This is the last translated chapter. The original author abandoned the fanfic, so no new chapters will be forthcoming. I have translated all existing material.
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In the Sword Kage's office, Uchiha Nagi was reviewing the latest intelligence reports.
Otsutsuki Urashiki had battled Konoha and been driven back by Might Guy after he had opened the Gate of Death. The fact that Urashiki hadn't been killed was, frankly, a bit of a surprise to Nagi.
After all, Guy was the man who had nearly kicked the story to its finale. But on reflection, it made sense. There were too many contributing factors missing.
The current Naruto was only twelve years old; there were still four years until Guy's battle with Madara. In four years, Guy's strength would undoubtedly have reached a new level, and the power he could unleash from the Gate of Death would naturally be greater.
Furthermore, in the final battle, the Truth-Seeking Orbs were an absurdly overpowered existence. If Namikaze Minato hadn't been there to teleport all of Madara's orbs away, it was doubtful Guy could have crippled him. The Truth-Seeking Orbs not only negated ninjutsu but were also incredibly resistant to physical taijutsu attacks.
But the Otsutsuki clan had scoured numerous planets; who knew how many treasures they possessed? So, after Guy had opened the Gate of Death, he had still been sealed by a black box, a treasure that could freeze time.
An unexpected outcome, to be sure.
"Well, without Guy, who's going to fight Madara?" Nagi rubbed his head, a headache forming. No, wait, the one with the biggest headache right now should be the great filial son, Black Zetsu.
With several Tailed Beasts snatched by Otsutsuki Urashiki, the date for resurrecting his mother was now indefinitely postponed.
However, after opening the Gate of Death, Guy had apparently killed two of the Tailed Beasts. That meant Urashiki only had one left. His next target, if there were no surprises, should be here.
Is he that confident? Or is he planning another sneak attack?
Wait!
The Cloud Village, to reconcile with him and to protect their last Tailed Beast, had sent him the Box of Paradise, hoping he would shelter Killer Bee. He had agreed. Could Killer Bee, on his way to the Land of Iron, become his target?
The probability was ninety percent.
"Die!" From high in the sky, Otsutsuki Urashiki threw down a less-powerful Rasengan, instantly wiping out the Cloud Village's escort team. Only a heavily wounded Killer Bee was left alive.
It wasn't that they didn't want to escape, but their opponent could fly and possessed the space-time ninjutsu Yomotsu Hirasaka. Escape was impossible.
Killer Bee transformed into the Eight-Tails and held him off for a while, but was ultimately defeated by Urashiki. Now he was pinned to a large tree, on the verge of death.
"Hehe, offer up your chakra," Urashiki sneered, his single eye glinting with a savage light.
His Crane Form, like the Eight Gates, was a forbidden technique with a time limit. The time was up, and he had reverted to his normal state. The eye he had gouged out and eaten would not grow back, of course, but he didn't care. As long as he completed his mission and returned home, he could just get another one installed.
Otsutsuki Urashiki first drained Killer Bee of all his chakra, then began to extract the Tailed Beast.
As Killer Bee's screams echoed, the Eight-Tails was continuously pulled from the seal on his body.
Jinchuriki had a strange phenomenon. After being sealed, it was as if their souls became part of the seal itself. Once the Tailed Beast was extracted, it was like a dam breaking; their life force would continuously drain away.
Only by re-sealing the Tailed Beast could the breach be closed.
Why Uzumaki Kushina, after having her Tailed Beast extracted, still had such immense life force to last so long was unknown. Keep in mind, she had just given birth and had still used the Adamantine Sealing Chains to bind the Nine-Tails. Her strength was undoubtedly Kage-level; even the Third Hokage couldn't restrict the Nine-Tails' movements.
And she had held it for over ten minutes.
As for her son, Naruto, later on, he had just collapsed into a near-death state after having the Nine-Tails extracted. It could only be said that he was too weak, his constitution far inferior to his mother's.
But the strange thing was this: Naruto was revived by having the Nine-Tails re-sealed inside him. But she could not be saved by re-sealing it. Even though her son's life force couldn't compare to his mother's, she couldn't be saved by re-sealing.
Even if half the Nine-Tails had been sealed back into her, Uzumaki Kushina wouldn't have had to die. That old thief Kishimoto was just too cruel...
As the last scream died away, Killer Bee fell completely silent. After extracting the entire Eight-Tails, Urashiki began to refine it into a pill.
The pill was a unique skill of the Otsutsuki clan. As long as you had the Rinnegan, you could do it. Freshly baked, straight from the oven.
Kinshiki and the others, when they ran out of chakra, would turn their companions into human pills.
But at this moment, Urashiki was using a Tailed Beast. He drained its chakra and refined it into a pill. That way, after a few days, when the Tailed Beast's chakra had recovered, he could just drain it again.
After finishing the refining process, he swallowed the Eight-Tails pill. A crackling sound emanated from his body. All his injuries instantly healed to their most perfect state. His body and strength even began to increase. But regrettably, his missing Rinnegan did not grow back.
At that moment, a giant pillar of light suddenly descended from the sky, aimed directly at Otsutsuki Urashiki. He detected the sneak attack a split second before it hit. He extended a single hand and activated the power of his Rinnegan.
Preta Path!
Aboard the Sky Fortress, the barrel of the chakra cannon was smoking. Uchiha Nagi stood high above, looking down at Urashiki. The sneak attack had failed.
"What a pity," Nagi lamented. The Sky Fortress had been floating above the Land of Iron. The moment the Eight-Tails was attacked, it had begun to fly this way.
Nagi had then started using the Flying Thunder God to teleport, but because there weren't as many coordinates placed outside the Land of Iron, he had arrived a step too late. He had flown to the Sky Fortress and used the chakra cannon to attack his opponent from there.
Unfortunately, Otsutsuki Urashiki's Rinnegan also possessed a part of the Preta Path's ability. It had directly absorbed the chakra cannon. The sneak attack had failed.
"If a sneak attack fails, then I'll just have to fight him directly." Nagi opened his Mangekyo Sharingan, threw out a scroll, and began to form hand seals.
"Magnet Style: Flying Thunder God Stage Three!"
This was a hodgepodge technique, combining the Performance of a Hundred Puppets, Magnet Style, and the Flying Thunder God. When activated, the sky was instantly filled with a dense array of Flying Thunder God kunai and heavy metal cannons, each one marked with a space-time formula, allowing Nagi to teleport freely between them.
Uchiha Nagi suddenly activated the power of his Mangekyo: Mind Teleportation.
In an instant, he teleported from the Sky Fortress to directly behind Otsutsuki Urashiki, drew his Nichirin Blade, and prepared to cut him down.
But the Rinnegan's prediction saved him this time. The last time had been a sneak attack, with no warning whatsoever, so he hadn't had time to change the future and had been hit. This time, he already had intelligence on Uchiha Nagi.
So, the moment Nagi teleported to his side, Urashiki had already activated Shinra Tensei.
[Shinra Tensei]
A powerful gravitational force instantly repelled Uchiha Nagi. But with his Transparent World, Nagi had known the moment Urashiki had activated the gravitational field. He had used a half-body Susanoo to protect himself.
BOOM!
After one move, both were completely unharmed.