Naruto: Naruto's Uchiha girlfriend is too arrogant

Chapter 623 Artificial Intelligence Rebellion

"Qilin! Vanish along with the thunder!"

Uchiha Sasuke raised one hand above his head, and the sky lit up in that instant. The dark clouds spun rapidly around his finger, forming a huge vortex.

Deep within the vortex, lightning bolts darted about like silver snakes, each flash illuminating the entire ruins in a stark white light.

"roar--!!!"

A colossal beast formed entirely of lightning chakra emerged from the cloud vortex, its body wreathed in thousands of lightning arcs, each arc's tip exploding into a deafening sonic boom in the air.

"boom!!!"

The Kirin crashed to the ground, landing where Uchiha Shisui had been.

Lightning shot into the sky, instantly melting the surrounding rubble into a glassy liquid. Sasuke maintained his hand seal posture, his Sharingan fixed on the smoke-filled explosion center, trying to catch any sign of life in the dust.

To be honest, he didn't really want to kill the remaining Uchiha clan members. If he had a choice, he wouldn't want to point the Kirin at her. But he really didn't have time to waste here. Every second he delayed increased Mai's danger, and he couldn't afford to waste even a second.

However, as the smoke and dust slowly dissipated, what was revealed was not a figure lying motionless on the ground, but a red glow of chakra.

The light shot up from Shisui's body, condensing into a huge half-body armor. The thick arm skeleton was covered with layers of chakra plates, and he held a shield that was also made of chakra in his hand.

The half-body colossus enveloped Shisui entirely, and beneath the Susanoo's mask, the Sharingan in Shisui's eye sockets had transformed into a different shape.

Mangekyou Sharingan. Third stage: Susanoo in armor.

Shisui stood inside the rib shield of Susanoo, his expression changing from gentle persuasion to utter solemnity.

"As expected of Itachi's brother," she thought. "He can unleash the qualitative change and power of the chakra that Rai is familiar with to this extent. It seems that my previous attitude of 'being careful to avoid accidentally killing him' is no longer viable. If I continue to hold back, I might end up being the one who gets defeated."

"Damn it... the Mangekyou Sharingan?"

Sasuke stared at Susanoo, biting his lip in frustration. He didn't have the Mangekyou Sharingan, but he didn't back down. He gripped the Kusanagi sword tightly, and lightning chakra exploded on the blade once more, emitting a sharp whistling sound like the simultaneous cries of hundreds of birds.

"Hey——!"

Thunderbirds cried out in unison, their swords pointing at Susanoo.

"Even without that power that requires loss to gain, I can still defeat you!"

"Naruto—Attack!"

Suddenly, just as the two sides were about to collide again, a completely untimely, clearly articulated mechanical voice boomed in from the side of the battlefield.

Shisui and Sasuke instinctively scanned the direction from which the sound came with their Sharingan at the same time, and then they saw a scene that could not be accurately described in words.

A mechanical figure with extremely rounded lines is rushing toward Shisui's Susanoo at an astonishing speed, its metal shell reflecting comical yet dazzling highlights under the lightning.

As it ran, its body structure began to deform. The metal armor on its chest and abdomen flipped outward, revealing a dense array of firing ports hidden inside. Deep within each firing port, light was frantically gathering, and its brightness was increasing exponentially.

"boom--!!!"

A chakra cannon, thick enough to engulf the entire Susanoo, burst forth from the mechanical Naruto's chest, its beam slicing through the air with a low-frequency roar that made the entire sky tremble.

The chakra cannon struck Susanoo's shield precisely, and the explosion turned the entire battlefield into a blinding pure white.

"What?!" Shisui's pupils shrank, and he subconsciously crossed the arms of his Susanoo in front of his chest, the chakra shield unfolding to its maximum extent in front of him, forcefully taking the attack that was completely unexpected.

Even so, the enormous impact still pushed Susanoo and her inside it back more than ten meters. Susanoo plowed two deep trenches in the ground, and the rubble and soil were pushed to the sides and piled up into earthen walls half a person high.

"...Can't you just tell her the truth?"

While Sasuke was still standing there, a voice rang out beside him. Sasuke turned his head sharply and saw a woman standing next to him.

Black hair, black eyes, and a face that bears an inexplicable resemblance to her own, yet also bears a striking resemblance to her mother, Uchiha Mikoto.

"It's you!" Sasuke recognized her.

"What is that? A robot? Did you bring that?"

"Is now the time to ask questions?" Satsuki turned her head and glanced at him.

Sasuke paused for a moment. Then he snapped back to reality. Yes, now was not the time to ask questions. He suppressed all the questions in his mind, not even asking why Satsuki was there or why the robot attacked Shisui.

He simply gripped the Kusanagi sword tightly again and sprinted towards the center of Konoha.

"Don't even think about running away!"

Shisui's voice emanated from Susanoo, filled with an uncontrollable urgency. A burning Yasaka Magatama condensed in Susanoo's giant palm, aimed at Sasuke's rapidly receding figure.

"Your opponent is me, right?"

Before Shisui could even throw the burning magatama away, the mechanical Naruto had already clung to the surface of Susanoo with incredible speed, its two metal arms gripping the Susanoo's rib armor tightly.

Then, its entire body began to grow larger and deform. The metal shell, which was originally proportional to a human, unfolded layer by layer like folded petals, revealing the extended mechanical structure hidden beneath.

Gears, hydraulic rods, and ball joints were reassembled in the blink of an eye. In the blink of an eye, Mechanical Naruto had transformed into a mechanical Nine-Tails, as large as a three-stage Susanoo!

Nine tails made of steel spread out behind him at the same time, and his two front claws pressed Susanoo down hard!

"roar--!!!"

The mechanical nine-tailed fox let out a roar, causing the surrounding ruins and fragments to bounce on the ground.

Shisui was horrified. She recognized it immediately; it was the organization's ultimate mechanical weapon, an internal asset of Akatsuki, not an enemy—it was one of their own! Why would they turn against her at this critical juncture?!

She struggled to turn her head away from the mechanical Nine-Tails' suppression, using her Mangekyou Sharingan to scan the battlefield around her, trying to find out who was controlling the machine.

But no one noticed. Kabuto wasn't there, Sasori wasn't there, Orochimaru wasn't there, the leader wasn't there, and no one who could have given the orders was there. It was as if the robot had decided to defect on its own.

Uchiha Satsuki didn't linger; she had already sped off towards the center of Konoha to find her Naruto.