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

Chapter 279 No Passage Ahead, Lady Tsunade

In the boundless desert where yellow sand swirls everywhere.

The terrifying pressure emanating from the ten-tailed creature, which resembled a moving mountain, terrified everyone in the caravan.

The four Sand Village patrol ninjas, who were preparing to leave, had long since lost their previous arrogance and composure.

"What...what kind of monster is that?!" A young Sand Ninja's voice trembled, his face ashen.

The other two, older Sand Ninja who had experienced the Shukaku riot, collapsed onto the scorching sand, their eyes filled with fear from the depths of their memories.

"No...it's not Shukaku...this...this is even more...terrifying than Shukaku!" one of them screamed incoherently.

Although the Sand Village squad leader was also terrified, he still retained a sliver of rationality.

He suppressed his horror and roared hoarsely, "Retreat! Retreat immediately! Bring the intelligence back to the village! Quickly!"

He grabbed his limp companion and the four of them, like startled rabbits, scrambled and stumbled back the way they came, even using teleportation techniques, just to get away from this desert that was about to turn into a hellish landscape as quickly as possible.

Before fleeing, the squad leader glanced back at the chaotic caravan one last time, a complex emotion flashing in his eyes, but it was quickly overwhelmed by the instinct for survival. He could only silently pray for good fortune before disappearing behind the sand dunes without looking back.

Chaos had broken out on the caravan side.

"A monster!!"

"It's the demon of the desert! We've angered the gods!"

"Run!"

Terrified screams, cries, and the neighing of camels mingled together.

Many caravan workers and hired wandering samurai were so terrified by the ten-tailed beast that they collapsed to the ground, too weak to even stand up.

The leader, Sharo, was thrown violently off his camel's back by his startled mount and landed on the sand, his mouth full of yellow sand.

Ignoring the pain, he scrambled to his feet, his voice trembling with extreme fear: "Turn around! Turn around now! Run in the opposite direction! Run as far as you can!"

However, the frightened camels ignored commands, charging and trampling each other, making the chaotic scene even more out of control.

The camels that Tsunade and Shizune were riding also stood up on their own, letting out terrified cries.

Without hesitation, Tsunade grabbed Shizune, and the two of them lightly leaped off the camel's back, landing steadily on the sand.

"Lady Tsunade! Miss Shizune! Quick... quick, come with us..." Sara saw them and wanted to shout for them to escape together.

Tsunade gazed intently at the roaring behemoth in the distance.

Then they saw a dark red nine-tailed fox suddenly fall from the sky and tear into the giant beast.

"Nine-Tails?!" Tsunade's eyes widened in surprise, her pupils dilating slightly.

"You guys go first!" With that, she pushed off the ground and shot off like an arrow towards the battle between the two terrifying beasts!

The sand beneath our feet was worn into deep craters.

"Lady Tsunade!" Shizune exclaimed, without hesitation hugging the trembling Tonton in her arms tightly, and used her Body Flicker Technique to follow closely behind.

She knew the danger ahead was extreme, but she absolutely could not let Lady Tsunade go alone.

The two raced at high speed across the undulating sand dunes, the wind whipping their hair and clothes.

As Tsunade ran, she asked in a low voice, "Tonton, can you sense the chakra of those two monsters? What's the situation?"

The pink and white piglet, Tun Tun, which was being held tightly in Jingyin's arms, was so frightened that its fur stood on end, its little eyes widened, and it made a trembling "Tun~ Tun~" sound.

It possesses a perception far exceeding that of ordinary ninja dogs.

As Shizune sped along, she focused intently on deciphering Tonton's cries, her face growing increasingly pale: "Lady Tsunade, Tonton says... it has never felt such a vast and violent chakra before! Especially that ten-tailed tailed beast, its chakra reserves are simply unfathomable, and it's filled with an aura of annihilation!"

"That dark red Nine-Tails... its chakra nature is very strange, equally terrifyingly powerful, but it carries a sense of... emptiness!"

Upon hearing this, Tsunade's expression turned solemn.

Nine-Tails shouldn't be here!
Her gaze was fixed on the dark red Nine-Tails, especially when it nimbly dodged the Ten-Tails' violent slap and bit down hard on the Ten-Tails' pale body, causing the Ten-Tails to let out a deafening roar of pain. Tsunade keenly noticed that above the dark Nine-Tails' head, there seemed to be... a tiny but clear human figure standing!
"Someone... is controlling that Nine-Tails?!" This discovery sent shockwaves through Tsunade's mind.

Being able to stand on top of a tailed beast's head and seemingly command the battle is something no ordinary ninja could do!
Shizune finally saw the outline of the dark red giant fox and the number of its tails clearly, her voice trembling with disbelief: "Nine...nine tails?! That's the Nine-Tails?! But...shouldn't the Nine-Tails Jinchuriki be in Konoha?!"

The scene before them completely overturned their understanding.

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On the distant battlefield, the battle has reached a fever pitch.

With the large amount of Ten-Tails chakra absorbed from the Cigen dimension, Dark Nine-Tails' form seemed more solid, and the dark red color of its fur deepened, faintly revealing a trace of black light.

Like the most cunning hunter, it used its relatively "small" size compared to the Ten-Tails to weave and leap among the Ten-Tails' ten wildly waving tails, tearing off large amounts of chakra energy from the Ten-Tails with each pounce.

The Ten-Tails, having just broken free from the seal and some of the black rods' restraints, went completely berserk.

Its enormous single eye, with its six-tomoe Rinnegan spinning wildly, was filled with primal rage and pain.

[PS: I previously read it as seven tomoe, I've corrected it.]

Ten tails, like pillars of heaven, descended from the sky with a whooshing sound, lashing and slapping everything around them, splashing up yellow sand that dyed the sky a hazy yellow.

Mianma stood atop the head of Anjiuwei, the wind whipping his divine robes in the wind.

His eyes were calm as he continuously pulled out specially made Flying Thunder God kunai from his ninja tool pouch, seemingly scattering them casually across the battlefield, creating an invisible network of spatial coordinates.

"Xiao Jiu, dodge to the left, sandstorm area to the right front, prepare the Tailed Beast Ball!" Menma gave the command through the mental link.

The Dark Nine-Tailed Fox let out a low growl, its massive body displaying astonishing agility as it sidestepped the attack of its two giant tails and charged into an area of ​​thick sand and dust stirred up by the battle.

"Roar!"

The Ten-Tails' enormous Rinnegan immediately locked onto the chakra fluctuations in the sandstorm. It opened its massive maw, and several Tailed Beast Balls of varying sizes, each containing terrifying energy, instantly condensed and shot towards the location of the Dark Nine-Tails like a barrage of bullets!

Almost at the same time, Dark Nine-Tails also suddenly poked its head out from the sandstorm, and a condensed dark red Tailed Beast Ball rushed up with a sharp shriek!

call out!call out!call out!
boom! boom! boom!
boom--! ! !
A series of deafening explosions, like nuclear blasts, reverberated through the desert!

One after another, the Tailed Beast Balls collided and exploded, and the blinding light instantly engulfed everything around them. A huge mushroom-shaped cloud of smoke mixed with sand and dust shot into the sky!

The shockwave from the explosion spread outwards in layers, scraping down the sand dunes below by several meters, creating huge circular craters!
Taking advantage of the chaos and visual obscuration created by the earth-shattering exchange of fire, a glint of light flashed in Mianma's eyes.

He clasped his hands together in front of his chest, and a massive amount of chakra rapidly gathered, quickly forming a giant black chakra rod over ten meters long, entirely black, with a faint glow flowing across its surface!
Seizing the opening that the Ten-Tails temporarily revealed due to its attack, Menma leaped out from above the Dark Nine-Tails' head and swooped down like lightning!

He gripped the giant black rod tightly with both hands, channeling all his strength and chakra into it, and thrust it fiercely and precisely into the root of the Ten-Tails' wildly thrashing tail!

“Ouch——!!!”

The Ten-Tails let out an extremely shrill scream. Its tail, which had been stabbed, instantly stiffened, and the intense pain caused its massive body to convulse!
It suddenly turned its head, its huge six-tomoe Rinnegan locking onto the tiny Menma in the air, its eyes filled with deep-seated hatred and tyranny!

It opened its enormous maw, big enough to devour mountains, and with a stench-filled gale, it snapped shut on Mianma!

With his face expression unchanged, his figure suddenly blurred just as the giant mouth was about to close!

The art of flying thunder god!
The next moment, he appeared not far away next to a kunai that had just been thrown.

Without pausing, he once again condensed a giant black chakra rod, searching for his next target.

And so, Menma, like a calm and deadly assassin, used the Flying Thunder God Technique to appear and disappear unpredictably, narrowly avoiding the Ten-Tails' counterattacks time and time again, and repeatedly driving the giant black rod containing sealing power deep into the Ten-Tails' rampaging tails!
At the same time, behind him, five incredibly thick, golden chains, composed entirely of highly condensed chakra, roared out!

These chains contain the powerful sealing energy of the Uzumaki clan, flexibly wrapping around the Ten-Tails' tails that were temporarily restrained by the black rods. They complement the power of the black rods, further restricting the Ten-Tails' movements.

With Menma's precise tactics and powerful sealing techniques, the Ten-Tails' frenzied struggle was gradually suppressed.

Its massive body was firmly bound by several giant black rods and five diamond chains. Although it was still roaring unwillingly and twisting wildly, its range of movement was greatly restricted.

Mianma hovered in mid-air, looking down at the temporarily subdued prehistoric behemoth below. He snorted softly and muttered to himself, "It seems that the Vajra Sealing Technique is quite effective on this ten-tailed larva that has not yet fully matured."

He possesses the pure bloodline of the Uzumaki clan and a massive amount of chakra provided by the Dark Nine-Tails. The Adamantine Sealing Technique he unleashes is far more powerful than that of ordinary Uzumaki clan members.

Even this ten-tailed fox, still in its juvenile stage, could not break free.

The Dark Nine-Tails, which had been impatiently waiting, let out a joyful growl upon seeing the Ten-Tails under control. It pounced on the Ten-Tails, once again clinging to its body, opening its maw to devour and absorb the vast, pure chakra even more frantically.

The Ten-Tails let out a painful and angry wail, but it was powerless to resist. Menma looked at the greedy appearance of the Dark Nine-Tails, a doting and helpless smile on his face, and said softly, "Eat slowly, Little Nine, no one is going to take it from you."

Just then, the white of his right eye narrowed slightly, his pupil power gathered, and his vision instantly pierced through the vast distance and the swirling dust, revealing two figures rapidly approaching.

Tsunade, with a diamond-shaped mark on her forehead and Hundred Healings Technique activated, followed closely by Shizune.

"Hmm?" Menma raised an eyebrow slightly, somewhat surprised.

"How did they end up here?" Menma recalled that if he remembered correctly, Tsunade should have been frequenting gambling dens in various countries at this time. How did she end up in this deserted desert in the Land of Wind, and how did he happen to run into her?
This desert was one of the locations he chose a few years ago when he used his shadow clones to secretly deploy the Flying Thunder God coordinates throughout the entire ninja world. It was because the area within a radius of hundreds of kilometers was uninhabited, and the nearest oasis was nearly two hundred kilometers away, making it sufficiently secluded.

He didn't expect that shortly after transferring the Ten-Tails over, he would attract uninvited guests.

To ensure that Dark Nine-Tails could absorb Ten-Tails' chakra without interference, Menma's eyes flickered, and he made a decision.

His figure vanished from his spot in an instant, and the next moment, he appeared on a sand dune in front of Tsunade and Shizune's path, quietly waiting for their arrival.

In the scorching desert, Tsunade and Shizune moved swiftly across the rolling sand dunes like two gusts of wind.

Their gazes were fixed on the distant battle of colossal beasts, a battle beyond human comprehension.

When she saw those enormous black chakra rods, like execution pillars from hell, being driven into the Ten-Tails' wildly dancing tail and forcibly restricting its movements, Tsunade's eyes were filled with astonishment and doubt.

The black rods emitted a cold and eerie aura, a form of power she had never seen before, yet they could exert such a powerful binding effect on a Tailed Beast-level being.

However, when five thick, golden chains, entirely composed of condensed chakra, roared out and nimbly and precisely wrapped around the Ten-Tails' tail, which was pinned down by black rods, further binding its massive body tightly, Tsunade could no longer maintain her composure. She gasped sharply and cried out in alarm:

"That's... the Kong Lockdown?!"

Her voice was distorted with shock.

Although she had never seen this technique in person, as a princess of the Senju clan and a distant relative of the Uzumaki clan, she had heard her grandmother mention various secret techniques of the Uzumaki clan since she was a child, especially one of the supreme secret techniques that was powerful enough to seal tailed beasts, the Adamantine Sealing Technique!
The golden chains before me, gleaming with powerful sealing energy, are so similar to the descriptions in the legends!
Hearing the exclamation, Shizune, who was following closely behind her, quickly asked, "Lady Tsunade, what are those golden chains?!"

As Tsunade ran, she stared intently at the five Adamantine Sealing Barriers that seemed to pulsate with life, her face so grave it looked like it could drip water: "That's the secret sealing technique passed down through generations of the Uzumaki clan, the Adamantine Sealing Barrier! Only ninjas with pure Uzumaki blood can use it; it's a powerful sealing technique that can even bind the Nine-Tails!"

"The Uzumaki clan?!" Shizune's face paled, and she immediately thought of the information Jiraiya had given her earlier: "Could it be... the Uzumaki clan from the Land of Stars that Lord Jiraiya mentioned?"

Tsunade shook her head, her brows furrowed, sweat trickling down her cheeks: "I don't know... but the answer is very likely just ahead!"

Without further hesitation, she formed a hand seal in front of her chest, and the diamond-shaped mark on her forehead, which served as the carrier of the Yin seal, suddenly lit up with a blue light, spreading rapidly to both sides of her cheeks like an exquisite pattern!
"Yin Seal Release! Hundred Healings Technique!"

A massive amount of chakra was instantly released from the seal, filling her limbs and bones.

Her speed suddenly increased, like a bolt of lightning, leaving a trail of afterimages on the sand as she sped toward the center of the battlefield!

Shizune gritted her teeth, concentrated her chakra in her feet, and tried her best to keep up, but she was clearly struggling.

As the distance closed, the scene at the center of the battlefield became increasingly clear and chilling.

The terrifying behemoth with ten tails, tightly bound by the Vajra Lock and the giant black rod, was letting out a resentful and painful roar. Its vast and pure chakra, like a flood bursting its banks, was being frantically absorbed and devoured by the dark red nine-tailed fox!
The chakra was so dense that it almost materialized, forming a visible dark red energy flow that continuously poured into the Dark Nine-Tails' body.

As top-tier medical ninjas, Tsunade and Shizune possess an extraordinary sensitivity to life energy and chakra.

They could clearly "sense" that the aura of the Dark Nine-Tailed Fox was rising and expanding at a terrifying speed!

If it were to completely absorb the chakra of the Ten-Tails, to what extent would it evolve?
It’s unimaginable!
Just as Tsunade was weighing whether to risk stopping this unknown evolution, her gaze suddenly sharpened and stopped at the top of a sand dune in front of her.

There, a figure stood quietly, seemingly out of nowhere.

Tsunade immediately stopped, the powerful momentum causing the sand beneath her feet to plow two deep furrows behind her.

She stood at the foot of the sand dune, tilting her head slightly upwards, creating a confrontation with the figure above her.

Shizune arrived at her side, panting, and also saw the people on the sand dunes.

He was a boy who looked only fifteen or sixteen years old, with a handsome face, short jet-black hair, wearing a black robe with red trim, and holding a short, jet-black staff similar to the one used to bind the Ten-Tails.

What's most horrifying are his eyes.

His left eye was a crimson Mangekyou Sharingan that spun slowly like a vortex; his right eye was pure white, with slightly protruding veins around the pupil, clearly the Byakugan of the Hyuga clan!

"Sharingan and... Byakugan?!" This bizarre combination of eye techniques sent a chill down Shizune's spine.

Menma stood atop the sand dune, looking down at Tsunade and Shizune with a casual gesture of pointing his black chakra rod in their direction. His voice was calm yet carried an undeniable air of authority:
"No passage ahead."

"Lady Tsunade, Miss Shizune, please leave."

His words made Tsunade frown, and Shizune was startled.

The other party actually knew their identities right away!
Ke Jingyin searched through her memories but couldn't recall ever seeing this boy with the strange eyes.

Suppressing her surprise and doubt, Tsunade spoke in a deep voice, asking a series of questions: "Are you a member of the Uzumaki clan? But why isn't your hair red? And... why do you possess both the Sharingan and the Byakugan?"

Her gaze passed over Menma and fell upon the two enormous creatures in the distance that were "exchanging" chakra. She pressed on, "What exactly are those two tailed beasts? That dark red demon fox is definitely not Konoha's Nine-Tails!"

Faced with Tsunade's barrage of questions, Menma gently shook his head, his tone still calm: "I am indeed a member of the Uzumaki clan. In fact, I am somewhat related to you by a distant degree."

He paused, then continued, "So, there are some things I can explain to you. But I hope that after you hear the explanation, you can leave here."

Mianma raised his hand and pointed to his peculiar eyes: "These two eyes have a legitimate origin; they were not stolen or robbed."

Then, he pointed to the Dark Nine-Tails feasting in the distance: "That one over there isn't Konoha's Nine-Tails. It's my partner. I call it 'Little Nine'."

"Partner? Kyuu?" Tsunade's doubts deepened.

Besides the nine known tailed beasts, are there any other tailed beasts in this world?
Furthermore, the other party mentioned "distant kinship." Indeed, the Uzumaki clan and the Senju clan had intermarried for generations during the Warring States period and had a close relationship. The fact that the other party could use the Vajra Sealing Technique means that the purity of their bloodline is beyond doubt.

But those Sharingan and Byakugan...

It's really unbelievable.

Menma seemed unwilling to elaborate further. He slightly raised his head and said to Tsunade, "Alright, I've answered your question. Now, please accept my request as well."

"Leave here. I don't want to fight."

His tone softened almost imperceptibly.

After all, based on her mother Kushina's usual nagging, Tsunade was one of the few relatives in Konoha with whom she had a fairly good relationship.

Deep down, Mianma didn't want to go to war with this nominally "distant cousin".

After saying that, he casually swung the black chakra rod in his hand forward, leaving a clear mark on the sand beneath his feet.

As the black rod sliced ​​through the air, the cold, obscure aura it emitted, seemingly capable of disrupting chakra, sent a chill down the spines of both Tsunade and Shizune. This was a power level completely unfamiliar to them.

Tsunade hesitated.

Reason told her that the boy in front of her was extremely dangerous, and that the evolution that the Dark Nine-Tailed Fox was undergoing was full of unknowns.

However, on an emotional level, the other party didn't seem to have any malicious intent to attack immediately; they even brought up the Uzumaki clan and their distant kinship, showing goodwill...

Just as she was weighing the pros and cons and struggling to make a decision, a hot desert wind blew towards her, carrying with it a faint, almost imperceptible, smell of blood from the boy opposite her.

The smell was faint, but to Tsunade, who suffered from severe hemophobia, it was like the most potent poison!
Her gaze instantly locked onto the cuffs and hem of the robe.

There, there were several patches of blood that had long since dried and turned dark red!
Tsunade's pupils suddenly contracted, and her face instantly turned ashen white!

The power that had just filled his body due to the Hundred Healings Technique receded rapidly like a tide!
The blue mark on his forehead dimmed and disappeared rapidly.

She felt a sudden dizziness, a strong sense of nausea and vertigo washed over her, and her legs went weak, causing her to collapse onto the scalding sand. Her body trembled uncontrollably, and she dared not even focus her gaze on the bloodstains on Menma's body.

"Lady Tsunade! What's wrong?!" Shizune exclaimed in alarm, rushing forward to support Tsunade, who was on the verge of fainting, and calling out anxiously.

She immediately realized that she was experiencing a hemophobia attack!

Standing on the sand dune, Menma looked down at Tsunade, who had lost her fighting ability instantly because of a trace of blood left on her body before the battle had even officially started. He was slightly taken aback, then shook his head helplessly.

He dispersed the black chakra rod in his hand, turning it into specks of black dust that disappeared into the air.

"It seems... we don't need to fight."

He muttered to himself.

[PS: I originally wanted to find some pictures of Tsunade, but then I found that all the nice ones on Pixiv are erotic, so I'll just use a picture of Hinata instead.]

(End of this chapter)