Chapter 305: The Sannin Team Up
Speaking of which, the conditions for complete Tailed Beast transformation seemed so harsh. It required connecting with the Tailed Beast's heart, resolving the darkness in one's own heart, needing enough love, and a whole bunch of other things to become a perfect jinchuriki. It made the ability seem extremely rare.
But in reality? Besides Naruto and Gaara, every single jinchuriki of this era was a perfect jinchuriki!
If you weren't at the perfect level, you wouldn't even dare to speak loudly in the jinchuriki group chat.
Rōshi was one of these supposedly "extremely rare" perfect jinchuriki.
The Four-Tails was named Son Gokū. As the name suggested, it was a gigantic red gorilla.
This gorilla had a violent temperament, with bulging muscles, brimming with power. As soon as it appeared, it threw a punch at Jiraiya and the hill behind him.
The huge fist created a whistling sound as it cut through the air. Jiraiya dodged at the last possible moment. The rocks behind him were shattered, and a rain of scorching hot stones fell from the sky.
The Four-Tails clenched both fists and slammed them into the ground.
The three old comrades needed no eye contact, no words. Their years of cooperation had not grown rusty with time. Fighting side by side again, Jiraiya was the most excited among them.
He was the first to form hand seals.
"Summoning Technique: Gamabunta!"
Tsunade and Orochimaru also formed hand seals in succession.
"Summoning Technique: Katsuyu!"
"Summoning Technique: Manda!"
The three summoning beasts arrived on the battlefield and glanced at each other.
Eh? We're on the same side again?
Great!
"Get that old monkey!" Gamabunta drew his forty-meter-long greatsword, leaped high, and slashed down at the Four-Tails.
Manda coiled around one of the Four-Tails' legs. Katsuyu spat a large amount of viscous liquid at the raging gorilla, and the acidic, corrosive slime covered its head and face.
Jiraiya's Giant Rasengan and Orochimaru's Kusanagi sword also descended upon it.
Tsunade's performance was the most eye-catching. She first launched tens of thousands of shadow clone shuriken at the Four-Tails, then clapped her hands together. Countless vines grew from the ground, trees shot up, and the earth cracked. The trees seemed to have a life of their own, spurred on by the ninjutsu, they grew rapidly, forcibly becoming a dense forest that tightly enveloped the Four-Tails.
"...Wood Release? Is that Tsunade?" Orochimaru was a bit stunned.
As he brushed past Jiraiya, he couldn't help but ask.
Jiraiya knew what was going on. It was nothing more than the woman wanting to show off.
Faced with Orochimaru's question, he just mumbled noncommittally.
From a treetop in the distance, Kakashi, who was providing support, sighed. He wasn't needed for this battle at all.
These three old folks have probably forgotten we still need to test the Four Red Yang Formation! Sigh, what could he do? Just watch obediently.
A weakened Orochimaru, plus a normal-state Jiraiya, and a strengthened Tsunade—the three Sannin and their summoning beasts besieged Rōshi. With his Tailed Beast form being completely suppressed by Wood Release, he didn't even last twenty exchanges before the old ninja, who was less than 1.5 meters tall and whom Naruto would affectionately call "Grandpa Beard," was brought to his knees.
Teacher, hello? Do you remember? We're supposed to test the Four Red Yang Formation! Ino shouted loudly at Tsunade in the spiritual world.
She had been using the Spirit Transformation Technique to provide Tsunade with a large amount of Wood Release chakra.
The original plan was just to indulge her a bit. Ino had guessed her cheap teacher wanted to show off in front of Orochimaru, but she hadn't expected her to get more and more into it, to the point where the enemy was about to be defeated.
Tsunade was taken aback. "Huh? What? Oh, ah! Right! I remember that. Hmm, that's a problem…"
What do you mean it's a problem! I'm going back to my body now. Let's prepare the Four Red Yang Formation!
Ino returned to her body, called over Kakashi, and as if completing some kind of ritual, they used the Four Red Yang Formation once on the nearly-downed Rōshi. Can't get out? That's right, you can't get out. The Four Red Yang Formation is a success!
Tsunade fed Rōshi a potion to induce a long-term coma. Jiraiya placed a Five Elements Seal on his chest, sealing the Tailed Beast within him. This sealing jutsu could even seal the Nine-Tails, so sealing the Four-Tails was no problem.
Ino used the Mind Transfer Jutsu to suppress the Tailed Beast within him, took some of the Four-Tails' chakra for herself, and at the same time, altered Rōshi's memories.
It wasn't us from Konoha who ambushed you. It was Ebizō from the Sand Village. Avenge your grudges, settle your scores, don't come looking for us.
Besides Ino, the other four present were veteran ninjas, experts at cleaning up a battlefield. After checking once more to ensure nothing was missed, they left the Land of Frost with the unconscious Rōshi.
Zetsu only noticed something was amiss two days later and tracked them.
He spent another two days in hot pursuit, finally coming to an incredible conclusion: Damn it, the Four-Tails Jinchuriki has been abducted! Who would do such a heaven-defying, principle-violating thing? Who dares to steal Akatsuki's business?
He hurried to discuss it with Tobi.
Ninjas are fragile. The lightning strike Tobi had taken was truly life-threatening. He had only just passed the critical period in the last few days. He was now sitting in the old-fashioned wheelchair that Madara Uchiha once used, having only recovered a bit of mobility.
He had managed to transplant a Sharingan into his left eye socket, and together with his own Mangekyo Sharingan, he could barely suppress the restless Hashirama cells.
In truth, Tobi was never a smart person from the beginning. In the original timeline, he appeared to be a deep schemer, but that was entirely due to the foundation Madara had laid and his advantage in intelligence.
Now that Konoha was not playing by the rules, his plans were thrown into disarray.
He sat in his wheelchair, thinking hard until his head ached, but he couldn't figure out who had captured the jinchuriki.
Zetsu, after so many years, still hadn't resurrected Kaguya. He didn't possess a resourceful mind, nor was he a great detective. With their intelligence advantage lost, the two blockheads just stared at each other, completely dumbfounded.
"Who do you think would be interested in jinchuriki?" Tobi asked.
Zetsu's teeth ached. Besides us, who else would be interested in jinchuriki?
He shook his head, indicating he didn't know.
Tobi analyzed on his own, "To be able to defeat the Four-Tails Jinchuriki in such a short time, the opponent's strength must be very high."
Zetsu didn't say anything. No kidding! That's completely obvious!
In his opinion, Madara Uchiha was overly conceited and often didn't seem that smart. Now, looking at Tobi, this guy was even dumber than Madara.
"Can you see any traces of ninjutsu at the scene?"
Zetsu shook his head. "The opponent is a professional. The ground was turned over twice with Earth Release. There's really nothing to see."
The two couldn't come up with a concrete plan. The Three-Tails hadn't "respawned" yet, so they decided to hide in the shadows and observe patiently. They were bound to find some clues eventually.
At the same time, Tobi, through Nagato, gave an order to the most mobile member, Deidara.
Since the enemy wants to capture jinchuriki, we will do the opposite. We will protect the jinchuriki! Deidara, this mission is yours!
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