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The Kumo shinobi froze, exchanging nervous glances. "Raikage-sama?"
He strode back, looming over Hiruzen's corpse, his shadow falling across the fallen Professor. He stared down at the old man's face, the lines of battle still etched in death, the faint trace of blood still at his lips. And then, like lightning flashing in a storm, the idea struck him fully formed.
"Ha… ha ha ha…" His laughter started low, rumbling like distant thunder, then built into something manic. He threw his head back, laughing, the sound echoing across the ruined battlefield. The shinobi looked at him in confusion, but none dared interrupt. And he said "I got an idea..."
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Minato Namikaze eyes were closed, his breathing shallow, his mind reaching across the threads of chakra he had woven into the world. Every kunai he had marked was accounted for. Every tree and stone he had inscribed with FTG mark was still faintly glowing in his mind. And then there was one more.
The mark on Hiruzen Sarutobi.
Minato's throat tightened. He had felt the severing of life when the Shinigami had claimed the Hokage. He knew there was no coming back from Shiki Fujin and Minato couldn't let hokage's body remain in enemy hands.
He whispered into the emptiness, as though Hokage could hear him still: "You deserve more than this. Not to rot in a battlefield. Not in the hands of men who laughed at your sacrifice. You deserve Konoha to honor you."
So he waited. Three long days. Hidden, moving through the forests in silence, eating almost nothing, sleeping barely at all. He waited for the mark to move. But nothing moved. Luckily, Kumo had left the body on the battlefield.
At first Minato thought it was arrogance leaving the Hokage's corpse as a mockery, a symbol of their dominance. But something about it was wrong. The Third Raikage was many things, but not a fool.
Still, Minato couldn't abandon the Hokage's body to be eaten by crows but he was also prepared for any traps. And so, finally, on the third night, he used "chakra sensing technique" to make sure there was no raikage nearby. he placed his hand on the ground, whispered the seals in his head, and vanished in a flash of yellow.
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He appeared in silence, the air still heavy with the scent of scorched earth and blood. The battlefield was quiet now, a graveyard of shattered trees and broken stones. Minato's heart pounded as he turned, eyes searching.
And then he saw it.
Not a body. Only a hand.
A severed hand, lying on the ground, palm open toward the sky. The mark he had placed on hokage's arm was left there.
And surrounding it…
Paper bombs. Thousands of them. Layered in patterns so precise Minato's stomach twisted. Every inch of ground within twenty meters was covered, a carpet of destruction waiting for the slightest touch. The smell of explosive powder was thick in the air, mingling with the copper scent of blood.
His legs weakened. He dropped to his knees.
His voice broke as he whispered, "What did they do to you, Hokage-sama…?"
Kumo hadn't just killed him. They had carved him apart, turned his death into bait, and desecrated what little remained. It wasn't just brutality. It was cruelty designed to break him.
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Minato's first thought was rage. His instincts screamed that it was a trap. His rational mind calculated distances, detonation range, and escape speed in less than a second. He knew he could teleport away before the paper bombs ever ignited.
But his heart wouldn't let him leave.
His fingers trembled as he reached out. He had to take something back. A body for a funeral. A relic for Konoha. Anything. So he lifted the hand, holding it as though it were fragile glass, pressing it against his chest. His eyes burned, tears spilling down his face, something he never let anyone see.
And then it happened. The paper bombs ignited.
The explosion began not with fire, but with heat. A flash of chakra across the seals that spread like wildfire, consuming every single bomb in an instant.
But Minato teleported away and then he heard distant sound of explosion.
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Minato collapsed with hokage's hand clenching. Kushina was gone. Sealed away. Hiruzen was gone, sacrificed. And now he was holding only a fragment, a piece of the man who had once guided all of Konoha.
For the first time in years, Minato Namikaze broke. His sobs tore through the night, his chest heaving as he clutched the hand tighter. He whispered through his tears, "I failed. I failed you, Kushina. I failed you, Hokage-sama. I couldn't protect either of you. I couldn't…"
Minato's eyes widened as the hand in his grip began to glow, Enhanced paper bombs hidden beneath the skin of the hokage's hand, itself activating.
His mind snapped back into motion. Teleport. Now. But if he teleported, he would drag the explosion [Hand with paper bombs] with him. For the first time, the Yellow Flash realized he might be too slow.
He roared, "No!".
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He appeared a hundred meters away, staggering as another explosion tore through the forest behind him. The shockwave hit him like a wall, knocking him forward to his knees. Fire and earth erupted into the sky, the roar of destruction swallowing the night. Pain tore through his right arm.
He looked down. His sleeve was gone, his skin blackened and smoking. From shoulder to fingertips, his arm was charred, the flesh burned deep by the force of the explosion. He had escaped, but not whole.
His breath came ragged. His vision blurred with tears and smoke. He tried to move his fingers and found nothing but pain. His right arm... his throwing arm, his kunai hand... was ruined. The realization struck harder than the explosion itself. The Yellow Flash had been maimed.
He hugged his ruined arm to his chest, and for a moment he wasn't the genius, the prodigy, the hero of Konoha. He was just a man, broken by loss.
He screamed into the night, voice raw and cracked: "RAIKAGE!"
His shout echoed across the empty battlefield, carried by wind and fire. His chakra surged wildly, golden sparks snapping around him as rage overtook grief.
"You took Kushina from me! You took Hokage-sama! You defiled his body!" His voice shook, half sobbing, half fury. "I swear… I swear on my life, I will make you pay! I will make Kumo burn for this!"
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A/N: Here is what happened. I wanted to write this from minato's perspective.
Raikage knowing there is a mark on hiruzen, asked his men to disrobe him and search for any mark and they found it on a hand. raikage cut the hand and sealed other body and asked his men to place their paper bombs around the hand and raikage himself have taken out few high quality paper bombs with mild lightning chakra and placed inside the hand for another layer of trap.
Inspired from Hunter x Hunter; hisoka fight against tiger.
With this minato lost his right arm, hokage and kushina. His character has been set and Kumo gained a dangerous enemy, who will be multiple times stronger than canon.