Raijin hurriedly leaped back, but the claw managed to leave a mark on Raijin. The mask he was wearing was slightly chipped around his eyes, the clothes he was wearing were also torn slightly and some scratches appeared on his chest.

Because of the crack in his mask one of his eyes was exposed. It was out of pure coincidence that the exposed eye was only visible to Uchiha Sasuke whose consciousness was fading away with each passing breath before Raijin concealed it from the boy’s eyes too.

‘Was that really Sharingan?’ thought Sasuke. He felt that he was hallucinating because of the lack of oxygen because he also saw it disappear which is weird. Even if it was Sharingan, Sasuke did not have any means of doing anything, he was completely out of Chakra.

Be that as it may, a thought did appear in his mind, ‘Why does Raijin have Sharingan?’

But it was not until a month later that Sasuke learned the answer to his question.

Other than Sasuke, no one noticed the Sharingan in Raijin’s eye socket as the battle continued.

Although the scratches were shallow and no blood came out, Raijin was nonetheless started by Naruto’s sudden attack and looked at the boy.

It must not be forgotten that because Raijin uses the ‘Lightning Stimulation Technique,’ the speed and nerve response of this Lightning Chakra Nature Clone are among the best from all of his Clones so far. Except for his main body, no other clone, not even the Fujin Clone can match up to the Raijin Clone in terms of raw speed and reaction time. But such a Clone almost got hit by Naruto’s surprise attack, this goes to show just how fast the attack was, and if it weren’t for his extreme reaction speed, he might have died at that moment.

While Raijin looked at Naruto in surprise, the boy slowly stood up on all fours. Since his face was lowered it was difficult for Raijin to determine the boy’s expression.

Suddenly, a pillar of thick orange-red chakra shot toward the sky as it also started to wrap around Naruto’s body. Compared to the previous appearance of the tailed-beast coat on Naruto’s body a while ago, this time, the Chakra was thicker, richer, more violent, and more corrosive reflecting Naruto’s anger and anxiousness.

Boom! The chakra pressure exuded by Naruto cracked the ground beneath his feet as tails started to sprout out of his body.

First!

Second!

Third!

Fourth!

Fifth!

‘Is it a breakthrough or has he gone berserk?’ thought Raijin with a solemn expression underneath his mask.

As soon as the fifth tail appeared, Naruto roared loudly, ROAR!

Until a while ago, Naruto had managed to sprout up to four tails without completely losing consciousness, but this time he sprouted the fifth too, this can mean one of two things, either Naruto has made a breakthrough, or he has lost control.

Naruto’s sudden outburst naturally attracted the attention of everyone on the field.

The person closest to Naruto was Neji, and feeling the violent Chakra from up close, Neji shivered, the goosebumps on his body erected and he shouted at the boy, “Naruto wake up! You can’t lose control at such a time!”

Sixth!

Not only Neji’s urge did not wake up Naruto, but it made the situation worse as the sixth tail sprouted out of Naruto creating terrible pressure and winds all over the battlefield pushing everything and everyone away from him. Naturally, Neji was not spared, he was pushed away and slammed on a tree, bang!

Feeling the terrifying Chakra of Nine-tail, Orochimaru glanced back at Naruto, smiling to himself, “Interesting, Nine-tail’s Jinchuriki losing control at such a time? Perhaps this is not a bad thing, I can use this opportunity to take away Sasuke.”

Having seen the entire transformation with his very own eyes, Raijin cursed in anger, ‘Damn it, how dare Kurama go against the promise he made?! I need to teach him a lesson!’

While Raijin was planning to have a ‘chat’ with the Nine-tail, Six-tail Naruto disappeared from his position, he left behind a cracked ground, boom! All while firing Chakra bombs and laser beams at Raijin, he moved at an explosive speed toward Raijin and fiercely swung his claw.

Tendo Pain dared not be careless against the Six-tail Naruto, how could Raijin let down his guard? He activated the Lightning Chakra Stimulation Technique dodged the Chakra bombs and laser beams, then tried to take control of Nine-tail’s consciousness using Mangekyō Sharingan.

At this point, except for the pair of Mangekyō Sharingan in his eye sockets, Raijin doesn’t have any other means of dealing with a Jinchuriki going berserk. Faced with the power of Mangekyō Sharingan, any tailed beast is completely helpless unless they have the support of their Jinchuriki. Since Nine-tail has taken advantage of Naruto’s anger and taken control of his consciousness, it wouldn’t have any means of dealing with the power of Mangekyō Sharingan either.

With that in mind, Raijin looked at the berserk Naruto via Mangekyō Sharingan and tried to dive inside his consciousness, but something unexpected happened, ‘It didn’t work? W-what?’ When Raijin tried to dive inside Naruto’s plane of consciousness he was actually repelled, something prevented him from entering there which shocked Raijin. Such a thing had happened for the first time with him.

‘Should I use Amaterasu?’ thought Raijin constantly avoiding berserk Naruto’s attack. Actually, he is quite reluctant to use that Jutsu because it will not only openly reveal the Mangekyō Sharingan to others, but also endanger Naruto’s life in a true sense. Making the kids feel the threat of life and death is different from actually using a sure kill.

But Raijin can’t allow the Nine-tail to completely control Naruto’s consciousness either. If nine-tail were to completely manifests all the nine tails, that might be very bad for Konoha. Or maybe not since Shisui & Shinichi can deal with the Nine-tails quite easily, but there’s a risk and it’s better to avoid that risk.

‘What to do?’ While Raijin was in a dilemma and contemplating over whether to use Amaterasu to one-shot berserk Naruto while constantly dodging his attack, suddenly, Naruto changed his target and pounced on Orochimaru at blinding speed.

None had expected Naruto to suddenly change his target, Orochimaru certainly did not expect. At that critical moment, Orochimaru had to save his life and hurriedly retreated. While he did manage to retreat, the arm he was using to choke Sasuke was cut off by the berserk Naruto as a result, he was unable to take away Sasuke with him who fell beside Naruto and lost consciousness.

Watching the scene with Orochimaru unfold, suddenly a thought clicked Raijin’s mind, ‘Huh? Don’t tell me…’

He did not have to wait too long to get a confirmation as he saw two chakra arms stretch out of Naruto’s body, one Chakra arm picked up Neji, while the other picked up Sasuke. At the same time, Naruto’s voice, mixed with a loud gruff voice resounded, “Kiyomi-chan, bushy brow, Mika-chan, I have Sasuke with me… come here, we need to retreat!”

The three Genins recognized Naruto’s voice and they too realized what was happening, immediately, they no longer bothered to engage in a fight with the two Amegakure ninjas created a distraction using a smoke bomb and approached Naruto. Samsara and Tengu did not stop the three Konoha Genins because of the telepathic message they received from Raijin.

Once all three Genins had appeared beside him, Naruto started condensing a purple Chakra ball.

Shit! He is using the tailed beast bomb, can’t deal with that thing,’ cursed Raijin. He hurriedly appeared beside Samsara & Tengu, and ordered them, “There’s no need to stay here, run away…!” Both Samsara and Tengu understood the seriousness of the matter and following Raijin’s order, they ran away from the field.

Orochimaru did the same. There was no way he was going to stay behind to tank a tailed-beast bomb, and he went in a different direction from Raijin.

As Amegakure Genin’s squad and Orochimaru were retreating, they also kept looking back to see where Naruto would fire the tailed beast bomb. However, several seconds passed and there was no explosion which made them realize it was all just a ruse to scare them away.

‘No wonder I wasn’t able to invade Naruto’s soul plane, he hadn’t gone berserk, he was just pretending to have lost control in order to confuse us,’ thought Raijin coming to a stop. He turned around to look at the location and noticed Gamabunta, Garaga, and Okina Buta disappear from the battlefield, at the same time, the Nine-tail’s Chakra also seemed to disappear.

Samsara and Tengu seemed to understand what just happened, and asked, “Should we go back?”

Raijin shook his head, “Forget it.” At the same time, he was thinking to himself, ‘Naruto shouldn’t have thought of this strategy on his own, Nine-tail must have given him this idea.’

He didn’t mind being deceived, at least, this shows that the cooperation between Naruto and Nine-tail is improving which is a good sign.

On the other side, Orochimaru also realized the situation, “Interesting.” He did not bother to go back after Sasuke, his current objective is complete, next, he will wait for the completion of the Joint Chūnin Promotion Exam.

Shaking his head, he looked in the direction the Amegakure squad retreated with a thoughtful expression, “Raijin, Samsara, and Tengu… Hmm… it’s interesting to see such capable Genins appearing out of Amegakure, hmm, I wonder who sent them?’ He had doubts about the identity of the three of them, he did not think that either of three of them was simple. In fact, he even had a bold idea in his mind, but he couldn’t be so sure about it, so he did not give it too much thought.

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