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"Uchiha Izuna!"
Tobirama's face darkened instantly as he glared furiously at the smirking man before him.
"Senju Tobirama."
Izuna's lips curled into a smile, but his eyes remained icy.
With a flick of his wrist, he twirled his ninjato, the cold moonlight glinting off its polished blade.
"What kind of scheme are you plotting this time?" Tobirama demanded, gripping several kunai between his fingers as he warily regarded his lifelong rival.
"No scheme," Izuna replied, raising his sword to point at him. "You're the one who's always scheming!"
"Hmph." Tobirama scoffed. "Then why isn't Uchiha Madara stopping Nagato?"
"Because—"
Izuna tilted his head upward, gazing at the moon where the pattern of the Rinnegan with nine tomoe had manifested.
"—he wants this to happen."
"Nonsense!"
Seizing the moment Izuna averted his eyes, Tobirama activated the Flying Thunder God Technique and vanished.
"Tch."
Izuna turned just in time to see the two Senju brothers charging toward Nagato's position below.
"Wood Style: Wood Dragon Jutsu!"
Riding atop the colossal wooden dragon, the brothers soared into the sky.
"Water Style: Water Severing Wave!"
Tobirama unleashed his most destructive water-based technique.
"Too late."
Izuna watched the scene unfold with amusement.
At that moment, Nagato's voice echoed across the desolate battlefield.
"Infinite Tsukuyomi!!!"
In the next instant, a blinding white light erupted from the blood-red moon, flooding the earth.
Night turned to day in an instant.
Meanwhile, Nagato deftly maneuvered through the air, swiftly putting distance between himself and the Senju brothers.
"You'd better focus on figuring out how to wake everyone from this genjutsu, First Hokage… Second Hokage." His voice carried mockingly from afar.
Hashirama and Tobirama turned—and their expressions darkened immediately.
"Move!"
Hashirama urged the wooden dragon toward the Allied Shinobi Forces. Everywhere they looked, people stood motionless, bathed in the eerie glow, their eyes transformed into the unmistakable pattern of the Rinnegan.
Tobirama was the first to leap down, placing a hand on the shoulder of a Konoha shinobi.
"Is this the ultimate genjutsu?" He shook his head at Hashirama. "It can't be dispelled."
"Let me try."
Hashirama channeled green chakra into his right hand and pressed it against the shinobi's forehead.
"No good."
He withdrew his hand and looked up at Madara, who had been silently observing from above.
"Madara!"
"What is it?"
This time, Madara obliged, descending to stand beside him.
"You must know something, Madara," Hashirama said urgently. "How do we save everyone?"
Madara only chuckled. "Still so naïve, Hashirama."
"Madara!!" Hashirama's voice hardened.
"Want to fight me, Hashirama?"
Madara grinned, a surge of battle intent radiating from him.
"That's not what I meant!"
Hashirama deflated.
"Hmph."
Madara withdrew his killing intent.
"Brother!" Tobirama's voice was icy. "This is undoubtedly an Uchiha plot!"
"Tobirama…" Hashirama sighed. "Must you always assume the worst?"
"Have you not noticed?" Tobirama's brow furrowed. "Uchiha Izuna, Uchiha Kaito, and the others have all vanished!"
"Huh?"
Hashirama quickly scanned the battlefield, but the sheer number of people made it impossible to spot anyone specific.
"No need to look!" Tobirama snapped. "Tsunade, that Jiraiya boy, and the other Kage are missing too!"
"Maybe they hid to avoid the Infinite Tsukuyomi?"
Hashirama glanced up at the relentless white light pouring from the moon.
"Hiding is pointless."
Nagato's voice cut through the air.
He had reappeared above them, hovering effortlessly.
"What do you mean?" Hashirama narrowed his eyes.
"The light of the Infinite Tsukuyomi penetrates everything. No shelter can block it." Nagato spoke with absolute confidence. "As of now, aside from you few, the entire world has been drawn into the ultimate genjutsu."
"Oh?" Hashirama rubbed his chin. "Madara is immune due to his Rinnegan, but why are Tobirama and I unaffected?"
Nagato smirked. "Madara's Rinnegan has nothing to do with it. My eyes have surpassed his!"
He pointed to the crimson Rinnegan with nine tomoe etched on his forehead.
"As for you two—you're nothing more than reanimated corpses, your souls trapped within artificial vessels. You lack the physical organs necessary to fall under the genjutsu's influence."
"So the Infinite Tsukuyomi doesn't target the soul directly?" Tobirama deduced.
"Shunshin!"
In a flash, he appeared behind Nagato, thrusting a kunai toward his neck.
"Pathetic."
Without turning, Nagato summoned a black Truth-Seeking Ball, slamming it into Tobirama's chest.
"Flying Thunder God: Second Step!"
Tobirama teleported above Nagato, striking downward.
"If I kill you, the Infinite Tsukuyomi ends, doesn't it?!"
Nagato's left hand shot up, a black rod materializing in his palm and piercing toward Tobirama's face.
"Tobirama!"
At the last second, Hashirama's wooden tendrils yanked Tobirama back—but not before the rod impaled his shoulder.
Instantly, his right arm crumbled into grey fragments.
"Just like Sarutobi… it won't regenerate."
Tobirama stared at his ruined shoulder, recalling the Third Hokage's fate.
"Hmph." Nagato sneered, twirling the black rod. "This means that part of your soul has been destroyed."
"Sarutobi…"
For the first time, Tobirama's composed expression cracked.
"Ah…" Nagato relished the moment. "The Third Hokage, Sarutobi Hiruzen, did not return to the Pure Land as you assumed."
He watched Tobirama's face darken before continuing leisurely, "Since his head was obliterated by a Truth-Seeking Ball, he may have already been annihilated entirely. A fitting end for the man who invented a jutsu that defiles the souls of the dead."
"You—!"
Tobirama's rage erupted like never before.
"Tobirama!" Hashirama gripped his shoulder, restraining him. "I warned you about that technique…"
"Brother!!"
Tobirama whirled on him.
"I just never thought death wouldn't be the end," Hashirama murmured, his expression somber. "Sarutobi merely reached the final destination before us."
"The First Hokage is correct. Death was never the end."
A new voice cut in—unexpected and calm.
The group turned to see Uchiha Kaito step forward, as if emerging from an invisible barrier.
"This is…"
Nagato's gaze locked onto the space behind him.
"Noticed it, have you?"
Kaito smiled as a sealed barrier materialized behind him.
Inside stood the Five Kage, Naruto, Sasuke, and the others—all who had vanished from the battlefield earlier.
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