Ninja World, Land of Fire, above Konoha Village.
The originally clear sky suddenly flashed with several white lights, and then something seemed to tear open space with bare hands.
Some passing pedestrians noticed the anomaly and looked up curiously.
They saw a pair of pale hands appear out of thin air in the sky, then forcibly tear open the sky. Immediately, a face as white as paper emerged.
Besides his pale skin, his eyes were even red, concentric circles.
Urashiki, with his Rinnegan activated, forcibly arrived here, looking down with a playful gaze.
The time-travel point had ultimately changed. Momoshiki had thrown him down a bit late, which led to Urashiki arriving in this time period earlier.
"Finally free from the space-time turbulence."
He grinned, then exerted force with both hands again, forcibly breaking free from space, and pulled out his fishing rod.
"Oh dear, I almost fell hundreds of years into the future. Good thing my eyes can precisely sense time."
Urashiki rested his fishing rod on his shoulder, looking towards the Hokage Building, muttering something to himself.
"First, I'll go meet up with little Momo, then I'll get my hands on the Nine-Tails."
He rested his hand on his chin, thinking curiously for a few moments.
"Naruto in this time period should be easy to deal with."
Thinking this, Urashiki instantly transformed into a pile of red paper cranes and disappeared from his spot.
As the paper cranes turned into particles and dissipated, Urashiki, who had vanished into thin air, appeared like a ghost outside the Hokage Building's window.
At this moment, the interior of the Hokage Building also came into view.
"Bang!!"
Tsunade slammed her fist on the table, looking at the few old geezers who were almost in their graves with helplessness and anger.
"How many times do I have to say it? I've already made my decision. Even if any problems arise, I will take responsibility. You don't need to interfere!"
"No!"
An old man covered in bandages, with one eye covered, spoke with a dignified and unquestionable tone.
"The Nine-Tails matter concerns the village's safety. As Hokage, you directly allowed a dangerous individual to take it away. This is a serious dereliction of duty!"
"If any mistake occurs, even if you are Hokage, you cannot bear this responsibility!"
Tsunade clenched her hands tightly, her knuckles cracking, forcibly enduring this old pervert's baseless shouting.
Danzo was right. As Hokage, she really shouldn't hand over their only nuclear weapon to a dangerous individual like that, but Tsunade had no choice.
What if, the moment she refused, this planet inexplicably crashed into the sun?
Even after making a compromise, these old perverts were still making a fuss.
Whoever wants to be Hokage can be Hokage!
Tsunade slumped into her chair, defeated, lowering her head in silence.
This was also what Danzo wanted to see.
"Since you cannot make a decision, then I will carry out the mission to retrieve the Nine-Tails," Danzo said, his eyes sinister.
"I said no!"
Tsunade once again slammed the table and stood up, her molars almost shattering.
"Why? Just because you only saw a genjutsu, you think the other party can easily destroy the Ninja World? That's utterly ridiculous!"
Danzo's tone rose slightly.
"If you continue to obstruct, I have the right to suspect that you, as Hokage, are colluding with other villages, selling ninja beasts for huge profits, and endangering the village's interests for your own selfish desires."
"Stop making baseless accusations!!" Tsunade shouted angrily, wishing she could crack this old man's head open on the spot.
"Heh heh, whether it's a baseless accusation or not, doesn't the Hokage herself know in her heart?"
Danzo deliberately emphasized "Hokage" and slowed his speech, his words dripping with humiliation.
Koharu Utatane and Homura Mitokado, who had just entered, initially complained a few times, but then acted like seasoned politicians. Seeing the situation was wrong, they immediately went into mute mode.
They didn't say a word, only looking at Tsunade with accusing eyes, purely for dramatic effect.
"You..."
Tsunade wanted to say something, but the words caught in her throat.
Being scared by a genjutsu and directly handing over the Nine-Tails was indeed humiliating, but there was nothing she could do.
Moreover, no matter how she explained, Danzo wouldn't listen, constantly hinting that Tsunade was not fit to be Hokage.
Seeing Tsunade's frustrated expression, Danzo's face remained expressionless, but his heart was secretly delighted. He was about to say something else.
Suddenly, the glass outside the window flashed with a reflection. Danzo instantly froze, then a hint of anger appeared on his face, and he threw a kunai directly.
"Come out!!"
The sudden scene startled the other three present.
Tsunade stumbled back two steps, turning her head to look.
She saw a strange creature floating outside the window, very similar to Momoshiki and Kaguya.
The same pale skin, the same white eyes. It was possibly from the same clan.
"Oh my, do we need to be so hostile at our first meeting?"
Urashiki playfully twirled the kunai in his hand, his gaze at Danzo carrying a hint of provocation.
"Who are you?! How dare you eavesdrop on our conversation! You're asking for death!"
Danzo, perhaps too eager to show off, or wanting to flaunt something, quickly formed hand seals, continuously unleashing Vacuum Spheres that shot out like bullets.
"Heh heh."
Urashiki sneered. His eyes instantly turned into blood-red Rinnegan. With a sound of tearing space, his entire being instantly disappeared.
"No! Something's wrong!!"
In just an instant, Danzo realized he had underestimated him. He quickly tried to retreat to a safe distance, but he bumped into someone behind him.
He sharply turned his head, meeting blood-red Rinnegan. Danzo first froze, then felt a sharp pain in his chest.
A fishhook had, at some point, pierced his chest. All his strength seemed to have been drained, and he couldn't even move a finger.
The two old men beside him, seeing the unfavorable situation, quickly retreated, forming hand seals rapidly. But as soon as they finished, they were sent flying by an invisible force.
The chakra they had gathered also dissipated.
"Is this called Wind Release? How interesting."
Urashiki smiled, his eyes returning to their usual Byakugan, looking like a gentle older brother next door.
If he hadn't pierced the old man's chest with a fishhook, he might actually have fit that description.
"Ugh..."
Homura Mitokado painfully clutched his chest and slowly crawled up from the ground, looking at Urashiki with a bewildered and shocked expression. He completely didn't understand why this strange humanoid creature could release Vacuum Spheres without forming hand seals.
In reality, those were the ones Danzo had shot, but they had just been collected.
However, due to their lack of information, they naturally didn't know Urashiki's abilities.
"Tsunade! Why are you just watching?!"
Koharu Utatane shouted at Tsunade, a trace of blood oozing from the corner of her mouth.
Hearing the sound, Tsunade didn't speak, just slumped in her chair.
"Good girl."
Urashiki's lips curled into a smile. With a slight flick of his fishing rod, the fishhook instantly pulled out from Danzo's body, bringing with it a large amount of chakra.
This was almost all of Danzo's chakra. Losing these things, this immortal old man finally went limp and fell to the ground, completely devoid of strength.
Even his Sharingan almost couldn't be activated.
"Don't go too far!"
Hearing Urashiki's words, a sense of grievance surged in Tsunade's heart, and she warned him in a low voice.
"Alright, alright." Urashiki casually waved his hand, resting his fishing rod on his shoulder, adopting the posture of a fisherman.
"I have no interest in your village, nor do I want to do anything involving destruction."
Urashiki said, slowly walking towards Tsunade. His scarlet Rinnegan brought an endless sense of oppression.
"Tell me, where is the Nine-Tails now?"
"Are you kidding me?"
Hearing this question, Tsunade's face darkened. She glared at Urashiki impatiently.
"Don't you know where the Nine-Tails is?"
Urashiki: "???"
I just got here, I wouldn't know.
In just two sentences, Urashiki was completely thrown off. His brain short-circuited for a moment.
"I just arrived here, so naturally I don't know. Has the Nine-Tails already been taken by someone who looks like me?"
"Momoshiki, I only know that name. I don't know anything else," Tsunade said, lowering her head. Her expression was unclear, and her tone was unceremonious.
"That's all the information you'll get. There's nothing else. Since you said you wouldn't do anything to Konoha Village, please leave Konoha Village immediately."
"Oh? Senior Momoshiki's movements are actually so fast?"
Urashiki paused for a moment, recalling the scene of Momoshiki beating Sasuke and Boruto in the time-traveling space.
It seemed little Momo had grown a lot during his death.
Thinking this, Urashiki smiled slightly.
"Alright, alright. Since you've given me a dismissal order, I won't overstay my welcome. Goodbye."
As his voice fell, Urashiki instantly transformed into a pile of paper cranes and dissipated, leaving only the three old men lying on the ground.
Tsunade looked at them, sighing helplessly.
It was hard to imagine that these three were clamoring to fight Momoshiki just minutes ago, but they didn't even get to see him, and were instantly defeated by one of his juniors.
How humiliating.
"Tsk..."
Danzo's eyeballs twitched twice. He seemed to have recovered a little strength and climbed up from the ground.
His face was extremely ugly, like he had eaten fly dung. He gritted his teeth and didn't speak.
The moment his chakra was siphoned away, not only did his chakra disappear, but even his basic strength and the pupil power to control his Sharingan seemed non-existent.
He couldn't exert even a tiny bit of strength. Lying on the ground, he had nothing but sensation; he couldn't even move a finger.
This was the first time Danzo had experienced this feeling in his life, and he deeply understood how weak he was.
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