Chapter 70: Namo Gatling Bodhisattva!
After repelling Kidōmaru, the "Sasuke Recovery Team" led by Shikamaru and the hidden "Goddess Hunting Group" continued their high-speed advance.
But in the darkness ahead, two cold and twisted Chakras blocked their path.
The two-headed demon Sakon and Ukon, along with Tayuya, known as the "sole beauty of Otogakure," stood on a giant rock on the only path, one on the left and one on the right.
"To think you could break through the defensive lines of Jirobo and Kidōmaru..." The head growing on the back of Sakon's neck let out a strange laugh, "It seems the brats from Konoha aren't all trash. However, this is as far as you go."
In the team, although Naruto maintained his running posture, his eyes had already passed through layers of leaves and landed disdainfully on Sakon.
[Ugh... what visual pollution.]
[Is that the Parasite Demon Jutsu? Two sweaty guys squeezed into one body? What kind of Human Centipede-style performance art is Orochimaru doing?]
[For a disgusting fusion monster like this, physical attacks will definitely be blocked by their bizarre cellular regeneration. To deal with this kind of monster, you have to convince them with reason—the physical kind of reason.]
Naruto adjusted his breathing slightly, and that modern arms dealer mindset engraved in his DNA began to scroll across the massive ninja world sky screen.
[Facing something that can split, fuse, and regenerate, traditional Kunai and shuriken are just like scratching an itch.]
[The real solution is a saturation strike.]
[The perfect image in my mind is like this: a classic beauty with bun hair, wearing a red qipao and looking full of Chinese style, standing on high ground and snapping open a scroll with a flourish.]
[What flies out from inside is a six-barreled Chakra machine gun, gleaming with metallic luster and firing six thousand rounds per minute! That is, the legendary Gatling Bodhisattva.]
[Rat-tat-tat-tat-tat! Blue tongues of fire spit out, and a rain of bullets pours down. The massive recoil makes the girl's whole body tremble, even those cute hair buns and the... ahem, visible under the qipao, are vibrating at high frequency.]
[Under this metal tide full of the smell of gunpowder and the aesthetics of violence, what Rashomon? What cellular repair? Even a steel plate would be turned into a sieve for you!]
[If Tenten could comprehend the secret of this Namo Gatling Bodhisattva, Sakon and Ukonwouldn't have enough heads to blow up even if they had a hundred!]
Buzz!
Tenten, who had been following in the shadows of the canopy, felt the giant scroll in her hand suddenly turn scorching hot.
Hearing words like recoil, vibration, and the aesthetics of violence, her face instantly turned red, but the excitement of longing to destroy everything completely overwhelmed her shyness.
"Is this... the firepower Naruto-kun expects?"
[Ding!]
[Target Tenten has received the host's ultimate romantic concept that truth only exists within the range of a cannon.]
[Reward settlement in progress... Ninja Tool Summoning Warehouse upgraded! Obtained Conceptual Armament: Infinite Chakra Powered Heavy Multi-barreled Machine Cannon (Modified Version).]
Tenten grinned, her smile no longer showing the restraint of a Ninja, but instead revealing a strong impulse for destruction.
"You guys go ahead, these two... are mine."
Swoosh!
Tenten's figure flashed, landing directly on top of a large tree in front of Sakon and Ukon.
"Ha? Just you, the little girl who throws hidden weapons?" Sakon mocked disdainfully, "Rashomoncan even block Tailed Beast Balls..."
"Shut up and listen well to this... music from hell!"
Tenten snapped open the special scroll in her hand. The scroll unfurled, and a black steel creation gleaming with cold light appeared out of thin air, without any smoke rising.
It was a terrifying weapon that defied the art style of the Ninja World.
"Wh-what is this?!" Sakon instinctively felt his skin crawl.
"This is—Art!"
Rat-tat-tat-tat-tat—!
The dull roar instantly drowned out the entire forest.
No Ninjutsu startup, no hand signs needed, only hundreds of physical bullets infused with Wind Release Chakra per second, constructing an insurmountable line of death.
Sakon didn't even have time to summon Rashomon. The regenerated body he was so proud of exploded into a blood mist the moment it touched the rain of bullets.
"AAAAHHHH!"
The scream lasted only half a second.
The large tree and rock in front of them, along with the two-headed freak, vanished instantly.
Above, Tenten shouldered the glowing red barrel, panting slightly from the intense recoil. Her eyes were a bit unfocused, but a light of excitement danced deep within them.
"This... this feeling... is so good..."
On the other side, the surviving Tayuya was dumbfounded.
Is this a f*cking Ninja?
Is this still the Ninja World where people throw Kunai?!
Before she could recover from the shock of her teammate's instant evaporation, a playful inner voice came again from the mind of the distant Blonde Youth.
[Tsk tsk, listening to that noise, it seems that side has been taken care of.]
[Then the remaining flute-playing hottie... will be a bit more troublesome. After all, it's a melody-based Genjutsu; brute force won't work.]
Although Naruto had already run far away, the heavenly curtain was still considerately providing "tactical guidance."
[To deal with this kind of bad girl who likes to toy with others' spirits, you need a more dominant spirit queen.]
[For example, our family's Miss Ino, who likes blondes, always goes against you, but actually really wants to take control deep down.]
[Imagine, Ino doesn't need that slow Mind Transfer Jutsu. She only needs a glance, doesn't even need hand signs, and that powerful spiritual energy can rush into the opponent's mind as arrogantly as a queen cracking a whip.]
[Turning that bad flute-playing girl into an obedient... ahem, private musician.]
[Making her completely lose her ability to attack, only able to blow a tune called "Conquest" with her superb oral skills... while crying and blushing. That sense of immorality and pleasure brought by absolute domination... now that's the peak of the spiritual system!]
Thump!
Ino Yamanaka, hiding nearby, stumbled and almost lost her footing upon hearing such explicit descriptions as a queen cracking a whip and oral skill performances.
"Th-that idiot! Is his head full of turning enemies into... that kind of use?!"
Ino covered her burning face, but the image involuntarily surfaced in her mind. That feeling of absolute control, of trampling the opponent's will at will... it did seem ten thousand times more exciting than her current family Ninjutsu?
[Ding!]
[Detected that the host Ino Yamanaka has highly resonated with the protagonist's S-attribute of dominance and submission.]
[Reward settlement in progress... Secret Spirit Technique Advancement: Mind Transfer - Absolute Domination (Ignores distance and resistance, completely suppressing the target's spirit into a servant state).]
Ino looked up, and in that instant, her originally youthful and beautiful girl aura suddenly changed. Her eyes became deep and dangerous, and her long blonde ponytail swayed in the wind, truly looking like a queen about to be crowned.
She slowly stepped out from behind the tree and looked at the still trembling Tayuya.
"You... what do you want to do?!" Tayuya raised her broken flute, wanting to fight to the death.
But Ino didn't move at all, only giving her a light glance.
In that gaze, there was no killing intent, only a high-and-mighty disdain and absolute command.
"Kneel."
Just two words.
Tayuya only felt a boom in her brain, and her body was actually completely out of control. With a thump, she fell heavily to her knees, her head hitting the dirt.
"Wh-what's going on... my body..." Tayuyadiscovered in horror that her consciousness was clearly awake, but her body was like a puppet, instinctively wanting to submit to this blonde woman in front of her.
"Naruto wants to hear 'Conquest'."
Ino walked up to her, using two fingers to tilt up Tayuya's chin, which was covered in cold sweat, a wicked smile playing at the corners of her mouth.
"Although I don't know that song, you should know how to please your new master, right? Now... start playing."
"For that blonde bastard who isn't here... play a requiem."
In this dark forest, on one side was the lingering smell of gunpowder smoke, and on the other was the shrill yet incredibly submissive flute sound of the Otogakure elite.
Shikamaru and the others ahead only felt a chill down their spines, not daring to look back at what those two usually normal girls had actually done.
And Naruto, the culprit behind all this, was now showing a relaxed, silly smile because he felt the disappearance of Chakra fluctuations ahead.
[Ah, the world is quiet. This efficiency is simply ridiculous. It seems everyone is working very hard to bring Sasuke back.]
[Sasuke, if you kid knew so many beauties were working so hard for you, you'd definitely be moved to tears, right?]
[But further ahead... that aura doesn't seem like something these small fry can compare to.]
The smile on Naruto's face faded a bit. In the moonlit clearing ahead, a figure completely wrapped in bandages with strange bones on his back stood quietly.
Shikotsumyaku, Kimimaro.
And... the faint stench of that venomous snake, Orochimaru, could still be smelled.