Chapter 18 Crisis, Hidden Power

Just when Naruto finally got rid of Gaara and Bunta returned to the spiritual world, when Naruto was about to sit down and have a good rest, he suddenly felt a sense of crisis and hurriedly stepped back. At this time, a masked man holding a sharp blade appeared at Naruto's original position.

Seeing Naruto dodge, he laughed dryly and said: "As expected of the legendary genius, I wanted to kill you silently, but I didn't expect you to notice it. It seems that I can't avoid some tricks. However, your chakra has been exhausted. How are you going to defeat me?"

Naruto originally planned to take a break and then rush back to save the Third Hokage, but from the current situation, if he used the Flying Thunder God Technique to escape, not only would his ninjutsu be exposed, but Sakura, Sasuke, and Shikamaru would also be killed. Although it consumed a lot of chakra, he could only think of a way to kill the enemy in front of him first.

At this moment, the masked man disappeared from Naruto's sight, and appeared behind Naruto the next moment. Naruto felt something was wrong and immediately used the substitution technique to dodge, but it was as if there was an invisible ghost, constantly attacking Naruto, and all Naruto could do was keep dodging. However, Naruto got several wounds on his body when he was not careful, and he was completely unable to attack the enemy.

Shikamaru, who was far away, saw that something was wrong with Naruto, so he quickly approached Naruto and said to Sasuke, "Sasuke, use your Sharingan to observe the movements of the enemy on Naruto's side. Sakura, you will be on guard and be ready to support at any time." Although the opponent used some kind of ninjutsu to conceal his body, it has to be said that the Sharingan is a very powerful bloodline limit. It can actually see the opponent's movements. No wonder Orochimaru wanted it so much.

"Naruto, left, right, back" Sasuke kept shouting at Naruto.

But at this time, the opponent's sword was faster than the other, and Naruto had to wait for Sasuke's reminder before he could react. As time went by, Naruto had two more wounds on his body. Naruto activated the Thunder God Armor again, and lightning surrounded Naruto. Seeing this, the opponent appeared out of thin air again and praised Naruto: "Not only does he have powerful chakra, but he also has such excellent chakra control. He can actually perform this level of lightning escape. It's really a bit tricky."

After that, the chakra on the sword lit up, and it seemed that he wanted to use chakra to penetrate Naruto's Thunder God Armor. Naruto felt that the opponent's sword was faster, and it hit Naruto twice in a short time. Although he was not injured under the protection of the Thunder God Armor, the Thunder God Armor would be damaged every time the opponent attacked, and Naruto himself consumed a lot of chakra to maintain the Thunder God Armor. It was not a big deal, but the battle with Gaara just now consumed too much chakra.

Naruto felt more and more that his power was about to be exhausted, and the other party obviously felt this, and even stepped up to attack Naruto. Sasuke, who was watching from the side, also clearly noticed this, while Shikamaru was thinking, trying to see through the other party's tolerance. surgery.Just when the opponent wanted to kill Naruto with a single blow, he saw Naruto closed his eyes, and Naruto entered his consciousness at this critical moment of life and death.

That dripping cell, that big iron door with a seal on it, and that big fox inside the iron door, Naruto didn't expect that the first time he saw the Nine-Tails would be under such circumstances. He only heard the Nine-Tails roaring behind the iron door: "Boy, I'm going to kill you." Sure enough, the meeting was still so impolite.

Naruto said to the Nine-Tails: "This is how it is when we first meet. You must be the Nine-Tails. Now my chakra is exhausted and I need your strength. Let's talk next time."

"Boy, take it, consider it a reward for meeting me." Listening to the Nine-Tail's voice, Naruto actually understood what the Nine-Tail was thinking, but for now he could only use its power.

In Naruto's mind, it seemed like a long time had passed, but in reality, it was only a moment. Just when the opponent was about to hit Naruto, Naruto's eyes showed an unusual red color, and red chakra began to emerge from his body. When this power emerged, Naruto felt the power was strong, and his speed, strength, and recovery ability were greatly improved. It was really worthy of the Nine-Tails' chakra.

Naruto quickly jumped back and formed a seal in the air, "Fire Style, Great Fireball Technique." The fire style supported by the Nine-Tails' chakra became stronger, and according to Naruto's judgment, the opponent's speed should not be able to escape from this range, but the ideal sound of the enemy screaming in the fire did not appear. The opponent disappeared again, and it was not until the high temperature generated by the fire style slowly disappeared that the enemy appeared again, still holding the knife, and did not look like he had been injured at all.

"Did you dodge it, Sasuke?" Naruto asked Sasuke
Sasuke said: "I saw him disappear in the fire. It didn't look like he avoided it, but he appeared out of thin air again." At this time, Shikamaru shouted to Naruto: "Naruto, use the Fire Style again." Naruto used the Fire Style again without thinking. Sasuke saw through the Sharingan that the enemy completely disappeared, but as the temperature slowly dropped, he found that water vapor slowly condensed after careful observation, and then the enemy appeared again.

"I see." Shikamaru seemed to understand a little, and then whispered to Sasuke: "Use the Sharingan to observe the surroundings. Can you use your Chidori again?"

Sasuke said, "Just using the Sharingan uses up a lot of chakra. I'm afraid it won't work if I use it again?"

"That's going to be a bit troublesome," Shikamaru said.
Seeing that Fire Style didn't work, Naruto once again activated Thunder God Armor to fight the enemy, but he was still at a disadvantage. It was really troublesome to fight against such an invisible enemy. The key point was that even large-scale attacks didn't work on him.

Just when Naruto was at a loss, he suddenly heard Shikamaru shouting, "Naruto, run back as fast as you can." Although he didn't know the reason, Naruto believed in Shikamaru's intelligence very much and retreated quickly.

I only heard laughter in the air: "Do you know you can't win and want to run away? But boy, you can be said to be very strong among the opponents I have encountered. You can even produce chakra in this situation. But this also makes me more determined to kill you. You can't escape."

Naruto was retreating when he suddenly heard Shikamaru say, "Naruto, quickly use your strongest Lightning Release." Naruto quickly formed hand seals and used Lightning Release. Under the display of Naruto's powerful chakra, powerful lightning radiated from Naruto to the surrounding areas. In the lightning, Naruto found a black shadow hiding behind a tree not far away. "At the same time, Shikamaru immediately used the shadow imitation technique to control the enemy's actions.

Although I couldn't see the enemy's expression through the mask, I could clearly feel his disbelief.

"Why? You'll find me."

He looked at Shikamaru with an incredulous tone.

Shikamaru said: "When Naruto used Fire Style for the first time, I suspected that you used Water Style, and Water Style is a ninjutsu that is good at hiding. When Naruto used Fire Style for the second time, I was basically sure that it was not your body that attacked Naruto, but your body condensed from water. So when you just used Fire Style, because there was not enough moisture in the air, you could not condense your body to attack Naruto immediately, and you had to wait until it cooled down.

So I asked Sasuke to use the Sharingan to observe the surroundings. You can completely hide the flow of chakra, but in order to break Naruto's lightning style, you must make a seal and inject a lot of chakra into your special clone. At this time, there is no way to hide completely. After Sasuke found you, we couldn't completely control your actions. So we had to let Naruto pretend to escape. Water style ninjas are usually not good at dealing with lightning style, and Naruto's lightning style can completely make your ninjutsu ineffective.

With a scream, Naruto finally solved this troublesome opponent, but in his current state, he was afraid that he could not save the Third Hokage, and it was probably too late. However, perhaps for the Third Hokage, being able to die in glory was exactly what he wanted.

(End of this chapter)