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Chapter 522: 487. A Clash of Kages Part-3
Chapter 522: 487. A Clash of Kages Part-3
Chapter 522: 487. A Clash of Kages Part-3
Kakashi and Guy confront the First Raikage. The first Raikage doesn't have a vast arsenal of jutsus like the second Raikage. Neither does he possess a powerful shield and spear like the Third Raikage. However, the first Raikage had quite a powerful instantaneous movement ability and a special lightning state that makes him invulnerable to attacks.
"Guy, buy me some time to figure out his technique?" Kakashi turns to Guy.
"Leave it to me!"
Guy crosses his arms around his chest.
"Eight Inner Gates: Fifth gate of Limit: Open,"
Guy enters the fifth gate and flickers in front of the First Raikage. He has yet to completely recover his stamina from the previous battle. So, currently, the fifth gate is his limit.
HAAH...
A green aura envelope Guy. He clenches his fists and dashes towards the First Raikage. However, within a few seconds, the First Raikage overwhelms Guy with a barrage of omnidirectional attacks.
"Hmm..."
Guy could only passively block every attack and despite his every attempt to counterattack with his fast reflexes, he is always slow by a moment.
Hmm...
'This is...'
Kakashi notices a glimmer of a lightning clone every time the First Raikage performs his instantaneous movement.
"So, that's how it is!"
He figures the secret of the First Raikage's movement technique.
"Kamui!"
Kakashi activates his Kamui and banishes the lightning mark of the First Raikage to the other dimension.
Swoosh...
This disrupts the first Raikage's lightning state and reveals his body. However, he quickly shifts his position and re-enters into his special lightning state.
The lightning remnant allowed him to leave an invisible chakra mark in his surroundings.
"Guy, I figured out his technique. I just need an opening to break it."
"Very well!"
Guy grits his teeth and takes out a chakra pill from his pocket. He gulps the pill and riles up his chakra.
"Sixth Gate: Gate of View: Open,"
The powerful shockwave from Guy's body disrupts the lightning state of the First Raikage, revealing him and his lightning marks.
"KAMUI!"
Kakashi quickly memorizes the location of the lightning marks and destroys them with his Kamui, revealing the first Raikage.
"Looks like you figured out the secret of my Lightning Remnant technique." The First Raikage nods at them.
"The lightning remnant allows me to leave an invisible chakra mark in my surroundings. By expanding my chakra, I can enter into a special lightning state where my body gains the properties of the lightning and I can instantly move between remnants at lightning speeds. Thus, making me very mobile and untouchable on the battlefield.
However, this technique has a serious limitation that it requires me to expand an enormous amount of chakra and constantly create new lightning remnants on the battlefield since a lightning remnant gets consumed as soon as I teleport to it. So, this Edo body is almost perfect for this technique."
Kakashi seals The First Raikage's body using a sealing tag and heaves a sigh of relief.
GAH...
Guy's eyes turn white, and he faints from exhaustion.
"GUY!"
Kakashi quickly supports Guy and carries him on his back.
Previously, Guy pushed his limit by opening the Sixth Gate to create an opening for Kakashi.
Sakumo and his team also arrive on the battlefield as the rest of the group is done dealing with their adversaries.
"Looks like we are late!"
He shakes his head and signals a few medics among his team to tend to the Raikage, Guy, and Guy's students.
"Dad!" Kakashi walks beside Sakumo as the latter nods his head.
"Good work! You can take a break for tonight. Someone else will take over your night watch shift!"
"That's a relief!" Kakashi also closes his eyes.
Sakumo lifts his head and stares at the giant moon in the sky.
"The moon seems a bit larger than usual." He mumbles and turns his attention to the rest.
"Quickly wrap up here and return to the camp."
'Today's meeting is going to be unpleasant!'
Back at the coastal battlefield on Kiri's side,
Tsunade, Mei, Fugaku, and others warily stare at the dense mist in front of them.
Other than a few attacks from the Zetsu soldiers, there was no other movement from the mist.
"What's Kabuto planning?" Tsunade frowns as she cast another glance at the mist before returning to her camp.
They had the most uneventful battle of the day.
"Whatever it is, I don't have a good feeling about it!" Mei shakes her head.
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"What... Naruto, you located Kabuto's position?" Shikaku asks in surprise.
"Yes, it was Nagato who located him. And I am currently on my way to stop him." Naruto relays the coordinates and flickers in the southeast direction.
The personnel at the HQ marks the location on the map.
"That direction!" Shikaku raises an eyebrow.
"Sasuke and Itachi are close by!" Inoichi points out.
"Inform them of the situation! Naruto, we can't allow you to walk in the enemy's trap." Shikaku shakes his head.
"Let Sasuke and Itachi take care of it."
"But I..."
"Naruto, he is right! We can't ignore the possibility of it being a trap. So, it's best if you leave it to others." Kushina also voices her opinion.
"Mom, even you too."
"NARUTOO!"
"Fine, I get it!" Naruto raises his hands in surrender.
In a forest at the border of the Land of River and Land of Fire,
Itachi and his team receive the message from the HQ.
"We found him." He nods at the rest of his team members and flickers towards Kabuto's hideout.
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A few hours earlier, at the Iwa battlefield,
Mu obliterates Onoki using a blast of his particle extinction cannon.
"GRANDPAA!!"
Kurotsuchi screams in horror as Onoki's figure vanishes from her sight.
"Did I kill him?" M? glances around at his surroundings as he is unable to sense Onoki's chakra signature.
"It's gone! His chakra signature."
The various sensors at the battlefield gulp their saliva as Onoki's chakra signature vanishes.
"Onoki-sama, is he... dead?"
The morale of shinobis from Iwagakure hits rock bottom.
"Now it's time for the rest of you to join him."
M? infuses a large amount of chakra into his palm and shapes it into a giant cone.
Swish... Fwoosh...
A blurry figure reappears behind M? and pierces a special sealing kunai through his chest.
GAH...
The surprise disrupts the chakra and destroys the giant cone. Several sealing runes crawl out of the kunai and binds M?'s body.
"You..."
M? slowly turns around his head. The blurry figure becomes clear, revealing Onoki's face.
"How... how did you do it?" M? slowly opens his mouth as the fuinjutsu seal slowly immobilizes his body.
M? doesn't enquire about the nature of Onoki's concealment technique, since it's a variation of his own 'Dustless Bewildering Cover' secret technique. The fuinjutsu seal of the kunai disrupts M?'s hearing and slowly puts his consciousness to sleep. However, he is still able to lip-read Onoki's response.
"I see!"
M? closes his eyes with a powerful seal shrouding his entire body.
Phew...
Onoki heaves a sigh of relief and wipes the cold sweat from his forehead.
This is a very tough battle for him since his enemy, being his mentor, knew every trick up his sleeve. Not only that, Onoki is aware of the fact that M? held withheld a few techniques as his trump card and never taught those techniques to anyone.
"Sigh... to think that I would have to resort to trickery to defeat him."
Onoki sighs as he recalls the battle. Before the fourth shinobi war, the Fifth Hokage Tsunade shared one of the secret techniques, 'Shadow clones' with all Kages as a symbol of trust. The other Kages readily signed the agreement of non-disclosure to other shinobis of their village. The shadow clone is one of the most powerful techniques with the most utility.
'In the end, I had to let go of my pride and resort to such means.'
Onoki grits his teeth and flies away toward the camp.
While flying, he recalls the bitter memories from his youth. The humiliation and disgrace he underwent on that day and the oath he swore to himself.
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In a secret underground hideout.
Tch...
Kabuto clicks his tongue at the failure of his plan.
"It's time for the next phase of my plan!"
He glances at the wooden coffin in front of him.
"The summoning will take some preparation!"
He makes a series of hand signs and slams his palm on the ground.
A giant fuinjutsu formation appears on the ground.
A twisted smile creeps on Kabuto's face and a grim smile appears on Onoki's face as both of them mutter a name.