chapter 117 part 1
Chapter 117: Obtaining the Second Earth Grudge Fear Heart
"Wood Style: Deep Forest Emergence!"
As Yamato clapped his hands together, the surrounding trees seemed to answer his call. Roots broke through the earth like writhing, giant pythons, slithering toward the Four-Pillar Prison.
The Water Style Earth Grudge Fear monster was still putting up a stubborn resistance. It gathered its strength and shot a powerful, high-pressure water cannon from its mouth, aiming straight for a weak point in the Wood Style cage.
Yamato's gaze sharpened, and his hands flew through a series of seals. "Wood Style: Wall-Spike Technique!"
Countless sharp wooden spikes shot toward the Water Style Earth Grudge Fear monster from all directions. Some of the spikes successfully pierced the Water Style's defenses and stabbed into the monster's body, causing its attack to falter for a moment.
"Wood Style: Four-Pillar Prison!"
Yamato slammed his hands together!
Four enormous wooden pillars erupted from the ground, growing and extending at an incredible speed. They intertwined and wrapped around each other, instantly forming an incomparably sturdy cage that tightly imprisoned the Water Style Earth Grudge Fear monster inside.
The wooden prison emanated a dense vitality and a powerful aura. Inside, the Water Style Earth Grudge Fear monster struggled madly, continuously unleashing Water Style attacks against the wooden pillars, but they merely trembled slightly, showing no signs of being destroyed.
This Wood Style seemed to have the effect of absorbing Chakra. After a short while, the Water Style Earth Grudge Fear monster inside stopped attacking, as if it had fallen asleep.
Yamato turned to Uchiha Ren and said sternly, "I need to go help on Might Guy's side of the battlefield now. You stay here. Do not, under any circumstances, act rashly. Especially don't touch the paper talismans on this wooden house. These talismans have a special sealing power. If they are broken, the monster might escape."
Uchiha Ren nodded hurriedly, indicating he understood.
However, after Yamato turned and left, Uchiha Ren's eyes began to dart around slyly.
Inside the dim, gloomy Four-Pillar Prison, the very air seemed to have solidified, suffused with a chilling aura that made one's hair stand on end.
Only a pair of crimson eyes glowed in the darkness, flashing with a crazed and bizarre light.
Uchiha Ren held a kunai, his face twisted into an expression of ecstatic excitement. To any onlooker, his expression would be utterly terrifying.
The corners of his mouth turned up in a strange smile as he focused intently, using the kunai to stitch the black threads, one by one, into his own left shoulder.
With every pass of the needle, a crazed look flashed in his eyes, as if he were performing an incomparably sacred ritual.
It truly hurt!
But, the pleasure was also truly real!
Every stitch was a massive enhancement for him!
After a long time, he finally managed, through sheer effort, to successfully stitch all of the black threads into his left shoulder.
Having completed this, he let out a satisfied breath and quickly ran out of the Four-Pillar Prison.
Once outside the prison, he calmly stuck the talisman back onto the door with a practiced ease that would raise suspicion.
Immediately after, Uchiha Ren seemed to become a different person. He instantly switched to a dazed expression, then squatted to one side, pretending to rest as if nothing had happened.
But his slightly trembling fingers and his eyes, which flashed with an unusual light from time to time, exposed his inner turmoil.
Another Masked Monster!
When Uchiha Ren synchronized the Masked Monster to all the Ren Arakawas, every single Ren Arakawa went into a frenzy!
Kakuzu's Earth Grudge Fear Masks—each one represented a heart and could substitute for the main body's death once!
Resisting fatal injuries was another ability of the Masked Monster.
Crucially, the Masked Monster itself possessed considerable strength. With its nearly inexhaustible Chakra and its use of all five elemental ninjutsu, an ordinary person would be no match for it.
Moreover, this was a Water Style Earth Grudge Fear Mask!
Uchiha Ren and Pirate Ren Arakawa desired Water Style the most!
Previously, Uchiha Ren's Water Style couldn't compare to Itachi's Fire Release.
But now, with the aid of the Water Style Earth Grudge Fear...
The evil Uchiha Clan's Fire Release would be reduced to bubbles under his water cannon!
Pirate Ren Arakawa: "Awesome! Main God Ren Arakawa will probably be stunned when he synchronizes."
Stephen Fang: "You are my god!"
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"Woof woof woof!"
Several large dogs suddenly appeared behind Uchiha Ren. He turned his head to look and immediately sighed in relief.
Even after more than seven hundred episodes of Naruto, while others were researching tattoos and eyes, the Inuzuka Clan was still researching how to merge with their ninja dogs.
The old Ino-Shika-Cho trio had also arrived on the battlefield.
Ino-Shika-Cho, the Inuzuka, the ANBU, plus Might Guy.
So... Kakuzu was going to be captured.
Some time passed.
More than half of the forest had been destroyed.
A few battered figures, dragging Kakuzu who had been repeatedly controlled by the Ino-Shika-Cho trio, appeared before Uchiha Ren.
Seeing that Kimimaro's figure was not among the crowd, Uchiha Ren breathed a sigh of relief.
Yamato flashed over, touched the outer shell of the Four-Pillar Prison, and said to Shikaku Nara, "Get ready!"
Shikaku Nara nodded and clapped his hands together. The Nara clan's secret technique—Shadow Imitation Technique—activated!
The moment the shadow appeared, Yamato canceled the sustaining effect of the Four-Pillar Prison.
The result, of course, was that they caught nothing.
"It escaped?"
The Konoha ninja at this time had no idea what Earth Grudge Fear was, so none of them paid it much mind.
Yamato walked up to Uchiha Ren. "It's been hard on you! To be able to escape the pincer attack of the Akatsuki and Orochimaru, you are a genius of the Uchiha!"
Just as he finished speaking, a squad of figures appeared in the center of the field.
Uchiha Ren squinted his eyes and immediately spotted a tall, upright figure.
Itachi Uchiha.
Beside Itachi was the head of the Uchiha Clan, and also the biological father Itachi was destined to kill in a few months, Uchiha Fugaku.
Fugaku's appearance here was, in fact, also to protect Uchiha Ren.
Whether it was the Third Hokage, Hiruzen, or Danzo Shimura, they were both "interested" in the target of Orochimaru's Heaven Cursed Seal.
The difference was that Hiruzen wanted to know more about Orochimaru, while Danzo Shimura wanted to obtain power.
Fugaku would never hand over his clan's genius to Danzo Shimura or the Hokage, which was why he had appeared here personally.
"Ren, let's go."
Fugaku didn't say much. He grabbed Uchiha Ren's arm and helped him up.
Seeing this...
Yamato, who represented Hiruzen's will...
And a Root ninja standing on a tree trunk...
Both wanted to say a few words, but Fugaku's aura was too overpowering, and neither dared to step forward to speak.
Toge, however, blocked Fugaku's right side at this moment. "Lord Father, according to ANBU's rules of engagement, with such a major incident occurring near the Village, he needs to come to ANBU to provide details."
As Toge spoke, Uchiha Ren secretly glanced at Itachi's eyes.
'He really didn't recognize me!'
'Well, who would connect the me of today with the me of last month?'
'Damn it! Just you wait!'
When Toge had thrown the shuriken, Uchiha Ren hadn't even opened his eyes, nor was he wearing the Uchiha Clan's clothes. He hadn't even graduated from the Ninja Academy.
Itachi would never pay attention to the facial features of such a "passerby"; he had no impression at all.
Since that was the case...
"Ah!"
Uchiha Ren suddenly let out a loud cry, focusing everyone's attention on him.