Naruto wasn't afraid of energy clashes at all. It just came down to who had more Chakra. Should I let you have eight tails?
Naruto took a few steps back and quickly formed hand seals:
"Water Release: Exploding Water Colliding Wave!"
A massive wave, wide enough to cover the entire arena and dozens of meters high, rose from in front of Naruto, crashing head-on into Gaara's sand wave. Or rather, it rolled over it, being several times larger, like an adult bullying a child.
Naruto was planning to learn a trick from Shark Chili, ah spit, Kisame Hoshigaki.
He started by playing a lake scene card to establish his home-field advantage.
This large-scale Water Release had already shocked almost everyone present.
Kankuro and the others, concerned about Gaara, even made the same sounds as those unlucky Grass Ninja in the Death Forest: "You call that Water Release?"
This is bad. The attack signal hasn't come yet. If Gaara goes berserk now, it might disrupt the plan.
However, looking at the wave in front of them, they suddenly felt a little less confident. Can we really beat Konoha?
Naruto's classmates were also staring blankly at the huge wave in the arena. We've heard you're good at Water Release, but this is too exaggerated. Did you sign a summoning contract with the ocean?
The uninformed audience members found it even more unbelievable. The Uchiha kid's Fire Release was already scary enough, but now there's someone even stronger?
Especially the experienced Genin among them felt even worse. Are Konoha's Genin standards this high now? What are we then? Should we go back to the Ninja Academy?
The tsunami-like wave finally crashed down, and the sand in front of it was useless except for muddying the water.
After a period of turbulence, the water gradually calmed down. The middle of the arena had become a reservoir, and Gaara was nowhere to be seen.
Genma, the referee, had long since retreated to the wall, the senbon in his mouth twitching as he muttered to himself:
"Would this count as attacking the referee? Damn it, I really want to disqualify him."
Minato and the Third Hokage watched the shaken audience members in the front row from the high platform, relieved that the stands were some distance from the ground: "Naruto, this child, has gone a bit too far."
"What powerful Chakra. As expected of that woman's son."
The Kazekage praised while looking at a red-haired figure not far away.
Kushina was laughing heartily, patting Kakashi's back repeatedly: "That's the way! Well done, Naruto! That's how Ninjutsu is used! Beat him up good!"
Kakashi's back was aching from the pats, and his mask hid his helpless expression as he thought, Ninjutsu really shouldn't be used like this...
Asuma's cigarette fell to the ground, and he had the same thought as Kakashi.
After seeing Rock Lee off, Guy, who had returned to watch the match, had a thoughtful look on his face. Suddenly, he slammed his right fist into his left palm and said, "I see, that's the Fourth Hokage's son!"
Kakashi rolled his dead fish eyes and retorted to his good friend, "Hey, you've seen him many times, haven't you..."
In the arena, Naruto activated his mini-map, sensed that Gaara was still in the same place, sunk to the bottom of the water, and looked up to find an eye floating in the air, staring straight at him.
It was the Sand Eye, Gaara's reconnaissance Ninjutsu, which could transmit what it saw directly back to the brain like a real eye.
Although the scene looked very terrifying, Naruto's first reaction was that Jiraiya would definitely want to learn this trick...
Naruto resisted the urge to use the Transformation Technique to show Gaara something nice to hit his spirit. There were too many people present, and his flashy moves would easily lead to social embarrassment.
In the end, Naruto decided to send a Shadow Clone down to check the situation. As for why not a Water Clone, it was out of habit. Fortunately, those Shadow Clones who liked to cause trouble had been sent out as messengers.
The two Kunai thrown at the beginning had long been washed away by the water. The clone could only dive down, and after ten seconds, the clone transmitted the memory:
There was a sphere at the bottom of the water, like an eggshell. When the clone tried to crack the egg open, it was stabbed to death by the spikes that suddenly emerged from the eggshell.
This thing is pretty good at waterproofing? It's a pity Naruto doesn't know Kisame's Water Shark Bullet or other underwater attack Ninjutsu. If he has the chance, he'll take Sasuke to find Kisame and copy a set.
Before Naruto could figure out how to play next, a splash of water suddenly erupted on the surface, looking even more amateurish than the Philippine diving team.
Gaara stood on the water surface, half of his face covered with sand, turning into a raccoon dog. His eyes were like copper coins, and one of his hands had turned into a huge Sand Hand.
Naruto watched curiously. Is this the possessed form? How come this sand-made arm doesn't leak water?
Gaara made a sound that sounded very much like a villain: "You are strong. Only someone like you is worth killing, and then... I can feel my existence!"
As soon as he finished speaking, the Sand Hand quickly extended, grabbing towards Naruto.
The people in the audience, although they didn't know what this monster was, felt that what was coming next would be very exciting, and they perked up their spirits, perked up their spi...
They couldn't perk up their spirits at all. Instead, their eyelids were fighting, and soon they fell asleep one by one.
A few elites instantly dispelled the Genjutsu, such as Hiashi Hyuga and his brother, who protected Hinata and Hanabi, and activated their Byakugan to observe their surroundings.
The Anbu members led by Itachi also acted instantly, fighting with the Sound Ninja and Sand Ninja who suddenly jumped out to attack.
Guy and Asuma also joined the battle, while Kakashi protected Sasuke and Sakura, resisting the enemies one by one.
Sasuke and Sakura looked at the chaos on the scene, and couldn't react for a while. Is this the change Naruto was talking about?
A Sound Ninja secretly bypassed Kakashi and rushed towards Sasuke and Sakura, thinking that with one injured person and one weak girl, he only needed one move to attack...
Sakura looked at the Sound Ninja embedded in the floor and rubbed her wrist: "Don't underestimate me."
[Inner Sakura: siyanaro! It's finally my turn to protect Sasuke!]
Kushina ran to Minato's side and conveyed the news from the east, west, and north directions of Konoha, which was transmitted by Shadow Clones through the Ninth Phone Line: "Giant snake-like summoning beasts have appeared in each of the three directions, as well as dozens of Sand Ninja, and they are attacking the village!"
There was no news from the south, but Naruto knew that Izumo and Kotetsu were guarding the gate on the south side today...
Minato stood up abruptly, but before he could speak, the Third Hokage, who had not known about it beforehand, questioned in shock, "Kazekage, what is this..."
"Opportunity!" Taking advantage of the momentary distraction of Minato and the Third Hokage, the "Kazekage" directly kidnapped the Third Hokage and escaped to the roof. Four of the five guards also reverted to their original forms as the Sound Ninja Four, activating the Four Violet Flames Formation, while the last one continued to follow him.
The Konoha Crush Plan officially began!
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