Chapter 282: Suppression and Sealing
Inside the Kamui (神威, Divine Majesty) dimension—the swirling, intangible space created by his Mangekyō Sharingan.
Uchiha Obito's masked face was incredibly grim. He stood in the bizarre, geometrical landscape of his dimension, trembling.
"Bastard!"
He roared in a low, vicious voice, filled with immense fury and disbelief.
Just moments ago, Uchiha Akira had activated his impossible space-time jutsu, taking himself and the rampaging Three-Tails (Isobu) away from the Kirigakure coast.
Obito immediately wanted to follow, to continue observing the battle, to see how Akira would handle the Perfect Jinchūriki.
But the distance Uchiha Akira teleported was simply too far!
Obito tried desperately to sense the chakra he had left on Yagura via the genjutsu, but he couldn't. He couldn't detect any trace of him at all.
At least, within a few kilometers, he couldn't detect any trace of him. As for further distances, Uchiha Obito couldn't reach.
That Space-Time Jutsu... it's more refined, more powerful than my own Kamui!
"Damn it! Damn it! Damn it!" Obito, exasperated, punched the empty, echoing air of his dimension.
"Just you wait..."
"Uchiha Akira! The next time we meet, I will make you pay for this arrogance!"
Meanwhile, far away in the desolate Land of Wind desert.
The strong wind whipped up a sky full of stinging yellow sand.
Uchiha Akira hovered effortlessly in mid-air, watching the Three-Tails (Isobu) once again begin the ominous process of condensing its next Bijūdama (Tailed Beast Ball).
"The destructive power is quite good," a flicker of clinical assessment passed through Akira's mind.
Unfortunately, it was only "good" and nothing more. Not enough.
Roar — —!!!!
The deafening roar of the Three-Tails Isobu shook the heavens and earth. That black, extremely condensed Tailed Beast Ball whistled out of its maw, spinning rapidly!
Buzz — —!
In an instant, a terrifying, absolute amount of chakra erupted from Uchiha Akira's body!
Purple-blue energy flames solidified, condensing behind him into a towering, ferocious skeleton!
Flesh and meridians spread rapidly! Layers of thick, Tengu-like outer armor covered it!
A Kanzen-tai Susanoo (Perfect Susanoo), hundreds of meters tall, rose from the ground. It was an ethereal demon god descending upon the world!
Its massive, winged body was significantly taller and more imposing than the Three-Tails itself!
Kamui may be like a prison, but Susanoo is the warden!
"Susanoo Bijūdama." (Susanoo Tailed Beast Bomb.)
An energy sphere, several times larger than the Three-Tails' Tailed Beast Ball, and surrounded by countless purple-blue electric arcs, instantly condensed into form in Susanoo's hand!
Boom!!!
Susanoo unleashed the strike!
That Susanoo Tailed Beast Bomb collided with the Three-Tails' Bijūdama in mid-air!
BOOM!
The collision of two massive energy spheres stirred up colossal, seismic waves of air.
The Susanoo Tailed Beast Bomb, after consuming and overwhelming the enemy's Tailed Beast Ball, maintained its power. It increased its speed, carrying an irresistible, annihilating force, and slammed into the massive, scaled body of the Three-Tails Isobu at close range!
RUMBLE — —!!!!
Terrifying light and heat instantly swept across dozens of kilometers of desolate desert! The earth trembled madly! The sound of the explosion cracked the horizon!
A long, silent time passed.
When the blinding light finally dissipated...
Only a massive, bottomless giant pit remained at the original spot of impact. The sand was vaporized into black glass.
At the center of the giant pit...
The Three-Tails Isobu's massive body had shrunk by nearly half. Its aura was extremely weak, its colossal shell cracked. It lay there, unconscious, on its last breath, twitching.
Uchiha Akira slowly descended, landing gently on the prone Three-Tails' massive head.
The Eternal Mangekyō pattern in his eyes began to spin rapidly.
A pure, overwhelming, and absolute ocular power instantly surged out, directly invading the depths of the Three-Tails' consciousness, bypassing its defenses entirely.
Akira found the Fourth Mizukage, Yagura, who was imprisoned at the core of the beast's mind.
Subsequently...
That terrifying Genjutsu—the binding placed on Yagura years ago by Obito—which had bound Yagura's will for several years, was easily broken and utterly shattered in the face of Uchiha Akira's even more ancient, more domineering ocular power!
"Ugh... Ah..."
The Three-Tails' massive body twitched violently in its sleep.
Its huge, scaled form rapidly shrunk.
Finally, the Tailed Beast vanished, leaving only a short, unconscious young man with short gray hair and a scar-like mark below his left eye, lying in the center of the giant pit.
It was indeed the Fourth Mizukage, Yagura.
"Cough... Cough cough..."
Yagura knelt on the ground, retching and coughing violently, breathing in huge, desperate gulps of fresh air. His eyes opened.
His gaze gradually changed from initial confusion... to clarity... and finally, they were filled with endless regret, pain, and dawning horror.
"What... what have I done..."
Yagura clutched his head, his hands tearing at his hair, letting out a painful, broken roar.
Village of the Bloody Mist...
The blood of his comrades...
The decline of the Village...
Scene after scene of cruel, bloody images—the massacres he had ordered, the terror he had inflicted—flashed wildly in Yagura's mind.
Those were all the unforgivable sins he had committed with his own hands, believing he was a necessary evil.
"AH AH AH AH — —!!!!"
After a long time, Yagura slowly raised his head. His bloodshot, desperate eyes fixed on the man who stood before him.
"Who... are you?"
His voice was hoarse and dry, raw from roaring.
Uchiha Akira looked down at Yagura from above, his expression indifferent, a verdict being passed.
"Konoha's Godaime Hokage."
"Uchiha Akira."
Yagura was stunned.
Konoha's Hokage?
"What is your purpose? Why am I free? What do you want?" Yagura asked cautiously, his shinobi instincts returning, overriding his guilt.
Uchiha Akira did not hide it. He disdained to hide it.
"My purpose is simple: the Kirigakure will merge with Konoha. Now."
"You...!"
Yagura's face changed drastically. He suddenly stood up, roaring angrily, the old pride flaring instantly.
"What did you say?!"
"Impossible! The Kirigakure, even if we fight until the last man, will never surrender to Konoha!"
"We are one of the Five Great Shinobi Villages! We have our own dignity! Our own power!"
Yagura could not accept this outcome. He could not accept that the destruction he had caused would ultimately lead to his Village being swallowed by his enemy!
Yagura roared! He channeled the last of his immense chakra! Even if he had to risk his life, he would drag this guy in front of him down with him; Hidden Mist absolutely could not be annexed!
However...
Yagura merely lifted his foot to lunge forward.
Uchiha Akira's ocular power erupted again.
With just one glance!
Buzz — —!
Yagura's body instantly froze in place, unable to move an inch. The world around him faded into crimson.
Yagura was horrified to find himself plunged into a boundless, infinite crimson world.
In the sky, a colossal, terrifying eye stared down at him indifferently.
And he himself... was bound tightly by countless invisible chains of oppressive chakra, completely unable to move or even access his chakra reserves.
Uchiha Akira lifted Yagura, who was trapped in the Genjutsu, with one hand. He was no heavier than a child.
"It's time to go back," Akira said, his voice carrying the finality of a judge.
Amenominaka!
Activated!
Space twisted violently, and the figures of the two instantly vanished from the spot.
Konoha Village. Hokage Office.
Buzz.
Spatial ripples spread.
Uchiha Akira appeared out of thin air, carrying the unconscious, Genjutsu-bound Yagura slung over his shoulder.
He casually threw Yagura onto the clean wooden floor, then issued his command.
"Anbu."
Whoosh!
A masked Anbu Ninja, a blur of motion, knelt on one knee, appearing instantly in the office.
"Hokage-sama."
"Go and call Kurenai Yūhi. Immediately."
"Yes!" The Anbu acknowledged the order, recognizing the gravity of the task, and disappeared.
Akira stood over Yagura. The former Mizukage was now merely a body, a vessel.
Sealing the Three-Tails (Isobu) into Kurenai Yūhi's body was just the first step.
How to make her perfectly control this devastating power was the key.
The relationship between a Jinchūriki and a Tailed Beast has never been a simple symbiosis. Most Jinchūriki cannot coexist peacefully with the Tailed Beast within them; they have to constantly guard against being overwhelmed by the Tailed Beast's will.
Perfect Jinchūriki are few and far between in the entire Shinobi World. Killer Bee is one. Naruto will also be one in the future.
However, Naruto was able to pacify the Nine-Tails through his Talk no Jutsu and his identity as an Ashura reincarnation. That luxury was not afforded to Kurenai.
To allow Kurenai Yūhi to perfectly control the Three-Tails, a more direct and domineering method must be used.
"It seems I need to enter her mental world, and the Three-Tails' world," Akira murmured.
Akira had a plan in mind. With his current ocular power and mental strength, he was strong enough to forcibly suppress the Three-Tails' will, making it dare not have the slightest thought of resistance against its new container.
Just then, the door to the office was knocked.
Kurenai Yūhi's voice, slightly apprehensive, came from outside the door. "Akira? You called for me?"
"Come in."
The door was pushed open.
Kurenai Yūhi, dressed in a ninja uniform that perfectly accentuated her graceful, fiery figure, walked in.
She walked to the desk, her beautiful red eyes fixed on Uchiha Akira.
Akira looked at the woman before him and smiled slightly.
"Kurenai. I'm going to give you a gift."
"A gift?" Kurenai Yūhi was a little confused.
Akira pointed to the unconscious Yagura on the floor, who looked less like a Kage and more like a discarded doll.
"He is the Fourth Mizukage of the Kirigakure. Yagura."
"And also, the Jinchūriki of the Three-Tails, Isobu."
Mizukage? Jinchūriki?
Kurenai Yūhi was completely confused. What did the gift Uchiha Akira mentioned have to do with the defeated Mizukage?
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