"Shuriken, Multiple Shadow Clone Jutsu—"
After a Kunai was thrown, it transformed into thousands, approaching ten thousand Kunai, directly becoming a metal storm that engulfed Mukade. [Note 1]
Mukade was stunned, looking at his body, which was now incomplete. What kind of Ninjutsu was this?
"Sukui~ We got him." Naruto excitedly clenched his fist.
Minato Namikaze, however, shook his head because in his perception, the opponent's Chakra had not decreased at all; instead, it was growing.
"Be careful, he's not dead."
Sure enough, as soon as he finished speaking, Mukade, with only half a head, stood up again. Then, a powerful burst of Chakra erupted from his body, and all the surrounding puppet parts continuously gathered onto him, reassembling into a giant spider puppet.
Then, he opened his mouth and fired a Chakra cannon at Minato Namikaze, scaring him into grabbing Naruto and using Flying Thunder God to teleport away. "He can't be killed, what do we do?" Naruto, the single-celled animal, grabbed his hair in frustration, losing several strands of his blond hair.
"No one is immortal. He relies on the Chakra of the Dragon Veins. As long as we cut off the Dragon Veins, he can be killed." Minato Namikaze smiled.
"Fighting him with Chakra is the most unwise. He now possesses an immortal body and endless Chakra, and he seems to have also transformed himself into a puppet body."
Mukade still wanted to attack, but Choza and Shibi Aburame, who were assisting, had already started helping. One was a tanky warrior, and the other was an all-around support. At the same time, Yamato also used his Wood Release to help. The three Jonin managed to hold Mukade back for a time.
"No, if we cut off the Dragon Veins, Rouran Country will turn into a desert. I absolutely cannot let Sara do that." Without another word, Naruto shook his head. This was his promise with Sara, and there was no room for discussion.
"Naruto, when you arrived, was Rouran already a desert? What you are doing is merely conforming to the development of history. You must remember, you are in the past. Whether Rouran Country existed or not was something from more than ten years ago, and it has nothing to do with you…" Minato patiently explained.
At this moment, an uninvited guest appeared behind Minato Namikaze again, startling him and almost making him jump out of his skin.
"Heh heh, it seems you're still a bit timid~" Uchiha Nagi appeared behind the father and son.
When they started fighting, he heard the sound. Of course, even a deaf person could hear such a huge battle.
He directly sensed it, and it seemed the big blond guy hadn't had time to modify his Flying Thunder God formula. Then, with a few Flying Thunder Gods, he jumped behind Minato Namikaze.
However, even if he modified it, it would be useless. Uchiha Nagi, after observing it several times on-site and copying it a few more times, could still use the same formula as him.
"Oh, it's you, the uncle with the Sharingan…" Although he said that, Naruto didn't drop his guard because Itachi Uchiha's shadow over him was too great.
"Naruto, there is no perfect Jutsu in the world, and the same goes for puppet techniques. Think of Sasori of the Red Sand; no matter how he modified himself, he always had to retain a part of his body as human…" Uchiha Nagi said.
"That is to say, there must be a part of his body that is human. As long as you hit that part, he will die. Besides that, there's another way." Uchiha Nagi smiled.
"Oh, there's another? What way? As long as it's not cutting off the Dragon Veins and destroying Rouran Country, it's fine~" Naruto said excitedly.
"Mukade uses puppet techniques. This is a factory that produces various puppet parts. As long as all his puppet parts are destroyed, or they are transported out of Rouran Country, without parts available, he naturally won't be able to reassemble himself again…"
Puppets, of course, need parts. Mukade can endlessly reassemble his body, and the same goes for him. But if the puppet parts are smashed into pieces, can he still reassemble? He's not a nanobot; he can't reassemble anything.
"Ah, that's right, why didn't I think of that? If all the parts are smashed, he won't be able to use puppet techniques! Uncle with the Sharingan, you're really amazing; you casually thought of two ways to deal with Mukade~" Naruto said, then gave Minato Namikaze a Kakashi-style Byakugan look, saying:
"Unlike some people, who immediately talk about cutting off the Dragon Veins, as if there's no other way to defeat Mukade besides destroying Rouran Country…"
Minato Namikaze: "…"
You brat, do you know that the person you're looking down on right now might be your father?! Huh?
Of course, it wasn't that Minato Namikaze couldn't think of a better way, but his primary mission for this trip was to destroy Rouran Country, which is why he kept mentioning cutting off the Dragon Veins.
"Destroying the puppet parts…" Naruto looked at the thousands of puppet parts in the factory, many of which were still packed in boxes, and felt a headache.
Was he supposed to use Rasengan to smash them one by one until dawn?
"That's right, if I take them all away and leave Rouran Country, that should work, right?" Naruto's eyes lit up as he asked Uchiha Nagi.
"Of course. Rouran Country isn't big. Mukade can clearly only be arrogant here. Once he leaves Rouran Country, he won't receive Chakra supply from the Dragon Veins. Forget about reviving; it's hard to say if he'll even have enough Chakra to control his body." Uchiha Nagi smiled.
"Yosh, then watch me! Multiple Shadow Clone Jutsu~" Naruto clapped his hands together, and his signature Ninjutsu appeared.
Thousands of Shadow Clones appeared densely in the factory—
"Yosh, everyone, let's work together and clear out all the puppet parts."
"Okay~"
"Empty them out so that Mukade can't revive."
"Charge~"
Thousands of Narutos began to rush towards the nearest puppets, grabbing them and running, all heading out of Rouran Country.
Uchiha Nagi watched enviously. Thousands of Shadow Clones—that amount of Chakra, he didn't know how much… Anyway, it was more than his, and it didn't seem to be his limit. The current Naruto, when angry, could also obtain a portion of the Nine-Tailed's Chakra from the nuclear power plant within his body through the seal.
It was simply, too much blue, too willful—
Thousands of Shadow Clone Narutos, full of vigor, carried various puppet parts and ran outside, and in one wave, they reduced most of the puppets in the factory.
Rouran Country was a small country, so the factory wasn't very large, and there wasn't much funding. These many puppets were Mukade's accumulated savings over six years.
He was still fighting with Choza and the other two. Akimichi Choza, acting as a tank and damage dealer, had astonishingly strong defense. After transforming with Chakra, his body was as huge as Mukade's, and one punch smashed his puppet body.
After shattering, the surrounding puppet parts continuously flew up and reassembled. What annoyed him most were those damned bugs.
Just like Shino Aburame fighting Kankuro, Shibi Aburame also used bugs in battle to gnaw and sever Chakra threads, which caused him great trouble every time he reassembled his body.
What was even more irritating was that this guy's bugs were omnipresent, and the puppet body was huge with large gaps. Those bugs crawled into his body, continuously gnawing at various connecting points and Chakra.
If it weren't for the Dragon Veins as support, providing infinite Chakra, Mukade would have been dead long ago. An Aburame Clan member and a Choza could have wiped him out.
"Wood Release: Tree Bind Eternal Burial—"
Yamato was using his Wood Release to try and seal Mukade. The Wood Release, which was a natural counter to sealing Tailed Beasts, seemed to have little effect against Mukade. Of course, it was also possible that Yamato was too weak…
"He's revived again, completely unkillable~" Choza shouted, slowly shrinking. His Partial Expansion Jutsu was not a long-duration Ninjutsu, and the previous battle had consumed a great deal of his energy.
"Wood Release: Deep Forest Emergence…" Yamato once again used Wood Release, and dense trees appeared around Mukade, coiling around him…
On the other side, Minato Namikaze was still watching Uchiha Nagi, not moving or joining the battle—
"It seems you're very wary of me~" Uchiha Nagi smiled. "Don't worry, I won't use Flying Thunder God to ambush you. Besides, didn't you add a seal to your Flying Thunder God Kunai?"
Minato Namikaze opened his mouth, wanting to ask something, but didn't say it.
"Yosh, the Shadow Clones have completed the first wave, let's start the second wave~ Multiple Shadow Clone Jutsu." A spirited voice came. It turned out that Naruto's Shadow Clones had successfully thrown various puppets onto the desert outside Rouran, and the memories were then fed back to the main body after they dispersed.
Thus, the main body Naruto released the second Multiple Shadow Clone Jutsu again…
"Minato…" Choza shouted from afar, they were almost at their limit.
The giant puppet was already difficult to fight. Ninja were high-attack, low-defense, and one careless move could get them stomped to death. Now, after several major battles, they were greatly exhausted, while Mukade was still lively, occasionally firing several massive Chakra energy cannons at them.
Minato Namikaze gave Uchiha Nagi a deep look. His comrades were more important. With a Body Flicker Technique, he went to help Choza and the others.
He could sense that Uchiha Nagi had no ill will towards Naruto. Otherwise, with one Flying Thunder God, he would have slit Naruto's throat long ago. Facing someone who could teleport like him, it was impossible to defend against.
"Oh, Uncle, aren't you going to help?" Naruto asked.
Uchiha Nagi rolled his eyes, "If you don't call me 'uncle' and call me 'handsome guy' instead, I'll go help…"
Naruto blurted out without thinking, "Handsome guy, pretty boy~"
Uchiha Nagi: "…"
He forgot that this guy was capable of cross-dressing to tempt Jiraiya. Cross-dressing for a harem wasn't even a big deal for him, let alone his thick skin.
But never mind, he had originally planned to eliminate Mukade and return to his own timeline… Uchiha Nagi silently drew his nichirin blade, and casually said to Naruto, "Later, if Mukade is shattered, I will cut off his Chakra threads to prevent him from reassembling the puppet bugs. You take the opportunity to move his puppet parts away…"
[Note 1: Kishimoto is just a manga artist and doesn't bother to fill plot holes, so in this movie version, Minato's Multiple Shuriken Jutsu directly achieved S-rank effectiveness, splitting into tens of thousands of Kunai, which should at least be S-rank…]
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