"Ah?", After hearing Sasuke's words, Naruto showed an expression of surprise on his face.
He didn't expect that Sasuke also wanted to become Hokage.
However, although he now had one more competitor, Naruto was still happy that Sasuke stood on Konoha's side.
He quickly clenched his fist, looked at Sasuke with a determined expression, "Then let's compete and see who will become Hokage in the end."
Sasuke turned his back, snorted, and said indifferently, "Boring."
At this moment, out of the corner of his eye, he happened to glance at Sakura, who was standing in the distance watching the battle.
When Sakura saw him looking over, she immediately turned her head away with a complicated expression.
Sasuke also revealed a troubled expression. At this moment, a feeling called stomachache gradually surfaced.
Just then, Naruto and Sasuke heard the serious voice of the Second Hokage, Senju Tobirama, coming through, "You two, don't get distracted. The enemy… isn't dead yet!"
The two were startled and immediately looked toward the smoke-filled location.
As the smoke began to dissipate, they saw the figure of Big Obito standing within it. The wounds on his body gradually healed and soon returned to their original state.
Senju Tobirama furrowed his brows and said, "Looks like Sage Arts really can work, but at this level, it's still not enough to cause substantial damage to him."
Then, Tobirama said to Minato, "Do you have any stronger moves?"
Namikaze Minato said somewhat awkwardly, "That was already my strongest strike."
Tobirama couldn't help but say, "Wasn't the Rasengan invented by you? Why does it seem like… you don't use it as well as Naruto?"
But then, he remembered something. It seemed Flying Thunder God was invented by him, but Minato had surpassed him at it.
Tobirama could only quickly change the subject, "Transfer the Nine Tails chakra in your body to Naruto. Let him be the main attacker, and we'll assist. Can you do it?"
Minato nodded, "I can do it."
Then, Minato's figure instantly appeared in front of Naruto and smiled at him.
"Naruto, earlier, you could also enter this mode I'm in now, right?"
Naruto nodded.
Minato raised his fist toward Naruto, "Try maintaining Sage Mode while entering this mode. I'll provide the chakra."
Seeing this, Naruto also raised his fist to his dad.
He smiled and said, "I'll do it, Dad!"
The two fists bumped together.
Immediately, Naruto's body also lit up with the same golden glow as Minato's, and at the same time, his Sage Mode did not fade.
Sage Fox Mode, officially activated.
Naruto, with Perfect Nine Tails Jinchuriki Mode stacked on top of Perfect Sage Mode, even if he hadn't yet reached Six Paths level, could still be said to be the strongest tier below it.
The aura radiating from his entire body even surprised Sasuke standing to the side.
Naruto… had become stronger again.
However, to Big Obito, this still wasn't much.
He floated up again, flying above Naruto, Sasuke, Senju Tobirama, and Namikaze Minato.
Big Obito stretched out a hand, pointing toward the God Tree, whose flower bud was gradually blooming after absorbing a large amount of the Allied Shinobi Forces' chakra earlier.
"The Eye of the Moon Plan is only one step away from success. The perfect world and perfect future are about to arrive."
"You all cannot stop me."
Naruto and the others' hearts sank. Only now did they realize that the only reason they managed to hit Obito earlier was because he was distracted doing something else.
Naruto looked at the members of the Allied Shinobi Forces hanging on the God Tree and felt a sense of helplessness rising in his heart.
Where was hope? The Five Kage who awoke around the same time as him, what were they doing now?
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Time moved to just a moment earlier, Allied Shinobi Forces' base.
Due to the battle between First Hokage Senju Hashirama and Madara, and the battle between Naruto, Sasuke, and Six Paths Obito, everything had exceeded the scope of ordinary Kage-level. Normal ninjas, even the Kage themselves, couldn't get involved.
So the allied forces could only silently offer their prayers from the sidelines.
At this moment, the Five Kage, who had regained consciousness, gathered once again to discuss how to win this war.
Among them, Fourth Raikage A wore a gloomy face.
As the supreme commander of the allied forces, now he could only clench a fist and say with grief and indignation, "What else can we do?"
Onoki shook his head and said, "Believe in Konoha's previous Hokage and the Nine Tails Jinchuriki. Perhaps they can stop the enemy."
"Damn it!", Fourth Raikage slammed the ground with one punch, cracking it open.
This was exactly what he couldn't accept the most. Even his enemy, Uchiha Sasuke, was fighting, and yet he could do nothing.
The other four Kage understood Raikage A's mood at this moment especially well, so they didn't try to dissuade him and simply remained silent together.
After a while, A finally broke the silence. Although Kumogakure usually solved problems with power, it didn't mean he was completely brainless.
He spoke slowly, "If we join the frontal battle, we'd only add to the confusion. But perhaps, we can help Naruto and the others in another way."
Onoki asked, "Raikage, you mean…"
A said, "Everyone has weaknesses. Even someone who wants to destroy the world, Uchiha Madara and Uchiha Obito, are no exceptions."
"On this point, I believe you all understand. Aren't you all usually very good at finding people's weaknesses and forcing them to comply?"
This sentence made Onoki cough a little awkwardly. As a long-reigning Kage, he had seen much darkness and indeed had done such things more than once.
Tsunade, Gaara, and Mei, however, all frowned at the same time.
Their time in power wasn't long, and their methods had always been relatively open and honest, not so despicable.
Tsunade protested discontentedly, "Raikage, are you saying we should target the people Madara and Obito care about to make them stop?"
"As for Obito, let's not talk about that for now. Madara's dearest friend is my grandfather, who is currently fighting Madara!"
"Are you saying we should kidnap my grandfather, put a knife to his throat, and threaten Madara?"
A immediately realized, threatening Madara probably wouldn't work.
Let alone whether Madara could be threatened, just the idea of kidnapping Senju Hashirama… they had just been beaten up by Madara, and now they wanted to get beat up by Hashirama too?
He turned and asked, "Then what about Obito?"
Tsunade subconsciously looked toward the battle near Six Paths Obito and Naruto/Sasuke, where Kakashi seemed to want to help but didn't have the means to intervene.
Very soon, she shouted angrily, "Uchiha Obito's former companions are Konoha's medical ninja Nohara Rin and the current Kakashi."
"Nohara Rin has long been dead. As for Kakashi, try touching him if you dare."
A was rather regretful.
Kakashi, as the squad leader of the allied forces, had contributed greatly and truly couldn't be touched.
If he tried anything against Kakashi, the alliance would instantly collapse. Konoha might even go all-out against him.
A sighed, "Looks like this plan won't work either."
However, at that moment, a voice suddenly rang in the ears of the Five Kage, "Who says it won't work?"
The Five Kage instinctively looked toward the source of the voice, and saw a black-and-white figure slowly emerging from the ground.
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