As promised, here is the marathon until the end of this arc. There are exactly thirteen chapters left, so starting today I will upload two chapters daily, except for the last day when I will upload only one. This way, the arc will be completed in one week of double daily chapters.
After this, we will officially begin the main plot, but that does not mean it will end. I planned this series to have around 500 to 600 chapters, so even if it were to end earlier, always because the story reaches its conclusion, never due to cancellation on my part, I promise, it would still reach at least 400 chapters.
Additionally, this is not only reducing the advanced chapters I have on Patreon, but to replenish Patreon I also need to do a marathon there, releasing even more chapters ahead. This significantly reduces my backlog of advanced chapters, so if you can leave some power stones for the effort, I would appreciate it😊.
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"Even if it sounds presumptuous, you can call me the Black and White Demon."
"Black and White Demon? Do you have something to do with Kushina?" Minato asked, but no matter how much he tried to find any resemblance, the small part of her face that remained visible did not remind him of Kushina at all.
"Of course not. Iwagakure held a certain grudge against Kushina and wanted revenge. When I killed them all they said I was comparable to her and gave me that name as a kind of curse.
Isn't it ridiculous? Lady... miss in this era? Miss Kushina is a legend who dealt with ten thousand men from Iwa, all of them the strongest.
Meanwhile, just because I wiped out a few weaklings years later they think I can be compared to her", the female ninja laughed with irony as she told the story.
"Perhaps for them, those who gathered to fulfill their revenge, someone like you, who crushed all their hopes without giving them the slightest chance, truly created a comparable fear.
The fact that you are weaker than Kushina might not be something they ignored, but precisely the foundation of that fear.
Not fear of you, but of what you represent. The weakness they have compared to the past and the impossibility of their revenge", Minato replied after listening to her.
"Maybe. I had never thought about it that way. As expected from one of the most intelligent ninjas who have ever existed", the ninja remained silent for a moment before speaking again, as if she truly admired his intelligence. "But... a simple clone will not fool me."
The moment she said that she blocked behind her with one hand, and the clash between kunai rang out for barely a millisecond before the Minato she had been speaking with also moved forward in front of her, trying to stab a kunai directly into her heart.
The ninja blocked the attack easily with her free hand.
Seeing themselves obstructed, both stepped back and positioned themselves side by side. After forming hand seals, four more Minatos appeared around her.
"Using obsolete things like hand seals? That does not seem worthy of the legendary Yellow Flash", the ninja said mockingly before adopting a relaxed stance, holding only a kunai in each hand.
Clang!
Clang!
Clang!
Clang!
Clang!
Clang!
In the blink of an eye the six Minatos disappeared and reappeared surrounding the ninja. She simply moved her arms quickly, deflecting each attack with ridiculous ease, blocking both the original and his clones at the same time.
Seeing that it was not working, three Minatos stepped back while the others continued trying to connect their attacks without success.
The female ninja watched as the three distant Minatos threw kunai in her direction. The weapons multiplied in midair, dividing into many more.
The three Minatos who continued attacking again and again without success moved into specific positions, exactly the spaces the ninja would have to move to if she wanted to dodge the wave of kunai.
However, to their surprise, the female ninja did not dodge.
Instead, when the first kunai was about to touch her body, it turned into white smoke that all the projectiles passed through before reforming again.
Clang!
"I thought you would have already realized that catching me by surprise does not work", the ninja said, once again stopping Minato's attack centimeters from her face.
With Minato in front of her, she looked directly into his eyes while her Sharingan spun at great speed. The speed made the tomoe invisible, leaving only a red eye.
For a moment Minato found himself trapped in a world covered in blood, standing in the middle of a red ocean of the same substance. Little by little he began to feel his own blood mixing with the environment, moving according to the will of that world.
But before it could progress any further, Shisui intervened, pulling Minato away and using his own Sharingan to break the genjutsu trapping him.
"How is she?" Shisui asked.
"Dangerous. The combination of the Sharingan and the Byakugan allows her to react quickly to any of my attacks. My greatest advantage is useless. And her taijutsu is not bad either, she has enough strength to push me and five clones without stepping back even once", Minato explained after analyzing the brief exchange.
"I also have bad news. What trapped you in that genjutsu a moment ago... was not a Sharingan", Shisui said with heaviness in his voice.
"Then she does not have a real Sharingan?"
"Quite the opposite. She has a real Sharingan, I can feel it. But besides that, she also has the Byakugan, and the red eye she just used, I suspect it is the Ketsuryugan, a kekkei genkai comparable to the Sharingan that the Chinoike clan used."
Minato nodded, understanding Shisui's concern.
"Turning into smoke also sounds like a kekkei genkai I once heard about briefly in the past. Then I think we are facing a monster with multiple kekkei genkai in her body."
"The Sharingan cannot copy ninjutsu based on kekkei genkai. It seems we are both at a disadvantage against her. What do we do?" Shisui asked.
"I will call Gamabunta. Distract her for a moment", Minato said.
Shisui nodded and moved immediately.
In Konoha's history two ninjas were known for their speed. One of them was the Yellow Flash of Konoha, Namikaze Minato. However, although he was extremely fast, his speed mainly came from his ninjutsu that could teleport him, not truly from his own speed.
If one spoke of pure movement speed, the fastest was actually, or rather "is", Shisui.
As expected from Shisui of the Body Flicker, in the blink of an eye he was already in front of the female ninja without needing to use any spatial technique.
The ninja was sitting on the machine, as if she had simply been passing time while Minato and Shisui talked.
When she saw Shisui appear in front of her, she did not even react.
She raised one hand and several bone needles shot out from her palm directly toward him.
Shisui immediately stepped back, dodging all the projectiles.
After that he used ninjutsu to conjure several fireballs that flew toward the ninja, followed by a large fire dragon.
In reality Shisui's target was not the ninja. He knew that with her speed and her eyes she would dodge it. His real target was the machine.
However, when the fire dissipated, Shisui saw that everything had collided with a huge iron wall that had appeared out of nowhere.
Without letting himself be surprised by another possible kekkei genkai, Shisui split into several clones. Knowing that trying to surprise her would not work, he simply surrounded her and began launching different ninjutsu, mainly fire based, trying to cause some damage.
All the attacks dissipated into vapor when they collided with ice attacks coming from the female ninja.
More? How many do you have? Shisui thought with frustration.
"Minato, why did you call me?"
Shisui, who had begun to grow nervous seeing that nothing seemed to work against an opponent who did not even appear to be taking them seriously, relaxed slightly when he heard that voice.
The voice belonged to a huge red toad that had appeared from a cloud of smoke after being summoned by Minato. He wore a strange ninja vest and held a pipe in his mouth.
"Lord Gamabunta, I need your help against an enemy", Minato said.
"An enemy you cannot defeat? Let me see", Gamabunta replied with interest, knowing Minato's strength, while directing his gaze toward the female ninja.
"Normally you would call me against huge beasts, but since it is you I will do you a favor", the toad said condescendingly when he saw that the opponent was only a ninja from whom he did not even sense a large amount of chakra.
"The ninja does not matter. Please destroy the machine", Minato asked respectfully.
"I understand, I understand."
Gamabunta opened his mouth and launched a massive water bullet directly toward the machine where Shisui and the ninja were fighting.
However, the ninja fighting Shisui perceived this and, ignoring her opponent in front of her, moved to intercept Gamabunta's attack.
The ninja quickly stood in the path of the water bullet and a fireball of similar size appeared, colliding with it and neutralizing each other in the air.
"It seems she really is somewhat strong", Gamabunta muttered.
"Lord Gamabunta, just keep attacking. Shisui and I will take care of..."
Before Minato could finish speaking he opened his eyes in surprise. The female ninja had appeared right in front of him.
With his experience, Minato immediately recognized his own technique, but the shock of discovering someone else using it still made him widen his eyes for an instant before trying to dodge.
However, during the previous exchange, the ninja had already proven to be faster than him. Minato could not escape before she placed a hand on his chest.
She did not use any kind of strength, yet Minato felt a horrible premonition the instant it happened.
Without giving him the opportunity to teleport, a thin bone needle shot out from her palm, piercing Minato's heart.
"Minato!" Gamabunta roared in fury as he saw Jiraiya's disciple die before his eyes.
"Sir, I am sorry, but Gamabunta is a problem", the ninja said without paying attention to the giant toad's cries.
However the toad did not disappear, which made the ninja frown before deciding to repeat the attack against Minato.
Her attack suddenly stopped when she felt an enormous energy behind her that was rapidly increasing.
When she turned around she saw Shisui kneeling on the ground, his hands covering his face, murmuring between anger and despair.
"No... Minato... he was the Third Hokage's favorite... everything I worked for... everything turned to dust... the relationship between the Uchiha and the village is ruined... the Third Hokage will hate me... this... all of this... ALL OF THIS IS YOUR FAULT!"
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