Naruto: Uchiha Youngjo's Konoha Spring

Chapter 217 Purgatory on Earth
As the Cloud Village ninja swarmed forward, a thunderclap suddenly exploded in the night sky. Sasuke's purple lightning drew deep purple arcs, forcing three Cloud Village ninjas back five meters away.

"A kunai track appeared at the twelve o'clock position!" Neji's Byakugan gleamed with a blue light in the darkness, and he wielded his Bagua staff with great force, forcing back those who tried to break through from his side.

In Sasuke's Sharingan, three tomoe swirled in the crimson light. A Cloud Ninja directly in front of him was instantly caught in Sasuke's genjutsu. The next second, purple lightning sliced ​​through the neck of the Cloud Ninja blocking his way like a hot knife through butter. The scorching lightning instantly turned the wound black. Not a single drop of blood flowed until the Cloud Ninja clutched his neck and collapsed helplessly.

After the three rushed out for dozens of meters, sixteen bolts of lightning descended from the sky like a cage. Chains wrapped in lightning intertwined in the tree canopy, trapping the three in a circle of scorched earth with a radius of ten meters.

Eight Cloud Village Jonin emerged from the shadows, their Lightning Release chakra pulsating across their skin like flowing armor.

"That's enough, you Konoha brats," the leading Cloud Village Jonin said, forming the Snake Hand Seal, the lightning on the chains suddenly intensifying, "Pay the price for your arrogance."

Purple plasma surged between the iron chains, and the air was filled with the smell of ozone from ionized air.

As the encirclement tightened, Sasuke threw seven shuriken. The metal and lightning collided, creating blinding flashes. "A lightning release barrier? Too bad I'm not like my teacher, able to control the enemy's lightning release at will."

Neji planted his Eight Trigrams Staff in the ground, pushed out with both palms, and the chakra vortex of the Rotation Technique deflected all the incoming lightning arrows. His Byakugan veins bulged, and he turned to Sasuke, "The core of the barrier is on the female ninja in the northwest corner, the one with the headband around her neck! Her chakra is maintaining the barrier's balance!"

"Can I give her a go?" Sasuke asked.

"I'll give it a try." The summoning seal on Neji's right wristband lit up, and a uniquely shaped sniper rifle appeared in Neji's hand. After Neji infused it with chakra, he fired a shot, and a chakra bullet whistled towards the opponent.

However, just as the bullet was about to hit, the barrier in front of the opponent suddenly condensed into a bolt of lightning that collided with the bullet, bursting into a blinding white light in the air.

"No, it will take a long time to charge up if we want to break through the barrier's defenses." Seeing this, Neji put the chakra sniper rifle that Tenten had developed for him back into the scroll on his wrist, and then shook his head and said.

"Then leave it to me!" Sasuke, wielding his Purple Lightning Blade, charged towards the direction Neji had pointed, the Chidori shrieking as it tore through the night sky.

Purple lightning tore through the night, and the Sharingan precisely locked onto the chakra pathways pulsating beneath the headband. However, four bolts of lightning suddenly cut off the path—the reinforcements from Kumogakure had arrived.

Three ninjas wearing lightning beast masks descended from the sky, their lightning blades carving scorched grooves in the ground. Sasuke was forced to turn, and the purple lightning collided with the lightning blades, creating blinding arcs of electricity.

Fortunately, at that moment, Neji suddenly entered the battle, his Bagua staff darting out like a serpent, striking the Lightning Blade Ninja's vital point on his waist. In the instant the chakra was blocked, Sasuke's left hand instantly condensed a Chidori that pierced through the opponent's right shoulder, and blood mist rose amidst the lightning.

Seeing this, the Cloud Village Jonin who controlled the barrier sneered and slammed his palms heavily on the ground: "Lightning Release: Earth Walk!"

Yellow electric snakes rapidly spread towards the three of them along the damp moss.

"Naruto!"

"Understood," Naruto nodded heavily, his hands quickly forming hand seals. Three howling gusts of wind swept in all directions, instantly shattering the incoming lightning snakes.

However, the next moment, five lightning arrows suddenly came from the side, aimed directly at Naruto. At the critical moment, Sasuke threw out a steel wire that wrapped around Naruto's lower back and pulled hard, allowing Naruto to barely avoid the fatal attack by relying on the trajectory predicted by his Sharingan.

"What are you doing?" Sasuke couldn't help but yell at him, "Concentrate during the fight!"

"I'm sorry..." Naruto said apologetically.

"Hold them off for me, I'll go take care of that guy." Sasuke didn't say anything more when he saw this.

"Alright." Naruto took a deep breath, and with his spirits lifted, he surrounded himself with wind-style chakra. Together with Neji, he approached the remaining two lightning blade ninjas who had appeared to intercept Sasuke.

Sasuke, on the other hand, put away his Purple Lightning and gathered violent electric current in his hands, the sharp explosion sounding like a thousand birds singing in unison.

"Chidori!" Sasuke transformed into lightning, his hand crackling with purple electricity as he charged towards the female ninja who was maintaining the barrier's stability. Although Sasuke had mastered Chidori long before, after learning Uchiha Touko's more advanced Lightning Release ninjutsu, he only used a simplified version of it as a finishing move in close combat. He hadn't used the full version of Chidori for a long time. However, at this moment, the piercing power of the full version of Chidori, and the speed that would allow him to further increase while in Lightning Release ninjutsu mode, were exactly what Sasuke needed.

At that moment, the female ninja maintaining the barrier only saw a blinding white light flash before her eyes. The next instant, Sasuke had already pierced her chest, and the Cloud Village female ninja, her chest pierced, collapsed powerlessly. "Asayi!" Seeing this, the companion beside the person killed by Sasuke shouted in disbelief.

Sasuke shook his hand expressionlessly, the lightning in his hand drying the blood on his skin. With the person maintaining the stability of the barrier's chakra gone, the barrier blocking the three's path disappeared. Neji used the Heavenly Rotation to repel the Cloud Village Jonin who was entangled with him and Naruto, and then shouted, "Now's the time to go!"

The two accelerated one after the other and met up with Sasuke, rushing towards the edge of the encirclement. At this moment, Deidara, who was flying in the air, also timely dropped a series of explosives, delaying the Cloud Village ninjas from reorganizing and encircling them.

However, after the barrage of attacks, Deidara's chakra was almost depleted. After several rounds of bombardment, seeing that his three little brothers still hadn't managed to break through, he decided to lower his flight altitude and take them with him. But, just as he descended a little, shuriken accompanied by lightning flew in like a rainstorm, forcing Deidara to take off again.

Just as the encirclement by the Hidden Clouds was about to close again, suddenly, a green signal flare exploded in the night sky to the northeast.

The howls of the Inuzuka clan pierced through the thunder, and the swarms of insects from the Aburame clan obscured the moonlight like dark clouds.

"Our reinforcements have arrived!" Sasuke finally breathed a sigh of relief after shattering the lightning chains that were wrapping around him with a single strike.

The nearest border troops rushed over immediately after hearing the commotion.

Seeing this, the commander of Kumogakure had no choice but to temporarily abandon the encirclement and killing of Sasuke and his two companions, and gritted his teeth to meet the Konoha ninja army that came to their aid. Under the cover of night, the two sides clashed instantly.

"Fire Release: The Art of Fire Dragon!"

The raging flames illuminated the entire night sky, and a huge fire dragon roared as it attacked the Hidden Cloud Village. The Hidden Cloud Village's formation quickly developed a gap under the impact of this violent fire dragon. At this moment, a team of Hyuga clan members, led by three branch family Jonin, broke into the Hidden Cloud Village's formation.

Then, a group of Uchiha clan ninjas, led by their Jonin, charged in. Under the onslaught of the two clans, the Cloud Village's formation quickly began to crumble.
It's hard to imagine that the two families with eye techniques, who were considered sworn enemies in the village just a few years ago, are now cooperating so well.

The ninja tool that Tenten developed, which shared vision, displayed its special power at this moment. The Hyuga clan's Byakugan's super-wide field of vision and the Uchiha clan's Sharingan's ability to capture movement trajectories were shared at this moment. The assault team composed of the two clans moved through the Cloud Village formation as if it were empty, and after eliminating the enemies along the way, they arrived in front of Sasuke and his two companions.

"Young patriarch."

"Young patriarch."

The members of the two clans' assault teams nodded to their respective young clan leaders, and Sasuke naturally took over command of the team. "Let's go together, with our comrades outside, and take care of these people!"

"Yes!" Neji and his clansmen nodded together.

Only Naruto stared blankly at everything around him, the blood and fire of war so close to him at that moment.

Compared to the previous battles, the brutality of war was demonstrated to Naruto in just a few minutes after the two armies began to clash.

Burning trees twisted into fiery snakes in the night wind, and screams rose and fell from the thick smoke.

A Konoha ninja, half his body scorched by lightning release, was still mechanically stabbing the ground with kunai; a Kumogakure ninja had a gaping hole in his abdomen, but he simply stuffed his intestines back in and roughly stitched them up with chakra threads before continuing to charge at the Konoha ninja in front of him with his sword.

Kunai and lightning wove a deathly tapestry through the forest. The third wave of Cloud Ninja charged over the trench, stepping over the charred corpses of their comrades. Suddenly, the steel wire mesh pulled by the Konoha ambush squad sprang up from the decaying leaves, instantly slicing twelve Cloud Ninja assault team members into pieces. However, the splattering blood and flesh conveniently concealed the hand seals of the Lightning Release team behind them—seventeen lightning snakes lashed out along the wire, burning five Konoha ambush soldiers in the treetops into charcoal sculptures.

At this moment, the ninjas on both sides seemed to have transformed into ruthless killing machines. Stimulated by the blood and fire of this battlefield, almost everyone lost their minds, with only the enemy in front of them in their eyes.

The Inuzuka clan's ninja dogs sensed the disturbance underground. Just as the seven ninja dogs howled in warning, the Cloud Village's explosive tag squad rushed out from underground, and hundreds of explosive tags exploded in the center of Konoha's army.

The explosion obliterated the bodies of twenty-three ninjas, including this suicide squad. The shockwave slammed eight medical kits into tree trunks, and flying scalpels pierced the throats of three Cloud Village ninjas who were forming hand seals.

“This…this…” Naruto looked at the battlefield in front of him, which had been transformed into a living hell in just a few minutes, his hands trembling slightly.

(End of this chapter)