Chapter 125: Team Eleven’s Battle

Chapter 125: Chapter 125: Team Eleven’s Battle

The dazzling golden curtain of light on the horizon was especially brilliant against the dim twilight, as though the sun that had just set had somehow climbed back up from beneath the horizon!

BOOM...

Before anyone on the battlefield could make sense of what was happening, a deafening rumble came from the direction where the golden light had erupted.

Immediately afterward, even the earth began to tremble.

It was almost as if two giants were locked in a fierce battle somewhere beyond that radiant curtain of light!

Shisui’s expression turned grave.

He knew very well that was precisely the direction where Uchiha Shinichi and Hyuga Kagami were fighting.

Yugito, the Two-Tails’ jinchūriki, also knitted her brows, uncertainty flickering across her face.

As one of the commanders responsible for rendezvousing with Uchiha Shinichi during this operation, she had nothing but contempt for Shinichi’s insistence on fighting Hyuga Kagami one-on-one.

It was only because Uchiha Shinichi possessed the Mangekyō Sharingan that, left with little choice, she had reluctantly agreed to his ridiculous request.

"Could those two fighting over there really be Uchiha Shinichi and Hyuga Kagami?"

Yugito knew the entire ambush zone like the back of her hand. Therefore, the battlefield in the distance, beyond the ambush perimeter, could only be where Uchiha Shinichi was fighting Hyuga Kagami.

She simply found it difficult to believe that a battle between Uchiha Shinichi and Hyuga Kagami could cause such an enormous disturbance.

In her understanding, only jinchūriki like herself should be capable of causing destruction on such a massive scale and reshaping the surrounding terrain.

At that moment, Shisui’s gaze hardened with determination.

He knew he couldn’t afford to drag this out any longer. Whether something happened to Uchiha Shinichi or Hyuga Kagami, neither was an outcome he wanted to see.

Having made up his mind, he immediately activated his Mangekyō Sharingan.

In the next instant, an enormous emerald-green Susanoo manifested around his body!

Yugito’s expression changed drastically.

"You have the Mangekyō Sharingan too!?"

The Kumo shinobi who had learned about Shisui’s Mangekyō Sharingan had all been silenced by Hyuga Kagami back then. As a result, Kumogakure had no idea that Shisui was also a wielder of the Mangekyō Sharingan.

Shisui returned the short sword in his hand to the sheath on his back and declared,

"I will never allow Shinichi to defect to Kumogakure!"

With that, Shisui’s figure flashed forward.

The enormous emerald-green Susanoo surged forward along with him, and within just a few breaths, it had already sent several Kumo jōnin flying!

Without a doubt, as Shisui grew older and his body continued to develop, the now twelve-year-old was becoming increasingly proficient at wielding the power of his Mangekyō Sharingan.

...

On Another Battlefield

Chirrrp—! Chirrrp—! Chirrrp—!

A piercing sound resembling the cries of a thousand birds echoed throughout the forest, occasionally accompanied by several miserable screams.

Supporting his right arm—the hand in which he had unleashed the Chidori—Kakashi crouched atop a large tree. Breathing lightly, he used his Sharingan to carefully observe his surroundings.

He had already noticed the golden light illuminating the distant horizon.

Because of that, he was no longer in the mood to continue playing hide-and-seek with the Kumo shinobi throughout the dense forest.

Whoosh!

At that moment, a kunai with an explosive tag attached to it shot toward Kakashi from behind.

Kakashi lowered his body, effortlessly avoiding the kunai. At the same time, he lightly swept the Chidori in his right hand across it, destroying the explosive tag tied to the weapon.

The expected explosion never came.

Hidden behind a large tree, the Kumo shinobi who had thrown the kunai frowned.

But the instant he poked his head out to see what had happened—

A figure descended from above, wreathed in crackling lightning.

SHNK!

In a single instant, a hand pierced straight through his heart!

"You..."

The Kumo shinobi struggled to turn his head.

But what entered his vision was nothing more than Kakashi’s strange ANBU mask.

Pulling his bloodstained right hand free, Kakashi dispelled the Chidori and, without even looking back, sped off toward the direction where the brilliant golden light was shining...

...

"Sixth Gate—the Gate of View, OPEN!"

As the Sixth Gate of the Eight Gates was opened, Guy’s entire body became enveloped in a dense shroud of steam.

Even the leaves and loose stones around him were affected, rising into the air as though some invisible force were lifting them from the ground.

The several Kumo shinobi surrounding Guy exchanged glances.

Originally, they had thought they had drawn the winning lot and would be able to complete their elimination mission with ease.

After all, according to their intelligence, only three members of Konoha’s ANBU Team Eleven were worth paying attention to—Hyuga Kagami, Shisui, and Kakashi.

As for the fourth member, Guy?

He was supposedly nothing more than a dead-last tagalong who was there to make up the numbers. There was no need to take him too seriously.

But the scene before them clearly did not match the intelligence they had received.

Guy glanced toward the dazzling golden light on the horizon and shouted,

"My comrades are all in danger! I can’t afford to waste any more time here!"

The Kumo shinobi immediately flew into a rage.

"Brat, you dare look down on us?!"

Guy didn’t bother explaining.

He simply took his stance—

and threw a punch.

"Morning Peacock!"

Countless fist shadows flashed through the forest.

The flames produced by the fists tearing through the air at extreme speed resembled countless blazing fireballs, spreading outward like the magnificent tail feathers of a peacock as they rained down upon the Kumo shinobi from every direction.

The Kumo shinobi barely had time to react before the barrage of fist shadows struck them one after another.

Like kites whose strings had been cut, they were sent flying through the air one by one, crashing heavily into the distance—their fates unknown.

After dealing with the enemies before him, Guy took several heavy breaths.

Then, trailing a turbulent wave of air behind him, he charged toward the direction of the brilliant golden light...

...

Hyuga Kagami’s Battlefield

In Tenseigan Chakra Mode, Hyuga Kagami danced freely through the air, effortlessly evading the relentless barrage of attacks from Uchiha Shinichi’s Susanoo.

And after that entire furious assault, the only things Shinichi had managed to accomplish were leaving the ground riddled with craters and reducing the surrounding forest to a complete wreck.

Whoosh!

Kagami once again slipped past a devastating punch from the Susanoo.

Then, with a casual backhand swing of his golden sword—

SLASH!

He directly severed the Susanoo’s head.

Every time Kagami attacked, he was extremely careful.

Because he was worried that if he struck too hard, he might accidentally destroy the pair of Mangekyō Sharingan sitting inside Uchiha Shinichi’s eye sockets.

However, Shinichi’s offensive was becoming fiercer with each successive wave, making it increasingly difficult for Kagami to properly control the amount of force he used.

"ROAR...!"

With a mournful howl, Uchiha Shinichi’s decapitated Susanoo dissipated into nothingness.

But the increasingly frenzied Uchiha Shinichi simply coughed up blood—

and summoned Susanoo once again!

"What the hell? This is the fifth time he’s summoned Susanoo. Don’t tell me this guy’s a jinchūriki too!?"

Kagami’s expression remained calm, but inwardly, his mind was filled with doubts.

Although the two of them hadn’t been fighting for very long, thanks to the terrifying sharpness of the Golden Wheel Reincarnation Explosion, Kagami had already destroyed Uchiha Shinichi’s Susanoo four times in succession.

Under normal circumstances, Uchiha Shinichi should have exhausted himself long ago.

Yet every single time his Susanoo was cleaved apart by Kagami’s Golden Wheel Reincarnation Explosion, he was able to immediately summon another one.

Even more strangely, there was no obvious decline in his own chakra reserves.

Kagami couldn’t help but marvel at the sheer absurdity of it.

His eyes narrowed slightly as he thought,

"Looks like my guess was wrong. The ability of his Mangekyō Sharingan probably isn’t as simple as merely postponing his injuries. Tch... these Uchiha really are troublesome..."