Chapter 200: Traveling Kakashi
Back then, Kushina had already modified the sealing circuits on Danzō's body, synchronizing the release of the Reaper Death Seal onto them.
The moment Danzō used the suicidal Four Symbols Seal, his own body would be torn apart and devoured by it, perfectly fulfilling the condition to undo the Reaper Death Seal.
Danzō's face being wrapped up wasn't just a blindfold, it was actually covered with a layer of the Death God's mask.
Not worn, but directly drawn onto his face by Kushina using the traditional Uzumaki clan method.
According to the original plan, once Danzō reached an open, harmless area and activated the Four Symbols Seal, it would simultaneously release the Fourth Hokage and the Yin Nine-Tails sealed inside the Death God.
But now?
Danzō self-destructed early, forcing Kakashi to use Kamui to transfer the exploding Danzō away.
So where did he get transferred to?
Now everyone knew the masked man was Uchiha Obito.
And Kakashi's Kamui space was spatially connected to the masked man's eye.
What did that mean?
After the Fourth Hokage and the Nine-Tails were released, they were directly released into the Kamui dimension.
Good grief.
The masked man would wake up one day and realize he was playing an idle game, a [Traveling Kakashi] game, where every time he woke up, the first thing he did was check what Kakashi had brought him today.
The first few times, it had brought him a lump of shit.
Yes, an actual lump of shit, not a figure of speech.
Today, it finally dropped a super rare pull. Time to celebrate?
That was why Kushina felt so awkward.
They… seemed… to have done something outrageous.
"Third Hokage-sama, I…"
Kakashi seemed to realize what he had done.
Sending his sensei's soul over there might've been one thing, but sending the other half of the Nine-Tails too, wasn't that completely screwed?
How was he supposed to face the people of Konoha… uh, meaning, how was he supposed to face Shiromo and the others?
How was he supposed to face the Akatsuki, who were working so hard to save the world?
Mm.
Kakashi's mind and body were once again overwhelmed, and he fainted.
Kakashi was really something, by now, the number of times he'd fainted far exceeded Hinata's.
But there was no helping it. The Hashirama cells the masked man had previously injected into Kakashi were a one-time item. After restoring him, they could at most reduce a bit of the vision-loss side effects for the next few uses.
Fainting still had to happen.
It was a protective mechanism of the body.
Put simply, there is still not enough chakra.
Of course, Kakashi's own chakra reserves weren't actually low. He wasn't really the "chakra measurement unit" people joked about.
After losing his Sharingan, Kakashi once fought fifty special jōnin alone, spamming ninjutsu nonstop, including a massive Earth Style wall that enveloped an entire village.
It was just that the Sharingan's "anti-theft mechanism" was too strong. Once a non-Uchiha implanted it, unless they had proper Hashirama cells, their chakra capacity was immediately cut by more than half.
Not like the Byakugan, which relied on the Caged Bird Seal.
After sending Kakashi to the hospital and placing him on his personal bed, the group discussed for a while and decided to contact the Amegakure Village.
When the Second Hokage heard the news, he instantly Flying Thunder God-ed over, and first glared at Hiruzen.
Sending half of the Nine-Tails away without a word, impressive.
"What we need to figure out now is whether that Kamui dimension is a completely sealed alternate space."
Tobirama clapped his hands together and summoned a White Zetsu lying on the ground in a seductive pose.
"Go. Who's going to dig up the Fourth Hokage's grave and bring back some material."
"...That's not very appropriate, is it?"
The Third Hokage looked awkward.
"Still worrying about desecrating the dead? If you won't go, I will."
Tobirama shot him a glare.
At a time like this, still caring about the dead, when soon everyone might be dead and there'd be nothing to worry about.
The Nine-Tails itself wasn't something the Amegakure Village's combat power feared.
Impure World Reincarnation bodies didn't need to fear it either.
But what if?
What if the masked man controlled the Nine-Tails and caused another Nine-Tails Night, could these people in Konoha survive?
Or even if not Konoha, what if he attacked ordinary civilians in other villages?
"I'll go."
Kushina volunteered.
A few minutes later, Tobirama began the Impure World Reincarnation.
Sure enough, it still failed.
"Either you failed to undo the Death God's seal, or that Kamui dimension truly exists independently, and both the soul and the Nine-Tails are trapped inside it."
Tobirama gave a grave conclusion.
"Then… what should we do now?"
Kushina looked worried.
This was all her fault. If she hadn't thought of using Danzō to undo the Death God's seal and releasing the other half of the Nine-Tails as a gift for Naruto, none of this would've happened.
"Where's Kakashi? Have him use Kamui to send this old man in too, I'll go see what's going on."
Tobirama looked around for Kakashi.
"Uh… Kakashi overexerted himself and fainted."
"And Second Hokage-sama, this is too dangerous. Even if Impure World Reincarnation bodies are immortal, it's still throwing yourself into danger."
"Yes."
Everyone chimed in one after another.
"Then there's no way. We wait."
Tobirama completely gave up.
Not because he was persuaded, but because he heard Kakashi had overexerted himself.
Since that was the case, there was clearly no way to proceed.
At the same time, on the other side,
The self-destructing Danzō who had been warped into the Kamui dimension completed the Four Symbols Seal there.
But the masked man wasn't inside the Kamui space at the time.
For once, the masked man actually got lucky.
But sometimes, peak luck is just peak misfortune.
He dodged the attack, but also couldn't immediately discover what happened afterward.
The Death God's seal was released.
A puff of white smoke drifted out.
This represented Namikaze Minato's soul.
Normally, after being released, the soul would soon ascend to the afterlife.
But inside the Kamui dimension, there was no "heaven" to ascend to.
Minato's soul now was like that turd once affected by Crazy Diamond, constantly trying to find a way out, but unable to, and thus stuck in place.
In this state, unless there was some obsession, it was difficult for a soul to develop subjective consciousness.
However, Minato lacked consciousness, but the Nine-Tails didn't.
Tailed Beasts were special. They were conglomerates of chakra, chakra was both body and soul.
The Yin Nine-Tails actively consumed chakra to awaken Minato's soul consciousness, and even injected Nine-Tails chakra into it, directly giving him a temporary humanoid form, just like the past Kage summoned by the Sage of Six Paths in the finale, and the ability to use ninjutsu.
"Fourth Hokage, the chakra in this place feels extremely unpleasant to me. It's that bastard who once controlled me!"
"What? Could this be Uchiha Madara's alternate dimension?"
"That's right. Hurry and take me away, use your space-time ninjutsu."
"..."
"Are you fucking deaf?!"
"This is another dimension. I can't sense any space-time coordinates outside…"
"Then what do we do?"
"We can only wait for the moment when space-time opens again… Nine-Tails, return to my body for now."
(End of this chapter)