Naruto hovered in the sky, surveying the silent battlefield below. He knew better than anyone: Isshiki's abilities meant this fight was far from over.
Sure enough, in the cracks between the Thousand Gravity Stones, a minuscule figure clawed his way up with tiny hands—Isshiki, alive and kicking thanks to his foolproof shrinking trick.
The Thousand Gravity Stones blocked all sensory detection, friend and foe alike. With perception nullified, only sight remained as a means of tracking enemies. For someone who could shrink at will, it was the perfect advantage.
Naruto couldn't see Isshiki, but Isshiki saw Naruto with crystal clarity.
Settling atop one of the stones, Isshiki calmly analyzed his options. "Uzumaki Naruto's technique—fusing Truth-Seeking Balls with his body—isn't just skin hardening. He's sealed his pores and chakra points, creating intense heat and pressure inside. It's like he's turned his body into a furnace."
Hiss… hiss… hiss… Up above, Naruto's black skin glowed with a charcoal-red radiance.
Isshiki's eyes narrowed. "That kind of heat and pressure comes at an extreme cost. Even he can't keep it up forever… Yes, once this 'Dōko Agaryū' technique hits its limit, my Sukunahikona and Daikokuten will finally be able to hurt him…"
He found his path to victory: "Naruto might be strong, but he's not invincible. If I can stall until Dōko Agaryū ends, the tide turns."
But while Isshiki focused on his escape plan, he failed to notice—one of the Thousand Gravity Stones had opened an eye.
Naruto, using Futsunomitama, had granted the stones souls. And living things… have eyes.
A sly smile tugged at Naruto's lips as he formed seals across his chest.
—Ninja Art: Multiple Shadow Clone Technique!
Bang! Bang! Bang! Bang! Bang!
Clouds of white smoke billowed as Naruto's shadow clones, each wielding a Super Giant Rasengan, swarmed toward Isshiki's hiding spot atop the Thousand Gravity Stone!
The sudden assault left Isshiki reeling: "How?! At this distance, his Rinnegan shouldn't be able to see me!"
He scrambled, leaping to another stone, but the shadow clones instantly adjusted course, closing in.
"Wait…!"
Isshiki's gaze darted around—every Thousand Gravity Stone was blinking, eyes glued to his every move!
"He didn't multiply these stones just to crush me! He set up a visual network to counter my shrinking!"
Naruto's eyes gleamed. "By sharing vision with the creations touched by Futsunomitama, I gained a new power after awakening the Rinnegan Mark."
The clones tightened the encirclement.
"Damn it…!"
Desperate, Isshiki's right eye blazed—Sukunahikona!
Whoosh! Whoosh! Whoosh!
The Super Giant Rasengans shrank rapidly in the clones' hands, squeezed down by Isshiki's power.
But Naruto was unfazed. "Every jutsu has limits—Sukunahikona's no exception."
"Ugh…!" After a moment of brutal strain, Isshiki clutched his right eye in agony. His shrunken body snapped back to full size.
Naruto grinned. "So shrinking more than ten thousand Super Giant Rasengan-level objects at once is your limit, huh?"
Isshiki's gaze twisted with rage, blood vessels bursting in his cross-patterned eye. "I still have Daikokuten!!!"
Whoosh! Whoosh! Whoosh!
Black rods rained down, annihilating shadow clones in waves.
Naruto's voice was calm and final. "It's time to end this."
He extended his palm, and the ten Kurotaro brothers zipped in, spinning rapidly around his hand.
This was Naruto's deadliest new technique—the Truth-Seeking Ball Rasengan.
With Sukunahikona temporarily disabled, Naruto could've used ordinary Truth-Seeking Balls, but he chose caution. He fused the living Kurotaro brothers into the Rasengan, ensuring maximum lethality.
This was his one-hit kill move.
Whoosh!
The ten Kurotaro brothers spun to their limit, then compressed together into a head-sized black sphere, swirling with chaotic patterns.
"Here I come!"
Naruto dove from the sky, his aura overwhelming.
"That thing is bad news…!" Isshiki panicked, scrambling to escape—but the Thousand Gravity Stone beneath him sprouted a black, pincer-like hand, grabbing his ankle.
The stone cackled: "Hee hee… got you."
Isshiki's eyes bulged with fury. "What the hell are you freaks?!"
Above him, Naruto descended, wielding the pitch-black chaos orb with godlike dominance.
"It's over, Isshiki!"
—Futsunomitama Great Lord: Brotherly Harmony Style—Truth-Seeking Giant Rasengan!
"WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA—!!"
Isshiki's screams fractured as the black vortex engulfed him, his body torn apart, annihilated.
…
Silence fell.
"Whump whump whump whump whump…" The ten Kurotaro brothers dropped to the ground, eyes spinning @_@ as they rolled around, utterly dazed.
Dōko Agaryū released, rivers of sweat poured from Naruto's pores. He sat on a Thousand Gravity Stone, catching his breath, eyes drifting to the Ten-Tails chakra cloak at his abdomen.
Of the nine spiral marks, seven remained.
Naruto's Ten-Tails mode was unlike any other jinchūriki's.
The biggest difference wasn't color, but those nine spirals. They represented latent Six Paths sage power: even after the external cloak was exhausted, the hidden chakra could reignite the cloak nine more times.
One external, nine internal—ten layers in total.
Brutal, but simple.
With seven spirals left, Naruto had burned through two extra cloaks' worth of chakra in this battle. The remaining reserves could still reignite the cloak seven more times.
"To finish Isshiki took thirty percent of my Six Paths sage chakra… That's the level of my current power."
As he spoke, the spirals on his abdomen shifted—the eighth circle was already reforming, showing signs of recovery.
Yes, Naruto's chakra regeneration was now as terrifying as his reserves.
He stood, glancing across the battlefield at the scattered Thousand Gravity Stones.
—Futsunomitama: Soul Dormancy!
Whoosh!
The souls within the stones all entered dormancy. Not erased—just sleeping, ready to be awakened at any time.
A moment later, Naruto opened his right palm. At the center of the Six Paths Yin Mark, a hidden crevice split open. Ever since the transplanted Rinnegan was returned to Madara, the socket had been empty. Now, a brand-new eye was embedded there.
Gold base, cross-shaped pattern.
Isshiki's eye—the one that birthed Sukunahikona.
Naruto raised his hand, the new eye scanning the field.
—Sukunahikona!
Whoosh! Whoosh! Whoosh!
The dormant Thousand Gravity Stones shrank and were instantly stored in Daikokuten's space.
Naruto clenched his fist, satisfied. "This ability… is seriously OP."
…
Whoosh!
Ten minutes later, Yomotsu Hirasaka opened within Shinra Cave Heaven. Naruto stepped through.
Neji, unconscious, slung over his right shoulder; Isshiki's mangled half-body dragged by his left hand. Naruto strode forward, unstoppable.
At the center of Shinra Cave Heaven, the Myōjin Gate suppressed the Ten-Tails, stolen from Kara.
Obito and Madara were waiting.
Thunk!
Naruto tossed Isshiki's wrecked body before them.
Obito glanced down. "Is he dead?"
Naruto's voice was icy. "Left him with a breath. Get ready—I'm going to have the Ten-Tails devour Isshiki."
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