In an instant, Tsume was defeated, felled by the mysterious weapon now held in Kirito's hand.
The crowd stared wide-eyed. One thought echoed in everyone's mind:
"Even now, he still had such a terrifying trump card? Just how many aces is this Hyuga Kirito hiding?"
Some couldn't help but wonder, could none of them defeat him?
It began as a quiet, almost absurd doubt…
But what Kirito did next made that fear swell into something very real.
He reversed the blade, turning it downward, then released it.
The katana, hilt and all, sank into a distorted ripple in space.
At that moment, the surrounding area trembled unnaturally.
"A space-time fluctuation…?!"
Kakashi's eyes widened.
"Is this… space-time ninjutsu?!"
That was no small feat, few in Konoha's history had ever mastered it.
Only the Second Hokage, Tobirama Senju, and the Fourth Hokage, Minato Namikaze, had wielded it to perfection, both legendary shinobi.
"He's mastered powerful taijutsu, mysterious ocular powers… and now even space-time techniques?"
Nara Shikaku stood frozen.
Even with his genius intellect, he couldn't piece together an explanation for Kirito's arsenal of absurd powers.
Then-
From the earth rose a towering array of massive blades, erupting in neat rows with killing intent.
Kirito gave a light wave of his hand.
And in that moment, those blades dissolved into billions of razor-thin, near-invisible slivers, scattering across the battlefield.
What the eye saw was…
A sea of dazzling, fluttering cherry blossoms.
"Bankai: Senbonzakura Kageyoshi."
"What… are those?"
The Konoha shinobi were stunned.
It looked beautiful, but every one of them, veterans of war and death, could feel the lethal aura pulsing beneath the bloom.
"Inoichi!" Shikaku yelled.
"Understood!"
Their long-time cooperation needed no further words.
Inoichi quickly formed seals, then unleashed his powerful sensory ninjutsu across the battlefield.
His eyes snapped open.
His face paled.
"They're not petals… They're all micro-blades. Billions of them."
"That's what shredded my arm earlier?"
Tsume wiped cold sweat from her brow.
"That was just a tiny fragment of it. If that entire storm hits us, there won't even be a body left to bury."
Kakashi activated his Sharingan.
To one eye, it looked like petals.
To the other, it was a hellish storm of blades.
A sea of knives. A vortex of death.
Even Kakashi, hardened veteran of the Third Great Ninja War, took several steps back, cold sweat dripping down his back.
"This… is this still something a human can control?"
But Kirito had no intention of stopping.
Without warning, he waved his hand again.
The sea of blades surged, a tidal wave of cherry blossoms, roaring down upon the Konoha shinobi.
"It's now or never!"
A giant stepped forward.
Akimichi Choza swallowed a crimson pill.
His body rapidly slimmed down as he burned his own fat reserves, converting them into pure chakra.
From his back erupted radiant, multicolored butterfly wings.
"Secret Technique: Butterfly Bullet Barrage!"
He concentrated every last drop of power into a single punch, launching a full-power shockwave that tore through the incoming sea of blades, carving out a massive vacuum path.
But after this effort, Choza fell, completely drained.
The attack was only half cleared.
The other half was still surging forward.
"Then I have no choice but to use this…"
The second to act: Kakashi.
He shut his right eye and concentrated all of his remaining chakra into his left Sharingan.
The three-tomoe pattern began to twist.
The Mangekyō Sharingan bloomed.
"Kamui!"
A spiraling vortex opened in midair, distorting space itself, sucking in the incoming blade storm like a ravenous beast.
Chunks of the cherry blossom sea were dragged into the void and erased.
But the price was steep.
Kakashi collapsed, chakra completely exhausted.
He had only just begun to understand the Mangekyō's power, and forcing a single use was enough to drain him dry.
Only a small wave of blades remained.
The last to defend:
Hyuga Hiashi stepped forward.
"Everyone, stay close to me!"
"Rotation!"
Chakra burst from every tenketsu in his body, forming a perfect, 360-degree sphere of spinning chakra, absolute defense.
Even Senbonzakura's petal-blades couldn't penetrate the Hyuga clan's greatest shield.
Just one wave.
And yet, it had forced three of Konoha's strongest veterans to go all out, leaving them barely able to stand.
The true power of Senbonzakura was beyond comprehension.
But Kirito wasn't done.
He stood silently, eyes scanning the battlefield.
The key players were all down.
Only a handful of the remaining ninja still had strength to fight.
"Then…"
Kirito raised his hand.
"Let's end this in one strike."
The earth trembled.
"Crack, Crack, Crack!"
From all sides, the ground ruptured.
A massive tide of cherry blossoms surged skyward, surrounding the Konoha shinobi from every direction.
A closing cage of death.
"Senkei: Senbonzakura Kageyoshi."
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