Before their eyes, flames blazed with unprecedented fury, forming what seemed like a river of fire across the land.
Two Toad Sages—one exhaling wind, the other oil—combined their jutsu with Jiraiya's flames, creating a terrifying inferno. The three techniques fused into a composite ninjutsu whose power surpassed any fire technique Naruto had ever seen.
"Senpō (Sage Art), huh?" Naruto narrowed his eyes. "The scale of the flames is secondary—the real danger is the toad oil…"
If that oil soaked into wounds, the agony that would follow didn't even need imagining.
Facing the ground-level fire river that spread to the horizon, Naruto took a deep breath, clenched his fists, and slammed them into the ground.
"Hiken! (Fire Fist!)"
The might of his monstrous strength fused with the power of the Mera Mera no Mi (Flame-Flame Fruit).
With a thunderous BOOM, the ground shook violently. A massive crater appeared beneath him, and cracks spread in every direction. From those fissures burst scorching flames, as if tapping directly into the magma veins below.
Under the force of the shockwave and searing heat, the earth surged upward before Naruto, forming a towering wall of soil dozens of meters high.
The blazing river of oil and fire slammed into the wall, splitting into two streams—one diverted far away, the other pouring into the massive cracks.
Staring at the transformed, flame-scorched battlefield, Orochimaru's pupils contracted as he looked between Jiraiya and Naruto.
"These two… both have this kind of power!?"
One had unleashed an unprecedentedly ferocious Katon (Fire Release), with power rivaling the legendary S-rank flames. The other—without even using hand seals—had shaped the earth into a massive wall, a feat usually reserved for A or S-rank Doton (Earth Release) techniques.
He could understand Bofū Menma (Naruto's alias here), but Jiraiya? Was Sennin Mōdo (Sage Mode) really this fearsome?
Far in the distance, the Fourth Raikage and Killer B exchanged grim looks.
"One of the Three Legendary Sannin, Jiraiya… I truly underestimated him before," the Raikage muttered, eyes narrowing.
Though the Sannin's fame had spread for decades, Jiraiya was often regarded as the weakest among them. That rumor, he now realized, was utterly false—this Jiraiya's strength could very well surpass both Orochimaru and Tsunade.
"All the better…" The Raikage's gaze sharpened. "B, be ready to move in at any time."
B swallowed hard and nodded. "Didn't think Konoha still had this kind of firepower…"
When his fire release failed to overwhelm Naruto, Jiraiya instantly closed the distance, unleashing another sage technique.
"Senpō – Kebari Senbon! (Sage Art: Needle Jizō!)"
Leaning forward, he fired thousands of white hair-needles. With the two toad sages assisting, the white strands grew at visible speed, surging forth in an almost endless torrent—like a white flood bearing down.
Naruto's gaze stayed cold as the storm of hair approached. Flames danced along his arms as he strode forward.
"Jiraiya… if this is all you've got, forget about taking Tsunade from me."
Calling upon the Mera Mera no Mi, Naruto combined fire-nature transformation with wind-nature transformation. The fusion of wind and fire, amplified by the fruit's innate properties, produced flames of unimaginable heat.
"Katon – Enjōkō! (Fire Release: Blaze Uplift!)"
With a clap of his hands, raging flames erupted, swallowing the incoming white hairs and reducing them to ash.
Before Jiraiya could counter, Naruto's fiery form shot forward—only to flinch slightly as a few strands of hair, untouched by the flames, pierced into him like senbon needles.
"So Sage Mode's natural chakra can strike a Logia's elemental body?" Naruto murmured, eyes narrowing.
Jiraiya's eyes lit up. The greatest headache with Naruto's ability was his elemental intangibility—now, he'd found the weakness.
Drawing in a deep breath, Jiraiya thrust his hand forward, gathering immense chakra.
"Senpō – Chō Ōdama Rasengan! (Sage Art: Super Big Ball Rasengan!)"
In mere seconds, a massive spiraling sphere tens of meters wide swirled in his grasp.
"This is my improved version of the Fourth's Rasengan—its power rivals the Two-Tails' Bijūdama!" he declared confidently.
With a stomp of his geta, Jiraiya leapt high and brought the giant Rasengan crashing down toward Naruto.
But Naruto only smirked, dispelling his flame-form and raising his right hand.
"Fūton – Ōdama Rasenshuriken! (Wind Release: Big Ball Rasenshuriken!)"
Chakra drained rapidly from his body, condensing in a second into a colossal, azure, shuriken-shaped spiral. Its size matched Jiraiya's Rasengan, but the oppressive pressure it radiated was on another level.
Unlike Jiraiya, Naruto didn't close the gap—he simply hurled the titanic shuriken forward.
"Wanna see whose Rasengan's stronger?"
"What!?" Jiraiya's eyes widened. "That's also a Rasengan!? Impossible… its shape, its nature transformation—it even works as a projectile…"
He recalled when Minato first created the Rasengan, and how it had taken him years to develop its second form, the Big Ball Rasengan. Yet here was a version beyond his own, stronger even than his Sage-enhanced variant.
Still, he roared and thrust his massive Rasengan forward.
The two colossal spirals met.
BOOM! The explosion and shockwave were deafening. In an instant, Jiraiya was overwhelmed—blasted backwards with a cry of pain.
(End of Chapter)
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