Choji uses his body to block a blast that would have destroyed Konohakagure

Boom!! He exploded violently like he was bursting open. The houses closest to him were unable to hold up against the impact of the explosion and were destroyed. Fortunately, Naruto’s shadow clones had gone to check on and bring out the people in the buildings nearby, so there was no human damage, but new flames rose up into the sky.

“Are you okay, Naruto?!” Sakura cried, as Sai’s Cartoon Mimicry bird landed and they all raced over to Naruto’s side.

“Tadaichi …” Ino stared dumbfounded at the scene, bits of flesh flung everywhere. Sakura placed a concerned hand on her back. “I’m okay.” She pulled herself together, and immediately ran over to the injured members of the barrier team with Sakura.

However, the threat had not ended.

“Hey, don’t they seem kinda weird?” Shikamaru’s face hardened as he stared at the ninja of Konoha, likely under someone’s control. Until moments ago, they had been baring their teeth at the members of the barrier team, but now they suddenly turned their backs to them and started running. The Konoha ninja then spread out their hands on the wall that surrounded Konohagakure, and clung to it.

Naruto gasped. “No way! Them, too?!” He stared hard at their bodies. They were all injured somewhere—probably injuries from the explosion of Tadaichi. Blood oozed out of their wounds, and just like before, it was frothing. A chill ran up Naruto’s spine. “Shikamaru! They’re all gonna explode!”

“What?! If we have several explosions like that one at the same time, this whole area could be sent flying!”

There were nine Konoha ninja left. Their bodies began to transform and swell up, as if things inside were pushing outward.

Shikamaru clicked his tongue. “Can you make some wings with Art of Expansion?!” he yelled at Choji.

“G-got it!” Choji opened a bag of chips he had hidden on him, and shoved them all into his mouth. As he hurriedly chewed them up, he concentrated his power in his body. “Aaaaaaah!”

The secret technique of the Akimichi clan. In the blink of an eye, Choji’s body became enormous, and butterfly wings sprouted on his back. This technique used a vast amount of chakra. Choji’s cheeks, usually swollen, were carved out in sharp relief.

“How long ‘till they explode, Naruto?!”

“Maybe ten seconds!”

Nine, eight, seven—

“Got it! Everyone, behind Choji! Hold onto something solid!”

Six, five, four—

“Choji, now! Flap those wings with everything you’ve got!”

“Aaah!” Having quickly grasped Shikamaru’s intention, Choji braced himself and flapped the massive, chakra-made butterfly wings. He sent all of his own chakra out on the wind they created.

Three, two, one—

Booom! The noise of the explosion. And again and again. A series of these, and the bodies clinging to the wall were ripped apart all at once.

Shikamaru checked the front, and then yelled, “Here it comes!”

When the shock wave came toward the village of Konoha, it collided with the wind radiating outward from Choji’s massive body. The wind hit the shock wave, and the two fought.

“I got your back!!” Naruto shouted. “Here we go, Kurama!”

Right!

To reinforce Choji’s wind, Naruto called up the nine-tailed Kurama, once a source of hatred, now his partner. Power raced through his body, generating a Wind Release: Ransengan that he sent flying toward the shock wave. This new wind pushed back the shock wave to protect the village.

“All right. Nice!”

After wrestling with Choji’s wind, the shock wave was bounced back beyond the village with the added force of Naruto’s Wind Release: Ransengan. The trees of the forest just outside the gates were whipped around by the combination of wind and shock wave and flattened.

“Hah, hah … Did that. Do. The trick?” Choji released his jutsu, breathing hard.

Sasuke Shinden, Chapter 1.