93: Chapter 93 Only the dead don't need to spend money.tinnitus.
It felt like hundreds of cicadas had crawled into my brain, frantically flapping their wings.
Ino struggled to pull her face out of the mud, her mouth filled with the taste of earth.She tried to stand up, but her legs were as weak as noodles.The wind pressure had been utterly unreasonable, slamming her straight into the ground.
The surroundings were eerily quiet.
There were no birdsong, no insect chirping, not even the sound of the wind rustling through the leaves.Because the trees were gone.
"Ahem.everyone." Yamato's voice came from the front, sounding as if it were coming through a thick quilt.
The smoke and dust were still drifting.
Kakashi covered his left eye, blood seeping from between his fingers and trickling down the back of his hand.
He didn't wipe it; his exposed right eye stared intently ahead, its pupil shrinking to the size of a pinhead.
That huge crater, hundreds of meters in diameter, appeared abruptly in the forest.
The pit walls were so smooth, as if they had been meticulously polished by a craftsman, and had an eerie, glassy texture.
That is the product of the instantaneous action of high temperature and high pressure.
And at the edge of the pit.
The figure in the orange and black coat was kneeling on one knee.
Naruto's right hand hung at his side, convulsing uncontrollably.
The trembling was so intense, it felt like the bones inside were fighting.
But he didn't say anything.
"What.is that." Choji lay on the ground, staring at the huge crater, the bag of potato chips in his hand long since gone.His prized Multiply Jutsu was like a child's toy in front of this crater.
No one answered him.
Several masked ANBU members landed instantly, and one of them, a ninja with Byakugan, immediately formed hand seals and looked down into the pit.
After just one glance, the Hyuga branch family's ANBU member suddenly covered his mouth, almost vomiting.
"What's wrong?" the head of the medical team sent by Tsunade asked urgently.
"The meridians.are gone."
The voice of the Hyuga Anbu member trembled, as if they had seen a ghost, "It's not a break, it's a stripping.That Akatsuki guy's entire chakra meridian system, along with the connections between every single cell, has been severed."
The slow, agonizing death at the cellular level.
Kakashi felt a chill run down his spine.He looked at Naruto's back, that brat who used to follow him around shouting that he wanted to learn Chidori, that always loud and boisterous loser.
When did your silhouette become so long?
teacher.
Kakashi silently recited in his mind.
You created this technique, but you failed to complete it.
Now, your son has done it.But.is this really what you wanted to see?
[Ding!You have received a complex emotion from Kakashi Hatake: a mixture of relief and fear x60,000!]
[Ding!You have received 40,000 units of profound awe from the mountains and fields!]
[Ding!Received a blank from Kakuzu.]
Naruto lowered his head, looking at his right hand, which was still twitching.
At the last moment, Naruto canceled the effect of the Reversal Technique.
The surface of his skin was covered with tiny cracks, marks left by the backlash from the wind-style chakra.
It hurts, it hurts like your hand is stuck in a meat grinder.
But the corners of his mouth were turned up in a crazy smile.
The frequency of these data fluctuations is really pleasant to listen to.
"Everyone stay here."
Naruto stood up, his voice not loud, but no one dared to move.
He didn't turn around, but simply waved his intact left hand before leaping into the massive crater.
The soles of the shoes made a crisp "tap, tap" sound as they stepped on the glassy ground.
Bottom of the pit.
Kakuzu lay there.
If that can still be called "Kakuzu".
At that moment, he was like a tattered rag.
The black robe with red clouds was torn to shreds, revealing a body covered in stitches underneath.
Those proud masked monsters were all shattered into dust, even their black tentacles were completely severed.
Only those green eyes remained open, murky and unfocused.
The surface of his eyeballs was covered in blood vessels, reflecting the blond boy who was walking towards him step by step.
clatter.
The footsteps stopped beside me.
Naruto looked down at the pile of rotten flesh with a cold gaze, as if he were looking at a pile of dog poop on the side of the road.
"That's.what.technique."
Kakuzu's vocal cords were probably damaged as well; his voice sounded like two rusty pieces of iron rubbing together.
He lived for over eighty years.
He fought the First Hokage, assassinated countless daimyo, and amassed a fortune he could never spend in several lifetimes.
He thought he had seen hell before.
Until just now.
The moment the white orb of light enveloped him.
There was no sound, no pain.
There was only a sense of powerlessness as I watched my body slowly turn to ashes.
That was the despair of mortals facing divine punishment.
"Wind Release: Rasenshuriken." Naruto squatted down and announced his name.
The light in Kakuzu's eyes began to dim.
Is this the answer?
Losing to this kind of technique isn't really.
"Don't be in such a hurry to die."
A warm hand slapped against Kakuzu's chest, which was riddled with bloody holes.
Kakuzu was stunned.
A surge of green chakra flowed into his body through that hand.
It was warm and cozy, brimming with amazing vitality.
That's Yang Escape.
Or it could be some kind of advanced medical ninjutsu.
The last heart, which had stopped beating, twitched violently as if it had been electrocuted, and then miraculously resumed a weak beating.
Thump.thump.
Blood was replenished to the brain.
A glimmer of light returned to Kakuzu's nearly blind eyes.
He struggled to turn his eyes, looking at Naruto who was so close to him, his face full of astonishment and confusion.
Why did you save me?
For intelligence?
Yes, it must be intelligence.
All the ninjas in Konoha are like this, wanting information about the Akatsuki's base and their leader.
"Cough… It's no use…" Kakuzu twitched his lips, revealing a mouthful of bloody teeth, trying to put on a mocking expression, "I… can't… say anything…"
"Shhh."
Naruto raised a finger and placed it on his lips.
There was no trace of an interrogator's urgency in those deep blue eyes.
There was only one kind of smile that sent chills down your spine.
Naruto leaned close to Kakuzu's ear and whispered so softly that only the two of them could hear him.
"I don't care about intelligence at all."
"I saved you because your despair wasn't pure enough."
Naruto's hand did not leave Kakuzu's chest; instead, he increased the flow of chakra to maintain the vitality of the broken body.
"It would be such a waste if he died."
"You've saved up money for eighty years, and you still haven't spent it all, have you?"
These words were like a red-hot knife, precisely stabbing into Kakuzu's softest spot.
Kakuzu's pupils dilated suddenly.
Before he could react, Naruto's eyes changed.
His originally azure pupils were instantly tinged with an eerie red light.
The spiritual energy, like sharp spikes, forcefully breached Kakuzu's already riddled spiritual defenses.
Mind Path: Illusion Invasion.
Tick-tock.
The sound of water droplets falling.
Kakuzu suddenly opened his eyes.
My body doesn't hurt anymore.
He found himself standing in a huge vault.
This was his most secret hiding place for money, where piles of gold coins, banknotes, and jewelry shimmered with a captivating luster under the torchlight.
This is the culmination of his life's work.
Every gold coin was stained with the blood of the people he had killed.
"That's truly spectacular."
Naruto's voice echoed in the empty vault.
Kakuzu suddenly turned around.
Naruto was sitting on the highest pile of gold, playing with a lighter in his hand.
That silver lighter.
"What are you going to do?" Kakuzu roared, his voice trembling.
"Money is something you can't take with you when you're born, and you can't take with you when you die." Naruto clicked on his lighter."I'll spend some money for you."
The lighter was thrown down.
boom!
That wasn't ordinary fire.
That was a black Amaterasu fire simulated by an illusion.
The flames instantly engulfed the banknotes.The acrid smell of burning paper money mingled with the smell of molten iron from the gold coins.
"No!"
Kakuzu rushed over like a madman, trying to extinguish the flames.
But he couldn't reach it.
His hand passed through the flames and through the gold coins.
He could only watch helplessly.
He watched as the wealth he cherished as his life curled, turned black, and turned to ashes in the black flames.
"Thirty-five million taels."
"This is the account just settled at the money exchange."
"This was obtained by killing that daimyo of the Land of Water."
Kakuzu knelt on the ground, clutching his hair with both hands, his eyes bulging out of their sockets.
My heart is bleeding.
It hurt ten thousand times more than being hit by the Rasenshuriken.
"Don't rush, it's not over yet."
The scene changes.
Money exchange.
The toilet attendant who had always been so respectful to him was now dragging his body out with a fawning expression, throwing it on the roadside like trash, and then dumping all the money from his box into the sewer.
"Oh well, now that the person is dead, the money is just worthless paper.Let's just flush it away."
Splash!
The sound of a coin hitting the drainpipe is crisp and pleasant.
"Stop!Stop!" Kakuzu lay on the ground, desperately trying to retrieve the money that had fallen into the sewer, but all he could grab was filthy mud.
The scene then changes.
Hidan, that idiot, is holding his bankbook and gambling heavily in the casino.
"I'm betting everything!Anyway, that miser Kakuzu is dead!Hahahaha!"
I lost everything.
I lost everything.
"Aa .
In the real world.
Kakuzu, lying at the bottom of the pit, began to convulse violently.
His eyes rolled back, and a scream that sounded inhuman came from his throat.
That was the sound of a soul being torn apart.
For a miser.
Letting him watch his money turn to ash is more painful than killing him.
Naruto squatted to the side, looking at Kakuzu's distorted face, while the data on the system panel was being refreshed wildly.
[Detection indicates that the target's mental defenses have completely collapsed.]
[A reward of 200,000 ultimate [collapses] from Kakuzu!]
[A reward of 150,000 of Kakuzu's ultimate [heartbreak]!]
"That's about it."
Naruto stood up and dusted off his hands.
He withdrew that last bit of Yang Release chakra that was keeping him alive.
Kakuzu's convulsions stopped.
Those green eyes had completely lost their luster, leaving only a lifeless gray.
That was truly dying with eyes wide open in disbelief.
Its mouth was wide open, as if it wanted to shout "My money!" one last time.
[Ding!Target confirmed dead.]
[Congratulations, host, you have successfully completed a special kill.]
[Special Drop Received: S-Rank Forbidden Technique - Earth Grudge Fear (Arcane Mastery)]
[Bonus: Increased affinity for all chakra nature transformations.]
Naruto didn't even glance at the corpse.
He turned around and walked out of the pit.
The sunlight streamed down, illuminating the expression on his face.
Calm, gentle, and even with a touch of the naivety of a sunny young man.
The demon that had been tormenting my soul in the mental world seemed as if it had never existed.
The edge of the pit.
Kakashi, Yamato, Ino, Choji, and the other Anbu members all stared at him blankly.
They had no idea what had just happened.
All I saw was Naruto jump down, touch Kakuzu's chest, and then Kakuzu screamed and died as if he had a nightmare.
"it's over."
Naruto jumped onto the edge of the pit, flashed a bright smile at everyone, revealing a set of big white teeth.
"That guy seemed to be in a lot of pain before he died, probably regretting all the bad things he had done."
regret?
Kakashi looked at Naruto's harmless face, then glanced at the grotesque corpse at the bottom of the pit.
Was that really a look of regret?
By any measure, it seems like.utter despair.
"Naruto…" Kakashi opened his mouth, wanting to ask something, but then swallowed it back.
"Oh, right."
Naruto seemed to remember something and turned to look at the medical team that had rushed over.
"Excuse me, could you please treat my hand?It hurts a little."
He raised his right hand, which was covered in cuts and bruises, and said in a casual tone as if he were saying, "I accidentally cut my finger."
Ino looked at the bloody, mangled hand, and tears welled up in her eyes.
She rushed over, and green medical chakra lit up.
"Idiot!You're a complete idiot!"
Ino cried and cursed, tears falling onto Naruto's hand, "If it hurts, just yell!Stop pretending to be cool!"
Naruto was stunned for a moment.
Looking at the girl in front of him, her face streaked with tears, the red light deep in his eyes quietly disappeared, replaced by a somewhat simple and honest expression.
"Because I'm a man."
Naruto scratched his head with his intact left hand and laughed heartlessly.
"Men shouldn't cry out in pain easily; that's what Uncle Asma taught me."
I heard that name.
Everyone's expression darkened for a moment.
But then, a sense of relief, a feeling of "successful revenge," appeared on everyone's face.
Except for Kakashi.
He looked at Naruto, who was surrounded by the crowd, his gaze growing increasingly profound.
Just a moment ago.
As Naruto turned around.
He clearly saw that something even darker than the Nine-Tails seemed to be hidden in the boy's shadow.
"Looks like we'll have to have a serious talk when we get back." Kakashi pulled down his headband, covering his tired Sharingan.
The wind blows through the forest.
It carried the fragrance of earth, and a faint smell of blood.
Beneath those ruins.
Beside that silver lighter.
it's all over.
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