(Name Update Notice: Based on reader feedback, I've updated the AU character names for better Naruto-setting immersion. Leon → Ren, Tyler → Takeru, Ian → Itsuki These changes apply going forward (and I'll update earlier chapters where needed). Thanks for the suggestions and support!)
"???"Seeing the fractures spiderwebbing through the air, the Nine-Tails—which had been rampaging seconds ago—abruptly froze.If it could speak clearly, it would've been screaming one thing:What the hell is this?Why are there cracks… in the air?
The Konoha shinobi watching—including the Third Hokage, Hiruzen Sarutobi, who was rushing in—were just as baffled.Air… cracking?Was the space itself breaking?
"Nine-Tails.""Let me stand on your head and have some fun."
BOOM—!!Without warning, the fractured air detonated.A terrifying shockwave slammed into the Nine-Tails like a giant invisible hammer, forcing its massive body to crash to the ground.
"ROOOAR—!!"Even under Mangekyō Sharingan control, the beast still retained basic instincts.This was an ambush.And it was furious.
"Stop roaring. I'm right here."
Whoosh—!A black figure dropped into place before the Nine-Tails, weapon in hand—an enormous polearm-like blade.He wore a Whitebeard-style mask.It was Ren.But no one knew that.
All the shinobi saw was a masked man stepping in front of the Nine-Tails like he owned the night.
"…Who is that?""Is he insane? He's provoking the Nine-Tails!""He's got monstrous chakra… I've never felt anything like it!"
Hiruzen's brows knitted as he arrived, eyes sharp and calculating.No such person in the shinobi world… and that weapon—never seen it before.He lifted a hand."All units—fall back."
Not because he cared.Because he couldn't read the board yet.
The Nine-Tails hauled itself up, baring fangs, then lunged straight at the masked man—fast, violent, unstoppable.
Ren didn't retreat.He smiled—thin, pleased.
"Finally…""After all these years of signing in…""I get to cut loose."
Ren tightened his grip on Murakumogiri—Whitebeard's weapon, now sized for him.This time, to conceal his identity, he deliberately pushed out the chakra signature of his Hashirama Senju Sage Body—not his usual pressure.A heavy surge rolled off him.Then more.
Chakra flooded his blade—dense, pressurized—and within it, faint white halos shimmered like light trapped inside mist.
Not chakra alone.Sage Body chakra and the Tremor-Tremor Fruit (Gura Gura no Mi) power—layered together.
Even Ren didn't know exactly how hard it would hit.So he chose the perfect test target.The Nine-Tails.
HUM—!Ren swung.A single clean slash.A white cutting wave, dozens of meters long, tore forward.
The moment it formed—crack… crack…the air fractured again like glass about to shatter.
The Nine-Tails answered with raw arrogance.A tsunami of chakra erupted from its body.It didn't dodge.It didn't block.It rammed itself into the attack.
As if daring the masked man to scratch it.
I'm the Nine-Tails. I don't die.
It sensed Ren's chakra...but it didn't recognize the quake-power riding inside it.
And that mistake—was fatal.
BOOOOM—!!!The cutting wave landed.The vibration detonated.A brutal, unnatural trembling force exploded through the Nine-Tails' body.
Its eyes widened—genuinely stunned—as cracks began to spread across its flesh.
Not wounds.Not cuts.Not burns.Fractures.
Like the beast itself had become something that could be broken.
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