Chapter 499 - 498: This Again?

Chapter 499: Chapter 498: This Again?

Whoosh...

With a flash of light, Kagami’s vision suddenly darkened.

Immediately afterward, the familiar night sky and the devastated battlefield entered his view once more.

"I made it out..."

After letting out a long breath of relief, an indescribable wave of exhaustion suddenly surged over him, completely swallowing him whole.

At that moment, his entire body went numb, as though he had completely lost control of it.

Thud...

With a dull sound, Kagami fell face-first onto the ground.

"Not good. This clone can’t hold on any longer!"

Lying on the ground, Kagami felt a trace of panic rise in his heart.

According to his calculations, the reason he had suddenly lost control of his body was most likely because the bloodline disease afflicting this Type-A Wind Release clone had already spread to the clone’s central nervous system.

In his current condition, forget extracting chakra and performing ninjutsu—even blinking his eyes had become an extremely difficult task.

And yet, Obito was right behind him!

If Obito suddenly decided to finish him off, he wouldn’t even need to use a dojutsu or ninjutsu. All he had to do was casually throw a few ninja tools, and he could easily destroy this Type-A Wind Release clone.

Just as this concern surfaced in Kagami’s mind, Obito’s figure appeared in another flash of light.

Without a doubt, Obito had also seized that fleeting instant and escaped from the illusionary world of the Totsuka Blade.

"What do I do!?"

Sensing Obito’s appearance, Kagami’s heart tightened as he desperately racked his brain for a way out of this situation.

Since the battle began, this was the first time he had ever felt so utterly desperate and helpless!

Obito, who had also escaped, naturally noticed Kagami lying not far away, seemingly having completely lost the ability to move.

"Bastard! You’re pulling this trick again!?"

At that moment, Obito was absolutely furious.

He felt as though his intelligence had suffered the greatest insult imaginable!

Without another thought, he instantly entered his intangible state before disappearing into a distorted vortex.

The speed at which he fled and the decisiveness of his movements even carried a hint of panic.

Whoosh...

A night breeze swept across the battlefield, stirring up the dust scattered across the ground.

"Huh...?"

Kagami, still lying motionless on the ground, froze for a moment.

He couldn’t quite understand why Obito had fled in such a panicked and miserable fashion, but at least there was one thing worth celebrating—this battle-tested Type-A Wind Release clone wouldn’t be scrapped just yet.

Immediately afterward, his spirit separated from the Type-A Wind Release clone and silently slipped underground.

In the distance, Itachi let out a soft sigh when he saw Kagami and Obito both escape from the Totsuka Blade.

He had already anticipated this possibility.

After all, Obito was capable of activating a nearly complete Susanoo, which clearly meant that he possessed a pair of Mangekyo Sharingan with formidable ocular power.

In theory, Obito had an even greater chance of escaping from the Totsuka Blade than Furin did.

Therefore, if Furin could escape from the Totsuka Blade, then Obito would inevitably be capable of escaping as well.

It was practically unavoidable.

Unless, of course, Furin was sacrificed so that he and Obito would perish together inside it.

But Itachi couldn’t make such a decision.

He had no right to decide whether a fellow member lived or died.

At that moment, Kurenai hurried over to the Type-A Wind Release clone and anxiously asked, "Furin, are you alright?"

Naturally, the Type-A Wind Release clone, now without Kagami’s spirit inside it, gave no response whatsoever.

Seeing that Furin appeared to have lost consciousness, Kurenai immediately panicked. She gently shook the Type-A Wind Release clone while calling out,

"Furin?! Furin!?"

Itachi also walked over, his expression turning somewhat grave.

He hadn’t expected Furin’s injuries to be this severe. It seemed that he had completely lost consciousness.

"Let me handle it!"

Suddenly, a calm and steady voice came from behind Kurenai.

Kurenai turned around and saw that the speaker was none other than Tsunade, the greatest medical-nin in the shinobi world.

She hurriedly stepped forward.

"Lady Tsunade, please!"

Tsunade merely glanced at Kurenai without saying anything more. She then walked over to the Type-A Wind Release clone lying on the ground and said to Itachi beside him,

"I’ll treat him."

Dressed in the attire of the Kamigami, Itachi nodded and stepped aside.

Having Tsunade, one of the Legendary Sannin, personally treat him was naturally the best possible option.

Meanwhile, the surrounding Konoha shinobi, including Jiraiya and Kakashi, also began gathering around.

Everyone had witnessed with their own eyes just how much Furin of the Kamigami had done for the village throughout the successive battles that night.

If it hadn’t been for him, Konoha would have struggled to deal with the monster that emerged from the Box of Ultimate Bliss alone.

Therefore, although many Konoha shinobi were still wary of the Kamigami deep down, they bore no hostility toward Furin, who had fought alongside them.

On the contrary, many of Konoha’s shinobi were genuinely grateful to him.

After treating Furin for a short while, Tsunade’s brows knitted tighter and tighter, as though she had encountered something utterly unbelievable.

Jiraiya, who knew Tsunade well, immediately moved closer and asked, "Is he alright?"

Tsunade replied gravely, "This is simply unbelievable. All of his internal organs are damaged, there are multiple fractures throughout his skeleton, and he’s suffering from severe internal bleeding..."

Itachi deliberately altered his voice and asked, "What do you mean by that?"

Tsunade glanced at Itachi.

"No one should be capable of pushing their body this far. A normal person would’ve died long ago!"

Kurenai anxiously asked, "You can heal him, right?"

Tsunade shook her head and sighed softly.

"I’m sorry. There’s nothing I can do either. This has already gone beyond the limits of medical ninjutsu."

There was one other thing Tsunade didn’t mention.

She had discovered that her medical ninjutsu seemed to have very little effect on Furin’s body.

Or rather, there seemed to be some kind of destructive toxin within Furin’s body that was actively resisting her treatment.

Kurenai collapsed onto the ground in a daze.

Jiraiya and Kakashi sighed, while Itachi stood frozen in place, seemingly unable to believe what he had just heard...

...

Inside a cave far away from Konoha.

In an instant, a pair of sapphire-blue eyes abruptly opened!

It was none other than Hyuga Kagami, whose spirit had returned to his Yin Release true body.

He knew very well that since Konoha had become a target of the Akatsuki, no location within the village’s vicinity could be considered safe anymore.

Therefore, he had carved out a temporary base deep underground in a remote location far from the village, where he kept his Yin Release true body.

Moving his body around a little, Kagami smiled.

"As expected, nothing beats being back in my own body!"

Originally, controlling the Type-A Wind Release clone had actually been quite comfortable as well.

But as its bloodline disease worsened, controlling the Type-A Wind Release clone had become increasingly strenuous. Toward the end, Kagami had even been forced to endure excruciating pain at every moment.

So after returning to his Yin Release true body, he genuinely felt incomparably refreshed.

After taking a moment to readjust, Kagami didn’t linger inside the cave. He immediately entered Tenseigan Chakra Mode, burst out from underground, and transformed into a streak of blue light that shot toward Konoha...