Uchiha Itachi had originally thought that Sasuke wouldn't be able to awaken the Mangekyo in Konoha, which was why he wanted Aoba to bring him here.
According to his original plan, next he would use Tsukuyomi to continuously stimulate Sasuke's emotions, help him open the Mangekyo, and then shoulder all the sins and die, giving him the final gift he had prepared.
But now...
'Why did Sasuke already awaken the Mangekyo?'
"Sasuke, did something happen to Mother?", Uchiha Itachi's expression suddenly became serious. This was the only thing he could think of that would make Sasuke open his eyes.
Hearing him suddenly mention their mother, Sasuke, who had been eager to fight and was already about to make a move, could not help but freeze for a moment, then said coldly, "You bastard who killed Father, you actually care about Mother too?"
"..."
Uchiha Itachi fell silent for a moment.
"Mother is doing very well now. Very well. She's not only the head of the Uchiha clan, but also the Hokage's secretary, and in the future she'll even become a minister of the Land of Fire," After a brief moment of thought, Sasuke still told him about Uchiha Mikoto's current situation.
After hearing this, Uchiha Itachi let out a sigh of relief, but the doubt in his heart did not lessen in the slightest. He really wanted to know how Sasuke's Mangekyo Sharingan had been awakened.
It couldn't possibly be something as ridiculous as the first time he awakened the Sharingan, being tricked by Naruto's cross-dressing or something like that.
But Sasuke wasn't finished speaking. After a brief pause, he continued, "And Mother has also found new happiness now. I believe it won't be long before she has another child. Someone like you should just disappear from Mother's world forever!"
"What?"
Uchiha Itachi's expression changed drastically, and he blurted out instinctively, "Who is it?"
"Hmph!"
The only response he got was Sasuke's cold snort. Immediately after, gloomy chakra gathered around Sasuke.
Skeleton, muscles, armor… Susanoo!
Sasuke had no intention of testing the waters. He directly used the strongest method he currently possessed, Susanoo.
Standing atop Susanoo's head, Sasuke looked down at him and said in an extremely indifferent tone, "Uchiha Itachi, enough talk. Today, you'll die beneath my Mangekyo Sharingan."
Uchiha Itachi: "..."
There was something he didn't know whether he should say or not.
Letting out a slight sigh, Uchiha Itachi looked up at Sasuke standing within Susanoo.
Although Sasuke's tone and expression were ice-cold, he somehow felt that there was a deep, malicious sense of humor hidden in his gaze.
Only saying half of it, there was a very high chance it was deliberate.
The same skeletal structure began to appear around his own body.
But in his heart, he had already faintly formed a guess.
———
"That is… Susanoo?"
Hidden in the shadows, Uchiha Hikaru, who had been watching the battlefield in Kumogakure, instantly sensed the chakra fluctuations of Susanoo.
Her gaze was immediately drawn over.
Right after that, three tomoe appeared, hatred brewing within them.
"Uchiha…"
"Lady Hikaru, please calm down!"
Black Zetsu hurriedly advised, "I'll first have White Zetsu go gather some information!"
Uchiha Madara also looked in the direction of the two Susanoo and showed a hint of interest.
Very soon, White Zetsu emerged from beneath their feet and began reporting what he saw from afar.
"It's Uchiha Itachi and Uchiha Sasuke."
"Uchiha Sasuke?"
Black Zetsu cried out in surprise and looked at Uchiha Madara, "Lord Madara, it seems Aoba really has arrived. Do we need to go confirm his position first?"
"No need. He's already made his move."
Uchiha Madara replied in a voice that was clearly a little strange.
At this moment, he was staring fixedly at the battlefield inside Kumogakure.
Uchiha Hikaru was also looking in that direction with surprise.
There, a gigantic wooden statue was appearing at an extremely rapid speed.
'This chakra, and this Wood Release.'
'Setting aside Sage Mode, this guy really is someone not inferior to Senju Hashirama.'
Uchiha Madara sighed inwardly.
But in the end, he was just a mortal born in an era without Hashirama and himself. Once he truly revived, everything would return to the plan he had already set.
———
"Aoba?"
When the Fourth Raikage saw the gigantic wooden statue that suddenly appeared in the center of the battlefield, he froze for a moment. But upon seeing the figure standing atop the wooden statue, looking down at them with indifferent eyes, he immediately came back to his senses.
His eyes instantly burned with fury.
"Bastard! Konoha and the Akatsuki really are working together!"
His suspicion was not unfounded.
Because on the other side, the Six Paths of Pain had completely stopped moving the moment Aoba appeared.
Konan had already found Nagato's location.
Aoba ignored his shouting, "Fourth Raikage, if you don't want Kumogakure to be completely destroyed, surrendering is your only option right now."
"Heh, that depends on whether you actually have that kind of strength! As the Hokage, you dare come alone into Kumogakure? Then stay here forever!"
Back then, Iwagakure could pile ten thousand ninja on the Third Raikage until he died. Their Kumogakure could pile even more ninja onto Aoba.
The Fourth Raikage glanced around again. The civilians had already been evacuated for the most part…
"Bee, use a Tailed Beast Bomb directly!"
Kumogakure was not like Konoha, which was built on a wide plain. It was a village formed by linking one mountain peak after another with iron cables.
So as long as the civilians on the surrounding peaks had mostly evacuated, the fighting here wouldn't affect the outer areas.
And with that massive wooden statue of his, there was no way he could dodge a Tailed Beast Bomb.
"Leave it to me, bro!"
After receiving the Fourth Raikage's order, Killer Bee's massive ox head opened its mouth wide.
Pitch-black chakra rapidly condensed into a sphere within the Eight-Tails' mouth.
"Bastard Aoba, was it you who captured all my disciples?"
Even while charging the Tailed Beast Bomb, it didn't affect his talking at all.
"You should thank your disciple, because she pleaded for you to be given a slim chance at life."
Aoba looked at him indifferently. The gigantic wooden statue also raised its hand and slapped toward the Eight-Tails.
"You bastard!"
The black Tailed Beast Bomb quickly finished charging and shot out of the Eight-Tails' mouth toward Aoba's wooden statue.
The wooden statue didn't dodge at all. Instead, a wooden dragon suddenly extended out, opened its mouth wide, and swallowed the Tailed Beast Bomb in one bite.
"What?"
The Fourth Raikage and Killer Bee were both shocked. That was a Tailed Beast Bomb, and it just got eaten?
But what terrified them even more came next.
On the hand of the wooden statue that was slapping toward them, a Tailed Beast Bomb suddenly appeared out of thin air and smashed straight toward the Eight-Tails' face.
"How is that possible?"
Killer Bee's voice rang out in disbelief from within the Eight-Tails. At this distance, there was no time left to dodge or block.
BOOM!
A terrifying explosion erupted with flames and clouds shooting hundreds of meters into the sky, blazing light soaring upward.
The horrifying shockwave was like the heavens collapsing and the earth shattering, threatening to destroy everything.
The ground shook violently. After the terrifying impact swept through, even the Kumogakure ninja who had only been watching from afar were blown away.
Making the Fourth Raikage's earlier idea of piling Aoba to death with numbers look utterly ridiculous.
As for the Fourth Raikage standing on the Eight-Tails' head, even though he had fully activated Lightning Release Chakra Mode to defend, he was still blasted away by the explosion.
Large patches of flesh tore open, blood spraying everywhere.
They never imagined there could be a way to reflect back a Tailed Beast Bomb released by a tailed beast.
Only Uchiha Madara, watching from afar, felt a strange sense of familiarity when he saw this scene.
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