Chapter 213: Uchiha Douhuan VS A
Uchiha Douhuan and Konan rode together on the paper bird, rushing towards the northeast of the Land of Fire. Before long, Deidara, carrying Sasuke and the other two on a large clay bird, caught up.
"Such fast flight speed?" Konan looked at Deidara, who was standing at the very front of the clay bird with his arms crossed, staring ahead, a look of surprise on her face. Deidara's flight speed had indeed exceeded her expectations. For Deidara to be able to pick up people and still catch up within twenty minutes, while looking completely at ease, this aerial flight ability alone was more than enough to qualify for the rank of Special Jonin in any major ninja village.
"Teacher," behind Deidara, Sasuke and the other two greeted Uchiha Douhuan. Among them, Naruto's expression was the most anxious; he was the closest to Konohamaru of the three.
"The three of you are here," Uchiha Douhuan nodded. "Deidara, you take the three of them. Don't follow too closely. In a moment, if I start fighting with the Raikage, the matter of rescuing the hostage will be up to you."
"Don't worry," Deidara nodded. "Naruto already told me on the way here. The kid who was kidnapped is his little brother, so that makes him my, Deidara's, little brother too. If they dare to kidnap him, I'll make them fly in a moment."
The group traveling in the air faced no obstructions. However, it still took them the better part of a day, only catching up to the Cloud Village party, who were traveling through the night, at dawn.
"It seems it really is them," Uchiha Douhuan said with a sneer. Rushing off in such a hurry was a clear sign of a guilty conscience.
"Lord Hokage, do you need help in the fight later?" Konan asked at this time.
"No need," Uchiha Douhuan said. "This is a matter internal to our Konoha. Furthermore, in our future cooperation, it's best for our Konoha and your Akatsuki to avoid being openly involved with each other as much as possible before the final battle."
"I understand," Konan nodded.
Uchiha Douhuan glanced down at the Cloud Village crowd, who were rushing at full speed under A's lead. Compared to when A left Konoha, their team had clearly grown much larger. It was obvious the other side had come prepared.
Uchiha Douhuan sneered coldly, drew Swift Thunder, and leaped down.
As Uchiha Douhuan's figure glided through the air, azure lightning began to gather around his body. Like a sharp arrow, he cut through the night sky and landed heavily on the path the Cloud Village party had to take.
Uchiha Douhuan had no intention of hiding himself and then launching a sneak attack. This method of entry was a blatant announcement to the other party that he had arrived.
A, upon hearing the sound of thunder and lightning in the sky, also stopped and raised a hand to halt his subordinates behind him, his eyes fixed on Uchiha Douhuan who was descending from the sky.
"Hokage?" After a moment, A slowly spoke, "Lord Hokage seems to be very idle. Is it necessary to see us off this far?"
"Not at all. The work of a Hokage is still very busy. However, it seems you, Raikage, are even busier, rushing back to the Cloud even at night." Uchiha Douhuan caressed the body of his sword, Swift Thunder, and a layer of lightning slowly appeared on its surface. "A child from our Konoha went missing today. After an investigation, the Guard Unit found it to be related to your Cloud Village's envoy. May I ask you all to come back with us for an investigation?"
"It seems Lord Hokage has come with ill intentions," A said. Seeing Uchiha Douhuan's posture, he knew that this couldn't be resolved today without a fight.
After speaking, A clenched his fists, and lightning began to flash on the surface of his body.
"It seems Lord Raikage does not intend to cooperate." In Uchiha Douhuan's eyes, a Mangekyo pattern shaped like lightning swirled into view. The silver eyeshadow of Sage Mode appeared under his eyes, and his aura climbed steadily. The Cloud ninjas behind A were intimidated by this aura and couldn't help but take a few steps back.
"Hmph." At this moment, A also released his own aura without reservation, blocking Uchiha Douhuan's pressure for his subordinates. "Does Konoha intend to go to war with our Cloud Village?"
"Our Konoha has always loved peace, but in the face of provocation, we do not fear war," Uchiha Douhuan said. "Besides, you are the ones who came here!"
As Uchiha Douhuan's voice fell, his body transformed into a flash of lightning that tore through the darkness, the Swift Thunder in his hand slashing fiercely at A.
Facing this slash, A was not the least bit afraid. He met it with a fist wrapped in lightning. The two clashed and then immediately retreated.
Two figures, both wreathed in lightning, continuously collided under the moonlight. Every time they clashed, a blinding white light would erupt.
While the two were engaged in a fierce battle, the main Cloud ninja force behind A began to take the opportunity to flee towards the border.
However, they did not notice that in the sky behind them, a large clay bird was quietly pursuing them.
"Konohamaru is indeed in their hands," Neji said while observing with his Byakugan and sharing the vision with the other three. In the scene he saw, among the Cloud squad below, a middle-aged ninja in the center was carrying a sack on his back. Inside the sack, a child of about 8 years old was tied up. Who else could it be but Konohamaru?
"Senior Deidara, we'll have to trouble you to intercept their squad from the air in a moment," Sasuke said. "Make the commotion as big as possible. We are very close to the border. The border garrison and the Land of Hot Water's garrison have received the news and are rushing here. It would be best if we can stall them here while rescuing the hostage."
"Why are you being so polite with me? What's this 'senior' business? Just call me big brother like Naruto does," Deidara said brashly. "Make the commotion bigger, right? Then you'd better watch closely, my gorgeous artistic performance."
"Naruto, Neji, let's go!" Sasuke nodded. Deidara then maneuvered the large bird to lower its altitude slightly. The three jumped off the bird and, following Sasuke, stealthily approached the Cloud troops fleeing towards the border.
...
At this moment, the two Kage engaged in fierce combat had also finished their warm-up.
A, stepping on lightning, roared and rushed towards Uchiha Douhuan. The Lightning Release chakra wrapped around his right arm ionized the air into a blazing white trail. Uchiha Douhuan's Mangekyo Sharingan slowly rotated—in his field of vision, twelve possible futures unfolded simultaneously like mirrors.
In the third image, the Raikage's fist would shatter the rock three meters to his left; the seventh image showed the opponent would suddenly change direction before contact; only in the ninth image would that bolt of lightning accurately hit the position he was currently standing on.
"Liger Bomb!"
Just as A was about to touch Uchiha Douhuan's figure, Douhuan's figure suddenly became intangible. Swift Thunder, wrapped in lightning, split a rock. Before the splashing debris could land, six shuriken wrapped in purple electric arcs had already attacked from different angles.
"Insignificant tricks!" A burst out with even more dazzling lightning, raising his hand to knock away the hidden weapons.
But next to those shuriken, flashes of lightning shot past. The magnetic field formed by the lightning instantly changed the shuriken's flight path and accelerated them a second time.
Purple lightning erupted from the tips of the shuriken, and six lightning spears intertwined to form a cage.
A's pupils contracted sharply. The plasma sparks generated by the collision of his lightning-wreathed right fist and the lightning spears illuminated the entire canyon.
When the light dissipated, three charred cracks had appeared on his right shoulder.
"You can predict my movements?" A wiped the bloodstain from his cheek. The rock layer under his feet suddenly exploded with web-like cracks. "Then try this!"
Blue chakra, like a tangible flame, enveloped his entire body. A's speed instantly skyrocketed. Seven afterimages appeared simultaneously in the canyon, each afterimage attacking Uchiha Douhuan from a different trajectory.
A's development of Lightning Release nintaijutsu had clearly reached its peak. In terms of ultimate speed, he even slightly surpassed Uchiha Douhuan.
"Is this the extreme speed that only the Flying Thunder God can catch up to?" Uchiha Douhuan's Mangekyo spun wildly, countless future images overlapping on his retina. In the next second, Uchiha Douhuan formed the Tiger Seal.
Seven illusions identical to the main body appeared out of thin air. Each illusion struck a different defensive pose and collided with one of A's afterimages. The lightning clones of both men exploded one after another. A's true body appeared to Douhuan's left, but his elbow strike, wrapped in lightning, passed through an illusion.
The real Douhuan had already appeared behind him, the Swift Thunder in his hand chopping down with a flash of lightning.
Swift Thunder, wrapped in azure lightning, landed on A's back. The lightning wrapped around it scraped against A's protective lightning aura, creating a piercing screech. A grabbed the blade with his backhand, his left hand's Lariat aiming straight for Uchiha Douhuan's throat. But Uchiha Douhuan, who should have been locked down, suddenly transformed into thousands of lightning sparks that scattered in all directions.
"Lightning Release: Thunder Senbon Rain!"
The scattered lightning sparks instantly condensed into lightning needles as fine as ox hair, shooting towards A.
A grunted, dozens of bloody blossoms bursting on his body, but he revealed a savage smile instead, "Now this is more like it! Compared to Minato Namikaze who just flashes around, fighting you is much more interesting!"
"Is that so," Uchiha Douhuan narrowed his eyes. "I have to say, you are the most powerful ninja I have ever faced since I became a ninja. However, the warm-up should be over."
"Hmph, what a braggart," A spat out a mouthful of bloody foam contemptuously. The deep blue chakra surrounding his body suddenly turned dark red. A's muscles swelled to an incredible degree. The Lightning Release chakra rushing through his meridians once again broke its limit. This time, even A's steel-like body began to seep a bloody mist. It was clear that the price of this move was enormous. But in exchange, the speed of A charging towards Uchiha Douhuan this time directly surpassed the limit of Uchiha Douhuan's vision.
In Douhuan's eyes, the originally clear twelve futures were torn into hundreds of thousands of blurry fragments. As A's speed increased, the resulting changes in the future multiplied, putting immense pressure on Uchiha Douhuan, who was caught off guard. Bloody tears began to seep from the corners of his eyes.
A's figure completely disappeared, with only the shriek of tearing air coming from all directions. Uchiha Douhuan subconsciously activated his Susanoo.
"Bang!"
When the first punch hit the Susanoo's ribs, Douhuan only then realized the opponent had already attacked.
The translucent black skeleton had just appeared when a crack formed, followed by a second punch, then a third. Over a hundred lightning-wreathed attacks per second beat the initial form of the Susanoo into a steady retreat.
"It's not over!" A's roar resonated with the thunder. He clasped his hands together into a hammer shape. "Lightning Release: Heavy Stream Storm!"
A lightning hammer powerful enough to split mountains slammed down. The ground beneath Douhuan's feet trembled violently, and the explosion kicked up a massive amount of dust and smoke.
But in the smoke, the Perfect Susanoo unfolded its sky-blotting wings. The giant, covered in samurai armor, stood over a hundred meters tall. Its surface was wrapped in divine patterns. In its hands, two long swords, Futsunomitama and Ame no Habakiri, gleamed with a chilling light.
"The legendary Perfect Susanoo?" A panted heavily, looking up at this hundred-meter-tall giant, his face incomparably grave. The Land of Lightning, as the ancestral home of the Uchiha clan before they moved to Konoha, naturally had stories of the Uchiha clan passed down. But it wasn't until he faced this hundred-meter-tall giant that A understood why, in legends, the Susanoo was also called the Third Power. This was simply a power that only gods could possess.
"I admit, in Lightning Release nintaijutsu, you have walked ahead of me," Uchiha Douhuan, inside the Susanoo, looked down at A below and said coldly. "However, in front of the Susanoo, your resistance ends here."
"Heh heh, the power of a god? How infuriating," A said, looking up at the Susanoo. He pursed his lips, then tore off his already tattered clothes, revealing muscles like black rock.
A let out a deafening war cry, compressing his Lightning Release chakra to its critical point. This was his final secret technique, a forbidden jutsu that completely fused the body with lightning—
"Lightning Release: Tiger Slayer!"
The thunderclouds in the sky began to gather. A thick bolt of lightning struck A's body. The terrifying lightning landed on A's body, and a layer of bright silver runes immediately appeared on his rock-like black muscles. Against the backdrop of these patterns, A at this moment resembled a black tiger poised to strike.
But the moment he began his move, Uchiha Douhuan's Mangekyo suddenly stopped rotating. Among the countless intersecting futures, he saw the decisive flaw: when A poured chakra into his legs, his left knee would lag for 0.3 seconds due to an old injury.
A purple lightning spear, launched second, arrived first, accurately piercing the chakra node in A's left knee.
The rampaging Lightning Release chakra backlashed against its master, while the Susanoo had already raised the divine swords in its hands.
"Lightning Release: Lightning Dragon Fang."
...
When the pillar of lightning that pierced through heaven and earth dissipated, the Fourth Raikage was kneeling on one knee in a charred, deep crater. His body was covered in charcoal-like scars, but he still stared intently at the slowly approaching Uchiha Douhuan.
"The Mangekyo Sharingan, it truly lives up to its reputation," A said hoarsely, struggling to his feet, trying to gather the last trace of his chakra.
"Now, can you give me an answer? Do you want war? Or peace?" Uchiha Douhuan said coldly.
(End of chapter)
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