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The seal placed on Gengetsu cut off the chakra that was causing the reanimation to remain active and binding his soul to the body. A white light emerged from the host's body and the spirit of Gengetsu could be seen floating up towards the sky. The man smiled at Yagura and gave him a nod as to thank him for freeing him from the material world before ascending back to the afterlife.
Yagura grunted as he was now feeling all the pain that had been inflicted to him throughout the battle.
He muscled through it as he began his journey to the center of the rooftop to face his final opponents.
Senju Hashirama vs. Namikaze Minato vs. Senju Tobirama
Namikaze Minato had seen better days.
Currently he was on one knee and panting heavily as he eyed the two Kage before him. His clothes were torn in several different areas, he was bruised, beaten, and soaked in his own blood from the wounds that had been inflicted upon him.
At the same time that Yagura was facing off against Gengetsu, Minato was face to face with two of the founding figures of Konohagakure.
He really got the short end of the stick this time, as he was facing off against Senju Hashirama and Senju Tobirama, two of the strongest shinobi in the long history of the Elemental Nations.
Why did they agree to each take on the reanimated Kage from their respective villages again?
Oh yes, it was because they would know their opponents strengths and weaknesses the best and know the secrets and mechanics behind their strongest jutsus and fighting styles. There were only a few problems with that. The Shodaime and Nidaime Hokages were what the definition of shinobi should be, they covered all of their weaknesses and had no openings. The only people who had been able to push them to their absolute limits lived during the era of warring states and founded the shinobi world.
It didn't help that he knew the workings of some of their jutsu, it only made it clear as to how dire of a situation he was in right now. The only advantage he had at the moment was that his marked kunai were spread out all over the rooftop so he could make a quick escape and catch them off-guard.
The Hiraishin had already saved his life countless times during this exchange.
The costs for him would be tremendous if the fight dragged on, he needed to seal them the first chance he got. It also worked in his favor that the Edo Tensei's biggest weakness was fūinjutsu, an art that he specialized in.
That had been the theory at least.
Their strength was truly overwhelming, especially when working together. They were no doubt the strongest Kage in the history of the Elemental Nations. Minato himself had been feared by all who had the unfortunate fate to be his enemy, even the other Kages would be hard pressed and would ultimately lose against him. Yet, he had been on the defensive since this fight started and things didn't look to be turning in his favor anytime soon.
Minato slowly brought himself up to both feet as he wiped the blood from the corner of his mouth with his thumb. It seemed that he would need to be prepared as his predecessors were about to begin their onslaught once more.
"Suiton: Suishōha (Water Release: Water Colliding Wave)!" Water molecules were swiftly gathered from the surrounding air by Tobirama and turned into a large spiraling vortex of water. It then exploded from the top and crashed down towards Minato in the form of a wave.
Minato silently cursed to himself and teleported to a marked kunai directly behind Hashirama. As soon as he arrived, he sent a slash towards Hashirama's head with a kunai that he held in a reverse grip. The slash was blocked with a simple raise of the arm by the Shodaime Hokage, who countered with an elbow to the blonde's ribs. Minato grunted in pain, but took this opportunity to send a reverse kick to Hashirama's side as he simultaneously tagged the man with a Hiraishin marker. This time the kick made contact and sent Hashirama several yards away, but before Minato could celebrate he was kicked in the stomach with a strong front kick from Tobirama and sent crashing into an earth wall that had previously been erected.
Minato quickly pulled himself out of the crater he made in the earth wall and fell to the water that had been covering the ground from Tobirama's earlier suiton jutsu.
He saw that the former Hokages hadn't moved from their earlier positions, so he took this as a chance to take the offensive.
"Katon: Karyū Endan (Fire Release: Dragon Flame Bombs)!"
The current Hokage went through several hand seals before spewing out a large stream of fire after which he began to knead the chakra into genuine-looking dragon that divided and launched to the left side, the right side, and a frontal assault in all three directions at once. He increased the output even further, making the dragon larger and turning the stream of flames whitish in color and much hotter.
Minato was no specialist in nature transformation, in fact he rarely used any elemental ninjutsu, but that did not mean he neglected his research into the arts. He was the Hokage and was the strongest shinobi in the village, he would protect it against any foreign threat, even if it meant having to reduce his predecessors into nothing more than a pile of ash. This jutsu was personally taught to him by Sarutobi Hiruzen, the Sandaime Hokage, and it was his most powerful offensive elemental ninjutsu.
As the searing hot flames raced towards the Shodaime and Nidame Hokages and began to consume them, Tobirama once again gathered the moisture in the air, even with such hot flames burning around him, and prepared a powerful suiton jutsu.
"Suiton: Suijinheki (Water Release: Water Formation Wall)!" Tobirama spewed a large torent of water from his mouth and combined them with the moisture that he had pulled from the air to make the jutsu at least three-times as powerful as the one that Yagura had used during his confrontation with Gengetsu. The water took the form of a large wall that circled both him and Hashirama, effectively protecting them from the flames.