Chapter 248 - 247: Karin vs. Naruto

Chapter 248: Chapter 247: Karin vs. Naruto

The air was filled with the scorching scent of dust and flames.

Uzumaki Naruto panted heavily, red steam from the Nine-Tailed Chakra swirling around him, his scratched headband glimmering in the dim light.

Opposite him, the tall Karin was covered in wounds, yet she kept biting herself to heal. Her crimson hair fluttered without a breeze, and in her amber eyes—which also belonged to the Uzumaki Clan—there was not a hint of fear, only a near-fanatical fighting spirit.

"Hey, Naruto! Stop this! Sister would certainly not want you to be like this!"

Karin licked her lips and spat out a mouthful of clotted blood.

"Karin, I don’t want to kill you."

"I’m talking to you nicely, what’s with that attitude? You don’t want to kill me? Can you even kill me?!"

Before the words faded, Karin’s figure suddenly vanished. She didn’t weave hand signs, but instead utilized the massive Chakra burst unique to the Uzumaki Clan, instantly closing the distance with Naruto at a speed difficult for the naked eye to track.

Her speed was even more bizarre than Body Flicker Technique, striking straight toward Naruto’s face with a sharp, wind-breaking whistle.

"Hah!"

Karin raised her right leg, Chakra highly concentrated at her ankle, turning into a blinding purplish-red light as she slashed fiercely toward Naruto. Naruto’s eyes narrowed, and he crossed his arms to protect himself.

"Bang!"

The violent impact shook the surrounding rubble into the air. Naruto felt a sharp pain in his arms, as if he had been struck by a heavy hammer, and his entire body involuntarily slid backward for over ten meters, carving two deep furrows into the rock beneath his feet.

If not for his Nine-Tailed Chakra defense, he would likely be heavily injured and unable to stand by now.

"What?" Naruto was startled. "This super strength... it shouldn’t be inferior to Granny Tsunade, right?"

"You dodged pretty fast." Karin landed on a piece of broken wall, the stone beneath her feet instantly crumbling. "But this is just the beginning!"

Karin slammed her hands onto the ground, and purple Chakra poured into the earth like a tide.

"Kagura Shingan: Sensory Barrier!"

In an instant, with Karin at the center, all Chakra flow within a radius of several kilometers was under her control. Naruto discovered with horror that no matter how he moved, Karin’s gaze remained locked onto him, as if every one of his cells had been seen through.

"Within this range, your movements are just slow motion to me." Karin sneered, her figure shooting out once again.

This time, she no longer relied solely on speed, but used "perception" to predict Naruto’s evasion route. The moment Naruto was about to dodge sideways, Karin’s elbow, carrying a whistling wind, struck his ribs.

Even with advance defense, Naruto was sent flying several meters away, several of his arm and rib bones broken. Before he could steady himself, she followed up, striking at Naruto again with a powerful fist.

Seeing that there was no way to avoid it, Naruto decided to counterattack. Blue and red Chakra mixed and swirled, and a scarlet Rasengan spun in his palm, gradually manifesting sharp blades.

Attack instead of defend!

"Wind Release: Tailed Beast Rasenshuriken!"

The Ninjutsu, interwoven with blue and red and carrying a destructive aura, gathered in his palm like a rotating black hole, aimed at Karin who had just rushed out from the smoke and dust.

Karin’s pupils constricted; she sensed the terrifying destructive power contained within this move. She gritted her teeth, pressed her hands together in front of her chest, and a blinding red light erupted from her entire body.

"Adamantine Sealing Chains!"

Thick red Chakra chains extended from Karin’s back, dancing wildly in the air like octopus tentacles. The chains intertwined and wrapped around her fist, turning into a massive fist made of chains.

Zzzzz—

The rotating cutting force of the Rasenshuriken and the binding force of the Adamantine Sealing Chains collided violently. The red chains groaned under the strain, and cracks began to appear on their surface, but Karin gritted her teeth, pouring Chakra into the chains continuously.

"Block... it back!!"

Karin roared, an astonishing wave of Chakra erupting from her body, and she actually managed to forcibly deflect the trajectory of the Rasenshuriken upward. The shuriken was knocked out of control; the massive Ninjutsu grazed Karin’s shoulder and flew past, blasting behind her. Even though its power was greatly reduced, it still blasted a crater ten meters in diameter.

The smoke cleared, and both of them looked somewhat disheveled. Karin’s clothes were torn in several places, a trace of blood spilling from the corner of her mouth, but her eyes remained sharp as a blade. Naruto was also panting; the Rasenshuriken, which injured the enemy by a thousand while damaging himself by eight hundred, had caused him no small amount of harm even after he lost control of it.

"Hey, Naruto." Karin wiped the blood from the corner of her mouth and revealed a provocative smile. "If this is all you’ve got, you won’t be able to defeat the Mizukage, let alone the Hokage."

Naruto took a deep breath, and the Nine-Tailed Chakra boiled up again. His eyes became chaotic like never before, and even from a distance, one could feel the feelings of hatred and loathing on him.

"Karin, your power is indeed very strong..." Naruto took a fighting stance. "But I also have a reason why I must take revenge!"

The two rushed toward each other again, red Chakra and Chakra colliding above the ruins, erupting with light even more dazzling than before. Both Uzumaki clansmen possessed tenacious vitality and massive Chakra, making it difficult to determine a winner for the time being.

Naruto possessed the Nine-Tailed Chakra, while Karin possessed a special constitution, in addition to sealing techniques and genjutsu that could suppress the Nine-Tailed Chakra.

This wasn’t their first time fighting; ever since Naruto found Kano’s severed limb first, Karin had started trying to stop Naruto from going on a rampage.

Karin had been competing to seize Kano’s remains and searching for the murderer who killed Kano. Meanwhile, Naruto had already decided that the Hidden Mist Village was the culprit—though, whether it was or not didn’t matter anymore. He not only intended to destroy the Hidden Mist Village but also planned to smash the Land of Water, the Land of Lightning, the Land of Earth... and finally, kill that incompetent Hokage too!

To prevent Naruto’s rampage, Karin would come to stop him every time, beating him into a serious injury and then sealing him. When Naruto broke through the seal, Karin would come to find him again to stop him from attacking innocent people.

Karin had long known that Sister was dead, but every time she returned to the Nara Clan, she would feel guilty and pretend she had clues, telling lies about how she would soon bring Sister back to comfort her family.

Naruto and Karin had traded wins and losses. Several times, Karin had been beaten into serious injury, and it was purely because Naruto couldn’t bear to kill her that she survived. After that, Naruto would go around committing crimes, especially in the Land of Water.

After Naruto was defeated, he would find a place to recuperate, and once recovered, he would change locations and fight again. He would absolutely not let go of the enemy who killed Kano-chan, and for this, he kept getting stronger. In his battles with Karin, he gradually learned how to extract the Nine-Tailed Chakra and use it for himself.

Now, he could control the Nine-Tailed power very well. As long as he won this time, he would have the chance to destroy the Hidden Mist Village!

Both of them took a deep breath, and their Chakra erupted once again.

"Aaaaaahhhhhh!!!!! Naruto!"

"Aaaaaahhhhhh!!!!! Karin!"

One with chains wrapped around their hands, the other clenching their teeth while rolling a crimson sphere, both of them clearly intended to decide the outcome with this one strike!

Just when they were less than a meter apart, a black-haired loli descended from the sky, brandishing a huge conch Hunting Horn and smashing it between the two.

"You two idiots, stop it!"

The powerful attacks slammed into the indestructible shell of the Hunting Horn, erupting with a huge sound, yet the conch in the center remained completely unscathed.

Both of them looked up simultaneously and saw the person they had been dreaming of, forgetting for a moment that they were still fighting, and stood there in a daze. Then, a tender little fist magnified in their eyes, and each of them received a fist of love.

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