Looking at the humongous body of Manda, Kuroto sheathed the Kusanagi Sword into its scabbard at his waist.

Using tools like Swords, Kunais, Shurikens, or Senbons is useless in the face of such large Summon Beasts, therefore, Kuroto will have to change his tactics now. ​​

Standing atop Manda's head, Orochimaru crossed his hands over his chest and said, "Kuroto-Kun, now let me see your artificial tailed beast!"

Ignoring Orochimaru's words, Kuroto took a gentle fist stance as the blue chakra enveloped his palms.

Manda condescendingly looked at Kuroto and asked Orochimaru with a displeased tone, "Hey Orochimaru, do you have to call me to deal with the brat!"

Ignoring Manda's condescending expression, Orochimaru replied with a smirk, "Don't underestimate the kid, there is a monster hidden within his body!"

"Monster? Why don't I see anything other than the very same annoying brat!?" – Manda snorted coldly and shot towards Kuroto like a cannonball.

Boom… Boom… Boom…

The whole forest shook by the movements of Manda's large body. The impact of each of its movements is no less than a Class-A Earth Release Jutsu.

As Manda continued chasing him, Kuroto's figure continued flashing from one spot to another in retreat using the Body Flicker Technique.

After a little game of Catch when Mando couldn't catch Kuroto, he spoke to Orochimaru in annoyance, "Orochimaru, where is the monster you talked about? The kid is still running like always, I don't see any change!"

Orochimaru also scanned the forest, trying to find Kuroto's location but the flying sand and dust interfered with his vision.

He was obviously a little doubtful at this point.

Orochimaru was obviously a little confused as to why did Kuroto-Kun took Gentle Fist stance to counter Manda's attack, this is undoubtedly stupid.

It's common sense to use giant Summon Beasts to counter against another giant Summon Beast.

Secondly, even large-scale ninjutsu and taijutsu attacks are pretty much useless in the face of large Summon Beasts… unless, the person isn't targeting the Summon Beast but the Summoner!

As soon as this thought appeared in Orochimaru's mind, a figure jumped on Manda's large belly and rushed towards Orochimaru.

As soon as he notices this figure, Orochimaru immediately muttered, 'Sure enough, Kuroto-Kun is targeting me!"

Orochimaru immediately fired several Shadow Snakes at Kuroto who was running in his direction.

Kuroto who was running towards Orochimaru dodged, kicked, or punched away the snakes and continued running towards Orochimaru.

As soon as he was about to close in on Orochimaru, Kuroto immediately printed some hand seals, and shouted, "Eight-Trigram Secret Technique: Vacuum Palm!"

Orochimaru who was about to fire another round of Snakes towards Kuroto was suddenly taken aback.

He is aware of most of the Gentle Fist Style of the Hyuga Clan, but this 'Vacuum Palm' had been heard for the first time.

In that short moment, Kuroto stretched out his hand towards Orochimaru.

"W-what!?"

And suddenly Orochimaru felt an irresistible suction force pulling him towards Kuroto-Kun. The distance between the two was obviously not very much and in the interval of less than a second… Orochimaru was dragged towards Kuroto.

On the other side, Kuroto who expected such a thing to happen immediately pressed his arm on Orochimaru's chest and shouted, "Contract Seal!"

Before Orochimaru had the time to regain his balance, a series of symbols spread on his chest like a spider web with Kuroto's hand as the center!

Bang…

And not waiting for Orochimaru to react, the contract relation between him and Manda was severed by the contract seal and Manda's figure disappeared from the battlefield with a cloud of white smoke.

Having lost the footing. Both Kuroto and Orochimaru fell from the air and firmly landed on the ground.

Orochimaru glanced at his chest in a daze as the contract seal took its effect, "A Contract Seal, huh? It seems you have been hiding quite a lot of cards up your sleeve Kuroto-Kun!"

For someone like Orochimaru, terminating the Contract Seal isn't that troublesome, but if he wants to summon Manda again, he would have to go to the Ryuchi Cave.

And this issue isn't something to care about, for now, what intrigues him more is that secret Gentle Fist technique which put such tremendous suction force on him… it was only for a brief moment, but it did remind him of his encounter with the leader of the Akatsuki, Pain!

On the other side, Kuroto panted lightly.

Just now he had to put quite a lot of effort to dodge Manda's successive attacks, if not for using Rein Interaction combined with the Body Flicker Technique, he would have most certainly suffered heavily if crushed by that gigantic body!

As for the "Eight-Trigram Secret Technique: Vacuum Palm!?" It was just pure crap he used to confuse Orochimaru.

The purpose was only to cover the Rein Pull he used on Orochimaru, and for this reason only, Kuroto intently took Gentle Fist stance and even printed some fake hand seals.

The reason Kuroto used such a crap tactic to confuse him was that Orochimaru has inexplicable greed towards Dojutsu Kekkei Genkai, therefore he needed something to coverup the Tenseigan move.

After all, Kuroto wouldn't want a snake to eye his Tenseigan.

As long as Orochimaru believes that it was a Secret Technique of the Hyuga Clan, he wouldn't pay too much attention to it.

Otherwise, Orochimaru would pay too much attention to him.

And if this happens, let alone cooperate, Orochimaru may even use the power of the Akatsuki Organization to deal with him.

Looking at Kuroto's rough breathing, Orochimaru asked curiously, "Was that a secret technique of your Hyuga Clan?"

Kuroto nodded, "Yes!"

"Why have I never heard of such a secret technique?" – Orochimaru asked with a burning gaze.

"It's because nobody has been able to master it for some time, therefore you might not have heard of this secret technique…" – Kuroto continued spouting utter bullshit with a straight face.

Orochimaru eyed Kuroto but he couldn't figure out whether Kuroto was speaking the truth or not.

Sighing lightly, he muttered, "Figures… But I don't know why the technique you used just now reminded me of someone." – After a short pause, Orochimaru continued, "A person with the Rinnegan!"

Kuroto immediately made a shocked look as he spoke in an exaggerated tone, "W-what? The Rinnegan!? Oh, c'mon Orochimaru-Sama… since when did you start making such jokes…? How come anyone has the eyes of the Sage of the Six Paths? And even if that was the case, I wouldn't believe if you didn't go after that person, after all the Rinnegan would make anyone impatient!"

As soon as Kuroto spoke these lines, Orochimaru's face sank in the bad memories of his fight with Pain.

Kuroto noticed Orochimaru's change and smiled inwardly, as he understood that some bad memories have been triggered by him.

"Any way that aside, let's stop here, if this continues, I am afraid that I wouldn't be able to keep up with you for very long!"

Orochimaru's gaze immediately became sharp as he said with a smirk, "Don't be so restless Kuroto-Kun, there is this one new Jutsu that I have come up with, not that you have used one of your secret technique it's obvious that I too use something don't you think? Besides, I haven't had many opportunities for using this one particular technique, this time seems to be the best… You would be willing to accompany me wouldn't you!"

Looking at Orochimaru's eyes, Kuroto couldn't help but gulp slightly…

'When is it going to over!?'

…

On a Large tree far away from the battlefield.

Yamato squatted on a tree branch with a solemn expression.

Beside him stood the young figures of an Orange hair Kid named Jugo, a white hair kid with two red dots on his forehead named Kimimaro, and finally the young figure of a black hair kid named Haku.

Looking at the distance battle, Kimimaro said, "We should help Orochimaru-Sama!"

Yamato shook his head, "Orochimaru-Sama has ordered to not interfere!"

"The other party is so powerful, it's incredible to be able to keep up with Orochimaru-Sama!" Haku also nodded with slight fear.

If not for Yamato to use Wood Release a while back to protect the four of them, the little guys would have become meat paste because of being squashed by Manda who didn't care whether they are enemies or allies.

At this moment, Kimimaro asked with a frown, "Why did Orochimaru-Sama's Summon Snake suddenly disappear?"

Obviously, none of the other three were knowledgeable enough to be able to answer this question.

While Kimimaro thought of the possible reason, Yamato suddenly pointed towards the battlefield and said, "Look, what is that!?"

Everyone followed his gaze and saw a behemoth that was even larger than Manda, suddenly appeared on the battlefield.

The humongous body was a giant serpent with eight heads and eight tails completely covered in white scales. Form appearance alone it no longer looked like a Snake but a 'Dragon God' from the legends. One known as Yamata no Orochi!

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