Kakuzu flapped his wings, narrowly dodging.
Suddenly, he felt a shadow fall over him. He instinctively looked up, and his pupils contracted.
Mid-air, a figure with the sun at his back, hands clenched into hammers, descended fiercely from above.
"Boom."
Kakuzu's head was hammered. His body plummeted to the ground, creating a massive crater. Stones splattered, and smoke billowed out.
Kakuzu opened his eyes. A figure broke through the smoke, hook-kicked low, and came sweeping in, cutting through the wind.
Kakuzu hastily turned, avoiding the loud bang from the ground as smoke billowed up.
Kakuzu braced his palms on the ground, pushed slightly, his body ascended, and he flapped his wings, flying back into the air.
Tōshirō pushed off the ground, leaping up, and punched towards him.
Kakuzu dodged sideways. A fist grazed past him. Without a moment to spare, he formed hand seals and spat out a compressed ball of wind from his mouth.
Wind Release: Pressure Damage.
Tōshirō sprouted five tails, forming a sphere around him, guarding his front, resisting the impact of the wind ball.
Withdrawing his tails, Tōshirō narrowed his crimson eyes, focusing his gaze on the enemy.
He thought, As expected of an old monster who has lived for half a century. Even with the power of his perfect Jinchuriki, it's hard to quickly gain an advantage.
However, Kakuzu was ultimately a half-baked Jinchuriki. In a prolonged battle, Tōshirō was confident he wouldn't lose to him; at most, it would just be a bit troublesome.
But before continuing to fight Kakuzu, he needed to clarify one thing.
His thoughts racing, Tōshirō began to prepare for shaking off Kakuzu. He spread his palms and, with lightning speed, formed a series of hand seals, mobilizing the chakra within him to draw in the surrounding water molecules, causing them to slowly condense into rectangular ice mirrors, encircling the area.
Ice Release: Demonic Mirroring Ice Crystals.
Although it was the same technique as a certain individual, the range and number of ice mirrors were incomparable.
It wasn't that Tōshirō was vastly more skilled in this technique than that person, but rather the amount of chakra he poured into this technique was on a completely different level.
Any technique, once infused with Tailed Beast-level chakra, would gain immense power and undergo a qualitative change.
Tōshirō stepped back, his body merging into the ice mirror. In an instant, the mirrors surrounding the area reflected Tōshirō's figure.
This technique wouldn't delay a ninja of Kakuzu's caliber for long, but this time was enough for him to find that person...
Not far away, Moroboshi Dan, lying on the ground, cautiously observed the fiercely battling duo.
Just then, he suddenly felt something and abruptly turned his head, only to be punched in the face, his head slamming heavily against the ground.
Tōshirō pressed his advantage, throwing several punches with the force of a mountain collapse, rendering him barely alive.
Tōshirō roughly grabbed his head with one hand, looking directly into his eyes with his Sharingan, the three tomoe spinning wildly.
Genjutsu: Sharingan...
Tōshirō's genjutsu was relatively ordinary compared to his other abilities. To increase its success rate, he specifically beat his opponent into a near-death state.
Tōshirō hypnotized the opponent with his Sharingan, extracting information: "Tell me, why did you ambush me..."
The other party's bleeding lips moved, slowly uttering the information he already knew.
Tōshirō's heart first skipped a beat, then surged with intense rage, his masseter muscles bulging, and scorching red light erupted from his eyes, his expression utterly terrifying.
As if to vent the fury in his heart, Tōshirō, in a state of extreme rage, punched the opponent's head, causing a bloody red torrent to splatter onto the ground, first forming a puddle, then a lake...
Just then, Kakuzu broke free from the Demonic Mirroring Ice Crystals and came seeking trouble.
"Get lost!"
The enraged voice permeated with intense killing intent.
Kakuzu was confused, not understanding why the other party had suddenly become so furious.
The mission information he received was incomplete.
Tōshirō transformed into his Partial Tailed Beast Transformation, his body enveloped in dark red chakra, his eyes hollow and terrifyingly profound.
There was no time to delay any longer. He had to end the battle quickly and rush towards Tsunade.
He vanished from his spot, closing in rapidly.
"So fast..."
Tōshirō's speed further increased. Kakuzu couldn't dodge in time and was sent flying by a punch.
Next, Kakuzu dared not hold back anything. He too entered Partial Tailed Beast Transformation and fought back.
Both were in the pre-full Tailed Beast Transformation stage, but there was a fundamental difference between them.
The former had the Tailed Beast wholeheartedly supplying chakra, while the latter was forcefully extracting the Tailed Beast's chakra. The disparity in strength was immediately evident.
If it weren't for his aerial advantage, barely maintaining the situation, Kakuzu would probably be getting a severe beating by now.
If this continued, he would lose...
Kakuzu flew into the air, pulled out the scroll from his waist, unrolled it, and with a "bang" and a burst of white smoke, a gourd appeared in his hand.
Hero Water...
Back then, Kakuzu drank this substance to gain immense chakra for a short period, which barely allowed him to defeat the Third Hokage.
He drank the remaining Hero Water from the gourd, and a vast amount of chakra surged out like a geyser.
What did he just drink...
Tōshirō felt an unprecedented amount of chakra emanating from Kakuzu, and his heart sank.
Before he could think further, Kakuzu had already charged towards him. Even so, Tōshirō showed no fear and retaliated head-on.
The power unleashed by Kakuzu even managed to suppress Tōshirō at one point.
Their fierce battle caused immense destruction, turning the surroundings into a desolate wasteland.
At this point, the battle between the two reached a fever pitch, about to enter its decisive phase.
One was in the sky, one on the ground.
Kakuzu stood suspended in the air. Blue and black chakra orbs converged near his open mouth. These chakras mingled, forming a larger chakra orb.
At the same time, the two masks on either side of Kakuzu's head, near their open mouths, gathered fire-natured chakra and wind-natured chakra respectively.
Facing the downward-diving Tailed Beast Bomb, along with the surrounding Wind Release and Fire Release fanning the flames.
Tōshirō stood firm on the ground, his palms clasped together, his arms raised over his head from bottom to top. A vortex swirled around his body, drawing upwards, forming a tornado carrying ice and snow.
His ice power poised, Tōshirō roared, "Ice Release: Aurora Execution!"
A beam of light, along the edge of his fist, shot into the sky at an angle of forty to fifty degrees.
The two energy forces collided violently, creating a massive explosion that affected both sides. As the smoke cleared, Tōshirō and Kakuzu both shed their Tailed Beast Cloaks.
Tōshirō quickly got up, clasped his palms together, raised them above his head.
The moment he unleashed his move, a cold, radiant goddess's glow emanated from behind him.
A beam of extreme freezing air rushed forward, freezing everything in its path.
Aurora Execution descended upon the world once more.
Kakuzu intended to retaliate. Just as he was about to channel the chakra within him, his pupils contracted. The side effect of the Hero Water manifested on schedule. This wasn't the main problem, but what was truly lethal was that the Seven-Tails inside him began to struggle wildly, vowing to perish together.
It was this momentary sluggishness that allowed the ice particle beam to strike him. The extremely cold freezing air rapidly coursed through his entire body, and the resulting feedback caused his body to rapidly freeze.
Before dying, certain images flashed through Kakuzu's mind like a kaleidoscope, and a self-mocking smile welled up in his heart.
He, who had once been betrayed, would actually die in this manner. What a huge irony...
"Ah—!"
Accompanied by this scream, Kakuzu turned into an ice sculpture. Then, unable to make any further movements, he was shattered into ice shards by Tōshirō's Boil Release: Peerless Strength punch, and drifted away with the wind...
Ordinarily, Tōshirō might have sighed with emotion, but now, he had neither the time nor the inclination.
Tōshirō didn't even glance back; he immediately set off.
In his heart, he prayed that everything was still in time...
(End of Chapter)
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