Pain and Konan stood on the tree trunk, choosing not to join forces with Uchiha Obito in the fight.
By this time, Yagura had already caught up to them.
"Water Style: Water Dragon Bomb Technique!" Yagura shouted.
He used the water mist in the air to condense into a water dragon and sent it flying toward Uchiha Obito.
"Fire Style: Great Fireball Technique!"
After forming the hand seals, Obito gathered chakra in his throat and spat out a huge fireball from his mouth.
The fireball collided with the water dragon, causing an explosion that sent water in all directions. Tiny water droplets fell from the sky like rain.
Yagura used the Body Flicker Technique to appear behind Obito and swung the hooked staff in his hand toward the Uchiha.
Obito activated his Kamui, allowing Yagura to pass right through his hollow body.
After Yagura moved through him, Obito materialized again and swung the sickle in his hand toward Yagura's back.
Yagura reacted immediately, turning around to face Obito head-on while forming hand seals.
"Water Style: Water Bullet!"
Yagura fired numerous water bombs at Obito, forcing him to use Kamui again to dodge. Because of the Kamui, the sickle in Obito's hand also passed through Yagura's body without causing any damage.
Yagura jumped back to create distance between himself and Obito.
"I see," Yagura said solemnly. "When you use that phasing ability, your attacks also pass through your targets."
Obito looked at Yagura with mocking eyes and began forming hand seals.
"Fire Style: Explosive Wind Dance!"
Obito combined Kamui with his Fire Style jutsu. First, he used Kamui to distort the surrounding space and create a swirling storm. Then, he used Fire Style to spit out a spinning fire snake from his mouth. The combination of the swirling storm and the spinning fire snake formed huge rotating flames that rushed toward Yagura.
"Water Style: Water Wall!"
Yagura channeled water-natured chakra into the ground, creating a vertical wall of water that rose from bottom to top.
When the water wall made contact with the flames, bursts of water vapor rose into the air. Yagura felt nervous as his Water Wall showed signs of collapsing under Obito's powerful technique.
Yagura quickly formed more hand seals.
"Water Style: Water Formation Pillar!"
He gathered chakra in his throat and produced a massive water ball from his mouth. When it landed, the water spread in all directions, finally extinguishing Obito's Explosive Wind Dance.
However, Obito had already swung his sickle at him.
Yagura swung his staff to block Obito's attack, but the sickle passed through both Yagura and Obito himself.
Learning from past experience, Yagura thought Obito would materialize behind him after passing through. So he immediately turned around, forming a one-handed seal while swinging the hooked end of his staff toward where he expected Obito to appear.
Yagura guessed correctly—Obito did materialize after passing through him and tried to attack from behind.
But there was something Yagura didn't anticipate. There was a chain attached to Obito's sickle. Yagura had been so focused on Obito himself that he didn't notice the chain was still behind him.
Caught off guard, Yagura found the chain wrapped around his neck.
Obito pulled the sickle hard, and Yagura fell to the ground. Then Obito turned around, pressing his right knee heavily onto Yagura's back, and placed the sickle against Yagura's throat.
"The outcome is decided, Fourth Mizukage! Be my puppet obediently!" Obito demanded.
"Isn't it too early to decide the outcome?" Yagura replied coldly.
In the next second, Obito suddenly activated his Kamui again.
Because Obito phased, Yagura successfully escaped from the chain's grip.
The reason Obito had suddenly used Kamui was that Yagura had tapped into the Three-Tails' chakra. A thorny tail had appeared behind Yagura, swinging at Obito and forcing him to phase to avoid being hit.
Yagura continued forming one-handed seals.
"Water Style: Water Mirror Technique!"
Yagura created a mirror made of water, and from it emerged an exact copy of Uchiha Obito.
The Obito copy used the Great Fireball Technique on the real Obito and rushed toward him.
Obito first used Kamui to dodge the fireball, then used it again to suck the copy directly into his time-space dimension.
Seeing this, Yagura was momentarily stunned.
He hadn't expected Obito to deal with the copy so easily. It seemed the copy couldn't use the phasing ability. Was it a bloodline limit?
Yagura had been observing Obito's Mangekyō Sharingan and now determined that the phasing ability came from those special eyes.
Yagura couldn't counter Obito's Kamui, and there were two other ninjas who appeared equally powerful but hadn't joined the fight yet.
In this situation...
Yagura used the Water Mirror Technique again, this time to create a copy of Pain.
Yagura's Water Mirror Technique hadn't been mastered to the level of the Third Mizukage's, and he could only create one copy at a time.
He was at a disadvantage in a three-on-one situation, but if one more fighter could help him, plus his own tailed beast transformation, then he might have a chance.
However, as soon as the copy appeared, Pain used his Shinra Tensei, employing his repulsion power to blast the copy into droplets of water.
Yagura frowned. Was this repulsion ability also a bloodline limit?
Who were these people?
In disbelief, Yagura used the Water Mirror Technique once more, this time copying Konan to create a duplicate.
Konan, interested in seeing Yagura create her copy, descended to the ground.
She extended her hand toward her duplicate.
"Paper Dance!"
Konan's entire right arm transformed into paper-like fragments.
She controlled these fragments to form a spear and threw it at her copy.
The copy also used Paper Dance, forming a spear and throwing it back.
The two spears collided with each other, breaking into countless pieces of paper that scattered in the air.
With surprise in her eyes, Konan used Paper Dance again to transform into a pair of wings. She flapped these wings and flew into the air.
The copy also transformed into paper wings, flew up, and faced Konan.
Konan flapped her wings vigorously, sending numerous paper pieces toward the copy. These paper pieces were infused with chakra, making them hard and extremely sharp.
The copy used the same moves as Konan.
Countless paper fragments flew and collided with each other in midair.
Just when Yagura thought this copy might help him fight, Konan suddenly shouted "Explode!"
A violent explosion erupted in the air, leaving Yagura stunned.
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