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"Dialogue"
'Thoughts'
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Chapter 292: Moving Like a Lightning Bolt
"M-Millions?!" Kabuto muttered with shock.
Some quick mental math revealed to him that a single minute of practice for Naruto would be equivalent to two years' worth of feedback. That was an insane amount of information for anyone to process.
But if he was actually able to do that, progressing so fast would not be out of the question.
"Wait… the pressure is disappearing." Roshi felt like a massive weight had been lifted from his shoulders.
"I can finally move…" Manda grumbled.
"Let's not waste this opportunity… it may be the only shot we have," Kabuto said.
"I'm coming to help, brother!" Killer B unsheathed his own sword and coated it with lightning. "Lightning Release… Thunder Sword!"
"So the effect has passed." Naruto shrugged. "No matter… it is time to wrap this up." His body became covered in his golden chakra, but instead of merely coating the surface, the energy was now crackling like lightning bolts.
"Is that my jutsu?... No, it feels different," the Raikage said under his breath before turning his eyes to his brother. "Wait! Don't get close to him!" He had a terrible feeling about this.
Everyone had turned to the offensive, but Killer B was the first one to reach Naruto.
His lightning blade was aimed at Naruto's vitals.
"I hope you don't mind, but I had time to make some improvements," Naruto said before his image became blurred.
The blade phased through him like it just hit an afterimage.
'Be careful!' the Gyūki shouted inside his mind. The bijū's chakra spiked, forming a thick coat in an attempt to protect its host.
Killer B had barely any time to react before he felt hundreds of punches impacting his body from all directions.
Naruto was moving so fast that he could only see a blur as he attacked him. This was far beyond what his brother's "Lightning Armor" could accomplish.
In an instant, dozens of his bones were broken and his internal organs were destroyed.
"Urgh!" He then received a powerful hit on his jaw that sent him flying straight up, just before his brother could reach him.
"No!" the Raikage screamed and tried to jump after him.
But Naruto got there first. He flew at full speed and grasped Killer B by the neck.
The man was so broken that he could no longer resist.
"Let's start with you. Cosmic Assimilation… absorb!"
Killer B let out a blood-curdling scream as the Eight-Tailed Beast was forcefully dragged out of his body.
A massive tree appeared beneath Naruto and extended its branches to trap him inside. At the same time, a large sphere of water appeared above him.
'The mindless puppets are getting annoying. I should deal with them next.' Naruto teleported away just as a barrage of water bullets barreled into the wooden structure.
"B!" the Raikage screamed with desperation.
Naruto got away, but his brother was left defenseless up there, with his broken body.
While the Raikage was trying to rescue what was left of his family member, Naruto moved to his next target.
The Hokages were in front of him, but the giant Snake Lord towered behind his back.
"I can summon too." Naruto's Rinnegan shone with an eerie golden light, and two creatures emerged into existence to protect him from Manda.
"What is this?" Neither the Snake Lord nor Kabuto had ever seen these creatures before. But one thing he was sure of, these were not members of the Toad Clan.
"Flying serpents? What kind of mockery is this?" Manda spat the words, feeling that Naruto's creation was an aberration toward his species.
Naruto scoffed at the comment. "You're lucky those aren't real. Dragons don't take kindly to being compared with snakes."
Kabuto opened his eyes in shock. "Those are dragons?"
The Rinnegan's ability allowed Naruto to form any creature that he could imagine and bring it into existence. So he brought forth a couple of dragons, as they existed in his old world.
These dragons were able to fly without wings and had tiny legs compared to the rest of their bodies.
Because of this, some people would call them flying serpents. But no one with a bit of sense would ever say that to one of these creatures' faces, as that would only enrage them.
The two black dragons flew toward Manda. One of them was breathing fire while the other one had a breath of ice.
Kabuto and Manda began fighting the two legendary creations while Naruto turned around, not caring about the outcome. He was merely using that as a short distraction.
The two mindless puppets of the Hokages continued their assault, but Naruto could tell that their chakra was running low.
The Jutsu they used had become progressively less grandiose and more conservative when it came to chakra use.
He understood this resurrection technique well enough. Even if Kabuto had made some improvements upon it, the amount of chakra that the puppets could make use of was always going to be much lower than that of the original people they were supposed to imitate.
And since the puppets didn't even have their own ability to think freely, they could not manage their chakra correctly and completely misused it.
This was why Naruto had previously called Kabuto upon it, pointing out the fact that his supposed improvements were nothing of the sort.
It may have been more difficult to wrestle control away from Kabuto, but he didn't even need to do that anymore.
These two were running out of steam on their own and would soon disappear even if he didn't lift a finger.
However, Naruto did not want to wait that long.
His golden aura flared up and crackled violently as he moved closer to the two Kages.
In their limited state, neither Hashirama nor Tobirama had a chance to fight back against his assault.
He punched and kicked them while moving as fast as a lightning bolt.
Each move carried the power to destroy a mountain.
The puppets were turned into a meat paste in less than a minute.
"Okay… and where are you going?" Naruto's golden eyes locked onto the distant figure of Roshi, the jinchūriki of the Four-Tailed Beast, as he tried to escape from the battlefield.
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