Chapter 236: Third Raikage, Have You Betrayed Us?
"That jutsu! The rotation! The compression! The containment!"
Killer B's eyes widened in shock as he watched A get sent flying by the Yellow Flash. "It's exactly like a Tailed Beast Bomb! Bakayarō! Konoyarō—yo! Big bro!"
Seeing that the Yellow Flash didn't immediately follow up, B flared his Tailed Beast chakra, wrapping himself in a dark red cloak to drastically boost his own abilities. In an instant, he had leaped to his brother's side, using an octopus tentacle to shield him.
A's clothes around his abdomen had been completely blown apart, and the skin beneath was a mangled, bloody mess. "I—" A tried to speak, but coughed heavily, blood trickling from the corner of his mouth. "Cough! I'm fine!"
Lightning chakra swirled around his body, activating his cells and rushing to the wound. Under the massive infusion of chakra, a light steam began to rise from the injury as the flesh and blood began to knit itself back together.
"Big bro!" B exclaimed, thrilled at his brother's rapid recovery.
On the other side, Minato's brow furrowed. The Rasengan had performed perfectly, but A's defense was simply too strong for the base version to break through completely. If his target had been anyone else... no, not B, he also had a Tailed Beast cloak... but if it had been any other ninja, that one hit would have been enough to take them out of the fight.
'It seems if I want to deal with the AB Combo, I have to keep researching the Rasengan's nature transformations... a Wind Style Gale Rasengan...'* He tightened his grip on his kunai. 'I've already left a marker on A, hidden on his wound, but with B guarding him... now is not the best time to reveal it. I need to keep looking for an opportunity to finish him!'
Though he respected them as rivals, Minato would show no mercy. Mercy to the enemy was cruelty to the village.
"Big bro!" B stood protectively in front of A, his eyes fixed on the Yellow Flash. "That jutsu! It was just like a Tailed Beast Bomb! And the Shadow of Darkness's black meteor! That was like one too! Be careful!"
"You don't have to tell me!" A snarled, completely unaware of the new mark on his body. "Yellow Flash, I never thought you'd develop a new jutsu like that!"
"Just a fortunate coincidence," Minato replied, his blue eyes calm. "A, Killer B. Though we are enemies, I will not hold back."
"As if you could kill me anytime you wanted!" A shouted, trying to bolster his own courage. "My brother and I are invincible!"
Lightning Release Chakra Mode!
Wrapped in lightning, A's golden hair stood on end, and the wild aura of a savage beast erupted from him. "This is my big bro's strongest state!" B shouted, his own body now covered in the red chakra cloak. "So I'm going into Tailed Beast Mode too! Bakayarō!"
Though it was two against one, Minato's expression didn't change. He held his kunai at the ready and waited. As expected, A, in his "strongest state," charged. Minato's eyes narrowed, catching a glimpse of B moving at the same time, and his figure vanished.
A, seeing him dodge again, grit his teeth and immediately searched for his "landing spot." 'It has to be near one of the kunai!'
B, who was slightly behind, was the first to spot him. In the distance, Minato stood in a field of his scattered kunai, the moonlight glinting off his golden hair. "Big bro! Over here!" B yelled, charging him. "Let me handle this!"
While the battle between the Yellow Flash and the AB Combo raged, on the other side of the field, the fight between Nara Keisuke and "Nara-Raikage" was gradually moving farther and farther away. Luring the Shadow of Darkness to the designated area—this was the second part of the plan.
"Nara-Raikage" changed his fighting style, no longer going for big, sweeping blows, but using his heavy blade to continuously entangle his opponent. One after another, the Cloud-Style sword techniques flowed from his hands, his movements going from clumsy to smooth, to a state of perfect, flowing grace. But without his Lightning Armor, his attacks lacked their usual violent power. He fought as he retreated, "accidentally" leading Keisuke into the pre-arranged trap.
When they arrived, he didn't hesitate. He activated his Lightning Release Chakra Mode, raised his black-lightning-wreathed blade high, and brought it down in a "Righteous Lightning Blade" cleave.
Keisuke, pretending not to notice the abnormality, raised his Gunbai to block.
CLANG—
The impact drove Keisuke's feet deep into the earth, and the ground beneath them shattered, plunging them both into a dark pit.
At that moment, the ambushers acted.
"Lava Release: Lime Congealing Technique!"
A deep voice echoed from the shadows, and a torrent of grey, cement-like liquid poured over the opening of the pit, instantly sealing it with a thick layer of concrete.
"Is this the trap you prepared?" Keisuke's voice echoed in the absolute darkness. He held his Gunbai, his Lacquer Eye already active, taking in the scene. It was a vast, underground cavern, filled with stalactites and the sound of rushing water.
The masked man had chosen this place well. And he had arranged for two ninja to lie in wait.
"Lava Release: Flowing Rock Technique!"
"Water Release: Water Gun Technique!"
The limestone walls of the cavern turned to liquid and rushed toward him, while from the underground river, a figure emerged, his body merged with the water, firing a barrage of water bullets from his fingertips.
"A Lava Release ninja from Iwa, and a Hozuki from Kiri," Keisuke identified them, using his Gunbai to block the water bullets as he floated in the air, avoiding the river of lime. "Is there anyone else?"
The two ambushers, Hōzuki Mangetsu and Ishikawa, stared in shock.
"Why can you still fly?!" Mangetsu, the head of Kiri's Anbu, exclaimed. "You shouldn't be able to use your shadow jutsu in here!"
"He must have some other way," the Iwa Lava Corps captain, Ishikawa, said calmly. "Do not be careless. He is the Shadow of Darkness."
"The Third Mizukage and Third Tsuchikage sent you two?" "Nara-Raikage" said, walking to stand between them. "I was expecting something more..."
"Third—" Mangetsu was about to speak, but then he saw the Raikage walk past Ishikawa and dip his hand into the underground river. A terrible premonition bloomed in his heart.
"Third Rai—"
Lightning Release: Black Lightning!
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