Countless light bullets shot from Naruto's hands, slamming into Shukaku and causing explosion after explosion.
When the attack ended, half of Shukaku's body had been blasted into sand!
But a tailed beast couldn't be killed!
In just moments, Shukaku restored his body using sand energy.
"Damn brat!!"
Shukaku roared, gathering an enormous amount of chakra energy in his mouth again!
But unlike the empty bomb practice from before, this time Shukaku spat out a Tailed Beast Bomb!
The Tailed Beast Bomb is made by compressing yin and yang chakra in a 2:8 ratio into a sphere. Just one can blow apart a small mountain!
Its power was far greater than the empty bomb earlier!
"Gold coin!"
The gold coin toad sensed danger and told Naruto to quickly hide behind it.
But could its big gold coin really block a Tailed Beast Bomb?
Gold isn't exactly a very hard metal!
Naruto waved his hand, and spinning discs of light appeared in the sky.
As the discs kept turning, countless streams of light energy began to gather on Naruto, who stood in the center of the discs.
Finally, Naruto opened both eyes, crossed his arms, and fired an unbelievably thick laser beam!
Light Style: Yellow Light Beam!
The best defense is a strong offense!
If a defense skill can't block it, then answer an attack with an attack!
The huge beam and the Tailed Beast Bomb collided in midair. After a few seconds of deadlock, the beam shattered Shukaku's Tailed Beast Bomb and pierced straight through Shukaku's body!
"Ah!!!"
"It hurts! It hurts so much!!!"
Even someone as strong as Shukaku screamed in agony like it was about to be killed, its sharp cries echoing through the entire forest!
"Is that guy actually a monster?"
Temari and Kankuro, who had run farther away, heard Shukaku's screams and trembled all over.
What kind of attack could hit Gaara in that state so hard?
At that moment, Sasuke also woke up because of Naruto and Shukaku's fight.
Hearing the monstrous screams of Shukaku, he instinctively covered his ears.
"What happened?"
"Did Naruto really do that to that monster?"
"And what is that giant toad?"
Sasuke was full of questions, but no one could answer them.
"Damn it! Damn it! I'll kill you! I'll kill you!"
Shukaku roared angrily, its body slowly recovering!
Just as it was about to fire another Tailed Beast Bomb at Naruto, a beam of light suddenly pierced through Gaara on its head!
"What!"
Shukaku felt its Jinchuriki on the brink of death and froze for a moment.
The Tailed Beast wouldn't die, but the Jinchuriki would!
If Gaara died, it would also die!
"No!!!!"
Shukaku roared and began gathering energy in its mouth again, planning to fire one last Tailed Beast Bomb in a final struggle!
But before it could fire, its entire body turned into sand and scattered with the wind!
Naruto watched Gaara's body fall from fifty meters in the air and muttered, "Game over."
From that fight, Naruto had gained a deeper understanding of his own power.
Continuing the battle was pointless.
Besides, that Zaipei Ao Light Beam was a super-enhanced version of his laser beam—its power went up, but so did its energy cost, by several times!
Naruto didn't have the stamina for a meaningless battle with an unkillable Shukaku!
"Gaara was killed?"
Kankuro and Temari saw Gaara's body falling from the sky, their faces full of disbelief.
After pausing for a second, Temari shouted, "Go catch Gaara! Even if he's dead, we must bring his body back to the Sunagakure!"
Kankuro pushed aside his grief and controlled Crow to rush toward where Gaara's body was falling.
In terms of speed, Temari was still faster.
Riding her iron fan, she caught Gaara in midair.
"Gaara, he..." Kankuro, a step slower, jumped onto Temari's fan and asked.
Temari shook her head.
His heart was pierced—there was no saving him!
They never imagined that in this war, even someone as strong as Gaara could die!
"What should we do?" Kankuro asked again.
Temari glanced at Naruto in the distance.
That boy, strong like a monster, didn't seem interested in killing them—he just turned and left.
"Back to the Sunagakure!"
By now, the battle between the Leaf and Sand might still be going on, but there was no point for them to stay here.
And with that boy around, the Sand and Sound were destined to lose!
After dealing with Shukaku, Naruto sent the coin toad back to Mount Myoboku, then walked over to Sasuke.
"Can you walk?" Naruto asked.
"Yeah." Sasuke nodded.
His neck still hurt faintly, but he no longer felt like he was about to lose control.
"Then let's go."
Naruto turned to head back, with Sasuke following behind at a steady pace.
Before long, they met Sakura, Shikamaru, and the others, who were waiting for the war to end.
"Naruto! Sasuke!!"
Seeing them return safely, Sakura was overjoyed.
"What just happened? I think I saw two huge scary monsters fighting!" Ino asked.
They weren't too far from the battlefield, so the noise from Shukaku and the coin toad had reached them.
But because Naruto was small, they had only seen a huge golden light and not Naruto himself.
"That big tanuki was Gaara, and the big toad was my summoning beast," Naruto explained.
"He turned into a tanuki? Was that a Transformation Jutsu?"
"That summoning beast... is it like the ones Kakashi-sensei summons? Why is it so big?"
"I think I saw that big toad take out a huge gold coin?"
Everyone was surprised to hear about the summoning beast, except Shikamaru, who seemed to be thinking deeply.
Just how much power was Naruto still hiding?
"It wasn't a Transformation Jutsu. Gaara had a tailed beast inside him. As for the size of my summoning beast... maybe it's just because of where it comes from," Naruto added.
"A tailed beast?"
As ninjas of this generation, they had never seen a tailed beast, though they had heard the story of the Nine-Tails attacking the village twelve years ago.
"Is it the same as... the Nine-Tails?" Ino asked nervously.
"Pretty much."
"Then... what about Gaara?"
"He's dead."
"Dead?!"
"That monster like the Nine-Tails… you killed it? Really?"
Even Shikamaru couldn't hide his surprise this time. Naruto actually killed that kind of monster?
Was Naruto even human?
That was the same kind of monster that killed the Fourth Hokage!
Could it be that Naruto's strength had already surpassed the Hokage's?
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