LRAB Chapter 116 The Raven
Chapter 116 The Raven
Urashiki Otsutsuki slowly flew towards Naruto and Boruto's heads, looking down at them and saying, "Finally, I've met you, Naruto Uzumaki."
Boruto frowned as he looked at the equipment in Urashiki's hands, recalling the information Sasuke had provided about Urashiki.
Sasuke warned that during the battle, Urashiki Otsutsuki would release fishing lines and hooks that glowed red, special weapons that could instantly steal an opponent's chakra.
Naruto looked up at Urashiki Otsutsuki, who was hovering in the air, and pointed to himself, asking, "Do you know me?"
Naruto pressed his temples and pondered for a moment. Why had he never seen such a strange person before?
Urashiki smiled slightly and replied, "Of course, you're too famous." Then, without any hesitation, he swung his fishing rod and cast it again toward Naruto's location.
Boruto reacted quickly, calling out a warning: "Naruto, watch out..." Before he finished speaking, he immediately took action, trying to block the red fishing hook that was flying towards Naruto.
Urashiki's lips curled into a mocking smile. He said contemptuously, "It's useless, you're too slow. You only managed to dodge it because of the distance." The red fishing hook struck Naruto squarely in the stomach.
Urashiki then flicked his wrist, pulling the fishhook out of Naruto's abdomen. But when he caught the fishhook and examined it closely, he found that it was empty, with no chakra attached to it.
A hint of surprise flashed across Urashiki's face; he clearly hadn't anticipated this outcome: "Unable to obtain chakra?"
Naruto clutched his stomach, feeling no discomfort. He turned to Urashiki and said, "I don't know what you did, but I won't let you get away with attacking me for no reason."
Boruto was initially puzzled as to why Urashiki's attack couldn't extract chakra as Sasuke had suggested. He then realized that it might be due to the sealing technique that sealed the Nine-Tails' chakra within Naruto's body, preventing Urashiki's attack from penetrating and thus preventing him from absorbing Naruto's chakra.
"Lion's Mane Technique!" With a deep shout, a lion's head made of white hair suddenly appeared behind Urashiki, quickly wrapping around him and binding him.
As Naruto watched Jiraiya unleash the "Lion's Mane Technique" to tightly bind Urashiki, he couldn't help but feel a surge of joy and excitedly shouted, "Perverted Sage!"
Jiraiya said to Boruto and the others, "Well... the research is taking longer than I expected."
Urashiki, bound by Jiraiya's hair, let out a cold laugh: "Hehehe..." Then, his body suddenly transformed into several origami cranes emitting red light.
The origami cranes scattered in the air and then disappeared. A moment later, Urashiki reappeared in the distance.
Jiraiya's gaze was fixed on Urashiki, who had reappeared in the sky. His expression turned serious: "Can he float in the air forever? This is really troublesome."
Boruto warned Jiraiya, "Be careful of the fishhooks on his body. If you get hooked, he will instantly steal your chakra. However, it doesn't seem to work on sealing techniques."
Upon hearing Boruto's reminder, Jiraiya frowned, a hint of surprise rising in his heart. He hadn't expected that the other party possessed such an ability to absorb chakra.
At this moment, Boruto reached out his hand to Naruto and suggested, "Let's try out our new techniques."
Naruto clenched his fist and slammed it into his palm to show his agreement: "That's exactly what I was thinking."
Then, Naruto gradually condensed a Rasengan, and at the same time, Boruto followed closely behind, injecting his Wind Release chakra into the Rasengan, which merged with Naruto's Rasengan.
As their chakra interacted, a powerful vortex formed around them, and the energy fluctuations became increasingly intense.
"Take this!" Naruto and Boruto shouted in unison, throwing their condensed Rasengan at Urashiki: "Wind Release: Tai Chi Rasengan!"
"This chakra..." Urashiki felt an unprecedented and enormous threat amidst the power of Wind Release: Tai Chi Rasengan. He could sense the immense power contained within this chakra.
But at that moment, Boruto suddenly noticed that Urashiki's eyes were starting to change.
With a blink of Urashiki's eyes, the Byakugan in his eyes instantly transformed into a deep blue Rinnegan.
Urashiki used the spacetime abilities of the blue Rinnegan to rewind time from the present moment to a few seconds earlier.
Through experiencing the cycle of enemy attacks multiple times, he was able to clearly foresee that under Boruto and Naruto's combined Wind Release: Tai Chi Rasengan, he would be instantly defeated and killed in his current state.
Although the blue Rinnegan possesses the ability to rewind time, its drawbacks are equally obvious: it can only reverse time in the external world, but cannot reverse its own time.
The current situation was extremely unfavorable to him, so Urashiki made a decisive decision to leave, saying coldly, "I'll retreat this time, but I won't let this nine-tailed brat off easily next time."
Then, Urashiki used Yomotsu Hirasaka, opening a dark portal in the air. Without hesitation, he flashed and merged into the portal.
Fortunately, Urashiki transformed his blue Rinnegan into a red six-tomoe Rinnegan when he activated Yomotsu Hirasaka, allowing him to deactivate Yomotsu Hirasaka in time.
Otherwise, the Tai Chi Rasengan would have followed him into the black portal and killed him.
As Urashiki disappeared, the aftershocks of Wind Release: Tai Chi Rasengan gradually subsided, and Naruto and Boruto looked at each other in bewilderment.
Jiraiya turned to Boruto and asked, "What exactly happened?" He hadn't been with Boruto and the others since yesterday, so he didn't know what had happened.
Boruto relayed the information he'd learned from Sasuke to Jiraiya: "That person's name is Urashiki, and he wants to obtain the Nine-Tails' chakra..."
"Damn it!" Naruto felt a surge of anger upon hearing Boruto's words, not understanding when he had become such a sought-after person.
The Nine-Tails' power attracts so many enemies, putting his companions in danger time and time again. He couldn't help but wonder if the Nine-Tails' power was really worth it all.
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Deep in a dense forest, Sasuke had left Orochimaru's stronghold and embarked on his journey back to Konoha.
But Sasuke hadn't gone far when he suddenly stopped. Several crows began to gather from all directions, eventually forming a single figure.
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