49 Chapter 49 Bijudama

ROAR!!!!!

A deafening roar echoed through the night as the Four Tails, engulfed in a sea of flames, thrashed wildly in a futile attempt to extinguish the fire.

The oil from Jiraiya's jutsu only served to intensify the flames, trapping the beast within a fiery inferno.

"This might still not be enough"

From his vantage point atop Gamabunta, Jiraiya watched the scene unfold with a stern expression. He knew this was just the beginning.

The Four Tails was a formidable opponent, and it would take more than his Toad Oil Flame Bullet jutsu to subdue it.

"I'll kill you!"

Roared the Four Tails, its ferocious expression made even more terrifying by the surrounding flames. As Jiraiya had feared, the Four Tails began to counterattack.

Lava sprouted from every pore of its skin, and the flames, now liquid-like, began to detach from the body of the Four Tails, flowing down with the lava.

As the flames detached, the Four Tails slowly rose, severe burn marks marring its body and smoke puffing out. Its movements seemed sluggish.

Having tanked a Bijudama at close range and now experiencing this burn, the Four Tails was in a severely injured state.

The battle with what was considered a natural disaster in the ninja world was reaching its climax.

At this moment, a figure slowly emerged atop the Four Tails, appearing out of the body of the beast.

"Huff… These guys are too much to handle, especially that silver haired kid, I can barely launch another attack. Anything further and my body won't be able to handle it"

Roshi said, barely standing on top of the Four Tails' head, taking deep breaths with an exhausted look on his face.

This fight, which he had considered easy, turned out to be the complete opposite.

The three, especially the silver-haired Shinobi, were responsible for his current exhausted state.

First, he had been injured quite heavily in a head-on confrontation. The slash wound on his chest would always be proof of that.

Next, he had been toppled down, which exposed him to the lethal fire escape of Jiraiya.

"Multi-Shadow Clone Jutsu!"

At this moment, on the battlefield, there was a successive burst of white smoke. In the vision of Roshi atop the Four Tails, a total of ten Kazukis, including the real one, appeared.

"Bad!"

The clones of Kazuki, including the real ones, began to make hand signs. Despite being in full tailed beast transformation, Roshi felt a chill as his danger senses shot off the roof.

Without wasting a moment, Roshi began to mobilize chakra as the Four Tails opened its mouth and roared. Purple chakra began to gather.

"Damn! A Bijudama of this magnitude, move back, Gamabunta!"

Jiraiya, who was mobilizing chakra for another flame bullet, was filled with dread at the sight of the huge Bijudama.

"You don't need to tell me that!"

Responded Gamabunta with a speechless face, and instantly jumped back, creating distance from the Four Tails.

"Water Style! Multi Water Cannon Technique!"

Just when Roshi was about to fire the Bijudama, Kazuki completed the last hand sign for his jutsu.

All the clones, including the real one, put their right hand around their mouth and took a deep breath.

Boom!!!

Next moment, all of them breathed out. With a boom, numerous compressed beams of boiling water shot out from their mouths.

The water beams reached the huge Four Tails in an instant. The thick skin of the beast seemed like soft paper before the barrage of water beams.

ROAR!!!!

Some drilled into the legs, some into the stomach, some into the shoulder. The painful groans of the Four Tails spread for miles.

"Damn it!"

Kazuki, who had successfully injured the Four Tails again, couldn't be happy for more than a second.

He cursed as the Four Tails, hit by his attack, began to fall. But the Bijudama didn't disperse and also began to fall along with the Four Tails.

"Run!"

Whether it was Kazuki, Jiraiya, or Fukashi, seeing the Bijudama about to touch the ground and explode, they all had the same thought.

Zzzzz!!!!

Lightning appeared around Kazuki's legs, and he turned into a blue trail, running in the opposite direction of the Bijudama.

Swish!!!

Fukashi also leaped from tree to tree in an attempt to create as much distance as possible from the Bijudama about to explode.

Jiraiya didn't need to do anything; Gamabunta, with a mad look, making long jumps.

And then it happened. The Bijudama exploded.

The night was split by a blinding flash, turning the darkness into daylight. A shockwave rippled through the forest, flattening everything in its path.

The once towering trees were reduced to mere splinters, and the ground shook as if the very earth were rebelling.

The roar of the explosion echoed through the forest, a deafening sound that drowned out all others. It was a symphony of destruction, a testament to the Bijudama's devastating power.

As the light faded and the echoes died down, the forest was transformed. What was once a sanctuary of life was now a desolate wasteland.

The Bijudama, in its terrifying glory, had reshaped the forest under the cover of the night.

A few minutes after the explosion, a Konoha shinobi with yellow hair and an exhausted face arrived near the main explosion point.

"This… Jiraiya Sensei! Kazuki-kun!"

A look of dread appeared on Minato's face. Before him lay three motionless figures with blood still seeping out of their wounds. Minato recognizing two of them immediately.

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