Naruto : Cruel Rebirth

Snap! Raikage, surrounded by lightning, charged forward, delivering a hand blade strike.

—Thunder Punishment Balance! [Note: Thunder Punishment "Water" Balance is a horizontal hand blade sweep, Thunder Punishment "Sky" Balance is a vertical hand blade cut.]

Slash! The Hell Three-Headed War Dog was split in half down the middle of its central head by the lightning. Raikage stopped behind and sneered, "Hmph, pathetic!"

"Raikage-sama, be careful behind you!!!" A Kumogakure ninja watching from the sidelines shouted in fear. 

"Huh!?"

Raikage tried to turn around, but his neck, wounded earlier, wouldn't cooperate.

Bang!!! A claw struck from behind, sending Raikage flying. He rolled several times before landing unharmed, and finally saw what was happening behind him! The war dog that was split by the Thunder Punishment Balance had turned into two dogs!! Raikage was filled with shock and anger: "What's going on!?"

"Argh...!!" The war dogs lunged at him again! He jumped back to dodge and struck with his hand blade once more!

Crack! The dog's head fell to the ground, but it squirmed, growing a body and limbs, and then stood up. Two new heads popped out from its shoulders! As for the decapitated head, a brand-new one grew in its place! 

"Argh...!!"

Three Hell Three-Headed War Dogs, nine heads, and eighteen Rinnegan eyes, all glaring at Raikage and roaring. Then, they all attacked together...!

Raikage exploded with rage: "What a joke!!!!"

The scene was shared through the visual link of the Rinnegan, and Naruto saw it all.

He sighed, "Raikage really has bad luck. Out of so many, he had to choose the one that counters him the most..."

Konan asked, "What happened?" 

Naruto said, "Raikage is currently in a fierce battle with my hellhound, the three-headed dog."

Konan replied, "Ah, that summoning beast that splits infinitely? Without being able to target the summoner, it can only be restrained with a powerful seal or attacked with sustained coverage, like that Uchiha boy [Sasuke]'s Amaterasu, or an attack like the tailed beast bomb, capable of destroying it all at once. Otherwise, it's impossible to deal with."

Naruto smiled faintly and shook his head. "But Raikage doesn't have any of those, so he can't deal with it."

...

"Die!!" 

"Die!!!"

"Die already...!!"

"I'll see how many it can split into!!!"

Raikage unleashed his full Lightning Release chakra mode and attacked the hellhound with all his might.

"Raikage-sama!! Please calm down, at this rate, their numbers will keep increasing!!!" 

While Raikage battled the hellhound, the fight continued all over Kumogakure.

A giant centipede, dozens of meters long, slithered swiftly between the buildings! Boom! Boom! Boom! The Kumogakure ninjas surrounded it in several circles, using kunai and explosive tags to attack, but it was useless! The centipede's body was too tough, exceeding the explosive tags' power limit!

"This isn't working!!"

Seeing the siege was ineffective, a Kumogakure jonin grabbed his ninja sword, wrapped it in Lightning Release, and used body flicker to strike!

Slash! A shallow cut appeared! 

"Using Lightning Release with swordsmanship works, but it doesn't cause a fatal wound!!"

"Damn... if it were Raikage-sama, he could crush this monster!!"

"No time for complaints, let's create an opportunity. Jonin skilled in swordsmanship, attack together!!"

"Understood!!"

A team of Kumogakure ninjas combined their jutsu! 

—Water Style: Water Wall!! 

The water wall surged and crashed onto the centipede's body.

Another team of Kumogakure ninjas followed with their jutsu!

—Lightning Release: Thunder Wave! 

Crack! The lightning traveled along the water wall and shocked the centipede, rendering it immobile!

"We've restricted the monster! Quick, attack its vital points!!!" 

Slash! Slash! Slash! A group of Kumogakure jonin skilled in swordsmanship launched Lightning Release slashes!

Slash! Slash! Slash! Deep and shallow wounds appeared, some even severing the centipede's legs, but it didn't seem to be affected at all...

"This monster, doesn't it feel pain?!"

The Thunder Wave failed, and the centipede forcefully whipped its body...

The ninjas clinging to it were all sent flying!!! 

"Damn!! What kind of monster is this!!!"

"But our combined attack worked, we just need to keep restraining it, wearing it down, and eventually, we'll take it down!!!"

The centipede's Sharingan coldly stared down below. Suddenly, green fluid sprayed from its mouth, spreading into mist!

All the surrounding Kumogakure ninjas froze!

"My body... I can't move?!" 

"Is this a paralyzing poison!!"

"Damn..."

"Raikage-sama, we did our best!!"

Thud! Thud! Thud! They fell one after another, losing the ability to fight.

Meanwhile, Samui, Omoi, and Karui, after evacuating the civilians, arrived at the edge of the battlefield. 

The smoke of battle filled the air as the explosions roared on. Omoi clenched the lollipop in his mouth, his face dark with worry. "This is terrifying. I can almost imagine what Konohagakure went through back then..."

Omoi and Karui had previously been responsible for delivering the invitation to the Five Kage Summit, so they had seen the devastation that Konohagakure suffered after being attacked.

As for Samui, although she hadn't seen Konohagakure's destruction firsthand, she had just experienced the pain of losing a loved one. Her brother, Atsui, had recently fallen to Obito's hands.

Thud! Samui, with her snow-white skin and golden hair, someone whose beauty rivaled even Tsunade, was unusually furious at this moment. She stood tall and rushed toward the source of the explosions! "Captain Samui!" Karui called out. 

"I'm going to find that masked jerk who dared to impersonate me and confuse everyone!" Samui said with a burning rage. 

Moreover, she still held a grudge against the Naruto who had pretended to be her, even though she didn't know him personally.

Rustle…!!

"Ahhh!!"

Suddenly, her body was lifted off the ground, as though something had grabbed her, pulling her into the air! 

Omoi and Karui were stunned in shock! Zzzt…!!

A creature hidden in the shadows revealed itself. It was lizard-like, with bulging eyes and a long, flat Rinnegan, twisting and turning as it looked around.

The creature's long, flexible tongue, with a ball of flesh at its tip, wrapped around Samui's body, tightening with every second. The front of the tongue inevitably touched Samui's skin, and slimy saliva began to drip from the tip of the tongue.

"Ugh… ngh, so painful~~!" Samui clenched her eyes shut, her face flushed from difficulty breathing, showing an expression of unbearable pain.

This sight stunned Omoi, a small blush forming on his dark face. 

Karui shouted, "What are you doing standing there... hurry up and save the captain!!"

"Ah...!!" Omoi snapped back to his senses, drawing his ninja blade, and with a swift motion, he severed the chameleon's tongue!

Karui also unsheathed her sword. 

—Cloud Style: Swift Slash!!

Swish! Swish! Swish! Lightning struck behind the chameleon, followed by three powerful sword slashes! Boom!!

The chameleon disappeared in a cloud of white smoke.

Thud! "Huff, huff, huff..." Samui, now safe, sat in the sticky mess, panting heavily.

After sheathed his blade, Karui asked with concern, "Captain Samui, are you alright?!" 

Omoi couldn't help but feel a little downhearted, thinking, "If only our teacher had seen that, he would've been quite entertained..."

Meanwhile, in the sky, on the back of the summoned bird, Naruto raised his left hand, a strange smile appearing on his face.

Konan asked, "What's the matter? Something good happened?"

"It's nothing, just a small dream of the past fulfilled..." Naruto replied, lowering his hand and looking below. 

Swish! A summoning bird quickly approached from above, carrying a young Kumogakure ninja with dark skin. With a flip, he leapt onto the back of the bomb-carrying creature! "Thief, don't you dare mess with our home!!"

With a sharp voice, the ninja drew a short sword, accompanied by wind and thunder!

—Cloud Style: Crescent Slash!

A faint smile curved under Naruto's mask. "Nice try..." he murmured.

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