Naruto: I'm in Konoha, my name is Uzumaki Menma

Chapter 274 Payne Joins the War? Sitting at the Children's Table

The battle between Menma and Jigen generated chakra fluctuations and deafening explosions, like a boulder thrown into the deep waters of Amegakure, with ripples quickly spreading throughout the entire village.

Orochimaru, who had just joined the Akatsuki and was observing Jiraiya's battle with Pain with the curiosity and greed of a researcher, was also drawn to the sudden explosion.

His golden snake eyes narrowed slightly as he looked towards the southeast where violent tremors were constantly emanating, his long tongue unconsciously licking his lips.

"Oh? It seems that Amegakure is even more lively than I imagined today..." he muttered to himself, a hint of excitement in his voice.

Obito, standing in the shadow of another tower, looked with his Sharingan toward the direction of the explosion, but his brows were tightly furrowed beneath his mask.

He asked Zetsu, who emerged from the wall, "Besides Hanzo and his direct ANBU, are there any other Jonin of this caliber within Amegakure?"

"How could that be!" White Zetsu denied in his signature exaggerated tone, "That old man Hanzo is so suspicious. If there were any disobedient and powerful Jonin, he would have eliminated them long ago! Apart from our Akatsuki organization, Amegakure is basically a wasteland now!"

Black Zetsu's hoarse voice added gravely, "It's definitely unusual. The texture and level of this chakra... are far beyond what an ordinary Jonin could achieve. In fact... it feels somewhat familiar."

A deep sense of doubt flashed in Obito's single eye: "Then... who exactly caused this level of battle?"

He felt a vague unease; things seemed to be spiraling out of control.

On the battlefield, Konan fluttered her pure white paper wings and slowly descended from the sky to Pain's side, whispering, "Pain, what's going on over there... I'll go check it out."

Pain remained expressionless, merely nodding slightly. His attention remained focused on Jiraiya, who lay among the rubble, his breath weak yet still struggling.

He slowly raised his hand, the jet-black chakra rod rising once more, its chilling killing intent locking onto his former teacher.

"Jiraiya-sensei... it's time to end this completely."

Just as he was about to bring down the black rod and pierce Jiraiya!

boom!
A figure flew backward like a cannonball from the direction of the explosion, moving at great speed and accompanied by a shrill whistling sound, crashing heavily into the already crumbling and dilapidated tower wall next to Pain of the Asura Path!
Bricks and stones flew everywhere, and smoke and dust filled the air!
Then, amidst the astonished and uncertain gazes of the crowd, a figure slowly emerged from the smoke and dust.

He wore a tattered white haori, his face and exposed skin were covered with strange black wedge-shaped patterns, a trace of blood still lingered at the corner of his mouth, and his breathing was somewhat disordered, but his eyes still carried a haughty indifference and arrogance.

It was precisely this forced activation of the "Wedge State One" Cixian.

Jigen's gaze swept indifferently over the Akatsuki members present.

Pain, Konan, Obito, and Zetsu, who had just arrived, finally landed on the heavily injured Jiraiya on the ground.

He wiped the blood from the corner of his mouth with the back of his hand, his tone strangely polite: "Sorry to disturb your battle. I have some personal matters to attend to and will be leaving soon."

His nonchalant attitude, as if he had just barged into someone else's backyard, thoroughly enraged Nagato, who was already displeased that his plans had been disrupted.

"Arrogant!" Nagato, controlling the Asura Path of Pain, thrust the rapidly spinning saw teeth behind him with a piercing buzzing sound toward Jigen's back!

This strike was swift and ruthless, enough to easily tear steel apart.

However, Cixian didn't even turn around.

He simply raised his left hand casually, and a jet-black chakra rod instantly appeared in his hand, blocking the violent serrated edge with perfect precision!
clang! ! !
Amidst the sickening clang of metal, a scene that shocked everyone unfolded.

The incredibly sturdy serrated teeth of the Asura Path Pain shattered like fragile glass the moment they collided with the seemingly ordinary black rod in Jigen's hand!
Immediately afterwards, Jigen turned to the side and delivered a seemingly ordinary whip kick, which struck Pain in the waist and abdomen with lightning speed!
boom! ! !
Asura Path Pain's body, reinforced by mechanisms, was struck head-on by a battering ram and sent flying backward without any resistance, crashing heavily into the ruins further away, where he was unable to move for a moment!

quiet!
Deathly silence!

Whether it was Nagato observing from Pain's perspective, or Obito and Black Zetsu on the scene, they were all deeply shocked by what they saw!

The black rod that suddenly appeared in the mysterious man's hand... that was definitely a chakra rod!

However, in their understanding, this is a special weapon containing the power of Yin-Yang Release that can only be condensed and used by the holder of the Rinnegan!

Why can this person use it too?!
Especially Black Zetsu, whose extremely keen senses were completely ineffective when trying to investigate this mysterious person, was like a stone sinking into the sea, unable to sense anything, as if there was no such person in front of him at all!

Yet he was truly there before my eyes, giving me a profound sense of emptiness and an indescribable sense of oppression!
'Who exactly is this guy...?' Black Zetsu had never seen anything like this in a thousand years that could render his senses and detection ineffective!
Cixian shook his hand as if he had just swatted away a fly, his tone still indifferent: "I said, I have no intention of fighting you."

His gaze swept past the crowd and landed not far in the direction where Obito was.

At the top of that tall tower, another figure had quietly appeared, unnoticed.

With short black hair, a youthful face, and wearing a black robe with red trim, he was also playing with a jet-black chakra rod in his hand, observing the chaotic scene below with great interest.

Mianma's lips curled slightly, mimicking Cixian's tone from before, and he spoke with a hint of mockery:

"Sorry to interrupt your battle."

“That guy…” Konan immediately became alert, her paper wings fluttering slightly as she whispered to Pain, “His eyes!”

Nagato focused his gaze through Pain's vision and indeed saw Menma's unusual eye combination: a scarlet Mangekyou Sharingan and a pure white Byakugan!

This bizarre combination sent a jolt through him.

Obito and Zetsu immediately noticed the mysterious man's eyes and the black chakra rod in his hand that shared the same origin as Jigen's, and their hearts were also filled with shock!

A combination of the Sharingan and the Byakugan?
Are they also using chakra black rods?
Who exactly are these two guys?!

Since Menma was not wearing his signature black robe or the white three-eyed fox mask, the Akatsuki members did not connect this mysterious boy with the "Shura" they feared.

As Jiraiya lay in the ruins, struggling to breathe against the broken wall, he looked at the familiar yet unfamiliar black-haired boy on the opposite tower, and the scene of their previous encounter in the ramen shop and on the street immediately flashed through his mind.

"It's him... that kid who calls himself 'Ichiro'..."

He was filled with doubt and shock.

The immortals Fukasaku and Shima on his shoulders looked extremely solemn.

“Little Jiraiya, that black rod…” Fukasaku’s voice was deep: “It’s the same thing as the weapon that attacked you earlier! It contains terrifying power to disrupt and even seal chakra! Both of them… are extremely dangerous!”

At this moment, Menma only had Jigen in his eyes; he had no interest in Obito and Nagato, his two defeated opponents.

Jigen also disregarded the Akatsuki members, focusing all his attention on Menma, the mysterious boy who called himself "Otsutsuki Rakushiki," possessed strange powers, and could injure him.

For a time, a strange four-way standoff formed on the battlefield.

Jiraiya, critically injured and on the verge of death, and the two toad sages; the Akatsuki members, filled with suspicion and uncertainty; and Menma and Jigen, locked in a tug-of-war.

"It's time to finish warming up." Menma stretched his neck, making a slight clicking sound, and his eyes suddenly sharpened.

With a stomp of his foot, the cement at the top of the tower cracked, and his figure, like a swooping falcon, once again charged towards Cixian on the ground with an indomitable momentum!
Cixian's eyes turned cold, and she met the attack without fear!
The two were locked in combat once again!
This time, they seemed to have abandoned fancy ninjutsu and relied entirely on the purest taijutsu and the black rods in their hands to fight!
The sound of black rods colliding was like a rapid drumbeat, echoing through the rain and ruins. Each strike emitted blinding sparks and heart-pounding energy ripples. Their movements were so fast that even Konan could hardly keep up, and Obito had to activate his Mangekyou Sharingan to see them clearly.

The two were incredibly powerful; wherever the black rods passed, the ground cracked and the walls collapsed, as if they were two humanoid demolition machines.

This feeling of being completely ignored made Nagato, who considered himself a "god," feel an unprecedented sense of humiliation.

He controlled the Asura Path of Pain, who had just struggled out of the ruins, and aimed at the center of the battle!
"Five-finger missile!"

The armor on the arms and shoulders of the Asura Path Pain suddenly opened, and dozens of small homing missiles swarmed out like bees, covering the area where Menma and Jigen were located with a piercing whistle!

The figure of Mianma, who was engaged in fierce combat, moved like a ghost through the gaps between the missiles, dodging each explosion by the slightest margin.

Cixian, on the other hand, appeared more composed. He didn't even stop Ma's attack; he simply raised his free left hand, and the space in front of his palm rippled slightly.

He scattered countless tiny, almost invisible black particles into the air, which met the incoming missile swarm.

Immediately afterward, a thought struck him:
'His name is Bikanna!'

Those tiny black particles instantly expanded, transforming into countless sharp black chakra rods that collided with the incoming missile!
Rumble, rumble—! ! !
A series of violent explosions rang out, and flames and smoke instantly engulfed a large area.

Under the cover of the smoke from the explosion, Cixian suddenly accelerated and delivered a powerful side kick, slamming it into the black stick that Menma was hastily blocking!
boom!
Mianma was kicked backward by the immense force and flew out.

Just as his body was suspended in mid-air with nowhere to gain leverage, the Asura Path of Pain, who had just unleashed a wave of attacks, suddenly opened his head like a strange flower petal, revealing a complex energy gathering device inside!
A thick, terrifying laser beam, brimming with destructive power, shot out like the gaze of death, aimed directly at the face in the air!

"This kid is in danger!" Master Shima couldn't help but exclaim.

Faced with this sudden sneak attack, Menma forcefully twisted his body in mid-air, showing no sign of panic.

He hurled the black rod in his hand, which he had been fighting with for a long time, at the laser beam like a javelin!
call out--

puff!

The black rod, imbued with Menma's powerful chakra and special abilities, pierced through the seemingly indestructible laser beam as easily as a hot knife through butter, shattering and annihilating it!
And its momentum did not diminish; at the end of the black rod, three thinner black rods suddenly split off like forked lightning bolts and shot out!
"What?!" Nagato was shocked.

puff!puff!puff!
The three black rods that split off struck Pain's head, chest, and core joints with incredible precision, moving at a speed beyond what the eye could see!
Asura Path Pain's movements froze instantly, the light in his Rinnegan eyes dimmed rapidly, and his massive body was firmly pinned to the wall behind him, completely losing his ability to move and turning into a pile of real scrap metal.

The second Payne body was destroyed!

Obito and Zetsu appeared instantly beside Pain and Konan, and the atmosphere became extremely tense.

"That's... chakra rods, no doubt..." Black Zetsu's hoarse voice was filled with unprecedented solemnity: "Logically speaking, this should be something that only those who have mastered the power of the Six Paths, especially the power of the Rinnegan, can condense... but they..."

He didn't say anything more, but Nagato and Konan both understood what he meant.

The chakra rods were one of the Rinnegan abilities that Nagato gradually mastered after summoning the Gedo Mazo. These Six Paths of Pain used the chakra rods as a link to control them.

But these two mysterious people on the other side, who clearly don't have the Rinnegan, can use it so skillfully, and even with greater power!
Obito's face beneath the mask was incredibly grim, and his heart was filled with even more doubt and uncertainty.

Amegakure was hiding such a powerful and mysterious ninja, and he and Zetsu had been working together for so many years, yet they knew nothing about it!
This completely disrupted his plans.

Nagato, who calls himself a "god," has just killed Hanzo and is preparing to rule the Land of Rain, collect the tailed beasts, and ultimately defeat the "Shura," feels unprecedented anger and offense!
First it was Jiraiya, and now these two guys who appeared out of nowhere, each daring to act recklessly within his "God's Domain"!

Pain took a step forward, his Rinnegan filled with icy killing intent, his voice like eternal ice, echoing through the rain:

"No matter who you are... committing such a crime in God's realm means certain death!"

Just as Jigen was about to continue his pursuit of Menma, he paused slightly upon hearing these words.

He first looked down at the tiny cracks that had appeared on the black hole-like runes on his abdomen.

"Is this the limit?" This was the strain that forcibly using force had placed on his body, even causing a few tears to well up in his eyes due to the physical pain.

"What a useless body..."

Cixian slowly raised his head and looked at the orange-haired puppet who called himself "God". For the first time, his face revealed an undisguised extreme contempt and arrogance, as if he were looking at an ant.

"You little bugs... dare to call yourselves gods?" Cixian's voice was not loud, but it carried an absolute sense of superiority that seemed to originate from the level of blood and soul: "Then let you frogs in a well see... what the real power of 'god' is."

Before he finished speaking, without even making any obvious hand seals or movements, he simply raised his right hand and gently clenched it in the direction of Pain.

His name is Bikanna!
The chakra rods he had just released while defending against the missiles, which had been quietly deployed throughout the battlefield, were instantly magnified at this moment!
They've been restored to their deadly forms!
puff! puff! puff! puff!
Several jet-black chakra rods appeared out of thin air and pierced through Pain's limbs and torso at a speed that was impossible to react to!

One of the strands even grazed his cheek, lifting a lock of orange hair!

Pain's body stiffened abruptly, his Rinnegan eyes filled with unbelievable shock!

He didn't even have time to launch "Shinra Tensei"!
Pain's body was thrown backward several steps by the power contained in the black rods, and he was pinned to the spot. The flow of chakra instantly became chaotic!
"Pain!" Konan cried out in alarm.

Obito and Zetsu's eyes widened in surprise!

They didn't even see how those black sticks appeared!

This method of attack is completely beyond their comprehension!
"Shikizhi Dance!"

Xiao Nan was both shocked and furious, and countless sharp pieces of paper swept towards Ci Xian like a blizzard!

"Art fire escape ho fireball!"

Obito immediately formed hand seals and unleashed a blazing fireball to cover his attack!

However, faced with the combined attack of the two, Jigen simply raised his hands indifferently, his palms facing the paper jutsu and the fireball respectively.

Wedge Absorption!
The violent paper-based technique and the enormous fireball vanished the moment they touched Jigen's palm, as if they had been swallowed up by a mud ox. All the chakra was quickly swallowed up and absorbed, disappearing without a trace!
Not even a ripple was stirred!
"How is this possible?! Absorbing ninjutsu?!" Konan and Obito's pupils shrank sharply. This scene was so similar to the abilities of the Preta Path Pain that they knew!

No, it's even easier to absorb than the food from the hungry ghost realm!
The mysterious enemies that appeared one after another, and the power that completely suppressed the Rinnegan's abilities, plunged the Akatsuki members into despair.

After casually deflecting the Akatsuki's attack, Jigen seemed to regain some of the confidence and superiority of the Kamui Otsutsuki clan from the shock and fear of these "natives."

He slowly turned his head and once again turned his gaze to Mianma, who was standing on the tower wall, quietly watching everything.

Rainwater slid down the lines of his cheeks, mingling with a trace of physiological tears, making his expression look particularly strange.

"Now, it's your turn." Cixian's voice, filled with icy killing intent, locked onto Menma.

(End of this chapter)