On the river, Sasuke, with his agile figure, dragged around two hundred Naruto's clones running wildly on the surface of the river. He threw his kunai like the heavenly maiden scattering flowers, continuously shooting and bursting the Naruto's clones behind him!
"Damn it!"
"Sasuke, besides hiding behind Sakura, do you only know how to run?"
"If you have the guts, have a real battle with me, you coward!"
"Do you think you can defeat me with this method?"
"My Kanpū-sensei despises people like you the most!"
While chasing, Naruto's clones kept trash-talking, and the ones who cursed the most were targeted by Sasuke and shot down with kunai.
"Fool! No matter what means you use, as long as you achieve the final goal, it's victory. That's the true essence of a Shinobi!"
"You're still too naive, idiot Naruto!"
The swift Sasuke smirked arrogantly, then reached down to grab something, but his smile froze instantly: "Oh no, I ran out of kunai again!'
Sasuke continued to lead the battle nonchalantly, while glancing at the several people on the shore who were watching the battle.
'Sakura and Karin's Ninja Bags have been used by me. Brother won't intervene, so that leaves only…'
'Hinata!'
Hinata clasped her hands on her chest, her Byakugan eyes fixed tightly on the… hundreds of people fighting, until she noticed Sasuke's fiery gaze.
"Hinata, give me your Ninja Bag!" Sasuke shouted wildly.
"Y-yes!" Hinata, subconsciously obedient, responded softly.
"Hinata, don't give it to him!"
"You don't even like that guy, why are you helping him!"
"Hinata, only you can't help Sasuke!"
Naruto's clones shouted angrily, and even dozens of them rushed over to surround Hinata, fearing she might do something foolish out of misplaced kindness.
From afar, Sasuke saw that and felt fired up!
He really wanted to rush to Hinata's side now, but Naruto's clones were tightly chasing him like dogs seeing a bone, and dozens of the clones are aware of his intentions, so they kept him and Hinata's line of sight far apart.
At this moment, Sasuke also felt his Chakra was faintly exhausted, as if it's unable to sustain the expenditure of his Sharingan any longer.
So the question arose: 'Why is my Chakra so inefficient, while that idiot Naruto can possess such a vast amount of Chakra?'
'Damn it!!'
Sasuke's heart felt so unbalanced!
But seeing Naruto's clones getting closer and closer, Sasuke quickly suppressed his negative emotions, his face swiftly returning to its usual proud, cold, disdainful expression, and the merciless look of 'you owe me three million dollars forever'.
"Enough!"
Sasuke halted his steps, abruptly standing still on the surface of the river. He slowly turned around, the 2-Tomoe Sharingan exuded red light, staring straight at the army of Naruto clones. Then, he pretended to be imposing, "Naruto, today I…"
"Don't act tough, Sasuke, you're done for!"
"Get him!"
"Beat him!"
"Awooo!!!"
The clones rushed forward, swarming Sasuke and beating him into the water in an instant, making him gulp down river water.
"Sasuke-kun~~" Sakura and Karin were heartbroken upon seeing this.
"Sure enough, Naruto is the strongest in our class!" Hinata's eyes sparkled as she looked at Naruto.
Meanwhile, Itachi is staring at Naruto's Shadow Clones, murmuring in his heart: 'Although Naruto has Uzumaki Clan's bloodline, isn't his Chakra too exaggerated?
Karin is also Uzumaki Clan's member, and judging from her hair color, her bloodline is even richer than Naruto's, yet she doesn't have as much chakra as Naruto.'
'Could there be something abnormal within him?'
Itachi closed his eyes and opened them again, and his dark eyes instantly turned into the scarlet Sharingan.
At this moment, Naruto had already dispersed all his clones. With one hand in his pocket and the other dragging the bruised and swollen Sasuke, he proudly walked step by step on the surface of the river, as if a king had descended!
"I won!" Naruto started showing off, "Sakura, this is the person you like. He's truly not worth mentioning!"
'Sakura, quickly change your affection, Sasuke is not worthy of your liking!'
There is another voice crying in Naruto's heart, as well as... another person!
After integrating his spiritual will into his pupil power, Itachi arrived at the depths of the seal inside Naruto's body silently.
'Where is this?'
Itachi looked at the shallow water under his feet, as well as the huge building like a waterway around him, with a puzzled expression.
'How could there be such a thing inside Naruto's body?'
'Could it be… seal world?'
A thought flashed through Itachi's mind, and he hurriedly sped up his walking speed, and in a short while, he arrived in front of a huge iron cage.
He looked up and vaguely saw a huge shadow in the depths of the iron cage.
'So that's how it is, Naruto is actually a Jinchuriki!' Itachi's eyes revealed a sense of admiration, respecting Minato Namikaze's 'sacrifice'.
Although becoming a Jinchuriki allows one to use the power of a Biju, it is also very risky. For example, if the Biju goes berserk, it will seriously threaten the Jinchuriki's safety. Moreover, if the Biju is extracted, the Jinchuriki will die directly, and no Medical Ninjutsu can save them!
The most important thing is that, once the Jinchuriki's identity is exposed, they are very likely to be assassinated by the hostile Shinobi Villages… Itachi thought of the Hachibi's Jinchuriki, Killer B, whose whereabouts and life or death are still unknown to this day.
He shook his head slightly. If it were him, he would never let Sasuke become a Jinchuriki.
"Sharingan, Uchiha Madara's descendants again!!!" The giant shadow in the iron cage swayed slowly, revealing a small orange figure.
"Excuse me." Itachi nodded slightly, then turned and left.
"Wait a minute!!"
Kurama became anxious, and angrily said, "Little brat, what do you think this place is? You think you can come and go as you please?!"
Itachi frowned slightly, realizing that his discovery of Naruto's status as a Jinchuriki inadvertently increased the risk of Naruto's exposure.
'Well, I'll apologize to Yondaime-sama later.'
Thinking about this, his spiritual will quickly retreated from the seal world.
"Bastard!"
Kurama pounded angrily on the iron cage. He failed to entice Naruto every time. It was difficult enough for him to come across someone, and now they were leaving before he could influence them properly. At this rate, it would take him forever to break free!
"Roar!!"
Kurama roared up to the sky angrily.
'What's that darn fox shouting about?'
Naruto heard Kurama's roar with a disgusted expression, then even more disdainfully dropped the beaten Sasuke on the ground.
"Naruto, you're too much!"
"It's just an ordinary spar, do you really need to use so many clones? How despicable!"
Sakura and Karin lifted Sasuke from the ground with distressed expression, then occasionally glared at Naruto with disdainful eyes.
Naruto felt frustrated at this, 'Although I haven't reached the pinnacle of the Shinobi World, I've at least defeated Sasuke. Why hasn't Sakura's gaze toward me changed at all?'
'Could it be that Kanpū-sensei is deceiving me?'