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

Chapter 378 A Small Tattoo to Shock This Era
Upon seeing the appearance of Ōtsutsuki Urashiki, Menma's heart sank.

Almost instantly, Menma activated "Kagura's Mind's Eye," and his perception spread silently like ripples.

Sure enough, in the shadows of the dense forest not far behind Naruto, he clearly sensed three familiar chakras. The ANBU team consisting of young Sasuke, Sai, and Uzuki Yugao was lurking nearby.

Moreover, three streams of chakra had just landed on the island from the direction of the Land of Waves' coastline; they were Jiraiya, young Sasuke, and Boruto.

'This is trouble!' Alarm bells rang in Menma's mind.

Young Sasuke's ANBU squad was nearby, and Jiraiya, along with young Sasuke and Boruto, were also rushing over.

If a battle breaks out with Urashiki, should I continue to pretend to be a Konoha genin, or will I have to use the power of Shura?

How can we both conceal ourselves in this battle and make this troublesome Urashiki suffer some losses?
In a flash, countless thoughts raced through his mind, but his body reacted instinctively.

The water must be stirred up first!
"Idiot! This guy doesn't look like a good person! Run!" Menma shouted at Naruto, who was still looking up blankly. At the same time, he pulled a kunai from his ninja tool pouch on his thigh and shot it towards the white figure in the air without even looking!

The movements were clean and swift; the kunai sliced ​​through the air with a sharp screech.

The Ōtsutsuki Urashiki, suspended in mid-air, didn't even look at him directly, but simply tilted his head slightly with elegance, and a kunai flew past his hair.

However, just as the kunai brushed past his ear, a loud "boom" rang out, and the explosive tag attached to the tail of the kunai suddenly exploded!

The scorching flames and shockwaves failed to harm Urashiki in the slightest, but they did cause his white robes to flutter slightly, and his figure swayed somewhat awkwardly in the air.

"Oh?" Urashiki let out a soft exclamation, seemingly showing some interest in this sudden, clever attack.

But his gaze remained fixed on Naruto.

At this moment, Naruto was awakened by Menma's roar. Although he hadn't fully figured out the situation, his intuition and trust in Menma made him turn around and run towards Tazuna's house without hesitation.

"Trying to run? Not so easy." Urashiki's lips curled into a mocking smile. He flicked the strange red fishing rod in his hand, and a red fishing line shot out instantly, wrapping around Naruto's waist and binding him tightly.

"Whoa! What is that?! Let me go!" Naruto felt a tremendous force coming from the fishing line, so tight that he could barely breathe. His feet left the ground, and he was dragged towards Urashiki.

He struggled desperately, but like a fly caught in a spider's web, his efforts were in vain.

"You bastard! Who are you?!" Naruto was dangled in front of Urashiki by the fishing rod, his eyes filled with anger and suppressed resentment, as he loudly questioned him.

Urashiki stroked his chin with his free hand, sizing up Naruto as if admiring prey about to be caught, clicking his tongue in amazement: "Indeed, you're easier to catch at this stage. Saves a lot of trouble. Uzumaki Naruto, just behave yourself..."

Before he could finish speaking, a black figure rushed over!

It's sesame paste!
He gripped another kunai tightly in his hand, his eyes sharp, his aim fixed on Urashiki's back!

This stab was extremely fast.

However, Urashiki didn't even turn around. As if he had eyes in the back of his head, he casually raised his right foot and delivered a seemingly effortless side kick that accurately struck Menma's arm as he hurriedly tried to block!
boom!
With a muffled thud, Mianma was thrown backward as if hit by a speeding carriage, his body flying out of control and crashing heavily into the trunk of a thick mangrove tree in the distance. He then slid softly to the ground, kicking up a cloud of dust, and seemed to have passed out.

"Hmm?" Urashi frowned slightly, withdrew his foot, and glanced at Menma lying motionless on the ground in the distance with a hint of doubt.

“Strange… Just now, your chakra felt… very unfamiliar, yet somewhat…” He sensed something unusual about Menma, but the feeling was fleeting, and with Naruto, his main target, right in front of him, he didn’t delve into it further.

For Urashiki Otsutsuki, who has lived for thousands of years, he has seen far too many of these unusual "insects" that occasionally appear.

Just as Urashiki's attention was drawn to Menma.

"Do it!"

With a cold, low shout, three figures shot out from three different directions!

"Konoha Style Sword Technique!" Uzuki Yugao moved with lightning speed, her ninja sword drawing a cold arc as she aimed straight for Urashiki's right arm holding the pole!
On the other side, young Sasuke instantly activated his Sharingan, the two tomoe slowly rotating as he tried to find an opening in Urashiki's movements. At the same time, his ninja sword, accompanied by a piercing whistling sound, slashed towards Urashiki's lower body!
The two attacked swiftly and ruthlessly, their teamwork was impeccable, and they shut down most of Urashiki's evasive options.

Pu Shi frowned slightly, seemingly displeased by the interference from these "insects".

He simply touched the air with his toes, and his body floated upwards, perfectly avoiding the attack from Yugao and Sasuke.

However, this seems to be exactly what Sai had planned!

"Super beast fake painting!"

A huge, dark eagle shrieked as it soared into the sky from the scroll beneath his feet. As Urashiki's body rose to the surface, its sharp talons seized Urashiki's right hand, which was holding the fishing rod!
Pull hard!
"Ouch! Damn it!" Urashiki cried out in pain as the fishing line loosened its hold on Naruto.

Naruto cried out in surprise and fell from mid-air, but was caught steadily by Mo Ying and quickly taken away from Urashiki.

Yugao and Sasuke, having missed their first attack, did not linger and immediately retreated to join Sai, who had saved Naruto, forming a triangle formation to protect Naruto in the center.

"Thank goodness, I'm saved!" Naruto patted his chest, still shaken, then immediately pointed at the ANBU member wearing the white cat mask whose figure and demeanor were incredibly familiar. After a moment's thought, he shouted, "You! You're Sasuke?! Right! I knew it was you, you stinky brat!"

Sasuke, wearing a mask, turned his head and glanced coldly at Naruto through the eye holes in the mask. His voice, coming through the mask, was filled with suppressed annoyance: "Idiot! Be quiet!"

Although the tone was unfriendly, the familiar tone instantly reassured Naruto.

Although I don't understand why Sasuke would be wearing a mask and acting with two other strangers, since it's Sasuke, they must be one of our own!
Menma, clutching his chest and feigning weakness, returned to Naruto's side. A trace of blood still clung to the corner of his mouth. His gaze swept warily over the masked Sasuke and his two companions, and he deliberately asked in a breathless and confused tone, "You are... Anbu? Who exactly is this guy?"

Young Sasuke shook his head, his Sharingan fixed on Urashiki, who had regained his footing in mid-air and was somewhat annoyed by Sai's attack. He said in a deep voice, "I don't know. But judging from the exchange just now, he was very strong, and... very strange."

Sai then pointed to Urashiki's eyes, which had turned ice-white, and said with a hint of seriousness, "Look at his eyes... those seem to be... Byakugan."

As a member of the Root, he has a far greater understanding of various bloodline limits and eye techniques than ordinary people.

As the team leader, Yugao quickly made a decision: "Menma, you immediately protect Naruto and retreat back to Tazuna's house to reunite with Kakashi-senpai! Sasuke, Sai, you and I hold him off! Buy some time for our retreat!"

"Yes!" Sasuke and Sai replied in unison.

Before she could finish speaking, Yugao had already transformed into a purple afterimage once again, charging towards Urashiki with her ninja sword in hand!

Sasuke swiftly plunged his ninja sword into the ground, his hands rapidly forming hand seals in front of his chest, his chest bulging as intense chakra coalesced.

"Fire Release: Dragon Fire Technique!"

A massive, terrifyingly hot fire dragon roared as it spewed from Sasuke's mouth, baring its fangs and claws as it lunged at Urashiki in mid-air!
Faced with the surging fire dragon, Urashiki merely curled his lip in disdain, raised his right hand, palm facing forward, and casually uttered a single word: "Get lost."

An invisible, immense repulsive force erupted from the center of his palm!

It was as if an invisible wall had appeared out of thin air!
The powerful Dragonfire Technique struck this "wall" and was instantly shattered into countless sparks, just like waves crashing against a reef!
He couldn't even touch the hem of Pu Shi's clothes!
"What?!" Young Sasuke's pupils shrank sharply, and his face showed disbelief and shock.

His all-out attack, the Great Fire Dragon Technique, was so easily... deflected by his opponent?!

"Looks like I'll have to deal with these troublesome brats first." Urashiki seemed to have lost his patience for playing around. A cold glint flashed in his eyes, and he swung his red fishing rod again!

This time, the fishhook was as fast as lightning, even exceeding the Sharingan's capture limit!

"Watch out!" Xi Yan only had time to utter a warning before she felt a chill on her chest!
The red fishhook ignored her ninja sword's parry and dodge, pierced through her defenses, and "hooked" directly into her chest!
There were no physical wounds, but an indescribable chill instantly spread throughout my body!

The chakra within her body was like a flood bursting its banks, uncontrollably being drawn away along that red fishing line!

"Ugh!" Xi Yan let out a painful groan, as if all the strength in her body had been drained in an instant. Her legs went weak, and she knelt on one knee. The ninja sword in her hand fell to the ground with a "clang," and her body began to tremble violently uncontrollably. Her face turned ashen white.

With just one strike, this experienced ANBU squad leader lost his fighting ability!
"Captain Yugao!" Upon seeing this, Sai did not hesitate to use Super Beast Imitation Painting again. A black Qilin roared and charged towards Urashiki, trying to interfere with him. At the same time, another black bird swooped down, grabbed the powerless Yugao with its claws, and quickly carried her away from the danger zone.

Urashiki effortlessly dodged the attack of the Ink Kirin, and looking at Sai's technique, he revealed a hint of appreciation: "Oh? Using chakra to transform into physical ink for attack and creation? Such a technique is quite unique among the natives."

Meanwhile, Menma had already pulled Naruto along and started to retreat quickly towards Tazuna's house.

"Trying to run? Not so easy." Urashiki's lips curled up in a cat-and-mouse smile, ignoring Sai's harassment.

He casually raised his hand and made a sweeping motion in the air, and a path of Yomotsu Hirasaka with black edges suddenly appeared directly in front of Menma and Naruto's retreat route!

The moment the portal opened, Urashiki stepped out from one of them, blocking Menma and Naruto's path!

Menma was caught off guard and seemed to want to protect Naruto, but Urashiki kicked him in the stomach again!
"Pfft!" Mianma spat out a mouthful of blood, his body flying backward like a kite with a broken string. This time, he crashed directly into a tree as thick as a bowl before falling heavily to the ground, kicking up a cloud of dust, and then fell silent.

"Menma-nii!!!" Naruto watched helplessly as Menma was severely injured again while covering for him, his life hanging in the balance. An unprecedented rage instantly overwhelmed his reason!
His eyes were bloodshot as he roared at Urashiki, "You bastard! I'll never forgive you!!"

"The art of multiple shadow clones!"

Bang bang bang bang bang-!
Hundreds of Naruto's shadow clones appeared instantly, like an orange tide, roaring as they rushed towards Urashiki from all directions!
Some of them held kunai (a type of Japanese sword), while others were empty-handed, but every face bore a resolute determination to fight to the death!
“A pointless struggle.” Urashiki didn’t even bother to lift a finger. He simply took out a ball of green wind-style chakra that exuded a sharp aura from the red fish basket at his waist.

He casually tossed the ball of Wind Release chakra toward the oncoming shadow clones as if he were playing with clay.

call--!
The green wind-style chakra suddenly spread through the air, transforming into countless invisible yet incredibly sharp wind blades that swept past like a meat grinder!

Naruto's shadow clones, under the dense and powerful attack of wind blades, exploded into white smoke and disappeared like soap bubbles in the sunlight.

"Damn it!" Seeing this, young Sasuke gritted his teeth and charged forward again!

He knew he might not be a match for Naruto, but he couldn't just stand by and watch him get captured!
He swung his ninja sword, activating his Sharingan to its fullest extent, trying to capture Urashiki's movement trajectory.

However, the gap in strength is too large.

Urashiki casually parried Sasuke's slash with his fishing rod, which, despite its slender appearance, was indestructible, clanging crisply. Sasuke attempted to use taijutsu to entangle Sasuke and find an opening to close the distance, but Urashiki dodged it with ease, as if he had foreseen it. Instead, Urashiki cleverly flicked the end of his fishing rod, striking Sasuke's wrist, which was holding the sword, with pinpoint accuracy!

"Ugh!" Sasuke felt a sharp pain and numbness in his wrist, and his ninja sword flew out of his hand!

Meanwhile, Pu's fishing rod, accompanied by a whistling sound, slammed down hard towards his face!

If that hits hard, his head will probably explode like a watermelon!

In Sasuke's Sharingan, the rapidly enlarging fishing rod was reflected, and the shadow of death instantly enveloped him!

At this critical moment!
call out--!
A sharp, piercing sound shot out from the depths of the forest!

It was an incredibly fast ninja sword, its blade crackling with sharp lightning, aimed directly at Urashiki's temple!

If Urashiki insists on attacking Sasuke, he will surely have his head pierced by this ninja sword infused with powerful lightning chakra!

Urashiki frowned, forced to abandon his attack on Sasuke, and leaned back sharply to avoid the fatal blow.

The ninja sword, crackling with lightning, flew past his cheek.

Immediately afterward, before Urashiki could even regain his footing, a large mass of thick, oily liquid emitting a strange odor shot out from another direction, covering a huge area!

Urashiki had just finished dodging and was still not in good shape. Despite his best efforts to dodge, he was still splashed with toad oil on the outside of his thigh!

"Fire Release·Big Flame Bullet!"

A loud and powerful voice rang out!

A torrent of blazing flames, thicker and hotter than Sasuke's Great Dragon Fire Technique, erupted like a volcano and instantly engulfed Urashiki's location!

"Are we saved?" Young Sasuke stared in shock at the area engulfed in flames, his arms still trembling slightly.

He subconsciously looked in the direction from which the ninja sword had come, and saw the one-armed youth who called himself "Zokumo" slowly retracting his throwing posture, while the blond boy Boruto was running anxiously toward Naruto, who had fallen to the ground after the fishing line had come loose.

"Hmph, a mere trick." Urashiki's relaxed voice rang out as his figure transformed into hundreds of red origami cranes, dodging Jiraiya's Great Fireball.

Then, not far away, they reassembled into an intact figure!

He looked up in the air, towards the direction of the attack.

Jiraiya and young Sasuke quickly arrived at the battlefield.

Jiraiya scanned the scene, noticing Yugao lying on the ground, Sasuke and Sai panting heavily, and Naruto looking disheveled. He asked with a grave expression, "Hey! Kids, are you all alright?"

Young Sasuke stared at the suddenly appearing "Zuoyun," whose mature face carried a sense of vicissitude, composure, and strange familiarity that Sasuke had never seen before, and was once again stunned.

Who is this person...?
Why does it feel so familiar, yet so...strange?
In the forest on the other side, amidst the ruins of a broken tree, Menma lay on his back with his eyes closed, seemingly unconscious from "serious injury," but in reality, he was observing the situation on the battlefield using "Kagura's Mind's Eye."

'It would be best if Jiraiya and young Sasuke could drive Urashiki away. If not, it seems I'll have to appear as 'Shura.' But then Menma thought for a moment: 'No, this disguise will arouse Jiraiya's suspicion if I keep using it…'

'Hmm... Young Sasuke must have suspected Menma's identity too, so what should we do?' Menma pondered.

'By the way... Boruto at this stage probably hasn't met Kawaki yet, nor has he activated the 'Karma', right? How about we give them a little tattoo to shock them?'

On the battlefield, Sai supported the nearly exhausted Yugao. Yugao struggled to lift her head and weakly warned, "Jiraiya-senpai! Be careful... his fishhook... can extract... chakra... it's very strange..."

"Oh? A fishhook that can directly extract chakra?" Jiraiya's eyes sharpened, and he nodded. "Very crucial information! Yugao!"

Boruto had already run to Naruto's side and asked with concern, "Hey! Are you alright? Are you hurt?"

Naruto shook his head, his gaze fixed on the trees that Menma had broken in the distance, his voice trembling with tears: "I'm fine... but Menma-nii..."

Urashiki, suspended in mid-air, patted his thighs, which were still smeared with toad oil. Looking down at the gathering "reinforcements," especially young Sasuke and Boruto, a more excited smile spread across his face. He casually slung his fishing rod over his shoulder, crossed his arms, and clicked his tongue, saying, "You two troublesome guys, you really did come after me. Well, since that's the case, let's get rid of you first, and then slowly enjoy this delicious 'Chakra Fruit' of Uzumaki Naruto."

As he spoke, Urashiki's icy white eyes suddenly turned red, and ripples appeared, with six tomoe hanging on the ripples.

An even greater and more terrifying pressure than before enveloped the entire battlefield!

"That's... the Rinnegan?!" Jiraiya exclaimed in surprise, but immediately noticed the difference.

"But... the color and pattern are completely different from Nagato's! What is this...?"

Young Sasuke had already gripped the Kusanagi sword tightly with his one arm, and his Rinnegan, hidden by his side-swept bangs, was fixed on Urashiki. He warned in a deep voice, "Be careful! His eye ability is very strange. Don't be fooled by appearances!"

"Well then, let the game begin." Urashiki's lips curled into a cruel smile, his figure suddenly blurred, and in the next instant, he vanished into thin air!

"Where?!" Everyone tensed up, alertly sensing their surroundings.

The next moment, behind Jiraiya, the Yomotsu Hirasaka, with its black edges shimmering, opened once more!
Urashiki silently peeked out halfway from the center, and the red fishing hook shot towards Jiraiya's back like lightning!

"Behind you!" Young Sasuke's Rinnegan immediately detected the subtle spatial fluctuation. Without thinking, he instantly twisted his body, and the Kusanagi sword in his hand drew a precise arc, deflecting the deadly fishhook with a crisp "clang"!

Jiraiya broke out in a cold sweat and reacted extremely quickly. Almost the instant Sasuke blocked, a highly compressed Rasengan appeared in his right palm, accompanied by a loud buzzing sound, and he pressed it down on Urashiki behind him!
However, Urashiki missed his attack and, without pausing, his body shrunk back like a fish, disappearing once again into the still-open Yomotsu Hirasaka.

Jiraiya's Rasengan hit empty air, only creating a large crater in the ground.

"Damn it!" Jiraiya cursed angrily.

This kind of attack method, which appears and disappears unpredictably, is simply impossible to defend against!
Following that, Urashiki used Yomotsu Hirasaka's spatial abilities, like a cunning hunter, to launch attacks from various tricky and unexpected angles.

Sometimes it emerges from the shadows, sometimes it falls from above, and sometimes it peeks out from the trunk of a large tree.

The red fishhook appears and disappears unpredictably, each appearance accompanied by a deadly threat.

Young Sasuke had no choice but to keep his Rinnegan active, trying his best to detect the subtle spatial fluctuations, and repeatedly blocking, alerting, and rescuing the enemy.

However, the use of his Rinnegan consumes an enormous amount of chakra and ocular power, especially with such high-frequency and high-precision spatial perception and prediction.

Soon, his breathing became heavy, fine beads of sweat appeared on his forehead, and his Rinnegan began to ache faintly.

"This can't go on!" Young Sasuke thought anxiously.

The opponent's tactics are too underhanded; they are completely draining their stamina and chakra!

Urashiki seemed to have had enough fun, so he opened Yomotsu Hirasaka again, this time opening the portal right next to Naruto!

The red fishing line wrapped around Naruto's body once again!

"Got it!" Urashiki's face broke into a smug smile.

"Let him go!" Boruto, standing next to Naruto, was furious. He instantly conjured a small Rasengan in his hand and hurled it at Urashiki without hesitation!

"Damn it!" Young Sasuke also threw out several shuriken with explosive tags attached, trying to stop Urashiki!

However, Urashiki simply leaped lightly and floated back into the air, looking down at the people struggling in vain below, and casually raised one hand.

"Go away."

That invisible, powerful repulsive force erupted once again!
Boruto's Rasengan and Sasuke's shuriken, along with the two of them, were all violently thrown back by this enormous force and crashed to the ground.

"It can fly... and it has this kind of repulsive force similar to Shinra Tensei..." Jiraiya looked at Urashiki, who was leisurely in the air, and his face was more solemn than ever before.

The opponent's combination of abilities was too troublesome, and lacking effective anti-air means, they were put on the defensive.

Urashiki, with Naruto dangling from his fishing rod, who was struggling and making "whooshing" noises, gave the crowd below a cruel and gleeful smile, as if showing off a trophy: "Well then, I'll accept this precious Chakra Fruit without ceremony. Goodbye, everyone~"

As he spoke, he made a move to carry Naruto into the sky.

Young Sasuke knelt on one knee, supporting his body with the Kusanagi sword. His Rinnegan was stinging from overuse, and his vision was beginning to blur. He watched helplessly as Urashiki was about to take Naruto away, his heart filled with helplessness and anger.

In this desperate moment——

boom! ! !
A surge of immense chakra, like the awakening of a slumbering ancient dragon, suddenly erupted from the ruins of the broken forest in the distance!

That chakra was so vast, carrying an aura of majesty that surpassed all living beings, that even the surrounding air hummed under its weight!
A dazzling golden beam of light pierced through the pervasive mist and shot straight into the sky!
Urashiki, who was about to leave, suddenly stopped and turned to look at the source of the chakra. For the first time, his face showed disbelief and even horror!
Young Sasuke and Boruto also looked up suddenly, their pupils contracting sharply!
Amidst the ruins, Mianma, who should have been seriously injured and unconscious, was slowly floating up from between the broken tree trunks!

His entire body was enveloped in a layer of golden chakra that burned and pulsed like flames, radiating a chilling chakra aura.

Several eerie black tomoe-like patterns appeared on his left cheek, and his outstretched palms also had spiral-like black marks.

Most shockingly, a short but ferocious bony protrusion, resembling a dragon horn, slowly grew from the left temple of his forehead!
On his forehead, just above his brow, the skin writhed and cracked as if alive, and a pure, brilliant golden eye, containing endless majesty and power, suddenly opened!

"Who... disturbed my slumber?" Golden eyes coldly stared at Otsutsuki Urashiki in the air, whose expression changed drastically. An immense pressure swept out like a tsunami, causing the remaining trees around to fall backward in unison!

"No... Impossible! This is... the Tenseigan?!" Urashiki exclaimed in shock, his composure and playfulness vanishing completely, replaced by extreme shock and fear!
Young Sasuke and Boruto froze on the spot as if struck by lightning. Boruto suddenly cried out in pain, clutching the "Karma" on his palm that was beginning to feel slightly hot, his eyes filled with disbelief.

This dimension... actually hides an Otsutsuki that even they have never seen before?!
(End of this chapter)