Naruto: Naruto's Uchiha girlfriend is too arrogant

Chapter 425: Peace

All six figures, with their twelve Rinnegan eyes, were staring intently at the unchanging fox mask before them.

The sounds of wind and rain seemed to freeze at that moment.

Naruto spoke again, "Everyone else, retreat to the base first."

His gaze swept over his own men.

"You are to take care of the Akatsuki prisoners. Kakuzu, these men are still useful to us."

As soon as he finished speaking, a deep, dark portal suddenly opened in the air beside him—Yomihirasaka.

Upon hearing this, Kakuzu's gaze involuntarily swept over the seemingly calm sea beneath his feet once more. If it weren't for the numerous eyes watching him, he would almost have wanted to lie down and examine every inch of the water in detail.

Although it's unknown how the leader or the new Mangekyou Sharingan Uchiha used some method to "erase" it—the countless layers of explosive tags beneath the sea surface are deeply etched into the soul of Kakuzu, who is obsessed with money.

If we could recover... even just a portion... no, even just knowing their final whereabouts...

His heart pounded violently with the lure of immense wealth. But Kakuzu also understood the principle: don't ask what you shouldn't ask, and don't think what you shouldn't think. All he could do was obey his leader's orders.

However, what Mianma said next made his green eyes light up.

"...I'll take the things back later, so don't worry about losing them."

This phrase is more beautiful than any heavenly music!

Kakuzu immediately straightened his back and respectfully replied, "Yes! As you command!"

He began to move, lifting Hidan, who was still cursing and unable to move, with one hand, and scooping up the unconscious Hozuki Suigetsu with the other, striding towards the dark portal.

Uchiha Shisui, Momochi Zabuza, and Haku each led the subdued Biwa Juzo and Kurosuki Raiga, along with their ninja swords, into the portal one by one.

The group's presence completely disappeared into the rain-shrouded sea.

At this moment, only Jiu Ren remained on the empty and oppressive sea.

Naruto Uzumaki (Menma).

Uchiha Satsuki (hiding his identity).

Pain (Nagato's puppets).

And then there's Xiao Nan, who's restless and has a confused memory.

Silence weighed on the hearts of every "person". Only the incessant torrential rain, pounding against the sea and the remaining ice crystals, produced a monotonous and cold background sound.

The first to break the deathly silence was the Animal Path of Pain, who expressionlessly raised his hands and swiftly formed hand seals.

"Spiritual communication!"

"Bang! Bang! Bang!"

White smoke burst forth! Three enormous summoning beasts, each as large as a small mountain and exuding a ferocious aura of chakra, descended with a roar!

The three-headed hellhound roared in unison from its three ferocious heads; the giant rhinoceros, covered in thick, rock-like armor, had a single horn that gleamed coldly on its nose; and the bison, its breath steaming white vapor, pointed its horns at its enemy, poised to charge.

Each one is a war behemoth capable of causing chaos and destruction on the battlefield.

Despite the intimidation emanating from these three colossal creatures, Zuo Yue's gaze remained unwavering. She raised her right hand.

"Immortal Technique: Lightning Erosion"

As she whispered, a kind of black lightning, as deep as night and unlike any other lightning release technique, gathered in her palm. It was not natural lightning; it was mixed with natural energy from Mount Myōboku, and its nature had undergone a fundamental change. This was a unique Sage Art that Sōgetsu had developed on her own, combining Sage Mode with her own lightning release talent.

"boom--!"

With a flick of her wrist, the black lightning struck the three-headed beast charging ahead with pinpoint accuracy.

The moment the black lightning touched the behemoth's body, it silently seeped in. Immediately afterward, the massive, mountain-like body, starting from the point of impact, rapidly melted and dissipated.

Like a sand sculpture blown away by the wind, flesh, bones, hair, and even the chakra within the body begin to disintegrate and annihilate from the most energy-structure level.

In just two or three breaths, the three enormous spirit beasts were completely reduced to a wisp of blackish-gray embers that drifted away in the wind and disappeared into the storm.

【Immortal Technique: Lightning Erosion】—Transforms natural energy into black lightning containing the rule of "decomposition". It does not produce high temperature, impact or paralysis effects; its essence is to "silently erase" the matter and energy it comes into contact with from the very foundation of existence.

Pain raised his arm, his palm aimed at Satsuki, who had just finished using Sage Mode and seemed caught off guard.

"The Guiding Force of All Things".

A powerful gravitational field was instantly generated, attempting to forcibly pull Zuo Yue's body towards it!

but.

"Shinra Tensei"

Another voice rang out at the same time that the Heavenly Path was activated. The one who uttered this word was not the Heavenly Path, but Menma, who was standing next to Satsuki.

"boom--!"

An invisible repulsive force erupted from the center of the face! It ruthlessly collided with the gravitational field released by the Heavenly Dao. The two opposing forces, both involving space and gravity, violently collided and canceled each other out in mid-air, and finally annihilated at the same time.

Pain's puppet face, belonging to Yahiko, remained absolutely indifferent, but his Rinnegan eyes were fixed on Menma.

The corpse could not make any more vivid expressions, but the Nagato behind it must have been experiencing a storm of emotions.

"...What exactly is going on?" Tiandao's voice was calm, yet it carried a chilling, piercing question. "Why...can you use this technique?"

【Shinra Tensei】 and 【Bansho Ten'in】 are the foundational yet core eye techniques of the Rinnegan, symbols of the power of "gods"! How could this guy possibly use them?!

Besides giving Naruto two Blood Nets, the Star Eyes also inherited all the basic ninjutsu of the Rinnegan, which Naruto has been developing in recent years.

Mianma did not answer directly, but looked back at the Heavenly Dao.

"The power you are so proud of, which you regard as proof of your divine power... is nothing more than a basic ability of a race."

"Even the legendary Sage of Six Paths was, in essence, nothing more than a mixed-race descendant of that race."

"You are trying to create peace by inflicting pain on the world. Regardless of whether this approach is right or wrong, even if your plan succeeds—a peace born of fear under absolute coercion…"

"How long do you think this can last?"

"Even after the long Warring States period ended and the ninja village system was initially established, this world still experienced three world wars that swept across the entire ninja world after the death of the First Hokage."

"Hatred breeds hatred, and pain breeds new pain. Your envisioned 'ultimate deterrence' may bring temporary silence, but as long as desires, fears, hatred, and divisions remain in the human heart, the flames of war will eventually reignite."

"The peace that the First Hokage attempted to create through the 'Tailed Beast Balance' and the 'One Country, One Village' system has failed. Everything we are doing now is simply trying to continue his path, which he never managed to traverse or which was cut short, in a more thorough and perhaps more brutal way, in search of new possibilities."

Pain remained silent. Nagato, of course, understood that he could not grant the world lasting peace.

He never considered implementing an extreme plan like the "Eye of the Moon Project," which would drag the entire world into a dream. Deep down, he knew that the limit he could envision was perhaps only to use the absolute deterrent power of the Rinnegan and the Tailed Beast weapons to forcibly buy this scarred world a relatively long period of respite without large-scale war.

One hundred years...

This number lingered in his mind. One hundred years without a war that swept the world.

This was an unprecedented aspiration in the turbulent history of the ninja world. For this, he was willing to transform into a demon.

Mianma seemed to see through the thoughts hidden beneath the silence, and he gently shook his head.

"Nagato, let's finish this quickly."

"I will not take your life. After this battle... I hope you can calm down and listen to my explanation."

As soon as he finished speaking, he slowly raised his right hand. Above his palm, countless tiny energy particles, shimmering with a star-like luster, appeared out of thin air.

This time, what he drew upon was no longer the blazing power of the sun, nor the frozen power of stagnation.

That is the stellar chakra of Saturn, the giant planet in the solar system with magnificent rings that symbolize "order," "binding," and "weight."

"Rasengan: Ring Star".