"Next, it's your turn!"
Hearing Tsunade's words, Raiko responded with a cheerful smile:
"Young girl, you sure talk big."
"However, being able to easily deal with that useless Orochimaru does give you some bragging rights."
With that, Raiko formed a single hand seal.
The severely damaged wood dragons, which Tsunade had just smashed away, returned to her side.
Although wood dragons are smaller than wood golems, their concentration of sage energy makes them more resilient. This is why Tsunade could smash the wood golems but only repel Raiko's adamantine wood dragons.
Raiko then placed her hand on the wood dragon, continuously infusing it with sage energy to enhance its defense.
"Hmph! Let's see what you're made of!"
Tsunade's words had barely fallen when she charged at Raiko.
At that moment.
Boom!!!!!!
A massive explosion echoed from the direction of Konoha.
Both Tsunade and Raiko turned their heads to see a giant mushroom cloud rising, with an enormous fireball beneath it.
"Should we leave for now?"
Seeing the giant fireball in the distance, both Tsunade and Raiko had the same thought.
Tsunade wanted to rush back to Konoha to see what had happened.
Raiko, on the other hand, feared that the explosion might attract the man she dreaded, endangering her life.
Both hesitated momentarily.
Not far from them, hiding in the shadows, Orochimaru, who had escaped using a substitution jutsu, watched Tsunade and considered whether to release the reincarnations of the First and Second Hokage.
However, these were his initial experimental subjects with many flaws and unsuitable sacrifices, unlike the recently created Fourth Kazekage, who retained most of his combat power.
Releasing them now would only anger Tsunade without achieving much...
Moreover, having used the Eight Branches Technique, Orochimaru needed to quickly transfer to another body using the Living Corpse Reincarnation Technique...
With that in mind, Orochimaru glanced at Tsunade and decided to leave.
Success now depended on Raiko.
...
Outside Konoha.
A massive fireball with a diameter exceeding two hundred meters was burning fiercely in a forest. The terrifying heat evaporated all the moisture within a kilometer radius, turning the area into a lifeless zone.
The massive explosion and the terrifying power of the blazing flames caused all the battling ninjas in Konoha to pause.
Even the blood-colored monsters created by Orochimaru turned their attention to the fireball.
Minutes later, as the flames dissipated, a large circular crater was revealed.
At the center of the explosion, the reincarnated body of the Fourth Kazekage Rasa was slowly regenerating. Beside him, countless golden liquids were cooling and solidifying into gold blocks.
These were the molten sands of Rasa, fused by Pakura's high temperatures.
Pakura approached the regenerating Rasa, looking at him expressionlessly.
Perhaps due to Orochimaru's weakening power or the destruction of the seal within Rasa's body.
Rasa's consciousness had returned.
Seeing Pakura standing beside him, Rasa opened his mouth to speak.
"The village... I entrust it to you."
Smack!
Pakura stomped on Rasa's head, crushing it. She had no desire to listen to his nonsense.
She then pulled out a sealing talisman from Miroku the shrine maiden, placed it on Rasa's body, and carried him as she jumped onto an ink hawk, flying towards Gaara and the others.
She needed to interrogate Rasa about the mastermind behind all this, so she temporarily sealed him.
...
Konoha Cemetery.
Shishou watched the massive fireball outside the village, frowning slightly.
Being entangled by Uchiha Obito wasn't helping.
With this in mind, Shishou turned to Obito.
Sensing Shishou's gaze, Obito smirked:
"If you have business to attend to, go ahead."
Obito, furious about the disturbance at Rin Nohara's grave, would be delighted to see Shishou fail.
If not for the fear that taking action himself might give Shishou leverage and lead to a joint attack by Nagato and Shishou, Obito might have unleashed one of his captured beasts on Konoha for fun.
Hearing this, Shishou suddenly smiled.
He looked at Obito and said:
"What do you think will happen if the Akatsuki members or Nagato learn about your true identity?"
Obito's smile vanished, his expression darkening.
"Are you threatening me?"
Shishou shrugged, still smiling:
"Just tired of your annoyance and wanting to get rid of you."
Obito sneered:
"It's just an identity. Do you think I fear you?"
Shishou clasped his hands behind his back, looking up at the white clouds, and spoke calmly:
"Uchiha Obito, the dead last of the Uchiha clan."
"Rescued by an elderly Uchiha Madara during a mission, you awakened the Uchiha clan's Mangekyō Sharingan after Rin Nohara was killed by Kakashi, gaining the space-time ability Kamui."
"Kamui, allowing you to become intangible and evade all physical attacks, with a phasing time of around five to fifteen minutes, and the ability to warp objects."
"And, possessing the Uchiha clan's secret technique, Izana..."
Hearing his secrets revealed, Obito's face under the mask turned livid. He yelled to cut Shishou off.
"Enough!"
Shishou continued, ignoring him:
"Possessing the Uchiha secret technique Izanagi and Yin-Yang..."
Obito, seeing Shishou not stopping, asked angrily:
"How do you know all this!!!"
Shishou glanced at Obito, speaking indifferently:
"One of the Three Great Sage Places, Mount Myōboku, has a Great Toad Sage with the power of prophecy. I've had the fortune of meeting it a few times."
Mount Myōboku!!!
Obito etched this location into his memory, then turned to Shishou:
"What do you want!!!"
"If you want to operate in the shadows, do as you please."
"But I don't want to hear anything about you in the shinobi world from now on."
"Otherwise, I will personally inform Nagato and collaborate on how to deal with you."
With those words, Shishou's figure vanished.
He was confident Obito wouldn't dare to cause trouble now.
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POWER STONE!!!!
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This fanfiction is complete on my P@treon. If you want to read it, you can find it at p@treon.com/Betek.
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