The sheer aura emanating from these two titanic entities would have paralyzed anyone else with fear. Indeed, the rest of their peers from the same generation and the shinobi of the Allied Forces could only stare blankly at the battlefield, utterly frozen.
Even Hashirama's expression grew exceptionally grim. Naruto and Sasuke's powers had long since surpassed his own, yet he found himself completely unable to gauge Kanon's true strength.
In fact, he couldn't sense her presence at all. When someone of Hashirama's caliber failed to register a person's strength, it meant either one of two things: they were an ordinary civilian with no chakra, or their power surpassed his by several times, if not entirely out of his league.
In the distance, within the cockpit of his armored titan, Sasuke manifested a giant blade of purple chakra.
"Are you two finally going to get serious?" Kanon asked smoothly.
"I told you, I have no intention of killing you."
"Though leaving you both half-dead should be perfectly fine."
"Excellent. I'll use the two of you as a benchmark to test the limits of my current power."
Sasuke made his move, his Susanoo driving the massive chakra blade down toward Kanon in a sweeping slash.
Reacting with peerless agility, Kanon leaped straight into the air, levitating effortlessly in a display of flight that mirrored Onoki's technique. Moving with blinding speed, she evaded Sasuke's strike in a heartbeat.
She darted across the framework of Sasuke's Susanoo, while from the other side, Naruto hurled a massive Tailed Beast Ball straight at her.
However, Kanon simply phased through the air, activating her intangibility and letting the Tailed Beast Ball sail past to detonate right against Sasuke's Susanoo.
Immediately after, nine massive chakra arms unfurled from the Nine-Tails avatar, clawing ruthlessly at Kanon. Yet, without exception, every single one of them phased straight through her form.
Just as Kanon prepared to lunge at Naruto, Sasuke delivered a downward slash from behind, carving a massive, jagged trench into the earth where she had stood.
Phasing cleanly through Sasuke's chakra blade, Kanon stepped out with an expression of absolute indifference. "The Susanoo passed down through our Uchiha clan is undeniably powerful. But for someone whose physical conditioning and daily training don't even amount to one percent of mine, just how fast do you think you can move?"
Kanon's voice was flat, yet the words struck Sasuke like a physical blow. He froze as he realized Kanon was already standing squarely atop his own chakra blade.
"The Complete Susanoo is said to possess the power to destroy all creation, and its defensive capability is hailed as unmatched under heaven."
"But in the end, it still falls beneath the domain of the Six Paths. Meaning..." Before her chilling words could even finish, she slipped into the Flower Realm. When she materialized an instant later, she was directly in front of Sasuke.
The moment Sasuke caught sight of her, his pupils dilated in sheer horror. Inside the crystal crown atop his Susanoo's head, Kanon had already unleashed a devastating kick.
Her body phased cleanly through the twin blades Sasuke swung to defend himself, and her foot connected directly with the crystal dome, the absolute sturdiest point of the Complete Susanoo.
Yet, beneath the weight of Kanon's stomp, the ultimate defense of the Susanoo shattered like brittle glass.
Even Naruto's eyes widened in shock at the sight. Kanon's foot slammed directly into Sasuke's abdomen, blasting him entirely out of the Susanoo structure and sending him crashing ruthlessly into the dirt below.
How is this possible? Kanon breached the Susanoo's absolute defense with ease...
As Sasuke tumbled across the earth, Kanon flashed forward to close the distance. Her footwork seemed to fold space itself, altering her position with every microsecond. Blurring across the field in three rapid steps, she materialized right over Sasuke.
Clang!
Four black receivers pierced through Sasuke's hands and feet, pinning him to the ground and causing him to let out a ragged scream of agony.
With Sasuke thoroughly pinned, Kanon turned her cold gaze toward Naruto.
"Your turn, Naruto," Kanon said softly. But right as she spoke, Sasuke utilized Amenotejikara, swapping his pinned body with the empty air.
"Honestly, you run around just like a little mouse," Kanon murmured flatly.
"In that case, let's bring a definitive end to this."
Kanon extended both of her hands. In front of Naruto and Sasuke, a pair of slender, delicate palms materialized out of nowhere.
Yet, as those delicate hands pushed forward across the void, they unleashed a blinding, heavenly light. Countless beams of sword-intent materialized into soaring rainbows, completely obliterating the Nine-Tails avatar and the Complete Susanoo in a single, devastating instant.
Before they could recover, Kanon seized Naruto and Sasuke firmly by their collars and soared directly into the upper atmosphere.
"Aaagh! What the hell are you doing?!" Naruto roared, staring down at the rapidly receding ground. No matter how violently he thrashed, he could not break free from Kanon's iron grip.
Sasuke was in the exact same predicament. Firmly restrained by Kanon, he found himself completely unable to focus enough to activate Amenotejikara.
"Don't be impatient, you two. I'm about to show you the true extent of my power."
Kakashi, Minato, and the others watched in absolute bewilderment as Kanon carried Naruto and Sasuke straight into the heavens, leaving the surviving members of the Allied Shinobi Forces completely paralyzed with shock.
As Kanon continued her steep ascent, Naruto and Sasuke began to experience a profound, surreal sensation. The sky was no longer blue; it had transitioned into a pitch-black void, and the azure planet beneath them was shrinking rapidly into the distance.
"What are you planning, Kanon?!" Naruto screamed.
Kanon offered no reply. Having breached the vacuum of space, she utilized the spatial jumps of the Flower Realm to traverse hundreds of light-years across the cosmos, finally locating a barren asteroid.
With a powerful swing of her arm, she hurled Naruto and Sasuke crashing onto the rocky surface of the asteroid.
"Here we are. This will be our battlefield."
Naruto and Sasuke stared outward with pure dread. In their vision, the vibrant blue planet they had called home was entirely gone, lost in the vast expanse of the void.
"You want to fight us here?" Sasuke muttered, shaken.
"No. It's simply because only out here can I unleash my true, unbridled strength without any reservation."
"Your true strength?" Naruto and Sasuke stammered, unable to comprehend.
"Don't worry. I'll beat you both until you can't move, then take you back."
With those words, Kanon brought her hands together into a single seal. Stepping off the asteroid, she levitated in the open vacuum of space as her own Complete Susanoo erupted into existence.
But this variation of the Complete Susanoo completely shattered any concept Naruto and Sasuke had of the technique. The sheer scale of the manifestation instantly crushed their remaining will to fight.
"Flower Release: Complete Susanoo," Kanon intoned flatly.
The Susanoo had always been a legendary construct, symbolizing invincible might and divine power.
Yet, when Kanon's Complete Susanoo truly manifested, the cosmos itself seemed to shudder under its weight.
The sight defied all logic, expanding far beyond the boundaries of mortal imagination.
The fabric of space tore open with a colossal fissure, as if the universe itself were announcing the descent of a supreme, primordial deity.
From that cosmic tear, an oppressive, absolute weight began to flood the void, not merely a wave of energy, but a declaration of ultimate supremacy.
Kanon's Complete Susanoo slowly stepped out from the rift.
Its scale was utterly staggering, rivaling the size of a massive star, looming like a celestial god over the cosmos. Its armor shimmered with a brilliant, blinding radiance, every intricate detail pulsing with divine authority.
From its back sprouted an infinite number of crimson light-wings, every single feather harboring enough destructive force to pulverize stars.
Its eyes glowed like twin, burning suns, filled with a cold, majestic indifference that seemed capable of peering through every secret in the cosmos.
When it spoke, its voice resonated like rolling cosmic thunder, causing the very fabric of space to warp and tremble with every syllable.
Naruto and Sasuke broke out into cold sweats, their pupils shrinking into pinpricks as they stared up at this logic-defying entity. Just by standing silently in the void, it had effectively become the absolute center of the universe, forcing all other celestial bodies to revolve around its presence.
"Sasuke... our strength isn't even in the same dimension as hers..."
"Tch..."
Standing on the surface of the asteroid, looking up at a Susanoo as massive as a star, an unprecedented wave of absolute despair washed over the two boys.
This was the definition of absolute power. A Susanoo larger than a star was a level of terror they could not comprehend.
But Kanon was not finished. Her colossal crimson Susanoo began to move. As she swung her arm, countless surrounding asteroids exploded into cosmic dust from the sheer displacement of force.
A simple movement had violently disrupted the gravitational fields of the surrounding space. Then, the star-sized titan unsheathed a massive crimson blade and delivered a horizontal slash across the cosmos.
Fwipp!
A silent shockwave cut through the vacuum, and Naruto and Sasuke felt their entire understanding of reality crumble.
Countless surrounding planets began to shatter, disintegrate, and collapse. Even a rogue black hole drifting in the sector was cleanly sliced into absolute nothingness by the trajectory of the blade.
With a single sweep of that crimson sword-light, the entire binary star system was utterly destabilized, and every single planet held within its gravitational pull was instantly erased from existence.
The Susanoo calmly sheathed its blade. Within a radius of a single light-year, the entire star system had been completely decimated.
Only Naruto and Sasuke remained, staring blankly into the void, their bodies rendered entirely immobile by the sheer residual shockwaves of the strike.
An instant later, Kanon's Complete Susanoo vanished, and she stepped back onto the asteroid.
Stretching her limbs, she spoke to Konin within her mind. "Is this the absolute limit of what I can do right now?"
"For the time being, yes. You need to complete your Invincible Method before you can enter your true, perfected form."
"I see," Kanon noted, nodding smoothly.
She looked down at the unconscious forms of Naruto and Sasuke, shaking her head slightly.
"Idiots. The two of you never stood a chance against me," Kanon said softly. Seizing them both by their collars, she traversed the space of the Flower Realm, charting her course straight back toward the blue planet.
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