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Chapter 292: The 4th Great Ninja War? (2)
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When Madara gave Obito the mission to revive him after collecting all the Tailed Beasts, he had never expected things to go smoothly. Because such expectation was wishful thinking. Reality was often disappointing.
However, it would be a lie to say he wasn't surprised that he would wake up to this sort of situation. The Hyugas apparently gave birth to a child with eyes that matched the Rinnegan.
Madara Uchiha didn't feel an ounce of fear though. He had a mission, a noble and great one. He always knew that to finalise such a mission, he would have to erase thorns such as this Neji Hyuga more than once. He had known that yet he had chosen to walk on this path.
This time around, Madara knew it was his last thorn before he initiated true world peace.
The northernmost side of the battlefield, of the unofficial 4th Great Ninja War, was occupied by Madara, Naruto, and Sasuke.
Three of them were guarding the Gedo Statue behind them that was sucking the Eight Tails' chakra from within Killer Bee.
The chakra was almost completely sucked, and Madara was preparing to move onto the Gold and Silver brothers who were waiting by the side, forced by Kabuto's command over their Reanimated bodies.
Madara's eyes locked onto Naruto for a moment. The initial plan, Obito told him, was to use Naruto's chakra after absorbing the Eight-Tails. However, with the appearance of the Gold and Silver brothers– who had absorbed a part of Nine Tails' chakra while they were alive– Naruto was expended. Naruto could rather be an asset in the fight against the enemy force.
Madara's gaze then shifted to Sasuke, lingering on his back as he was watching the enemies in the far.
'This generation's Indra and Asura…' Madara noted. 'One of them has successfully gained the Six Paths' chakra, but the other one hasn't yet.'
He recalled Obito telling him a plan to help Sasuke Uchiha awaken his true powers, but Madara wasn't so sure if that'd work. Though he wouldn't stop the plan, after all, according to Obito this fellow named Naruto had awakened his powers in the same way– by dying.
"He is moving." Naruto said abruptly.
Hearing that, Madara turned to the enemy force and noticed how Neji teleported his two blonde girlfriends. After which, as Madara watched, the sky darkened and a bolt of lightning descended on top of Neji– circulating around him and forming an armour of lightning, the shape of which was similar to his own, around Neji.
"Hoh?"
Madara looked mildly impressed as the Hyuga boy moved at a threatening speed through the rain, flying towards the Third Raikage.
What happened next surprised even Madara as Neji grabbed the Third by his throat and slammed him on the ground, and in the next instance he pulled his throat out. That wasn't the surprising part to Madara, the surprising part came next when a white box-shaped energy left Neji's palm— the ‹Particle Style›— and devoured the Third Raikage's body, erasing it out of existence as if it never existed.
The Third Raikage died for the second time, just like that, in less than half a minute.
Madara was surprised to witness the death of such a strong Reanimated, immortal Shinobi in such a short time.
"...Naruto Uzumaki," Madara said after a short silence, nudging his chin towards Sasuke. "Help your friend awaken his Rinnegan. That Hyuga boy will reach us in no time."
With his gaze locked on Neji's moving form, Naruto slowly nodded.
A moment later, Sasuke spread his arms wide— allowing Naruto to shove a Rasengan on his chest.
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Neji slowly stood up from the hole he had created with the ‹Particle Style›. He didn't move immediately, which allowed the dark sky to roar more as rain finally touched Neji's body.
Droplets of water dripped down his wet hair as Neji scanned the battlefield.
Around him, both the living and undead stood silent, watching him fetch his blindfold from his inventory and tie his hair in a ponytail with it.
"Particle Style," Neji muttered as he finished tying his hair. "Is the only thing other than my Blackflame that can kill the reanimated Ninjas. So I suggest to the people who are still living to let me handle this. Back off."
He didn't wait for anyone to nod or agree, he moved once more in his glorious armour— that suited and activated his [White Knight in Shining Armour] title's 25% attack buff.
The next enemy Neji grabbed was the 2nd Mizukage, who was targeting the current Mizukage.
[Hozuki Gengetsu – Undead-Human – Peak Tier 10]
The undead's eyes met with Neji for a moment before Neji moved towards him in his lightning armour, at a speed faster than the Mizukages could react, and shoved his hand through the 2nd Mizukage in an attempt to imitate Chidori.
"Ak–" the 2nd Mizukage tried saying something, but Neji didn't listen.
Neji once again activated ‹Particle Style: Atomic Dismantling Jutsu›, though he pulled back his hand from inside the Mizukage first– otherwise, even his own hand would have been destroyed by the technique. Neji pointed his palm at the Kage and then shot a cube of destruction energy at him, making the cube enlarge in the air as it devoured the 2nd Mizukage– immediately erasing him from existence.,
In this world's history, the 2nd Mizukage was killed by the 2nd Tsuchikage– another wielder of ‹Particle Style›– but back then, the Mizukage at least managed to bring down the Tsuchikage with him. This time around, he died without any chance to protest.
"Hozuki…" a voice said from amongst the crowd of undead Ninjas, and turning to the side Neji found Mū, the 2nd Tsuchikage, glaring at him.
"Onoki, so this is the guy who stole your Particle Style?" Mū asked, getting a nod from the 3rd Tsuchikage. "Alright. He shall pay the price now."
Then, with a swift hand movement, Mū became invisible, planning to attack Neji from a blind spot.
At the same time, the owner of all these Reanimated Shinobi, Kabuto, had realised the other Kages weren't the problem here. The sole problem was Neji, and so he shifted all the Reanimated Shinobis' attention to Neji.
So all of the close quarter fighters rushed at Neji at the same time, including the invisible Mū.
Neji's eyes shone as his Jōgan activated.
The scene next was something out of these Ninjas' nightmare. Neji's eyes allowed him to see everything to allow him to decide how he should move. His hand moved swiftly to grab one of the enemies, Sasori of the Akatsuki, by the arms to pull him apart– severing his body in two with a strong tug.
Then, Neji lit him up in Black flames.
Particle Style was a dangerous power to use, as it could hurt Neji too, but that wasn't the case with Blackflame. Though by using this, he would be killing his enemy in both body and soul, they would simply perish away.
Neji used the severed body of Sasori as weapons in both his hands as he started to wave his arms around, slamming into any incoming attackers– such as Pakura and Hanzo, making them catch onto Blackflame as well.
It was a pity that Neji couldn't steal Kekkei Genkais from these enemies, but at least he was levelling up.
Neji leapt in the air to avoid a wave of incoming gold sand, sent by Kazekage Rasa.
Neji clenched his jaws and concentrated mana on his eyes before releasing two beams of darkness from them, utilising his class special skill [Dark Vision].
The penetrated Rasa's body, his bodily defence not being his strongest suit, and Neji took that chance to throw a cube of Particle Style at him. The other enemies jumped away from there, but Rasa was unable to dodge as he was devoured into the cube of destruction.
"Explosion Release–"
A voice, belonging to Deidara of the Akatsuki, yelled aloud as he was preparing an explosion-style jutsu to throw at Neji.
But Deidara was outsmarted when Neji moved at an unbelievable speed and appeared beside him, pushing a Rasengan of explosion element– created with Deidara's own Kekkei Genkai that Neji had stolen– at Deidara's face, blowing him up and then liting him up in Blackflames before he could heal.
Neji silently turned to the other enemies who were left.
The Third Hokage took in a deep breath and spewed out a twisting fire– but that technique backfired when Neji threw a small spark of Blackflames on it, causing the orange fire to turn black and invade Hiruzen's lungs, starting to make him burn from inside out.
Before Hiruzen could perish, Neji cancelled the Blackflames and eliminated him with Particle Style. Hiruzen didn't deserve to be soul-killed, no matter what some people may have to say.
Now, only the 1st and 2nd Hokage and the 2nd Tsuchikage were left. The 4th Hokage was nowhere to be seen yet.
Neji looked around the battlefield to find the alive Ninjas exchanging blows with Obito with the intention to reach the Gedo Statue.
On Neji's side of the battle, the two Hokages surrounded him, while the 2nd Tsuchikage was moving around invisibly– though Neji's eyes could still follow him.
– Fsscht!
The air shifted as a yellow light flashed on the battlefield, and Minato stood there in the next instant. Minato Namikaze, the 4th Hokage, was coated in a yellow cloak of chakra.
"Sorry for the delay, I was trying to convince Kurama," Minato said with an awkward smile while a kunai rested on his lips. "But she wouldn't budge from her decision to kill you."
Neji paused before nodding. "Let's get going."
Then, the battlefield was littered with light from Neji's lightning cloak, the 2nd and 4th Hokages' Flying Thunder God, and the 2nd Tsuchikage's Particle Style that he used whenever he thought Neji had his guard down.
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