At the edge of the dense forest.
Boruto poked half his body out from behind a rock, completely speechless.
Sasuke sheathed his Kusanagi sword, his Six-Tomoe Rinnegan reflecting Urashiki, who was bound into a ball by the chains, and Naruto, standing beside him wrapped in a Chakra cloak.
The Naruto of this timeline could no longer be described by the word genius.
Urashiki kept his head lowered, his long white hair obscuring his entire face.
He, a dignified member of the Ōtsutsuki Clan, possessing the Rinnegan and thousands of years of life, had actually been bound to the ground by an inferior creature with chains.
His ribs were all broken, his internal organs displaced, his nasal bridge collapsed, his eye sockets bruised, and even his breathing was accompanied by bloody foam.
What Urashiki found most unacceptable was the way Naruto looked at him—that condescending contempt, just like looking at a bug one had accidentally stepped on.
"This is what you forced me to do!" Urashiki jerked his head up, letting out a hoarse roar.
His Byakugan switched into a blue Rinnegan. He extended his still-functional right hand and crushed the fishing basket at his waist. All the Chakra stored inside poured out, greedily devoured by Urashiki's body.
This Chakra had been fished by Urashiki from various places, including ninjas, Tailed Beasts, and even Chakra from his own Ōtsutsuki kin.
Urashiki's fractured bones reconnected and healed, his collapsed chest cavity re-inflated, and the wounds inflicted by Naruto disappeared at a speed visible to the naked eye.
Naruto frowned, tightening the Adamantine Sealing Chains around Urashiki's body.
Whoosh!
Urashiki's body suddenly turned into countless red paper cranes, scattering out through the gaps in the Adamantine Sealing Chains.
Urashiki's body re-condensed from the flock of paper cranes, hovering a hundred meters in the air. The wounds on his body had all disappeared and his pair of blue Rinnegan burned with madness.
With a flash of golden light, Naruto appeared before Urashiki, his right fist wrapped in a white film of light, striking at Urashiki's face.
Urashiki body shifted half a step to the side at an extremely subtle angle, barely dodging Naruto's punch.
Naruto swept his elbow back toward Urashiki's temple, but he leaned back half a beat early again, letting the tip of Naruto's elbow graze past the tip of his nose.
Third punch, fourth punch, fifth punch...
Naruto attacked at high speed continuously, each punch as fast as when he had previously suppressed Urashiki, but this time, Urashiki seemed to predict his every move in advance, always making the most precise dodge at the very instant before the attack was about to land.
Naruto was very familiar with this feeling. Boruto had encountered the same situation when he fought Urashiki in the original story.
One of the abilities of the blue Rinnegan: Temporal Rewind.
Urashiki could experience the future a few seconds ahead and react in advance.
However, Naruto noticed that although Urashiki dodged his attacks, his breathing became more rapid after each dodge, the veins on his forehead became more and more prominent, and the rise and fall of his chest became increasingly pronounced.
It seemed that the consumption of Temporal Rewind was quite high, especially under such continuous, high-frequency use.
"You can't hold on, can you?"
Naruto retracted his fist and hovered in mid-air, watching Urashiki panting heavily opposite him.
Urashiki extended his right hand toward his right eye and he yanked his blue Rinnegan out.
He opened his mouth, preparing to swallow this Rinnegan. Eating his own Rinnegan and letting the ocular power fuse directly within his body was his final desperate measure, and also the most extreme way to increase his power.
The moment Urashiki's mouth touched his own eye socket, Naruto had already predicted his next move. With a flash of golden light, he appeared before Urashiki, his right foot, kicking his chest.
Crack!
The ribs that had just healed broke again, and Urashiki was sent flying backward. His right hand opened and the blue Rinnegan, which he hadn't had time to swallow, slipped from his fingertips.
Naruto reached out and snatched the Rinnegan, while his other hand quickly pulled out a sealing scroll, sealing the Rinnegan inside at the fastest speed possible.
"Bastard!"
Urashiki stabilized his body in mid-air, clutching his empty right eye socket as blood continuously seeped through his fingers.
"These eyes are too dangerous. I cannot allow you to use them to continue running wild." Naruto put the sealed scroll back into his ninja tool pouch, his tone calm.
He transformed into golden light once more and lunged straight at Urashiki.
Enduring the excruciating pain in his right eye, Urashiki activated Temporal Rewind again, attempting to continue evading Naruto's attacks. But missing one Rinnegan, both the precision and duration of Temporal Rewind were severely compromised.
Previously, he could experience over a dozen seconds into the future, but now he could only experience fragments of a few seconds ahead at most.
At first, he could barely dodge a few of Naruto's punches, but as the duration of Temporal Rewind grew shorter and shorter, his evasive maneuvers became smaller and smaller.
Finally, Naruto landed a punch into his stomach, followed immediately by an elbow strike to the back of his neck, and then a knee strike to his lumbar spine.
Urashiki knew he could not keep taking these hits head-on. His body transformed into countless red paper cranes and vanished from right in front of Naruto's fist.
The next second, his figure appeared in a forest a few hundred meters away, where he leaned against the trunk of a tree with one hand, gasping for air.
Glancing back in the direction of Naruto, he gritted his teeth and hissed, "Just wait. Once I recover, I will definitely not spare you."
The blue Rinnegan in his left eye switched to a red six-tomoe Rinnegan and the space behind him began to tear open into a black rift.
Yomotsu Hirasaka!
The ultimate dōjutsu used by the Ōtsutsuki Clan for space-time travel.
If he had both Rinnegan, Urashiki could open a complete space-time portal in an instant. But now, with only one Rinnegan, the speed at which the rift expanded was significantly slower.
Just as the black rift expanded to a width barely enough for one person to pass through, and Naruto was preparing to attack, a voice rang out from behind him.
"Naruto, attack towards me!"
Naruto looked toward the source of the voice and saw Sasuke standing on the canopy of a tree in the distance, his six-tomoe Rinnegan glowing. He instantly understood Sasuke's plan.
Amenotejikara!
This dojutsu of Sasuke's Rinnegan allows him to swap the positions of two targets within a certain range.
Golden light exploded beneath his feet and Naruto charged straight toward Sasuke at extreme speed, reaching him in less than a second.
Amenotejikara!
Seeing Naruto arrive, the six-tomoe Rinnegan in Sasuke's eye flared with intense light.
Urashiki, who was about to step into the black rift, suddenly felt his vision blur, and the surrounding scenery was swapped.
He had just been standing in front of the black rift he had opened, but now he appeared on the tree where Sasuke had been standing.
Immediately after, a golden figure rushed in front of Urashiki, moving so fast that he didn't even have the chance to switch his Rinnegan.
Naruto gripped Urashiki's neck tightly with one hand, lifting him. With his other hand, he splayed his fingers, and Adamantine Sealing Chains surged out from his palm. Starting from Urashiki's neck, they coiled downward, binding him tightly.
"You're quite good at running." Naruto sneered.
Urashiki's face swelled to a purplish-red from the choking and blood gushed out from the corners of his mouth and the hollow socket of his right eye simultaneously.
"Damn inferior creature, let me go! How dare an ant like you... how dare you treat me like this!"
"Inferior creature? You are currently being held by the neck and dangled in mid-air by an 'inferior creature,' unable to even fight back. Who exactly is the inferior creature here?"
"Besides the abilities you've stacked up by relying on Chakra Fruit, what skills do you actually have?"
"Without your Rinnegan and without your Chakra Fruit, you aren't even as good as an ordinary Genin."
Urashiki's face contorted with rage. He had lived for over a thousand years and had never been insulted like this by any living being.
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