.
He had completely become an ordinary person who could not perceive, refine, or use any Chakra.
Naruto's Eight Trigrams Sealing Style was not something that could be easily broken with special medicinal materials and talismans. Without Naruto personally undoing it or someone with sealing jutsu mastery far surpassing Naruto's, this guy would be an ordinary person for life.
After doing all this, Naruto walked over to a clean large stone nearby and sat down, calmly taking out another small scroll from his ninja tool pouch.
He undid the storage seal on the scroll, and with a slight puff of smoke—the real scroll of seals, containing countless forbidden jutsu secrets, appeared in his hand.
He spread out the huge scroll, and under the bright moonlight and the faint light in the forest, he browsed through the various powerful Ninjutsu recorded on it with great interest, studying and researching, while quietly waiting for the Third Hokage and Iruka-sensei to arrive, ready to "return" the mission objective.