Sasuke Uchiha—who had been standing silently behind Tsunade—saw his pupils contract violently.
In an instant, the Mangekyō Sharingan flared to life.
His body moved before his mind could catch up—he stepped forward and positioned himself directly in front of the Five Kage!
Almost at the same moment, a golden figure appeared before them like a ghost, without the slightest warning—
Naruto Uzumaki.
The Five Kage entered full combat readiness at once, chakra surging explosively.
"Naruto… your eyes—"
Sasuke's face changed drastically. His Mangekyō locked onto Naruto's gaze, his voice filled with disbelief and shock.
Naruto's once ice-blue eyes had transformed into concentric ripples of purple.
Hearing Sasuke's cry, Naruto smiled faintly. Almost teasingly, he raised a hand and casually covered one eye.
"This?" he said indifferently.
"Just the Rinnegan."
Sasuke's expression darkened completely. He tightened his grip on the Kusanagi Sword.
"So the Rinnegan has fallen into your hands as well…"
He inhaled sharply.
"This just became a nightmare."
Tsunade forcefully suppressed her shock and stepped forward, her voice cold and resolute.
"Nightmare or not, the fight doesn't stop."
She could not show even a trace of hesitation now.
The most hot-blooded among them, the Fourth Raikage A, had already lost patience. Lightning Release chakra erupted around his body as he transformed into a bolt of blue lightning and charged forward, roaring:
"Quit playing god!"
Yet faced with the Raikage's full-power charge—an attack capable of splitting mountains—
Naruto merely cast him a cold, dismissive glance.
"Shinra Tensei."
An indescribable repulsive force—like the wrath of heaven and earth themselves—erupted outward from Naruto's body!
"What—?!" A barely managed to cry out.
His massive frame was slammed head-on as if struck by an invisible mountain, hurled backward even faster than he had charged, and smashed violently into the cliff behind them.
Dust and debris exploded into the air.
A mouthful of blood sprayed uncontrollably from his lips.
"Raikage!" Tsunade shouted, instantly rushing to assist.
"Bastard!"
Seeing this, Sasuke no longer hesitated.
He drew his blade in a flash, transforming into a streak of violet lightning as he lunged toward Naruto!
In the blink of an eye, gold and purple collided at speeds the naked eye could barely follow.
Explosions of ninjutsu and taijutsu echoed continuously as the two figures crossed and clashed again and again.
The other Kage launched support attacks in rapid succession, attempting to restrain Naruto.
The battlefield appeared ferocious—almost evenly matched.
But everyone watching the projection could clearly see it.
The faint, indifferent expression on Naruto Uzumaki's face never changed.
He wasn't even fighting seriously.
The real shinobi world fell once more into deathly silence.
The Rinnegan?
Naruto possessed the same eyes as the Sage of Six Paths?
Where did he get them?
Amegakure — the high tower.
"My eyes…"
Nagato whispered hoarsely, staring through the Deva Path at the purple-rippled eyes on the projection.
"Both of them… are with you…"
His voice trembled with disbelief.
"So in the future… I died by your hand?"
He couldn't accept it.
He had the Rinnegan.
He was a god.
How could he lose?
How could his eyes be taken?
"Nagato," Konan stepped forward gently, trying to comfort him.
"Perhaps… something changed in the future. Or maybe you made a different choice…"
She refused to believe Nagato would simply fall.
Nagato himself wanted to believe that explanation.
Of course.
He was a god.
How could he possibly lose?
On the projection, the battle escalated further.
Tsunade's monstrous strength punches were subtly redirected by invisible forces—shattering the ground yet never touching Naruto.
Ōnoki's Dust Release was interrupted before it could fully form.
Mei Terumī's Boil Release and Lava Release were effortlessly absorbed or deflected.
Gaara's sand slowed, becoming heavy and powerless.
Even the Raikage's Liger Bomb was blocked by Naruto using a single black chakra rod, the backlash leaving A's arm numb.
Only Sasuke Uchiha, relying on the extreme perception of his Mangekyō Sharingan, his unpredictable dōjutsu, and the raging torrent of purple Chidori, could barely keep up—
And even then, he was pushed to the brink, wounds steadily accumulating.
After toying with the combined assault of the Five Kage and Sasuke, Naruto seemed to lose interest.
"That's enough playing around."
His gaze turned cold.
Endless shadow clones burst forth, surrounding the Five Kage from all directions.
"As Kage," Naruto said lightly,
"being overwhelmed is only natural, right?"
"Damn you—!" Tsunade cursed—
But before she could finish, hundreds—then thousands—of Naruto charged in.
In an instant, the Five Kage were swallowed by chaos.
"Sasuke… you're not enough."
Naruto even had the leisure to taunt him, his body flickering through the battlefield like a phantom.
"I still haven't used my full strength."
"Bastard!" Sasuke roared.
A towering Perfect Susano'o erupted from the ground, radiating terrifying chakra. Its massive violet blade swung down with enough force to cleave mountains apart!
Yet faced with this terrain-altering strike—
Naruto calmly raised a single hand.
BOOM—!!!
A dull, crushing sound echoed.
The expected world-shattering collision never came.
The colossal Susano'o blade shattered on contact with Naruto's palm—cracking, splintering, and collapsing into countless particles of violet chakra like fragile glass.
"What…?!"
Sasuke's pupils shrank violently.
"Sasuke," Naruto said evenly,
"surrender."
He waved his hand again.
An invisible force smashed into the Susano'o.
The massive purple giant let out a soundless wail before collapsing entirely. Sasuke himself was sent flying like a broken kite, blood spraying from his mouth.
"Naruto—I haven't lost yet!" Sasuke shouted desperately.
Naruto didn't even look back.
"Then I'll take away your hope."
He turned his gaze toward the other side of the battlefield—where the Five Kage were struggling desperately against his clones and summons.
A cold smile curved his lips.
The smile of someone looking at insects.
"It's over."
He formed an extremely simple hand seal.
The next instant—
Slash.
An invisible, undetectable, impossible-to-predict attack appeared out of nowhere.
The Fourth Raikage A—charging forward in a furious roar—froze mid-step.
He stared down in disbelief.
A perfectly smooth line of blood had appeared across his waist.
His upper and lower body slowly separated.
Blood erupted like a waterfall.
He never even got the chance to scream.
"Raikage!!" the remaining Kage cried out in horror.
But their voices had barely left their throats—
Slash.
The Third Tsuchikage Ōnoki's head was severed cleanly from his body mid-air, his aged face frozen in shock.
Slash. Slash.
Almost simultaneously, the chests of the Fifth Mizukage Mei Terumī and the Fifth Hokage Tsunade were pierced by invisible force—
Their hearts shattered in an instant.
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