Naruto's Endless Pretense

"Naruto, get out of here!"

"Spiral... Maru?"

Rasengan is an A-level ninjutsu that maximizes the transformation of chakra form, and it is also Naruto's current special move.Naruto, who was concentrating on making balls, suddenly heard a shout from behind, staggered and almost fell down.

Before Naruto could sort out the situation, a huge thing fell from the sky.The spreading shadows made it clear how huge this guy was.

"Wow, what is this!"

Reluctantly recognizing the psychic beast as a humanoid, Naruto was startled and quickly ran away.At the same time, a loud shout came from not far away, and a meat ball wrapped with spiked kunai rolled and crashed into the giant beast that was about to fall to the ground.

The collision between the two behemoths produced a violent shock wave, and they all moved back a certain distance before stopping.Thanks to this collision, Naruto got time to escape and avoided being crushed into a meat pie.

"Tayuya, I told you not to interfere."

Sakon stood there, looking at the top of the giant psychic beast with some displeasure.There stood a red-haired woman with her arms crossed.

"Your request is for a one-on-one duel with Uzumaki Naruto, and I have no objection to that. But this is no longer the case. Or do you think you can defeat those people?"

Tayuya didn't look back at Sakon, put away the Ghost Claw Ghost, one of the three ghosts, and turned his gaze to where Naruto was.In addition to Naruto, there were two other Konoha ninjas there.

"Shikamaru, Choji, are you here to chase Sasuke too?" Naruto said happily.

"Yeah, there's no way I would let a fool like you do such a dangerous thing."

Shikamaru scratched his hair sheepishly.Naruto laughed twice, as if he suddenly remembered something, and looked a little nervous.

"By the way, did you see Xiao Li on the way here? It may be a little unbelievable, but I was just distracted for a moment, and he and I got separated."

"Speaking of which, I did not see Xiao Li. It turns out he was lost." Shikamaru frowned. "We didn't meet him either. We thought you asked Xiao Li to ambush him first."

"Don't be ridiculous, I don't have such a good mind." Naruto said.

"That's right. Why do I have such strange expectations for you?" Shikamaru nodded in approval.

"Hey! Don't take it for granted, okay?"

"Sorry, sorry."

Looking at Naruto and Shikamaru talking and laughing, Choji patted Shikamaru's shoulder uneasily.

"Well, I can understand your feelings. But now is it time to take a look over there first? The situation doesn't seem to be good."

On the other side of the lake, Tayuya and Sakon have reached a consensus.You can vaguely see some red marks on their faces. It seems that they both used curse seals.

"The three of us are a little reluctant. Let's make a quick decision and return to Sasuke-sama."

Sakon winked at Tayuya, who immediately started moving back and forth at high speed.The stronger the people, the less cooperation they have with each other.But under Sasuke's guidance, the two people also had a certain tacit understanding.Captain Sakon gave a slight gesture, and Tayuya understood what he meant and cooperated.

But Shikamaru's expression remained unchanged.Unlike the nervous Naruto, who still looked calmly as Sakon and Tayuya started to attack without moving a step.

"Really, it's us who should say this. We must solve this problem quickly and go see Sasuke."

"It's ridiculous, just you three guys with mediocre strength?"

Sakon couldn't help but sneer.Shikamaru didn't care, and nodded towards Choji as he watched the two people getting closer.Choji took a deep breath and used the Hyperion Technique to throw Naruto and Shikamaru into the sky.

"Who told you there were only three of us?"

"Quick sand waterfall."

A soft hum, but it was like a roar in the snowy mountains.Dense cracks appeared on the hard and crisp rocks on the cliffs on both sides, and they soon shattered into quicksand, sweeping down like a river falling from the sky.

"We have real elites here!"

The unquantifiable sand surged with a momentum that was about to fill the entire lake, and three sand clouds floated out from it and caught Naruto and the others.Choji had one to himself, Naruto and Shikamaru shared one, and the remaining one carried Gaara who was sweating.

"It's Gaara from that Sand Ninja. I didn't expect this guy to come after me. But it just so happens that it's easier to solve it together." Sakon said with high spirits.

"Don't be careless, the opponent has two Jinchūriki. Even if we join forces, we won't get anything good."

As Tayuya spoke, he jumped to avoid the endless sand hands reaching towards him in the sand flow.

"The jinchūriki has a lot of chakra, but this level of jutsu is too much! You can barely see the water."

  The amount of sand Gaara made was truly amazing.The water surface of the originally clear lake could no longer be seen, and the falling waterfall was like alkaline water poured into dough, causing the point of impact to swell like a mudslide.

Such a lake cannot be used as a battlefield. If you stand at one landing point for too long, you will be caught by Gaara and trapped in the endless sea of ​​sand.In desperation, Sakon and Tayuya could only choose to climb higher.

Maybe Gaara's chakra was too weak, but the slightly higher stone wall was not turned into sand.This phenomenon was more obvious on both sides of the waterfall, so even though the water from the waterfall was in the way, Sakon and Tayuya gradually approached the waterfall to try to gain a foothold.

"I won't let you succeed. No one can escape from the sand."

Gaara wiped off the sweat on his forehead and put his hands together with a snap to form the Si seal.The stone walls on both sides immediately stopped deserting, and a large amount of sand gathered in the center of the lake, forming a hand of sand that was so huge that it could be compared with the limbs of the stone statue.Moreover, the hand of sand kept rising, obviously grabbing Sakon and Tayuya.

"Too slow!" Sakon said contemptuously.

In fact, the speed of the Sand Hands is not slow. Without a reliable foothold, Sakon can only barely avoid the Sand Hands' capture.

"Isn't one enough?"

Gaara muttered softly to himself and continued to increase the output of chakra.Sakon stared at the sand on the lake, but there was no movement.

"No, it's from the side!"

Tayuya's exclamation made Sakon's expression change.It turns out that this time Gaara did not use sand to condense the Sand Hand, but directly made sand on the nearby cliff to form a new Sand Hand.

Without enough time to escape, Tayuya and Sakon were squeezed in the center by two hands of sand that looked like clapping hands.The two hands came together and quickly merged into a pillar of sand.

"Sand Waterfall Funeral!"

Gaara squatted on the sand cloud, stretched out his right hand and shook it hard.The sand pillar also twisted and stirred, shrinking into a shape that was narrow in the middle and wide at the top.

After a moment of silence, Gaara relaxed his arms and started breathing heavily.The sand stopped flowing, and the rocks on the stone wall no longer turned into sand. Only the heavy sound of the waterfall's water hitting the sand could be heard.

"Solve it?"

Naruto stared at the sand pillar nervously.

"Won't you die?"

"I hope I can get it right in one step, but I'm afraid it's not that simple."

Shikamaru still looked relaxed.

"It can't be done. It's simply not enough to create such a large flow of sand chakra."

Gaara put his hands on the ground, sweat dripping from his chin.

"The funeral at the end of the sand waterfall was just forced. It was so soft and had no strength at all. And there was no real feeling of holding something."

"Hey, can you feel this?"

Naruto looked at the twisted sand pillar, scratching his hair in awe and surprise.

"But it looks very powerful from the outside."

As if in response to Naruto's words, a crack like a rock crack appeared in the middle of the sand pillar.These cracks continued to spread outward in the shape of a spider web, and then turned into gravel and fine sand with a crisp sound, and Sakon and Tayuya jumped out from the middle.

"Asshole, where's your brain! Using compound ninjutsu in such a small space will cause us more damage than the jutsu itself."

Tayuya cursed, and all the red marks on the two of them had disappeared. It seemed that the curse was temporarily lifted.

"Don't worry about these details, it won't be long before it comes out."

Sakon said impatiently, and then looked at Shikamaru, who looked indifferent, and Gaara, who was panting.

"Shikamaru, is this the elite you are talking about? Isn't it just this level?"

"Elite, well, I am indeed not one."

Surprisingly, Gaara actually admitted it.

"No, that's a big help Gaara."

A rare smile appeared on Shikamaru's face.That's the look of a sure winner.

"It's almost time for our elites to take action."

Suddenly, Sakon and Tayuya felt a slight chill on the back of their heads.Then an almost inaudible noise began to appear in my ears.It was a shrill, chaotic sound that was completely different from the sound of the waterfall.

It was like having a thousand birds chirping in my ears.

Turning his head slightly, what caught his eye was the mask of a civet cat.

The distance is too close and there is no way to avoid it.At this moment, in Sakon's eyes, the ANBU mask outlined with red lines had a heart-stopping power.

That was simply Death's crow mask.