226 Chapter 226

Kaito landed steadily on the ground, the cracks on his Susanoo fully repaired, and the sharp ninja blade re-emerged in its hands.

"Your performance just now was commendable, but now it's my turn to lead the attack!"

"Hmph, I have to admit you are indeed formidable, but you're nothing more than a rat hiding its head and revealing its tail in a filthy gutter," the Fourth Raikage spoke in a deep, deliberate voice, completely adopting a defensive stance.

"Do you think I don't know who you are, Uchiha Kaito?"

"Oh?"

Kaito was slightly taken aback upon hearing this, but soon he let out a light chuckle.

"How can you be so sure that I am Uchiha Kaito?"

"Your disguise is pointless; your abilities have long revealed you. Do you still want to play pretend at this point?"

The Fourth Raikage spoke indifferently, once again cloaking himself in the Lightning Release Chakra Mode armor.

"Nevertheless, it doesn't matter. Once you're dead, I'll tear off that ugly mask of yours!"

"You're quite confident, aren't you."

Kaito gently shook his head, then calmly placed his hand on his own face, slowly removing the mask.

For operations within Iwagakure's sphere of influence, Kaito certainly also needed to make some preparations.

But now that he's been recognized, it didn't matter to him.

Casually tossing the mask aside, Kaito revealed his young and handsome face, slightly smiling before speaking slowly.

"I've said it before, confidence is a good thing, but overconfidence is arrogance.

However, you have guessed my identity correctly, and for that alone, I may spare you.

Of course, I could also choose to hang your body in Iwagakure, after all, in doing so..."

Before Kaito could finish speaking, Susanoo's hands lifted rapidly, then the two ninja blades slashed down fiercely, accompanied by the sound of tearing through the wind.

A terrifying sharpness swept through the forest, frenziedly advancing towards the Fourth Raikage and Killer Bee!

And accompanying this sharp onslaught, was Kaito's somewhat gentle voice.

"Seems like something interesting is about to happen between Kumogakure and Iwagakure, doesn't it?"

"In your dreams!"

The Fourth Raikage roared in anger, but before he could do anything, Killer Bee and the Eight Tails' chakra burst forth abruptly.

In an instant, a large group of giant octopus tentacles had already shielded them!

"Boom!"

These octopus tentacles did not hold on for long before being successively severed, and the broken tentacles scattered all over the ground.

However, once these tentacles hit the ground, they rapidly regained their vigor.

They swiftly rose from the ground, reverting to their robust form, ferociously slapping and entwining towards Kaito!

"Mere parlor tricks!"

Kaito raised an eyebrow, followed by a cold laugh.

The luminance of the Susanoo rose once more, transforming under his control into a giant with two faces and four arms!

Although Kaito had only activated the Susanoo in this state with the help of 'Great Destruction', maintaining it in the third phase also required the power of 'Great Destruction'.

But having activated it once, he had long since remembered this feeling, and as long as it didn't involve the third phase, he could utilize the Susanoo of this strength!

The brilliance of chakra shone once again, and ninja blades also appeared in the Susanoo's other two hands.

The deep blue chakra ninja blades waved continuously, and those entwining, striking tentacles immediately collapsed.

However, no matter how many tentacles rose up, in the next moment, they were all severed by the Susanoo's blade.

"Die!"

Yet, just as the gigantic tentacles were being severed one after another, chakra of Lightning Release suddenly surged, and leveraging the cover provided by the tentacles, the Fourth Raikage had appeared in front of Kaito.

He roared angrily, and then a punch exploded forth, in this moment it seemed like the entire space experienced a slight tremble.

Under that unbelievable power, his fist brutally landed on the Susanoo, and in this moment Kaito's expression also subtly changed.

Because the ribs on his second phase Susanoo were, incredibly, directly pierced through!

Under this powerful punch, it seemed like everything in its way would be completely shattered by him.

"What a maniac!"

Kaito cursed quietly, he had no choice but to withdraw from the protection of the Susanoo.

Although he was capable of reconstituting it, that would take time, and the Fourth Raikage, that madman, had already recklessly attacked again.

This guy's arm had shown some unnatural twisting, obviously, there was definitely something wrong with his arm at this time.

However, he didn't care at all, he still madly attacked Kaito.

"Now's the time!"

But just as Kaito had just left the protection of the Susanoo, the Fourth Raikage suddenly shouted loudly.

The next second, countless tentacles once again swept across, thoroughly sealing all paths that Kaito could move through.

"Bang!"

Without giving Kaito any time to react, these tentacles brutally slapped together, then quickly and continuously entwined and twisted.

A muffled booming sound echoed through the forest, and thick smoke rose high.

"Well done!"

The Fourth Raikage landed on a tentacle, he called out with slightly excited intonation.

"Something's not right, big brother."

However, Killer Bee's expression remained grave, he stared intensely at the cloud of smoke not far away.

"I don't think I caught him, and Eight Tails... Be careful!"

"Fire Style: Majestic Destroyer Flame!"

Just then, Kaito's chilling voice suddenly rang out, and in the next moment, a sky-full of intertwining black and white fierce flames plummeted from above!

Such a terrifying sea of fire was beyond imagination, it almost entirely covered the position where Killer Bee had unleashed the Eight Tails' tentacles.

Killer Bee and A exchanged a glance, and in the next second, both burst forth with astonishing speed, quickly leaving the area.

Killer Bee actually wanted to continue to call upon the Eight Tails' power for defense, but alas, he was not yet at his future peak.

Before he had fully transformed into the Tailed Beast, his ability to mobilize power was still somewhat lacking.

Especially since he had already massively mobilized power once before, he really couldn't manage to mobilize it again so quickly now.

As for the Fourth Raikage, when faced with such a ninjutsu offensive, he really didn't have too many options.

After all, he excelled most in ninja body techniques and hadn't devoted much thought to ninjutsu.

Moreover, even if he were to use Lightning Style ninjutsu, it wasn't certain that he could block such a Fire Style attack.

"Cling cling cling!"

As Kaito and the Fourth Raikage brothers continually clashed, on another part of the battlefield, several figures kept intertwining, the crisp sound of metal collision continuously ringing.

With his eyes blood-red, Shisui continually attacked, his movements agile and graceful, appearing like a dancer.

Such a fight was not particularly difficult for him, perhaps the only trouble came from external factors.

The impact of the battle between Kaito and the Fourth Raikage brothers was just too extensive, so even he was constantly affected, causing his attack to stall.

Furthermore, Shisui discovered something – it seemed he had underestimated the Nara girl, Yaneko.

Although this woman had average chakra and physical fitness, as for combat skills, Shisui really didn't know what the Nara clan had achieved in that aspect.

Yet, in dealing with the offensive of those two youngsters with red and white hair, she remained effortlessly skillful and continuously used shadows to restrict her opponents.

Even though she was facing two brats who appeared to be in their teens, the profession of a ninja was truly too special.

Sometimes, even a five-year-old could accidentally take your life!

In their Leaf Village, wasn't Kakashi someone who graduated at five and subsequently became an existence on the battlefield that killed whoever stood in his way?

Yaneko's performance allowed Shisui to fully relax, so what he had to do was defeat the enemy in front of him as quickly as possible, then support Kaito!

Kaito, alone facing the Fourth Raikage and the Eight Tails Jinchuriki, was under unimaginable pressure.

Even though Shisui knew of Kaito's dominance, facing such enemies, no matter how dominant Kaito was, he likely wouldn't have it easy.

"We need to speed up, but these folks together with the Fourth Raikage, must certainly have their own worth.

Therefore, when it's uncertain how Kaito is going to deal with the Fourth Raikage and the others, it's better not to go for the kill if possible."

While attacking, these thoughts silently ran through Shisui's mind. Subsequently, he fiercely blocked Samui's ninja blade and, springing up, threw several kunai.

These kunai appeared disorganized, even colliding with each other in mid-air.

However, what was astonishing was that, after colliding with one another, the kunai actually changed their flight paths, precisely stabbing toward Samui's back.

Samui seemed not to react in time, being directly hit in the back by the kunai, but the next moment, a puff of white smoke emerged from her body.

Shisui's Sharingan had already seen through Samui's movements; he moved almost the instant Samui employed the Body Replacement Technique.

"Fire Style: Great Fireball Jutsu!"

Shisui quickly formed seals with one hand, and a massive orange fireball swiftly lunged toward the distance, the scorching temperature even making the air above the ground appear distorted.

Just as Samui landed, she saw the fireball fiercely flying toward her, involuntarily clenching her teeth.

Chakra burst forth violently, violent Lightning Style chakra appearing on the short blade in her hand. Then, she quickly leapt backward, yet the short blade chopped forward.

"Cloud-Style: Flying Blade!"

The lightning blade rapidly shot from her blade's glow, subsequently heavily striking Shisui's fireball.

This sharp lightning blade directly split Shisui's fireball in two, but at this moment, her complexion suddenly turned pale.

Because the instant the fireball was divided, Shisui had already arrived in front of her!

Those crimson Sharingan eyes suddenly transformed into a bizarre, dart-like pattern.

The pattern slowly spun around, and in this moment, Samui felt a spell of dizziness in her consciousness. But just for an instant, she felt a burst of intense pain in her abdomen!

"Bang!"

Samui was sent flying backward, heavily crashing into a boulder.

Now, she felt her internal organs moving, the intense pain nearly rendering her immobile.

In this moment, she seemed to gain a new understanding of the man before her, masked as he was.

Such speed, such power, it was truly beyond her belief, and his pair of Sharingan seemed vastly different from what she understood them to be.

She didn't know what this implied, but she knew this man was powerful, and evidently, he was not Uchiha Kaito.

Thus, the identity of this individual could likely be only one person, the once legendary Shisui of Teleportation!

Uchiha Shisui once had a reputation in the shinobi world that far exceeded Kaito's, of course, more about him was known to higher-ranked ninja.

Samui, being a disciple of Killer B, naturally had knowledge of Shisui's existence, but upon suspecting that this man was Shisui, her worry intensified.

Uchiha Kaito and Uchiha Shisui, these two names were well known far and wide, and they were the clan leader and deputy clan leader of the Uchiha clan, acting together.

This situation truly made Samui seriously doubt whether their whereabouts had been exposed.

But whether or not they were exposed, their current situation really wasn't great; although there was some distance from this place to the border, the Rock ninja were not too far to reach.

Moreover, the strength of these two was truly too formidable, confronting them was no simple matter, especially when she was clearly no match for Shisui!

"No, I absolutely can't give up like this!"

Samui, biting her teeth, wanted to get up, only for a ninja blade to be positioned at her neck the next second.

"You have lost."

Shisui's stern voice resounded beside her ear; it was only at this moment that she noticed, unknown to her when, Shisui had already arrived before her!

"Uchiha Shisui"

Samui practically bit the words out, though the cold edge of the blade kept her from making any sudden moves.

"So, I've been found out, it seems my disguise wasn't good enough."

Almost like Kaito, Shisui, after having his identity revealed, also had no intention of continuing the masquerade.

He gently removed his mask, subsequently gazing indifferently at the Samui before him.

"But it doesn't matter now, you should thank your statuses, otherwise, you would not be speaking with me at this moment."

"At least, until Kaito decides whether you live or die, I won't let you die."

Upon saying this, Shisui paused slightly, and in the next moment, his eyes once again began to rotate, the eerie chakra spreading rapidly.

Seeing this, Samui almost subconsciously turned her head, but Shisui was already grasping her neck, forcibly making her lock eyes with him.

In an instant, Samui's eyes became dazed, and Shisui slowly began to speak.

"Stay here quietly and do not move around. If you move, you will attack two enemies.

Those two enemies are the two brats who came with you."

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