Unspeakable pain wracked the Baku, making it shriek uncontrollably. Danzo, sensing what was happening, grimly barked, "Calm down! Don't unilaterally release the summoning jutsu! Trust me this once!"
Danzo had, at some point, ripped off the bandages on his face, revealing a scarlet Sharingan, his gaze wildly sweeping in all directions. Once he locked onto Akainu Uchiha's figure, Danzo gritted his teeth. "Baku! You only need to hold on for two minutes! Give me two minutes, and Akainu Uchiha will be dead!"
'Danzo... are you truly going to fight this lava monster to the bitter end?'
A sudden voice exploded in Danzo's mind. The Baku couldn't speak normally, but it could communicate telepathically with Danzo through their summoning link. Danzo heard the Baku's heavy, panting tone.
Danzo stared intently at Akainu Uchiha's figure not far ahead, his face grim as he ground out, "If this inherently evil Uchiha brat continues to exist in Konoha, the Uchiha clan will eventually seize control of the village!"
He then slowly unwrapped the bandages from his arm—his Sharingan was no longer a secret to Akainu Uchiha anyway. As for the eight subordinates he'd brought to retrieve the bodies? When the Baku was heavily wounded by the lava, and before his subordinates even reacted, Danzo realized all eight of them were dead. Even if they weren't, they certainly couldn't provide support. This meant he had lost a total of sixteen Root shinobi today! All the old grudges and new ones combined made Danzo absolutely seethe with hatred for Akainu Uchiha!
'Alright... just two minutes!' The Baku endured the intense pain on its face, choosing to trust its old human partner this one time. It glared at Akainu Uchiha, who had burned it.
With an earth-shattering roar, the Baku opened its mouth and unleashed a colossal wind bullet, large enough to rival its own size! The Baku had no concept of "collateral damage." It was putting everything it had into this!
The massive wind bullet surged towards Akainu Uchiha with destructive force. Where the wind bullet passed, the ground beneath was ripped apart by the gale, trees snapped, and houses collapsed. If the Konoha civilians living nearby hadn't quickly evacuated a few minutes earlier after hearing the sounds of ninja combat, they wouldn't have had time now.
The intense gale forced Akainu Uchiha to narrow his eyes. It felt like an invisible wall was pushing him back, his feet dragging two shallow furrows in the ground. His three-tomoe Sharingan sharply caught a blurry figure being swept up and carried along by that enormous wind bullet!
It was... Danzo!
A Desperate Counter
—BOOM!!!
The colossal wind bullet had consumed Akainu Uchiha, and behind him, in the Yamanaka clan compound, houses were directly ripped from their foundations. A massive amount of building debris and fragments flew wildly in all directions.
Akainu Uchiha's lava-flowing body seemed to be covered in explosive tags, "shattering" with a 'bang' as it was struck by the giant wind bullet! Large amounts of lava were either blown hundreds of meters into the sky, splattered in places igniting raging fires, adhered stubbornly to the ground like glue, or scattered into countless glowing specks flying through the air.
Danzo pulled five sealing scrolls from his waist, bit his tongue, and spat a mouthful of blood onto them.
"Ninja Art..."
"Multiple Impure Sealing Jutsu!!!"
Danzo suddenly clapped his hands together. The muscles in his old face twitched constantly. Behind him, the Baku's exhalation turned into an inhalation, its fierce suction no less powerful than the earlier howling wind. The scattered lava around them was being drawn together by this powerful pull. The five sealing scrolls Danzo had thrown also simultaneously emitted strong suction. They attempted to draw all the converging lava into themselves.
Watching a mass of lava in mid-air converge into a rolling arm of molten rock, Danzo had only two thoughts: 'Is this brat a monster?! Is that body even human?!'
But Danzo gritted his teeth. He refused to believe that five layers of sealing jutsu wouldn't be enough to seal Akainu Uchiha's entire body!
However, the next instant, Danzo froze.
"M-My... my arms..." Danzo's inexplicably shocked gaze slowly moved to his arms. He was horrified to see that under the moonlight, the shadows cast by the lava had materialized, binding his hands from a distance!
—Shadow Imitation Jutsu!!!
The name of a Nara clan secret jutsu exploded in Danzo's mind.
The Unseen Threat
The powerful force of the shadows binding his arms slowly forced Danzo's hands apart. The chakra continuously flowing into the sealing scrolls became severely disrupted by his movements. The sealing scrolls' suction also grew chaotic, even drawing in useless debris and fallen leaves.
This is bad!
If this continued, he absolutely wouldn't be able to precisely control the scrolls, let alone seal Akainu Uchiha. Danzo was startled, no longer having time to wonder why a Nara clan ninja had suddenly appeared and attacked him. He began to fear that the Sharingan transplanted into his arm would be crushed by the continuously tightening shadows!
Danzo gritted his teeth and, with a fierce resolve, suddenly grew thick vines from his right arm. The numerous vines quickly grabbed onto the shadows binding his arms and forcibly tore them away. His expression was utterly grim, for after exposing his Sharingan secret, he had now revealed his Wood Release trump card! And both times were because of Akainu Uchiha! To think he, Danzo, had been pushed to such a point by this inherently evil Uchiha brat.
Damn it!
Suddenly, something else unexpected happened to Danzo.
—The scattered lava throughout the air simply vanished from his sight without a trace!
Danzo initially thought he was caught in a Sharingan genjutsu, but with all his three-tomoe Sharingan, he should have sensed it even if he was.
Something's wrong...
Where is he?!
Did he escape?!
Suddenly, Danzo was shocked to see the edge of one of the sealing scrolls appear strangely yellowed and charred, as if from extreme heat.
That's right!
If that evil Uchiha brat had escaped, why hadn't the surrounding temperature dropped at all?
When he saw the charred sealing scroll suddenly catch fire, and the other scrolls also began to burn, Danzo finally realized what was wrong.
He wasn't caught in a genjutsu, and Akainu Uchiha hadn't escaped; the opponent had simply used an unknown jutsu to hide his presence!
The brat transformed into invisible but tangible lava!
Danzo could only link it to one Kekkei Genkai—Scorch Release!
Feeling the inexplicable scorching heat rushing towards his face, Danzo's forehead veins throbbed, and he roared internally, "Izanagi!!!"
As the secret Sharingan jutsu activated again, he finally saw the orange-red lava fill his vision.
But it was too late, too close.
There was no way to dodge.
—BOOM!!!
Danzo's body was instantly swallowed by the lava, but under the absurd Sharingan secret jutsu that "rewrites unfavorable events," his body, vaporized by the lava, instantly reformed.
"I won't be killed that easily by you!"
Danzo, gritting his teeth as he spat out those words, suddenly noticed that Akainu Uchiha, who had just "killed" him, didn't continue the attack. He watched in horror as the terrifying suction of the summoned beast Baku drew the deadly lava torrent towards itself!
Hiss!
The Uchiha brat's true target was the Baku!!!
Danzo's pupils constricted abruptly. But he was too late to warn it.
The tsunami-like lava had already surged high, engulfing the massive body of the summoned beast, Baku.
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