Reborn in Naruto As Madara's Grandson

Chapter 388: Itachi Vs Deidara

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"Huh! What happened just now?" Sasuke blankly stares at Hidan.

'Did his ritual somehow fail?' Sasuke recalls the terrifying pressure he felt earlier.

The sense of dread and the feeling of powerlessness are still clear in his mind. It felt like his fate, his life, and his death aren't in his own hands anymore. His existence is as fragile as a soap bubble that the mere whims of that figure can extinguish it.

'Was that the god this guy prayed to?' Sasuke stares at Hidan's blank figure.

'But did he fail mid-way for some reason?'

Bleurgh…

Hidan spews out a mouthful of blood.

"What… what's going on? Why I can't sense the power of Lord Jashin anymore?

Bleurgh…

He spews out another mouthful of blood.

Crack…

Multiple cracks appear on the blood demon dagger in his hands.

Snap…

The drags break into multiple fragments and turn into dust.

"Lord Jashin… lord Jashin, have you forsaken your devout believer? Why can't I sense your presence anymore?"

Spurt…

Blood spurts out from the wound in Hidan's chest. Hidan's eye turns white as his life slowly drains out from his body.

"Lll… lord Jashin!" Hidan dies from excessive blood loss.

Sasuke blankly stares at Hidan's body for a while. His trembling legs give up as he falls to the ground from mental and spiritual exhaustion.

Snap…

The Akatsuki ring on Hidan's finger snaps in fragments and disappears.

Hmm…

Another Akatsuki member has fallen. Black Zetsu stares in the direction of Hidan.

'I wonder who is next!'

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BOOM…

A cloud of dust, smoke, and debris rises in the air as Deidara detonates the clay centipede.

Hmm…

Deidara frowns and inserts some chakra in his left mechanical eye. The entire world turns in a shade of red. He looks around and notices Itachi in a different place.

"So, you managed to escape from that explosion? Was it the substitution jutsu or the shadow clone jutsu?" He smirks.

Itachi glances at the glowing red eye of Deidara. He jumps out of the shadows and makes some hand signs.

"Fire Style: Great Dragon Fire Jutsu,"

He spews out a giant fire dragon towards Deidara.

Roar…

The dragon roars and engulfs Deidara's body.

Hehe…

"C3"

Deidara smirks. His figure melts up in response to the heat from the fire jutsu. The yellow putty-like explosive clay hardens and glows with a bright light.

BOOM…

A bright flash of light engulfs the surrounding forest. An outward explosion of immense heat and light energy expands to form a sphere in the center of the explosion.

Bleurgh…

Itachi jumps out of the explosion with tattered clothes. He spits out a mouthful of blood and falls to the ground.

"I am just getting started and you are already acting like this!" Deidara smirks and claps his hands together.

"C4 Karura"

Gray clay appears in his hands. He opens his mouth and bites the clay. Soon, Deidara gobbles up the clay. His skin turns gray and balloons up to a massive scale. Deidara turns into a humongous giant, the size of a small hill.

Poof… Poof…

His body explodes into white smoke and covers a large amount of air.

Shiing…

Itachi activates his Mangekyo Sharingan and notices countless microscopic birds flooding the entire area like parasites.

"Now, die!"

Deidara, who has been floating on top of a giant clay dragon the entire time, makes a snake hand seal.

"Turn into dust and witness the grandness of my art. Haha…"

Itachi's body starts to slowly dissipate into the surroundings. There is a calm expression on his face as he speaks.

"Are you sure about this?"

As soon as Itachi speaks these words, the entire world around Deidara shatters like a glass fragment.

"How… how could it be? I should be immune to Genjutsu. How… how did you do it?" He stares into Itachi's red eyes with despair.

"Were you relying on this?"

Itachi opens his palm and reveals a red eyeball-like device.

"You… when did you?"

Deidara touches his left eye. He can still feel the glowing red device in his eyes.

"What… what's going on?" For the first time, fear overcomes Deidara.

"Sometimes the reality is an illusion and the illusion… REALITY!"

Shiing…

Itachi's eyes spin rapidly.

"Tsukuyomi,"

Crack… crack…

Deidara's left eye explodes, and a burst of blood leaks out from the empty eye socket.

"When… just when! I didn't even make eye contact with you." Deidara weakly questions Itachi.

"Genjutsu is an illusion technique that affects the target by controlling the flow of chakra in their cerebral nervous system. Uchihas are capable of casting a powerful genjutsu through mere eye contact with their Sharingan. But who said that only eye contact is the sole method to cast a genjutsu?"

Itachi slowly walks towards Deidara.

Tap… Tap… Tap… josei

His footsteps have a rhythm to them.

"The footsteps, sound… you fooled me!" Deidara's expression turns ugly.

"During that time, my Sharingan was just a distraction. You could prepare a counter for my Sharingan but didn't anticipate another method, did you?"

Itachi calmly stares into Deidara's eye.

"Damn you… those eyes… they are looking down on my art again! I will never forgive you."

Deidara rips apart his cloak to reveal a gigantic mouth near his heart. He undoes the stitches on the mouth.

"You shall witness my 'Ultimate Art', the ultimate creation of death. The supreme art of explosion! A never seen before explosion.

Deidara rips apart the mouths on his hand and feeds them to the mouth on his chest.

LUBDUB… lubdub…

Deidara's heart rate increases exponentially. A large amount of chakra gathers around his heart.

"I will paint this last piece of art with my life as the only color. Because 'ART IS AN EXPLOSION!'

LUBDUB…

The mouth near his heart kneads the chakra from his entire body. His flesh and blood turn into fuel for the explosion. Deidara's blood vessels and meridians dry up and wrap around the mouth to create a sphere.

The explosive chakra manifests within his heart and the sphere slowly cracks up and detonates the entire explosive chakra, composed of chakra and life force.

"Deidara, this bastard!"

The Black Zetsu clone, who has been hiding and monitoring the battle during this entire time, spews out profanities and tunnels through the ground.

BOOM…

A gigantic pillar of light spanning several hundred meters in height appears at ground zero.

The light pillar rapidly expands and engulfs the surrounding land and continues to move toward the giant planetary sphere of Konoha.

"At this rate, it will engulf the entire village in this terrifying explosion." Itachi, who has been shielding himself with Susanoo and Yata shield, stares at the explosion with worry.

"I will attempt to seal this explosion with my Totsuka blade."

He summons the Totsuka blade and pierces it through the light pillar. A gourd appears at the handle of the Totsuka blade. The gourd pulls the energy of the explosion towards itself. The fiery red blade slowly turns cyan. Some cracks appear on the gourd as it continues to absorb the explosion.

"I hope it will be able to last long enough to seal this explosion."

Soon, the entire Totsuka blade turns cyan. Itachi quickly seals the Totsuka blade in a scroll and deflects the rest of the explosion with his Yata shield.

Huff…

He dispels his Susanoo and falls to the ground.

Bleurgh…

Itachi spits out a mouthful of blood.

'Sealing that massive amount of uncontrollable energy took a toll on my body. I won't be able to move for a while.'

Itachi rests against a tree and closes his eyes.

'Shisui, Naruto, Sasuke… I will leave the rest to you.'