"Your eyes!" Orochimaru's expression changed greatly, and his screams immediately shifted the attention of the people around to Ryoha's magical eyes.
"What is there to be surprised about? All I did was evolve my Mangekyo further. There won't be any side effects, and there won't be any blind spots. Remember, this pair of eyes is called the Sharingan of the End: the ultimate Sharingan to end all the Sharingan." Ryoha gave a vague look to Kurenai, who nodded knowingly.
"Wait a minute." Naruto, who had been silent all this while, suddenly looked up at Ryoha and said loudly.
"I will definitely defeat you. With my own strength, losing Kyubi is nothing to me. I found that my control over my chakra has become very strong, and it is also a good thing for me. I will not rely on the Kyubi. Remember, Ryoha. I will definitely use my own strength to defeat you." Naruto said firmly.
"If you have the ability, then let's talk about it." Ryoha looked at Naruto with a bit of amusement. It seemed that for Naruto and Gaara, losing a tailed beast was not a big deal. On the contrary, it gave a lot of benefits for them. Because of the Kyubi, Naruto was unable to control his chakra properly.
At the same time, his already massive chakra became more powerful thanks to the Kyubi. Now that the Kyubi was gone, his chakra control will no longer be affected.
For many years, he had been training to control his chakra properly. Now, his chakra control suddenly became very delicate. Although it was not comparable to Sakura, it was definitely much better than Sasuke. His innate talent inherited from the Fourth Hokage had finally begun to appear due to the departure of the Kyubi.
Without the Kyubi, although he had lost the advantage of being a jinchuuriki, he had awakened his innate talent that had been buried.
From now on, Naruto would be a completely new ninja, not Kyubi's jinchuuriki. He was the son of the Fourth Hokage, Uzumaki Naruto, and not the jinchuuriki. He would inherit everything from his father, but the final step would depend on his own fate and destiny.
"I will definitely have it. I will go straight ahead, and keep my word. This is my persistence, I will carry it out to the end." Naruto said.
"Well, since you are so serious, then I will wait for you to come and challenge me. I hope that you will not be so weak next time. I also hope that you will not die in my hands in the end."
Ryoha looked at Naruto and found that, at this time, he finally had a trace of the aura of a strong person, and the heart of a strong person was officially formed inside his body. After losing the Kyubi, his strength might soar again, and he would be like Gaara.
"Ryoha, are you interested in coming to my place to be a guest?" Orochimaru looked at Ryoha's eyes with fiery eyes. That pair of eyes exerted a great pressure, making anyone who saw them cower in fear, There was no doubt in Orochimaru's eyes. He had a clear goal: obtaining Ryoha's body.
Every time he saw Ryoha, the more he felt that Sasuke was too ordinary, but he still wanted Sasuke's body to make up for his own defects.
If he could repair the damage to his soul, he wouldn't care whether he had the Sharingan. After all, if not for because of the defects of his soul, there was no way a Tsukuyomi-level genjutsu could hurt him.
If Orochimaru's resistance to genjutsu was really weak, he would have died in the Second War since the other villages did have their own genjutsu masters. If that was really the case, his position wouldn't be so high in Konoha. He only suffered too much damage to his soul because he had undergone many reincarnations, so his spiritual energy had been compromised.
One must know that he was an all-rounder ninja. Whether it was genjutsu, taijutsu, or ninjutsu, he was proficient in all kinds of things. His strength had not improved for so many years because of the damage to his soul and his previous obsession with the Sharingan. Otherwise, no one knew how strong he was.
"You won't dig a hole and wait for me to jump into it, right? But if you are willing to dig, I don't mind jumping. That's good. If you have nothing to do, I can hang out at your place." Ryoha said with a forced smile, but he did not refuse. It could be considered that he welcomed Orohimaru's invitation.
"Hahaha, you really know how to joke." Orochimaru said with a smile. Then he took the lead to the nearby base. Yamato and the others did not dare to stop him. Everything that happened today was completely beyond Yamato's expectations.
He could foresee how furious Jiraiya would be after he told him about this. He thought that the mission would be foolproof, but no one knew that it was because of this incident that Konoha's higher-ups had sped up their plans regarding Ryoha. This was a blessing in disguise.
Ryoha and Orochimaru quickly left the sea of trees. However, they were blocked by a figure halfway. Orochimaru was shocked, but Ryoha acted as if nothing had happened. Obviously, he knew that this was the case.
"Kurenai!" Orochimaru looked at the woman in front of him in surprise. Was there something wrong with this woman's brain? She actually dared to chase after him.
"Sensei!" Ryoha chuckled. Orochimaru immediately understood. It turned out that Kurenai was on the same side as Ryoha.
"What about them?" Ryoha was obviously referring to Yamato and his group.
"I put a genjutsu on their vision and made them think that I was always by their side." Kurenai said casually as if she was talking about something that could be done effortlessly.
"What?" Orochimaru was shocked. He knew what level Kurenai was at, so how could she let Yamato and Naruto fall into the illusion without alerting them?
"Are you surprised?" Kurenai's eyes changed. Her deep and blurred expression disappeared, replaced by an unprecedented fierceness. Her body released a dark red light like a flame, and a terrifying aura spread from her body.
The ground under her feet began to crack, and the air exploded with a thunderous sound. Suddenly, a huge crater appeared under her feet. Kurenai was actually able to do this in a flash. She was not releasing the slightest bit of chakra, just pure impetus.
"This momentum is not something that can be exerted by a Jonin. This is..." Orochimaru suddenly seemed to think of something that made the air become abstract.
Airwaves began to surge out as if the atmosphere in a radius of a hundred meters had been emptied into a vacuum. This kind of phenomenon was too familiar, but it had been a long time since he last saw her, and he had not expected that she would be able to do all of this. Now that he thought about it, he was shocked again. What day was it today? How could he be shocked repeatedly?