Chapter 193 Arriving in Time
Chapter 193 Arriving in Time
Deep in the dense forests of the Grass Country, the shadows of the trees sway gently.
Minato Namikaze's figure flashed like a golden light, leaping between tree trunks as his kunai pierced a white body.
"Got you?"
The sound of the water gate was icy cold.
The white-clad figure didn't bleed; instead, it let out a strange, eerie laugh: "Oh dear, I've been caught after all. The Yellow Flash truly lives up to its name..."
"You've achieved your goal, luring me this far away."
Minato's eyes sharpened, and the Rasengan in his hand instantly materialized, slamming it hard into the chest of the White Zetsu clone.
"boom!"
The White Zetsu clone instantly disintegrated under the strangulation of the Rasengan, turning into a puddle of white, plant-like mud that seeped into the ground and disappeared.
"Not human? A creation of Wood Release?"
As Minato looked at the debris on the ground, his unease reached its peak.
This strange enemy, who went to great lengths to lure him away, could not possibly have been trying to chat with him.
"Oh no! Kakashi and the others!"
Minato no longer cared about figuring out what the monster was and began to sense the coordinates of the Flying Thunder God technique.
……
Meanwhile, on the other side of the Hidden Mist.
"Die!!!"
Obito Uchiha roared, swinging his kunai haphazardly at the Hidden Mist captain he hated to the core.
Under the gaze of those newly awakened Mangekyou Sharingan, the world seemed to slow down.
The water blade thrust by the Hidden Mist Captain was clearly visible to Obito. He instinctively wanted to dodge, but his body stiffened due to extreme anger and the instantaneous depletion of his chakra.
"Buzz—"
Just as the water blade was about to touch Obito's body, something strange happened.
Obito's body seemed to turn into a phantom in that instant. The sharp water blade pierced through his chest without drawing a single drop of blood, as if it had pierced through the air.
"What?!"
The Mist Ninja Captain's pupils constricted sharply; this bizarre ability sent a chill down his spine.
However, this moment of intangibility drained all of Obito's remaining chakra.
That weariness that came from the depths of his soul surged in like a tide, and the kaleidoscope pattern in his eyes instantly dissipated, turning back into ordinary black pupils.
"Damn it...move...move now!"
Obito's legs buckled, and he staggered to his knees.
"Hmph, although I don't know what strange ninjutsu you used just now, it seems you've reached your limit."
The Mist Ninja captain sneered. Madara-sama must be very happy with such a perfect successor!
He stretched out his withered, large hand and gripped Obito's neck tightly like an iron clamp, lifting him into the air.
"Obito!"
On the other side, Kakashi, who had just killed a guard with his Lightning Release short sword, heard the commotion and turned around abruptly, only to see Obito being captured.
"Let him go!"
Kakashi wanted to rush over to help, but the remaining Kirigakure members had already surrounded them.
"Kid, you should worry about yourself first!"
Several long swords slashed down simultaneously, blocking all of Kakashi's escape routes.
Kakashi managed to block it, but one of the swords slashed his back.
"puff!"
Blood splattered. Kakashi groaned, kneeling on one knee, barely able to hold the short sword in his hand.
"it's over."
A ninja from the Mist raised his long sword, aiming it at Kakashi's nape, a cruel smile on his face.
On the other side, the Mist Ninja captain increased the force of his grip, Obito's face turned purplish-red, his legs kicked weakly, and his consciousness gradually blurred.
Despair spread through the damp, dark cave.
At this critical moment of life and death.
"Flying Thunder God!"
A golden flash exploded inside the cave without warning.
No one could see what happened.
The Mist Ninja Captain only felt a flash of golden light before his eyes, and a sudden sharp pain came from the wrist of the hand that was gripping Obito.
"what!"
The Mist Ninja captain screamed and instinctively released his grip.
Obito didn't fall to the ground, but instead landed in a warm and familiar embrace.
Minato Namikaze knelt on the ground, catching the unconscious Obito with one hand, while holding a kunai in his other hand across his chest. His usually gentle gaze was now as cold as ice.
Fortunately, he had inscribed the Flying Thunder God Technique on the special amulets that Che gave to the three people.
"Teacher..." Obito opened his eyes with difficulty. Through his blurred vision, he saw a figure with yellow hair, and tears finally streamed down his face.
"Sorry, Obito, teacher is late."
Minato said softly, then looked up at the Mist Ninja captain who was clutching his wrist and backing away.
Minato sensed an extremely familiar aura emanating from that person.
That cold, malicious chakra fluctuation...
"It really was you."
The sound of the water gate was deep and resonant.
"That white guy who lured me away in the woods earlier, isn't he the same kind of person as you?"
Zetsu controlled the body of the Mist Ninja Captain, his face contorted in pain.
"Yellow flash...what a nuisance!"
Meanwhile, Kakashi on the other side was also on the verge of life and death.
The long sword had already fallen with a whoosh, less than ten centimeters from his neck.
Just as Minato was about to activate the Flying Thunder God Technique again, at that moment...
"boom----!!!"
A deafening thunderclap resounded at the entrance of the cave.
A thick beam of blue-purple light instantly pierced through the darkness of the entire cave.
The Mist Ninja who raised his sword to kill Kakashi didn't even have a chance to turn around.
"Bang!"
His upper body vanished instantly in that terrifying beam of light, turning into a cloud of blood mist and bits of flesh, which evaporated in a flash.
The beam of light, still powerful, slammed into the rock wall behind them, blasting a crater several meters in diameter, with debris raining down.
"Who?!"
The remaining Mist Ninja were terrified by this sudden and terrifying attack and retreated in panic.
The thick smoke dissipated.
At the entrance of the cave, several figures dressed in black special forces uniforms strode in.
The leader held a heavy electromagnetic cannon in his hand, his face bearing his usual calm, even somewhat indifferent expression.
Nishikawa Toru.
Behind him were Fugaku Uchiha, who had awakened the Mangekyou Sharingan, and Hiro Hyuga, who had awakened the Byakugan.
"Someone who harassed Konoha?"
Nishikawa Tetsu casually tossed the scorching hot electromagnetic cannon to Akimichi Toudou, who had just arrived with his men and was panting heavily. He then drew two electromagnetic pistols from his waist and strode toward Kakashi.
His gaze swept over the terrified Mist Ninja.
"Did you ask me about the gun I have?"
Kakashi looked at that figure, and his tense nerves finally relaxed.
"We're saved..."
"Kill them all! Leave no one alive!"
Looking at his three miserable juniors, especially seeing Obito's half-dead state, Fugaku's anger completely erupted.
"Susanoo!"
A black skeletal arm appeared out of thin air, grabbed two Mist Ninjas who were trying to escape, and squeezed them hard.
"Snap!"
The sound of bones cracking is chilling.
"Since you're here, don't leave."
Nishikawa Tetsu instantly appeared beside Kakashi, pulled him up, and then raised his twin pistols.
"Bang! Bang! Bang!"
Every gunshot takes a life.
"Damn it, how did the people from Konoha get here so quickly?!"
The Mist Ninja Captain, possessed by Zetsu, watched the situation reverse in an instant and knew that all was lost.
"That Uchiha brat has awakened his Sharingan. Although the plan went astray, we've still gained something..."
Zetsu glanced at Obito, then his body suddenly convulsed.
"puff!"
The Mist Ninja Captain suddenly spat out a mouthful of black blood and collapsed limply to the ground.
A shadow emerged from his body and instantly disappeared into the ground.
"Trying to run away?"
Hinata Hirota shouted, "Something's moving underground!"
"This trick again?"
Minato instantly appeared where Zetsu had disappeared, and thrust his kunai into the ground, but only managed to pierce a puddle of mud.
"Such a fast escape speed..."
Minato frowned; the slippery feeling made him very uncomfortable.
However, now is not the time to pursue.
The battle was over in a few dozen seconds.
Under the overwhelming force of Konoha's top-tier combatants and scientific ninja tools, this Hidden Mist team was completely wiped out.
"Lin!"
Obito struggled to climb toward the stone pillar.
Nishikawa Tetsu had already freed Rin from her restraints.
He examined Lin's body, his expression grave.
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