Chapter 136 Minato's Famous Scene
Chapter 136 Minato's Famous Scene
The pale moonlight pierced through the sparse canopy of trees, casting its light on the leaf-strewn forest path.
A few strands of bright red hair lay quietly on the thorns of the bushes, looking particularly glaring in the night, like drops of blood.
"That's Kushina's hair."
Minato Namikaze abruptly stopped, reaching out to catch the strand of red hair. His normally gentle, azure pupils contracted to pinpoints due to extreme anger.
……
A clearing in the woods.
Four elite members of Kumogakure were carrying the unconscious Kushina Uzumaki as they ran along the tree trunk.
"Captain, it looks like there's a tail behind us." A Cloud Ninja turned around and looked back, his brows furrowed.
"Very fast."
"Only one person?"
The leader of the Cloud Ninja captains was a burly man with two short swords on his back and a hideous scar on his face.
He sensed the danger, then sneered, "Are Konoha's pursuers so arrogant? They dare to chase after me alone and die?"
"Stop, finish him off."
With a wave of his hand, the captain sent the four men scattering instantly, forming a fan shape to surround the area behind them.
They placed the unconscious Kushina near the roots of a large tree, set up a simple explosive tag trap, then turned around, drew their swords, and stared menacingly at the dark forest behind them.
"Come out, little mouse."
no respond.
The only sound was the rustling of leaves in the wind.
"Playing tricks!" The Cloud Ninja Captain was about to form hand seals and use Lightning Release to investigate.
"Have her..."
A deep, oppressive voice, as if coming from the depths of hell, rang out simultaneously in the ears of the four people without warning.
"Give it back to me!!!"
"boom!"
Without any warning, a golden lightning bolt tore through the darkness.
That wasn't the light of ninjutsu, but rather the afterimage left by the extremely fast Body Flicker Technique.
"What?!"
Before the Cloud Ninja standing on the far left could react, everything went blurry.
Minato Namikaze had already appeared in front of him.
There were no unnecessary movements, just a simple and straightforward knee strike.
"Bang!"
With a sickening cracking sound, the Cloud Ninja's chest caved in instantly, and he was sent flying like a cannonball, crashing into two large trees and twitching twice before coming to a stop.
Sold out instantly.
"That speed..."
The remaining three Cloud Ninja were visibly shocked. They hadn't even seen how the blond-haired boy had made his move.
The Cloud Ninja Captain reacted the fastest, roaring as his body was enveloped in violent lightning chakra, and he slashed at Minato with his hand like a heavy axe.
At the same time, the other two Cloud Ninjas also cooperated well. One released "Lightning Release: Earth Walk" to seal off the ground, while the other threw dozens of electrified kunai to seal off the airspace.
This is a deadly combination technique.
However, in Minato's eyes at this moment, everything was as slow as a slow-motion replay.
He did not back down.
At that critical moment, Minato subtly turned the kunai in his hand.
"Ding!"
With an incredible angle, he precisely deflected the electrified kunai that was aimed straight at his throat using only the tip of the kunai.
"Sizzle—"
A violent lightning-fast chop grazed the tip of his nose, severing several strands of his blond hair.
The Cloud Ninja Captain only felt a blur before his eyes, and the blond-haired boy had slipped into the corner of his arms in the blink of an eye.
"Your actions are unnecessary."
Minato's cold voice rang in the captain's ears.
The next second, a bright blue chakra sphere instantly formed in Minato's palm.
"Rasengan!"
"boom!!"
The blue orb of light slammed into the abdomen of the Cloud Ninja Captain.
"Aaaaaah!!"
The Cloud Ninja Captain let out a piercing scream. His body spun violently under the impact of the Rasengan, his clothes on his back ripped apart instantly, and he was as if he had been caught in the eye of a storm. Finally, he crashed heavily into the ground, leaving a spiral crater half a meter deep.
In just one exchange, two Cloud Village ninjas were rendered unable to fight.
The remaining two ninjas were completely panicked.
"A monster...a monster!"
"Is this really a Konoha ninja? This speed is even faster than Lord A's!"
The two exchanged a glance, their fighting spirit instantly crumbling, and they turned to flee in different directions.
"Trying to run away?"
Minato slowly straightened up, and the surrounding air seemed to become viscous because of his chakra.
He pulled out two unremarkable kunai from his ninja tool bag.
That was a specially made Flying Thunder God kunai engraved with the "Sword of Endurance and Love" technique.
"Whoosh! Whoosh!"
Two kunai transformed into black lines and shot precisely at the tree trunk in front of the two people as they fled.
next moment.
It shimmered with golden light.
There was no running process seen; Minato's figure seemed to appear in two directions simultaneously.
"Thump."
"Thump."
Two muffled thuds were heard almost simultaneously.
That was the sound of a karate chop on the back of the neck.
The two Cloud Ninja who tried to escape hadn't even run fifty meters before they slid limply off the tree.
The battle is over.
From the moment Minato appeared to the moment all four elite Cloud Village members were wiped out, the entire process took less than a minute.
Under the moonlight, the forest returned to its deathly silence.
Only the blond boy stood in the center of the mess, his chest heaving violently.
Not a drop of blood stained his body, but the chilling sense of oppression he exuded was far more intense than any bloodshed.
……
The air in the forest was filled with the smell of earth and burnt earth.
Minato Namikaze put away his kunai without even checking whether the fallen Cloud Ninja were truly dead.
He turned around and walked towards the huge ancient tree.
Beside the tree roots, Kushina Uzumaki was curled up, her consciousness teetering on the edge of semi-consciousness.
He had just casually dismantled the explosive tag trap, leaving only the red-haired girl, who looked like a frightened little animal.
"……who?"
Kushina sensed the approaching presence, her body trembled instinctively, and she struggled to open her heavy eyelids.
Through her blurred vision, she could only make out a silhouette backlit by the light.
The figure stood in the moonlight, with the Cloud Ninja Captain who had once made her feel despair lying at her feet.
"it's me."
A familiar voice came through, carrying a hint of unsteady breathing, but more so a reassuring calmness.
Minato crouched down and reached out to untie the chakra ropes binding her.
"Water...gate?"
Kushina was stunned.
She looked at the boy in front of her, who always had a gentle smile on his face.
At this moment, his blond hair was a little messy, and there was some dust on his green vest, but his azure eyes were as gentle as ever.
"Sorry I'm late."
Minato reached out and carefully helped her up.
Kushina stared blankly at the corpses lying scattered around her for a moment.
"You...did you do all of this?"
"Hmm." Minato nodded, offering no further explanation.
He simply opened his left hand, which had been tightly clenched.
In the palm of his hand lay a tuft of bright red hair.
That was Kushina's hair, which she painfully tore off in order to leave a clue.
"Your hair is beautiful."
Minato looked at the red hair in his hand; in the moonlight, its color was as vivid as a burning flame.
"So, I found out immediately."
Kushina's pupils contracted slightly.
From childhood to adulthood, her red hair brought her only ridicule: "tomato," "outsider," "monster"... She hated her red hair, hated this feature that made her feel out of place.
"But...but..."
Kushina lowered her head, her voice trembling slightly, "I hate this hair the most..."
"Yeah?"
Minato smiled and gently brushed aside a strand of red hair that had fallen beside her ear, his movements as tender as if he were touching a rare treasure.
"But I like it very much."
"It was like a red thread that guided me to you."
"I don't want to lose you, Kushina."
The moonlight shone through the treetops and fell on the two of them.
There were no earth-shattering vows, nor any flowery words.
That one sentence was enough to completely silence "Red Hot Chili Pepper," who had a fiery temper and claimed she would become the first female Hokage.
She looked at the boy in front of her.
It turns out he had been watching him all along.
Kushina felt her eyes getting hot, and a bittersweet feeling she had never experienced before welled up in her heart.
She stopped pretending to be strong and instead leaned slowly into Minato's arms, her hands gripping his shirt tightly.
"……Fool."
She buried her face in Minato's chest, her voice muffled and trembling with tears, "My hands... my hands are so cold."
Minato paused for a moment, then hugged her even tighter, using his own body heat to warm her body, which was cold from fear and anxiety.
"Hurry up, Kushina, I'm taking you home."
Minato, holding the crimson chili pepper in his arms, looked up at the little sun running in the moonlight, his face slightly flushed, and he lowered his head even further.
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