[Ōnoki: "Hold the line. We're not done yet!"]
[Boruto Uzumaki: "Tsuchikage-grandpa was this strong when he was young…!"]
[Kurotsuchi: "Can't believe the old man's this brave…"]
[Gaara: "Madara Uchiha is still too strong… even the Five Kage together can't beat him?"]
[Tsunade: "Not necessarily. Keeping twenty-five clones all running Susanoo must be burning his chakra."]
[Fourth Raikage A: "Exactly. Smash these twenty-five Susanoo, and we win!"]
Hope flickered—naïve, perhaps, but real.
Could Madara truly sustain twenty-five Susanoo at once?
Music tightened; even the spectators barely breathed.
"Princess Tsunade—one more push," Ōnoki said, grim.
"You don't have to say it…" Tsunade's brow creased. "Chakra's almost gone. Treat this as our last swing."
Light gathered between Ōnoki's hands.
"Dust Release: Detachment of the Primitive World Technique!"
A vast white cube swallowed a swath of Susanoo—
—and sheared off half of Madara's body besides.
"Couldn't absorb it in time while maintaining Susanoo…" Madara frowned.
Below, Ōnoki spread his hands wide.
Within the cube, a roaring water dragon surged—
—and engulfed Madara wholesale.
Not just ninjutsu, Madara thought. Only physical attacks work on Edo—did they think a Dust feint plus follow-up would—
His eyes narrowed. The water churned with sand.
"Not sand alone…" Gaara's gaze went cold.
Grains wrapped Madara's body, cocooning him—and sealing tags crawled across the sand like glowing scales.
"Don't like sand? Then stop absorbing ninjutsu," Mei said, voice like a knife. "But if you do—"
"—you'll be paralyzed by the lightning-charged Water Dragon Bullet," she finished.
Pinned by Sand Binding and sutured with seals, Madara couldn't move.
Any struggle meant the water-dragon's current and lightning would seize his muscles and lock him stiff.
Excitement erupted across the feed:
[Himawari Uzumaki: "Amazing!!"]
[Boruto Uzumaki: "So smart… this is the strongest five, huh…"]
[Inojin Yamanaka: "He's really stuck. Can he even break out?"]
[Chōchō Akimichi: "Grandpa Madara might actually go down…"]
"Then I fire Dust Release again and we seal him while it bites," Ōnoki said, eyes alight. "See it? This is the Five Kage at full power!"
Madara's eyes flickered—surprise, then steel.
"Worthy of the title 'Kage,'" he murmured. "In that case… Uchiha Madara will also fight at full power."
For one heartbeat, people thought he was bluffing.
The sky exploded.
A column of blue tore through the pyramid—
—and the voice that drifted down was calm, almost bored.
"Whether Five Kage or anyone else—your efforts amount to nothing."
Blue chakra coalesced—
into a giant that blotted the world.
Two hundred meters tall, looking down like a god among insects.
"Behold my Complete-Body Susanoo."
Tsunade stared, stunned. "It's… huge."
A's jaw clenched; even he felt small.
Gaara's lips trembled.
Under the god's gaze, the Five Kage could barely move.
"This… this is the true Susanoo," Mei whispered.
"Not done," Madara said.
Armor knit across the titan; the chakra frame condensed, hardening to crystalline menace.
Ōnoki's elation turned to stone. His raised hands sagged.
Somewhere along the rise of that blue colossus, their morale shattered.
The white Dust prism fizzled out.
A two-hundred-meter warrior stood with twin wings at its back, both hands on a great katana, looking down on all life with contempt.
From the brow-seat, Madara's eyes were tranquil. "The chakra mass has stabilized."
Ōnoki's mouth shook. Sweat ran down Tsunade's temple.
"So this is the gap… Grand-Uncle once fought this."
[Hashirama Senju: "Madara, you can't bully kids like this!"]
[Madara Uchiha: "The weak have no right to stand before me."]
[Fourth Raikage A: "This is Madara Uchiha's power… terrifying."]
[Izuna Uchiha: "Raikage, didn't you want a duel with my brother?"]
In his office, A grimaced. A mere aftershock from that thing would blow him away.
Is this power even human?
[Momochi Zabuza: "Curious—how do Naruto and Sasuke answer that?"]
[Naruto Uzumaki: "…"]
[Sasuke Uchiha: "Nothing special. If I feel like it—"]
"I said only Hashirama could stop me," Madara said, bored. "He's gone. Perhaps… that's a mercy to you."
He gripped the hilt.
Shing—
Just drawing the blade sent an aftershock that shaved miles of mountaintops flat.
Ridges far away split like paper; boulders avalanched from the sky.
That same shockwave flung the Five Kage like leaves.
They couldn't think of resisting—could hardly even stand.
Could tailed beasts even match this?
The Uchiha's third power.
The clan's hidden marrow.
On the sky-screen, new-gen faces paled to chalk—then some flushed with envy.
[Iwabe Yuino: "Sarada… your clan is terrifying."]
[Denki Kaminarimon: "That kind of power—from the Uchiha?!"]
[Boruto Uzumaki: "Even tailed beasts might lose to that Susanoo…"]
[Himawari Uzumaki: "So cool!!"]
[Hashirama Senju: "Kurama, your thoughts?"]
[Kurama: "…"]
Smoke thinned.
Where mountains had been, a plain stretched—
the blade's aftermath alone had cleaved peaks and erased a vast swath of land.
Yes—just the aftershock.
One casual motion—and the horizon changed.
The new generation, who once merely marveled at Madara's strength, now stared into pure despair.
Could the Five Kage really stand against this?
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