Hearing the ridicule from the Kairen shadow clone above, Rasa let out a light laugh.
"Surrender? I have an army of eight thousand. If anyone should surrender, it's you."
Beside him, everything was the color of yellow sand.
Ninja from the great desert stood coldly all around, as if they were about to carry the heaven-and-earth yellow sands to drown this high mountain.
Within the ranks, a sexy female ninja clenched her fists.
"Moku Kairen, this time I will definitely make you pay."
She was Pakura, the female ninja who had once been captured by Kairen. Back then, Kairen had let her go because he thought she had a big chest.
That failed mission and the experience of being captured was regarded by Pakura as a lifelong humiliation.
After returning, she was questioned by the council of elders and stripped of her position as an elite jōnin.
For a full month, she endured humiliation and hardship, training her Scorch Release like a madwoman, all so she could one day capture Kairen on the battlefield.
And return to him, one by one, the insults he had given her.
...
On Kikyo Pass, the shadow clones wore expressions of placing themselves in a desperate situation to find a way to survive.
A commander held a pistol and shouted at the shadow clone beside him.
"Comrades, the Land of Fire is vast, but we have no road left to retreat!"
The horn of the charge was like the song of a soaring eagle. The power belonging to the people crushed the high mountain and surged toward the desert below.
An elite jōnin looked at these shadow clones of Kairen and smiled coldly, forming hand seals.
"Fire Release: Blazing Meteor!"
Raging flames erupted from the ground, forming a wave of fire that surged toward the charging shadow clones.
Rasa snorted coldly. "Overestimating yourselves!"
Fireworks symbolized the destruction of the night, as if they were going to burn everything to ashes.
The ninja of Sunagakure watched coldly. The terror belonging to the desert was about to conquer this natural stronghold of the Land of Fire.
"Ura—"
But a furious shout that seemed ready to overturn the world came from within the flames.
A group of ghosts clad in flaming garments charged out of the wall of fire, like endless soldiers of hell.
"Sunagakure, listen to the roar from hell!"
One, two…
One hundred, one thousand, ten thousand!!
Densely packed, soldiers completely engulfed in flames stretched beyond what the eye could see. Sunagakure seemed to have truly stabbed open the gates of hell.
The roar of "Ura" surged like a tidal wave, and the people of Sunagakure could no longer sit still.
"Damn it! Where did so many people come from?"
"What are you standing around for? Spray water!"
"Water Release!"
Kairen stood tall atop the peak. Behind him, his left and right guardians raised the banner, blocking the power coming from the desert.
"Magnet Release: Sand Gold Grand Burial!"
A cold snort sounded out, and in the next instant, a yellow torrent of sand drowned the oncoming flames.
In just one exchange, Rasa eliminated roughly two thousand of Kairen's Fire Release shadow clones.
The elite ninja around him all unleashed Water Release techniques, extinguishing the flames that were about to encircle them.
As the steam from the clash of water and fire dispersed, Rasa gazed gravely at the white figure on the mountain peak.
"Who are you?"
Kairen folded his arms and opened his eyes coldly—one Rinnegan, one Tenseigan.
He pointed behind himself. "There are words back here!"
"Mmm~"
Wolon and Fenchu exerted themselves, holding the great banner high. As the wind passed, the banner fluttered and danced.
The two characters "Kairen" stabbed into the eyes of the Sunagakure ninja like needles.
Moku Kairen, who once single-handedly defended Konoha's Eighth Front.
He had escaped the pursuit of over a thousand Sunagakure ninja, even counterattacking and, with a forbidden Fire Release technique, killing several hundred ninja.
He was given a name by a fallen commander—
Fiery Cloud.
Among Sunagakure, his reputation was the loudest, because the number of Sunagakure ninja who died at his hands surpassed even that of White Fang.
His name alone could stop children from crying at night and make patrons impotent.
Many present had escaped from Kairen's forbidden Fire Release technique back then, and the memory of that Heavenly Punishment move was still vivid.
"It really is the Fiery Cloud. Are we still going up?"
"Let's watch first. With the Fourth Kazekage holding the line, if things go bad, we run."
"That's still not safe. We can't outrun him. How about we play dead as soon as the fight starts?"
"Good idea!"
The people of Sunagakure discussed among themselves. Some feared Kairen, some looked down on him, and some hated him to the bone.
Pakura was one of them.
Although Kairen had changed a lot, that punchable aura of his was something she would never forget.
She jumped out, pointing at Kairen and cursing loudly.
"Moku Kairen, today I will definitely take revenge and return every bit of humiliation you gave me!"
Kairen looked at Pakura below, her face filled with urgency, and felt a spark of interest.
Why else would he come alone to Kikyo Pass if not to have a private rendezvous with her?
Otherwise, if he were bored, why would he bother protecting the Land of Fire?
Kairen immediately started talking trash downward.
"Pakura! I did humiliate you, but I'm a good man—I can't just refuse to take responsibility."
"Come with me today! I'll take care of you for the rest of your life."
"Little bastard!!"
Pakura clenched her teeth, killing intent surging through her body.
"I'll tear your mouth apart!"
Kairen replied, "If you tear my mouth apart, who's going to kiss you? Pakura, when I kissed you back then, you were totally into it—you haven't forgotten, have you?"
As Kairen laid out the humiliations he'd inflicted on Pakura, she looked as if she were about to collapse. "Ah!!"
"Damn brat."
"Ding!"
"Pakura has generated 200 points of anger toward you and has decided to carve you into a thousand pieces!"
The people of Sunagakure watched silently. Why had the tone suddenly become so strange?
They were here to fight a war, not to listen to you flirt.
Rasa stepped forward and shot Pakura a glare. "Get back!"
Pakura glared angrily at Rasa, her temper flaring. "You—"
Rasa couldn't help but strike at Pakura's authority.
"No sense of respect. No wonder the squad that carried out the mission only had you return safely. That's the evidence of your collusion with Moku Kairen."
"I—" Pakura clenched her fists hard.
What could she say? It was indeed Moku Kairen who let her go. That was an irrefutable fact.
Seeing Rasa bullying Pakura, Kairen immediately started cursing.
"You eyebrowless bastard, what are you acting smug for? If I hadn't started a revolution in Konoha, how could you have broken through the Land of Rivers?"
"Rasa! Listen to my advice—take your shrimp soldiers and crab generals home to eat sand! Stop fighting. You don't have that ability, understand?"
"Ding!"
"Rasa has generated 100 points of anger toward you!"
Rasa stared at Kairen coldly. "I will catch you, draw your bones, drink your blood, and tear you into pieces!"
Kairen immediately laughed like a second idiot.
"Hahaha… Just you? You useless Kazekage? I'll even give you a handicap—I'll fight you with just my eyes."
"Arrogant!"
Rasa snorted coldly and rushed forward like a tide of yellow sand.
Carrying endless yellow sands, he instantly submerged the mountain peak where Kairen stood.
With a single move, Rasa's fully unleashed sandstorm covered the entire Kikyo Pass. Standing atop the yellow sands, he let out a cold laugh.
"It's only been a month and you've fallen this far? Or did you use all that strength to grow fat?"
"Silver Wheel Reincarnation Explosion!"
A cold snort rang out, followed by a tornado that swept up the endless yellow sands.
Rasa quickly retreated, staring at the sandstorm in the sky.
After the sandstorm dissipated, a figure emitting blue-white light all over its body stood atop the high mountain, with two great banners behind him dancing in the wind.
This was Tenseigan Chakra Mode. In this mode, Toneri could unleash one hundred percent of his combat power.
If it weren't for Naruto's protagonist halo, Hinata would have already fallen into his hands.