Naruto, my father's name is Uchiha Madara.

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Kimimaro's voice remained calm, but beneath that calm, a chilling aura, like the spitting tongue of a venomous snake, quietly spread.

He tilted his head slightly, his pure white hair falling over his shoulders, and his gray-green eyes locked onto Sasuke's wary black eyes.

Then it slowly moved toward Naruto's face, which was wearing a fake smile.

"However, I haven't found the person yet..."

He paused, as if savoring something.

"...We found the two of you first."

The air seemed to freeze at this moment.

Only the distant, faint sounds of casino noise remained in the courtyard.

Kimimaro slightly raised his pale, almost transparent hand, his voice like an ice bead falling to the ground, clear and cold, piercing through the false pretense:

"Sasuke Uchiha."

His gaze shifted to the blond boy.

"Uzumaki Naruto."

Time seemed to have been paused.

Naruto's silly grin, reminiscent of Takuya Kanbara, froze instantly, and his blue pupils contracted sharply.

Sasuke's feigned "friendliness" instantly froze, and all the muscles in his body tensed up!

Naruto feigned ignorance: "Who are you talking about?! Hahaha!"

"Hahaha!"

Kimimaro seemed to realize he had mistaken someone for someone else and started laughing as well.

Suddenly, a crisp, melodious metallic clanging sound rang out.

Naruto's body leaped backward like a spring compressed to its limit!

At the same time, Sasuke also moved!

His movements were faster and more swift. His Sharingan locked onto Kimimaro's raised right hand, and his body was forced back!

"Tsk-!"

A piercing, tearing sound of metal scraping against metal rang out in the silent courtyard!

A dazzling burst of sparks!

Just as Naruto and Sasuke leaped backward.

Kimimaro raised his palm.

Without warning, like a venomous snake emerging from its hole, a long, slender, white blade with a cold, bone-like sheen was thrust out!

The blade narrowly missed Naruto's hastily parried kunai!

The immense force and impact of the collision made Naruto's arm go numb.

He stumbled after landing, barely managing to steady himself. Looking down, his pupils constricted sharply—

The steel kunai in his hand had a clear crack at its edge! It was almost broken!

"So hard! Sasuke, this guy's weapon is a bit dangerous!"

Naruto shook his numb wrist, his eyes fixed intently on the strange bone sword in Kimimaro's hand that seemed to grow out of flesh and blood.

Sasuke had already landed safely, his Sharingan locked firmly on Kimimaro's arm.

Especially the bone knife extending from his palm, his voice was low and full of apprehension: "I saw it... It's not a summoning, it's not a ninja tool."

"It was extracted directly from his body! It's a bloodline limit!"

His Sharingan clearly captured the moment the bone knife pierced the skin and extended from the metacarpal bone.

The scene had a chilling, eerie quality.

"And it's very tricky!"

Kimimaro slowly straightened up, his moon-white kimono fluttering gently in the breeze.

This formed an eerie and dangerous contrast with the white bone longsword in his hand, which was spotless yet exuded a chilling killing intent.

His handsome face remained expressionless.

His grey-green eyes were like two bottomless ancient wells, reflecting the two boys in front of him who looked like they were facing a formidable enemy.

"Lord Orochimaru... is very interested in you."

Kimimaro's voice rang out calmly, as if stating a trivial fact: "Especially you, Uchiha Sasuke, those eyes... Your master has longed for them for a long time."

He slightly raised the bone knife, its tip pointing at the two of them.

A cold, pure chakra, carrying the aura of death, began to emanate from his slender body.

The temperature around seemed to drop a few degrees.

In the ruins of the abandoned courtyard, an invisible killing intent quietly unfolds like a spider web.

Chapter 184 The Great Battle with Kimimaro

The air in the abandoned courtyard of Tanzaku Street seemed to be frozen by the white bone sword in Kimimaro's hand.

The cold, pure killing intent surged like a tangible tide, wave after wave crashing against Naruto and Sasuke's nerves.

"Lord Orochimaru... is very interested in you."

Kimimaro's voice remained completely calm, his grey-green eyes locked onto Sasuke's Sharingan.

“Especially you, Uchiha Sasuke, those eyes… the master has longed for them for so long.”

Before he could finish speaking, Kimimaro moved!

He raised his hands, his ten fingers spreading out like lotus flowers, and aimed them at Naruto and Sasuke, who were standing side by side!

"Corpse Bone Vein·Ten-finger piercing bullet!"

“Swish, swish, swish, swish—!”

Ten sharp, tearing screechs suddenly erupted!

Ten pale, bone bullets, each the size of a finger bone, were launched as if from a powerful crossbow.

It moved so fast that it left only a blurry, pale afterimage.

With terrifying penetrating power that can pierce through steel, it shot towards Naruto and Sasuke's vital points!

Naruto's pupils contracted sharply, and his body instinctively tried to dodge, but the bone bullet was too fast and covered too wide an area!

At this critical moment!

Sasuke's crimson Sharingan was already spinning at high speed.

Almost at the same instant Kimimaro opened his fingers, his hands had already turned into a blur!

"Ding ding ding ding ding—!"

A series of rapid, ear-piercing impacts, like a torrential downpour hitting banana leaves, suddenly rang out!

Sparks flew wildly in the dimly lit courtyard, like fireworks that bloomed and faded in an instant!

In the blink of an eye, Sasuke threw out a full ten shuriken with unbelievable precision!

Each shuriken seemed to possess a life of its own, tracing a tricky arc and striking the ten deadly bone bullets with perfect precision!

Sasuke's expression changed slightly at the moment of impact.

The enormous impact deflected all the shuriken!

What alarmed him even more was—

"Snap... snap... pfft..."

A series of ear-piercing cracking sounds rang out!

Those shuriken made of fine steel.

Upon colliding with the pale bone bullet, they twisted, broke, and even shattered into several pieces like fragile glass!

Fragments scattered and flew everywhere, embedding themselves deeply into the surrounding ruins!

In contrast, the ten bone bullets were precisely intercepted and deviated from their original trajectory.

But the remaining force still penetrates deep into the ground or wall, leaving a bottomless hole.

Furthermore, the bone bullet itself only had shallow impact marks on its surface, remaining completely undamaged!

"what?!"

Naruto's scalp tingled at the sight. "The hardness of those bones... even a shuriken shattered?!"

This simply subverted his cognition.

"So hard! This guy's weapon is a bit dangerous!"

He cried out, but his body didn't stop moving at all!

Taking advantage of the subtle gap between Sasuke's precise interception and Kimimaro's loss of old power and the emergence of new power.

Naruto shot off like an arrow, unleashing astonishing speed!

Dust erupted beneath his feet as Naruto instantly closed the distance between himself and Kimimaro!

The kunai in his hand gleamed with a cold light, carrying an indomitable momentum, aiming straight for Kimimaro's seemingly vulnerable throat!

This was the fatal blow taught by Ban—fast, accurate, and ruthless!

"Naruto! Get out of the way!"

Sasuke's warning was shouted almost simultaneously with Naruto's activation!

His Sharingan locked onto the flow of chakra within Kimimaro's body.

A violent, cold energy, sharp as thorns, erupted instantly within the opponent's body!

However, Naruto's movements were too fast. The attack was already in place, and the arrow was on the bowstring, ready to be released!