In the Forest on the other side of the River Bank.
More than a dozen afterimages flickered and flashed from one position to another under the cold moonlight, and from time to time the source of these after images would collide together, producing the sharp sound of metal clashing as the golden sparks flew around that illuminated the forest for minute intervals and then suddenly dispersed into darkness.
Boom…
Kicking away a Konoha Anbu, Kakuzu hadn't had time to catch his breath when another Anbu rushed towards him.
"Humph!"
Kakuzu snorted in disdain and jumped on the tree.
The slight breeze was blowing, and Kakuzu standing on the canopy of the tree had a cold look, the Akatsuki Cloak he wore swayed in the cold night wind.
Anbu used this opportunity to readjust their formation and formed a siege array, surrounding Kakuzu.
Kakuzu glanced around and confirmed that the number of Anbu besieging him is a total of 16, and he really felt troubled.
Not to say that he was afraid or anything, but this battle is a complete disaster for him, the day was originally supposed to be similar to all and he was just going to exchange the corpse for the bounty. Suddenly encountered two members of Amatsukami, although there were slight murderous intentions, not to the extent that the matter would become so much troublesome.
But unexpectedly Sandaime Hokage and Uchiha Fugaku arrived leading their combat forces, those bastards from Amatsukami revealed such information, and lo and behold, he is in such a situation.
Boom…
At this moment there was a roar from the far side of the river where Sandaime Hokage was fighting Sasori.
Kakuzu and the Anbu all looked over and they see the traces of ice and fire.
Seeing the scene, Kakuzu thought, 'Has Sasori already taken out the Ice Puppet!?'
As the teammate with Sasori for the past few months, Kakuzu also knows that Sasori wouldn't use the Human Puppet so easily, once the human puppet was used, it would mean that the battle will be extremely fierce, and here it doesn't seem unreasonable, given that he is fighting the Hokage.
As for the Konoha Anbu, they were all a little worried.
Seeing the traces of Ice release on the battlefield by the river, they all thought that Suijin with an extraordinary strong Water Release and Ice Release was also there and couldn't help but be worried about Sandaime.
One of the Anbu quickly said, "Solve him and support Hokage-sama as quickly as possible!"
The other Anbu members nodded one after another and launched a flurry of attacks at once.
Kakuzu leaped high avoiding a howling Wind Style Jutsu but before he could land on the ground, he was hit by several Kunai tied with Explosive tags and was drowned in a series of explosions.
Looking at the smoke and dust in the sky, one of the Anbu said, "Did that kill him?"
Another Anbu answered, "I saw him being pierced by a Kunai, I am afraid he shouldn't have any method to avoid the damage at such a short distance, besides the explosive tags should have killed him!"
At this moment when the two Anbu relaxed their vigilance, two arms penetrated through the cover of charred smoke grabbed the throat of the two of them and dragged them inside in the blink of an eye.
"Ahhhhhhhhh...…!!!"
Only the screaming of two people could be heard.
By the time smoke gradually disappeared, everyone found out that the necks of the two Anbu held by Kakuzu were twisted at an impossible angle.
Their bodies were thrown aside as if just a piece of trash, while Kakuzu spoke with a grim tone, "Coming after me was the greatest mistake you all could have ever made!"
Suddenly the piercing sound of the chirping of thousands of birds was heard and in the next moment, an Anbu appeared behind him, arm flashing with lightning immediately pierced through the chest, successfully destroying the heart from behind.
"Cough-cough… it can't be… you snuck behind me!" – coughing a mouthful of blood, Kakuzu turned his head with some difficulty and found out that the person who attacked him was an Anbu with wearing a Dog Mask and silver-white hair swaying in the wind.
Currently, Dog, the only member of Anbu Team-11 was here.
Because of Sandaime's orders, Monkey has returned to the village in search of Eagle and Cat, so he was the only one, of the Team-11 following the other Anbu to chase after the two bounty-nin.
And Kakuzu was highly surprised that he of all people was taken in by the surprise attack from behind, "You are…"
The Dog Anbu didn't bother answering, he just coldly pulled out his right hand that pierced Kakuzu's chest.
As Dog pulled out his hand, Kakuzu's pupil shrank from the pain he felt, a large amount of blood splattered from the hole in his chest, and then he lifelessly fell to the ground.
Thump…
The Konoha Anbu that were scattered around carefully glanced at Kakuzu who lifelessly lied on the ground, seeing no movement from the other party, their eyes turned towards the battlefield by the river no far away.
The chest was completely pierced, in the eyes of all the Konoha Anbu, the bounty-nin who attempted to assassinate Shodaime-sama can obviously not survive such an injury, so everyone believed that Kakuzu who lied on the ground is dead.
Now their attention turned towards the other battlefield, they have to support Sandaime-sama.
Unbeknownst to the Anbu, several masked earth grudge monsters suddenly jumped out of Kakuzu's back, and before either of them could notice, one of the masks, the one with the Lightning Element suddenly spit out lightning that instantly covered the Konoha Anbu.
…
In Suijin's spiritual world under the effect of Taikyokuzu, the Yin-Yang Eternal Prison.
Seeing that the black and white was slowly fading away, Suijin who was trapped inside Uchiha Fugaku's Genjutsu space immediately reacted, and asked the chubby Ryuumyaku Dragon lightly floating in the air, "Hey, how come it took so long to react? Your response was a bit slow, if anything it would have come a bit difficult for me to solve it, and only with Tenseigan, something would have happened, and that would have become a bit troublesome!"
"It took some time to get past the barriers…" – spoke Ryuumyaku in a childish tone.
Kuroto nodded in understanding. It is not difficult for him to understand this because Ryuumyaku has been sealed inside the gourd, although there is a spiritual contract between the two, given the fact that Ryuumyaku is not directly sealed inside his body so getting past the barriers might be a bit difficult, and more time-consuming.
Everything has its own advantages and disadvantages.
If Ryuumyaku was sealed inside his body, then the situation would have been a bit easier but this is also fine, Suijin wasn't much worried.
After all, even the Yondaime Mizukage Karatachi Yagura who was the Jinchuriki of Sanbi, with Kage level strength also fell prey to Genjutsu, so there is no guarantee that such a situation cannot happen.
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The reality, in the forest.
The elites of Uchiha saw that both Suijin and Homusubi were successfully controlled by Patriarch's Genjutsu, and they very overjoyed, after all, Wicked Eye Fugaku is not a joke!
They were only waiting for the signal from the Patriarch, and they would immediately kill both of them.
However, at this time, what none of them expected, both Fugaku and Homusubi fell to the ground at the same time, vomited blood, and gasping for breath.
The Uchiha were shocked and hurriedly helped the Patriarch, and asked, "Fugaku-sama, are you alright?"
Fugaku just shook his head, not bothering to answer, but intently stared at Homusubi who was not much better than him.
Fugaku didn't expect that Homusubi in front of was able to forcefully break free of the semi Genjutsu field.
However, Fugaku also knew that the opposite party must have consumed quite a lot in this process.
Homusubi whose situation was obviously not much better glanced at Suijin and muttered lightly. "I must first help Suijin to break free of the Genjutsu!"
Fugaku naturally understood what the other party was thinking and said coldly, "You can break free, that is something I can accept, but don't expect that a ninja with a mere Ice Release Kekkei Genkai will be able to break free…"
However, Fugaku's words were not completed, and suddenly something unexpected happened.
Out of a sudden Suijin regained his consciousness and instantly vanished from his spot, taking away Homusubi with him.
The process was so fast that others could barely react to it!
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