Because of Tsuchikage's warning, Iwagakure did not go all out.
As for Takumi, since the battle was taking place within their own village, their fighting was relatively restrained.
This resulted in both sides clashing for several minutes in a lukewarm fashion without any casualties.
The only ones showing true intensity were Han and Chikuma, the two Jinchuriki.
Affected by the Bijuu within them, their emotions were somewhat influenced.
But they were still holding back overall.
"Let's stop!" Chikuma, with his crimson eyes glowing from his transformed state, smirked. "Sure, your strength is far superior to mine, but your teamwork with the Bijuu is a joke! With only this level of skill, there's no way you can defeat me!"
"Hmph! Don't get too excited yet!" Han, feeling furious inside, became even more convinced of the Hero Water's effectiveness. If even an ordinary Jonin could become his equal after obtaining the Hero Water, wouldn't he himself become the strongest Jinchuriki upon acquiring it?
Just then, a Takumi ninja suddenly shouted in alarm, "It's the rogue ninja Zukiri! Wait, is that bottle in his hand...?"
Chikuma and Han simultaneously turned their heads to look. Someone could clearly be seen walking stealthily along the Sacred Tree's branch, hugging a bottle filled with water.
"Found out!" Zukiri was startled, no longer hiding as he ran desperately in the opposite direction, hugging the bottle tightly. He planned to bypass them and escape through the lake bed. "Haha! You damn fools keep fighting! The Hero Water belongs to me now!"
"Damn it! You traitor actually dared to come back!" Driven by anger, Chikuma abandoned his fight with Han and charged straight toward Zukiri.
"So that's how it is! You made us Iwagakure take the fall for you!" Han was also furious, jumping into the lake and swimming toward Zukiri.
These two Jinchuriki—one flying, the other swimming—were rapidly closing in on Zukiri.
However, flying was naturally faster than swimming.
As Chikuma was about to catch up, Han suddenly punched the water's surface hard, [Water Gun] firing a powerful jet toward Chikuma.
Although the attack was easily dodged by Chikuma, it still delayed him slightly, allowing Han to catch up again.
"This bastard!" Chikuma refused to fall behind, retaliating with a burst of [Scale Powder].
In the next few seconds, both of them kept trying to obstruct each other.
Suddenly, a cry of "Watch out! He's going to escape underwater!" brought the two fighting opponents back to their senses.
Seeing Zukiri about to escape, Chikuma instantly condensed his chakra into a giant hand reaching toward him.
Chikuma imitated him, his chakra swirling outside his body and forming into a giant hand reaching out as well.
The two chakra hands collided, creating an incredibly terrifying force.
A violent gust of wind rose, waves towered skyward, as if the entire lake would be overturned.
"Oh no!" Seeing this, both of them secretly realized the danger, having no time to appreciate their joint display. Without waiting for the shockwave to settle, they rushed straight into the surging waves.
Yet within the waves, nothing could be seen except a splash of vivid red blood.
No one really cared about Zukiri's fate, but the vanished bottle sent chills down both of their spines.
"Was the bottle containing the Hero Water completely shattered?" Han sighed, feeling as if all his efforts had been for nothing.
At that moment, an extremely powerful burst of chakra erupted beside him.
"Damn you, Iwagakure! You people will pay dearly for this!"
Han turned to look and saw that the other man had already transformed into his Complete Form in sheer rage.
"Stay calm. It's just a misunderstanding."
But Chikuma had already gone beyond reason and refused to listen to any explanation.
Zukiri had defected, Kakuzu had fled, and he had been burning with anger inside already. Now Iwagakure had come to stir up trouble unreasonably and caused them to lose the Hero Water—it was the last straw.
Roar!
Consumed by fury, Chikuma completely lost his composure and started pummeling Han relentlessly.
Although Han himself knew they were at fault, the tailed beast within him didn't share that view. It only knew that its vessel was being brutally attacked by the Seven-Tails.
While the Five-Tails could usually remain indifferent to battles, it would never tolerate its container being overwhelmed during a jinchūriki conflict. The beast's power surged inside Han, gradually influencing him. Combined with Chikuma's "assault" from outside, Han finally lost control and transformed into his Complete Form as well.
Seeing the fierce battle between the two tailed beasts erupting within the village, Shibuya nearly fainted from shock.
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His Takumi! After this fight, how could anyone still live here?
Wait, maybe what he should be thinking about now was how to survive?
The Iwagakure side was in sheer despair as well. With two jinchūriki gone berserk, even the shockwave from their battle could wipe out their entire force.
Howl!
Roar!
The Five-Tails and Seven-Tails grew increasingly frenzied, eventually preparing to unleash their ultimate techniques—the Tailed Beast Balls.
When the enormous black orbs exuding terrifying auras began to form in the mouths of the two bijū, the ninja on both sides burst into tears.
We're finished. Definitely finished.
Takumi wasn't that big of a place. Even the shockwave from the collision of the Tailed Beast Balls could crush them all.
"We shouldn't have come here today!"
"Lord Chikuma, please regain your senses quickly!"
"God! Save us!"
Just when all hope seemed lost, a tall figure suddenly appeared between the two raging tailed beasts.
[Chakra Barrier!]
At the exact moment the two Tailed Beast Balls were about to collide, the spatial chakra barrier expanded and swallowed both orbs whole.
The battlefield fell silent for a moment before erupting into thunderous cheers.
"Thank goodness! We've been saved!"
"That's Seiki!"
"If it's Seiki, he should be able to stop this battle!"
Although Seiki had serious conflicts with Iwagakure, even the Iwagakure ninja were now cheering wildly, as if they'd just escaped death.
The two tailed beasts stood there momentarily confused, glaring at each other, wondering where their massive Tailed Beast Balls had gone.
But soon enough, both bijū charged at each other again without a care in the world.
Seiki, however, remained standing calmly between them, seemingly planning to block their attacks single-handedly.
The ninja on both sides watched the scene with bated breath. Although they had heard about Seiki easily suppressing Nine-Tails before, they had never personally witnessed it. And now, there were two rampaging Bijuu right in front of them.
In their minds, surely two Bijuu should be stronger than one?
Seiki, however, simply brought his hands together.
[Sage Art: Wood Release: True Several Thousand Hands!]
Even though using this technique on the Five-Tails and Seven-Tails was a bit overkill, Seiki held nothing back to make sure the watching ninja saw him as utterly unstoppable.
Instantly, a massive statue appeared beneath Seiki, its size rivaling that of the Sacred Tree at the heart of the lake. Using it, he manipulated its arms like one grabbing a chick, lifting both charging Bijuu effortlessly into the air.
No matter how fiercely the two Bijuu thrashed, they couldn't move the statue even an inch.
Even the Tailed Beast Balls they conjured up in their furious rage vanished instantly, absorbed by the Wood Release's chakra absorption ability.
"Wood Release really is great," Seiki quipped while harvesting their chakra. "I can openly absorb their chakra with no shame whatsoever!"
The watching ninja were completely stunned, their jaws nearly dropping to the ground.
Many of them felt their legs go weak, as if they'd just witnessed a divine miracle in person.
After all, those were Bijuu—creatures regarded by the world as more terrifying than natural disasters themselves!
Yet in his hands, they were no different than helpless chicks.
"That powerful Bijuu just grabbed them like they were nothing!"
"Was our Iwagakure really fighting against such a terrifying enemy before?"
"Swallow hard... Thank goodness the war ended early, or else Iwagakure would've been wiped out!"
As his chakra was drained, Han regained consciousness from his frenzied state.
Looking at Seiki, who seemed like a descending deity, and then at the Seven-Tails, also trapped in the statue's grip, Han suddenly questioned his own purpose. "What exactly am I doing? Even if I completely mastered the Bijuu's power, what use would it be against such a monster?"
At that moment, a once-ambitious Jinchuriki fell into a listless state, his spirit crushed. "Forget about revitalizing Iwagakure—maybe I should just give up and become a couch potato!"
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