Land Of Snow :
Snow Battlefield :
The battle waged for the snow Throne was in full swing , There were snow Genins ffigting against Samurai , some against Avengar and then Some other still trying to Kill Sakura .
On Sasuke's side ,things seemed to be getting back in control , while sasuke may have gotton his leg Injured , The Injury was not that serious , and that Injury didn't mean sasuke lost his Sharingan either .
( ...not again )
Sasuke dodged another Kunai while deflecting shuriken while simultaneously dodging while throwing a shuriken back which pierced through a Snow Genin's neck , as he kept things in control with Naruto's clones and handfull of Samurai.
In this kind of intense battle , there were no distracting thoughts as sasuke's sharingan spinned while he moved around the battlefield with a makeshift bandage to leg .
While Sasuke was fighting , Her dear life partner was sleeping soundly amidst the snow carpet after Getting Blacked waist down , And the reason for her comfort were not just Samurai , Naruto shadow clones but also an addition that Joined the Fight mIdway .
even though she wasn't willing to
and that someone was
Uzuki Yugao .
Since the Beginning Yugao was always there , but Her mission was also always the same , and that was protection Unless necessary .
But seeing the circumstances , Yugao Had to intervene .
Before she didn't engage with enemy because her focus was on naruto , but seeing Sakura 'sleeping' with heavy injuries , Yugao decided to move as she understood , no matter the reason , Sakura was still a member of Team 7 .
After doing a fast emergency treatment to sakura , Yugao focused back on snow shinobi , though her eyes still flickered towards naruto's direction , as the fight there seemed to have stagnated or stalled .
Seeing the Situation continuing like this , with Doto confronting him while acting like an annoying Fly , Naruto felt headache .
The man was engaging so shamelessly , and if Naruto stops then the man targets Koyuki and the barrier , and when Naruto fights , The man uses his aerial superiority to mAnuver around Naruto while making Naruto waste chakra .
Taijutsu ? THe Man didn't even come close
Genjutsu ? Normal Genjutsu are ineffective against chakra armor anyway .
Sealing ? with this distance and manuver , even Chains can't get close to him , Naruto didn't even know If that chakra wall will allow chains or seals to pass through .
Bukininjutus : Even Kunai , shuriken and explosion tags were ineffective .
(Do I really need to use Hiraishin ? ) naruto thought bitterly but soon shook his head
( No... I decided to keep it under wraps unless it's an emergency.)
The current aerial stalemate was certainly annoying, but it was far from a life-or-death situation.
More importantly, Naruto remained hyper-aware of the shadows. Ever since White Zetsu had been captured back in their previous encounters, Naruto knew that potentially other factions—were keeping tabs on him.
Exposing his space-time ninjutsu here would instantly blow his greatest trump card.
( Should I use Soot cloud or hiding in mist ?? )
But deploying a smokescreen to mask his movements was out of the question as it will also affect the Battlefield .
( But I'm the only sensory ninja on the field right now ) Naruto thought as he looked at doto flying around , considering the man too (... Throwing up a smoke blanket would blind my own allies , even clones and leave them wide open to a coordinated snow ninja raid....which are numbered more than us ......not counting that Doto will Just fly high )
Suddenly, right in the thick of his calculations, one of his mental partitions flared with a sharp, high-priority ping via [MindHub]. Naruto read the incoming data instantly, his eyes flying wide.
(....Eh? Kakashi-sensei already cleared out all three Jonin?)
Naruto was surprised . It wasn't just the fact that Kakashi had finished the enemy's elite command structure; through his [Kagura's Mind Eye], he could feel that Kakashi still possessed nearly 40% of his total chakra reserves.
That meant Hatake Kakashi had plowed straight through a heavily fortified frontline, carved his way through waves of Genin and Chunin, intercepted three Jonin-level commanders, and slaughtered them all while keeping a 40% chakra in reserve.
(To think Kakashi-sensei could become this monstrous...) Naruto mused, flashing back to their early days against Zabuza, where a single battle had left the Copy Ninja bedridden for days because of chakra exhaustion .
But this time, Kakashi had done it , without the the chakra-draining crutch of the Sharingan, The lethality of the White Fang style finally showed it's edge .
( I also must finish things my side fas---)
Swish-Swish-Swish-Swish-Swish-Swish-
( Huh ? )
Fwip-fwip-fwip-fwip—!
Naruto's train of thought was suddenly shattered as a dense, overwhelming shower of thousands of kunai rained down from the sky, blotted out by Doto's aerial positioning.
Instinctively, Naruto dropped his center of gravity, preparing to trigger [Water Flicker: Instant Water Jutsu] to slide out of the kill zone.
But the moment his dynamic vision locked onto the falling steel, his blue eyes dilated in sheer alarm.
( An explosion tag ??.....NO this is ? )
Attached to the base of every single falling kunai wasn't a standard explosive tag—it was a specialized, glowing Blue seal .
But the problem was the number and their coverage area
(Going underground is completely suicide if the entire radius is blanketed...and in this little timeframe i can't go too much underground either....as for defensive Ninjutsu )
Looking up, Naruto saw the sky filled with a web of hundreds of rigged kunai converging on his exact coordinates from all directions.
" Tch "
High above, Doto grinned fiercely while weairng his armor .
"Take this, brat.... SNOW BOMBS!"
CLANG—!
The entire wave of kunai struck the frozen ground simultaneously. But instead of a roaring, fiery explosion, the seals flashed with a blinding, frigid blue light.
The earth beneath Naruto's boots shuddered violently, screaming under immense pressure. With a deafening roar, the snow exploded outward not in fire, but in a horrific, jagged forest of razor-sharp ice spikes that erupted from the ground in a fraction of a second, completely engulfing Naruto's position in a towering cage of crystalline death.
"....NARUTO?!"
Koyuki screamed, watching in horror as the blonde was completely swallowed up by the violent explosion of jagged ice spikes.
Feeling a crushing wave of despair tear through her chest, the Snow Princess collapsed to her knees in the snow, hot tears spilling over her lashes amidst the snow .
"No....!! Why?! Wh—"
"....Stop crying."
Hearing the familiar, deadpan words, Koyuki's eyes snapped . She looked up to see three of Naruto's shadow clones standing nearby, completely unbothered.
"We're shadow clones..."
"...Which means..."
"...As long as we're active..."
"The main body is still kicking."
"So stop crying.... It's annoying."
One clone rolled his eyes with a sigh, though his gaze still darted anxiously toward the center of the crater.
Suddenly, another clone whispered, "...Above."
Koyuki and the clones whipped their heads upward. High in the air, Naruto was descending, having used a powerful chakra-enhanced leap to clear & jump above the primary blast radius of the ice spike trap.
Seeing the familiar, dark-cloaked figure still breathing, Koyuki let out a shaky, breathless sob of relief.
High above, Doto's face twisted into a scowl. He raised his hands once more, his chakra armor humming violently.
[Ice Release: Twin Dragon Blizzard]
Instead of just one, Doto unleashed two massive, swirling black dragons of ice and snow, their jaws unhinged as they tore through the sub-zero air to completely overwhelm their target.
Reacting instantly, Naruto threw his hands out.
"Water Release: Water Prison Jutsu!"
A dense sphere of swirling water materialized, enveloping Naruto to act as a heavy defensive buffer—a trick he had adapted from Kisame.
But a split second later, Naruto's eyes dilated in alarm. Unlike the snow swallows from earlier, the black ice dragons didn't dissolve upon impact; they flashed with sub-zero energy, instantly flash-freezing the water prison from the outside in.
(Not good.... at this rate, this water prison's going to turn into my own ice coffin!)
Feeling the bitter frost creeping toward his skin, Naruto channeled chakra into his legs, executing a [Monster Kick] against the inner wall of the freezing sphere while using water walking .
CRACK!
He burst out of the shattering ice like a bullet—only to crash straight into the path of the second black dragon closing in from his blind spot.
" Haha , Take that Brat ..!!! " Doto Laughed as he watched his trap successfully trapping the brat .
[ Hyper reflexes ]
Time slowed down as Naruto watched the Snowy Black dragon almost in front of his face .
(No time for hand seals....Then.. I'll just have to use my bare hands..!)
[ O2 Breathing First Form: One Inch Pulse] + [Monster Punch ]
*BOOOOOOM!*
A devastating, concussive shockwave rippled across the entire battlefield. Naruto's fist tore straight through the head of the black ice dragon, shattering the compressed ice into millions of harmless glittering crystals and snowflakes.
(My hand.....is ....frozen solid...)
Hovering unsteadily in mid-air, Naruto looked down at his right hand, which was encased in a thick layer of blue frost , Not just right hand , even left hand was a little stiff together with the body .
( Can't move a finger )
Naruto quickly flooded his arm with chakra and a hint of fire release to flash-thaw the ice, while dropping back down toward the snowy ground.
( Need to defrost it fast .....can't use hand-seals like this )
Suddenly, a sharp alarm bell rang out through his mental network via [Kagura's Mind Eye] and his partitioned consciousness.
(..The first black Snow dragon? .....Did it push through the water prison?!)
Before Naruto could fully reorient himself, a massive shadow erupted from the billowing snowy mist, colliding with him squarely at point-blank range.
BOOOOOOM!
Naruto crossed his arms in a desperate X-shape to absorb the crushing kinetic force, but the sheer weight of the impact drove him violently downward, smashing him deep into the frozen earth.
*BOOM!*
"HAHAHA! FINALLY GOT YOU, YOU LITTLE BRAT!"
Seeing naruto crashing , Doto Kazehana dropped from the sky laughing , landing a few yards away.
This time, he didn't immediately take flight again; partly because his chakra reserves were dangerously low, but mostly because seeing the brat finally take a direct, devastating hit restored his shattered Noble Pride
(Good riddance.... The f*cking brat almost drained My chakra )
Doto calculated grimly, realizing his internal reserves—including the auxiliary chakra drawn from the armor's core—were hovering dangerously close to the 20% mark.
(To think he possessed this much chakra even after spawning an army of shadow clones... What a monstrous Brat )
*Crunch*
*Step*
Suddenly, the eerie silence of the crater was broken by the sound of shifting snow. Doto's eyes locked onto the smoking crater where the blonde had crashed.
Slowly, a crimson-gloved hand gripped the snowy edge, and the rest of the body began to heave upward.
"Impossible....I saw It hit " Doto whispered, his jaw slack.
Doto watched in sheer disbelief as Naruto slowly hauled himself out of the deep trench. A thick, heavy layer of compressed earthy armor flaked off the blonde's skin & GAuntlet , tumbling into the snow—a stark visual testament to just how absurd the impact had really been.
(.....Was that Earth Release?) Doto noted while calming down his emotions as he watched the dark earth falling down from the Blonde's hands and body .
[Earth Release: Rock Armor Jutsu]
Naruto let out a long, ragged huff, feeling a dull, aching throb in his chest and arms.
(To think I was forced to use seal-less Rock Armor at the last second...)
Yes, a C-rank earth jutsu cast entirely without hand seals. Ordinarily, given the disruptive interference of the Kurama chakra and the sheer complexity of instantaneous elemental shaping Together with Chakra control, pulling off a seal-less C-rank Jutsu on reflex should have been impossible.
Yet, Naruto had pulled it off.
Why? & How ?
Because of [MindHub] and his six mind partitions.
Just before the dragon struck, Naruto had momentarily shunted all extraneous thoughts into the background, dedicating all six mental partitions to a single, hyper-focused task:
executing the Rock Armor. By slicing the jutsu into six distinct fragments and letting his partitions process them simultaneously as a unified whole, he bypassed the physical hand-seal requirement entirely.
Of course, it came with a pretty complicated drawbacks .
(...A shame that any overly complicated or high-tier jutsu can't be spammed this way.) Naruto slwoly moved as he thought ( Dedicating every single mind partition to a single defensive jutsu .......means my awareness of the surrounding enemy movements, incoming genjutsu, and battlefield hazards drops to zero... That's why I rarely rely on it.)
Naruto crawled out of the crater, wiping a smear of dark soot from his cheek.
(When was the last time I actually took a clean hit like this...? .....was it Orochimaru?)
He had just eaten a direct, full-power assault from Kazehana Doto. And it hadn't been a gentle love tap.
"Huff... huff..."
Naruto slowly rose to his feet, lifting his head to gaze across the snow at the armored warlord. But the expression in the blonde's eyes made Doto's breath hitch instantly.
It wasn't good.
(.....Flying. Such an annoying ability.)
Naruto's left eyebrow twitched with annoyance. Feeling the bruised, aching tightness in his ribs, he ran a quick internal diagnostic.
Physical damage sustained: roughly 0.5%.
Damage to his ego: 99%.
(....To think even someone like Doto managed to land a 'clean' blow on me.)
The snow continued to fall.
Fine, crystalline white flakes drifted through the sub-zero air, gathering upon the dark, jagged feathers of Naruto's massive cloak, dusting his shoulders and disappearing into the folds of his disheveled clothing.
Beneath the pale, wintry sky, the young shinobi stood crouched in the snow, one knee bent and his weight perfectly balanced, maintaining a low, Hunting posture.
His normally immaculate blonde hair was a messy, spiked disaster, with several loose strands framing his bruised, scraped face. His black-and-crimson outfit was scuffed and dusted with frozen powder.
His massive feather cloak billowed unevenly in the biting wind, individual black feathers jutting outward like a wounded dark-winged beast crouching in the heart of a blizzard.
The crimson fabric of his uniform contrasted sharply against the blinding whiteness of the earth, while his thick red muffler was pulled high over his nose, covering his lower face and leaving only his intensely piercing eyes exposed.
Both forearms were clad in his crimson segmented gauntlets, the overlapping plates scuffed but firmly locked in place. One hand gripped the edge of his muffler, pulling it tighter as he released a slow, controlled breath that plumed into a white cloud of condensation.
Yet, despite his ruffled appearance, there was something deeply, unsettling radiating from the boy.
Doto felt it down to his marrow.
(....His eyes...!!)
Those once-familiar blue eyes had transformed into something different
They glowed with an intense, razor-sharp brilliance, their color mirroring the deep, dead ice buried beneath frozen mountain peaks. There was no hot-headed rage in them, no frantic frustration, no childish panic.
Just an extraordinarily cold, dead stare.
[ IMAGE ]
Naruto wasn't shouting.
He wasn't cursing.
He wasn't even making a dramatic gesture.
He was simply looking at Doto.
And somehow, that quiet stillness was a thousand times more terrifying than any battle cry. His eyebrows were drawn together in a faint, unmistakable look of quiet displeasure—the kind of expression that silently asked:
You actually hit me?
Someone like you...???
It was the look of an arrogant, peerless young master from some ancient wuxia Sh*it, looking down with absolute disdain at an ant that had somehow managed to smudge his boot.
But unlike those foolish, arrogant characters, Naruto's composure was backed by terrifying reality.
Beneath that placid surface, anger simmered—not a wild, boiling rage, but the crushing, pressure of molten rock locked beneath a dormant volcano.
But despite that Nothing about him suggested he had lost control.
Quite the opposite.
He looked terrifyingly, chillingly focused.
His breathing steadied until the mist from his muffler thinned to a whisper.
His shoulders lowered an inch, his gloved fingers relaxing against his scarf.
Then, his gaze locked in.
There was no fear left in those glacial blue eyes.
No hesitation.
Only a quiet, absolute promise of utter destruction. Whatever fleeting advantage Doto had scraped together with that last hit was about to evaporate into nothingness.
Naruto slowly adjusted his red muffler, pulling it back over his mouth. The swirling snow kept falling around him, but the pressure of the entire battlefield shifted.
( Even Mom's Mufflar got damaged a little )
Inside his mind, a single, definitive command echoed down his neural network in that instant :
(.....Forget holding back... Let's just finish this.)
[Lone Wolf Activate]
SWISH!
Doto didn't need to be a sensory ninja to instinctively recognize the lethal shift in the air pressure.
The moment Naruto twitched, Doto slammed his mechanical wings to life, rocketing straight up into the sky to secure immediate altitude.
Seeing his target take to the air, Naruto's hands blurred through a rapid sequence of seals.
(Before, I was worried you'd try to run away with those wings, or that I'd accidentally kill you or damage the armor ..... But now?)
[Shadow Clone Jutsu] x5
Doto watched from above as five shadow clones materialized around the main body—and in the blink of an eye, all five Naruto clones transformed into standard throwing kunai.
(Transformation into kunai?!)
Before Doto could process the tactical shift, Naruto caught all five transformed kunai in his hands and hurled them upward with explosive, fullforce, blanketing Doto's airspace in a wide, erratic spread.
Doto flinched, ducking his head as one of the flying kunai whistled directly past him
(...Wait. Isn't his aim off?)
The kunai was traveling with terrifying velocity, but instead of homing in on his body, it soared high over his head, arcing uselessly into the empty sky , and the other 4 , also surrouding him from 4 directions .
(...Not good.)
In a flash, Doto found himself boxed in. The four kunai had formed a tight, symmetrical perimeter around him, spaced precisely ten meters apart. In the blink of an eye, the Transformation Jutsu dissolved, and all four shadow clones materialized simultaneously.
Before Doto could flick his mechanical wings to evade, all four clones puffed up their chests, having already completed their hand seals mid-air.
[Wind Release: Breakthrough] x4
All four clones unleashed the C-rank technique in unison. A ferocious, highly pressurized wall of gales converged from all four cardinal directions, slamming into Doto simultaneously.
(Just a basic C-rank jutsu?! Ridiculous.... My chakra armor can easily—)
Doto's smug thoughts were cut short. The multi-directional pressure cooker of howling winds instantly neutralized his flight thrust, locking him dead in the center of the airspace like a fly trapped in amber.
He was completely, helplessly Paralysed in the middle of the sky .
(Not good... This brat's objective was to trap me midair ?!)
Panic spiked in Doto's chest. As he struggled against the crushing surroudings pressure ,when suddenly he felt a scorching heat radiating from directly above.
( heat ?/ Here IN snow ?? )
Doto whipped his head upward.
Hovering directly above him in the sky was the main body—Naruto. His chest was fully inflated, and a swirling, volatile orb of intense blue flame blazed inside his mouth.
( ..... Just Die Doto )
[ Azure Dragon's Roar ]
The blazing bluish-white firestorm surged forward, turning into a majestic, roaring azure dragon.
But the technique's lethality didn't stop there; the roaring fire dragon swept through the intersecting currents of the four wind breakthroughs, borrowing their velocity to accelerate with terrifying, rocket-like speed straight toward Doto.
Realizing that evasion was impossible and that death was barreling down on him, Doto roared in frantic desperation. He forcefully deactivated his flight thrusters, dumping his remaining core energy and every last drop of chakra into his battered armor.
(Curse you, Bastard Little shi*t.....!)
"Ice Release: Twin Dragon Blizzard!"
BOOOOOOM!
The two elemental juggernauts collided in mid-air. Doto's dual black ice dragons surged forward with freezing fury, but the azure dragon's explosive momentum was unstoppable.
The blue flames scorched through the sub-zero ice, vaporizing the black dragons into a massive, blinding cloud of steam and glittering frost crystals.
Roaring with fury, the Azure Dragon plunged through the sky , slamming directly into Doto's armored chest.
BOOOOOOM!
The impact triggered a HUGE shockwave that shook the entire mountain valley, driving Doto straight down out of the sky in a blinding streak of blue fire and white snow, crashing heavily into the earth below.
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Author's Notes :
With THis the land if snow Is finished , mostly as just finishing touches are left for one chapter .
Hmm , As you saw i cut the whlole snow castle and the fight part in the end from the movie , Well , seeing Doto coming like this ,it was i think necessary
as if doto really came with a handful and naruto didn't finsih everything there and then
then that would be problem with his character
similarly , Princess getting kidnapped to snow castle is also unrealsitic with Naruto , so i decided to finish most things here
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