Naruto: Uchiha Youngjo's Konoha Spring

Chapter 276 The Mighty Susanoo (Part 1)

"Naruto! Sasuke! Don't waste your chakra! These puppets can repair themselves!" Neji shouted, reminding the two of his discovery.

"They seem to want to guard this place, Neji. What's inside?" Naruto asked after his main body arrived beside Neji.

"Is this probably the enemy's lair?" Neji said.

"In that case, let's charge through together." Naruto glanced at the cave, gritted his teeth, and said.

Soon, Naruto brought Neji to Sasuke's side, who was bombarding him with Lightning Release ninjutsu. Naruto grabbed Sasuke's shoulder, and the next moment, pure Nine-Tails chakra surged into their bodies, instantly covering their skin with a layer of red chakra light.

"What is this? The power of the Nine-Tails?" Neji looked down at the chakra flames on his body. At this moment, the amount of chakra in his body was more abundant than he had ever experienced before.

Sasuke felt an abundance of chakra within his body and clenched his fist. He also felt that the fusion of the two ocular powers in his eyes was accelerating under the pure chakra.

"Get ready, just charge in!" Naruto slammed his fist down, his chakra surging like boiling water. Then, he raised his hand, and a Rasengan several meters in diameter gathered in his palm. After throwing it at the sea of ​​puppets in front of him, Naruto shouted, "Let's go!"

As Naruto finished speaking, the three of them accelerated simultaneously. Lightning, wind, and the Eight Trigrams Seal intertwined behind them. In almost an instant, they broke through the gap created by the Giant Rasengan and carved a path through the puppet's inescapable net.

After entering the cave, Neji turned around and threw a force field bullet that Tenten had given him. The blue force field flashed by, and the puppets covered by the force field instantly lost their ability to move and turned back into mud.

The three of them continued deeper into the cave and soon arrived at a lake inside the cave.

Seeing this, the three of them did not hesitate for long and jumped in.

Upon entering the lake, a strange burst of bubbles surged toward the three of them. The moment they touched the bubbles, the illusions they contained enveloped them without their knowledge.

"Foolish brat, wake up!" Inside the sealed space, Kurama rested its chin on one hand, while the fingers of the other hand gently stroked Naruto beneath it.

The next moment, Naruto came to his senses and looked back to see that Neji and Sasuke had both fallen under the control of the genjutsu.

Seeing this, Naruto could only use his chakra hand to pull the two of them along and continue onward.

As Sasuke moved forward, a flash of purple light appeared in his eyes, freeing him from the genjutsu.

……

Neji, meanwhile, found himself in a daze amidst the chaos, arriving at a certain location.

"This is... the family cemetery?" Neji looked up and surveyed his surroundings. Then, one figure after another slowly appeared in Neji's vision, and Neji began to recall where he was.

This is his father's funeral.

In the family cemetery, two members of the branch family carefully placed a few of his father's personal belongings into a small pit that looked like it had just been dug. Ironically, his father had given everything for Hyuga, including his life, but in the end, he couldn't even be buried in the family cemetery.

Neji watched as the last handful of yellow earth was covered, then turned around and saw his younger self. He was only 5 years old in front of the tombstone, and the headscarf he wore to cover the ugly caged bird was already wet with the misty drizzle.

The child in front of him had no expression on his small face. Neji wanted to reach out and touch his younger self's head, but after thinking about it, he withdrew his hand.

Neji didn't see any members of the main family at the scene. To them, it was only natural for the branch family to sacrifice themselves for the main family, and the dead branch family members had no value.

However, not long after, Neji keenly sensed that there seemed to be a spying gaze on him from behind.

Neji turned around and saw his uncle watching from a distance in a corner of the cemetery.

Then... the surrounding scenery changed rapidly.

"A genius who's going to split up! So what? Once a caged bird, always a caged bird!"

Neji looked at his younger self, surrounded by the children of several clan elders in a corner of the clan, their fists and feet raining down on him.

He could have easily defeated all of them, but the caged bird on his forehead made him afraid to fight them. Even if they hadn't yet mastered the method of using the caged bird to cast spells, if he dared to throw a punch at them, he would be subjected to excruciating torture.

Then, one afternoon, his uncle told him that the Hokage intended to take him as his disciple. From that day on, everything changed completely. He became the esteemed young head of the Hyuga clan, and the ugly caged bird on his head was removed. The young bird that had been bound by the cage could finally try to fly freely.

"My fellow human beings on Earth, is this your experience?" Suddenly, an old voice rang out behind Neji.

"Who?" Neji turned around abruptly.

……

"Hey! Neji! Wake up!" In a daze, Naruto's voice rang in Neji's ear.

Neji opened his eyes in a daze, looked at Naruto and Sasuke in front of him, and rubbed his temples. "Was that a genjutsu?"

“Yeah,” Naruto nodded. “Luckily, Kurama helped me break free from the genjutsu, otherwise it would have been really dangerous.”

"Where am I?" Neji stood up again and looked around. He was stunned when he saw the lush jungle around him, the huge lake in front of him, and the huge spherical object above his head.

"I don't know." Naruto shrugged. "After I broke free from the genjutsu, I led you guys forward and we ended up here."

"Let's determine our location first, no matter what," Neji said, taking out a map and a positioning device from the scroll.

However, after a series of actions, Neji's expression grew increasingly serious.

"What happened?" Naruto asked hurriedly. "The positioning device... malfunctioned?" Neji frowned, then took out another instrument. "Try this one. This device can directly connect to the mainframe inside the research institute. After determining the direction, we can change locations later and then we should be able to pinpoint our location on the map."

However, after Neji input chakra into the positioning device, to his and Naruto's disbelief, the hands on the dial tilted upwards!
"The village... is in the sky?" Naruto looked in the direction of the pointer, but found that he could only see the blue sky.

“We are very likely no longer in the ninja world,” Neji said after taking a deep breath.

"Let's try searching for Hinata's whereabouts first," Sasuke suggested.

“That makes sense.” Neji nodded, then took out a new device and input chakra into it.

"Found it!" A few minutes later, Neji's face lit up with joy. The signal from Hinata's life monitor on the device was exceptionally clear.

"There!" Neji looked up at the huge spherical building above the three of them.

"So, we've really arrived on the moon?" Naruto shrugged and looked up at their target.

"The problem now is, how are we going to get up there?" Naruto said. "Which of you can fly?"

"I'll do it." Neji said, taking out a set of mechanical devices from the sealing scroll and starting to put them on. After putting on the equipment, Neji tried to activate it, and then the armor on his waist and legs simultaneously emitted a burst of blue flames. Neji's body also slowly floated up under the recoil of these flames.

"Let's go!" After confirming, Neji nodded to Naruto and Sasuke, then reached out and grabbed their outstretched hands, and the three of them flew together towards the spherical building in the air.

Just as the three approached the sphere, its surface suddenly reacted. A layer of black runes flashed, and countless holes appeared on the surface of the sphere. Countless puppets riding flying machines poured out from them and rushed towards the three.

"Is this never going to end?!" Naruto closed his eyes, and when he opened them again, a layer of golden-red eyeshadow had appeared at the corners of his eyes.

"Sage Mode?" Although Sasuke couldn't see it yet, he could sense the unusually active natural energy around him and turned to look in Naruto's direction.

"Sage Art! Rasenshuriken!" Naruto raised his hand, condensing a large Rasengan and infusing it with wind-attribute nature transformation. Under the influence of wind-attribute chakra, the Rasengan became flat and sharp. Naruto swung it out, and the giant Rasenshuriken whistled through the enemy ranks. Every puppet that came into contact with it was instantly sliced ​​in half.

Neji took this opportunity to lead the two to the barrier of the spherical building.

"A sealing barrier?" Neji frowned as he looked at the incantations that appeared on the surface of the barrier.

"How's it going? Can you handle it?" Naruto asked as he threw a Rasenshuriken behind him.

“It will take a few minutes.” Neji took a deep breath and began to examine the sealing incantation on the barrier.

"Hurry up! There are more and more puppets!" Naruto urged, watching the ever-growing number of puppets in front of him.

"Sage Art: Lightning Release: Vermilion Bird!" Just then, Sasuke, who was holding Neji's other hand, formed a hand seal with one hand and entered Sage Mode. He then created a vast sea of ​​lightning with Sage Chakra. Afterward, a loud phoenix cry rang out, and a giant bird made of lightning took flight from the sea of ​​lightning. It flew towards the area with the most densely packed puppets and exploded.

The fine crackling lightning instantly engulfed the massive number of puppets, and the dissipated lightning from the explosion fell back into the sea of ​​lightning in the sky.

Naruto suddenly turned to look at Sasuke, who grinned as he sensed Naruto's gaze: "What, you don't think you're the only one who can learn this, do you?"

After the Thunderbird exploded, the remaining puppets began to gather again. However, when the lightning fell into the sea of ​​thunder, another loud phoenix cry rang out, and the exploding Thunder Phoenix completed its rebirth in the sea of ​​thunder.

“This technique can keep cycling until my Sage Chakra runs out, which should buy you about 5 minutes. Is that enough?” Neji asked.

"That's enough." Neji nodded and began to focus on breaking the seal on the surface of the barrier.

Five minutes later, as the sea of ​​lightning in the sky completely dissipated, Neji also found the key point of this sealing technique. After violently inputting chakra, he pried open a crack in the surface of the barrier, and then the three of them rushed in at full speed.

After entering the building, the three avoided the puppet army, then concealed their presence and hid themselves before finally letting out a sigh of relief.

"Let's find Hinata first." Neji swallowed a soldier's ration pill to recover his chakra, and then took out a device that displayed Hinata's life signal.

The three of them crept into Toneri's palace, and at that moment, Hinata slowly woke up in a bedroom inside the palace.

"You're awake." Seeing Hinata wake up, Toneri, who had been guarding Hinata's bedside, sat up from his chair and walked towards Hinata.

Upon seeing this, Hinata instinctively adopted a defensive posture. "Who are you?"

“My name is Otsutsuki Toneri. Strictly speaking, I share the same bloodline as you.” Toneri activated his Byakugan.

"What do you want to do? How is Hanabi?" Hinata looked at Toneri getting closer and closer, and assumed the starting stance of Gentle Fist, but she found that she could not mobilize even a tiny bit of chakra in her body.

“Don’t waste your time,” said Toneri. “As for my purpose, our clan has been watching over the ninja world from the moon. However, what we have seen is endless war. Your village is even planning to launch a war that will sweep across the ninja world. I am tired of all this. So, I plan to destroy this evil world from the source and then rebuild a new one.”

"You won't succeed. The Hokage will definitely stop you." Hinata took a deep breath and gritted her teeth as she heard this.

"Your Hokage? Is it that descendant of Hagoromo named Uchiha Touko?" Otsutsuki Toneri said. "I admit he is strong, and I am not his match now. However, once my eyes have evolved, he will be nothing more than a mortal in my eyes."

"Your eyes... Byakugan? I had no idea that the Byakugan of my family could rival the Mangekyou Sharingan."

Hinata's eyes flickered. As a member of the reconnaissance team, Hinata was now trying to extract as much information as possible from the other side.

"Hahaha." Sheren laughed loudly, "So this branch of your ninja clan has already lost its clan heritage? The Byakugan's potential is even greater than the Sharingan of the Hagoromo descendants. As long as it can evolve, the Mangekyou Sharingan? What a joke."

(End of this chapter)