One of the puppets was holding a long blade. With speed like a bolt of lightning, it swung the weapon viciously toward Naruto.
The blade flashed with a cold gleam, aimed straight at Naruto's vital points.
Naruto reacted with incredible speed. At the critical moment between life and death, he leaned back in extreme danger and barely avoided the fatal strike.
However, before Naruto could even catch his breath, the second puppet suddenly lit up with dazzling light in both hands. Immediately after, a powerful energy wave, like a laser cannon, roared as it blasted straight toward Naruto.
Facing such a ferocious assault, Naruto panicked. He was just about to use the Shadow Clone Technique to respond, but the opponent was far too fast.
In an instant, countless kunai sprayed wildly from the second puppet's hands like machine-gun fire, dense as rain and covering the sky.
For a moment, Naruto was pushed into an extremely passive situation.
The kunai were incredibly fast, leaving him no time at all to form hand seals and use ninjutsu. He could only rely on his agile body to dodge left and right in midair.
But because there were simply too many kunai, his evasive movements looked frantic and clumsy.
While fleeing in panic, Naruto ran blindly onto a long bridge.
But who would have thought that the moment he stepped onto the bridge, three more puppets appeared right in front of him.
Without saying a word, the three puppets raised their arms and fired several laser cannons of terrifying power straight at Naruto.
Naruto screamed in fright, flailing as he continued to dodge.
Luckily, his luck was not bad. After a series of heart-stopping maneuvers, he barely managed to avoid those horrifying attacks.
At this moment, Rengoku was quietly floating in midair, looking down at Naruto's every move from above.
This Naruto clearly looked like the type who hated studying. He had not even mastered some basic rolling and evasion techniques.
He hopped and bounced around on the ground for ages, relying entirely on instinctively twisting his body at random to avoid attacks.
As for whether he could dodge successfully, it basically depended on luck.
Just like that, Naruto was chased relentlessly by the puppets and had already run through several streets.
At the critical moment, he suddenly slapped his forehead and finally remembered that he was carrying the chakra blade that could cut through chakra threads.
However, Naruto's movements were far too sloppy. He was still unfortunate enough to be completely surrounded by the puppets, blocked in so tightly that there was no way out.
In an instant, beams of dazzling chakra energy cannons shot over like lightning, blasting directly into Naruto.
With a thunderous boom, Naruto was sent flying straight down to the lower level like a kite with its string cut.
Accompanied by a dull crash, Naruto slammed heavily into a room below.
For a moment, the world spun violently. His entire head felt like it was about to explode, his mind a complete blur.
Immediately after, a sharp, intense pain shot up from his leg. He looked down and could not help but feel alarmed.
A huge, shocking gash had been torn open in his leg, blood gushing out nonstop.
"This is bad! This is really bad now!"
Naruto cried out in misery to himself.
Just as he was at a loss for what to do, several black shadows suddenly flew into the room like ghosts. They were the same puppets that had been chasing him relentlessly.
Naruto was already at his limit, but he still clenched his teeth.
He forced himself to raise the chakra blade in his hand and swung it hard at the incoming enemy shuriken.
But in the end, he was outnumbered. Naruto gradually felt himself running out of strength.
Just as he was about to lose his life, a mysterious figure suddenly appeared at his side like a phantom.
This person wore a bird-faced mask and moved with astonishing agility. In the blink of an eye, he grabbed Naruto.
Carrying him along, he used the Body Flicker Technique, disappearing from the spot.
The puppets left behind in the air immediately lost their target. They looked around in confusion and began searching everywhere for Naruto's whereabouts.
And at that moment, a tall, powerfully built man suddenly jumped out nearby.
He shouted angrily, "Partial Expansion Jutsu!"
As his voice fell, his arm instantly swelled to an enormous size.
Then he swung his fist with all his might. The tremendous force whipped up a fierce gust of wind as it smashed hard into one of the puppets.
That puppet had no time to dodge. It was sent flying by the crushing blow and slammed to the ground with a loud crash.
Immediately afterward, another figure leapt out from the side.
This person carried a huge round gourd on his back and shouted in a low voice, "Ninja Art: Insect Sphere!"
Before the words had even finished leaving his mouth, countless small black insects surged out from the gourd like a tide, flooding toward the puppets.
The insects were dense and overwhelming, blotting out the sky and sending chills down one's spine.
The puppets were swarmed by the sudden onslaught of insects, and their joints were quickly destroyed.
They were torn apart in midair and fell scattered across the ground.
"Thank you!"
Naruto thanked the person who had just saved his life, his voice full of gratitude.
However, that person seemed not to hear him at all, showing no reaction to Naruto's thanks.
His eyes were fixed tightly on the figure standing in midair above.
"An Uchiha?"
Naruto followed the man's line of sight curiously and soon spotted Rengoku's distinctive figure.
He could not help but wave his arms excitedly and shout loudly, "Hey! Mister, I'm over here!"
Rengoku's figure flickered, and like a ghost, he instantly flew to Naruto's side.
This miraculous scene left Naruto staring in shock, his eyes almost popping out of their sockets.
"Where did you go? You… you can fly?"
However, the masked mysterious man beside them was extremely wary.
He stared sharply at Rengoku and asked in a deep voice, "Do you know him?"
Hearing this, Rengoku tilted his head slightly and sized up Minato with interest. Then he smiled and said, "Take off the mask. Let me see what you actually looked like when you were young, Minato."
Hearing those words, Minato was shocked, 'This man actually knows me?'
"You… who exactly are you?"
Rengoku did not answer Minato directly. Instead, he turned to look at Naruto and said with a grin, "I went specially to help you find your dad. And look, I already found him."
Naruto had always been thick-skinned and scatterbrained, his thoughts often jumping so fast that people could not keep up.
At this moment, as soon as he heard Rengoku say that, he immediately threw the matter of Rengoku's sudden disappearance far out of his mind and asked eagerly, "Really? That's great! Then where is my dad?"
As he spoke, he even started looking around.
Seeing this, Rengoku curled the corner of his mouth upward and tilted his chin toward Naruto's side.
"There. Right beside you."
"What?", Naruto gasped, his jaw nearly dropping to the floor, his eyes wide open.
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