Author's Note: I ended up extending this world far more than I realized. I will try to do a mega release by the end of the month with the remaining chapters of this arc (There are quite a few, the whole world is around 60 chapters).
I am not doing this only because it took me so long, but also for two other important reasons.
Number 1: Literally 60 chapters is the length I had originally planned for a high level world that the protagonist will visit in the future, whose plot will be precisely about too much time passing and the protagonist starting to go a little crazy, the kind of things that happen to immortals. To share that feeling with the readers, I plan for that world to be long, so you can feel it that way as well. Because of that, I cannot make the long world where so much time passes that the protagonist starts going a little crazy last the same as another previous world.
Number 2: Literally, as soon as the protagonist returns from this world, he starts getting much more involved with the main plot. If everyone leaves before that, I would feel bad.
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The answer to Kaito's question came quickly in the form of an attack.
Onoki and Roshi jumped off the building immediately, falling several floors until they reached the ground without being injured.
While he was falling, a semi transparent white cube shot out from Onoki's hands, expanding until it covered most of the building.
When the cube disappeared moments later, everything inside it had gone with it, there was no explosion or exaggerated effect, everything simply vanished without making a sound.
Onoki landed on the ground and breathed heavily, not because of the fall, but because of the enormous amount of chakra used to activate Dust Release, his greatest weapon.
"It wor..." Onoki could not finish the sentence when he felt a horrible premonition. He immediately tried to raise his arms to protect himself, but before he could, he received a direct punch to the stomach that sent him flying while spitting blood.
He was launched several meters in less than a second, but before crashing into anything, he felt as if a meteor had fallen on top of him, feeling completely powerless before the threat. Kaito descended from the sky right above him with a kick that smashed him into the ground, opening a huge crater beneath him and immobilizing him without any chance to move.
Onoki tried to get up again, but Kaito's leg on his chest felt as if thousands of tons were crushing him.
"Lord Tsuchikage!" At that moment, hundreds of ninjas appeared around them, and all of them threw kunai and various ninjutsu at Kaito at the same time.
Kaito used a shield to protect himself, but it was not necessary.
CLANK!
CLANK!
The sound echoed around him as Sakumo blocked or deflected every single attack with his sword, even the ninjutsu.
Before they could react, Sakumo moved, attacking the closest man and opening a cut on his chest.
"Arghh"
Blood gushed from the wound and did not fall immediately.
"The White Fang of Konoha! What is he do... arghhh!" This time, the ninja who spoke was pierced completely by the sword and fell to the ground.
"I no longer belong to Konoha," Sakumo said coldly as he pulled his sword out of the body and moved toward the next target.
Meanwhile, Onoki, under Kaito's foot, kept trying to break free by force without success. He pretended to throw a desperate punch in resignation, but in reality, the moment he touched Kaito, he used his weight manipulation technique to make him extremely light, and before Kaito could react, he slipped out from under him and threw him into the air.
Onoki smiled, thinking that now, in the air and unable to control himself, he would be an easy target no matter how strong he was, but his eyes widened when Kaito unfolded black and red wings from his back and stopped masterfully in midair.
"Nice try," was all Kaito said before moving in his direction.
Onoki defended himself by controlling a massive amount of earth and creating huge walls that separated them. Although he knew they would not stop Kaito, he planned to use them as a distraction to retreat. Every second it would take Kaito to break through each wall by force, added together, would be valuable.
However, Kaito did not break through the walls by force. He did it by vibrating, so they did not affect his speed at all, and he extended a hand toward Onoki on the ground.
This time, Onoki managed to guard himself, since Kaito was flying more slowly than he could run, but to his surprise, Kaito's hand, just like with the walls, passed completely through both of his arms, becoming tangible only one millimeter before touching his chest.
Because of that, he was not only thrown several meters by the impact and felt intense pain in his chest as if he had not defended himself at all, but he also felt the pain of his arms being pierced, leaving them completely useless.
"Arghhh!"
Even the veteran Onoki roared in pain as he felt both arms being destroyed from the inside.
Onoki stopped his own movement by creating a wall behind him, which he crashed into.
"You can use ninjutsu without hand seals, so this will not affect you too much, however, it should calm you down for a while" Kaito said as he appeared in front of him and grabbed him again, this time by the neck, lifting him into the air.
Onoki tried to resist, trying to hit Kaito or alter his weight, but Kaito ignored him and tightened his grip until he finally passed out.
"Finally" Kaito sighed. "Not killing is really hard" he said, and let go of his body indifferently.
Onoki's lifeless body fell from hundreds of meters in the air and crashed into the ground without reacting.
As the Tsuchikage and with his strength, it was clear that he would survive and that he had not suffered serious injuries, but the ninjas who were trying to approach unsuccessfully, stopped by Sakumo, did not think so.
They only saw their leader being beaten to death by a stranger in less than three minutes.
"Lord Tsuchikage!"
"Damn it!"
"I'll get through even if it costs me my life!"
They all roared in anger and charged without thinking, which made the fight even easier for an experienced swordsman like Sakumo.
While that battle continued, another one was unfolding nearby.
Roshi used an explosion to distract Kushina before appearing behind her and attacking her with Lava Release, but Kushina dodged quickly and counterattacked with water magic.
At first, Roshi defended himself easily, but as Kushina kept launching strange attacks, he began to retreat slowly.
Confident, Kushina conjured a huge sharp sword of water and slashed diagonally downward.
But when the sword was about to hit…
TSSSSS
The sound of water evaporating rapidly echoed through the night.
Kushina watched Roshi carefully.
What had once been just a powerful old man now felt much more dangerous, wrapped in an orange cloak of extremely dense and, above all, very hot chakra.
Even from a distance, Kushina could feel the heat emanating from his body.
Roshi moved. He was not especially fast, but it felt as if a massive boiling rock was advancing, and his steps left melted marks on the ground.
Kushina protected herself by creating a water shield, but Roshi destroyed it with a single blow, hitting her with the same strike and pushing her several meters back.
"To think that a young girl would force me to use this mode. It seems I'm getting old" Roshi muttered before attacking again.
This time, his punch not only hit, it exploded on contact, scattering lava.
"Oww, oww, oww" Kushina complained as she felt the lava burning her.
"Focus, this is a fight, not a game" Roshi's voice sounded as he appeared right behind her.
Kushina turned around and delivered a kick, however, Roshi grabbed her leg, burning her on contact.
Then he opened his mouth and spat out a huge blazing fireball.
"This doesn't even have anything to do with the tailed beast" Kushina complained as she dodged.
She did not move too far, and a blow from behind sent her flying forward, making her spit blood.
"At first I thought you weren't serious because you weren't giving it your all… but now I see you're not hiding anything, this is all your strength, then…"
Roshi formed several lava spheres the size of a ball, similar to a Rasengan, and threw them at Kushina.
Although Kushina dodged most of them, they exploded on contact with anything, so the grazing hits from some and the explosions from others caused cumulative damage.
Kushina kept taking hits without being able to defend herself for several seconds, until she vanished from the spot and reappeared at a distance.
She leaned weakly against a tree and breathed heavily.
"Huff, huff… even if Kaito can revive me, this hurts… why didn't he add a pain reduction skill?" she muttered.
At that moment, an attack pierced through the tree, burning it completely, and hit her again.
"So that's it. Kaito, you said. He must be the man in the suit, so he can resurrect you. Is that why you don't take the battlefield seriously? Because you can't die? That's disrespectful, not only to yourself, but to those you fight."
Roshi conjured tiny lava bullets, smaller but faster versions of the previously summoned spheres, and fired them at Kushina. She dodged all of them, but just as she finished, a fireball launched from her blind spot almost hit her directly, if not for her teleporting away.
However, at that moment, she felt the environment change. Large, thick walls surrounded the entire area.
"You can only teleport a few meters, right? You have nowhere to run."
Kushina, who could sense her destination points, understood that he was telling the truth. The walls were thick enough to trap her inside if she tried to escape.
With no other option, she could only attack again despite the low chances of success.
Roshi approached with a powerful blow, unfazed by her attacks, and although Kushina tried to defend herself, she was pushed back.
"It seems like nothing I do works," she muttered.
Seeing that attacking was useless, she concentrated wind magic on her feet and began dodging again and again, trying to wear Roshi down.
"Stop running, girl!"
"Stop trying to kill me and maybe I will!" Kushina replied from a tree, just before jumping away and watching it get destroyed by a lava explosion.
After several minutes, Roshi finally got tired due to the characteristics of the Four Tails Beast and rested for a moment.
He felt an attack from behind and moved to dodge it, however, after the current battle, he was confident enough not to take it seriously.
A big mistake. When he turned around, he saw Kushina with a rainbow sphere spinning in her hand, which hit him head on.
The impact injured both of them, sending them flying backward with a huge explosion.
"Was that… my attack?" Roshi murmured, noticing the similarity between Kushina's attack and his own.
"It seems I got it right" Kushina said excitedly, and created another one of those spheres, however, this time she did not hold it in her hands, instead, she threw it at Roshi confidently.
Although Roshi jumped to dodge it, the huge explosion caused by Kushina's attack still managed to hit him, reversing the previous situation.
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