Chapter 77
"Alright. You two should leave first."
Kaito nodded, his words easing Nagato and Konan's worries somewhat. Then he adjusted the cage on his back, instantly spiking the blood pressure of everyone present again just as it had begun to settle.
"Can you please take off that damn thing already?!"
Hikari had finally had enough of this guy. Every time Kaito embarrassed himself, the others would shoot her strange looks.
"You don't understand. This saves lives."
Kaito proudly lifted his chin, causing the two sunflowers on his shoulders to tilt backward in unison as if receiving some command, nearly snapping their stems in the process.
Konan and Pain couldn't bear to watch any longer and hastily left the scene without any intention of staying.
Even Shisui, who was usually very patient, turned away, pretending he didn't know the guy.
Hikari let out a long sigh. First, she manipulated Fugaku, who was at the center of the commotion, making his eyes roll back to temporarily halt his dramatic "farewell" act. Then she had him walk over to Kaito.
Once Fugaku approached, Kaito swapped places with Runtu, who was hiding inside Amegakure, sending the old man to his wife's side.
After that, things became straightforward. Hikari controlled the clansmen marked with "Eight Thousand Spears," while Kaito handled the teleportation.
Meanwhile, Shisui took out the leftover corpses from last night and scattered them across the battlefield, along with some fabricated battle scars.
These corpses were from the Root ninjas he had killed the previous night, with a few others collected from across the Shinobi World.
But just as their meticulous plan was halfway through, two thunderous booms shook the ground beneath them.
"The Sage of Six Paths' eyes shall be mine!"
"Dream on, old man!"
Ōnoki, controlling his stone golem, and Rasa, manipulating his sand construct, were so desperate they were practically foaming at the mouth, hurling insults as they charged forward.
The strange commotion in this area, combined with everyone rushing toward it, naturally led to a widespread misunderstanding.
At the same time.
The stone statue of the Giant of Light standing at the border of the Land of Fire seemed to detect the presence of some massive creature. It slowly turned its head, its gaze settling on Amegakure.
"Cha—"
With a strange sound, the people of the Land of Fire, long tormented by the false sun, suddenly noticed the sky...
had finally darkened.
"Shisui! Drop the corpses and get out of here now!"
By the time the Kage-level fighters were within 500 meters, Kaito had already teleported all the clansmen—except Uchiha Itachi—inside Amegakure.
The Raikage was the fastest within his sensory range, and he needed to initiate the large-scale Heavenly Tribulation event before the man arrived.
Shisui opened his mouth to respond, but when he looked up, he saw the sky above Amegakure light up in an eerie fashion.
Then, a bizarre noise exploded in everyone's ears.
"Cha!"
Hikari: ???
Kaito: ??
The two immediately turned to Runtu, who was still on the ground, because this damned noise was identical to the one they'd heard at the Land of Fire's border.
Suddenly pinned under two murderous glares, Runtu panicked, frantically circling Kaito's cage.
He looked both desperate and wronged.
"It wasn't me!!!""It has... a little bit of consciousness!"
Worried that his explanation wasn't precise enough, Runtu even raised his paw and made a small gesture.
"More than me!"
"Shisui—"
That sound erupted in everyone's ears again, and the rumbling from the ground increased from two to three distinct tremors.
"?"
Ōnoki and Rasa, who were on their way, slowly formed a question mark in their heads at the sudden, bizarre disturbance.
No… that can't be right?
Which Jinchūriki of the Tailed Beasts made a move???
Surely not…?
Filled with doubt, Ōnoki turned his head to check the source of the commotion, wanting to see what was really going on.
But the moment he turned, everything went dark before his eyes.
It was a massive foot…
Boom—
The Giant of Light, having shed its stone form, delivered a flying kick straight to the "monster's" head, instantly performing an amputation surgery on Ōnoki's stone body—everything below the neck.
The elderly man, along with chunks of rock, was sent flying into the distance, eventually vanishing from everyone's sight.
"The… the stone statue moved!?"
Rasa, seeing the giant not far away and Ōnoki—who had just been kicked so hard he spat blood—felt his scalp go numb, his sense of danger skyrocketing.
Run!
If he didn't run, he would die here!!!
Rasa reacted swiftly, though his brain wasn't the sharpest. In his frantic escape, he didn't dispel his Ninjutsu—instead, he accelerated the sand construct beneath him, as if that would help him flee the battlefield faster.
"Tiga!"
Having locked onto its next target, Tiga gathered a blue sphere of light in its hand, aimed directly at the "monster" ahead, and prepared to hurl it.
"Bastard!!"
"Are you looking down on us, the shinobi of Kumogakure!?"
The Fourth Raikage was furious. This suspected summon had not only kicked Ōnoki away but also sent debris flying, causing significant casualties among his village's shinobi.
As the leader of his village, the Raikage couldn't stand by. Surging with Lightning Release Chakra, he extended a blue spear from his arm and lunged at the summon.
"Tiga!"
Tiga simply called out again, seemingly oblivious to the commotion beneath it, and hurled the sphere of light toward the sand monster.
Boom!
At that moment, Tiga's arm was suddenly knocked off course by an external force, causing the sphere to veer slightly.
What followed was the Fourth Raikage's agonized scream as he was sent hurtling far beyond Amegakure's outskirts.
The misdirected sphere still exploded in a burst of white mist within Rasa's path.
In the next second, frost rapidly spread across Rasa's vicinity. Within moments, the once-moving sand construct was frozen solid, and without Chakra to sustain it, the giant shattered into pieces, collapsing to the ground.
After dealing with the two "monsters," the giant crossed its arms above its head, swung them once, and reverted to its stone statue form, standing silently at the edge of Amegakure.
Everything was as if it had never moved at all.
Everyone who witnessed this was stunned—including the group currently setting up the Uchiha clan's staged deaths.
Kaito stared intently at the statue for a long while before cautiously turning to Shisui beside him.
"Uh…"
"Shisui… can you show me your Susanoo?"He had just witnessed Tiga beating up two Kage-level powerhouses, and it seemed they got beaten precisely because they summoned those things.
So the question arose...
Would they get beaten if they activated a Susanoo of the same size?
Kaito suddenly grew curious.
"You... you can't be serious."
"We'd die."
Shisui watched the stone statue with twitching eyelids, a vague premonition forming in his heart. If they expanded their Susanoo to fifty meters, there was a high chance that giant might come back to life—and they'd likely receive the same treatment as those two Kage earlier.
And also...
Before testing this theory, maybe you should ask the girl beside you first?
She has a Mangekyō too, you know.
"Fine." Kaito clicked his tongue in disappointment as the statue's head began glowing again, forcing him to abandon the idea.
He could only hope Uchiha Madara wouldn't get beaten when he activated his Susanoo in the future.
"HAHAHAHAHA—"
"The entire Uchiha clan died because of me!"
"Hate me! My foolish little brother! Wallow in regret over your pathetic weakness!"
At this moment, Itachi still hadn't snapped out of his Genjutsu-induced state. His maniacal laughter startled the trio—and the dog—present.
Hikari took a deep breath, then kicked Kaito's iron cage with considerable force, asking uncertainly:
"Are you sure... your brother isn't from the Senju clan?"
"Honestly, he seems to hate the Uchiha more than I do..."
Kaito and Shisui exchanged awkward, strained smiles at her words.
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