"Sand Stream!!"
Inside the Four Red Sun Formation, I, Gaara, was gasping heavily after taking a direct hit from the Tailed Beast Ball. I raised my hands high, controlling the yellow sand on the ground to wrap around the Ten-Tails' body, and shouted to the advancing ninja coalition: "Kazekage, I am with you! Life and death together!!"
"Well done, Fourth Kazekage."
Temari looked at the swirling yellow sand on the ground and praised.
Honestly, she thought the Kazekage had died inside, especially since when the Four Red Sun Formation was activated, the Kazekage and a team of sealing troops were inside, followed by the Tailed Beast Ball explosion.
She was curious how the Fourth Kazekage survived, but… there's no need to ask now, she could do that when she was alive!
At this moment, she had to deal with this guy's clone.
"Water Style: Water Pillar!"
"Don't underestimate the Hokage!!"
Tsunade broke out from the crowd. At this moment… she was doing her best to stop Yuuki from absorbing the Ten-Tails. When the shadow clone died, its consciousness would be transferred to the main body. As long as she killed this clone, she could somewhat hinder him from becoming the Ten-Tails' Jinchūriki!!
...
"The bell—!!"
The iron chains binding the Ten-Tails emitted a crisp sound. Yuuki made hand seals and pulled the Ten-Tails into his body!!
The Ten-Tails was very obedient and did not resist the[Diamond Lock]dragging it; it actively entered Yuuki's body.
This sudden change shocked Uchiha Madara and Obito Uchiha. They looked on in disbelief: "This guy..."
Accepting, Yuuki swallowed the Ten-Tails into his body. Now, this[Diamond Lock]was more like guiding than sealing. At this moment… the Ten-Tails was actively entering his body.
"Shh—"
"Poof."
A shuriken pierced the heart, and the spatial coordinates behind twisted. Minato Namikaze appeared and said:
"I won't let you succeed."
With no heart left, how many seconds could he live? The answer from Yuuki was ten minutes.
Looking at the shuriken piercing his chest, Yuuki remained calm and continued guiding the Ten-Tails into his body until the massive creature was completely absorbed, forming a white sphere.
"Failed."
Seeing that his heart was pierced but he still managed to pull the Ten-Tails into his body, Minato quickly retreated. He looked at the white sphere that had finally formed and his expression grew serious.
At this moment, all the conflicts on the battlefield came to a halt. Everyone looked at the floating giant egg in the center, while Yuuki's shadow clones all dissipated.
Silence fell because no one knew what they would face next. People swallowed hard.
"Crack—"
The sound of the eggshell breaking echoed like shattered glass. The reborn Yuuki appeared before everyone, his body white, with the Rinnegan looking especially cold.
He looked like a child, curious about everything he saw.
Yuuki's consciousness was torn away by the Ten-Tails. In the endless darkness, as he looked at the huge creature, his body was tightly entangled by wood. He… had become a slave to the Ten-Tails.
He felt as if he had merged with this world, seeing and hearing everything, but… only within that limited scope. The memories of the past year or more, which he had experienced clearly, were being erased.
Like crossing a river of time, everything would wear down and eventually vanish with the passage of time.
His shell, as if losing something important, began to scream loudly as the wood wrapped around him.
This… was not what he wanted. If a person lost their memories, it was no different from death—just an empty shell!!!
Important things were wearing down… "Come back! Maki… everyone!!"
The Ten-Tails coldly watched this boy desperately trying to regain what was important to him. In the short span of human life, if you leave no unforgettable memories, you would only become an empty shell. He was being devoured by himself.
"Come back!!!"
...
"This is… the Ten-Tails' Jinchūriki…"
Minato looked at Yuuki, standing in the sky and fully absorbing the Ten-Tails into his body. At this moment… he might have become something comparable to the Six Paths Sage.
"Shinobi Technique: Mysterious Gate of Enlightenment!!"
Tsunade saw Yuuki's confused eyes and slapped her hands together, preparing to forcibly suppress him!!
Since the Mysterious Gate can suppress the Ten-Tails, it would have the same effect on Yuuki, who had become its Jinchūriki.
"Shh—"
Ten red torii gates fell from the sky, instantly sealing Yuuki, who was still confused about what he was doing. The ground collapsed, and the falling torii gates stacked like a pyramid, trapping him completely.
"As expected of the First Hokage!!"
Seeing that the Ten-Tails Jinchūriki was suppressed instantly by the First Hokage's Wood Style, everyone cheered. But just as they spoke, the sound of cracking wood came, and the Mysterious Gate split apart...
"Crack—"
When struck, Yuuki instinctively fought back. He raised his right hand, lifting a heavy object, and behind him appeared a black Seeking Jade to break it.
The Mysterious Gate could suppress tailed beasts, but the Ten-Tails in its incomplete form was only partially sealed. It would take time to break free. If it was in its complete form, such a thing would be utterly ineffective.
Moreover, with the Six Paths Sage techniques and the power of Yin and Yang Five Elements forming the all-encompassing Seeking Jade, using these eyes to witness... A system prompt suddenly popped up:
[Congratulations! You have become the Ten-Tails' Jinchūriki. Rewards achieved. The Rinnegan evolution requirement has been reached. Do you wish to evolve?]
Silence. Yuuki's consciousness was desperately reversing that river of time, trying to recover his memories.
He would not lose. Those were his precious memories, proof of his existence. He would never lose, even if it spanned tens of thousands or hundreds of millions of years.
Death… was not scary. What was terrifying was being alive but forgetting everything—being alive as a person with no memory, no different from death...
"Shh—"
Four of the nine Seeking Jades floating behind him instantly dispersed. In just a moment, the[Four Red Sun Formation]maintained by the four Hokage was pierced like fragile paper, then flew toward the four shadows maintaining the barrier.
"Get out of the way!!"
Seeing the barrier shattered instantly, Minato, the fastest to react, immediately retreated. The other shadows also dared not touch it and withdrew. Although they were currently in the Outer Path reincarnation state, a strong premonition told them that this black sphere must not be touched!!
As soon as the four Hokage stepped back, the Seeking Jade struck the spot where they had just stood.
In the next instant, a deafening roar erupted. The third Hokage, Hiruzen Sarutobi, who was slowest to retreat, was instantly cut off along with one arm!!
"Such terrifying power!!"
Hiruzen escaped the explosion's blast radius, and his right hand, swept away by the shockwave, was slowly regenerating.
"You fraud!!"
Naruto Uzumaki, now in Kurama Chakra Mode, arrived at the battlefield. Seeing Yuuki, now the Ten-Tails Jinchūriki, he recalled what he had told himself before and shouted: "You said you'd take the Ten-Tails and leave?!"
"…Leave? Where to?"
After his words, silence fell. Yuuki looked at Naruto, who questioned him.
"Stop shouting, Naruto. That guy's consciousness has been swallowed by the Ten-Tails. Now, before he gets too familiar with his power, quickly defeat him."
Kurama clasped his hands and said, "Not everyone can control the Ten-Tails. Hurry up! Watch out for those black spheres—if they hit you, your body will be erased instantly."
"…That guy."
Looking at Yuuki, now just a shell of the Ten-Tails, Naruto clenched his fists. Though he was annoyed by this outsider, seeing him lost in his power and self, he felt an inexplicable sadness.
He shouted: "Yuuki!!!"
"Are you close with that guy?"
Uchiha Sasuke approached beside Naruto.
"No, not really. Just a feeling of pity," Naruto replied.
Looking at Yuuki, who had lost his consciousness and become a walking corpse, Naruto's desire to save him had already fulfilled its purpose, yet he could no longer see him.
"For peace…"
"We go!"
Uchiha Sasuke looked at Naruto, who was murmuring to himself, and drew his long sword from his waist.
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He said, "We absolutely cannot let that guy continue to wreak havoc. If he destroys the Hidden Leaf Village protected by Itachi, I will personally kill you first."
"Understood."
Naruto clasped his fists and reminded him, "Don't let those black spheres hit you…"
"I know," Sasuke replied with a glance at Naruto.
The shockwave from the previous explosion was obvious to anyone. The third Hokage's arm was just grazed and lost, its power evident.
That thing must not be touched!!
"Buzz—"
Amidst the smoke, a deep crater of over a hundred meters appeared. Four Seeking Jades floated out slowly, converging on the floating Yuuki.
Meanwhile, the Four Red Sun Formation, deprived of chakra, dissipated.
Yuuki remained silent, standing in the air, repeatedly calling his own name.
"Yuuki, Yuuki, Yuchen… my memories are so mixed up. Which… is really me?"
Talking to himself alone, his Rinnegan eyes looked at his pale, bloodless hands—like a corpse in a morgue, kept in cold storage without decay, a sickly body...
The missing memories resurfaced. As Yuuki, regaining his own consciousness, suddenly looked swollen, he realized that his true control over the Ten-Tails was resisting him…
A massive body, uncontrollable Six Paths power, caused Yuuki to fall from a hundred meters high, crashing heavily onto the ground.
His swollen body now bore the faces of one to seven tails, each with independent consciousness, seeking freedom.
"Now!!"
Seeing the uncontrollable Yuuki, who was suddenly out of control, Minato Namikaze shouted as he formed a Tailed Beast Ball with one hand. In the next second, he vanished and appeared beside Yuuki, pressing down with his hand.
"Just as expected of Dad—speed is everything!"