Naruto: Uchiha Youngjo's Konoha Spring

Chapter 230 Fated Showdown (Part 1)

A golden light appeared on Naruto's body, and the wind-attribute chakra billowed up the hem of his coat.

Purple lightning also erupted beneath Sasuke's feet.

The next instant, the two of them sprang up almost simultaneously. Naruto ran wildly toward the direction from which the sound of water came, while Sasuke gave chase.

The two quickly arrived at the Valley of the End, where two enormous statues stood facing each other at opposite ends of the waterfall. Naruto took the lead, leaping high onto the statue of the First Hokage, Hashirama Senju.

"Stop right there!" Sasuke caught up and threw a heavy punch at Naruto in mid-air.

Naruto turned around and saw Sasuke coming at him menacingly. He twisted his body in mid-air and kicked Sasuke squarely in the stomach, sending Sasuke flying back.

Sasuke, who had suffered a severe abdominal injury, landed on top of the statue of the First Hokage, Hashirama Senju. He clutched his abdomen, enduring the nausea, and gritted his teeth as he looked at Naruto, who was perched atop the statue of Madara Uchiha.

The spray from the waterfall rose, and in the damp, cold wind and mist, Naruto's blond hair clung wetly to his forehead. The flames that once danced in his blue eyes were now replaced by a peaceful calm. However, Sasuke's eyes saw a resolute determination as firm as a rock beneath this calm.

"Sasuke, don't waste your energy. I have my own path to walk, and my ninja way is not in Konoha," Naruto said calmly. "I don't want to hurt you either."

"Shut up!" Sasuke snapped, his anger rising. "Who do you think you are? A savior? Without Konoha, you are nothing! Wake up!"

Before he finished speaking, he suddenly exerted force with his feet. A small piece of gravel shattered on the slippery stone surface, and Sasuke's figure transformed into a pale purple lightning bolt that tore through the air! He was so fast that he only left a blurry afterimage in Naruto's eyes, almost merging with the cascading waterfall. Sasuke's figure drew a sharp zigzag in the air, instantly passing in front of Naruto. A cold, sharp edge silently emerged from Naruto's back, targeting his heart. But when it came time to exert force, Sasuke gritted his teeth and slightly deflected the tip of the purple lightning blade to the right.

"laugh!"

The blade sliced ​​through the air and water mist with a faint whistling sound, but it only pierced the orange coat that had been suddenly torn apart.

Naruto vanished. Just as the blade touched his body, a violent, visible swirling current of air exploded beneath his feet! The current carried a piercing, sharp shriek.

"Sasuke, I'm faster than you now." Naruto's voice came from Sasuke's side and above, carrying the whistling sound of rapidly flowing wind.

Sasuke's pupils contracted sharply, and the three tomoe of his Sharingan spun wildly, instantly locking onto his target. Without the slightest hesitation, he twisted his waist and spun around, the purple lightning in his hand, carrying blinding purple light, slashing upwards like a venomous snake's tail! The lightning crackled and tore through the air, aiming straight for Naruto's waist and abdomen!
Faced with Sasuke's counterattack, Naruto's body twisted backward in mid-air in a strange way, almost defying common sense. Wind-style chakra flowed rapidly across his body, forming an invisible airflow that narrowly deflected the deadly lightning. A few strands of his golden hair broke off and scattered under the spinning wind blades. Before his feet had fully touched the ground, his toes touched the slippery stone statue's shoulder below, and his body sprang up again, transforming into a golden hurricane that spun close to the ground, actively engulfing Sasuke!
Highly compressed and condensed wind-style chakra formed a rapidly spinning, sharp-edged cone-shaped storm in front of Naruto's palm, slamming towards Sasuke with a piercing shriek! The speed was astonishing; the wind pressure even instantly pushed aside and cut the water droplets splashing from the surrounding waterfall into finer mist!

Sasuke pushed his Sharingan to its limit, frantically trying to capture the trajectory of the deadly storm with his three tomoe, but Naruto's speed was simply too fast, already exceeding the visual limit of his three tomoe Sharingan.

Naruto sighed softly. When his attack reached Sasuke, the wind-style chakra that had been spinning and cutting at high speed just a second ago was instantly compressed and then released in a more peaceful way.

A loud popping sound rang out in front of Sasuke. The force generated by the compressed chakra sent his body flying uncontrollably backward, crashing heavily onto the shoulder of the statue of Hashirama Senju. Cracks spread out, and the next moment, Sasuke's body was swept into the pool by the rushing waterfall.

"I'm sorry, Sasuke." Naruto, having withdrawn his fist, looked down at Sasuke, who had fallen into the pool below, and said softly. Then, Naruto picked up his jacket, the hem of which had been partially torn by the purple lightning, and turned to leave.

After realizing his own path and reconciling with the voice in his mind, Naruto's strength increased to an incredible level overnight. He, who was originally at most on par with Sasuke, now completely suppressed Sasuke.

However, just as Naruto turned around, a cacophony of sounds, like the chirping of a thousand birds, erupted behind him. Sasuke, his figure wreathed in purple lightning, hurtled towards Naruto at breakneck speed. Although he didn't know why Naruto's speed had increased so much compared to a few days ago, Sasuke knew that to catch up with Naruto's current speed, he had to resort to unconventional methods. Chidori, a ninjutsu that sacrificed agility for explosive linear speed, became Sasuke's only option at this moment.

"Sasuke..." In Naruto's eyes, Sasuke's figure was getting closer and closer. In almost the time it takes to breathe, the figure wrapped in purple lightning was already in front of him. At this distance, Naruto could clearly see the determination in the other's Sharingan eyes with their three tomoe.

"Kid, it seems you won't be able to leave until you completely defeat him," the Nine-Tailed Fox, who had been watching the drama unfold for most of the day, reminded him from inside the sealed space.

"Well, I'll have to trouble you, Kurama-nii-san," Naruto said.

"Being able to beat up those Uchiha brats? Sounds pretty good." Inside the sealed space, Kurama stood up, its nine tails swaying, and golden chakra flowed through the sealed gate into Naruto's body.

"Brother Kurama, hold back a bit, don't really hurt him." At this moment, Naruto's whole body was suddenly filled with golden light, and golden chakra transformed into a divine garment on his body. His azure eyes also turned into eerie vertical pupils, and his powerful chakra surged around him like golden flames.

Sasuke's breath hitched. The information from his Sharingan overloaded him instantly! The energy level contained in that pure golden chakra was like facing a volcano about to erupt! The resolute will in those eerie vertical pupils was colder than the water of a waterfall! An unprecedented sense of crisis gripped his heart like a cold iron clamp!

Retreat? No! The pride of the Uchiha clan, the fury at being "betrayed" by the person before him, and the tearing feeling deep in his heart of being completely abandoned, which he himself was unwilling to admit, instantly overwhelmed his fear!

"Stop joking!!!" Sasuke roared like a wild beast, pouring all his fear, anger, and confusion into the lightning in his right hand!

"Chidori—!!!"

A deafening explosion, like the simultaneous screams of a thousand birds, tore through the roar of the Valley of the End! More violent and dazzling than ever before! An unprecedented amount of lightning-attribute chakra was frantically compressed and condensed in his right palm! It was no longer a sharp, thrusting lightning spear, but an extremely unstable ball of lightning, purplish-black, constantly emitting thick arcs of electricity! The destructive energy caused the surrounding air to distort violently, the crackling arcs of electricity leaping and turning half of his face deathly pale, his Sharingan glowing crimson in the lightning!
He staked all his bets, all his resentment, and all the pain of being left behind on this one strike!
Naruto's expression turned serious, and the golden chakra cloak around his body shone brightly! He slowly raised his right hand. No longer the sharp, wind-attribute chakra, but a deep, heavy hum, as if emanating from the depths of the earth, as pale blue chakra surged and compressed wildly into his palm like a storm! Its speed surpassed even Sasuke's Chidori! The chakra density was astonishingly high, forming a rapidly spinning sphere in his palm with an incredibly precise internal structure! The powerful wind generated by the high-speed rotation tore through the surrounding mist, emitting a deep and terrifying howl!

"Spiral pills!"

In Nine-Tails Chakra Mode, the speed at which this A-rank ninjutsu is condensed and the energy it contains reach an unbelievable level!

The two, one shrouded in darkness by the raging lightning of the Thousand Birds, and the other enveloped in burning golden flames, moved simultaneously like two poles of destiny!
No detours, no probing! It was a direct, primal, and brutal head-on collision! For completely different paths, for the uncompromising beliefs in each other's hearts!
"Naruto—!!!" Sasuke's roar was drowned out by the shriek of Chidori.

"Sasuke—!!!" Naruto roared, accompanied by the roar of the Nine-Tails' chakra!

Gold and purple, light and electricity, like two meteors flying in opposite directions, collided violently between the palms of the giant stone statues of Hashirama Senju and Madara Uchiha, above the roaring waterfall abyss!
"Buzz—!!!!!!!!!!"

Time seemed to be stretched infinitely in that instant, and then compressed to the extreme!

There was no earth-shattering explosion at the moment the Rasengan made contact with Chidori.

First to erupt was a silent annihilation field formed by the clash of extreme energies! A terrifying sphere, distorting light and swallowing sound, instantly expanded! Inside the sphere, golden chakra and blue-white lightning frantically tore and annihilated each other! The destructive energy turbulence, like billions of invisible blades, shattered the surrounding space into pieces! The enormous stone hand beneath their feet, its hard rock, silently turned into the finest dust, collapsing and dissipating like a sandcastle!
Immediately afterwards, the destructive energy that had been compressed to its limit finally broke through the critical point!

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(End of this chapter)