Naruto: Naruto's Uchiha girlfriend is too arrogant

Chapter 409 From the Stars

An attack on Konoha?

This term sounds really novel. The last person to dare to do something like this was Orochimaru, and the next one might be Pain—but who is this expert who has arrived now?

The street was in complete chaos. The screams and running of villagers mingled together, and dust rose from all directions, obscuring half the street's visibility.

The source of the riot was a giant puppet, as tall as a two-story building—no, its shape and the metallic sheen at its joints made it resemble some kind of war robot.

"It's you again—! What an inflexible man!"

The nadeshiko ninja who had been inside was the first to rush out and immediately recognized the attacker. Clearly, the attacker was after them.

At the top of the puppet sat a bespectacled, plain-looking man. His eyes were fixed on Shizuka Nadeshiko behind the female ninja, his gaze churning with undisguised greed and desire.

"I'm not interested in you, move aside. Let me have a go at that 'princess'."

Just as the female ninja was about to rebuke them, Jiraiya stepped forward and blocked their way.

"To be able to build puppets to this scale... is indeed rare." His voice was not loud, but it carried the unique pressure of a powerful figure.

"But do you know what you're doing? Publicly attacking Konoha, using heavy weapons, creating public panic—these crimes are enough to kill you on the spot."

The man's face paled visibly. He clearly recognized the Fifth Hokage, but then he stiffened his neck and shouted.

"Wait, wait a minute! If anyone is trying to stop me... it should be 'Princess' who speaks up!"

"Who is that guy?"

Zuo Yue stared at the unsettling face on the puppet. She didn't recognize the person, but the sticky, almost predatory desire in their eyes filled her with a deep-seated revulsion.

"What a persistent pest!" the female ninja gritted her teeth. "He's been pestering Lady Shizuka for a 'duel' for the ninety-ninth time! He wants to defeat Lady Shizuka—and then, according to the tradition of Nadeshiko Village, the entire village will... be under his control!"

Simply put, he is a pervert who lusts after women and wants to turn all the women in the village into his harem.

Naruto immediately understood the man's intention. He also remembered that the man's puppet seemed to have some troublesome characteristics... Oh well, he'd just have to take matters into his own hands and throw this guy into the Konoha jail.

"Please let me do it."

Nadeshiko Shizuka's voice was calm. She slowly walked to Jiraiya, preparing to lift her white outer robe. "This is my destiny."

She looked at the steel golem, her eyes filled with only a numb resignation. Just like the previous ninety-eight times—she would step forward, defeat him, and then wait for the next encounter.

"That's it! Come on—come be my wife—hmm?"

The man sitting atop the puppet suddenly stopped.

His gaze seemed to be pulled by something invisible, and suddenly swung towards Shizuka's back—past Jiraiya, past the female ninja, and fixed firmly on Satsuki.

In that instant, the greed and impatience on his face vanished, replaced by a frenzied amazement.

"This woman...!"

His breathing suddenly became heavy, and his eyes behind his glasses widened like a bandit who had discovered a priceless treasure. "She's prettier than all the women in that village—all combined!!!"

Zuo Yue stared coldly at him, her dark eyes filled with undisguised disgust. But that coldness, in the man's eyes, became a deadly allure.

"Good! Excellent!" He was so excited that his voice trembled, and he pulled out a palm-sized metal puppet from his pocket with numbers scrawled on it.[1]

"You too—come be my wife!!!"

Chakra threads shot out from between his fingers, and the little puppet tore through the air with a "whoosh" and rushed straight at Zuo Yue's face.

"Whoosh—!"

A golden light arrived first, even though it came later.

"Click."

A trident-shaped Flying Thunder God kunai pierced through the small puppet's core from the side, pinning it firmly to the ground.

The metal casing twisted and deformed, emitting a piercing creaking sound.

"...Huh?" The man was stunned for a moment, then flew into a rage. "What are you doing?! This isn't for you—"

He didn't finish his sentence.

Because Naruto has already moved.

He stood there, his right eye's azure blue transforming in an instant into a deep black with golden pupils. [Starry Eye] activated, its pupil patterns swirling like stars.

His right palm faced upwards, without forming any hand seals or gathering any power. A pure white ball of light, no bigger than a billiard ball, condensed in his palm out of thin air. It wasn't dazzling.

"[Rasengan·Suncore]."

Naruto whispered the name of the technique.

The next second, the ball of light disappeared.

With a speed beyond visual perception, it transformed into a pure white line, piercing through the air, through the smoke and dust, and through the lingering astonishment on the man's face—gently touching the steel golem's chest.

The man remained in the position of roaring with his mouth open. The chakra metal on the puppet's surface still gleamed coldly.

Then--

Gone.

It's gone in the literal sense.

There was no explosion, no fire, no debris, not even a sound.

The puppet, along with the man sitting on it, was erased from reality as if by an invisible eraser, leaving not a trace of ash or a wisp of smoke.

The place was left completely empty, as if nothing had ever existed there.

"...He...he was driven away?"

Nadeshiko blinked blankly, blurting out the words instinctively. She was stunned by this "ninjutsu" she had never seen before—without a sound, without a trace, the enemy had simply... vanished?

Naruto stood motionless. He slowly lowered his head, looking at his right hand, where the diamond-shaped black mark was still visible in his palm.

But his heart, belatedly, pounded heavily in his chest.

...I just...out of control...killed that person?

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【Rasengan·Suncore】

The inspiration for this technique came from a deep understanding of Sage Mode. Over the past few years, Naruto has torn through space countless times using [Yomotsu Hirasaka] to venture into the depths of space.

He sat quietly on the barren planet's surface, slowly drawing energy from those planets with [Azure Moon Wings]—not natural energy, but the more primal cosmic power belonging to the stars themselves.

He compressed this extraterrestrial power, sealing it within his body like storing starlight. And that attack just now—

He infused the Rasengan's form with the energy of the sun.

Anything it touches will not burn or melt; it will be instantly enveloped by the absolute high temperature of 1500 million degrees Celsius at the core of the sun.

That is existence itself being completely negated by the laws of physics. Even atoms will disintegrate into the most basic particle stream the moment they come into contact, dissipating into nothingness.

There is no pain.

Because there is no time to feel pain.

This new energy system, born from the depths of the galaxy and forged from the primal power of the eight planets, is what Naruto named it.

【Starry Sky Chakra】