Chapter 249: A Guaranteed Defeat
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Chapter 249: A Guaranteed Defeat
"Urgh!" Another ANBU agent went flying toward a nearby wall with enough force to leave a large, gaping hole.
The ground in the shopping district had become riddled with the bodies of all the ninjas the two Elders had sent to arrest Naruto.
Meanwhile, the blonde young man was still standing, with his hands restricted by the chakra shackles. "Anyone else wants to give it a shot?" Naruto glanced around.
The group of Jonin he was familiar with had not moved from their spot and limited themselves to observing.
From the squad of ninjas that Elder Koharu and Elder Homura had brought with them, there was only one ANBU remaining. She had long purple hair and wore a mask resembling a cat.
Naruto noted that the last ANBU was not paying attention to him and instead seemed to be more focused on all the people he had just defeated.
"What are you doing?! Your target is that way!" Elder Homura shouted at her when he saw that she was moving in a different direction.
"Go do something, you useless ANBU!" Koharu was beyond frustrated by the lack of success. They had sent a small army against a Naruto who was restrained by chakra chains, and they still accomplished nothing at all.
The Elder glared at Naruto and noticed that he didn't even look a bit tired.
"You didn't kill any of them…" the female agent commented.
"I won't spare them a second time." He had promised Tsunade to protect this village, so he gave them this one chance. But if Konoha ninjas were to turn against him, he would not hesitate again.
The ANBU took off her mask. She was a beautiful woman with long purple hair and dark eyes. "I still appreciate it. Thank you, Mister Uzumaki… some of these ninjas are my friends, after all." She offered a polite bow to him before turning around to look at the Elders. "As for you two… I won't be following any more of your orders."
"How dare you!"
"We are Konoha's Elders! Our position is only second to the Hokage herself. You will do what we say, or we will charge you with treason!"
She ignored the threat and looked back at Naruto. "My name is Yugao Uzuki, by the way." She threw her mask in the Elders' direction. "And, I quit," she said before disappearing.
"Well then… should I fight you next? You two Elders used to be powerful ninjas, right? You must still have some fire in you." Naruto turned to the two Elders.
Homura and Koharu were starting to truly panic now. They may still have a few tricks up their sleeves at their late age, but nothing that could work against someone capable of defeating an entire squad of elite ninjas while wearing handcuffs.
They turned their eyes to their last hope: the group of Jonin composed of Kakashi, Asuma, Kurenai, Anko, Ibiki, Gai, Yamato, and Lord Hiashi. They were the only ones left because they never attacked Naruto.
"You must do your duty to your village!"
"Yes! This dangerous individual wants to kill your Elders. You must do something!"
Koharu and Homura shouted at them.
"Sorry… I can't fight my last student. It goes against my code," Kakashi shrugged.
"He is my future son-in-law. It wouldn't be right," Hiashi added.
"I don't do arrests, only torture," Ibiki told them.
"And I work for him. Don't wanna get fired!" Anko chimed in.
"He's kinda my student too. I taught him how to use his wind chakra once, I would feel wrong to attack him." Asuma mentioned.
"I consider Hinata like a little sister," Kurenai said. "So… I can't attack Naruto since that would make her sad."
"He gave my beloved student a chance to achieve greatness," Gai said. "I will always be grateful for that."
They turned to look at Yamato.
"There's no way I'm fighting Naruto! You don't know what he can do!" Yamato cried.
"This can't be…" Homura was now visibly scared. The old man glanced toward Naruto.
"You can't strike us! We are this village's Elders!" Koharu shouted at him.
"Can't I?..." Naruto twisted his wrists.
His restraints began to emit an awful sound as the metal started to bend and grind against each other.
A moment later, the part that was keeping the cuffs together shattered in an explosive manner, sending pieces everywhere.
Naruto then grabbed each of the remaining parts that were still attached to his wrists. His fingers dug deeper into the metal, deforming it as if it were made of clay, before applying more force and ripping them off.
"You… you took them off with brute force?!" Homura looked horrified.
Without being able to use chakra, that should have been impossible. Those cuffs had been carefully designed to contain the most dangerous criminals.
Koharu came to another realization. "You could have taken them off at any time you wanted…"
"Of course. Do you understand now?" Naruto walked closer to them.
They did understand. Naruto had just shown them that he could take on their best ninjas with his hands cuffed and his chakra sealed.
They understood… there was nothing they could do against him. No matter what ploys they could come up with, in the end, they didn't have the power to enforce anything against Naruto.
The Elders were so scared that they became locked in place, unable to move away from him as he approached.
Kakashi and the others were still watching attentively, wondering what Naruto was going to do next.
"Normally, I would kill you for plotting against me," Naruto's sharp blue eyes were locked on the two terrified Elders. "But just for this one time… I will let 'Her' decide on your punishment."
Only a few of the present people had realized there was someone else nearby, waiting for the opportune time to jump in.
"Lady Tsunade… what do you want to do with these two?" Naruto asked.
Only then did the figure of the Hokage appear from the roof of a nearby shop.
She landed right in front of the two Elders. Their previous arrogant expression was nowhere to be seen. Now, Tsunade could only see two scared old folk.
But she knew that she could not go easy on them. If her punishment was too light, she might upset Naruto in the process.
"Lady Tsunade!"
"Save us from this monster!" The Elders practically threw themselves at her feet.
Not that she had planned to go easy on them to begin with. This was actually the outcome she had been waiting for.
"The two of you have gone against my direct orders and conspired behind my back. I will now decide your fate…"
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