Sasuke asked in fusion, "Right hand, what do you mean?"

  "Well." Naruto took a deep breath aended his left hand, "Do you remember what happened ba the ninja academy? What Iruka-sensei asked us to do afterward?"

  "..." Sasuke lowered his gaze, recalling.

  The two of them had a scuffle iraining field and were eventually ordered to form the Seal of Reciliation.

  Back then, Sasuke used his left hand to form the seal.

  "So this time it's the right hand, is that what you mean..."

  Sasuke pondered, "What you're implying is that if I destroy Konoha, not only will you not lend me a hand, but you'll also break my left hand so I ever form seals again?"

  "Pfft..."

  Naruto couldn't help but ugh.

  Sasuke pressed on, "Answer me!"

  Naruto's mischievous side emerged, as if he was sulking or deliberately provoking Sasuke, "Ah, yes, you got it right! I'll break your hand!"

  Sasuke was infuriated, "So that's how it is! Yant fool! Speaking of the past, did you fet who was defeated at the Valley of the End! If I had inteo, fet your left hand, your life would have been over!!"

  Indeed, Naruto had lost at the Valley of the End back then, and Sasuke had every opportunity to kill him.

  But... many people overlooked an importaail.

  At the moment of close bat, Naruto's Rasengan was aimed diagonally upward, targeting Sasuke's forehead protector. The scrat the middle of the protector was left by Naruto's sharp cw during his tailed beast transformation.

  Meanwhile, Sasuke's Chidori was aimed diagonally downward, striking Naruto's chest at a critical point.

  Had it been otherwise, the one who fell might not have been Naruto.

  "..." Naruto's expression was remi, then he gently said, "Don't take it seriously, 't you see I'm joking with you?"

  "..." Sasuke's expression softened slightly, but he quickly retorted coldly, "I'm not joking with you! You keep saying you sider me a friend, yet you mock me with your words! Stop uimating me! Do you think I don't know anything? You're now Konoha's hero, the darling of the ignorant masses. If I want to destroy Konoha, you'd be my number one enemy!"

  Naruto pondered, "I've already betrayed Konoha..."

  "What?!" Sasuke was stunned, only then notig that the forehead protector Naruto wore was the one he had left behind, symbolizing a rogue ninja!

  Sasuke turo look at Tobi. Earlier, in the forest outside Konoha, Tobi had only mentiohe Five Kage Summit and Danzō being Hokage, briefly mentioning Naruto defeating Pain but not a word about him defeg from the vilge!

  "..." Tobi's masked face revealed ion.

  Sasuke turned back to Naruto and asked, "What's really going on?"

  Naruto replied, "My goals are at odds with the vilge's ideals, so I must leave the vilge's straints to act..."

  Sasuke's eyes flickered with a hint of inexplicable disappoi, "So, your move against Danzō was for your own purposes, not to clear obstacles for me?"

  People are suplex creatures. If it's for you, it feels like meddling, but knowing it wasn't for you, there's rese.

  Naruto sighed, "That's irely true, it's half and half. I thought if you killed Danzō, it might ease your hatred, and maybe you wouldn't turn your vengeaoward the vilge. But you let Danzō go out of spite. I uimated your current thirst for revehis will surely lead to trouble iure..."

  "..." Sasuke ched his fists tightly, and the chakra of Susanoo around him wavered.

  Naruto's expression turned serious, "Sasuke, if you seek revenge on Danzō again, I still won't stop you, but beyond Danzō, I hope you don't harm others...!"

  Sasuke's gaze turned cold, "What if I insist?"

  Naruto responded firmly, "Then I will do everything in my power to stop you!"

  Sasuke's tone grew colder, "You're saying you still have strength to spare?"

  Naruto replied without hesitation, "At least, I haven't gone all out!"

  "Heh heh heh..." Sasuke chuckled lightly. He was arrogant but not foolish, knowing Naruto's words were true. However, he retorted coldly:

  "Yes, your power has grown, but what do you uand about me? Do you know the real reason for my revenge against Konoha?"

  Naruto made a startliion, "Ah, I know... about Itachi's truth."

  "What?!" Sasuke was shocked, "That's the highest secret! How do you know?! Could it be..."

  He turo look at Tobi again.

  "..." Tobi shook his head, indig it wasn't him who told Naruto.

  In faaruto had indeed learned from Tobi—in aimeline...

  Tobi thought: This kid Naruto, I really uimated him in the past...

  Sasuke said coldly, "Since you know what Itachi went through, you still want to stop my revenge?"

  Naruto said, "If Itachi were alive, he would definitely not want you to do this..."

  "..." Sasuke's shoulders trembled. Itachi was his reverse scale, touch it and he would be enraged, even if Naruto was someone special to him, it didn't mean he could ent on Itachi! Whether positively atively!

  He had no idea that Naruto wasn't making baseless cims; he had indeed ied with Itachi, more than once.

  "Don't act like you uand Itachi so well!! And don't use Itachi's o interfere with my revenge, Naruto!!!!"

  Boom!!!

  Responding to Sasuke's furious emotions, the purple chakra surged outward, f a majestic armor around the existing Susanoo!

  This was the ultimate form of the 'half-body' Susanoo, the Tengu form!!!

  Boom!!!

  The powerful and cold chakra shook the hearts of Team Taka and made the experts present take notice...

  Karin trembled incessantly, "He's pletely not the Sasuke from before..."

  Tobi's gaze was dark: Oh? To push Susanoo to this level at once, indeed, for Sasuke, the best catalyst isn't the Five Kage, but you, Naruto...

  Boom! Boom!

  The Totsuka Bow was drawn tight again, but this time paired with the Bze Release: Kagutsuchi arrow, its scale and power were on another level!!!

  Sasuke's pupils showed genuine killing i, "Naruto, I don't want to hear your endless chatter anymore!! You're too much of a hindrance, I will eliminate you here, then raze Danzō and Konoha to the ground...!!!"

  Naruto's expression turned solemn: This form of Susanoo is a qualitative ge, and that arrow o longer be resolved by ordinary means...

  Whoosh!!!

  The bck fme arrow tore through the air...

  "Enough..."

  Naruto closed his eyes, and when he reopehem, the brilliance of his dojutsu flowed within!

  ——*Shinra Tensei!*

  Boom!!!

  A repulsive force field erupted, shattering the solid bck fme arrow intments of bck fmes that fell to the ground...

  Tobi's gaze darkened, "Finally willing to use the Rinnegan's powers..."

  Sage Mode detected something.

  "The battle here has already attracted external attention. A rge number of chakras are approag, let's end this quickly..."

  Naruto formed seals with his hands, gathering an unpreted amount of chakra.

  Poof, poof, poof...!!!

  Hundreds and thousands of shadow es appeared with a burst of white smoke, eae f a Super Big Ball Rasengan, verging on Sasuke's Susanoo...!

  ——*Sage Art: Super Big Ball Rasengan Barrage!*

  Boom! Boom! Boom! Boom...!!!

  Layer upon yer of spheres covered Susanoo pletely, the waves of explosions rising and falling, and the sturdy armor of Susanoo was brought to the brink of colpse uhis relentless Sage Art bombardment!

  Sasuke raged, "Where did he get this power...!!"

  Spt! Naruto dipped his hand in the blood from the wound Amaterasu had burned earlier and formed seals.

  ——*Summoning: Food Cart Destroyer Teique!!*

  The massive toad Gamakichi, with a sash around his waist, desded from the sky, being the st straw that broke Susanoo...!!!

  "Ugh...!!"

  Before Susanoo shattered, Sasuke leaped out with all his might...

  Naruto extended his palm.

  ——*Banshō Ten'in!*

  Whoosh! The powerful gravitational pull drew Sasuke in from a distance.

  Sasuke reacted swiftly, f seals with his hands as he approached, leveraging the gravitational pull...

  ——*Fire Release: Great Fireball Teique!*

  "..." Naruto stood firm, maintaining Banshō Ten'in, activating the Rinnegan's protective barrier, isoting the fmes while grabbing Sasuke's throat!

  ——*Preta Path!*

  Whoosh!!

  Sasuke's chakra flowed into Naruth his palm...

  Sasuke smirked, "So this is your left eye's ability..."

  Naruto apologized, "Sorry, but this is the only way to calm you down. If you keep overusing your dojutsu, your eyes will go blind early..."

  Sizzle! As the chakra drained, Sasuke's Mangekyō Sharingan regressed to the three-tomoe Sharingan, theomoe faded, leaving ordinary, dull eyes...

  Before losing sciousness, Sasuke murmured intriguingly, "Heh, such things... no longer matter."

  Seeing Sasuke lose sciousness, Naruto gently id him on the snow, sighed softly, areated.

  "Sasuke!!!" Karin ran forward.

  Whoosh!!

  But Tobi, with his masked face, appeared beside Sasuke first, lifting him onto his shoulder. His right eye spiraled, abs both Sasuke and Karin.

  "Go restore Sasuke's chakra!!"

  "Eek...!!"

  Swish! Swish!

  Konan and Orochimaru arrived at Naruto's sides.

  Konan asked with , "How is it? Are you okay..."

  Naruto smiled, "Sorry, I've overused my chakra a bit. The situation ahead might be troublesome, I'll have to rely on you two more..."

  Konan smiled gently, "Of course..."

  "Heh heh." Orochimaru's lips curled up, "As expected, you still couldn't bring yourself to pletely drain Sasuke's chakra."

  To this, Naruto remained silent.

  To the south, led by Mifuhe samurai of the Land of Iron and the e, except for Danzō, arrived oer another...

  To the north, in the snowstorm, silhouettes could be faintly seen running, they were all young and wore Konoha forehead protectors...

  Seeing this, Tobi's expression uhe mask was subtle, "Oh well, this time I'll be a plete outsider. Think carefully about how to this up, and remember to protect the Rinnegan, it's my treasure, Naruto..."

  Whoosh!!

  With a swirling vortex, he asu disappeared into the mysterious whirlpool...!

  Crack!!

  With lightning speed, Raikage A and his two bodyguards arrived first.

  Gazing at the Amaterasu fmes remaining on the snow...

  Kumogakure jonin C said, "The iinguishable fmes of Amaterasu are Itachi's exclusive dojutsu, but Itachi is dead, so there's only one person who could use it..."

  Darui said, "Not long ago, was it Uchiha Sasuke who was here..."

  Raikage roared angrily at Naruto, "Where is Sasuke, where did Sasuke go!!!!!!"

  "..." Naruto paid no attention, for at that moment, his entire focus was drawn to the figure at the forefront of anroup, full ency...

  "Hinata..."