The moment the Nine-Tails fully manifested…
Chaos swallowed Konoha.
"ROOOOOOOAAAAARRR—!!!"
Kurama's deafening roar shook the heavens.
Massive shockwaves erupted outward as the gigantic fox rose above the village, crimson chakra pouring from its body like an endless sea of hatred.
Buildings were torn apart by its massive tails. Windows shattered from the sound of its roar alone.
The Nine-Tails was truly a beast worthy of being called a natural disaster.
Countless shinobi lost their footing from the pressure radiating from it.
Across the village, civilians stared up in horror at the nightmare-like creature towering over Konoha.
"No…"
"It can't be…"
"The Nine-Tails…!"
Panic spread instantly.
Inside the Hokage Building's emergency command center, alarms rang nonstop.
"Seal Squad to the Hokage district immediately!"
"Evacuate the civilians!"
"Barrier teams, move now!"
"Keep those white creatures away from the shelters!"
The entire village descended into madness.
Meanwhile…
Obito stood calmly atop a ruined rooftop, his cloak fluttering in the violent wind generated by the Nine-Tails' chakra.
His Mangekyō Sharingan reflected the monstrous fox.
Perfect.
Everything had finally reached the point he wanted.
Tsunade landed heavily nearby, dust exploding beneath her feet.
Her expression was terrifyingly dark.
"DIEEEEE!!"
BOOM!!
The ground shattered beneath her as she launched herself toward him like a cannonball.
But Obito simply phased through her fist with Kamui.
Tsunade's punch destroyed the rooftop behind him instead.
Several buildings in the distance exploded apart from the shockwave alone.
Obito's voice remained calm.
"You're wasting time."
Then...
Blue flames suddenly erupted across another section of the battlefield.
"ROAR!!"
A second gigantic creature appeared.
Unlike Kurama's overwhelming hatred and violence, this chakra carried scorching heat and the wild elegance of a beast.
The Two-Tails.
Matatabi fully manifested beside the shattered streets, blue fire spreading across the ground beneath her paws.
Several nearby shinobi stared upward in shock.
"A second Tailed Beast?!"
Inside the mental space
Yugito stood before the enormous blue cat, trying to remain calm despite the chaos outside.
Her breathing was heavy.
Even through their connection, she could feel the terrifying pressure Kurama was releasing into the world.
Then Yugito suddenly asked,
"…Matatabi."
The giant cat lowered her enormous head slightly.
"What?"
Yugito hesitated for a brief moment before asking directly.
"…Can we defeat the Nine-Tails?"
Deathly silence took place.
For a moment, Matatabi simply stared at her before a confused voice escaped her...
"…Hah?"
The Two-Tails actually looked speechless.
Outside, blue flames exploded around her body as if reflecting her disbelief.
Finally, Matatabi let out a long sigh.
"…Kid."
"You'd better pray Shiki comes back quickly."
Her voice became unusually serious.
"Otherwise, we're all doomed."
Yugito's pupils narrowed slightly.
Even though she had already expected that answer…
Hearing it directly still made her chest tighten.
"…Is the gap really that big?"
Matatabi's tail lashed irritably behind her.
She did not answer immediately.
But inside her own mind, complaints were already exploding nonstop.
Honestly, the old man had never been fair.
Even among Tailed Beasts, there were ridiculous differences.
They had the same origin.
The same father.
Yet somehow, one fox received enough chakra to casually flatten mountains, while the rest of them had to struggle behind him.
Then people wondered why his sons fought each other constantly.
Maybe because the favoritism was obvious even to creatures made entirely of chakra.
Matatabi felt annoyed just thinking about it.
Outside...
Kurama's gigantic eyes slowly shifted.
Then locked directly onto Matatabi.
The Nine-Tails grinned.
It was not a pleasant expression.
"You."
The pressure exploding from Kurama instantly multiplied.
BOOOOM!!!
Blue flames around Matatabi surged violently in response as the Two-Tails lowered herself instinctively.
Even she looked tense now.
"…Damn fox."
Yugito felt cold sweat form on her forehead.
Just from being stared at had her instincts screaming at her to run.
Kurama's voice rumbled across the battlefield like thunder.
"You came here to stop me?"
Matatabi growled back immediately.
"Tch. Don't flatter yourself."
"I'm here because my idiot host would cry later if this village exploded."
Several nearby shinobi stared at the gigantic blue cat in complete confusion.
"…Is the Two-Tails arguing with the Nine-Tails?"
"…Why does it sound like an angry married couple?"
Even during the apocalypse, some ninja could not stop themselves from thinking stupid things under pressure.
Kurama's massive tails slowly rose behind him.
The surrounding air began cracking apart under the density of his chakra alone.
"You should leave, Matatabi."
"For your own sake."
For a brief moment, there was still a trace of reason in Kurama's eyes.
But then Obito, who had been watching from above, suddenly jumped down and landed atop the Nine-Tails' head.
His Mangekyō Sharingan spun.
The control became absolute.
Kurama's eyes widened in fury.
"…You again."
His roar shook the battlefield but that anger lasted only an instant.
The next moment, the light of self-control vanished from Kurama's eyes.
What remained was nothing but a beast under Obito's command.
Inside the mental space, Matatabi stared toward Yugito.
"…Yeah."
"We're completely screwed if Shiki doesn't get back soon."
Obito stood atop the Nine-Tails' head, feeling an overwhelming sense of power surge through him.
Originally, he had intended to leave after throwing Konoha into chaos.
But after hearing White Zetsu's report…
Everything changed.
White Zetsu's words still echoed inside his mind.
"Shiki has just entered the Land of Fire."
"Even at full speed, it'll take time for him to return."
That single thought had made Obito reckless.
After all…
Who here could actually stop him now?
Obito slowly formed a hand seal.
"Since Shiki wants to protect this village so badly…"
His Mangekyō Sharingan spun slowly within the broken mask.
"…then let him watch it suffer first."
Kurama's gigantic mouth slowly opened.
Dark chakra gathered instantly.
A horrifying sphere of condensed destruction rapidly formed before the Nine-Tails' jaws.
The surrounding air trembled violently.
Even space itself seemed to distort from the density of chakra being compressed.
Tsunade's pupils shrank instantly.
"No…"
Inside Matatabi's chakra, Yugito's face turned pale.
"…A Tailed Beast Bomb?!"
Even Matatabi cursed inside the mental space.
"That lunatic!"
Several shinobi throughout Konoha froze completely.
Some older ninja looked utterly despairing.
Because they knew exactly what that attack meant.
If it fired inside the village…
Half of Konoha would disappear instantly.
Obito calmly looked toward the distant horizon.
Toward the direction Shiki would eventually arrive from.
"You made me suffer enough already."
His voice grew colder.
"So now…"
"…let's see how much pain you can endure yourself."
On the ground below—
Mikoto held Kushina's weakened body tightly while tears streamed down her face.
"I'm sorry… I'm really sorry, Kushina… I didn't know…"
Her voice broke apart midway through the sentence.
As she looked at the Tailed Beast Bomb forming in the distance, despair finally consumed her.
There was nowhere they could escape.
Cough… cough…
Kushina coughed weakly, her face pale from exhaustion.
Yet a faint smile still appeared on her lips.
"Don't worry…"
"That guy will definitely make it back."
"There's nothing he can't do."
"He'll—hah…"
"Stop talking, Kushina… don't force yourself."
Mikoto bit her lip hard enough to draw blood.
Then her eyes shifted toward the distance.
Toward Fugaku.
He stood together with the rebel Uchiha in the distance, silent beneath the burning sky.
The sight filled her with frustration and fury.
Inside the mental space—
"Matatabi!"
Yugito's nervous voice echoed urgently.
"Let's use a Tailed Beast Bomb too! At least try to deflect it! Otherwise the village won't survive!"
Matatabi immediately twitched in annoyance.
This little brat…
Did she really think they were that powerful?
How was she supposed to deflect an attack from Kurama of all people?
But after a long sigh…
She still prepared herself anyway.
Outside—
Blue flames began gathering inside Matatabi's mouth as chakra condensed rapidly.
At that moment
Despair had already gripped Konoha.
Hope itself seemed to be fading away.
Far away from the village...
Shiki streaked through the sky at top speed when a sudden bad feeling crawled down his spine and his face twisted in irritation.
Bulging veins surfaced on his forehead as crimson Conqueror's Haki erupted from his body, red lightning crackling around him.
BOOM!
Obito had gravely underestimated the reach of Shiki's Observation Haki.
Locking onto Obito's chakra signature, Shiki—now sheathed in advanced Conqueror's Haki—accelerated to a velocity that brushed the edge of light itself.
With no loss of momentum he drew his sword, scarlet light flashed in his eyes.
A bolt of red lightning burst from the blade, carving a flawless straight fissure through the air—much like Shanks' strike against Admiral Aramaki and shot toward Konoha at impossible speed.
Thus, "Wi-Fi Haki" debuted in the shinobi world.
On the battlefield, Obito's eyes gleamed with anticipation. Revenge was within reach... he only needed to order Kurama to unleash a Tailed Beast Bomb.
BZZZZT!
A force he never sensed slammed into his fully materialized body, and he convulsed.
"Arghhh!"
"W-What the hell is this? Who's there?" Obito roared, eyes wide with fear. He tried to slip into Kamui's dimension, but his intangibility refused to activate.
To his horror, the Mangekyō pattern shrank, reverting first to a three-tomoe Sharingan—then to an ordinary black pupil.
Obito's arrogance crumbled into raw dread.
S-Shiki… it's Shiki's doing. What kind of technique seals even my Mangekyō?
Obito's head snapped toward White Zetsu, rage blazing in his eyes.
"Zetsu, you bastard! You said he'd only just entered the Land of Fire!" he roared. "What in the hell is going on?"
For once, White Zetsu wore no smirk. He was visibly rattled, pale face beaded with sweat.
"I-It was true!" he blurted. "We tracked him the whole time—he was still miles away just a moment ago!"
Obito's expression twisted. "Then why is this happening?"
White Zetsu swallowed hard, voice shrinking.
"…We lost him."
Obito's eyes widened. "What?"
"One second he was advancing at a normal pace," Zetsu stammered, "and the next—his speed skyrocketed. After that…" He pointed shakily toward the distant sky. "…we couldn't keep up. He vanished from every trace we had."
Obito's face instantly darkened.
Impossible.
That was impossible.
Even Minato Namikaze needed Flying Thunder God markers.
No one could simply vanish from sensory tracking while crossing entire countries at full speed.
Unless…
Obito suddenly remembered the overwhelming pressure still crushing down on him at this very moment.
His expression grew uglier and uglier.
"…That monster."
BOOOOOOM!!!
The clouds above Konoha exploded apart.
A crimson streak tore through the atmosphere like divine punishment descending from the heavens.
A chill ran down Obito's spine.
Slowly, he lifted his head toward the sky and there...
Shiki was levitating above Konoha with an expressionless face.
His eyes first shone gold.
Then, in the next instant, they changed.
Dark pupils.
Blue irises.
The Mystic Eyes of Death Perception.
Red lightning split the sky again and again around Shiki's body as his hand slowly moved to unsheathe his sword.
The force immobilizing Obito vanished but Obito couldn't feel even the slightest relief.
Because the moment that pressure disappeared…
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