Naruto: Naruto's Uchiha girlfriend is too arrogant

Chapter 624 An Unexpected Enemy

"Are we really going to have to fight next?"

Naruto looked up at his reflection, wearing a fox mask, floating in mid-air. "Is there really no way to turn things around? Did it really have to come to this?"

"Your attitude is really annoying."

Mai Uzumaki looked down at Naruto, her tone cold and offended. She looked at Naruto, who, despite being surrounded by the entire Akatsuki, hadn't broken a sweat. She looked at his eyes, which didn't seem to regard her as an enemy at all, like an idiot who didn't understand what tension was.

"What makes you think I'm no match for you? You think you're so strong that you can treat today's battle as a misunderstanding and resolve it? This attitude of yours is more infuriating than any enemy I've ever encountered."

"...I told you, I'm not the kind of guy whose head is full of naive ideas like yours."

A golden aura of chakra began to surge around Mai. "If you follow the established path step by step, you will eventually become a pawn of fate. The bonds you speak of, the connections between people that you desperately try to maintain, are all meaningless in the face of true power."

"Fate and ties are meaningless; only the power you hold in your hands and the dream that no one can take away are the only truths worth believing in."

"...This guy's speech sounds like something out of a traditional villain."

Naruto's lips twitched slightly as he mentally suppressed the thought of making a sarcastic remark.

He took a deep breath. "Wait a minute, your goal is the other half of the Nine-Tails, but you don't seem to have any reason to attack me, do you? The other half of the Nine-Tails in this world is just sealed away; it's not dead. Tailed beasts are beings that cannot be truly killed or disappeared. Why didn't you find a way to release that half of the Nine-Tails from its seal? Instead, you chose to attack me."

"I don't need to explain to you."

Mai's tone remained cold and devoid of warmth. She clasped her hands together again and began forming hand seals. "There's nothing to talk about between us. I've said it before, enough with the nonsense. Now, let me..."

"Uh... Naruto." A voice suddenly interrupted Mai's hand seals. Satsuki had somehow appeared beside Naruto.

She looked at the figure in the sky wearing a fox mask, its brows slightly furrowed, its expression showing far more confusion than wariness. "Why did the other you suddenly attack Konoha and you?"

"...The reasons for this are probably very complicated."

Naruto turned his head and lowered his voice to answer Satsuki, "But the problem is, she doesn't want to explain or talk about it. It seems like this fight is inevitable."

"It's that idiot from another world..."

Mai quickly calculated in her mind that she needed to find a way to stall this guy.

"I don't quite believe it." However, Satsuki suddenly turned her head and spoke directly to Mai in the sky. "How could Naruto's alter ego become like this for no reason? There must be some reason, right? I don't believe that Naruto, no matter what version, would attack ordinary people without any reason."

"What happened to you that made you become so unlovable?"

What is this guy saying?

Mai felt a little confused. Why was this woman, the other version of Uchiha Sasuke from another world, speaking in this tone? The Uchiha Sasuke she knew shouldn't have spoken like this.

"Don't pretend you understand me so well. Who are you to me?"

She didn't want to get entangled with Satsuki any longer. The next moment, Mai didn't hesitate; she clasped her hands together abruptly, and her chakra erupted instantly. Several enormous, thick golden chains extended from her back!

The chain's surface was covered with densely packed sealing runes. "Don't get in my way. No one can stop me from getting the rest of the Nine-Tails!"

"Diamond Sealing Chains?" Naruto instinctively called out the name of the technique, but the chains didn't shoot towards Naruto and Sasuke. They all bypassed the two in the center, scattering in all directions and accurately targeting the Akatsuki members who were lying on the ground.

Hidan was lying in the rubble with one leg sticking out and twitching when a golden chain pierced his back, making him jolt as if he'd been electrocuted.

Kisame, Zabuza, Haku, and Hiruko—each of them who had lost the ability to fight had a chain precisely pierced into their backs.

Then, the chains began to glow, not with an aggressive light, but with a warm, healing quality. Mai's chakra was being continuously transferred through these chains to each Akatsuki member, replenishing their energy, healing their injuries, and releasing the sealing jutsu that Naruto had placed on them.

Nagato was the first to open his eyes. He sat up abruptly, his Rinnegan instantly refocusing. The dizziness he had just experienced from the golden shockwave was completely dispelled by the warm chakra flowing into his body along the chains.

He didn't waste a second asking "What just happened?" or expressing surprise that "we were wiped out by one person." He simply formed hand seals.

"Spiritual communication!"

"roar--!!!"

The roar of the three-headed hellhound shook the ground, and its massive body burst out of the white smoke of the summoning jutsu. At the same time, a bison of similarly enormous size charged out from another direction. The two behemoths, one on the left and one on the right, crushed towards Naruto in a pincer attack.

"boom!!!"

A tremendous crash resounded, but it wasn't the sound of Naruto being hit. The two giant beasts seemed to have slammed into an invisible wall, the impact being completely deflected back.

The other Akatsuki members, who had already drawn their weapons again, stopped what they were doing upon seeing this. Everyone saw the barrier that suddenly appeared in front of Naruto and Sasuke, and purple chakra light shot into the sky from Sasuke's body.

An immense amount of ocular power surged continuously from Zuo Yue's Mangekyou Sharingan, its concentration so high that the surrounding air was tinged with a faint purple halo.

Ribs, arms, armor—layers of chakra structures rapidly formed around her body, instantly coalescing into a half-body purple demon statue.

The Susanoo completely protected Naruto and Satsuki. The half-body colossus of the purple demon god condensed a huge chakra sword in its hand. Satsuki controlled the Susanoo and swung the sword down!

With a single sword strike, the three-headed hellhound and the one-horned bison vanished from their spot.

Before it could even utter a cry of pain, it vanished completely in a puff of white smoke. It had absolutely no chance of resistance.

"A medical ninjutsu developed using the Adamantine Sealing Chains as a medium... How imaginative."

Naruto stood within the protective range of Susanoo, looking through the semi-transparent purple chakra barrier at the Akatsuki members outside who had been reactivated by golden chains. He first sincerely praised Mai's creativity.

Then his gaze swept over the Akatsuki members around him who had gotten up from the ground and were back in fighting stances. The current situation was indeed somewhat unpleasant.

There were only two of them, him and Satsuki, while on the other side, there was Hidan, Kakuzu, Deidara, Kisame, Zabuza, Haku, Hiruko, Nagato, Konan, and Mai herself in the sky who was controlling the Adamantine Sealing Chains, which was a full Akatsuki organization.

However, Mai Uzumaki formed another hand seal. "Let me show you the full power of my organization!"

"Bang!"

White smoke exploded, clearing a space in front of Mai. After the smoke slowly dissipated, two new figures appeared in the spot, blocking Mai's path.

Upon seeing the two newly appeared figures, Naruto's expression finally changed; it was genuine, completely unexpected surprise.

White eyes, a resolute and youthful face. He wore a Konoha headband on his forehead, with a straight horizontal line across the center—the mark of a rogue ninja.

The other person standing next to him had his arms crossed, his short hair was slightly blown by the wind, and the huge sandy yellow gourd behind him cast a long shadow.

Hyuga Neji, and... Gaara.