Naruto: Naruto's Uchiha girlfriend is too arrogant

Chapter 642 Another Dimension

"The power of life and death."

Mai was the first to make a move. As those four words fell, the Truth-Seeking Ball floating behind her began to deform, and its originally stable spherical structure disintegrated on its own.

The jet-black Truth-Seeking Jewel stretched and expanded in the air, splitting into countless Truth-Seeking Jewel needles as thin as hair.

The tip of each needle gleams with the annihilation light unique to Truth-Seeking Balls, transforming the Truth-Seeking Balls, which possess the property of annihilating all matter, into needles that are even more difficult to dodge. This is far more deadly than a simple Truth-Seeking Ball sphere or Truth-Seeking Ball shield.

There are enough needles to cover all evasive angles, and they are small enough to penetrate any gap in defensive armor. The annihilation power attached to each needle is enough to completely disintegrate any ninjutsu defense at the molecular level the moment it comes into contact with chakra.

The Nine-Tails Chakra Shield and Susanoo Armor alone are simply not enough to completely defend against attacks of this density.

"Whoosh—whoosh—whoosh—!"

Countless Truth-Seeking Jewel Needles were launched simultaneously. As if possessing their own consciousness, they traced arcs, attacking Naruto and Sasuke from the front, sides, above, and behind—from every imaginable angle.

"sun."

Naruto didn't dodge. He stretched out his right hand, and something flickered deep within the pupil of his right eye.

"roar--!!!"

A chakra fox head emerged from Naruto, completely enveloping him and Satsuki. But this time, the fox head wasn't golden; it was white.

It was a pure, almost blindingly bright white. The instant the white fox head appeared, Mai saw her prized Truth-Seeking Balls collide with that white chakra shell. Then, those Truth-Seeking Balls, which were said to be able to annihilate all matter and ninjutsu, were actually annihilated the moment they touched the white chakra surface.

"...White Nine-Tails chakra? What did you do?"

"It's nothing, just a fusion of the sun's chakra and Kurama's power."

Naruto's nonchalant reply made Mai frown even more. "It seems that in terms of quality, Truth-Seeking Balls still can't compare to the largest star in the Milky Way."

"The sun? How could something like that possibly have chakra?"

Mai made no attempt to hide her disbelief. The sun is a star, a physical celestial body, not a living being, much less a ninja. How could it possibly possess something like chakra?

"Never mind. It was just a test anyway." Her tone returned to its previous indifference.

"Emerging from nothingness!"

She read out the name of the next technique.

Naruto noticed this detail. After switching to Ten-Tails Jinchuriki mode, Mai's release of every technique was incredibly smooth, without any awkwardness from adapting to a new power. It was as if she were using an instinctive reaction that she had mastered countless times. It seemed that this wasn't her first time fighting in the form of Ten-Tails Jinchuriki.

But the thought only flashed through his mind for a moment, because the attack did not come. Or rather, the attack came in a way that was completely different from what he had expected.

The sky has turned a page.

It was as if an invisible giant hand stretched from one end of the horizon to the other, turning the entire sky over like turning the pages of a book.

The sky and the earth transformed into enormous color squares, each flipping over at the same moment to become a different color, a different texture, and a completely different world.

In the blink of an eye, Naruto and Satsuki were standing in another space. It wasn't an illusion, a trick, or any way to obscure the senses—it was a real, complete spatial displacement.

"Is this... another dimension?! Or has the terrain and landscape been completely altered?"

Zuo Yue looked around in astonishment. The world here didn't seem like Earth at all. Beneath her feet was a gray earth, so smooth and flat that there were no gaps, stretching to the horizon without any undulations or cracks.

A huge white planet shimmered in the sky, occupying a third of the entire field of vision, but the area was surrounded by a warm light resembling that of a setting sun.

"It's another dimension. But the scope of this is ridiculously large."

Naruto quickly made a judgment. Whether it was Obito's Kamui dimension or Kaguya's Origin Sphere dimension, pulling an enemy into another dimension required some form of physical contact or the opening of a spatial portal.

From the moment Mai released the spell to the moment she completed the spatial displacement, there was no catalyst in between, and they weren't even given any chance to react.

This means that Mai can pull people into another dimension without touching them, and her other dimension is large enough to accommodate several complete Susanoo fighting each other inside.

"But would this guy be so kind as to deliberately move his position to avoid accidentally hurting others?" Naruto quickly went through this question in his mind.

"Do you still dare to get distracted now?"

Mai's voice suddenly appeared directly in front of Naruto.

Naruto instinctively raised the Flying Thunder God kunai in his hand, but his movements became incredibly slow. There was a noticeable delay, which would never occur under normal circumstances, between raising his arm and putting it into a defensive position.

He knew exactly what he wanted to do, and his body was indeed carrying out his brain's instructions, but each movement took twice as long as normal.

"Bang--!"

Mai's fist slammed solidly into Naruto, sending him flying with the force of the impact.

"Naruto!"

Satsuki's Kusanagi sword was wreathed in violent lightning chakra as he slashed at Mai's side of the neck.

"Too slow."

However, Mai didn't even turn her head completely; she merely shifted her body slightly, and Satsuki's sword grazed past her collar. Immediately afterward, Mai spun around and kicked Satsuki in the stomach.

Satsuki instinctively summoned Susanoo for defense, and a purple chakra skeleton condensed around her in a fraction of a second, but half of the Susanoo was also kicked away by this kick.

The enormous purple demon statue rolled several times on the ground, creating several deep craters.

"……I see."

Satsuki stood up from the ground, raised her hand to wipe the blood from the corner of her mouth, and quickly scanned the strange space around her with her Mangekyou Sharingan. Then she raised her right hand in front of her eyes, and the movement of raising her fingers seemed to be slowed down, with an obvious and unnatural delay from clenching her fist to fully opening her fingers.

"I understand. In this space, even though gravity has no effect, our speed has been cut in half. Something is actively restricting our speed."

"No, that's not all." Naruto stood up from the ground and patted the dust off his clothes.

Mai's brow furrowed sharply at the sight. That punch had been powerful enough to pierce a person through. But this guy got up, dusted himself off, and seemed completely unharmed?

Naruto didn't notice Mai's subtle change in expression; his gaze was fixed on Sasuke's Susanoo. On the chest of the purple demon statue, there was a crack in the armor, a result of Mai's kick.

Under normal circumstances, Susanoo's chakra armor will automatically repair itself after being damaged.

But now, the crack remains on the surface of the armor, showing no signs of being repaired.

To verify, he gently ran his Flying Thunder God kunai across his finger. The sharp blade cut a small wound on his fingertip, and a drop of blood seeped out.

Then Naruto activated the life energy and yang energy within his body, which, theoretically, could even save someone who had opened the final gate of the Eight Gates, the Gate of Death.

He intended to use that power to heal the insignificant scratch on his finger. The treatment was complete. The wound was still bleeding. Blood dripped from his fingertip onto the ground, spreading a small, dark red, damp patch on the gray earth.

"...It slowed them down, and at the same time, it deprived them of the ability to heal." Naruto concluded. No wonder Mai pulled them into this alternate dimension.