On the battlefield of the Land of Water, thick smoke billowed and voices clamored.
On the messy plain, Ninjas pushed forward against the air currents stirred up by the battling giant beasts, approaching the center of the conflict.
"Charge! Fight!"
"Slay the Ten-Tails, liberate the Land of Water!"
"Don't stop the attack! We must defeat it here!"
Amidst the shouts of battle, the Ninjas reached the Ten-Tails. Various Ninjutsu and ninja tools rained down upon it like hail.
"Everyone, get out of the way!" Sasuke, in his half-dragon form, his body wreathed in Senjutsu lightning, carrying blazing Haki, slashed at the Ten-Tails.
Sato Sakura coordinated with his attack, raising her claw and slamming it onto the ground, simultaneously using her ability and Earth Release to manipulate the soil, causing the ground beneath the Ten-Tails to sink, forming a deep pit.
Sasuke's sword descended from the sky with a piercing shriek, drowning out all other sounds and decapitating the Ten-Tails in one stroke!
"It's... cut off?" Gaara and the Fourth Raikage, who had been using Ninjutsu to create advancing opportunities for the Ninjas, both stared in disbelief at the severed head of the giant Tailed Beast.
"Don't be careless. Its Chakra hasn't weakened. Tailed Beasts cannot be killed, only sealed!"
Jiraiya, carrying two massive Sage Art: Odama Rasengans, charged forward and pressed the orbs hard against the Ten-Tails' head, trying to completely destroy that part of its body.
"Ridiculous. Do you think the Ten-Tails is so easily defeated?"
Obito, half of his body embedded in the Ten-Tails' flesh, looked up. His crimson Sharingan, powered by the Ten-Tails' Chakra, activated Kamui.
A distorted spatial singularity appeared at Jiraiya's heart. An invisible force began to compress his body.
"Not good, Jiraiya, dodge!" Tsunade kicked away one of the Ten-Tails' tails, wanting to come to Jiraiya's aid, but it was too late.
Just as his heart was about to be pierced, a golden figure descended from the sky. The burning, flowing divine robe made his figure appear extremely tall. Extending Chakra claws grabbed Jiraiya's body and pulled him away from Obito's attack.
"Minato... no, is that you, Naruto?" Landing on the ground, Jiraiya looked up, momentarily dazed.
"Yo, Pervy Sage, how did you get so banged up? Did you get too absorbed in research before the battle?" The boy's smiling face turned back, making Jiraiya almost think that his excellent disciple had returned.
"Hmph, you brat, you're ten thousand years too early to lecture me!" Jiraiya supported himself on Naruto's outstretched hand and stood up, once again assuming an offensive stance.
The Ninja army behind him, seeing their commander saved, also had their morale boosted, doing their utmost to release more Ninjutsu.
On the Leviathan, Sakura formed hand seals and used the Summoning Technique on the deck.
"Oh my, you finally decided to summon me~." Katsuyu Sage's vast will appeared in Sakura's perception.
It seemed that this great sage of the sacred land was also extremely concerned about the situation on the battlefield... otherwise, she wouldn't have impatiently descended the moment Sakura summoned her.
"Katsuyu, I need you to help me complete a technique!" Sakura reached out and cupped Katsuyu, whispering in her ear.
"That's impossible. How could a human... well, actually, you're pretty far from human now anyway."
Katsuyu widened her tentacles, the eyes at their tips touching each other. "But if this technique goes out of control, there are only two outcomes: either you die, or you dissipate!"
"Don't worry. I have a way to reach infinity!" Sakura looked down at the rotating heat circulation in her hand. "But activating it might cause irreversible effects on the planetary environment."
"Oh, is that the ability you obtained from the other space-time?" Katsuyu's eyes lit up.
"You don't seem worried at all. Planetary-level environmental changes would affect you too, wouldn't they?"
Sakura's hand connected to Katsuyu, using the pathways between Katsuyu's clones to explore the knowledge and experience of Natural Energy from its main body.
"The space where the three Holy Lands exist is independent!" Katsuyu shook her tentacles nonchalantly. "Oh, I'm going to increase the amount of information transmission. Get ready!"
"Ugh!"
An even more vast database of information was opened to Sakura, forcing her to close her eyes and sit cross-legged, focusing on organizing the information.
On the battlefield below, Obito's body was increasingly devoured by the Ten-Tails, and his consciousness was gradually lost in the immense negative emotions carried by the Ten-Tails' Chakra link.
"Hey, Obito!"
In his gradually dimming vision, Obito seemed to hear a voice he could never forget in this life.
Then the scene of Nohara Rin's chest being pierced by Kakashi with his most prized technique played out before his vision.
Hatred, remorse, self-blame, anger... rose from the depths of his heart, transforming into a crimson Yin Release Chakra that began to devour the Ten-Tails' consciousness in reverse.
'You mere beast consciousness, how dare you defile my memories of Rin. Unforgivable!!!'
Under the scorching of his rage, the Ten-Tails roared. Its shell-like body deformed. Hundreds of tentacles, like large hands, extended, knocking back Sato Sakura, who was restraining it, while also sweeping away a cluster of Ninjutsu in mid-air.
The Ten-Tails, its body now slender, crawled out of the pit and howled at the sky.
"Wood Release: Cutting Technique!!!"
Under the manipulation of Obito's Chakra, numerous Wood Release spikes stabbed out from the skin of the Ten-Tails' tentacles, piercing toward the Allied Forces' Ninjas below.
"Not good, everyone, take cover!" Jiraiya sensed the Chakra carried by the surging wooden spikes and loudly commanded the Allied Forces' Ninjas.
"Bastard, don't act like I don't exist!" Sato Sakura let out a roar.
Her body carrying tens of thousands of tons of iron sand, she charged toward the Ten-Tails. The terrifying mass compressed the air, emitting a tooth-aching howl. The ferocious land giant beast violently crashed into the Ten-Tails, pushing it back into the deep pit.
"Absorb the God Tree..."
Obito, dizzy from the collision, vaguely heard a vast will whispering in his ear.
"Absorb the God Tree..."
The consciousness once again transmitted a signal to Obito, finally waking him up. He instinctively formed hand seals and began using the Chakra Extraction instinct to absorb the Ten-Tails' giant body into himself.
Then, before everyone's eyes, the Ten-Tails' vast body began to contract. The high-density Chakra constantly transformed, suddenly overlapping in one place.
Sato Sakura, having lost her cushion, missed and fell into the pit she had dug herself.
In the sky, the collapsing, converging Ten-Tails wrapped around Obito, forming an egg case. The regular sound of a heartbeat spread across the entire battlefield.
Crack, crack, crack!
Fine cracks spread across the egg case. The wispy strands of aura that leaked out were enough to make the Aburame's insects lose direction, make the Inuzuka's Ninken bark incessantly, and moreover, make every Ninja present feel a fear rise from the depths of their hearts, as if some kind of Natural Enemy had descended here, staring at them hungrily.
Crack!
The pitch-black egg case silently collapsed. The flying ashes rose like mist, merging into the wind, and disappeared.
What was revealed was a white-haired man with a haori growing on his skin, spikes protruding from his shoulders and forehead, holding a khakkhara, with six Truth-Seeking Balls floating behind his back.
He slowly turned around, raised his hand, and broke off the chaotically growing chitinous shell on his face, revealing the Rinnegan beneath.
"It's time to end everything!"