At this moment, Madara felt that extremely familiar gravitational force again—and his blood pressure spiked.
The pull and push of Yin-Yang release—yet the technique left to him by his younger brother, Izuna, had just been copied by someone else so easily!
A strange pain struck his chest. It was like watching someone he loved be taken away by another.
Pain.
It hurt so much.
Uchiha Hikaru continued to increase the gravitational force, pouring more and more chakra into his Rinnegan.
Madara had no choice but to resist with equal force.
"You damn brat!"
"Shinra tensai!"
The gravity and repulsion between their two Complete Body Susanoos clashed fiercely—forming a dense black sphere in the sky. A violent gravity radiated outward in all directions, pulling everything toward it indiscriminately.
Simultaneously, the counter-force launched the black orb higher into the air.
Seeing this, both Madara and Uchiha Hikaru distanced themselves.
Ninjas on the battlefield were caught in the gravitational tide, helplessly floating toward the black void above.
"Help! What's going on?!"
"I—I'm afraid of heights! Somebody save me!"
Konan immediately withdrew from the frontline and put distance between herself and the sphere, silently thanking her caution.
If she'd been any closer, she might have been pulled in too.
She recognized this technique instantly.
Chibaku Tensei.
Nagato had used it before—but this one was on an entirely different level.
The sheer power of this Chibaku Tensei dwarfed Nagato's.
Uchiha Hikaru noticed several shinobi being pulled skyward. He quickly channeled chakra into his Susanoo's left hand, forming three Yasaka Magatama, and hurled them toward the Chibaku Tensei above.
Madara mirrored his movements—three glowing blue Yasaka Magatama launched into the sky.
But unlike Hikaru, Madara wasn't trying to save the ninja—or the White Zetsu and reanimated shinobi army.
He was trying to save himself.
He knew all too well: when Yin and Yang were used simultaneously, the resulting sealing force could trap even a tailed beast.
And he, still bound by the Impure World Reincarnation, was vulnerable to that level of sealing.
If he got pulled in now, it could mean permanent entrapment.
The magatama—three black, three blue—collided mid-air with a deafening boom.
A blinding explosion shattered tens of thousands of tons of rock. Massive debris rained from the sky, and jagged stone spikes tore through the battlefield.
Tsunade gritted her teeth and squeezed out more chakra, summoning additional Katsuyu clones to tend to the wounded.
Thankfully, the indiscriminate destruction also struck down scores of White Zetsu and incapacitated many of the reanimated shinobi.
The sealing squad didn't hesitate. They charged forward with massive scrolls, rapidly binding the weakened enemies one by one.
Madara sneered.
"You're wasting chakra trying to save those worms. You'll never win this war."
"The reanimated army has unlimited chakra and can't die."
"Give up, join my Eye of the Moon Plan, and I might still let you live."
Uchiha Hikaru looked at him strangely.
"What do you take me for? Stupid?"
"I know Impure World Reincarnation is vulnerable to sealing. I don't need to 'kill' you—just tear your body apart and seal the pieces."
"And as for chakra? Don't worry. I've got a portable chakra pack."
Madara frowned.
Portable... chakra pack?
Wait.
Did this brat make a summoning contract with a tailed beast?
Suddenly, Madara felt something wrong—his chakra was being sucked out of him!
"You bastard! You're extracting my chakra?!"
In that instant, he understood: he was the chakra battery Hikaru had referred to.
Hikaru's body thrummed with energy, his chakra rapidly replenishing. A blissful shiver ran through him.
"Oooh... Madara, your chakra flows so smoothly~"
"Sealing Technique: Absorbing Seal!"
Madara, furious, activated his own ocular power to reabsorb the chakra being pulled from him.
The battle between push and pull had ended.
Now began a strange war of absorption.
"Sword... help me."
The name hung in the air—softly spoken, but it pierced through Madara's dead heart like lightning.
Sword?
Again, that name?
Madara's heart had stopped beating long ago, but hearing it again made something in his chest twitch.
Could it be... that strange spirit weapon?
"You always know how to cause trouble," the female voice said, sultry and teasing. "Now it's my turn. You're going to spend the whole day with me~ It's going to be sooo hard~"
A voice both flirty and dark rang out.
A swirling mass of black smoke emerged from within the six crystal nodes of Hikaru's Susanoo. It gathered beside him, then condensed into the form of a beautiful woman in a sheer black dress.
"...A spiritual weapon that takes human form?"
Even Madara, for all his knowledge, was startled.
He had never seen a Mangekyō technique manifest like this. This was beyond standard jutsu.
Sword— —placed her hand on Hikaru's shoulder.
The chakra drain intensified.
Madara could feel himself being sucked dry.
But as his chakra flowed out, his reanimated body instinctively absorbed more from the natural world, putting him in a bizarre loop.
Am I... a walking chakra furnace?
Madara's eyes widened with fury.
"You little bastard—how dare you treat me like a tailed beast!"
With a roar, he released his grip on the chakra struggle.
He couldn't win that way.
Fine. If that's how it is...
Then I'll just summon the Nine-Tails!
"Summoning Technique — Kyūbi!"
Suddenly, far across the battlefield, Naruto—engaged in close combat against White Zetsu—doubled over in pain.
His knees hit the ground, and he clutched his stomach.
"Damn... what the hell?! My stomach—!"
"You better not be dying on me now!" Sakura yelled, rushing to support him.
"Tch. Don't fall behind," Sasuke muttered, helping carry Naruto to safety.
Inside Naruto's mind, within the seal, Kurama stirred.
That call...
That bastard Madara again?
But—fortunately—the seal's still strong...
For the first time in Kurama's long existence, being sealed in a Jinchūriki actually felt comforting.
A second passed. .
Back in the sky, Madara's face twisted into a frustrated grimace.
"Damn you, Hashirama... You really sealed the Nine-Tails inside the Jinchūriki after all?"
"No—this stinks of Mito."
"Always pretending to be so pure, that annoying woman... Hashi-chan."
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