manynovel Chapter 38 Orochimaru
Chapter 38 Orochimaru
"Naruto! Are you even listening?" Boruto, who was walking ahead, suddenly noticed that it was unusually quiet behind him.
As Boruto turned around, he happened to see a python swallow Naruto whole.
Boruto's heart skipped a beat. Without thinking, he quickly pulled a sharp kunai from his ninja tool pouch and sped straight toward the python.
Boruto was incredibly fast, arriving before the python in the blink of an eye. The kunai in his hand gleamed coldly as he thrust it directly into the python's abdomen.
Although the kunai pierced the python's belly, it did not penetrate deep enough to cut open the python's abdomen.
The python was clearly enraged by Boruto's attack; it opened its gaping maw, intending to retaliate.
But Boruto was prepared. He used his shadow clones as cover to evade the python's attack. At the same time, Boruto seized the opportunity, leaped, and landed steadily on the python's back.
Boruto, standing on the python's back, did not pause for a moment. He gathered chakra, and the Rasengan gradually formed in his hand.
He slammed the Rasengan hard into the python's head.
With a loud bang, the Rasengan struck the python's head, the powerful impact tearing its skull apart and splattering blood everywhere.
The severely injured python was unable to fight any longer, and its massive body collapsed to the ground, unable to move again.
Boruto breathed a sigh of relief upon seeing the dead python before him, but Naruto was still inside the python's belly.
Just as Boruto was thinking about how to rescue Naruto, the giant python's belly suddenly swelled up, like a balloon about to burst.
Immediately afterwards, a dull thud was heard, and a huge bloody hole was blasted in the python's belly, from which Naruto slowly crawled out.
"It's sticky and disgusting." Naruto frowned as he wiped the foul-smelling, sticky liquid off his body, his face full of disgust.
Naruto, having narrowly escaped death, breathed a sigh of relief and said thankfully, "Phew, thankfully this wretched reptile can't chew its food, otherwise I would have been dead for who knows how long."
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Orochimaru pulled out the "Earth" scroll from behind him and sneered, "You want our [Book of Earth], don't you? After all, you have the [Book of Heaven], so you need to collect two sets."
As he spoke, Orochimaru slowly raised his head, extended his long tongue, and coiled it around the Book of Earth like a nimble snake. He then put it in his mouth and slowly swallowed it.
"Let's begin! The scroll-grabbing battle, a fight to the death!" Orochimaru stared intently at Sasuke and Sakura, as if he were looking at his prey.
"Wait a minute!" Just then, Boruto emerged from behind a large tree.
Boruto pointed at Orochimaru and shouted angrily, "Hey! What you did is so unfair! You swallowed the scroll whole! How are we supposed to steal it? Are we supposed to cut your belly open to get it?"
Sakura was overjoyed to see Boruto suddenly appear and quickly asked, "Boruto, are you alright? Where's Naruto?"
Orochimaru licked his lips lightly, sneered, and replied, "The ninja world is extremely cruel and ruthless. To pursue what they want, it's not surprising that they would resort to cruel methods like disembowelment. Don't you greenhorn ninjas even have this much awareness?"
Boruto, hands on his hips, retorted without backing down, "Hmph! We won't go so far as to disembowel you, but I'll beat you so badly you'll vomit up your breakfast."
Orochimaru narrowed his eyes, smiled slightly, and said with a hint of disdain, "Heh, what an interesting little guy. He dares to be so arrogant with just a shadow clone."
Upon hearing the term "shadow clone," Sakura couldn't help but feel puzzled.
"You can talk big when you get here!" Orochimaru said coldly, and before he finished speaking, he threw countless senbon needles that gleamed with cold light at Boruto.
Seeing this, Boruto's clone hurriedly waved his kunai to block, but unfortunately, there were too many senbon and they were too fast. In the end, one senbon broke through the defense and hit Boruto's clone.
Boruto's clone instantly turned into a wisp of smoke and vanished without a trace.
The moment the shadow clone disappeared, Boruto's main body, who was not far away, immediately received the feedback.
"Alright, now it's just the three of us left again." Orochimaru smiled sinisterly, suddenly unleashing a powerful and chilling aura.
Orochimaru, with his terrifying strength and pure killing intent, rendered Sasuke and Sakura completely unable to move an inch.
Sasuke was utterly shocked: What is this!? Just one glance into his eyes, and he felt a death wish. Just who is this guy?
"Hehehe, you can't move anymore? Then rest assured, I will end your lives in an instant, without even letting you feel the slightest pain."
Taking advantage of Sasuke and the others' inability to move, Orochimaru launched a fierce attack on Sasuke without any mercy.
Sasuke stabbed himself hard with a kunai, enduring the excruciating pain to regain some mobility and narrowly evade Orochimaru's fatal blow.
"Sorry, Sasuke! We're late." Just as Sasuke was confronting Orochimaru, Boruto appeared on the battlefield with Naruto.
However, Sasuke was still consumed by Orochimaru's murderous aura, and his fighting spirit had long since vanished.
Even with Boruto and his companion, they have absolutely no chance of defeating this terrifying enemy.
Faced with such a formidable enemy, Sasuke knew he was powerless to turn the tide, so he made a difficult decision—to hand the scroll over to Orochimaru in exchange for a chance to save their lives.
"Sasuke, you're not planning to hand over the scroll, are you?" Boruto wondered, staring at Sasuke's hesitant gaze.
"Huh?! Sasuke is planning to hand the scroll over to this weirdo who's neither human nor snake? Don't be ridiculous, Boruto! Sasuke doesn't seem like the kind of person who's weak."
Naruto, on the other hand, burst into laughter as if he had heard the biggest joke in the world, even rolling on the ground laughing.
Naruto wiped away tears of laughter from the corners of his eyes, teasingly saying, "If Sasuke really intends to hand over the scroll, then there's only one possibility: this Sasuke is an imposter!"
“The real Sasuke wouldn’t be this weak! That coward is definitely not the Sasuke I know!” Naruto said decisively, as if he had absolute trust in Sasuke.
Sasuke was so embarrassed by Naruto's words that he blushed and felt ashamed. His hand, which was about to take out a scroll from his ninja tool bag, froze in mid-air.