Chapter 16: Bird Reappearance

Chapter 16: Reappearance of Chidori
Following Naruto's wonderful match, the audience was increasingly looking forward to the next match, but due to Sasuke's late arrival, the matches of other people had to be postponed, and the one who took the field was the unmotivated Shikamaru, facing the smart and violent Temari.

It was really not good news for the audience who were looking forward to Uchiha, and many viewers even protested, but Shikamaru's wisdom gradually attracted the audience's attention, but the shadow imitation technique was indeed a very useless ninjutsu in a one-on-one battle.

As long as the opponent can jump out of the shadow's range, there is nothing he can do to them, but Temari's ninjutsu is very powerful. As for Shikamaru, he is also good at escaping and saving his life. In addition, he can take advantage of various favorable external conditions, which sometimes makes the opponent unable to defend, forcing Temari to concentrate on dealing with it. However, in the end, due to the difference in strength, Shikamaru still lost the game, but at least he won the cheers of the audience.

Fortunately, Sasuke finally arrived at the last moment, which was good news for the audience who had been waiting for a long time. The Uchiha clan was so famous that not only the audience and ninjas present, but even Naruto wanted to see the strength of the Uchiha clan. Although Sasuke's Sharingan had just opened not long ago, few people had the Sharingan since that incident, and Naruto also wanted to observe the characteristics of the Sharingan carefully.

Gaara's strength is not ordinary strong. Even Rock Lee only suffered minor injuries when he opened five gates. No Jinchūriki can be underestimated.

At the beginning of the game, Gaara's sand ninjutsu was very troublesome, but what surprised everyone, especially Kai, was that Sasuke actually imitated Lee's movements and surpassed Gaara's sand speed by relying on fast physical skills. According to Kakashi, the Sharingan can see through all ninjutsu, illusions and even physical skills and copy them to become his own ninjutsu. This is simply cheating in Naruto's eyes, but this kind of eye technique cannot be obtained through practice, and the Uchiha bloodline is so rare.

Under Sasuke's continuous physical attack, Gaara had no power to fight back. This situation had never happened since Gaara debuted. Finally, Gaara got angry. The sand wrapped Gaara layer by layer, forming a strong shield with absolute defense. Sasuke had no way to attack him, and Gaara was preparing to attack Sasuke with sand. If it continued for a long time, Sasuke would have no chance of winning.

In this situation, most people in Konoha were thinking about how Sasuke should deal with it, while the Sand Ninjas were thinking that Gaara had completely disrupted the previous plan. Sasuke began to retreat, making some people think that he was going to give up the game, but then he launched Sasuke's most powerful ninjutsu at the time, which was also Kakashi's signature ninjutsu "Chidori". This move is indeed a very powerful ninjutsu, but due to Kakashi's own chakra limitations, the form change and nature change have not been developed to the extreme. However, for now, this is already the strongest ninjutsu that Sasuke can perform. With the sound of thunder and lightning, and a fast sprint, it actually broke through Gaara's absolute defense.

This was almost impossible for the Sand Ninja, and in fact, if it weren't for Shukaku, Gaara would have been seriously injured. However, Gaara's Shukaku also scared Sasuke a lot, and if Gaara hadn't suppressed Shukaku himself, Sasuke would have been in danger.

At this moment, Kabuto Yakushi cast an illusion, and the audience and most of the Genin were trapped in the illusion. The powerful Jonin untied the illusion on their own. The "Kaze Shadow" betrayed the alliance with Konoha and attacked the Hokage. At the same time, the Sound Ninja appeared and the Hokage was trapped in the barrier. A large number of Sand Ninjas poured into Konoha at the same time, and large summoned beasts appeared at the same time. The whole process was premeditated.

The mission of the Sand Ninja this time was to use Gaara as the core and release the power of Shukaku, the One-tailed Sand, to create chaos in Konoha, so that Orochimaru could take the opportunity to take away Uchiha Sasuke. But unexpectedly, Sasuke injured Gaara, and Gaara was in poor condition and could not release the power of Shukaku. It was decided that Gaara could only retreat first and wait for him to recover.

Sasuke was given a mission on the spot to chase Gaara. Naruto looked at the Third Hokage and thought that he was not in danger for the time being. Orochimaru would have to spend a lot of effort to kill him. At this time, Kakashi ordered a four-man team consisting of Naruto, Sakura, Shikamaru, and Kakashi's ninja dog Puck to go support Sasuke. Since Kakashi said so, Naruto had to go support Sasuke first. As for the Third Hokage, we can only talk about it later.

The team of three people and one dog followed Sasuke's scent and rushed towards Sasuke quickly, but soon Parker discovered the pursuit team behind him. In terms of the number of people, there were 21 people. If Naruto was caught up, he might be in a passive position. Even if he won the battle in the end, it would delay the time to support Sasuke. At this time, Sakura proposed an ambush, and Shikamaru thought that someone should act as bait to lead the enemy away.

However, if Naruto stayed behind to ambush or lure away the enemy, the chances of defeating the enemy were very high, but the others were obviously not strong enough to support Sasuke and would not be very effective. If the others acted as bait, they would most likely die. Although there was a chance of escaping successfully, the chances were very low. Just when Shikamaru was about to act as bait himself, Naruto spoke up: "None of you need to act as bait, I will ambush you."

After that, Naruto created two shadow clones. Shikamaru understood immediately that even if Naruto's clones couldn't defeat the enemy, they could still delay the enemy. But Shikamaru said worriedly, "The shadow clones will disperse the chakra of the original body to the clones, which will be disadvantageous for the subsequent battles." Naruto said, "Don't worry, this level of chakra is nothing."

Naruto also deeply felt the importance of strength at this time. Having powerful strength is not only about gaining recognition from others, but more importantly, it can protect your companions and keep the people you care about from getting hurt. But for now, Naruto feels that his strength is still not enough.

After Naruto hid his shadow clone, the three of them continued to chase Sasuke under the leadership of Puck, but Naruto felt a little uneasy at this time. This pressure did not come from the chasing ninjas or Gaara, but from other things. Naruto seemed to feel that a crisis was approaching him, but he could not tell what it was. However, the first priority now was to ensure Sasuke's safety and solve Gaara's problem as soon as possible, and then rush back to see if he could solve the crisis of the Third Hokage.

(End of this chapter)