Naruto: Konoha’s Kanpu

Chapter 898: Sasuke Was Slapped In The Face

Gekko Mansion.

After Kanp? got up early, he brushed his teeth, washed his face, did his business, wiped his butt, and then leisurely went to the living room to have breakfast.

“Good morning, big brother.” Hayate leans against the dining table lazily, his right shoulder is in a cast, his left hand is propped on his chin, and his mouth opening and closing as a purple-haired beauty fed him.

The scene was somewhat unbearable, and Kanp? squinted with disdain, “Hayate, you've fallen! You're no longer the young man I used to know!”

“I can't help it, my bone injury hasn't healed yet.” Hayate shrugged, but when he accidentally touched his right shoulder, he grimaced in pain, sweating profusely.

‘Serves him right…’ Kanp? showed a worried expression: “Are you alright, Hayate?”

“I-I'm fine.” Hayate said, his voice trembling as he tried to catch his breath.

Next to him, Yugao put down the seaweed rice ball in her hand, but unfortunately, she wasn't a Medical-nin, so all she could do was sit there feeling anxious.

‘This living room is too unfriendly to me…’ Kanp? sighed and took a stack of rice balls and a bowl of miso soup, and left the living room. He wandered around and eventually arrived at the backyard. Kanp? found a stone table, sat down, and then took out a crystal ball.

Kanp? touched the crystal ball after forming hand seals, and a blurry image slowly appeared within it.

Kanp? happily watched the crystal ball while eating rice balls and drinking miso soup.

In the crystal ball, Mei was lazily sleeping on a futon, the light blanket lightly kicked aside by her restless movements, revealing a large expanse of snowy white skin.

‘OMG!’

‘Buy her, buy her, buy her!!’

Kanp?’s seemed to hear the exaggerated scream of a certain influencer in his ear. The shout was like a bewitching melody, making him dry-mouthed, flushed, and his heart pounding like a drum.

‘I remember the Telescope Technique can adjust the angle…’ Kanp? swallowed the rice ball and began to tremble as he made subtle adjustments, and then saw the image in the crystal ball suddenly zoomed to Mei’s face, and then slowly moving down her fair and delicate neck…

At this moment, Mei seemed to sense something and abruptly opened her eyes, immediately pulling the blanket over her body.

She looked around, her beautiful brows slightly furrowed, vaguely feeling that someone was peeping at her.

Kanp? was taken aback and quickly changed the channel.

The image in the crystal ball shifted, showing dozens of fox-whiskered individuals covered in eye boogers.

‘Ugh, the rice balls don't taste good anymore.’

Kanp? frowned, drank the miso soup in one gulp, and then observed the crystal ball, seeing Naruto and his shadow clones in the crystal ball.

‘What’s going on…’ Kanp? adjusted the angle and saw Naruto and his shadow clones were chasing after a Shinobi.

Due to the angle, Kanp? can only see the back of the Shinobi.

Meanwhile…

Under the tree hollow, Orochimaru also broke the standoff with Sasuke and Karin.

“We don't have much time. Let me test your abilities first, Uchiha Sasuke.”

Orochimaru took out a kunai, his tongue stroke the edge of the blade, and in the next instant, he turned into an afterimage and charged towards Sasuke.

Clang!!

With the crisp sound of metal collision, Sasuke, who was slightly stiff, finally managed to block Orochimaru's attack with his kunai at a critical moment.

“That's all you've got?”

After Sasuke blocked the strike, his self-confidence immediately soared. He swung his kunai and forced Orochimaru to step back step by step amidst the clanging sounds.

“Is this the best you can do?”

As Sasuke fought more smoothly, he couldn't help but activate his Sharingan. Feeling the powerful pupil-power of the Sharingan, his arrogance surged like a tidal wave, overwhelming and dominating.

“You dared to test my abilities? Who do you think you are?!”

Clang!

Sasuke used his kunai to force Orochimaru to stagger back, then followed up with a powerful Leaf Great Whirlwind, kicking Orochimaru flying twenty meters!

“What's wrong, can't handle this?”

Sasuke walked towards Orochimaru step by step, like a god looking down from on high, his face filled with disdain and contempt as he gazed down at Orochimaru lying in the dust. The cold smirk on his lips was like a sharp blade, piercing into Orochimaru's heart mercilessly.

“Uchiha…Sasuke.”

Orochimaru climbed up from the ground, his dull pupils looked lifelessly as he stared at Sasuke, then he said with a sneer, “Not enough, hehehe… “

‘Huh?’

Sasuke felt a sense of impending doom and quickly flickered back ten meters.

Almost at the moment he retreated, Orochimaru’s right hand, covered with Armament Haki, like an armored rubber fist, slammed into the ground with a thunderous roar.

Boom!

The earth shattered, dust rose into the air, amidst the wicked laughter, Orochimaru, like the wind, rushed through the smoke and approached Sasuke.

“Sasuke-kun, be careful!!” Karin screamed as she rushed forward.

“Trash, get out of my way.” Orochimaru coldly snorted and threw a punch.

Karin pulled out her kunai to block in front of her chest, but under the Armament Haki-infused punch, she was almost powerless to resist and was sent flying.

“You… What kind of Taijutsu is that?” Sasuke’s face turned dark.

His mood was very bad right now.

Just now, he had pretended to be tough and said a few harsh words, but in the end, the enemy suddenly exploded…

‘Did I, Uchiha Sasuke, not want face?!’

Sasuke, feeling aggrieved, threw out some kunai and then retreated while forming hand seals: “Fire Release: Great Fireball Technique!”

Orochimaru coldly watched the kunai and fireball shooting towards him, and without dodging, he charged straight ahead.

Steel Release: Full Body Steel!

Hum…

Invisible fluctuations surged, and Orochimaru's body turned into a dark blue color, refracting a black metallic luster under the mottled sunlight.

Orochimaru turned into a metal man and charged recklessly, barbarically knocking away Sasuke's kunai and then crashing into the fireball.

Seeing this scene, Sasuke's pupils contracted. In the next moment, Orochimaru rushed out from the blazing fire, carrying terrifying temperature as he charged towards him.

Sasuke quickly dodged to the left.

Orochimaru grinned at this.

Steel Release – Snake Steel Fist!

With a punch, Orochimaru, with the Armament Haki-infused fist, traced a beautiful arc in the air, and suddenly descended in front of Sasuke.

‘Damn it!’

Sasuke hurriedly raised his kunai.

Clang!

With the dull sound of metal collision, Sasuke felt like he was struck by a meteorite from outer space, his entire right arm felt numb and throbbing with pain, and he’s barely able to hold the kunai.

“Is this the best you can do?” Orochimaru’s voice suddenly came from the right.

Sasuke's face changed drastically and he quickly used a Leaf Great Whirlwind.

Orochimaru didn't dodge, allowing Sasuke's foot to hit him in the temple.

Bang!

“Hiss!!”

Sasuke suddenly gasped for breath, feeling like he had kicked an iron plate. The pain made tears well up in his eyes.

“Uchiha Sasuke, why don't you use your Sharingan?” Orochimaru kicked Sasuke away.

‘What's going on with this guy's body…’ Sasuke climbed up from the ground, holding his waist and abdomen.

The kick just now wasn't heavy, but Sasuke felt like he was hit by an iron rod, with bruises appearing on his body!

“Sasuke-kun, be careful, it's Steel Release! He's a Steel Release Kekkei Genkai Shiobi!” Karin rushed forward again to block in front of Sasuke.

“To be able to recognize such a rare Kekkei Genkai, your knowledge is quite good. Unfortunately, I'm not interested in ordinary people.” Orochimaru, with his entire body covered in a dark blue, Haki-infused armor like Vergo’s, stepped towards Karin, then threw a punch.

Karin was about to take the blow when she suddenly felt several threads entangling her body, pulling her back forcefully.

“This is my fight, Karin, don't interfere!”

After Sasuke rescued Karin with a steel wire, his eyes fixed on Orochimaru, “Since you want to see the power of the Sharingan, I'll grant your wish!”

Sasuke suddenly ran along Orochimaru, throwing kunai while running.

With a cold smile, Orochimaru dodged Sasuke's kunai like taking a stroll in the park. But at a certain moment, he suddenly found that under the sunlight, these kunai seemed to be connected to… ‘Wires?’

Orochimaru turned abruptly to look at the kunai embedded in the ground behind him, his pupils couldn’t help but shrank, and then he smiled: “So that’s how it is, using the Sharingan to foresee and predict my dodging movements, thereby predicting the trajectory of the kunai's flight, and then using resilient wires to bind my movements. Not bad, hahaha.”

Before he finished speaking, Sasuke decisively ‘closed the net’. In an instant, countless wires tightened, binding Orochimaru tightly in place!

“Unfortunately, you discovered it too late!”

With a series of slick moves, Sasuke's face was once again filled with thick arrogance. He sneered repeatedly, “Although you are Steel Release Kekkei Genkai Shinobi, but under the constraints of the same steel wire, you cannot break free in a short time.”

“So… what do you plan to do next?” Orochimaru, as the ‘weak’ steel man, looked calmly at Sasuke.

“Of course I'm going to kill you!”

Sasuke formed hand seals with his hands, “Fire Release: Dragon Fire Technique!”

The scorching flame in the shape of a dragon roared along the wires and crashed into Orochimaru's embrace, burning him into a fiery figure!

‘Not enough!!’

Remembering the scene of Orochimaru crashing through the fireball just now, Sasuke didn’t dare to relax, and frantically channeled the Chakra inside his body, causing the Dragon Fire Technique to surge even more violently!

The raging flames soared into the sky!!