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The atmosphere was saturated with Daigo's pink chakra as he maintained the Fifth Breath of the Seven Heavens. Around him, the snow did not melt; it sublimated, turning instantly into vapor before touching the ground due to the sheer intensity of the energy radiating from his pores.
In front of him stood Orochimaru. Having used his body-replacement jutsu, he appeared as if he had never sustained a single wound, ready to go all out against Daigo once more.
Without a word of warning, Orochimaru lunged forward. His speed was so great that he left a trail of afterimages in his wake. However, Daigo did not retreat.
What began was an exchange of Taijutsu that defied human perception. Orochimaru utilized his legendary flexibility to strike from impossible angles, his arms undulating like whips as he targeted vital points in Daigo's neck and temples.
But Daigo was no ordinary ninja. In the art of close-quarters combat, he had become a prodigy of efficiency. Every move Daigo made was minimal yet devastating.
He blocked a palm strike from Orochimaru with his forearm, feeling the vibration of the impact, and countered with an upward elbow that forced the Sannin to jerk his head back.
The dance continued: Orochimaru attempted a low sweep, but Daigo leapt, stepping off the Hokage's own shoulders and spinning in mid-air to land a descending axe kick that Orochimaru barely managed to block by crossing his arms.
The force of the impact sank the Sannin's feet into the permafrost. Taking advantage of the momentum, Daigo landed and unleashed a flurry of direct strikes to the chest. Orochimaru, feeling cornered in physical combat, resorted to his slippery nature, but Daigo was faster. With a sharp movement, he connected a front kick that sent Orochimaru flying twenty meters, crashing into a natural stone pillar.
Daigo didn't stop. He leapt toward the sky, accumulating chakra in his right leg until it glowed with an incandescent pink hue. He descended like a divine punishment. "Take this, you cockroach!" Daigo roared.
Orochimaru, with blood sliding down his chin, wove hand signs at a speed only a genius could possess.
Just before Daigo's kick could pulverize him, the Sannin rolled to the side, and from his sleeves, a flood of serpents erupted.
"Hidden Shadow Snake Hands!"
Hundreds of snakes surged from his sleeves, intertwining to form a net of fangs and venom. Daigo, now on the ground and surrounded, performed a cross-seal to defend himself.
"Crystal Style: Rising Ground Blades!"
The instant his feet touched the earth, the ground responded. Dozens of pink crystal blades sprouted with a deafening metallic screech, slicing the serpents into tiny fragments before they could even brush against his bare feet. The scent of reptile blood and ozone filled the clearing.
Orochimaru, however, wore a macabre grin. That exchange had only been the bait to keep Daigo fixed in one position for three seconds.
Three seconds were all he needed for the most powerful blood contract in his arsenal. He slammed both palms onto the ground, letting his chakra flow into the depths.
"Summoning Jutsu!"
A colossal explosion of smoke, so vast it covered the entire forest, caused the air pressure to shift abruptly. From the mist emerged Manda, the king of the Snakes from the Ryūchi Cave.
His violet body was a mountain of muscle and scales that creaked with every movement. His yellow eyes, brimming with millenary malice, fixed on Orochimaru.
"Orochimaru... what is this impertinence? You know I hate being interrupted while I am shedding," hissed the Great Snake, his voice a thunderclap that made Daigo's lungs vibrate.
"Manda, we have the Kazekage before us. His flesh is rich in chakra, and his death will give us total control of this war. Help me end this," Orochimaru requested, his voice a mix of respect and command.
Manda accepted with a hiss that made the hair of everyone present stand on end. He lunged forward, moving his massive weight with a logic-defying agility. Daigo began to retreat, leaping between trees to avoid being crushed, but the snake's attack was only half the problem.
Orochimaru, seizing the chaos, appeared via Shunshin right in Daigo's shadow. The Kusanagi blade extended from his mouth like a silver bolt aimed directly at the young leader's heart.
Daigo found himself in a deadly pincer move. With a fluid motion, he turned toward the blade, blocking it with his forearm to deflect the sword, but that left him vulnerable to the main attack.
Manda's massive body moved like a whip, striking Daigo's side with a force equivalent to a landslide.
The Kazekage was sent flying, crashing through several trees before coming to a stop. As he stood up, he felt a sharp pain in his ribs, but he smiled. Because he had instinctively covered that area with a dense layer of chakra before the impact, his internal organs were intact.
However, he knew he couldn't win this 2-on-1 battle alone.
"If you want to play with summons, Orochimaru, I have one too." He performed the seals and struck the ground.
"Summoning Jutsu!"
In a burst of white smoke, Zoyu appeared. The small elephant from the Valley, sensing Manda's massive chakra through his Seismic Sense, immediately went on guard.
"Daigo? What's going on? I feel two presences... one has a massive amount of chakra and the other is... Is that Manda?!" Zoyu exclaimed, his trunk moving restlessly.
Zoyu didn't wait for an answer. Seeing Manda lunge again, he wrapped his trunk around Daigo and jumped with astonishing agility, dodging a strike that would have turned Daigo into pulp.
"Zoyu, I need your help! That's the Hokage and his summon. We can't let them corner us," Daigo explained as they landed on a stone pillar.
"But Daigo! I'm not like my grandfather or my brother Iron... I'm not even as strong as my mother. I can't defeat the king of the Snakes!" Zoyu said honestly, fear showing in his large eyes.
"I'm not asking you to defeat him alone, Zoyu. I'm asking you to help me so they don't pin us down between the two of them, and to keep Orochimaru from attacking my back. Together, we can do this!"
Zoyu nodded, regaining his composure.
For the next few minutes, the clearing became a three-dimensional battlefield. Daigo and Zoyu moved as one; whenever Manda attacked, Zoyu detected the vibration a second before, allowing them to dodge and counter with combined jutsus.
As they dodged a barrage of attacks, Daigo began to weave complex seals. Zoyu, understanding his partner's intent, began to stomp the ground rhythmically, making the earth sound like a war drum.
"Combined Earth Style: Devastating Earth Wave!"
A massive wave of earth and rock, reinforced with crystal fragments, rose like a tsunami in front of Manda and Orochimaru. Faced with the impossibility of dodging laterally, both opponents resorted to the basic tactic: diving underground to avoid the impact.
That was the plan all along. Daigo and Zoyu shared a look of grim intent. Using their Seismic Sense, they tracked the two chakra signatures moving like shadows beneath the surface.
"There they are," Daigo said, finishing a new sequence of seals and touching the ground with his palms extended.
"Combined Earth Style: Deep Fault Earthquake!"
The ground didn't just vibrate; it twisted. The pressure generated by Daigo and Zoyu was so immense that the local tectonic plates groaned.
The underground pressure collapsed the tunnels Manda and Orochimaru were using, forcing them to emerge violently.
Both were sent flying out of the earth, covered in dust and coughing up blood from the internal pressure caused by the heavy vibrations.
Manda, whose patience was already thin, lost his mind completely. The humiliation of being wounded by a "little elephant" and a human was too much. Ignoring Orochimaru's warnings, he lunged at them with suicidal ferocity.
Daigo, with the Fifth Breath giving him reflexes he wouldn't normally have, managed to dodge, but Zoyu, due to his volume, was caught by the snake's body.
"Zoyu!" Daigo shouted, running toward them.
Manda began to strangle the elephant, his violet body squeezing with the force of a hydraulic press. He opened her maw, showing fangs dripping with a yellowish venom capable of melting steel.
Daigo, seeing it all and realizing he couldn't reach him in time to save him without getting bitten, decided to withdraw him from the battle.
Just as he was about to bite Zoyu's throat, Daigo performed the release seal. "Go home, Zoyu! Thank you!"
In a puff of smoke, the elephant disappeared, leaving Manda squeezing thin air.
The snake, now blind with rage at seeing his prey escape again, roared at the sky and fixed her gaze on Daigo. With a speed that broke the sound barrier, he lunged at the Kazekage to swallow him in a single gulp.
Daigo stood still. He didn't flee. He simply closed his eyes and focused every ounce of his Shōton chakra into his own body, forming a thin but indestructible layer of crystal over his skin.
Orochimaru, who had just regenerated his body after the earthquake, saw the smile on Daigo's face and understood his summon's mistake.
"Manda, no! Don't swallow him!" he screamed in desperation, trying to warn her.
But it was too late. Manda closed his jaws over Daigo, swallowing him whole in one fluid motion. The snake stopped, feeling the lump in his throat descend toward his stomach. He looked at Orochimaru with smug arrogance.
"It's over, Orochimaru. Your problem is being digested. I'm leaving these humans think they can defeat me," the beast said, preparing to cancel the summoning and return to the Ryūchi Cave.
However, Manda could not vanish. An expression of absolute agony crossed her face.
Suddenly, massive sprays of blood began to erupt from his maw, soaking the snowy ground.
Manda tried to roar, but only a muffled gurgle came out. Seconds later, the scene turned gruesome: three gigantic pink crystal spikes pierced through Manda's body from the inside, tearing out through his stomach and back with the sound of ripping flesh.
Orochimaru watched, paralyzed by the sight, as the light faded from the Snake king eyes.
Manda fell to the ground, dead, turned into a statue of flesh and crystal. His mouth slowly fell open, revealing that his interior was no longer dark; it glowed with the intense pink hue of Daigo's crystal. He had crystallized every organ, every artery, and every fluid inside the snake.
Daigo emerged from the corpse's maw, covered in viscous fluids and with visible burns on his shoulders from the gastric acids and toxic gases.
He wiped his face with the back of his hand and looked at Orochimaru. His smile was no longer human; it was that of a hunter who had tasted blood.
"Sixth Breath of the Seven Heavens: Open!"
The power emanating from Daigo was so great that nearby trees instantly turned to crystal from the mere pressure of his chakra.
Orochimaru, for the second time in his career as a ninja, felt the primal urge to fleethe. The first time had been against Hanzō of the Salamander, and now it was against a boy of 14 or 15.
He tried to use Shunshin, but Daigo appeared over him in a millisecond, slamming him into the ground with a force that created a ten-meter crater.
Without giving him time to react, Daigo began to crystallize Orochimaru's body. He knew that if he simply cut him or stabbed him, Orochimaru would just regenerate as if it were a game.
The only way to end him once and for all was to turn him into crystal and shatter him forever.
The pink crystal advanced up his legs, climbed his chest, and sealed his arms, preventing him from performing any hand signs.
Despair filled the Sannin's golden eyes; he had achieved his dream of being Hokage just months ago, it couldn't end like this.
"No... there is still so much I must learn... so much I must be..." Orochimaru whispered.
Daigo moved forward to seal his head and end the battle, but then something happened that made him stop out of pure biological horror.
Orochimaru's neck stretched grotesquely, and his head, along with a spinal column that looked like a white snake, abandoned the crystallized body.
The Sannin had sacrificed his current physical form to escape the crystallization.
Orochimaru's current form was utterly repulsive he was a complete snake, with no arms or legs, just the curved body of a serpent topped with his face and long hair.
Daigo saw the great white snake with Orochimaru's face sliding toward the brush at an incredible speed.
He was about to lunge to crush it, but Orochimaru was faster in his agony. Using his connection to the snake realm, he activated a reverse summoning jutsu. In a flash, the white snake vanished from the battlefield, escaping death by a margin of millimeters.
Daigo was left alone in the clearing, cursing under his breath as the aura of the Sixth Breath began to take its toll on his body.
"That guy is like a plague... he refuses to die," he muttered, as his ears caught the din of the other battle still raging in the distance.
Daigo vanished in a pink blur and reappeared where Sasori and Pakura were holding Minato and Hiashi at bay.
The scene there was equally devastating. Pakura had turned the area into an inferno of scorching heat, while Sasori, using the Third Hokage's puppet with terrifying mastery, had cornered both Minato and Hiashi.
Minato Namikaze, the Yellow Flash, was exhausted. His clothes were burned, and his chakra reserves were at critical levels; since losing to Daigo, he felt weaker than ever.
Beside him, Hiashi Hyūga was bleeding profusely from several open wounds; his Byakugan was still active, but his body was trembling from the effort.
Seeing Daigo appear alone, Minato tried to sense Orochimaru's presence, but felt nothing.
"Where is the Hokage?" Minato asked, though the answer was already etched in Daigo's gaze.
"Your Hokage has fled like a frightened dog," Daigo replied, his voice cutting through the wind. "I have killed Manda and destroyed his body. He only escaped by turning into something that is no longer human. He has abandoned you here to die."
The betrayal hit Minato harder than any jutsu. He looked at Hiashi, who was gritting his teeth in silence.
They were at a dead end; they couldn't win, and they couldn't flee without leaving the other behind. Daigo remained silent for a few moments, watching the snow begin to fall again over the battlefield.
"I have no interest in shedding more unnecessary blood today. I offer you a deal: I will let you return to Konoha alive under two conditions."
Minato looked up, waiting for the terms.
"First: Hiashi will hand over his eyes. The Byakugan will be the payment for Konoha's audacity. Second: You, Minato, will ensure that Konoha withdraws all its troops from Kanzaki and recognizes our dominion over the conquered territory. The war for you ends today, and with it, the Third Shinobi World War."
Hiashi took a step back, his pride as a clan leader screaming against such humiliation.
But looking at Daigo, Pakura, and the puppet of Hiruzen, he knew that pride was a luxury the dead could not afford. He nodded with his head bowed, letting tears of rage freeze on his cheeks.
Minato looked at Daigo with a mixture of respect for ending the war and frustration at his own incompetence.
"I am not the Hokage, Daigo. I don't have the authority to officially end this war. If I return with these conditions, they won't accept."
Daigo walked toward Minato, standing just inches away. The height difference was minimal, but the difference in presence was vast. Daigo placed a hand on Minato's shoulder and whispered the only possible truth:
"Then do what is necessary. Become Hokage. If you let men like Orochimaru or Danzō stay in command, Konoha will be nothing more than a memory in my history of conquests. Change your village, or I will destroy it."
Daigo signaled Sasori. The puppeteer, with his characteristic coldness, approached Hiashi.
Using the hands of the Third Hokage's puppet, he extracted both of the Hyūga leader's eyes with surgical precision, minimizing the damage but not the pain.
The eyes were immediately sealed into special storage scrolls.
Without another word, Daigo, Pakura, and Sasori vanished in a massive Shunshin, returning to Kanzaki to save the children who were being attacked by Konoha.
Minato Namikaze was left alone in the snow, carrying a blind and wounded Hiashi on his back. As he began the humiliating journey home, Daigo's words pounded in his mind like a hammer.
"Become Hokage."
In that moment, amidst the remains of a lost battle and the snow of the Land of Iron, the fate of Konoha began to change.
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