In the night sky, Delta streaked forward at incredible speed with long flame trails blazing from her heels. The outline of the Hidden Rain Village appeared at the edge of her vision!
Delta's wicked grin widened as she accelerated: "Uzumaki Naruto, I'm coming for your life!"
Whoosh!
Suddenly, without warning... Yomotsu Hirasaka materialized directly ahead!
"!" Delta sensed it but was flying too fast to brake—she crashed straight through!
Whoosh!
Yomotsu Hirasaka snapped shut, leaving perfect stillness.
When Delta regained her bearings, the night sky remained unchanged, but the landscape below had transformed completely!
Delta's mind raced with confusion: What the hell just happened? I passed through some kind of black portal and ended up in this godforsaken place!!
At that moment, an eerie greeting drifted through the mysterious air: "Yo, Delta. Your hot-headed nature hasn't changed a bit..."
"!" Delta spun around to spot a black-clad, blonde youth perched casually on the eaves of a ruined building!
Her assassination target!
"Uzumaki Naruto!!!!" Delta's shock transformed into fury: "How did you know I was coming?! Did that bastard Amado sell me out?!"
Naruto replied: "You really don't trust your old man, do you..."
Delta snarled: "Ridiculous! I don't run on chakra—you shouldn't be able to sense me at all! Who else could've tipped you off but that old fossil?!"
Naruto said: "Logical reasoning, but you're wrong..."
Delta surveyed her surroundings: "Where the hell is this place?"
Naruto explained: "The auction house of the Land of Lightning's underground black market. Earlier today, your three comrades faced justice for participating in illegal auction activities. As you can see, this venue's been permanently closed—so we can cut loose without worrying about collateral damage..."
Damn it, this puts me at a massive disadvantage!
Delta's internal rage boiled, but she maintained her aggressive front: "Oh? You picked yourself a nice cemetery—saves me the trouble of hunting you down. After I kill you here, I'm raiding the Hidden Rain Village to reclaim our Ten-Tails!"
Naruto stated matter-of-factly: "The Ten-Tails isn't in the Hidden Rain Village."
Delta's eyes narrowed: "Then where is it?!"
Naruto replied without hesitation: "In the grave I carefully selected for 'Isshiki'!"
Delta, who genuinely revered Isshiki, exploded with rage: "You think you can take him?! A pathetic ninja who still needs complicated hand seals for every technique!!!"
Naruto responded solemnly: "Hand seals represent a magnificent invention—the perfect synthesis of ninja spirit and physical form. As a cyborg who merely activates devices to randomly discharge energy, you wouldn't comprehend this, Delta."
Delta scoffed: "All that pretentious bullshit is just outdated parlor tricks from fossils!"
Naruto remained calm. A Truth-Seeking Ball materialized in his palm, reshaping into a hollow tube.
He said: "I learned a new jutsu today. Care to experience it firsthand?"
Delta replied coldly: "You want to play games with a corpse?"
Naruto shook his head and placed the tube's end between his lips.
—Water Release: Bubble Technique!
Glub glub glub glub...!
From the tube's front end, transparent bubbles shimmering with rainbow iridescence emerged and swelled!
The former Six-Tails jinchuriki Utakata had gifted Naruto a secret technique scroll before his soul's departure.
Utakata's signature masterpiece—the 'Bubble Technique'!
By infusing chakra into Water Release-created bubbles, floating them near enemies, then detonating them, it combined lethal force with playful aesthetics!
After receiving the scroll, Naruto initially dismissed it as incompatible with his combat style and shelved it.
But considering his daughter's birth in less than a year, he couldn't exactly entertain a child with Truth-Seeking Balls, right? So he mastered this bubble technique.
Unlike Utakata's mass bubble barrages, Naruto blew one at a time, inflating each to maximum capacity before releasing it to drift forward!
Witnessing this display, Delta burst into derisive laughter: "Ha! Such a ridiculous technique—are you babysitting? What a joke!!!"
She charged forward to forcibly pop the bubble!
Beep beep beep beep...!
But her internal chakra alarm suddenly shrieked frantically!
"!!!" Delta slammed to a halt and retreated!
BOOOOOOOM!!!
The bubble detonated with Tailed Beast Ball-level devastation!
The entire auction house was obliterated!
Delta retreated to extreme distance, staring at the exaggerated crater with lingering terror: Just now, if I hadn't stopped, I would've been...
"Damn it! This bastard transformed such a childish technique into a super bomb using his monstrous chakra!!!!"
Click! Though arrogant, Delta wasn't completely brainless.
The triangular device embedded in her back detached and silently ascended into the night sky.
Unlike other Inner members, Delta was a genuine complete cyborg. Compared to her, Boro, Victor, and Deepa were merely modified humans.
That triangular device—the Drone Mirror—served as Delta's cyborg core. Even with total body destruction, the surviving core could resurrect her in backup bodies.
In his previous timeline, after Naruto's defeat, Delta had abandoned her body for self-destruction, surviving solely through the Drone Mirror.
The Drone Mirror served beyond mere survival—its auxiliary eye synchronized with Delta's vision, enabling shared perception!
With the drone as insurance, Delta launched another assault!
Taijutsu was her specialty—she could match even Naruto's full Nine-Tails Chakra Mode!
Naruto sat cross-legged in mid-air, continuing his bubble production!
"Bastard! You think the same trick works twice?!"
Watching the approaching bubble, bzzt! Delta's right eye with its intricate patterns activated its built-in scientific ninja tool. Whoosh! A light ring absorbed the bubble instantly upon contact!
"..." Naruto remained unfazed, continuing his bubble creation!
Whoosh! Delta's left eye expelled the recently absorbed bubble. Two massive bubbles collided, erupting in tremendous explosion...!
"Damn it!!"
The scale was catastrophic—Delta retreated again to avoid the blast radius!
Naruto maintained his steady bubble production, but this time strategically—instead of immediate deployment, bubbles accumulated around his position!
After Delta stabilized: "Enough of this shit!!"
Stomp!
Delta drove her elongated leg into the earth!
Her leg functioned as a powerful scientific ninja tool capable of infinite regeneration, extension, and transformation... Its attack force could penetrate Naruto's Complete Nine-Tails Chakra Mode defense!
Crack...!!
After underground extension, her leg erupted beneath Naruto, targeting his vulnerable areas directly!
Whoosh! Naruto had anticipated this, appearing elsewhere. He extended his palm, directing accumulated bubbles toward Delta!
Delta reached her breaking point: "Bastard, when will you stop?!!"
Bzzt! Ignoring the approaching bubbles, she focused both eyes and fired a purple, spiraling laser at Naruto!
Delta's ultimate killing technique—'Destruction Beam.' Any tissue struck by this laser suffered cellular death beyond any regenerative capability!
Whooom!
Naruto activated Ten-Tails jinchuriki Six Paths Sage Mode!
Then, incredibly, he raised his golden light-enveloped palm and directly intercepted the destruction beam!!
CRACK!!
With explosive impact, the laser dissipated!
Naruto's palm smoked with residual heat, but the destruction beam failed to penetrate his chakra cloak!
Delta's pupils contracted in disbelief: "Impossible... That's my strongest attack!!"
Naruto examined his undamaged palm thoughtfully: "The destruction beam was troublesome for my former self, but witnessing Kaguya's Tenseigan 'Golden Wheel Reincarnation Explosion' revealed the truth—Amado's scientific ninja tool destruction beam merely imitates Tenseigan power, a degraded version of the Golden Wheel Reincarnation Explosion..."
Glub glub glub glub glub glub...!!
The converging bubbles completely encircled Delta. She frantically absorbed bubbles with her right eye's ability, but their sheer quantity overwhelmed her system. After absorbing mere dozens, her eyes erupted in agony, sparking with electrical discharge!!
"Ahhhhhhh, damn it... absorption capacity exceeded!!!!!!"
Glub glub glub glub glub glub...!!
The remaining astronomical number of bubbles compressed Delta at their center, merging into one gigantic, absurdly oversized super bubble containing Delta...
The bubble lifted Delta skyward!
Delta questioned her entire reality: "He used just this bubble technique to completely dominate me???"
Whoosh!
The Black Ten Brothers automatically formed omnidirectional Truth-Seeking Ball barriers!
"Times have changed, Delta..."
Snap! Naruto murmured and snapped his fingers!
BOOOOOOOOOOM!!!
The water explosion's mushroom cloud reached the Land of Lightning's stratosphere...!
Delta suffered total defeat!
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