Eighty Gods Vacuum Attack!!
Kaguya swung her fist, and a flood of chakra transformed into a barrage of fist-shaped shockwaves, each carrying the power to tear through all creation as they stormed toward Kakashi.
Facing her, Kakashi commanded his full-bodied Susanoo, now on the level of the Six Paths, drawing four radiant blue swords and slashing fiercely at the incoming blows.
Boom! Boom! Boom!!!
The massive sword strikes collided with the barrage of chakra fists in midair, creating a deafening roar that shook the entire dimension, as if the world itself were trembling.
Behind him, protected by the Susanoo, Naruto, Sasuke, and Sakura could only stare in awe. They could feel the terrifying power being exchanged before them, compared to the clash between Kaguya and Kakashi, they were nothing more than dust in the wind.
Naruto and Sasuke were undoubtedly gifted shinobi.
Naruto, as the son of the Fourth Hokage, had received elite training and privileges, without the Nine-Tails interfering with his chakra, he'd already reached genin level by age nine. Sasuke was roughly on par with him.
At age ten, Kaede had visited Naruto's home again to check in on the late Fourth Hokage's family. During that visit, he had personally taught Naruto the Rasengan.
By now, both Naruto and Sasuke possessed roughly chūnin-level strength.
But that power was insignificant in the face of techniques like the Eighty Gods Vacuum Attack and a Six Paths-tier Susanoo. They were operating on an entirely different scale, several tiers beyond their current level.
"What… kind of battle is this…"
The three of them were visibly trembling, as if the weight of the clash resonated through their very bones.
Just then,
Kaguya's relentless barrage shattered Kakashi's sword strikes and pressed toward the Susanoo itself.
"Not good!"
Kakashi's expression changed.
The power of the Progenitor of Chakra was just as overwhelming as he had anticipated. Even with a Six Paths-level Susanoo, a direct clash was a losing battle.
"Sensei!!"
Naruto and Sasuke's expressions twisted in panic.
Whoosh!!
As the massive fists rained down, crushing the blue swords in Susanoo's hands, Kakashi took a deep breath, and a wave of power surged from his Rinnegan.
A strange effect rippled outward.
Kaguya's chakra fists suddenly passed through the entire Susanoo without making contact, phasing through it as if it wasn't even there.
This was one of Kakashi's Rinnegan abilities: the ability to extend Kamui's intangibility to everything within a certain range, including his entire Susanoo!
"Wha…"
Naruto and Sasuke were stunned as the massive attacks passed right through them. The fists that had seemed capable of destroying the world left them completely unharmed, as if it had all been an illusion.
And then,
Boom!!
The shockwaves struck the icy mountains behind them, blasting the massive peaks into rubble.
"Whew…"
Kakashi exhaled deeply and focused on Kaguya. "Your power truly is worthy of the title Progenitor of Chakra… but I, too, now have the strength to stand against you!"
As he finished speaking, ocular power surged in his eyes, then both Kakashi and his massive Susanoo disappeared.
Space twisted,
Like a dimensional puzzle, the entire section of space his Susanoo occupied was instantly exchanged with the space behind Kaguya!
"Kamui!!"
Kakashi's full-body Susanoo reappeared behind her. A blade cloaked in swirling black space-energy slashed forward.
Caught off guard by the sudden spatial swap, Kaguya couldn't react in time. The space-infused sword sliced clean through her body.
Shiiing!!
Ordinary chakra would have been absorbed by Kaguya upon contact, but space was an element she couldn't consume. The sword split her cleanly in two!
Seeing this, Naruto and Sasuke's eyes lit up.
"Unbelievable…"
"Kakashi-sensei…"
Even Sakura looked on in stunned amazement.
But before they could celebrate,
Kaguya's bisected body dissolved into a white substance and instantly reformed, as if nothing had happened.
The stunned expressions on the three young ninja froze solid.
Only Kakashi remained calm. He had never expected it to be that easy. He stared silently at her.
"I… cannot die," Kaguya said coldly.
She reached out with her left hand, piercing the space with Yomotsu Hirasaka, and reappeared above Kakashi's Susanoo, pressing her palm down on its head.
Kakashi's pupils shrank. He immediately tried to phase the Susanoo, but it didn't work.
Kaguya had used Amenominaka not to shift the entire world, but to warp space itself, stretching the connection to the Kamui dimension and increasing the distance.
The distortion massively increased Kamui's chakra cost, making it impossible for Kakashi to maintain intangibility over the entire Susanoo.
Buzz!!
Kaguya's hand pressed down on the Susanoo's head.
In an instant, the massive blue construct shattered, collapsing into pure chakra that was sucked into Kaguya's palm and absorbed.
"Ahhh!"
Naruto, Sasuke, and Sakura plummeted into the icy wasteland below.
Kakashi didn't hesitate. He immediately activated Kamui again, opening a dark vortex to send the three of them into the Kamui dimension.
But,
Kaguya waved her hand.
Yomotsu Hirasaka activated again. Before the vortex could fully form, it was torn apart by a rift in space.
Kamui could interfere with Yomotsu Hirasaka, but the reverse was also true. And Yomotsu Hirasaka was a higher-level spatial technique!
"These two…"
"They have the chakra of Indra and Asura…"
Kaguya's vision pierced through Naruto and Sasuke, seeing the slumbering traces of Indra and Asura's chakra inside them, energies she also wished to absorb.
Silently,
Kaguya vanished into Yomotsu Hirasaka again, this time appearing directly below the falling Naruto and Sasuke. Her hands shot out, reaching for their necks.
"NO!!"
Kakashi's face twisted in horror. He tried to intervene, but his Susanoo was gone, and Kamui was disrupted. He could only watch helplessly as her hands closed in.
But at that moment,
Another spatial portal suddenly opened in front of Naruto and Sasuke. Two hands reached out, grabbed their collars, and yanked them backward, flinging them toward Kakashi.
Relief flooded Kakashi's eyes.
That power, he knew it. That chakra, he could never mistake it.
His brother.
Hatake Kaede.
Kakashi caught Naruto and Sasuke in his arms and landed atop a shattered glacier. Looking up, he spotted the still-falling Sakura and shouted,
"Big Brother!!"
Kaguya had ignored Sakura completely. Now she plummeted toward the jagged ice in sheer panic.
Kaede raised a calm hand, and reached once again into a space portal.
Another rift opened beneath Sakura. His hand reached out and gently caught her, slowing her fall.
"H-Hokage-sama…"
Terror drained from her eyes, replaced with gratitude and awe. Once placed safely on the glacier, she turned upward to stare at Kaede with reverence.
Kaguya didn't react.
She simply focused on Kaede with a grim gaze. She could tell, this man was not like the others. His chakra, his presence, everything about him was on a different level.
Even now, her chakra was only slightly stronger than his.
"You've been to a parallel world," Kaede said with a soft chuckle, "Looks like you've learned how to fight a little."
The previous Kaguya had been nearly useless in combat, wielding the power of the Progenitor of Chakra but unable to use it effectively. But now, after visiting a parallel dimension, she could at least partially wield her abilities.
She had just backed a Rinnegan-wielding Kakashi into a corner. The old Kaguya would never have managed that.
Kaguya said nothing. Pale-gray bones sprouted from her palm.
Like Kaede, she had already absorbed part of the God Tree's fruit, making her immortal. To kill Kaede, she'd need the All-Killing Ash Bones.
That technique…
Was dangerous.
Kakashi's pupils shrank as he watched the bones form. His instincts screamed, even he could die from that!
He immediately flew upward to aid Kaede.
But Kaede glanced at him and said lightly:
"Stand down."
Kakashi: "…"
Kaede ignored him, breathing in slowly.
Inside his body, the Eight Gates flared open, one by one, until he reached the final Gate of Death at his heart.
Six Paths Mode + Eight Gates Formation!
Crimson steam erupted from his body and merged with the golden chakra of his Six Paths cloak, forming golden flames that blazed skyward. His hair turned gold and stood on end, lightning crackling between each strand.
His chakra exploded outward,
Instantly reaching a level that seemed to surpass even Kaguya's!
"Come on…"
"Let's dance with everything you've got!"
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