The Fifth Hokage! A Fight for the Brave!

Kabuto dismantles Naruto with a medic's precision — chakra scalpels severing muscle from inside, knees that stop answering, a lecture about realistic ambitions — and the boy keeps getting up anyway, because a necklace and a nindo are on the line. The finisher writes itself into legend: a shadow clone seizes Kabuto's arm, holding him in place for the one technique that needs no hand seals. Stage three completes in combat: a perfect, contained Rasengan, drilled point-blank through the smile.