Chapter 274: Majestic Attire Susanoo (Part 1)
"Naruto! Sasuke! Stop wasting chakra! These puppets can repair themselves!" Neji shouted, reminding the two of his discovery.
"They seem to be trying to guard this place. Neji, what's inside there?" The real Naruto asked after coming to Neji's side.
"Probably the enemy's lair?" Neji said.
"In that case, let's just charge through together," Naruto said after glancing at the cave and gritting his teeth.
Soon, Naruto brought Neji to Sasuke, who was bombarding the area with Lightning Release ninjutsu. He then grabbed Sasuke's shoulder. In the next moment, pure Nine-Tails chakra surged into their bodies. A layer of red chakra light instantly appeared on the surface of their bodies.
"This is? The power of the Nine-Tails?" Neji looked down at the chakra flame wave on the surface of his body. At this moment, the amount of chakra in his body was a fullness he had never experienced before.
Sasuke at this time also felt the incomparably abundant chakra in his body. He clenched his fists forcefully. And Sasuke also felt that the fusion process of the two dōjutsu in his eyes also began to accelerate under the push of this pure chakra.
"Get ready, just charge straight in!" Naruto slammed his fist into his palm, the chakra flame wave around him boiling as if it were on fire. Subsequently, Naruto raised his hand, and a Rasengan with a diameter of several meters gathered in his palm. After throwing it at the sea of puppets in front of him, Naruto shouted, "Let's go!"
As Naruto's voice fell, the three accelerated at the same time. Lightning, gale, and the mark of the Eight Trigrams intertwined behind the three of them. In almost an instant, the three charged into the opening created by the Super Odama Rasengan, carving a path through this inescapable net laid down by the puppets.
After entering the cave, Neji turned back and threw a force field grenade that Tenten had given him. A blue force field flashed past, and the puppets enveloped by the force field instantly lost their ability to move, turning back into mud.
The three continued deep along the cave and soon arrived in front of a lake inside the cave.
Seeing this, the three did not hesitate much and jumped in directly.
After entering the lake, a wave of strange bubbles surged towards the three of them. The moment they came into contact with the bubbles, the genjutsu contained within unknowingly enveloped the three of them.
"Stupid brat, wake up," inside the seal space, the Nine-Tails propped up its chin with one hand, and with the fingers of the other, gently poked Naruto who was beneath it.
In the next instant, Naruto woke up. Looking back, Neji and Sasuke were already under the control of the genjutsu.
Seeing this, Naruto could only grab the two with his chakra hands and continue to move forward with them.
In the process of moving forward, a purple light flashed in the position of Sasuke's eyes, and he also broke free from the genjutsu.
...
And Neji, in the chaos, came to a place in a daze.
"This is... the family's cemetery?" Neji raised his head and sized up the surrounding scene. Then, in Neji's line of sight, one figure after another slowly formed. Neji also recalled where this place was.
This was his father's funeral.
Inside the family's cemetery, two members of the branch family were carefully placing a few of his father's personal clothes into a small pit that looked like it had just been dug. It was ridiculous to think about. His father had dedicated everything, including his life, to the Hyuga, but in the end, not even his body could be buried in the family's cemetery.
Neji watched as the last handful of yellow earth was covered, then turned his head and saw his younger self. He was only 5 years old in front of the tombstone. The headscarf he wore to cover that ugly Caged Bird Seal had already been soaked by the misty drizzle.
There was no expression on the child's young face. Neji wanted to reach out and pat his younger self's head, but after thinking for a moment, he still withdrew his hand.
Neji did not see any member of the main family at the scene. For them, it was a matter of course for a branch family member to sacrifice for the main family. A dead branch family member had no value at all.
However, not long after, Neji keenly sensed a prying gaze from behind him.
Neji turned his head and saw in a corner of the cemetery, his uncle was watching from a distance.
Subsequently... the surrounding scene changed rapidly.
"A genius of the branch family! So what? Once a caged bird, always a caged bird!"
Neji looked at his younger self, surrounded in a corner of the family compound by several children of the main family elders. The other's fists and feet were landing wantonly on his body.
Even though at that time he could have easily knocked all these people down, just because of that Caged Bird Seal on his forehead, he didn't dare to fight back against these people at all. Even if they hadn't yet mastered the method of using the Caged Bird Seal to cast a curse, as long as he dared to throw a punch at the other party, what awaited him would definitely be excruciating torture.
And then, that one afternoon, his uncle told him that Lord Hokage intended to take him as a disciple. From that day on, everything completely changed. He became the noble young clan leader of the Hyuga clan. The ugly Caged Bird Seal on his head was also removed. The young bird, bound by a cage, could finally try to soar freely.
"Clan member from Earth, is this your experience?" in a daze, an old voice suddenly sounded from behind Neji.
"Who?" Neji turned his head abruptly.
...
"Hey! Neji! Wake up!" in a daze, Naruto's voice sounded in Neji's ear.
Neji opened his eyes blankly. Looking at Naruto and Sasuke in front of him, he rubbed the bridge of his nose, "Was that a genjutsu just now?"
"Yes," Naruto nodded. "Fortunately, Big Brother Nine-Tails helped me break free from the genjutsu's control. Otherwise, it would have been really dangerous."
"Where is this," after Neji stood up again, he looked around. He was stunned, looking at the lush jungle around them, the huge lake in front of them, and the huge spherical object in the sky above.
"I don't know," Naruto spread his hands. "After I broke free from the genjutsu, I just kept moving forward with you guys, and then we got here."
"In any case, let's determine our position first," Neji said, taking out a map and a positioning device from his scroll.
However, after a series of operations, Neji's expression became more and more grave.
"What happened?" Naruto asked hurriedly.
"The positioning device... is malfunctioning?" Neji frowned, then took out another instrument. "Let's try this again. This device can directly establish a connection with the main computer inside the research institute. After determining the direction, we'll change to another place in a moment, and we should be able to determine our position on the map."
However, after Neji input chakra into the positioning instrument, in his and Naruto's incredulous eyes, the pointer on the dial tilted up!
"The village... is in the sky?" Naruto looked in the direction of the pointer, but could only see the azure blue sky.
"We are very likely no longer in the ninja world," Neji said after taking a deep breath.
"Let's try to search for Hinata's tracks first," Sasuke reminded at this time.
"You're right," Neji nodded, then took out a new instrument and input chakra.
"Found it!" A few minutes later, Neji's face lit up. On the instrument, the signal from the life monitoring device on Hinata's body was exceptionally clear.
"It's there!" Neji raised his head and looked at the huge spherical building in the sky above the three of them.
"So, we've really arrived on the moon?" Naruto shrugged and looked up at the target.
"The problem now is how we get up there," Naruto said. "Can any of you fly?"
"I'll do it," Neji said, taking out a set of mechanical devices from his sealing scroll and beginning to put them on his body. After putting on the equipment, Neji tried to start it. Subsequently, blue flames shot out from the armor on his waist and legs at the same time, and Neji's body also slowly floated up under the recoil of these flames.
"Let's go!" After confirming, Neji nodded towards Naruto and Sasuke, then reached out and grabbed their outstretched hands. The three of them accelerated and flew towards the spherical building in the sky together.
Just as the three were approaching this sphere, the surface of the sphere suddenly reacted. A layer of black runes flickered, and countless holes appeared on the surface of the sphere. Countless puppets riding on flying machines poured out from them and rushed towards the three of them.
"Is there no end to this!" Seeing this, Naruto closed his eyes. When he opened them again, a layer of golden-red eyeshadow had already appeared at the corners of his eyes.
"Sage Mode?" Although Sasuke couldn't see for the time being, he could also feel the abnormally active natural energy around him and turned his head to look in Naruto's direction.
"Sage Art! Rasenshuriken!" Naruto raised his hand, condensed a large Rasengan, then injected the wind-natured transformation into it. The Rasengan became flat and sharp under the effect of the wind-natured chakra. Naruto waved his hand and threw it out. The huge Rasenshuriken whistled through the enemy's formation. Every puppet that came into contact with it was cut in half in an instant.
Neji also took this opportunity to bring the two to the front of the spherical building's barrier.
"A sealing barrier?" Neji frowned, looking at the spell runes that appeared on the surface of this barrier.
"How is it? Can you handle it?" Naruto asked while throwing a Rasenshuriken behind him.
"I need a few minutes," Neji took a deep breath and began to observe the sealing jutsu spell runes on this barrier.
"Hurry up! There are more and more puppets!" Naruto couldn't help but urge, looking at the growing number of puppets in front of him.
"Sage Art: Lightning Release - Vermilion Bird!" Just at this moment, Sasuke, who was holding Neji's other hand, formed a seal with one hand. After entering Sage Mode, he created a large sea of lightning with his sage chakra. Subsequently, a loud phoenix cry rang out. A giant bird made of lightning rose from the sea of lightning, flapped its wings, and flew to the densest part of the puppets, then directly exploded.
Fine electric arcs instantly swallowed a massive number of puppets. The dissipating electric light from the explosion fell back into the sea of lightning in the sky.
Naruto turned his head abruptly to look at Sasuke. Sasuke, who had sensed Naruto's gaze, grinned, "What, you thought you were the only one who could learn this?"
After the lightning bird exploded, the remaining puppets began to gather again. However, after the electric arcs fell into the sea of lightning, another loud phoenix cry rang out. The exploded lightning phoenix was reborn in the sea of lightning.
"This jutsu can be repeated over and over until my sage chakra is used up. It should be able to buy you about 5 minutes of time. Is that enough?" Neji asked.
"It's enough," Neji nodded and began to concentrate on breaking the seal on the surface of the barrier.
Five minutes later, as the sea of lightning in the sky completely dissipated, Neji also found the key node of this sealing jutsu. After violently inputting chakra, he pried open a crack in the surface of this barrier, and then the three accelerated and rushed in.
After entering the building, the three dodged the puppet army, then restrained their auras and hid their figures before breathing a sigh of relief.
"Let's find Hinata first," Neji swallowed a soldier pill to recover some chakra, then took out the instrument that displayed Hinata's life signal.
The three moved stealthily through Toneri's palace. At this time, in a bedroom in the palace, Hinata also slowly woke up.
"You're awake," seeing Hinata wake up, Toneri, who had been guarding by Hinata's bed, sat up from his chair and walked towards Hinata.
Seeing this, Hinata instinctively took a guarded posture, "Who are you?"
"My name is Ōtsutsuki Toneri. Strictly speaking, the same bloodline flows within my body as yours," Toneri activated his Byakugan.
"What do you want? How is Hanabi?" Hinata looked at the approaching Toneri and took the starting stance of the Gentle Fist. However, she found that she couldn't mobilize even a tiny bit of chakra in her body.
"Don't struggle in vain," Toneri said. "As for my purpose, our clan has been watching over the ninja world from the moon. However, what we have seen is endless war. The village you are from is even planning to launch a war that will sweep the ninja world recently. I am tired of all this. So, I plan to destroy this sinful world from its source, and then re-establish a new world."
"You won't succeed. Lord Hokage will definitely stop you," Hinata said through gritted teeth after taking a deep breath.
"Your Hokage? Is it that person named Uchiha Douhuan, the descendant of Hagoromo?" Ōtsutsuki Toneri said. "I admit he is very strong. I am no match for him now. However, as long as these eyes of mine complete their evolution, then he is just a mere mortal in front of me."
"Your eyes... the Byakugan? I don't know that the family's Byakugan has the ability to fight against the Mangekyo Sharingan."
Hinata's eyes flickered. As a member of a reconnaissance team, Hinata was now trying to get as much information out of the other party as possible.
"Hahaha," Toneri threw his head back and laughed. "So your branch of the clan on the ninja world has even lost the family's inheritance? The potential of the Byakugan is even greater than the Sharingan of the Hagoromo descendants. As long as it can complete its evolution, the Mangekyo Sharingan? A joke."
(End of chapter)
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