The next moment, his fingers clenched, pulling a blood-soaked figure from the debris. Seeing Yahiko, mangled and bloody, Nagato was stunned.
The next moment, his fingers clenched, pulling a blood-soaked figure from the debris.
Seeing Yahiko, mangled and bloody, Nagato was stunned.
Everything before him defied his understanding.
As the second largest force in Amegakure, hundreds of their ninjas were on this mission, backed by his Rinnegan.
The mission should have been a sure thing.
But reality was far harsher than expectation.
Remembering Uchiha Kai's warning from moments before, a sudden apprehension gripped him, and he looked around frantically.
"Where are you? Come save us!"
"I surrender! Come save us!"
Hysterical screams echoed through the ruins.
Nagato knelt helplessly on the ground, cradling Yahiko's mangled corpse.
The sounds of bodies exploding continued relentlessly, making Nagato's cries seem feeble and weak.
"Haha, I thought Akatsuki, the rising stars of the ninja world, had some extraordinary abilities. Turns out they're just paper tigers!" Blood Storm's figure flickered, appearing ghostlike before Nagato.
Blood Storm had been given strict instructions to treat every step of this mission with utmost caution.
He had approached the mission with the utmost care, never imagining that the two leaders of Akatsuki would be so naive and foolish.
A single human bomb had taken their lives.
Seeing Nagato, seemingly crazed, and those coveted Rinnegan, Blood Storm reached out to seize them.
With those legendary eyes and the power of the Bloodline Clan, Blood Storm believed he could crush Kumogakure and avenge his clan's exile at the hands of the Daimyo.
The thought intensified his eagerness.
But as his hand reached for the Rinnegan, he found nothing.
No!
Or rather, Nagato appeared like a phantom, his hand passing right through him.
In that instant, Nagato only had time to register the figure vanishing as if it had evaporated.
Only he could have performed such an impossible feat in the midst of this deadly situation.
"Blood Storm, what are you doing? Use the Blood Dragon Eyes!"
"Blood Storm, get away! You're going to die!"
"Why isn't that human bomb exploding yet?!"
Hysterical shouts rang out one after another.
Blood Storm's nerves jolted.
He looked around wildly, and everything around him seemed to crumble like paper, rapidly changing.
Finally, with a sharp cracking sound, the world around him disintegrated piece by piece.
When his vision cleared, he saw the human bombs still clutched in his arms, unexploded.
And a ghost-like figure rapidly enlarging in his pupils.
The lightning blade flashed, a blur of motion.
With a crackling sound of thunder, it struck his throat.
"No!"
Blood Storm finally reacted, letting out a scream.
The next moment, his head, spurting blood, flew into the air before crashing to the ground, blooming into a gruesome flower of crimson.
Thud!
Blood gushed from the severed neck of the corpse, which collapsed onto the ground.
This seemingly complex and bizarre sequence of events unfolded in mere moments. When the dust settled,
Uchiha Kai sheathed his lightning blade. Those who had just recovered from the genjutsu stared at each other in disbelief.
No!
They were still immersed in the despair of death, only now rescued.
In the explosion, nearly all of their three hundred plus men had been blown to smithereens.
They had not just escaped death, they felt as if they had been resurrected.
"Clan Leader!" A low, urgent cry came.
Seven or eight more Blood Dragon Eye clan members, rushed to the scene, their faces etched with disbelief at the sight of Blood Storm's lifeless body.
Danzo, Hanzo of the Salamander, and Orochimaru, cloaked in black, also appeared.
The sight of the corpse confirmed their failure.
But in this critical moment, their attention turned to the one who had killed Blood Storm.
Through the mask, a pair of blood-red eyes, nine swirling tomoe, emanated an aura that captivated the soul.
"You dare kill our Clan Leader? You're asking for death!" The burly leader of the Blood Dragon Eye clan roared, his blood-red eyes spinning wildly.
Instantly, Blood Storm's corpse was drained of its blood.
Crimson blood sprayed outwards, transforming into a blood dragon before everyone's eyes.
With a ferocious roar, the ten-meter-long blood dragon lunged towards Uchiha Kai.
"Don't!" A shout came from afar.
The Bloodline Clan members paused, then saw Uchiha Kai forming simple fire release hand seals.
"Fire Release: Great Fireball Technique!"
Blazing chakra erupted like a tidal wave, forming a fireball dozens of meters in diameter, crushing towards the blood dragon.
BOOM!
The flames exploded, and the blood dragon evaporated instantly under the intense heat.
As the Bloodline Clan members reacted, the massive fireball, its power undiminished, enlarged in their eyes.
In an instant, it engulfed them.
"Water Release: Water Dragon Bullet Technique!"
A young man rushed forward, a hint of madness in his eyes, rapidly forming hand seals.
The rain, which had been falling steadily, gathered into a massive water dragon ten meters long, charging towards the inferno.
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