Chapter 64: Uchiha Obito
Danzo thought that disregarding civilian casualties and building destruction by using immensely powerful ninjutsu in Konoha Village was already extreme enough, but he didn’t expect to encounter someone even more extreme.
He could hardly imagine how much destruction the massive volcanic bombs of lava falling from the sky would cause if not controlled.
However, Danzo knew one thing clearly—neither he nor his summoned beast could be hit by this lava!
He had already experienced the terror of lava many days ago.
“Wind Release: Vacuum Sphere!!!”
Danzo sharply inhaled a breath of air thick with sulfur, and the summoned beast Baku beneath him raised its head and opened its large mouth.
Puff puff puff puff puff—
Wind spheres rapidly shot out from its mouth one after another, the dense wind spheres seemingly forming a rival force against the volcanic bombs falling from the sky, both sides rapidly colliding in midair.
But at that moment, Danzo’s peripheral vision suddenly caught sight of Uchiha Ikeizumi’s figure inexplicably disappearing!
Oh no!
Danzo’s gaze quickly scanned all directions, worried that Uchiha Ikeizumi would take the chance to close in within inches.
However, Danzo was overthinking this time, because what Uchiha Ikeizumi wanted to deal with first were those annoying “little flies.”
An orange-red hand flowing with lava and emitting terrifying high heat had, at some point, grabbed a Root ninja’s face.
The Root mask was directly melted, and the lava hand branded deeply into the Root ninja’s face like a branding iron.
“Aaaaaahhhh—”
Accompanied by the shrill scream, Uchiha Ikeizumi didn’t even need to press down hard; the Root ninja’s face had already sunk inward like melted butter by more than half.
Until the scream ceased.
Life completely ended.
“He has an opening!!!” While Danzo and Baku worked together to block the volcanic bombs falling from the sky, a Root ninja gritted his teeth and desperately closed in on Uchiha Ikeizumi from behind.
He tore open his ninja combat vest, shredded the undershirt inside, bit his thumb, and slashed across his abdomen.
Instantly.
Strange, interlocking pitch-black sealing technique patterns rapidly emerged on his abdomen, his chakra being rapidly drained by the sealing technique patterns, to the point that the muscles on this Root ninja’s body visibly withered away.
“Ninja Art: Puppet Binding Seal!!!”
Whoosh—
The pitch-black sealing technique patterns on his abdomen turned into three black iron chains, shooting toward Uchiha Ikeizumi’s back through the air.
Pfft!
Pfft!
Pfft!
The iron chains instantly pierced through Uchiha Ikeizumi’s body. Although no blood flowed from the body, strange patterns spread from the chains, gradually covering the skin surface where lava flowed.
In the sight of the Root ninja, whose body had withered to skin and bones, Uchiha Ikeizumi seemed to want to struggle free from the chains’ bindings but couldn’t break loose no matter what.
“Heh…”
With his chakra severely drained, the pale-faced Root ninja sneered coldly: “This is the Uzumaki clan’s…”
“What are you doing! He’s behind you!!!” A sudden shout stunned this Root ninja for a moment.
Before he could make any extra moves, he discovered that the ninja sword at his waist had been drawn from behind.
Puchi—
The large head slid down from the neck. Uchiha Ikeizumi glanced indifferently at the headless corpse on the ground, then at the black iron chains stabbing into a clump of air ahead.
The Sharingan’s illusion technique was still too overpowered.
Especially in this life-and-death battle, a mere one-second illusion was enough to decide a person’s life or death.
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“Meow! These guys are ganging up on Lord Ikeizumi! Rookie, run faster! We need to hurry and support Lord Ikeizumi!”
Kijiro led a large group of ninja cats, rushing urgently toward the Yamanaka Clan Headquarters.
Ikeizumi followed closely behind.
“Kijiro, what is that?!” Ikeizumi shouted while sprinting forward, looking up in shock at the distant Baku.
Kijiro corrected first: “Call me Senior Kijiro!”
It quickly replied: “That’s that old dog Shimura Danzo’s summoned beast, seems to be called Baku or something. It’s a very powerful summoned beast, specializing in markless Wind Release ninjutsu.”
As the person and cats leaped and darted across rooftops.
Suddenly, a figure in a black robe on the rooftop ahead caught Ikeizumi and Kijiro’s attention.
As Ikeizumi brushed past the figure, he hastily turned back to see who it was.
But he discovered that the figure had suddenly vanished!
As if it had never existed.
As if it were her illusion.
“Kijiro… Senior!” Ikeizumi’s pupils contracted slightly, and he immediately shouted: “Did you all see that person just now?”
Kijiro’s cat face grew serious: “I saw… but didn’t see how he disappeared. Meow… I vaguely saw him wearing a mask that only revealed one eye. Never mind him for now; supporting Lord Ikeizumi is the priority!”
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“Uchiha Ikeizumi…”
Under the night sky, faint air ripples fluctuated slightly, and a figure in a black robe reappeared.
The single exposed eye faintly carried a trace of gloom.
“Back then, if not for Teacher Minato, I probably would have died at your hands already, right? Heh… I heard that little guy called Uchiha Itachi went through the same experience as me.”
He muttered to himself in what seemed like illogical rambling.
“Running into you right after returning to Konoha is really bad luck. Should I take this opportunity… to throw a stone while you’re down?”
His gaze looked into the distance, and when he saw one figure after another rushing hurriedly toward the Yamanaka Clan Headquarters.
He sighed regretfully again.
“Forget it…”
“There are too many people.”
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—Boom!!!
Rolling hot lava floods surged toward Baku and Danzo. Under the extreme high temperature’s scorching, even from dozens of meters away, it made Danzo’s eyes sting and skin itch.
Baku sharply inhaled, then exhaled from its mouth.
Waves of howling gales formed a solid wall, forcefully blocking the oncoming lava flood ahead.
But Danzo keenly noticed something wrong with the ground under Baku’s feet.
Faint red glows appeared in the dense cracks, as if some terrifying entity was about to burst out from the earth.
Danzo’s breathing hitched.
His pupils contracted sharply.
“Baku! Below!” His urgent shout drew Baku’s gaze downward.
The next instant, Baku’s eyes reflected the glow of lava.
—Rumble!
The ground in front of Baku’s feet tore and shattered, massive lava surging up like a giant guillotine blade, slashing toward Baku’s head!
Baku hurriedly recoiled, but the lava eruption was too fast. In less than the blink of an eye, it brushed past right in front of it.
Danzo also watched wide-eyed as the crimson guillotine-like lava flashed past less than three meters in front of himself!
“Shrieeeek!!!”
Danzo heard Baku’s shrill scream and quickly looked down to see that Baku’s long trunk and half its face had completely lost their skin!
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