"It hurts! Aren't you done yet?! Hurry up, you guys in front!"
Harsh urging, mixed with groans of pain, echoed through the corridors of the Hidden Grass Village hospital. The air was thick with the smell of blood and disinfectant.
"Hurry up! There are still a lot of wounded behind you!"
A Grass ninja impatiently pushed the person in front of him, his eyes showing no mercy, only urgency. They scrambled to get to the "medical tool" that could heal them in an instant.
"Damn it! Doesn't this woman have a daughter too? Why not bring her over as well?!"
Someone cursed under their breath, their tone full of greed. After all, one more "tool" meant faster healing and less waiting time.
Ever since the Hidden Grass Village had obtained this mother and daughter, the ninja had become more reckless on their missions. Who needs to be careful when you can be healed instantly if you get hurt?
"Ugh...!"
Inside the room, Misaki Uzumaki bit her lip hard, but she still couldn't suppress a whimper of pain. Her arm was covered in fresh bite marks. Some wounds hadn't even fully healed before they were torn open again.
Is this the price?
She had once thought that as long as she could give her daughter a safe environment to grow up in, she wouldn't mind paying any price. But she had never expected that the "protection" of the Hidden Grass Village would be such a cruel form of exploitation.
She didn't dare let her daughter see her like this. After every "healing session," she would force herself to wipe away the blood, fix her clothes, and then go home with a gentle smile on her face.
But could she really hide it? In this ninja world where everyone matured early, Karin was a smart child.
Misaki Uzumaki didn't know, but even so, what could she do? Resist? Run away?
Under the surveillance of the Hidden Grass Village, they had no way to escape. And even if they did, where would they go? Back to a life on the run?
Someone... save me...
In the countless moments of being bitten, Misaki Uzumaki had long grown accustomed to crying out for help silently in her heart. But who was she praying to?
The gods? They had long abandoned them.
Comrades? The members of the Land of Whirlpools clan were almost all dead.
She didn't know. She just instinctively, desperately, clung to the last shred of illusory hope in the darkness as her life force was continuously drained.
But—
BOOM—!!!
A sudden explosion shattered the silence of the hospital. The entire building shook violently. The Grass ninja who had been about to bite down suddenly looked up, his eyes filled with terror.
An enemy attack?!
But this place was full of wounded; they couldn't provide any support. The Chunin in charge of the Grass Village reacted quickly, shouting sharply.
"Everyone! Evacuate to the shelter immediately! We'll continue the treatment after it's safe!"
He turned and glared at the trembling Misaki Uzumaki, snapping impatiently, "Hey! You, don't just stand there! Keep up! Your work isn't finished yet!"
Misaki shakily pushed herself up, while the wounded had already begun to frantically cover their wounds, preparing to evacuate.
Bang!
The door was thrown open, and a Grass ninja roughly dragged a little girl inside.
"...Karin?!"
Misaki's heart almost stopped when she saw the little girl. Why... why did they bring Karin here?! The agreement was that she alone would be the "medical pack." The Hidden Grass Village had promised not to touch her daughter!
"Mommy!!!"
Karin's cry rang out. She had finally seen the truth on her mother's body—those dense, overlapping bite marks, new and old, like the remains of a wild animal's feast.
However, the Grass ninja who brought her had no time to deal with the mother and daughter's emotions. He just roared, his face pale.
"Quick! Bring that woman over here!"
His voice was filled with an unprecedented fear.
"That guy is here! If we delay any longer, the entire Hidden Grass Village will be wiped out!"
A few minutes earlier.
At the main gate of the Hidden Grass Village—the one standing here now was not "Naruto."
The fluctuation of chakra distorted the light, and the boy's figure gradually grew taller under the Transformation Jutsu. When the final fox mask covered his face, the existence that had the entire ninja world trembling in fear had descended.
"Menma."
Without a word, he slowly raised his arm. Dark chakra gathered in his palm, collapsed, and finally formed an ominous sphere—
"Spiraling Ring."
A destructive radiance suddenly bloomed.
BOOM—!!!
In the deafening roar, the gate of the Hidden Grass Village and the surrounding walls were instantly turned to dust. The violent shockwave sent rubble and dust high into the air, which was then torn apart by the distorted gravitational field in the next second.
Because he didn't have the Nine-Tails' chakra, this blow was far from the world-shaking one that had intimidated the Raikage, but it was enough to make the entire Hidden Grass Village tremble.
Aside from not having the Nine Masked Beasts, even without the trial card, Naruto's basic strength was a low-tier version of Menma.
The smoke slowly cleared, and the figure in the fox mask stepped through the ruins. By now, the Grass ninja who had rushed to the scene had gathered, but none of them dared to step forward.
The hands holding their kunai were trembling, and cold sweat beaded on their foreheads. They were frozen in place like prey facing a predator.
A fox mask.
Seeing this feature, the leading Jonin's pupils contracted. He could hardly believe his eyes.
This feature was like a sledgehammer slamming into his nerves. The terrifying rumors circulating among the nations instantly flooded his mind.
The calamity that tore the world apart, the nightmare that surpassed all ninja—the master of the [JIN] organization, the darkest ruler of the ninja world.
In the name of a false peace, he turned suffering into a plague, sweeping across every inch of the land. All who saw his true face became ghosts; all who heard his name fell into despair.
Under his command were the [Nine Masked Beasts]—monsters that no human could stand against. They were the personification of natural disasters, the embodiment of destruction.
Fear was their food, slaughter their feast.
Where the Nine Masked Beasts went, life was extinguished, civilizations crumbled. Where [JIN] passed, all was annihilated, leaving only ashes.
Fierce karma fires burned the ruins. Even the wails had no time to fade before they were swallowed by the raging flames.
His minions lurked in the shadows, whispering his will—by the time you noticed, death had already seized your throat.
He hunted the "Kage" and took nations as sacrifices.
Beneath the fox mask was an unfathomable abyss. Just by invoking his name, an entire nation would fall into eternal night, becoming a silent graveyard.
Now, he lies dormant in the cracks of the world, like a venomous snake waiting for the bell of the end to toll.
When the final shackles break, all things will return to nothingness in his hands.
His name is—[Menma].
(The above content is complete and utter nonsense spread by the Hidden Cloud Village.)
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