Some time later—
Deep within the desert, Sasori of the Red Sand received a transmission from Pain.
Together with Konan's clone, he arrived at Sunagakure and immediately launched a feint attack.
Countless paper tags infused with sensory ninjutsu and reconnaissance puppets were dropped from the sky.
Then, the two began indiscriminately attacking every Sunagakure ninja they encountered.
Facing two Kage-level opponents, the village's defenses were utterly overwhelmed—they were quickly forced to retreat.
Although communication ninja managed to send out distress signals, Sunagakure only had two Kage-level fighters available: Chiyo and the Fourth Kazekage, Rasa.
Chiyo, however, was in seclusion in a canyon near the village and couldn't arrive in time.Thankfully, Rasa was already in the village. With his powerful Gold Dust techniques for both offense and defense, and his ability to fly, he managed to hold his own against the combined assault of Konan and Sasori.
Meanwhile, you took advantage of your dual stealth abilities to sneak behind Rasa using the Light-Weight Rock Technique.
Shhk—
A pale bone spike pierced clean through Rasa's chest. In a mere instant, nearly half of his blood was siphoned away and stored in the hollow cavity of the spike.
This specialized blood-draining bone spike was something you developed after mastering the Shikotsumyaku, designed to rapidly extract bloodlines. When paired with the Sharingan's ocular abilities, you could drain someone's blood in a single breath.
Even so, Rasa's strength as a top-tier Kage-level ninja showed. He instantly summoned his Gold Dust to defend himself, attempting to catch you on the spot.
But you reacted swiftly, activating Flying Thunder God to teleport away. You reappeared near one of the buildings under construction by Tazuna's company.
You then pulled out the blood-soaked bone spike and, using your Flying Thunder God formula, transported it to your underground base in the Land of Waves for cryogenic storage.
In truth, if you weren't so picky about bloodline purity, even half a vial would've sufficed...
Rasa's counterattack hit nothing but air.
Though gravely injured, he didn't die. He grit his teeth against the pain in his chest and used Gold Dust to seal his wound, forcing himself to stay in the fight.
However, he failed to notice that his control over the Gold Dust had drastically weakened.
You hadn't just drained his blood—you'd taken nearly half of his Kekkei Genkai as well.
Seizing the opening, Konan exploited Rasa's faltering defenses. She transformed into a flurry of paper birds and bypassed the crumbling Gold Dust barrier.
Back when they dropped the paper tags and reconnaissance puppets, Gaara's location had already been exposed.
Konan dove straight toward where Gaara was hidden.
A few paper shuriken swiftly eliminated the guard ninja, and she broke into the house.
Gaara jolted awake from his half-sleep, half-daze state.
When he saw Konan, he assumed it was yet another assassin sent by his deranged father. He prepared to summon the sand from his gourd and crush her.
But then—Konan sprouted wings from her back, lunged forward, and embraced Gaara.
With a powerful flap of her massive wings, she burst through the rooftop and soared into the sky!
Up high, Gaara was still stunned, but before he could react, Shukaku took over and put him straight to sleep.
Gaara, now transformed into Shukaku, swatted Konan's clone with a single massive paw, shattering it instantly.
With its chakra depleted, the clone dissolved into countless paper fragments...
One of those fragments, however, bore your Flying Thunder God mark.
Your turn.
You appeared on the scene, activating your Sharingan and freezing Shukaku in place, forcing it back into Gaara's body.
Then, wielding both a bone spike and Adamantine Chains, you broke through the protective barrier of Maizōnō.
With seamless, practiced movements, you simultaneously extracted both Shukaku and the Magnet Release bloodline.
While still airborne, you unfurled a sealing scroll and manifested the prototype Divine Tool.
You sliced off one-third of Shukaku's chakra and sealed it into your eye.
The remaining two-thirds were absorbed into the scroll.
Then, still invisible, you activated Flying Thunder God once more—
And teleported a hundred miles away in the air to hand off the chakra to Konan's real body, who had been waiting in the designated location.
Mission complete.
After Sasori defeated the gravely wounded Fourth Kazekage, he withdrew before Chiyo could arrive.
Konan, carrying the scroll, slowly flew through the skies. Only after enough time had passed—matching the time her clone would've taken to get there—did she speed up and return to Amegakure.
The reason for all this planning—
Was a scheme you devised with Nagato to fool Black Zetsu.
By staging the decisive battle in midair—
You completely exited the range of White Zetsu's sensory field.
Then, by ensuring the Jinchūriki kill was airtight and handing the Tailed Beast to Konan—who could naturally fly—
You pulled off a perfect bait-and-switch.
After Konan left, your shadow clone used Transparent Escape to temporarily stand in and protect Nagato.
...
You teleported back to the base in the Land of Waves.
There, you sealed both variations of the Magnet Release bloodline with Ice Release and stored them on the floating island for future purification.
You then released Shukaku and placed it alongside Isobu, the Three-Tails, within a sealing array, binding them with Adamantine Chains to serve as one of the floating island's energy cores.
Immediately afterward, you activated Flying Thunder God again—
And reappeared near Kumogakure.
This entire operation was meant to be a two-pronged blitz attack—strike fast, finish faster.
On Kakuzu's end, the hunt for the Two-Tails Jinchūriki, Yugito Nii, was already underway.
At that moment, Kakuzu had already located Yugito's secluded training site.
To divert Kumogakure's attention, he sent several of his S-Class rogue subordinates to stir up chaos.
These infamous shinobi had more reputation than actual strength, but they were all hard to kill—after all, they'd survived with S-Class bounties on their heads for years.
Even if they died, they weren't a loss. In fact, Kakuzu could cash in a decent amount of gold from them...
Kakuzu engaged the Two-Tails directly, forcing her to unleash her Tailed Beast form.
Yugito was a perfect Jinchūriki, so for a time, she had the upper hand and kept Kakuzu suppressed.
But then you, still invisible and floating, appeared behind her.
You became a black blur and drove the short blade into the back of Yugito's head.
The blade returned to your hand—
Another third of a Tailed Beast's chakra sealed into your Sharingan.
And the Jinchūriki, her soul severed by your sneak attack, died instantly.
Kakuzu, seeing you had already made your move, unleashed a massive composite jutsu and obliterated the battlefield.
Meanwhile, you relied on your body's physical toughness to charge into the inferno, dragged out White Zetsu, and executed him—
Then staged the scene to make it look like he had died from Kakuzu's jutsu.
This effectively severed Black Zetsu's intel network.
Kakuzu then used a sealing jutsu to extract the weakened Two-Tails and escape using Earth Release.
Just as you were about to teleport away—
You suddenly recalled that the Third Raikage had once severed one of Gyūki's horns.
If you could acquire it now, you wouldn't have to deal with the Raikage and Killer Bee later. That would lower the risk of exposing yourself to Black Zetsu's intelligence web.
Conveniently, Tazuna Construction Company—known for its sturdy materials and honest business—had projects across the entire shinobi world.
Several buildings in Kumogakure had been contracted out to Tazuna's firm.
Using this opening, you easily infiltrated the village's interior.
You spread out your sensory field and quickly located the severed Eight-Tails horn...
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