Chapter 44: Konoha Crush (4), Forbidden Jutsus.
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SWOOOSH… WOOOSH…

His long, onyx hair swayed with the cold breeze as he stands atop a tall, ancient tree, his eyes emitting a faint golden light that invited the darkest thoughts, his smile carved crookedly on his face as he waited with arms crossed.

CHHH…

Suddenly, from across a tree, a boy with red hair flickered in existence, his fiery lavender eyes staring at the black-haired man with eyes full of greed and caution. Like the black-haired man, he too crossed his arms, standing like a frozen human.

'He used up a fourth of his chakra,' Naruto thought and he sensed his own chakra. 'I used a tenth of my chakra.'

Logically speaking, he had the advantage. The problem was if he can take advantage of his higher chakra reserve. 'Only time will tell,' Naruto mused, watching as Orochimaru lick his lips.

"You are quite brave, Naruto-kun," he chuckled, making the redhead frown. 'How distasteful,' Naruto thought, spitting saliva on the leaves below his feet.

"I know my limits, Orochimaru. I know that even if I can't catch the snake today, the snake can't bite me," Naruto said as a grin formed on his face, his thick fang making his face look feral like a hungry wolf.

"We'll see about that," Orochimaru chuckled and opened his mouth. To Naruto's disgust, a brown python slithered out of Orochimaru's mouth, opening its reptilian mouth to reveal a pristine single-edged long sword.

"The Sword of Kusanagi," Naruto muttered. 'I heard that the Kusanagi Sword can cut through anything. I wonder if that's true.'

While Orochimaru was unsheathing his blade, Naruto took the chance to summon a small scroll. "Unseal," he mumbled and a Chokuto poofed into existence. The sword was made from the best Chakra Steel and was forged by the greatest blacksmith in the land of iron.

'I hope that guy is still kicking,' Naruto smiled at the memory of his unlikely friend and held his Chokuto with his right hand, channeling chakra through its blade.

They say that you can only gain mastery over the blade if you trust your sword with your life.

'I'll use the Adamantine Chains in tandem with the sword just in case,' he thought and slowly stabilized his chakra to form the chains at any moment.

'I wonder if it can cut through the Adamantine Chains.'

"Let's try it," Naruto mumbled and flickered behind Orochimaru.

SLASH!

Orochimaru smirked, and with his bent body that now looked like an upside-down "L", he swung his sword toward Naruto whose eyes were narrowed.

SWING—FOOSH!

Before the blade could cut through Naruto's waist, the latter jumped and brought his sword downward.

'Here it is,' Naruto thought as he watched the Kusanagi Sword trying to cut his Chokuto in half. 'I guess Orochimaru is confident in slicing through my sword,' Naruto sighed in his mind and summoned two, thick chakra chains made with another tenth of his chakra.

SLICE—CLANG!—CLANG!—CLANG!

The Kusanagi sword cleanly sliced the first chain in half, but with its momentum being lowered, it failed to cut the second and was promptly wrapped by a thick, crimson chakra chain.

FWOOSH!

When Naruto saw the sword suddenly shorten into a dagger, he hurriedly jumped back and watched as his chains fall to the ground, crumbling slowly like how the ashes of a used campfire.

CHRRR…

When Naruto landed on a treetop, he gazed at his adversary as the latter bent back into a normal human form. 'I wonder what his body is made out of. Snakes?'

"Not bad," Orochimaru praised as his neck cracked into its proper position. He flicked his sword and it slowly extended back to its previous length.

"That sword is a little good, don't you think?" Naruto asked and stared at the sword for a moment. 'Now, I want to rob his sword as well… Screw it, when I get the chance, I'll wring him dry.'

Orochimaru chuckled, his eyes glimmering in a playful light as his long tongue slowly traced his pale lips. "You can't covet things you can't obtain, Naruto-kun.'

Naruto raised his eyebrow. "Then why are you coveting me?"

"The answer is obvious," Orochimaru chuckled and didn't explain further. Instead, his hands flashed through a series of hand seals and Naruto didn't hesitate for a moment to open another scroll.

"Unseal—POOF!" As a giant scroll poofed above the smaller scroll, Naruto willed his chakra inside the bigger scroll, "Golden Dragon Scroll: Fire Dragon Guardian!"

"Summoning Jutsu: Manda."

ROAAAAAR!

HISSSSS!

In the middle of a dense forest several kilometers away from Konoha, a purple giant serpent and a golden fire dragon faced off against each other. One had sentience, while the other was under a puppeteer's string.

'Tsk, this Sealing Formula needs to be retouched. It consumed nearly half of my chakra just to rival Orochimaru's snake summon's size,' Naruto cursed inwardly, watching as Manda glanced at him for a moment.

'Sadly, my skills are inadequate to improve this Sealing Formula,' he thought. In truth, Naruto was not confident that the Sealing Formula could be improved further. 'I guess there's a reason why even Seal Masters don't spam godly Fuinjutsu around.'

"Orochimaru, why did you summon me again?" Manda asked while looking at the golden fire dragon in front of him. Although the fire dragon looked like it came out of a master's painting, it wasn't nearly as harmless as one.

"I need your help in catching someone," Orochimaru said and pointed at Naruto. The snake followed his gesture and saw the red-haired boy.

"Really? You need my help for something trivial? Did you lose your touch?" Manda looked at Orochimaru suspiciously. 'If he did, then I can finally rebel and come free from his control,' he thought inwardly, but as if he had heard his thoughts, Orochimaru's face turned dark, a cold glint passing through in eyes.

"The boy is an Uzumaki, and he has the Adamantine Chains," Orochimaru explained. The moment Manda heard the words "Adamantine" and "Chains" together, his body suddenly tensed, looking as if ready to strike at any moment, and the arrogance in his eyes dimmed completely.

Seeing the abrupt change, Naruto looked at the snake curiously. 'What's the deal with everyone being on guard with the Adamantine Sealing Chains?'

'I think it's because of your crazy clan abusing them in battle. I don't know, I've been sealed for too long so I missed most of the shinobi wars,' Kurama shrugged and went back to sleep. Meanwhile, Manda was observing Naruto.

"Damn you, Orochimaru. You want me to fight a crazy redhead?!" Manda cursed much to Orochimaru's amusement. 'Tsk, if this Orochimaru lets his guard down for even a second, I sweat I'll swallow him alive!' The snake cursed as he eyed Naruto.

'No matter, I just have to avoid touching those chains for a few minutes and I can dispel myself. I don't want to fight an Uzumaki of all people. What if my soul gets sealed away?'

As Manda finished his line of thought, he charged at Naruto, ignoring the golden fire dragon. From previous encounters, the golden fire dragon was too cold to warm his scales.

ROAAAR!—HISS!

As Manda slithered backward as if a trap-jaw ant springing away using its mandibles, his burnt scales fell slowly to the ground, revealing new, pristine purple scales. I glanced down at my brunt scales and narrowed my eyes when I heard the redhead laughing.

'Did he add a Sealing Formula to the Fire Dragon? I don't remember it being a threat to me last time around,' I thought as I recall the previous fire dragon that tried to burn me. If that dragon was like a juvenile, then the one in front of him was an adult.

'I ought to be careful,' I glanced at my summoner. "Hey, stop idling and start fighting or I'll dispel myself from here."

"Sigh," Orochimaru shook his head, weaving hand seals after he sheathed his Kusanagi Sword.

"Naruto-kun, let's play for a bit. Forbidden Ninjutsu: World Devouring Snake,' Orochimaru hissed and reached out his hands from which an ethereal snake that looked as if it came from the void crawled out, opening its mouth to reveal pure whiteness.

SHAAAAA!

When Naruto felt like his soul was being sucked out of his body, he frowned and looked at the black snake in Orchimaru's hands. "What the hell is that," he muttered and weaved hand seals. "Wind Style: Wind Dragon Jutsu!"

WOOOOOSH—ROAAAAAR!

As the wind dragon flew toward Orochimaru, its speed increased thanks to the sucking power that the World Devouring Snake was emitting. The Golden Dragon merged with the wind dragon the moment the latter flew toward Orochimaru. Seeing the raging inferno dragon in front of him, Orochimaru chuckled and canceled his forbidden ninjutsu.

"It's a shame you have a strong soul, Naruto-kun. Forbidden Ninjutsu: Demonic Mirroring Technique," Orochimaru yelled out and a mirror faded into existence in front of him.

WHOOOOO…

When the enhanced Wind-Fire Dragon was absorbed by the mirror in front of Orochimaru, Naruto narrowed his eyes and felt bitterness in his tongue.

FOOSH—ROAAAAAR!

"What the…"

When an even bigger Golden Fire Dragon was reflected toward him, Naruto's mouth gaped open, his mind blanking for a moment but his hands acting on instinct. When he came to be, he was already surrounded by dozens of small scrolls.

"Fuinjutsu: EARTH WALL!"

GRRR…BANG!—SHAAAAA—!

Seeing the red-haired boy engulfed in flames, Orochimaru narrowed his eyes. 'He didn't die, did he…? No, I can still sense his chakra signature. But I wonder how he survived that fire dragon. The mirror multiplies the jutsu absorbed by at least five times,' Orochimaru mused.

SHHHHH…

As white smoke rise above the clouds, Naruto stood still on top of countless opened scrolls and steaming rubble.

"Damned forbidden jutsus, aren't you afraid of the repercussions?" Naruto scowled, his face turning as sinister as a demon's. Orochimaru shrugged, showing off his mangled arms. "Don't worry about me, Naruto-kun. Worry about yourself. These wounds are superficial to me," Naruto chuckled and opened his mouth wide.

Naruto felt a chill when he saw Orochimaru's mouth open wider and wider, and when hands emerged from Orochimaru's mouth, he cringed. As he watched Orochimaru spit himself out, woundless and flawless, he felt the urge to expel Orochimaru from the world.

"So inhuman," Naruto muttered. "I guess I should let go of the stops, then. Orochimaru, you are not getting away this time," he scowled, taking out a scroll.

"I'd like to see how you'd do that…" Orochimaru was smiling until several scrolls poofed from the scroll Naruto was holding. His eyes narrowed and he considered how to escape the next attack of the Uzumaki in front of him.

"To get so many Explosive Scrolls, you must be affiliated with Ginko, eh?" Orochimaru was once curious about Ginko, but lost interest when he found that Ginko was the literal meaning of a "Money Factory." 'I wonder if Naruto is behind that company,' Orochimaru thought.

HISSS… POOF!

When Manda saw those scrolls, he didn't hesitate to dispel himself. 'What a joke, I don't want to be minced meat.'

Likewise, Orochimaru felt the same. "Forbidden Fuinjutsu: Death God's Arm."

"COUGH!" As he coughed up scarlet blood, Naruto was deep in thought. 'Death God's Arm? Is it related to the Uzumaki's Reaper Death Seal?' Nevertheless, Naruto gritted his teeth and made a hand seal. 'I can feel my chakra being drained every second and my body feels like a slag of metal.'

"Fuinjutsu: Flowing Yin Yang," Naruto muttered and the dozens of Explosive Scrolls started spinning around him.

"Activate!"

Naruto yelled and flickered next to Orochimaru. Orochimaru frowned and slammed his hands together. "Summoning: Triple Rashomon!"

POOF!

As Naruto poofed out of existence, the explosive scrolls stopped sizzling and like a sun falling from the sky…

BOOOOOM! BANG—CRACK! BANG—CRACK! BANG—CRACK!

When the third gate started to fall apart, Orochimaru hissed.

"Tsk, SUMMONING: MANDA!"

POOF!

"What… FUCK YOU, OROCHI…"

BOOOOM!

SPLATTER—

'Thank you, Manda. You gave me enough time,' Orochimaru sneered. "Earth Style: Hiding Like a Mole Jutsu."

BOOOM!

RUMBLEEE…

As Naruto was running toward the Hyuga compound, memories suddenly gushed into his head while the ground shook violently. When he stabilized himself, he finally sorted out the two memories that gushed into his head.

"I bet Orochimaru escaped," though he didn't see the guy escape, he was sure of it. On the other hand…

"Danzo, you fucking bastard. I'll gut you alive," Naruto growled and turned back, heading toward the Chunin Exams arena.

Meanwhile, in the Hyuga Compound, a girl with bandaged eyes sat quietly and sighed, the veins around her eyes calming down.

"I guess something happened," Hinata muttered and glanced at her bag that contained storage scrolls. Those storage scrolls contained all of her belongings.

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