Chapter 208: Taikyoku Rasengan
Masahiko used his camera to take 360-degree shots from every angle of the Anrokuzan-version Sasori as the battle grew increasingly intense.
No wonder Anrokuzan was determined to destroy the Five Great Nations. The high-speed regeneration obtained after connecting with the Dragon Vein was almost like Madara with Six Paths powers... though this comparison might anger Madara enough to bring him back to life.
"Mukade! Where did you take Sara?!" Naruto's shout rang out, causing Masahiko's face to darken slightly.
He wasn't worried about the safety of that "cheap daughter" of his. As the heroine of this movie instance, nothing would happen to her. He was just...
"Mukade (Centipede)? Isn't that a centipede? Did I take those photos for nothing?"
"Naruto, it shouldn't be Anrokuzan. That seemed to be the work of some Space-Time Ninjutsu just now." Minato dodged a scorpion tail... or rather, a centipede tail attack, and responded to Naruto. He had just sensed a fluctuation in space-time.
"Space-Time Ninjutsu?" Masahiko paused in the distance. "So it was the future me?"
Pondering for a moment, Masahiko's expression suddenly turned strange. "Could she really be my daughter? Conceived after I traveled to the past?"
The shift in the battle interrupted Masahiko's wild thoughts. Facing Anrokuzan, who could regenerate infinitely, Minato asked the others to stall him while he went to seal the Dragon Vein and cut off Anrokuzan's energy source.
Naruto indicated... he would follow his dad.
With two combatants leaving, Choza and Shibi turned ferocious.
Overwhelming swarms of insects enveloped Anrokuzan, constantly absorbing his chakra. Shibi even gave this move a resounding name: Insect Sphere... a fitting name.
Seizing this opportunity, Choza swallowed a pill. My fate is up to me, not the heavens... My body size is up to me, not the heavens.
Using the Super Multi-Size Technique, he transformed into a giant... giant fatty, twenty to thirty meters tall, and slapped Anrokuzan directly with his massive palm.
"Has the feud between the Akimichi and Aburame clans from the Warring States Period continued until now?" The corners of Masahiko's mouth twitched. He wondered how many insects that slap had just squashed.
Anrokuzan was sent flying, crashing through half a wall, and remained motionless for a moment.
Meanwhile, the genius boy Kakashi was desperately hacking at puppets when he realized the puppets suddenly stopped.
"Is it over?" Just as Kakashi breathed a sigh of relief, he found the puppets trembling and moving again.
As for Anrokuzan, who had been playing dead for a while, a visible blue light of chakra erupted from his body, sending insect corpses flying everywhere...
"The Dragon Vein really is good stuff. This weakling's chakra volume is almost a third of mine." Masahiko frowned, becoming even more determined to have close contact with the Dragon Vein. And seeing his future self protecting Sara, maybe... going back to the past could end his bachelorhood?
While Masahiko was daydreaming, the situation of the battle had reversed.
The boss Anrokuzan, powered up again, was now suppressing Choza and Shibi. Without protagonist halos or villain boss halos, the two obviously lacked the ability to turn the tables.
Kakashi was also in danger. After all, he was only eight and a half years old and had no good strategy against the sea-of-puppets tactic.
At the critical moment, Minato appeared in front of Choza and Shibi, saving the two with a Rasengan. Similarly, Naruto appeared in front of Kakashi, saving him with an identical sphere.
Naruto was beaming with joy. Saving Kakashi-sensei's life in the past gave him a massive sense of accomplishment.
"Why are you back? Did you cut off his energy supply?" Choza asked urgently.
"The room door was destroyed. There were countless puppets outside, so we couldn't get in," Minato replied.
The expressions of the two changed, but then they felt a massive chakra fluctuation coming from Naruto.
"Oh? He even knows that move?"
Two Nine-Tails chakra arms extended from behind Naruto, condensing a black jade-colored Rasengan in front of him.
"A Rasengan mixed with Yin-Yang Release? That's old news to me." Masahiko smiled as he looked at Anrokuzan, who had been half-shattered by the blow.
However, the power of the Black Jade Rasengan was evidently insufficient, and the opponent quickly regenerated to his original state.
"Naruto, use a normal Rasengan!" Minato shouted.
Although Naruto didn't know the reason, he was a good child who listened to his dad.
He condensed a Rasengan. At the same time, Minato used the Body Flicker Technique to arrive beside him, condensing an identical Rasengan in his right hand.
"When Rasengans with similar attributes touch, they produce even greater power."
Masahiko watched dumbfounded as the two Rasengans merged, turning into an unstable ellipsoidal Rasengan that emitted terrifying energy fluctuations.
"Taikyoku Rasengan (Supreme Ultimate Rasengan)!" Minato and Naruto shouted in unison, signaling the glorious exit of this movie instance's boss.
"The issue isn't whether he exits or not... This Taikyoku Rasengan has almost the power of my Sage Art: Rasenshuriken. That's a bit ridiculous..."
Masahiko held a Rasengan in his left hand and a Rasengan in his right hand. He merged them, but they vanished instantly into nothingness.
"Why can't I do it?"
"It won't work if the attributes are completely identical; they must be similar." Future Masahiko's voice echoed in Masahiko's ear again.
Masahiko looked left and right but didn't find him. He was probably still hiding in some dimension.
"I'm so envious of Space-Time Ninjutsu. When exactly do I learn it..." Masahiko smiled bitterly. He felt his future self had a really terrible personality.
On the other side, after Anrokuzan was dealt with, all the puppets stopped functioning. Minato, Naruto, and the others headed towards the Dragon Vein.
After clearing the blocked doorway, Minato proceeded to seal it.
"As expected, he's using the Flying Thunder God Technique to seal it?" Masahiko watched as Minato inserted a special Flying Thunder God kunai into the "Dragon Eye," then used the Eight Trigrams Seal, preventing the Dragon Vein's energy from leaking out any longer.
With the sealing complete, Masahiko breathed a slight sigh of relief. Now there shouldn't be any difference from the original story. He wanted to try the feeling of time travel.
"Is it enough to just guide the sealing formula and the Dragon Vein into the body together?" Masahiko muttered, noticing Naruto's body emitting a faint white light.
"Is he going back?" Masahiko smiled as he watched Naruto say goodbye to Minato and the others in various awkward ways.
"Minato probably figured out you're his son ages ago; what are you hiding for?... But this is good too. At least it proves Minato didn't meet with any accidents and lived until Konoha Year 63," Masahiko thought to himself.
At the moment Naruto was about to return, Masahiko popped his head out slightly and waved to Naruto.
Naruto froze for a moment, then revealed a brilliant smile.
"It seems he knows me too..." Watching Naruto disappear, Masahiko breathed a sigh of relief. He was also worried about "accidents" happening to himself, after all, his future self felt a bit off.
"By the way, why did the future me leave without saying a word? Didn't even say goodbye?"
"If he's gone, he's gone. But here comes the question: where did that cheap daughter of mine go..."
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