Witty Naruto Life

Chapter 112: Sasuke's Response: Sinking or Recovering?

"Pah-Pah-Pah-"

Four-Tails Naruto suddenly let out a painful roar, while Uchiha Itachi held the tree trunk with one hand, breathing slightly heavily.

Sakura, who was hiding in the back, narrowed her eyes and couldn't help but yell to the front: "Naruto!!"

Two lines of clear tears flowed from the corners of her eyes. Sasuke's face was ferocious. His left hand instantly condensed Chidori, and his face was filled with hatred again.

But, unexpectedly, the Four-Tails Naruto in the distance just yelled at the two of them:
"Run! Run!"

What does that mean? Why did Naruto tell us to run?

A feeling of surprise suddenly emerged in Sasuke's mind. Isn't you the most important thing now?
At this time, the Four-Tailed Naruto seemed to melt and turned into a pool of sticky liquid. The original body began to retreat, and the black flames fell off along the red sticky liquid in front and finally dripped onto the ground.

Naruto, who was watching the battle in the spiritual space, let out a long breath and said lightly: "That was a close call... I thought I was going to set a record."

When Naruto said setting a record, he meant setting a new record for being burned to death by Amaterasu.

In fact, all the major forums now have a standard answer for how to deal with Amaterasu, and that is to [escape].

For example, when Sasuke relied on shedding his skin, Killer Bee relied on a stand, and they attacked the Five Kage Summit, Amaterasu only burned a samurai's armor and was easily defeated by Kankuro. During the battle between Naruto and Sasuke in the Valley of the End, Naruto also used the Nine-Tails Chakra to "throw away" Amaterasu attached to his arm.

Therefore, netizens often jokingly say that "Amaterasu can't burn people to death at all."

"boom!!"

At this time, Sasuke and Sakura discovered that a deep pit suddenly exploded in the ground near them. Naruto's shadow clone inside signaled them to hide in it quickly. The two of them understood Naruto's true intention in an instant.

Naruto in the spiritual space also suddenly realized that it was no wonder that the real body had to run to the deep mountains where few people go.

The next moment, Four-Tails Naruto began to condense purple and blue chakra in front of him at an incredible speed. Itachi's eyelids twitched. He was very familiar with this scene.

It's the Tailed Beast Ball, Uzumaki Naruto is going to use the Tailed Beast Ball.

But he had used Amaterasu and Tsukuyomi continuously in a short period of time, and his physical condition had deteriorated seriously, so he could no longer react instantly like before.

The next moment, Naruto's four-tailed beast ball arrived as promised.

"boom!!!!"

"boom!!!!"

"boom!!!!"

The bright light was blinding, the roar was deafening, towering trees were uprooted, their thick trunks burned by the high temperature, the earth shook violently, earth and rocks flew everywhere, and the flames mixed with the raging fire, turning the area within a radius of several miles into a scorched ruin.

Sasuke and Sakura continued to move deeper underground to avoid being affected by the Tailed Beast Ball. They didn't have time to pay attention to Itachi's whereabouts before they felt a heat wave emerging from above. The temperature rose instantly, and the two couldn't help but let their chakra cover their bodies.

The power of this Tailed Beast Ball is different from before. It is approaching the power of the Tailed Beast Ball when the Nine-Tails was in its prime, and its power is completely different from before.

This lasted for about ten seconds, and soon, Naruto felt that he had regained control of his body. At the same time, he clearly smelled the deity's fatigue, and he waved at Naruto, indicating that he wanted to rest for a while.

"It seems you're not durable enough right now. It's only been about ten minutes since I took over your body, right?"

Naruto said goodbye to the deity in a joking tone and re-examined his body.

He switched back to his original human form, and the Nine-Tails' chakra continued to converge. At the same time, he felt that his blue chakra was depleted, which seemed to have been greatly consumed in the previous pursuit.

For a moment, he was a little dazed and his body began to fall backwards uncontrollably.

"Snapped!"

Naruto found himself falling on a warm and strong shoulder. Looking up, he saw a middle-aged man with long white hair looking straight ahead with a serious expression. He put one hand on Naruto's shoulder to maintain his balance.

He suddenly had a sense of déjà vu as if his biological father had come, and his heart was instantly filled with a sense of security, but this feeling was fleeting and replaced by worry.

"Sakura...Sasuke..."

He made a somewhat dry sound and noticed that his face was burned. Jiraiya lowered his head and asked, "Are these two people here too?"

"Yes, right there..." Naruto stretched out a hand and pointed with difficulty at a pit in front of him.

Frankly speaking, he was a little panicked. This time the Tailed Beast Ball was much bigger than the last time. If he didn't run fast enough, he would be roasted into jerky by the high temperature.

"understood."

Jiraiya summoned a fully armed frog, ran to two pits and began digging three feet into the ground.

Soon, Sakura was "dug" out by the frog. When she was unearthed, it was obvious that a thick sticky liquid covered her entire body.

This should be her way of saving her life.

"Sakura..." Naruto immediately stumbled over. Jiraiya wanted to hold him back, but Naruto insisted on checking Sakura's injuries. He ran to Sakura's side, sticky liquid dripping from her body. He bent down to check Sakura's heartbeat and breathing, and there seemed to be no major problems.

After a while, Sakura opened her eyes and saw Naruto with a burned face looking at him anxiously.

"Naruto……"

The two hugged each other tightly. After a while, Sasuke was also dug out. He looked covered in dust and had minor burns on several parts of his body. His condition seemed to be more serious than Sakura's.

"Go see how he is, I'm fine..." Sakura took a few sips of water and the situation eased a lot.

As a water-style ninja who could restrain fire-style ninjutsu, she used secret techniques in time to protect herself from the flames and high temperatures during the explosion, so she was in relatively good condition.

Sasuke's situation would be worse than hers.

Naruto brushed off the dust on Sasuke's face and body, and checked his injuries with Jiraiya.

Fortunately, I won’t die and I can still live.

He felt a little guilty, thinking that he shouldn't have rashly let the deity take action and put Sasuke and Sakura at great risk, but judging from the result, it didn't seem particularly bad.

At least Sasuke didn't have the chance to be defeated head-on by Itachi. He just fought with Itachi for a few minutes together with Sakura. This situation was similar to the fierce battle with the inner demon Itachi in the memory space - it was difficult to have three people online at the same time for a long time when fighting against the inner demon Itachi.

In addition, he also has a new understanding of his own abilities. He can not only fight against the mastermind behind the scenes, but also against the original villain with ease. The only problem is that his endurance is insufficient.

"He should be okay..." Naruto muttered to himself as he looked at Sasuke.

Not seeing Sasuke's response, Naruto felt a little restless, like a primary school student waiting for the teacher to hand out report cards.

After a few more seconds, Naruto turned to Jiraiya.

"Lewd Sage, how is the battle going on the other side?" He looked at Jiraiya with a questioning look in his eyes.

"Are you talking about the hotel? The other guy ran away after seeing me. The battle was already over..."

As he spoke, his expression became somewhat serious, and he said to Naruto: "However, the Anbu people actually knew the enemy's whereabouts in advance. This is something I didn't expect."

"So they are Anbu." Naruto nodded. It seemed that Jiraiya had tacitly assumed the group in white to be Anbu, but it was not surprising. When the three of them appeared, they were wearing black robes and masks, and all three of them had Anbu background.

"This incident might change Bai's fate..." Naruto muttered in his heart.

Naruto was thinking about the situation in his mind. Bai's qualifications and abilities were in line with the standards of Konoha's Anbu. In addition, Bai Yi and Yugao were both powerful figures in Konoha. After this incident, Bai might be introduced to Konoha's top management to make the best use of his talents.

"Then, where is Uchiha Itachi?" Naruto asked Jiraiya the most crucial question. It seemed that when Sasuke heard the name, his tightly closed eyelids twitched slightly.

Jiraiya crossed his arms and shook his head. "I don't know. He may be dead, or he may have escaped. But I tend to think he escaped. After all, there were no remains related to him found at the scene."

"understood."

This is not surprising. In the original work, even Orochimaru could resist the attack of the Tailed Beast Ball. Itachi, who could defeat Orochimaru, should also have his own means to avoid the Tailed Beast Ball.

"Just recuperate here today. It's not too late to leave after you're healed." Jiraiya said these words to Sakura. He had an impression of Sakura and knew this Uchiha orphan, so he immediately showed his hospitality.

"Is that so... then thank you very much, Jiraiya-sama."

……

After the war, Jiraiya compensated the store owner with a sum of money and took a few people to another small town, booking several rooms in a hotel.

Several people put Sasuke on the bed, applied ointment on Naruto's face, and bandaged Sakura's external injuries - of course, she bandaged them herself. The two big men only provided medical supplies and did not peek at her body.

Later, Sasuke woke up with a cough. Naruto quickly gave him some water, put the pillow on the head of the bed, helped him stand up slightly, and lay down on the head of the bed.

Sasuke looked at Naruto, then at Sakura, and after confirming that they were both fine, his gaze fell on Jiraiya, who introduced him. Then, Sasuke asked in a deep voice:
"Where's Itachi?"

As soon as this question came out, Naruto felt his heart blood vessels twisted together and began to beat wildly.

He glanced at Sakura, who nodded, so he pondered for a moment and said slowly:

"He's missing."

Sasuke looked at Naruto, his mouth opening and closing before he said, "What the hell is going on?"

Naruto briefly recounted what had happened and speculated that Itachi might not have died, but had escaped using special means.

Sasuke couldn't say a word for a long time, staring blankly at Naruto and Sakura. Naruto's heart beat faster and faster, and he was even ready to forcibly awaken his true self and fight his inner demon.

Their original plan was to find a way to allow Sasuke to gain the upper hand, even if it was just for a moment, so that Sasuke would not have a mental breakdown.

But the situation now is too delicate. The imagined veil did not appear. Instead, the three of them fell into an absolute disadvantage from the very beginning. The subsequent rounds of close combat did not allow Sasuke to show any highlights.

So how to show Sasuke's progress, or in other words, how to make him feel his own progress?
(End of this chapter)