Naruto: Naruto's Uchiha girlfriend is too arrogant

Chapter 621 Starting the Team

Leaf Center

"I'm sorry, Kurama is my family." Naruto stood in the center of the crater, his voice unwavering despite being surrounded by the entire Akatsuki organization. He stared directly at the figure in the very center wearing the fox mask. "No matter what happens, no matter what conditions you offer, I cannot agree to them."

He glanced at Nagato and Konan standing on either side of Mai, then turned his gaze back to the fox mask.

"However, since you are the leader of Akatsuki, and Nagato is standing here, it seems Obito is dead? Did you take care of him yourself?"

"Um."

Mai actually answered. Her tone remained icy, devoid of any extra emotion.

"Of course I wouldn't let him go. Things were simpler than I thought. He thought he was using me, but in reality, he never figured out who was being used. Getting rid of him didn't take much effort."

"What's wrong? You've forgiven him?"

"...I didn't do that. I chose a different path. But you know quite a lot."

"That's enough." Mai had no intention of continuing the conversation. "That's enough reminiscing. Let's go, Akatsuki, and seize the Nine-Tails. Disperse!"

The moment the words left his mouth, all the Akatsuki members around him vanished simultaneously. It was the Body Flicker Technique; each of their movements was precise to the millisecond level! Except for Hidan.

"Yahoo—!"

A frenzied howl erupted first. Hidan's three-bladed scythe swung through the air, unleashing an arc of light tinged with the stench of blood.

His face was plastered with a fanatical, twisted smile, and his eyes were bloodshot.

Naruto raised his left hand and grabbed the blade of the scythe.

Hidan's pupils dilated sharply, but what shocked him even more was yet to come.

Suddenly, two orange lines appeared below Naruto's eyes, and then the shape of his pupils changed visibly from a circle to a cross.

"Bang--!!!"

The fist, enhanced by the Sage Body and imbued with chakra energy, slammed solidly into Hidan's chest.

Before Hidan's maniacal smile could turn into astonishment, he was sent flying backward, crashing through several remaining broken walls behind him before finally being buried in a pile of collapsed rubble.

"Water Release: Great Waterfall Technique!"

Zabuza made his move, his hands flashing with a dazzling series of hand movements. A colossal wave appeared out of nowhere.

The volume of water was astonishing. The surging water, carrying mud, sand, and debris from collapsed buildings, formed a wall of water several stories high. With overwhelming force, it swept over the ruins of Konoha and crashed down on Naruto.

Before the water even arrived, the oppressive feeling that threatened to engulf everything had already pressed down on us.

"Let's attack together, Haku, Zabuza-senpai."

Kisame was already standing beside Zabuza, his shark-like smile widening as he began to form hand seals.

"Yes, thank you, Kisame-san." Haku stood on Zabuza's other side and responded to Kisame on Zabuza's behalf.

Then Haku began forming hand seals with one hand, which were exactly the same as Zabuza's and Kisame's. The three of them gathered and overlapped in the water waves, forcibly increasing the scale of the Great Waterfall Technique to more than three times its original size.

The golden fox head reappeared on Naruto's body, firmly enveloping him in the center of the protective shield formed by the Nine-Tails' chakra.

The towering waves crashed against the golden chakra shell, creating a deafening roar. Water splashed everywhere, evaporating into white steam that shot into the sky, forming a dense fog that blotted out the sun above the battlefield.

After the waves dispersed, some strange shadows swam rapidly beneath the surface.

"Water Release: Hundred-Foot Shark!"

Kisame slapped the water's surface with one hand, and chakra poured into the water beneath his feet like a burst dam. The next moment, countless sharks formed from chakra leaped out of the water, hundreds of mouths filled with sharp teeth opening simultaneously, biting at the golden fox head from all directions.

But the moment each shark touched the Nine-Tails' chakra shell, it was like a piece of paper thrown into a furnace, silently evaporated. It vanished without a trace, without even a splash.

"Please hate only me, Ice Release: Demonic Mirror Ice Coffin!"

White clasped her hands together, and ice chakra suddenly erupted between her palms.

The temperature in the air plummeted to below freezing in an instant, the water stains on the ground quickly froze, the cracked building surfaces were covered with a layer of white frost, and tiny ice crystals began to condense in the air!

Then, all the ice crystals converged at the center at the same time, freezing the remaining water from the Great Waterfall Technique, the sharks still swimming on the surface, and Naruto, who was standing in the center of the water and wrapped in a golden fox head, into a giant ice sculpture.

"...Success..." Bai's voice softly rang out from behind the reflection of the ice sculpture, uttering only two words.

Just before she could utter her third word...

"boom!!!"

Three golden chakra claws rose from the ground and broke through the ice from the bottom of the ice sculpture at the same time, sending ice fragments flying in all directions.

The three claws reached out in three directions, precisely grabbing Zabuza, Kisame, and Haku by the neck, lifting all three of them into the air at the same time.

Then came a second loud bang, and the ice sculpture exploded from the inside. Before the shards even hit the ground, they were evaporated into water vapor by the intense heat of the Nine-Tails' chakra. White mist filled the entire battlefield, and in the very center of the mist, Naruto still stood there, without even a scratch on his body.

His expression emerged from the mist, and the three of them saw that his face was not filled with solemnity, tension, or anger, but rather... distress.