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Drip… drip…
Crimson flesh oozed through the gaps in the blackened wood.
Below, shattered glasses and a blood-soaked hairpin… silently announced the tragic finales of Koharu Utatane and Homura Mitokado!
Izuna wasn't satisfied. He leapt onto the tree that had crushed them, his single Sharingan coldly scanning the empty ruins.
At that moment, he truly wished he had the Byakugan. Then he could easily find any remaining Senju scum hiding, behead their corpses, and offer them to the spirits of the Uchiha!
Even without it, he wouldn't mind digging three feet into the ground, searching every detail… but right now, there were more important things!
Izuna's blood was boiling. "Brother! The Senju remnants haven't run far yet! Let's wipe them all out in one go!!"
No reply came to his question.
Izuna turned. His brother seemed… unsettled.
For some reason… starting a moment ago, a faint chill had been creeping across Madara's skin.
A similar feeling… he'd only felt it once before. On the eve of the Battle at the Valley of the End.
He raised his hand, looked down, and stared at the intricate lines on his palm as if trying to decipher something from those endless circuits.
"Brother?" Izuna asked, concerned. "What's wrong? Are you tired?"
"Tired? Don't joke. To this extent? How could I possibly feel tired?"
Snapping back to reality, Madara clenched his fist. Surging hot blood scattered the creeping chill.
"Wipe out the Leaf remnants. Right?"
"Yes, brother!! Best to let them die in despair!!!"
"Nothing easier than that!!!"
BOOM…!!!
As his metallic voice fell, cursed mist erupted into the sky, unstoppable…!!
In the valley surrounded by mountains outside the Leaf, the crowd who thought they'd escaped saw black mist surge into the sky behind them.
Within the ruins called Konoha.
Madara entered Sage Mode. Vast sage power poured into the cursed mist.
—Sage Curse Technique: Asura Visage!
High in the sky, a towering, ferocious face formed within the churning black mist, gazing down upon the Leaf remnants at their dead end!!
The overwhelming pressure made their souls want to flee their bodies!
Crack! The face opened its ominous maw! Crackle…! Yin Release Sage Lightning gathered in its throat, dazzling like the aurora!
BOOM…!! Behind the face, a massive meteorite large enough to blot out the sky tore through the clouds, shattered through the visage, its fiery red leading edge now veiled in Yin Release lightning, crashing towards the mountain-ringed valley…!!!
In this moment… the Leaf crowd revealed their true selves.
"Damn it, hahahaha, it's over, it's completely over…!"
"Heavens truly want Konoha destroyed!"
"Damn that Uzumaki Naruto! The Third Hokage should have executed him at all costs back then!!!"
"No… I don't want to die! I don't want to die!!!"
Might Guy's bushy eyebrows furrowed into a deep crease. He clenched his fists, looked up at the sky. "In the end… still need the Eighth Gate to solve it!!!"
Guy lifted his shirt collar once more. His right thumb aimed for his heart.
Snap…!!!
At that moment, a hand… reached out without warning and seized his wrist!!
It was…!
"Lee… you!!"
Before his eyes… Rock Lee raised his face, expression blank.
Caw caw caw…!!
The next second, his body disintegrated into a flock of black crows right before Guy!
And then… Guy found himself in a desolate place. No Leaf comrades around him. No falling meteorite overhead.
It was obvious… Genjutsu.
Guy was shocked he'd fallen for genjutsu. Even more curious about the caster's identity!!
He shouted at the swirling crow flock overhead. "With such genjutsu skill, you're clearly no ordinary shinobi. Show yourself!!"
Caw caw caw…!!
The crows coalesced into the half-real, half-illusory form of 'Itachi', who greeted him politely. "Mr. Guy… long time no see."
Might Guy: "To one I've never met! Before addressing someone by name, state your own first!!!"
In reality, Might Guy stood motionless on the spot.
From the moment he'd again considered using the Eighth Gate, a chink had formed in his heart over the fact he'd be killing 'Naruto'. That inner flaw… had given Itachi's genjutsu, named 'Mindstream', an opening!
As for him lifting his collar, and Lee grabbing his wrist… both were illusions created by Mindstream in response to his own inner thoughts.
Yes… the most terrifying aspect of Mindstream wasn't its activation method. It was that the illusions seen were created by the victim's own mind. For the caster, activation only required a single stray thought.
The crushing meteorite already blocked all light.
Among the crowd awaiting their doom, the pink-haired girl clasped her hands before her chest.
Scenes from her dreams flowed through her mind. Tears breached her eyes. She cried out!!
—"Sasuke-kun, please… save Naruto, save the village, I'm begging you…!!!"
Whoosh!! In her blurred vision, a flash of white light passed like a startled swan. Vaguely, she saw… his profile!
Whoosh… The white streak passed beneath the meteorite, not even pausing for a breath!
Behind the streak, four accompanying afterimages swiftly landed at the four corners of the valley!
Kabuto Yakushi, landing northwest: "Ready? Everyone!!"
Karin Uzumaki, landing southwest: "But… I'm not too confident in my strength!"
Itachi Uchiha, landing southeast: "No need to doubt. You're not weaker than anyone."
Nagato Uzumaki, landing northeast: "Correct. Without a doubt. With Uzumaki lineage, plus eyes that serve as a shrine for the evil god… you possess Kage-level combat power!!"
The four who landed formed a synchronized hand seal!!!
—Barrier: Four Crimson Yang Formation!!
BOOM…!!!
At the moment heaven and earth were about to collide… a barrier more scorching than volcanic flames rose from the four sides of the valley!!
In the instant sky met earth, all sound vanished…!! Not truly silent! But everyone… had their minds blasted into stunned numbness.
…
The distant roar from the valley made the surrounding earth tremble nonstop!!
"Hahahahahahaha…!!"
Izuna heard the explosion. Desperate to witness the Leaf remnants' deaths, he ran so fast his legs became afterimages!!!
"Wiped out, finally wiped out!! Senju scum!! Let me see your dead faces!!!"
Swish…!
Bursting from the dust curtain… Izuna's ecstatic expression suddenly froze on his face.
"How could… this be, brother!!! …Brother?!"
Izuna turned sharply. The brother who should have been following him… was no longer behind!!
Yes… Madara had stopped halfway.
Because… he sensed a chakra that made him tremble from his body to his soul!!
That chakra… expressed Hashirama Senju's essence through an Uchiha's form! Perfectly natural. Never before seen. Never before seen!!
In this man's cognition…!!!
In the ruins.
—"Ha… hahahahaha, can't be wrong, can't be wrong!!! It's you, it can only be you. The person… no, the precious darling the entire world seems to revolve around. Seeing you, I finally understand why Obito was so helpless before you! Uchiha Sasuke… you've finally made your grand entrance before me!!!"
On the slope, that youth, Uchiha Sasuke, removed the hood connected to his white cloak. His cold words rang out simultaneously.
—"Could you not wear my friend's face while making such a deranged expression?"
The face presented before his eyes… made Madara's madness incurable.
—"How interesting…!!!"
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