No one will remember such a clan that used their own bones as weapons and danced with an unparalleled battle style... everything will vanish along with death.
No matter what the Kaguya chose, "death" might be an inevitable outcome. Thus, on this night, all the clansmen gathered in the plaza of the clan grounds. A circle of torches illuminated the faces of the Kaguya Clan members—one after another, with their childish Topknots, their faces filled with pure cruelty and excitement... like a group of evil spirits.
On the temporary high platform, the elders sat cross-legged in their positions with solemn faces, motionless like tombstones.
"Everyone probably knows the outcome... the communication three days ago failed again. Our clan has no way out..."
Three days ago, the Kaguya Clan Head approached the Kirigakure higher-ups for the last time, hoping to open the "bloody mist" trials to a certain extent, but was decisively rejected by the Mizukage. The other Kekkei Clans also remained silent... afterward, they privately told the Kaguya to endure and that everyone should plan further—human joys and sorrows are not the same; after all, their Bloodline Limits did not yet face the obvious problem of "a significant decrease in new awakenings."
But... the Kaguya could not.
The Kaguya Clan Head suddenly pulled open his shirt, letting the firelight shine on his upper body. His robust torso reflected a layer of oily sheen under the flickering light... "Now, if our clan continues to wait, the newly awakened population will grow smaller and smaller until we vanish. Waiting is death..."
"Clansmen—let us fight! If we lose—we will leave a mark in the Land of Water and Kirigakure that no one can erase, letting future generations forever remember the flower bloomed from our Bloodline Limit... If we win—it will be the rebirth of our clan!"
"Fight! Fight! Fight!"
The clansmen grew rowdy, and their blood heated up along with them.
The Clan Head's gaze swept across the clansmen and gradually looked into the distance... There was a very small cave—or rather, a prison cell—where a young clansman named "Kimimaro" was held. He was an anomaly of the Kaguya; after birth, bones protruded from his entire body, piercing his mother... later, several more times, bones protruded uncontrollably, injuring some clansmen and killing others.
So he was locked up—
It wasn't that the Kaguya Clan didn't know he was a genius, but rather that he had hurt many clansmen, and they instinctively hated this genius.
His relatives became unfortunate because of him, and everyone who approached him never had a good end... one last... "Zhizhong!" the Kaguya Clan Head called a clansman and ordered: "Release that boy—let him use his power to atone for the mistakes he once committed—this is the last time! If we can succeed..."
Success!
The Kaguya Clan Head knew what a luxurious and distant dream this was... but:
If that boy joined in, even if they failed, it would surely leave the most brilliant and glorious mark for the Kaguya Clan in history, making it so that whenever anyone mentioned the Land of Water, they could never ignore the Kaguya Clan that once existed.
"Yes..."
"Let the bloody mist shroud us once more..."
Led by the Clan Head, a group of Kaguya pulled out their own spines one after another, using them as handy weapons.
After a brief moment of rapid maneuvering, their spines recovered under the mysterious power of the Bloodline Limit, and they charged without slowing down.
Without stopping for a moment!
"Enemy attack..."
The Ninja responsible for guarding had just shouted and released a warning signal when his brow was pierced by a Bone Bullet only the size of a peanut. When the high-speed Bone Bullet entered, it was a hole; when it came out, it peeled off the Ninja's skullcap, and more than half of his mushy brain matter splattered out, staining a patch of the Kirigakure walls white.
"Kill!"
Some Ninjas threw Kunai from the wall, while others performed Water Release, creating a large amount of water out of thin air, turning the ground outside the wall into a flat lake.
Water dragons coiled and roared on the water, sweeping some of the weaker Kaguya underwater. A few bubbles popped, and then there was silence. Only after a long time did corpses float up from underwater, drifting along the current.
Several Ninjas on the wall were also hit by thrown Bone Spears and piercing Bone Bullets, falling from the wall.
The very first contact was an overture of death... "Ninjutsu, use Ninjutsu!"
Someone was roaring... The huge lake surface seemed to be suddenly struck by an invisible hammer, denting in a seemingly slow and eerie way under a mysterious power.
Suddenly, this indentation lost its constraint, and a majestic power spread out. The Kaguya Clan members on the water surface bore the brunt of it, like caterpillars bouncing on a drumhead. In the undulating tremors, one-third of the clansmen had their bodies eroded by this power, their internal organs displaced, bleeding from their seven orifices, clearly not long for this world.
"Damn it!"
With bloodshot eyes and clenched teeth, the Clan Head led the remaining clansmen to continue the charge. These clansmen were the strong and healthy ones of the Kaguya Clan; the bones on their bodies had spread into armor, utilizing the lightweight nature of bones to float on the water while also defending against the highly penetrating oscillating power on the water's surface.
Scattered Kunai landed on their bodies like an itch, leaving only small white spots on the bones.
The piercing Bone Bullets also caused the defending side on the wall to suffer more than half casualties—the Kaguya Clan, born for battle, had unquestionable talent in combat... The water surface vibrated again and again... A giant, rapidly rolling water ball suddenly rolled up from under the water, spinning and rolling with a sharpness comparable to a high-pressure water jet, crushing over the Kaguya clansmen like a polisher.
The deafening sound of water flashed by... Pieces of broken bones and flesh were scattered on the water, and the Kaguya Clan members who were fighting just now suddenly vanished.
A boy who looked like a porcelain doll appeared on the city wall, looking indifferently at the broken bones and flesh on the water... "The Kaguya Clan plotted a rebellion and has now been executed—notify the heads of all clans to go to the Mizukage's office for a meeting."
"Yes, Mizukage-sama!"
The surviving Ninjas bowed their heads respectfully, but no one dared to look up at the porcelain-doll-like boy.
This Fourth Mizukage possessed a cruelty that was completely inconsistent with that cute doll face; that kind of fear had taken root in the depths of people's hearts.
And this respect and fear reached its limit just after that giant water ball appeared and disappeared—
A clan skilled in battle and possessing the Shikotsumyaku, whose bones possessed extremely strong defensive capabilities, were actually so vulnerable under the Mizukage's Ninjutsu.
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