Naruto: I, who fooled the ninja world, was hailed as a savior.

Chapter 462 Kushina: Even Otsutsuki Kumoshiki is more like a father than you.

boom!!

A terrifying and ferocious aura, so powerful it sent shivers down one's spine, erupted from Naruto's body as if a long-dormant beast had been fully awakened!

Crimson chakra transformed into a blood-red pillar of light that shot into the sky, piercing the dark heavens of the void. The ground beneath Naruto's feet shattered and crumbled, and shockwaves swept outwards like a tsunami.

Those closest, such as Uchiha Sasuke, were thrown back without any resistance, their screams and groans drowned out by the roar.

Soon, the scarlet light slowly receded, revealing the figure within.

Half of Naruto's face grew and spread, instantly covering his entire face, forming a hideous bone face with an inhuman beauty.

Muscles swelled, bones deformed, and the body emitted a sound like glaciers cracking. The entire torso and limbs were covered with thicker, more angular, pale bone armor.

"Tsk."

A hoarse voice, completely different from Naruto's, came from beneath that hideous bony face, saying impatiently, "If this brat dies, I'll be in a lot of trouble."

As he spoke, Naruto lowered his head, looked at the Totsuka Blade that had pierced through his chest, slowly raised his right hand, which was covered by thick bone armor, and grabbed the blade in front of his chest.

"you……"

Feeling an irresistible force emanating from the other end of the Totsuka Blade, Itachi Uchiha's expression changed, and he blurted out, "What are you?"

"I?"

Naruto slowly raised his head, and beneath the mask, a pair of scarlet vertical pupils replaced human eyes as he coldly gazed at Itachi Uchiha in the distance.

“You are not worthy to know my name,” he grinned, his tone cold and mocking.

Upon hearing this, Itachi Uchiha's pupils narrowed, and he pulled his right hand, which was controlling Susanoo, sharply backward, attempting to use the Totsuka Blade to extract and seal Naruto and the Nine-Tails within him.

However, it remained completely still.

The fiery red blade piercing through "Naruto's" chest could not be pulled out even an inch, no matter how much Itachi Uchiha activated his eye power and chakra.

All that could be heard was an incredibly dense series of cracking sounds coming from Naruto's body, as if countless bones were being compressed and reconstructed, and his bone density had reached an inhuman level.

It was like the most solid cage, tightly binding the raging chakra within.

The next moment, Naruto gripped the sword blade tightly with all his might, and with his other hand he clenched into a fist, a terrifying explosion emanated from his fist as he slammed his fist into the sword blade.

Click!
Amidst the ear-piercing clang of metal clashing, the Ten-Fist Sword was shattered by this ferocious punch, leaving only the front half of the blade still embedded in Naruto's chest.

Uchiha Itachi, who was forcefully pulling the Totsuka Blade, was caught off guard, and his half-body Susanoo staggered backward, carving a deep trench in the ground.

Naruto grabbed the broken half of the Totsuka Blade stuck in his chest, tightened his fingers, and crushed it to pieces with a crack, turning it into specks of light that dissipated.

The next moment, Naruto's crimson vertical pupils turned and looked at Uchiha Sasuke, who had just regained his footing in the distance. He reached out and flashed, instantly appearing in front of Uchiha Sasuke.

Uchiha Sasuke felt a blur before his eyes, and the hideous bone face and scarlet vertical pupils were already inches away, the terrifying aura emanating from them making him hold his breath.

"Uchiha brat." An impatient, hoarse voice came from beneath the bone, "Give me your hand."

“You…” Sasuke Uchiha instantly recognized the familiar voice and blurted out, “You’re the Nine-Tails?!”

"Stop talking nonsense and hurry up." Nine-Tails' tone became even more impatient, and it directly stretched out its fist covered with thick bone armor.

Sasuke Uchiha reacted immediately, raised his right hand, clenched his fist, and clashed it with the other fist. The fist felt cold and hard.

The next moment, Sasuke Uchiha felt a blur before his eyes, and then he found himself on a familiar beach, in the sealed space inside Naruto's body, in the small wooden house he had left last time.

Naruto stood in front of him, but in front of Naruto stood another figure.

"The Fourth Hokage?" Sasuke Uchiha was taken aback, his brows furrowing. "What are you doing here? And that guy outside..."

"This is just a portion of the chakra I left in Naruto's body before I died."

Minato Namikaze turned around and explained, "I will appear whenever someone tries to break the seal on the Nine-Tails, to protect Naruto and to prevent the Nine-Tails from going berserk."

After offering an explanation, Minato turned his gaze back to Naruto, asking in a complex tone, "Naruto, do you really want to do this?"

“That Otsutsuki Kumoshiki, he is clearly using you. He gives you power and guides you, all for his own purposes.”

Unlike the original body, he has always been inside Naruto's body, watching Naruto. He knows Naruto's experiences from childhood to adulthood and can guess what Naruto wants to do.

But he still wanted to persuade Naruto to return to Konoha...

Naruto ignored Minato and simply watched him quietly.

Just then, a furious roar came from behind Minato.

"Minato Namikaze!"

Minato's body jolted, his gentle yet worried expression froze instantly, and he slowly turned his head with a stiff neck.

A woman strode over angrily, her eyes practically spitting fire, veins bulging on her forehead, and long, fiery red hair flying wildly behind her.

"Wait, wait, Kushina, listen to me!" Minato's face showed fear as he waved his hands frantically, his words quickening as he said, "I'm doing this for Naruto too..."

Bang! !

Under Sasuke Uchiha's dazed gaze, the enraged Kushina Uzumaki didn't give Minato a chance to finish speaking before delivering a solid punch to his face.

Minato was sent spinning several times in mid-air by the punch before collapsing face down on the ground with a thud.

"You bastard! Have you ever been a father even for a day?! Huh? You're here lecturing my son?!"

Kushina's fists were steaming, her chest heaving with rage. She raised her leg and stomped on Minato's body again and again, each stomp causing his body to twitch.

"I already said, no way! I'm so much older than Naruto when I became a Jinchūriki, how many scornful looks did I get, how long was my freedom restricted? What about Naruto?!"

Kushina retorted angrily, "You said that old man would take good care of Naruto, and this is how he takes care of him? He lets him be ostracized and subjected to emotional abuse by the entire village, and this is what you call taking good care of him?!"

"Stop, stop for a second, Kushina..."

Minato, who was lying on the ground, raised his hand, while Kushina's raised leg stopped in mid-air.

Minato covered his rapidly swelling face, obediently got up and knelt on the ground, cold sweat beading on his forehead, and stammered, "The Third Hokage, the Third Hokage, he..."

"He chose to keep it a secret for the sake of Konoha's overall interests. If Naruto's identity as a Jinchuriki had been exposed at the time, it might have caused even more turmoil. He did his best to keep it hidden..."

"Did he manage to keep it a secret? Those guys in the village practically have the Nine-Tailed Fox on their lips all the time, who could he possibly keep it from?!" Kushina's eyebrows shot up, and her fists clenched tighter.

"If they can't even protect a child, then Konoha and the Hokage shouldn't exist! That old geezer should be removed from the Hokage position and replaced with someone who can protect him!"

"Wait, wait a minute, let's not talk about that now." Minato quickly spoke, "You've probably seen it too, right? That Otsutsuki Kumoshiki, he's really dangerous!"

"He doesn't care about the lives of others at all in order to achieve his own goals. Look at how he's turned Naruto into this. What if he's just using Naruto..."

"What do we care about the lives of others? I'm already dead! And you're dead too!"

Kushina Uzumaki coldly interrupted him: "Naruto is my son. My son is my son, no matter what he becomes."

"Right now, I only care about his life or death. Anyone who dares to touch him, I'll kill them! Anyone who tries to capture him will have to run over my dead body!"

"Naruto was able to grow up smoothly, without picking up bad habits, and become so excellent and strong, able to protect himself, and with his own thoughts and principles..."

"It's all because that Yun-shiki is taking care of him, not because of you, Minato Namikaze, nor because of that old geezer, Hiruzen Sarutobi!"

Kushina stared at Minato and said, word by word, "In this respect, that Otsutsuki Kumoshiki is even more like a father than you. You have no right to lecture Naruto!"

"..." Minato Namikaze opened his mouth, but all the words stuck in his throat. He could only lower his head deeply, his golden hair hanging down.

A brief silence fell over the cabin, broken only by Kushina's slightly rapid breathing.

Just then, Naruto, who had been silent all along, suddenly spoke up: "Mother..."

Kushina's body trembled violently. She slowly turned around and looked into those azure eyes that resembled her own. Her voice trembled involuntarily as she asked, "Naruto, what did you call me?"

Naruto paused slightly, then spoke again: "Mom..."

Before he could finish speaking, Kushina rushed over and hugged him tightly. Her arms were wrapped around Naruto, holding him close as if she wanted to meld him into her very bones. Naruto's body stiffened instinctively. Kushina, holding him close, suddenly softened her previously angry and high-pitched voice, saying gently, "Good boy, good boy..."

"Don't care what your bastard father says. What Fourth Hokage? He and his wife have already given their lives for Konoha. We have done our duty to Konoha."

"What appears here now is not a Hokage or a former Nine-Tails Jinchuriki, but just an incompetent father and a mother who missed her son's growth."

Her cheek gently pressed against Naruto's hair, and she said in a soft voice, "I was pregnant with you for ten months, and every single day of those ten months, I imagined what you looked like."

"Do you look more like your father or me? Are you mischievous or quiet? What kind of person will you become? I'm sorry, I missed thirteen years of your growing up."

She loosened her grip slightly, cupped Naruto's face in her hands, and looked at him with almost greedy intensity: "Naruto, I'm so happy that you still acknowledge me, so very happy..."

"So, do whatever you want. If your bastard father doesn't want to help you, I'll beat him up for you."

Upon hearing this, Minato Namikaze lowered his head and sighed resignedly, while Naruto's previously stiff body gradually relaxed.

His hands, which had been hanging stiffly at his sides, hesitated for a moment before slowly rising and awkwardly embracing Kushina.

He buried his face in Kushina's shoulder, feeling the warmth of his mother, a warmth he had never experienced before.

A moment later, Naruto took a deep breath, slowly stepped back, left Kushina's embrace, looked at Sasuke with a complicated expression, and said, "Sasuke, come here."

As soon as he finished speaking, Naruto raised his right hand and made a grasping motion. The simple wooden sword that had been hanging quietly on the wall of the wooden house appeared in his hand.

Sasuke Uchiha snapped out of his daze. Although he didn't know what Naruto wanted to do, he didn't ask any questions and stepped forward as instructed, standing in front of Naruto.

The next moment, under his slightly astonished gaze, Naruto gripped the wooden sword and thrust it fiercely into his chest.

However, the moment the tip of the wooden sword touched Sasuke's chest, it was as if it had pierced a calm lake, only creating gentle ripples on the surface of Sasuke's body.

hum!
A gentle, vast, and vibrant chakra flowed along the wooden sword like a warm current into Sasuke's body, quickly merging with his own chakra.

Furthermore, a portion of it spontaneously flooded into his mind, nourishing his spirit and even into his Mangekyou Sharingan, which had become blurred from frequent use.

"This is..." Sasuke Uchiha shuddered, feeling an indescribable coolness and comfort in his eyes, and the soreness and fatigue quickly subsided.

Moreover, he could clearly feel that his pupil power surged instantly, as if some kind of shackles had been broken and some kind of restriction had been lifted.

"What kind of power is this?" Sasuke Uchiha's eyes were filled with shock.

“Asura’s Yang power.” Naruto calmly sheathed his wooden sword. “To be precise, it’s a portion of the Sage of Six Paths’ Yang power. He can only use it because his vision can’t see this area.”

Without a doubt, this was the Zanpakuto he condensed using Ashura's chakra under the guidance of Otsutsuki Kumoshiki.

"Right now, you can do what only the Eternal Mangekyou Sharingan can do: ignore the risk of eye power depletion and blindness, and unleash your full power."

After saying that, Naruto paused, his gaze seemingly piercing through the sealed space to see the outside world, and said, "That should be enough. You can leave now."

Before Sasuke could ask any more questions, he felt a gentle but irresistible force pushing him, and everything in front of him quickly became blurry and distant.

hum!
After a slight dizziness subsided, Sasuke Uchiha regained consciousness.

Before him stood "Naruto," his entire body covered in grotesque, heavy bone armor, and the memory that had just been erased by "Michishiki" resurfaced in his mind.

Sasuke Uchiha's face instantly turned icy cold, and the slight excitement that had just risen in his eyes from gaining powerful strength was replaced by an even more chilling killing intent.

He slowly raised his head, his gaze icy, and looked at Uchiha Itachi in the distance.

boom!!

A deafening roar and a blast of air suddenly came from in front of me.

Suddenly, the 'fierce eye' appeared in front of Naruto at a speed too fast for the naked eye to follow, clenching one arm into a fist and throwing a punch.

But almost at the same time he moved, the Nine-Tails seemed to have anticipated this, and its fist, covered in thick bone armor, met him at a speed that was in no way inferior.

The two fists, both containing terrifying power, collided solidly, and the shockwave, far exceeding the previous one, exploded in a ring shape!

Centered on the point where the two fists collided, the already shattered ground beneath their feet collapsed and cracked, whipped up by the violent impact, forming a spreading wave.

Sasuke Uchiha, who was closest to the object, felt an irresistible force rushing towards him, his black hair and robes fluttering wildly behind him.

"You smell so good..."

The 'Fierce Eyes' stared intently at the equally crimson vertical pupils, the Hollow's greedy nature taking over: "If I eat you, I should become extremely strong."

The Nine-Tails didn't respond to the 'Fierce Eye's' words. Instead, it tilted its head slightly and said to Sasuke Uchiha behind it, "Leave this guy to me."

"That Uchiha Itachi is yours."

"Are you alright, Uchiha brat?"

Upon hearing this, Sasuke Uchiha felt an unprecedented surge of power within his body and the endless flow of surging ocular energy in his eyes, and a smile gradually spread across his face.

“No problem,” he replied softly.

boom!!

As soon as he finished speaking, Kurama suddenly raised his leg and kicked the 'fierce-eyed' figure in front of him, while Sasuke Uchiha unleashed an unprecedented surge of chakra.

Purple chakra enveloped his entire body, and propelled by this violent chakra, his feet left the ground, and his body floated into the air, with purple chakra gathering around him!

Click click click!
The sickening sound of bones growing resounded rapidly as purple chakra quickly condensed into a complete skeleton. Meridians and flesh grew on the skeleton, and an outer garment covered it.

A purple Susanoo, much taller and more solid than before, with a complete lower body and legs, stood majestically on the ruins, its body crackling with uncontrollable lightning!
Looking at the Susanoo in the distance, radiating an astonishing aura, and at Sasuke Uchiha's cold Mangekyou Sharingan...

Itachi Uchiha's face darkened completely. The calm that he had always maintained like a mask on his face finally shattered, and the anger of his plans spiraling out of control surged in his eyes.

"Why? Why!" A deep voice squeezed out of his throat, filled with barely suppressed anger. "Why can't you listen to me?!"

He couldn't understand it, nor could he accept it.

The right path that I had carefully prepared for him, the future that I had sacrificed everything for, was rejected by Sasuke time and time again, and even completely destroyed by that Uzumaki Naruto!

“Since you refuse…” Itachi Uchiha’s voice became hoarse and cold, “then I will have no choice but to personally ‘correct’ you!”

As soon as he finished speaking, he raised the pale arm that came from the White Zetsu's original body, his five fingers pressed together like a knife, and stabbed it fiercely at Uchiha Shisui, whose eyes were empty in front of him!
puff!

The arm pierced through Uchiha Shisui's chest without any resistance, and then a powerful suction force erupted from the arm that had pierced through Shisui's chest.

Chakra, eye power, and soul were all devoured and absorbed by the white Zetsu arm, and Uchiha Shisui's body began to turn into dust at a visible speed.

"Ughhhhh!!"

Uchiha Itachi let out a painful growl, and beneath his exposed skin, veins bulged like earthworms, while his white Zetsu arm swelled and twisted.

He followed Danzo's approach back then, but the White Zetsu was much more stable than Hashirama's cells.

However, this also means that he abandoned his original plan to use "Kotoamatsukami" to alter Sasuke's perception.

Now, he wants to personally correct Uchiha Sasuke's mistake to prevent Sasuke from becoming a threat to Konoha in the future.

boom!!

Having absorbed all of Uchiha Shisui's power, Uchiha Itachi suddenly unleashed an even stronger and more chaotic burst of chakra than before.

The orange-red chakra engulfed him completely like flames, surging and condensing wildly. The Susanoo, which originally only had half a body, saw its bones grow wildly and its flesh and tendons spread out.

Soon, a Susanoo with a complete lower body and legs, with a size comparable to Sasuke's Susanoo, but with a more violent and chaotic aura, rose from the ground.

"Uchiha Sasuke!!"

"Uchiha Itachi!!"

Itachi Uchiha and Sasuke Uchiha, the two brothers, roared simultaneously.

Boom! Boom!
Two equally towering giants, one purple and one orange, carrying terrifying power, shattered the earth, stirred up raging waves, and charged fiercely toward each other.

(Private Marseille, I wrote a little more today, so it's a little late. Please give me some monthly votes at the end of the month! OR2)

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