Naruto: Uchiha Youngjo's Konoha Spring

Chapter 277 The Mighty Susanoo (Part 2)

"Of course, I still have to thank that little girl for her gift. The purity of your Byakugan is unparalleled, even in the history of our lineage. I will use these eyes to destroy this ninja world filled with evil." Toneri said, his face showing fanaticism. "And you will be my bride, and together with me, we will create a brand new world."

Hinata frowned upon hearing this somewhat perverse statement. Then, she caught some information in what the other person was saying and quickly asked, "What did you do to Hanabi?"

“She’s fine, but her eyes will be the key to unlocking a new world,” Sheren said, touching his eye sockets.

"How do you know what happened in the ninja world?" Hinata gritted her teeth when she heard that Hanabi had been killed, but she also knew that she could only play along with the other party for now, try to get more information, and then look for an opportunity to break the deadlock. Fortunately, the other party did not seem to be very smart.

“Hehe, I didn’t care about the situation in your ninja world originally, but a while ago, a fellow clansman from the ninja world came to me. He told me about the current situation in the ninja world. That descendant of Hagoromo named Uchiha Tokō plans to plunge the entire ninja world into war.” Sheren said, “Therefore, I have to reshuffle the ninja world. This is also the reason why our ancestor Hamura left our branch on the moon.”

……

Inside the palace of the palace attendant, the three of them followed the guidance of the instruments, dodging several waves of puppet patrols, and gradually penetrated deeper into the palace.

"I never imagined that such a place existed on the moon," Naruto remarked, looking around at the magnificent decorations of the palace.

“This place is suspicious,” Sasuke said.

“Yes, such a huge palace is full of puppets. So far, we haven’t seen a single living person,” Neji said. “If the information our teacher gave us is correct, another branch of the immortals lives on the moon. Then this place shouldn’t be so quiet.”

“That makes sense. All we’ve encountered along the way have been puppets.” Naruto nodded in agreement. “By the way, what’s the deal with the Sage’s descendants?”

"Our teacher told us that the Senju, Uchiha, and your Uzumaki clan all trace their bloodline back to the legendary Sage of Six Paths, while our Hyuga bloodline comes from the Sage of Six Paths' younger brother," Neji explained to Naruto.

"Brother Kurama, is that so?" Naruto asked, looking up from inside the sealed space. Naruto remembered that Kurama seemed to have mentioned the Sage of Six Paths to him before.

“You and that Uchiha brat do indeed have the old man’s blood in your veins, but I don’t know anything about the old man’s brother,” Kurama said. “However, I can indeed sense a similar aura to the old man’s back then here.”

"Is that so?" Naruto scratched his head.

As the three continued deeper into the area, the puppets they encountered became increasingly heavily patrolled. Fortunately, Neji's Byakugan could warn of danger in advance, which prevented the three from being discovered by the puppets.

“It’s going to be very difficult to get past this point. The three of us aren’t professional infiltration and reconnaissance ninjas, and given the current patrol frequency, our chances of getting through safely are very low,” Neji said.

"What should we do then? Are we going to take action?" Naruto asked.

“We still don’t know Hinata and Hanabi’s location. If we act rashly, they might be in danger,” Sasuke said.

"Try this first." Neji said, taking out a delicate little mechanism from the sealing scroll. He carefully placed it on the ground, and the mechanism started to move quickly into the depths of the palace.

Soon, the small mechanism approached a patrol of puppets. Neji held his breath, staring at the mechanism moving rapidly toward the depths of the palace.

Neji only breathed a sigh of relief after seeing the mechanism slip past the patrolling puppet's feet without the puppet reacting.

“It seems these puppets only react to chakra. Instruments powered purely by electricity can bypass them.” Neji said, taking out a screen. The footage seen by the drones Neji had deployed appeared on the screen.

"Is this something the Scientific Ninja Tools Research Institute has developed over the past few years? It looks really amazing," Naruto exclaimed.

“That’s natural. The village didn’t pay much attention to this kind of development in the past, but after the teacher took office, the Scientific Ninja Tool Research Institute he established spends nearly 40% of the village’s income every year. If we don’t produce some results, the other departments should have complained long ago,” Neji said.

Neji operated the drone, searching deep within the palace. About ten minutes later, Neji found Hinata's room.

The Toneri had already left, leaving only two puppets to guard Hinata.

Hinata quickly noticed the subtle movement of the drone entering the room. She recognized it as a drone produced by the Konoha Ninja Tool Research Institute. After a slight glance, she guided the drone to hide behind her back with her fingers. Then, she began to transmit information to Neji using Konoha's exclusive sign language.

"The enemy is called Otsutsuki Toneri. He has already taken Hanabi's eyes, and he plans to use them to evolve into a higher form of the Byakugan, in order to destroy the ninja world?"

Neji translated Hinata's message word by word, then his expression changed drastically. In just a short while, Hanabi had already met a tragic end!
"Hmph, Otsutsuki Toneri, huh? It's time to teach him the price of harming Konoha's children." At this moment, Naruto's expression also turned cold.

"Let's find Hanabi's location first, then we'll split up. Naruto, you go to Hinata's side, and Sasuke and I will go to Hanabi's side, okay?" Neji said.

“Okay, let’s do it this way.” Naruto nodded.

About ten minutes later, the drone that had left Hinata finally found Hanabi's room. After the three of them looked at a temporary map for a while, they determined their route.

"Get ready." Naruto took a deep breath, and his chakra exploded instantly. At the same time, he entered Kurama Mode and transferred his chakra to Neji and Sasuke, and chakra flames also ignited on both of them.

"Go!" Naruto shouted, and the three of them charged out like arrows. The intense chakra reaction triggered the alarm mechanism of the puppets in the palace almost instantly. Alarms sounded one after another in the palace, and a large number of puppets began to gather rapidly in their direction.

"What?" Deep within the palace, where the giant Tenseigan was located, Toneri, who had heard the alarm, turned around abruptly, a hint of annoyance on his face. "The people of the ninja world are really persistent. It seems that destroying them was indeed the right thing to do."

After saying that, Sheren turned around and rushed towards the place where the alarm sounded.

Naruto transformed into a golden lightning bolt, darting and weaving through the not-so-spacious corridors of the palace. His golden chakra fox claws flashed intermittently, tearing the puppets that appeared around him to shreds.

Naruto stormed into the room where Hinata was being held. A flash of golden light appeared before Hinata's eyes, and the two puppets guarding her were torn to shreds by Naruto. "Hinata, I've come to save you!" After dealing with the puppets, Naruto turned around with a bright smile.

"Naruto-kun?" Hinata's face showed a hint of surprise when she saw Naruto. After seeing the drone from the village's Science Ninja Tool Research Institute, she knew that the village had sent someone to rescue her. But she did not expect that the person who came to rescue her would be Naruto, who had been missing for almost a year since he left without saying goodbye that day.

"I rushed back as soon as I received Neji's message. How are you? Are you alright?" Naruto asked.

"I...I'm fine," Hinata said haltingly. Although she knew the occasion might be a little inappropriate, Hinata's face involuntarily turned red again.

"Are you still able to move?" Naruto asked upon seeing this.

"I...can't mobilize my chakra," Hinata said, bowing her head.

"Can't mobilize chakra?" Upon hearing this, Naruto probed Hinata's body with his own chakra and quickly discovered that there seemed to be some kind of seal on Hinata's chakra.

"Damn it! Why are there sealing techniques everywhere?!" Naruto was overwhelmed by the sight of sealing techniques. He gritted his teeth, then scooped Hinata up in his arms. "Hold on tight!"

"Eh? Naruto-kun..." Hinata wanted to say something, but when Naruto's scent entered her nostrils, the little girl's brain went blank for a moment, and she could only instinctively wrap her arms around Naruto's neck.

The next moment, Naruto transformed into a streak of light once more, shattering the puppet blocking the doorway with a Rasengan before rushing out of the room to reunite with Sasuke and Neji.

Meanwhile, Sasuke and Neji also brought Hanabi, who had lost her eyesight and fallen into a coma, out of the room.

After the two groups of people who had split into two groups reunited, they were just about to break through and leave when they heard very rhythmic footsteps coming from deep within the palace behind them.

Everyone turned around and saw a figure slowly emerging from the depths of the palace.

"Otsutsuki Toneri?" Neji frowned as he looked at the newcomer.

"Ninjas of the ninja world, if you dare to trespass here, then stay and atone for your sins!" Otsutsuki Toneri said as he approached the crowd. When he saw Naruto holding Hinata, his expression instantly twisted.

"Who are you? What do you want to do to my chosen bride!" Otsutsuki Toneri roared at Naruto.

"The bride?" Neji was furious upon hearing this. Good heavens, this guy not only stole one of his sisters' eyes, but it seems he's planning to steal the body of his other sister too.

"You dare to covet the noblewoman of the Hyuga clan?" Neji said coldly.

"It's not up to you to decide who Hinata wants to marry," Naruto said in a deep voice.

"Noisy insects! Die!" Otsutsuki Toneri raised his hand angrily, a faint blue light flashing in his Byakugan. "Golden Wheel Reincarnation Explosion!"

"Naruto!" Neji shouted. Naruto stomped his foot, and the golden-red chakra aura expanded instantly, forming a huge shield that enveloped the group.

The repulsive force of the Golden Wheel Reincarnation Explosion slammed heavily onto the chakra shield, causing the Nine-Tails' chakra shield to shake violently. However, the person inside the shield was completely unharmed.

"Is this all the strength you have? You think you can destroy the ninja world with such meager power? Don't daydream!" Neji roared, unfurling a series of scrolls. After a series of flashes of light, all sorts of spears and cannons instantly appeared, then aimed at the opponent and fired all their weapons!

A burst of blue-green light appeared, and a barrier also appeared around Toneri, blocking Neji's attack. However, inside the barrier, Toneri suddenly covered his eyes and screamed in pain.

"Damn it! Is the eye power that guy gave me almost used up? And why did the Tenseigan's embryonic movement have to start at this time?" Shiren gritted his teeth, taking advantage of the last bit of time the protective shield was still there, he turned and fled, "Just a moment, once these eyes have evolved, I'll make you all die here!"

"Hmph, trying to escape? Neji!" Sasuke snorted coldly, and arcs of electricity instantly appeared around him as he crossed his arms. Seeing this, Neji took out a handful of steel balls from his waist and threw them at Toneri. The steel balls increased in speed as they passed through the magnetic field formed by the arcs of electricity around Sasuke, and hurtled towards Toneri.

However, at this moment, the puppets that had gathered earlier blocked the escape route of the Sheren one by one, and were blown into powder by the steel balls accelerated by the magnetic field.

"Should we go after them?" Sasuke asked, turning his head.

"Let's retreat first. Although we haven't retrieved Hanabi's eyes yet, the safest plan right now is to wait until we tell the teacher about the situation here, and then bring the village's army to conquer them." Neji took a deep breath, then looked down at his sister's eyes, which were wrapped in bandages, and gritted his teeth.

But at that moment, the palace suddenly shook violently, the ceiling began to crumble, and a violent energy erupted from the depths of the palace.

"This aura... Byakugan? How can there be so many?" Neji's expression changed drastically after sensing the energy emanating from everyone. However, the next moment, his limbs suddenly stiffened, and he fell straight to the ground.

"Neji?" Naruto was alarmed when he saw this, and he and Sasuke caught Neji and Hanabi, who had fallen, respectively.

"What's going on? Genjutsu?" Naruto suddenly remembered Neji's situation when they passed that lake, and hurriedly looked at Sasuke, hoping to get a positive answer. However, after all, his understanding of genjutsu was probably even worse than his teacher's.

"It doesn't seem like a genjutsu. At least, disrupting his chakra wouldn't wake him up," Sasuke said, shaking his head after trying it out.

However, in just a short while, the palace was already on the verge of collapse. Seeing this, Naruto had no choice but to shout, "Brother Kurama!"

The chakra flames surrounding Naruto suddenly expanded, instantly condensing into a giant golden nine-tailed fox, protecting everyone within it while simultaneously blasting open the palace ceiling.

(End of this chapter)