Right in the dead center of the disaster zone.
With Guy, Lee, and Neji acting as high-speed human buzzsaws to hold back the waves, Yamato finally caught a break and plugged the massive gap Kakashi had left behind.
"It's finally... finally over—blegh—"
Guy collapsed to the dirt, completely dizzy and nauseous, and immediately started hurling his guts out.
The guy already got seasick easily, and after spinning like a top for so long, the vertigo hit him way harder than usual.
Throw in that ungodly stench, and his nausea just skyrocketed.
Lee wasn't doing much better.
He didn't exactly suffer from motion sickness, but his strength were way below Guy's.
After throwing up once, his eyes rolled back and he flat-out passed out.
Neji, ironically, was in the best shape out of the three.
Since Rotation literally required him to spin, his natural resistance to vertigo was off the charts.
Even though this specific Rotation lasted way too long and still made him sick to his stomach, he could physically endure it.
However, the millisecond Neji glanced down and realized his pristine white clothes had turned a sickening yellow, his vision went completely black.
Especially since more and more people were swarming the area!
Seeing Lee hit the dirt, Neji made a split-second tactical decision—he faked fainting and collapsed right next to him.
To make sure nobody busted his act, he even deliberately held his breath.
The medical-nin rushed over and hauled Guy and Lee onto stretchers.
Those two were genuinely terrifying.
Their signature green bodysuits packed multiple features, like extreme breathability and sweat absorption.
Back when Guy pitched one to Naruto, even Naruto admitted the thing was ridiculously comfortable.
Its only real flaw was that it was ugly as sin.
Well, today it officially unlocked a second flaw.
It absorbed way too much damn liquid!
Both of their bodysuits were completely waterlogged and swollen.
Even after all that high-speed spinning, they somehow hadn't turned into human washing machines and wrung themselves dry.
The medics had no choice but to drag them off to the side, strip the suits off, and hose them down.
As a direct result, a dark secret previously known only to Kakashi and Guy was suddenly exposed to the world.
Even though it only flashed for a split second before a medic threw a clean towel over it, they all got a clear view of the legendary "little acorn."
Meanwhile, Neji held his breath and kept his eyes clamped shut.
Relying purely on his hearing, he picked up on the horror show happening over by Guy and Lee, and his heart trembled in fear.
Thank god his own clothes were baggy and he actually wore proper inner layers underneath!
"Oh no! Neji's breathing is super weak! He needs artificial respiration!" a medic hovering over him suddenly shouted.
Neji instantly knew something was terribly wrong.
'Artificial respiration? Oh, hell nah!'
Just as Neji was about to break character and speak up, another voice cut in.
"No way! Who the hell would dare do that? Neji must have accidentally swallowed some of the shit while spinning and started choking on it. Whoever gives him mouth-to-mouth would basically be eating that shit directly!"
'What did they mean, choked on it?!' Neji felt insulted.
He hadn't swallowed a damn shit!
Neji was fully ready to drop the dead act.
The entire point of playing dead was to avoid losing his dignity in front of a massive crowd.
But now these medics were out here slandering his good name, bullying him just because he couldn't talk back.
That was crossing the line!
"I... mmph."
Neji had just cracked his eyes and mouth open to complain when a thick rubber tube was aggressively jammed straight down his throat.
"Huh? Neji's awake!"
"Neji, why are you awake? We haven't even started saving you yet!" The medics looked genuinely shocked.
"Mmph, mmph!"
"Oh, crap, sorry." The medic yanked the tube out.
"I'm not injured. Just get me a change of clothes and hose me down," Neji demanded, his face a completely deadpan mask.
...
At the exact same time, over on the other side of the crater, Yamato was handling the final cleanup.
"Yamato, can you actually seal this stuff away? If that's off the table, at least cap the top. The smell is way too strong." Morino Ibiki strolled over, pinching his nose shut.
As the head of the Torture and Interrogation Force, he breathed in nasty stenches like this all the time while breaking prisoners.
But this was his very first time dealing with such a massive quantity packing such a radioactive stench.
Ibiki's backup plan was that if Yamato couldn't seal it, his ANBU squad could step in.
That "oven" combo ninjutsu they used earlier could technically function as a makeshift sealing jutsu—as long as they skipped the Lightning Release opener and the Fire Release finisher.
"Ah, of course. Leave it to me." Yamato nodded, his face dead serious.
If Kakashi were actually awake, or if Sarutobi Hiruzen were standing there, they absolutely would have tackled him to stop it.
But the others didn't know Yamato's unique quirks.
Yamato, much like Sai, carried this extremely artificial, machine-like vibe.
Since Yamato ditched Root years ago, he only counted as half-machine.
Sai, on the other hand, was still a total robot.
Yamato held his hands out toward the massive square wooden walls in the distance, gearing up to slap a lid on the whole mess.
Just to guarantee no leakage or structural collapse, he also paved a solid wooden floor underneath it.
Once the box was fully constructed, Ibiki flashed a grin.
"Yamato, that's seriously impressive. As expected of the guy who inherited Lord First's Wood Release. You... wait, what the hell are you doing?!"
Ibiki's smug grin instantly morphed into sheer horror.
He just realized that after Yamato finished "packaging" the biohazard, he didn't stop.
The guy was still burning through hand seals!
"Wood Release: Super Tree Binding Eternal Burial!"
Rocking an expression that practically screamed, 'Sorry, I got a little carried away', Yamato made a brutal crushing gesture toward the massive wooden cube he had just sealed.
The giant wooden containment box started violently shrinking.
Everyone nearby watched with their hearts jammed right in their throats.
Even the medics stopped their rescue ops.
If the structural integrity of that Wood Release was even slightly off, that box was going to turn into a pressure bomb, blasting that unholy payload all over Konoha!
"Seal!" Yamato stepped up and slapped his hand flat against the wooden wall, forcefully stabilizing its endurance.
Just like that, the colossal wooden structure compressed smaller and smaller until it finally shrank into a tiny wooden sphere.
Then Yamato casually whipped out a storage scroll, plopped the sphere inside, and sealed it a second time.
"Man, if you took that thing onto a battlefield and chucked it into an enemy formation like a paper bomb, that would be absolutely..."
Staring at the harmless-looking wooden ball, Ibiki couldn't help but hatch a truly diabolical idea.
The cleanup was officially a wrap on this side.
...
Meanwhile, deep inside the Kamui dimension, the masked man was ruthlessly sealing away his own grandmother, who was still wrapped tight inside a White Zetsu clone.
This really was a completely absurd role reversal.
Back in the original Fourth Shinobi World War, whenever the Allied Shinobi Forces ran into unkillable Edo Tensei zombies, they had to rely on sealing jutsu to put them down.
Now, the masked man was facing an Edo Tensei he couldn't magically undo, leaving him no choice but to break out a sealing jutsu himself.
As for why he had to seal her? Because the masked man didn't dare face his own grandmother.
He just wanted to avoid dealing with her.
Wasn't the entire origin of Kamui—that unique eye reflecting his inner heart—literally built on his desperate desire to "escape" reality?
It just went to show that the masked man's cowardly core hadn't changed a bit.
"Foolish Kakashi! Spend the next few days resting up."
Standing inside the Kamui dimension—which was still caked in plenty of disgusting residue—a faint smirk tugged at the masked man's face.
His grand challenge to fight Kakashi in ten days was, at its core, a complete smokescreen.
He just wanted to stabilize Kakashi and feed him the illusion that the village was safe for the next week and a half.
In reality, he fully planned on using this ten-day window to hunt down Sasuke and rip out his Rinnegan!