"Stand up, Kage! This is a matter of life and death, we must not show weakness now!"
Hearing Onoki's roaring cry, the Five Kage raised their heads one after another.
"We are the Five Kage! This final battle to the death must not bring shame upon our titles!"
"We entrusted the other battle to Naruto, and in this battle that he entrusted to us, we swore that we would absolutely win!"
"At the same time, this is the hope that every single shinobi has placed upon us!"
"We cannot fail the name of the Five Kage that we inherited."
Watching the Five Kage rally once more, surrounded by a dense blockade of hundreds of crimson Susanoo clones, Kanon merely sneered.
"A bunch of relics from a bygone era shouldn't be out here making fools of yourselves." Kanon scoffed. "In this new era, there is no place for you to belong. Now, die."
Kanon spoke with chilling finality. Having just integrated the memories and feedback from all her shadow clones with Sasuke, she was currently in a foul mood. She had absolutely no intention of holding back.
Dense clusters of Sage Art: Super-Big Ball Rasengan began to coalesce all around them, and the giant blades of the Susanoo clones were already raised high.
Tsunade placed her hand firmly on Onoki's shoulder. Simultaneously, the other three Kage did the same. If it were only a few attacks, they might endure, but against a sea of Susanoo clones this vast, the Five Kage had to pool all of their remaining chakra into Onoki.
"Are you going to use a wide-range Dust Release? Even so, it will only destroy her shadow clones," Madara observed softly.
"That's why I said I was just playing around. I didn't even grant these clones an individual consciousness," Kanon replied, crossing her arms. Her physical development had matured beautifully; not only did she possess a flawless figure, but the proud curves of her chest were now a match for even Hinata Hyuga. "The problem, as expected, lies with Onoki. We must break that old man's will entirely."
"Hmm, I would like to see what kind of final struggle the Five Kage can muster."
As Madara and Kanon watched, Onoki began to prime a massive, wide-range Dust Release jutsu.
"Four Kage, I need more chakra!"
"We have barely any chakra left. Treat this as our absolute final gamble!"
Suddenly, a massive light-cube expanded outward, enveloping the entire region in a single instant.
"Dust Release: Atomic Dismantling Jutsu!"
The colossal burst of Dust Release instantly eradicated the hundreds of surrounding Susanoo clones, vaporizing even the Sage Mode shadow clones into nothingness.
But the offensive didn't stop there; a massive water dragon immediately surged forward, snapping directly toward Kanon and Madara.
"Don't get too arrogant!" Madara held up a single hand, his Rinnegan instantly absorbing the water dragon via the Preta Path. Concurrently, Kanon brought her hands together.
"Then let me show you my latest technique."
"Dust Release: Majestic Destroyer Flame!"
"What?!" Onoki gasped in absolute horror. Even Madara, standing beside her, looked slightly taken aback.
Dust Release infused into the Majestic Destroyer Flame? To actually fuse these chakra natures! For Kanon to develop a ninjutsu like this, she really is a genius!
Sure enough, a sea of irregular, blinding white fire erupted from Kanon's mouth. In a mere fraction of a second, it tore right through the residual energy of Onoki's Atomic Dismantling Jutsu.
Yet right at that critical moment, sand surged up around both Kanon and Madara.
"Kazekage, seal Madara first!" Onoki bellowed.
"Lightning Release as well?" Madara muttered, sensing a faint electrical current in the air.
"If you don't like the sand, then stop absorbing ninjutsu! But if you don't, you'll be completely paralyzed and immobilized by the Lightning-Water Dragon Bullet!" Mei Terumī sneered. Sealing Madara first was a perfectly viable strategy.
Furthermore, if Kanon canceled her Dust Release: Majestic Destroyer Flame to evade, Onoki could seize the opening to launch a surprise attack with his own Dust Release.
"Have you seen it now? This is the true power of us Five Kage!"
Watching Madara become completely enveloped by the sand, Kanon stood beside him, nodding slightly as she spoke in a mocking tone, "To think you were actually this strong."
"Is this the power of the Five Kage?"
"In that case, I suppose I should stop playing around too," Kanon said. The Eternal Mangekyo Sharingan in her eyes spun violently, unleashing the black flames of Amaterasu.
"Amaterasu!"
"Unbelievable! Tsuchikage, run!" A roared.
A torrent of black fire engulfed the Dust Release: Majestic Destroyer Flame, instantly overpowering and pushing Onoki's Dust Release back toward them.
Boom!
A terrifying explosion erupted, sending all Five Kage blasting backward through the air.
Seeing the Five Kage thrown into a state of disarray, Madara easily shattered the sand binding him, leaping out from the debris with his blue Susanoo manifesting around him.
"I really wish you had been around when I was alive!" Madara shouted, his voice laced with pure exhilaration.
Kanon chuckled and shook her head. Her unique Eternal Mangekyo Sharingan spun once more, controlling the Amaterasu with Kagutsuchi, she synchronized the black flames with the swirling vortex of her Flower Realm space.
It was the very same technique she had once unleashed upon Itachi.
"Amaterasu: Storm Dance!"
Pitch-black flames completely blanketed the sky, raining down upon the Five Kage from every conceivable angle.
"Oh no!"
Gaara desperately tried to manipulate his sand to form a defense, but he suddenly noticed one of Kanon's shadow clones standing a short distance away. Her eyes were adorned with pink Sage Mode pigments, and she was looking down at him with a cold smirk.
"That Sage Art again!" Gaara gritted his teeth.
"Sage Art: Inorganic Reincarnation!" the clone intoned, instantly seizing control of the surrounding earth and overriding Gaara's command over his own sand.
Now, the burden fell entirely upon Onoki.
Onoki grabbed the other four Kage and dragged them deep underground to evade the strike. Listening to the horrific explosions of black fire raging above, the Five Kage felt a cold dread seize their hearts.
Tsunade, in particular, felt her limbs go entirely numb with shock.
For above them, Madara and Kanon now stood side by side.
"I see. You truly are shinobi worthy of bearing the title of Kage."
"Then we Uchiha shall also answer with our full power!"
The moment Madara's words fell, two catastrophic pillars of chakra erupted from where he and Kanon stood, piercing straight into the heavens.
Boom!
The shockwave blasted the clouds from the night sky. Though darkness had long since fallen over the land, the battlefield was suddenly illuminated by a blinding brilliance of blue and crimson light.
"Whether you are the Five Kage or anyone else, all of your struggles are utterly futile before the Uchiha."
In a flash, two colossal, stabilized forms of the Complete Susanoo materialized.
Standing back-to-back, the two titans completely surrounded the Five Kage.
"By the sheer power of our Complete Susanoo!" Madara mocked coldly.
Behind the Kage, Kanon's armored titan towered with terrifying majesty.
Kanon's Complete Susanoo manifested with the traditional Tengu armor layered over its colossal frame. Two monolithic entities, each towering hundreds of meters into the sky, now dominated the terrain.
At that sight, A deactivated his Lightning Release Chakra Mode, and Onoki's trembling hands slowly fell to his sides.
Confronted by these two towering monstrosities, absolute despair washed over the Kage. The gap in power was simply too vast. Madara's Complete Susanoo alone was more than enough to wipe them all out.
Yet right behind them stood the fifteen-year-old Kanon Uchiha, wielding a Complete Susanoo identical in scale and majesty to Madara's.
It broke the final remnants of the Five Kage's resolve. The sheer, crushing pressure of the two massive chakra sources made Onoki's entire soul tremble.
"Such a massive mass of chakra... completely stabilized..." Onoki muttered, his voice shaking.
"To think the disparity could be this vast..."
"Grandfather actually fought against an opponent like this...?" Tsunade whispered, staring up at Kanon, whose colossal form coldly looked down upon them.
If only she had never left Konoha... If Kanon had remained loyal, her Complete Susanoo would have been the Five Kage's greatest weapon against Madara.
But there were no 'whats' or 'ifs' in reality. Kanon was a rogue ninja, hunted and driven away by the Hidden Leaf Village itself.
Before them stood two distinct, hundred-meter-tall avatars of destruction.
"I once said that the only one capable of stopping me was Hashirama. But now that Kanon is fighting by my side, even he wouldn't be able to stand against me," Madara declared smoothly. "It's a pity he is no longer among the living."
With that, Madara commanded his Complete Susanoo to draw its colossal blade.
"Though perhaps for you, his absence is a mercy."
The eyes of Madara's Complete Susanoo burned like twin blue stars, its massive frame standing like an ancient god of war upon the devastated earth.
"Because..."
The Five Kage watched in sheer terror as Madara's Complete Susanoo swung its titan-sized sword.
Every stroke of the blade carried the force of a thousand thunderclaps, making the air howl with a piercing screech. Wherever the blade's light passed, distant mountain peaks were severed as cleanly as fragile sheets of paper. Dozens of mountains were leveled in an instant, sending colossal boulders crashing down amidst a rising storm of dust.
Kanon's Susanoo, however, remained entirely unmoved. The moment the shockwave tore through the area, Kanon and her Complete Susanoo phased into a state of intangibility, allowing the catastrophic pressure to pass harmlessly through her.
Before the Five Kage could even recover from the sheer shock of Madara's display, Madara commanded his Susanoo to take flight into the sky, the resulting tempest of wind knocking the Kage off their feet once more.
But Madara had taken to the skies primarily to clear the path, because Kanon's Complete Susanoo was now drawing its own sword.
Countless cherry blossom petals, ablaze with the black flames of Amaterasu, swirled along the length of her crimson chakra blade.
"Apocalypse: Flower Burial – Slash!"
BOOM!
The downward stroke was akin to the heavens fracturing and the earth tearing apart. The ground beneath the battlefield buckled under an unprecedented weight, splitting open into a bottomless, yawning chasm.
Dust billowed into the atmosphere and shattered boulders shot outward in all directions as the entire geography of the region was forcibly rewritten, flattened into a smooth, barren expanse by the sheer density of the strike.
As Kanon finally sheathed her blade and the surrounding dust began to settle, the battlefield had been transformed entirely.
The previous ridges and uneven terrain were completely gone, replaced by a perfectly flat, glass-like surface, as if leveled by the hand of a wrathful god.
Staring at the absolute desolation before them, the Five Kage could scarcely believe their eyes.
Gaara and Mei Terumī unconsciously took a step backward, utterly paralyzed by the raw, apocalyptic display of power.
The twin Susanoo of Madara and Kanon stood tall like genuine deities, casting a shadow of absolute, permanent despair deep into the hearts of the Five Kage.