Crack—
The Earth-Style Wall Kakashi had desperately reinforced finally buckled and shattered.
The raging, toxic waves poured out like a ruptured dam, surging straight toward Konoha's central district.
"KAMUI!"
Kakashi roared, the space in front of his eye violently twisting.
A massive chunk of the incoming flood was instantly sucked into the Kamui dimension.
Unfortunately, even after expanding Kamui's suction range to the absolute limit of his eyeball, he still couldn't swallow the entire shit tsunami sweeping toward the village.
Kakashi could only hold the line in the dead center.
The waves crashing past him on both flanks were completely out of his reach!
"Kakashi, hold your ground right there! Leave the rest to us!"
"Go, Kuromaru!"
"Let's fight together, Haimaru!"
Woof, woof—!
Inuzuka Tsume's dog, Kuromaru, and Inuzuka Hana's three Haimaru brothers immediately transformed into four furry whirlwinds and charged straight into the waves.
That's right.
This was the low-budget, highly improvisational version of Fang Over Fang—Fang Over.
Fang Over Fang was one of the Inuzuka clan's signature moves.
The ninken and the shinobi—who used Beast Mimicry Ninjutsu to transform into a feral beast—would spin at high speeds together and drill into the enemy.
The glaring problem was that in this specific situation, Inuzuka Tsume, Inuzuka Hana, and every single Inuzuka clan member standing behind them were absolutely, one hundred percent unwilling to make close contact with that tidal wave of crap!
So they just let the dogs do the heavy lifting alone.
The original Fang Over Fang also stacked with the Transformation Jutsu.
If the dog transformed into a human shape, it could use the claws generated by Beast Mimicry to attack, essentially turning into a low-budget combat tornado.
Or, if the human transformed into a dog—like the massive two-headed wolf variant—then the head and teeth served as the razor-sharp drill bit at the front of the tornado.
Right now, the dogs were rocking the second method.
Only, they weren't attacking with their teeth.
Instead, they just completely opened their mouths.
Exactly because of that desperate strategy, the waves weren't just violently scattered everywhere by the dog whirlwinds, but were actually, barely, held back.
Only barely.
Pretty soon, the dogs were stuffed, they literally couldn't eat another bite.
Once they hit maximum capacity, the high-speed spinning dogs completely lost their blocking effect.
In fact, spinning around like that with full stomachs would only cause the waves to splash outward even worse!
"Wood Release: Wood Formation Wall!"
A voice rang out from behind Kakashi, causing him to let out a massive sigh of relief.
Backup had finally arrived.
It was Yamato.
With Yamato hitting the field, massive wooden pillars erupted from the ground one after another, forming four thick wooden barricades around the perimeter.
The wood reinforced the original shattered Earth-Style Walls, creating an even larger, sturdier containment tank.
Since Yamato didn't know fancy barrier jutsu like the Four Violet Flames Formation or the Four Red Yang Formation, he could only rely on raw physical mass to plug the leak.
"Kakashi-senpai, Guy and the others came with me to help."
Yamato held his hand seal tight and stepped up to Kakashi's left side.
"Guy's here too? Good..."
The second those words left his mouth, Kakashi's eyes rolled back, and he collapsed straight to the ground.
First, he had been forced to maintain Kamui continuously for an agonizingly long stretch.
Then, to protect Konoha, he completely overdrew his chakra and maintained a massive-scale Kamui vacuum for a second grueling round.
By this point, Kakashi was utterly spent.
He had only been running on sheer, desperate willpower. Now that he saw Yamato and Guy had arrived, and the main support squad was finally holding the line, Kakashi's brain allowed him to shut down.
However, since Kakashi was unconscious, he totally lacked the energy to ponder one glaring flaw in their lineup.
Yamato could use Wood Release to physically block the waves, but what the hell was Might Guy supposed to do?
Pop the Sixth Gate and use Morning Peacock to add more fire to the sludge that had almost been extinguished?
Or pop the Seventh Gate and try launching a Daytime Tiger to vaporize the waves instantly, turning the whole mess into a fragrant biohazard fog that would drift over the village for miles?
"Not good!"
Yamato caught the unconscious Kakashi before he hit the dirt, then frantically shot a look at Might Guy.
"Guy, there's no time! I'm leaving the gap to you!"
Just a second ago, Kakashi had still been sucking up the flood with Kamui, so in the space directly in front of him, Yamato hadn't placed—and physically couldn't place—a Wood Release wall.
If he had dropped a wall there, no matter how thick he made it, Kakashi's Kamui would have just instantly warped it into the other dimension along with the sludge.
And now that Kakashi was down, that empty, unprotected gap burst open like a shattered dam!
"Huh?"
Might Guy had literally just sprinted onto the scene, his face set in a mask of firm, dead-serious determination.
But when Yamato screamed at him to plug the gap, he instantly froze.
He stared at the literal tsunami of filth sweeping toward them and pictured exactly what would happen if he charged headfirst into it with a Leaf Great Whirlwind...
At absolute best, he'd probably just splash up a massive, disgusting layer of foam right into his own face.
"Guy-sensei, this is youth! How can we possibly retreat right now?!"
Just as cold sweat poured down Guy's face and he instinctively took a half-step back, Rock Lee clenched his fists and pumped them with blazing passion!
"Well said, Lee!"
Completely fired up by those words, Guy's own fiery youth ignited.
He whipped a pair of nunchaku out of his pouch, tossed them to Lee, and was the very first to charge into the breach.
"Leaf Infinite Great Whirlwind!"
"Guy-sensei, I'm right behind you! Leaf Infinite Great Whirlwind!"
Two pure taijutsu fighters forcefully weaponized their own high-speed spinning to create an offensive barrier, completely mirroring the mechanics of Fang Over Fang.
However, Fang Over Fang acted like a thin, piercing tornado, while the Leaf Whirlwind was flatter, wider, and more disk-shaped, so its defensive coverage was actually pretty decent.
Guy and Lee stacked themselves—one spinning high, one spinning low—and genuinely managed to swat back a huge chunk of the wave.
But who the hell was going to stop the rest?
The Inuzuka clan had already blown their load using their dogs to block the first wave.
The ninken had all collapsed on the ground, completely incapacitated by sheer fullness.
"Neji! Hurry up—let's protect Konoha together!"
Rock Lee, who was currently spinning like a human buzzsaw while whipping his nunchaku around, let out one final, desperate shout.
Neji, who had been hesitating in the background, finally gritted his teeth and made a choice.
"Tenten." Neji shot a look at his teammate.
"Got it." Tenten instantly knew what he needed.
She whipped out a storage scroll, unsealed two massive Fūma Shuriken, and tossed them straight to Neji.
Neji caught them perfectly in both hands.
The heavy blades immediately started spinning in his grip as he sprinted dead-ahead toward the wave that was about to crash down on them.
"Rotation—!"
A massive, buzzing blue sphere of chakra forcefully repelled the toxic waves!
...
Miles away, standing safely inside the Hyūga clan compound.
Hyūga Hiashi and Hinata both had their Byakugan blazing, safely observing the distant disaster zone in high definition.
Watching Neji's tall, heroic back as the kid stepped up to save Konoha, Hinata couldn't help but glance up at her father.
"Father, shouldn't we also head over there and..."
"Hinata, this is an incredibly heroic deed! We absolutely should not steal the hard-earned glory that belongs to Neji. He needs this glory more than we do."
Hiashi's expression twitched violently, but he forced a serene smile and gently patted Hinata's head.
'What a joke,' Hiashi thought. 'Does she really think I don't want to rack up contribution points?'
As the head of the Hyūga clan—packing the Byakugan and arguably the best sensory network in all of Konoha—he had been one of the very first people in the village to spot the disaster unfolding.
If he actually wanted to, he could have rallied the entire Hyūga clan and beat the Inuzuka clan to the scene by a mile.
If they had shown up, he could have personally led the charge with Rotation, while the clansmen who hadn't mastered Rotation could just spam Eight Trigrams Palms.
By chaining their strikes together, they could have easily formed a manual, low-budget True Several Thousand Hands and completely pulverized the incoming waves.
But what would the final result actually be?
From that day forward, the pristine, noble reputation of the Hyūga clan would stink, literally.
The Hyūga clan exclusively wore pure white clothes.
Just look at Neji right now—his pristine white outfit had already been dyed a disgusting, solid yellow!
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