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

Chapter 437 Menma: You two stray dogs are pretty arrogant, huh? [2 Updates]

On the rooftop of the main battlefield.

"Pu Shi, step back a bit." Ci Xian's voice sounded like he was instructing a servant.

"Oh dear, are we getting serious now?" Urashi didn't seem to mind, carrying the red-glowing fishing rod and jokingly drifting back ten meters, his white eyes flashing with a mixture of anticipation and cruelty.

"But are you sure you want to use that here? What if you accidentally kill that 'device' too?"

"If he's dead, it means he wasn't a qualified 'vessel'." Cixian's gaze swept indifferently over the smoke-filled arena below.

"The Otsutsuki don't need waste, especially..."

His right hand slowly clenched into a fist.

"If you can't even withstand this level of attack, you don't deserve to be chosen."

Just as Cixian was preparing to use the "Great Box Heaven"!

call out--!

A faint whooshing sound, almost drowned out by the wind, rang out.

A cold glint shot out from an inconspicuous corner below, moving with incredible speed, its target aimed directly at Cixian, who was preparing to launch an attack in the air!

That was a kunai.

A kunai, nothing out of the ordinary.

The metal blade flew in a straight line, without any fancy changes, as if it were just a ninja throwing a hidden weapon in a panic.

Cixian paused slightly as he prepared to clench his right hand.

He tilted his head slightly, his indifferent eyes looking at the kunai that had been shot at him.

Her given name was Bikanna.

Cixian silently recited in his heart.

This is one of his pupil abilities, which allows him to "shrink" any object within his field of vision to its limit.

In theory, the kunai should have shrunk to the size of a dust particle the moment he opened his mouth, and then lost all its lethality.

However, the kunai maintained its original size and speed as it shot towards the target.

A look of surprise appeared on Cixian's usually calm and composed face.

Unable to shrink?

In that moment of stunned surprise, Cixian...

boom--!

With a soft sound, the kunai suddenly exploded in the air, creating a cloud of white smoke.

The moment the white smoke exploded, a figure appeared from the smoke, holding a long sword wrapped in dazzling lightning. Using the momentum of the kunai's flight, he slashed fiercely at Jigen's neck!

It's young Sasuke!

The lightning crackling around the Kusanagi sword reached its peak at this moment, and crackling sounds rang out wherever the blade passed.

The speed, power, and timing of this sword strike were all perfect.

It was so perfect that even Jigen didn't have time to dodge, parry, or even use his eye technique again.

However, just as the lightning from the Kusanagi sword was about to touch Jigen's neck...

*Sigh*

With two soft sounds, two jet-black chakra rods suddenly grew out of the side of his neck.

The black chakra rods appeared at an extremely fast speed, their angle perfectly aligned with the trajectory of the Kusanagi sword's slash, crossing to the left and right, blocking the blade between the neck and the neck.

Clang—!!!

The Kusanagi sword slashed fiercely at the intersection of the two black rods, producing a piercing metallic clang.

The lightning collided with the black rod, exploding into countless tiny arcs of electricity that ionized the air within several meters, causing it to crackle and pop.

But the Kusanagi sword stopped.

It was firmly held in place by two seemingly slender black rods, unable to advance an inch.

"What?!" Young Sasuke's pupils suddenly contracted, his eyes revealing disbelief and horror.

Chakra rods?!

This guy can use chakra rods too?

Could he also be an Otsutsuki?!

No, that's not right.

Young Sasuke stared intently at Jigen.

This bald man did not have the horns and fair skin characteristic of the Otsutsuki clan, and his eyes were those of an ordinary human, without the Byakugan or Rinnegan.

Who exactly is he?!

"I see." Jigen looked at the young Sasuke who was so close to him, especially the purple six-tomoe Rinnegan under his bangs.

"A Rinnegan? It seems its power is waning." Jigen's voice was soft.

"However, it doesn't matter." Jigen's gaze fell on the two black rods that were holding up the Kusanagi sword.

"The Rinnegan's abilities are indeed somewhat troublesome, but in the face of absolute power, any technique is futile."

The moment the words fell.

Suddenly, a black rod appeared in Jigen's hand and pierced through the body of young Sasuke.

*Sizzle sizzle sizzle—!*

Immediately afterwards, several equally black chakra rods appeared without warning and instantly pierced through the young Sasuke's body!

puff--!!

Before the young Sasuke could even react, he felt a series of intense, cold, stinging pains throughout his body.

He looked down and saw that his chest, abdomen, arms, and legs were pierced by jet-black chakra rods.

The black rods pierced his body from the front and exited from the back, pinning him in mid-air like a butterfly nailed to a specimen board.

Fresh blood, like blooming red lotuses, blossomed on his body.

"cough……!"

Young Sasuke coughed up a mouthful of blood. He struggled to lift his head and looked at the still indifferent, even emotionless face in front of him, his eyes filled with shock.

How could that be...?

He had clearly activated the Rinnegan, clearly detected the opponent's movements, and clearly prepared to dodge...

But those black rods suddenly pierced his body directly. His Rinnegan's dynamic vision could only detect a tiny movement, and his body couldn't even react!

Young Sasuke immediately realized that this was not a matter of speed at all!

"Oh dear, I really can't move now~"

Pu's teasing voice came from the side.

He floated not far away, carrying his red-glowing fishing rod, watching the young Sasuke, who was pinned in mid-air by a black rod and covered in blood, with a cat-and-mouse-like smile on his face.

Urashi tapped his shoulder lightly with his fishing rod, his tone flippant: "You'd better just accept your fate."

Cixian ignored Pu Shi's nonsense.

He slowly raised his other hand, and a jet-black chakra rod once again condensed in his palm, aiming it at the young Sasuke's forehead.

Then, it is thrust out.

At the critical moment, young Sasuke unleashed the full power of his Rinnegan!

The black rod in Jigen's hand missed its mark, and the figure of young Sasuke had already disappeared.

The black rods that had pierced his body and pinned him in mid-air lost their support and fell from the sky.

At the same time, a vortex-like black spatial portal suddenly opened in mid-air beside Jiraiya.

The young Sasuke, covered in blood with more than a dozen bloody holes still gushing blood, fell out of the portal and crashed heavily onto the broken roof tiles with a dull thud.

"Teacher!" Boruto rushed over in alarm, frantically helping the young Sasuke up, and quickly pulled out bandages and ration pills from his ninja tool bag.

"Cough...cough cough..." Young Sasuke coughed violently, each cough bringing up large amounts of blood and foam.

He used the Kusanagi sword to support himself on the ground, struggling to stand up, but the black rods piercing through his body not only caused serious physical damage, but also eroded and interfered with the flow of chakra within him.

Every breath carried the heavy smell of blood, and every heartbeat aggravated the wounds all over his body, bringing excruciating pain.

"Lord Jiraiya..." Young Sasuke turned his head with difficulty to look at Jiraiya, who was holding Hiruzen Sarutobi's body: "Go... get out of here... those two... are not people you can handle..."

Although the exchange just now was brief, it made him clearly aware of the difference in strength between the two sides.

This guy's strength is probably above Urashiki's!

"Stop talking nonsense!" Jiraiya's forehead veins bulged.

"The old man just passed away; I can't just stand by and watch you all die in front of me!"

With that, Jiraiya gently handed Hiruzen Sarutobi's body to Yamato beside him, and said in a deep voice to Enma, Yamato, and the other ANBU ninja, "Take the old man's body and evacuate immediately with the rest of you! Quickly!"

"Lord Jiraiya! What about you?!" Yamato cried out urgently, holding Hiruzen Sarutobi's body.

"I'll stay behind to cover the rear!" Jiraiya roared. He glanced at the young Sasuke, who had been seriously injured in just one round, and the somewhat panicked Boruto beside him, and then at the two white figures in the air.

"But--"

"No buts!" Jiraiya abruptly interrupted Yamato, his voice urgent. "This is an order! Immediately, take the old man's body and all the remaining Anbu members who can still move, and evacuate this area! Evacuate the surviving civilians!"

"The battles to come... are beyond your control!"

"These two guys are even more terrifying than Orochimaru!"

Yamato gritted his teeth, staring at Jiraiya's bloodshot eyes, then at Hiruzen Sarutobi's cold, lifeless face in his arms, before finally stamping his foot hard.

"Anti-Dark Unit, listen up! All personnel evacuate!!"

Holding Hiruzen Sarutobi's body, he rushed towards the edge of the roof first.

The other ANBU ninjas who were still able to move were filled with grief and indignation, but they knew that the situation was beyond their control, so they could only grit their teeth and keep up.

Enma took one last look at Hiruzen Sarutobi's body, which was being held by Yamato, let out a mournful growl, and then vanished into white smoke.

In the blink of an eye, only Jiraiya, the seriously injured young Sasuke, and Boruto supporting Sasuke remained on the rooftop.

Oh, there's one more person.

Orochimaru.

He remained atop the towering tree, his golden vertical pupils observing Jigen and Urashiki in the air with great interest, then glancing at Jiraiya and the others on the rooftop below, a smile playing on his lips.

"Jiraiya, do you need any help?" Orochimaru's voice came through, carrying his usual playful tone.

"Get out!" Jiraiya cursed.

"After I take care of these two, I'll kill you next to avenge the old man!"

"Heh, you're still as irritable as ever." Orochimaru chuckled lightly, not angry at all, and turned his gaze back to the sky.

"However, I advise you to save your energy. Those two... are not opponents that can be defeated by mere bravado."

Jiraiya ignored Orochimaru completely.

He took a deep breath, looked at the young Sasuke, and asked in a low voice, "Hey, kid, can you hold on?"

He wanted young Sasuke to hold on a little longer, to buy him time to activate Sage Mode.

Although I know this is cruel to the severely injured young Sasuke, well... what can I do when his Sage Mode isn't perfect?

Young Sasuke struggled to lift his head to look at Jiraiya, then at the two white figures in the air, and finally, slowly nodded.

"Okay," he replied briefly.

"Alright!" A ruthless glint flashed in Jiraiya's eyes. "Buy me some time!"

The young Sasuke did not answer again, but slowly tightened his grip on the Kusanagi sword.

On the sword, the remaining lightning began to flicker and condense once more.

Boruto supported him, the "Karma" in his palm slightly warm, and the chakra belonging to Momoshiki began to stir restlessly.

Jigen, who was in the air, did not immediately pursue Sasuke after the young Sasuke escaped using Amenotejikara.

His gaze swept over the three people below who were standing ready, and finally landed on Boruto.

He sensed the presence of his clansmen.

"wedge?"

"Ura-shiki," Jigen slowly began, "is this the 'container' you mentioned?"

With his arms crossed, Bai's eyes gleaming with excitement, he licked his lips and chuckled, "No, these two are my prey."

"The 'weapon' of Konoha belongs to someone else."

"No?" Jigen's gaze remained fixed on Boruto. "Why does the 'Karma' on him have Momoshiki's aura?"

Upon hearing this, Pu Shi shrugged: "Who knows?"

Cixian remained silent for a moment.

Although this collaboration with Urashiki is only temporary, the presence of Momoshiki's "Kwab" here makes him feel very strange.

According to the mission plan, Momoshiki and Kim should now be planting trees in another star system.

Moreover, given Momoshiki's personality, if he had truly planted the "Wedge," he would have made more meticulous arrangements, rather than letting a clearly weak brat run around with the "Wedge" as it is now.

and……

Jigen's gaze swept over the young Sasuke and Jiraiya below, as well as the cold-looking boy on the giant wood tree.

These people in front of him are quite strong, but they are definitely not strong enough to force Urashiki to the point where he needs to ask for help.

Although Urashiki has a frivolous personality, he is an Otsutsuki warrior who can independently take charge of planting trees in a star field, and his strength is not weak among the Otsutsuki clan.

However, Pu Shi claimed that he encountered a strange "device" on this planet, which seemed to belong to an Otsutsuki clan member who had no prior records.

'If even Urashiki has been forced to this point…' Jigen thought to himself, 'Could it be… that guy named Shura…?'

The only threat to Jigen on the entire planet is that Shura who called himself "Otsutsuki Rakushiki" five years ago and tricked him. However, Jigen later sent people to gather intelligence, and that guy seems to be in the Land of Stars, not in Konoha.

In his eyes, these people, including the one with the Rinnegan, were nothing more than slightly stronger ants.

"Since Momoshiki's 'weapon' is here..." Jigen slowly raised his right hand: "Then let's retrieve it together."

"That guy is still as annoying as ever."

As soon as he finished speaking, hundreds of black chakra rods appeared out of thin air around him, directly locking onto the young Sasuke, Jiraiya, and Boruto below!

"They're here!" Young Sasuke's Rinnegan narrowed.

However, just as he endured the excruciating pain, raised the Kusanagi sword in his hand and held it horizontally in front of his chest, preparing to hold them off!

"Looks like I've arrived just in time?"

A voice with a hint of lazy laughter suddenly rang out, clearly reaching everyone's ears.

Jiraiya, who was about to summon two toad sages to empower himself with sage techniques, Orochimaru, who was watching the show, young Sasuke and Boruto who were waiting for the battle, and even Urashiki in the air and Jigen who was preparing to unleash a large-scale attack, all paused slightly and looked in the direction from which the sound came.

The edge of the roof.

A boy dressed in a simple black tracksuit, with messy, unruly short black hair, and wearing ordinary ninja shoes, casually put his hands in his pockets, looking very relaxed.

He wore a faint smile, his posture as leisurely as if he were taking a stroll, and his dark eyes seemed to reflect the entire sky.

Beneath his feet was a void hundreds of meters high, but he walked up step by step as if on flat ground, finally landing steadily on the edge of the roof.

"Menma?!" Boruto was the first to exclaim in surprise.

Jiraiya's pupils suddenly contracted.

Face numb?

Could he really be another child of Minato?

Jiraiya recalled his previous investigation into Masahiro's background.

"Hehehe..." A low, pleasant laugh came from the edge of the Wood Release: Sea of ​​Trees.

"You've finally arrived." Orochimaru licked his lips.

"Looks like you're not going to keep playing this childish ninja game, are you? These two guys are here to see you too, right?"

"Asura".

The name exploded in Jiraiya's mind like a thunderclap.

and many more!

Just before the old man died, he still insisted on asking Orochimaru if Shura was Minato.

But now, Orochimaru actually called out the name "Shura" to Menma?

Jiraiya was in a state of turmoil. Although he knew that Orochimaru's words could not be completely trusted, was the twelve-year-old Menma the Asura who dominated the ninja world?

He was only three years old when he was active in the ninja world and beating up the Hidden Cloud Village.

This is even more terrifying than Minato being a demon!

He prefers to believe that Minato faked his death!

But then, Menma's response made Jiraiya's heart skip a beat.

"Orochimaru, the way you're talking makes it sound like I've been pretending all along." Menma glanced at Orochimaru on the giant tree in the distance.

"I've always been myself; it's just that you guys always like to label me with all sorts of tags."

As he spoke, he slowly turned his head to look at Jigen and Urashiki in the air.

"However, you are right about one thing, these two guys..." Menma's gaze swept over Urashiki, then slowly moved to Jigen.

"They did come to see me."

He paused, a slight smile playing on his lips, and said, word by word, with a hint of mockery in his voice:

"You two stray dogs were pretty arrogant when I wasn't around, weren't you?!"

The moment the words fell.

boom--!!

An immense, suffocating surge of chakra erupted like a dormant volcano, bursting forth from Menma's seemingly frail body!

It was a dark red tailed beast chakra filled with malice and savagery.

It quickly burned and rose wildly on the surface of Mianma's body, condensing into a chakra cloak covering his entire body.

The collar of the coat stood up high, with sharp serrated edges and a dark red sheen flowing across its surface, as if it were alive, wriggling and breathing.

Within the illusory image of the chakra cloak, a ferocious dark red fox head loomed in and out, its scarlet beastly eyes reflecting endless savagery and destruction.

What shocked Jiraiya and young Sasuke the most was that from Menma's back, ten tails made entirely of dark red chakra were spreading and dancing wildly!

Dark Nine-Tails Chakra Mode, activate!