"Akira, let's go!" Naruto called out after they finished their meal. The two had made a decent impression on some of the shinobi in Sunagakure, and with that, they turned and left the ramen shop.
"Hey! You haven't paid the bill yet!" Gaara quickly shouted as he saw the pile of empty bowls Naruto had left behind.
"We traveled all this way to help out Sunagakure, and you won't even treat us to one meal? Talk about stingy!" Naruto called back, waving his hand as he grabbed Akira and dashed away even faster.
"That guy... what a pain," Gaara muttered under his breath as he watched Naruto run off.
To be fair, considering that Uchiha Akira was one of the strongest men in the ninja world, and Naruto was the Jinchūriki of the Nine-Tails, treating them to one meal wasn't really a big deal. But what annoyed Gaara most was the feeling of being tricked by Naruto.
"Boss, we'll pay," Temari, ever the responsible older sister, stepped up and spoke to the shop owner.
"Thank you! That'll be 12,000 ryō!" The ramen shop owner said nervously, glancing at Gaara as if afraid he'd lose his temper.
"12,000 ryō?!" Temari's face darkened. Sure, prices were high in the Land of Wind, but she'd never experienced a meal costing over 12,000 ryō.
Then again, Naruto had devoured more than 30 bowls by himself, so perhaps the bill made sense.
The encounter with Gaara, Temari, and Kankuro over a bowl of ramen was a small episode. After leaving the shop, some of Sunagakure's ANBU arrived and escorted Akira and Naruto to a designated residence. After all, they were important guests from Konoha, so there was no way the village could let them pay for a hotel out of their own pockets.
Letting them stay in Sunagakure for free was a matter of pride for the village.
The two stayed for three days. During that time, Akira focused on building up his chakra reserves, knowing a battle was imminent. He used the simulator each day, carefully storing chakra for when he might need it.
While in the village, Akira also observed Naruto's growth. Compared to the opening of Shippuden, Naruto was stronger now. He had begun tapping into the power of the Nine-Tails, unlocking four tails' worth of chakra.
In addition, Naruto had developed the S-rank Rasen Shuriken.
However, Naruto was still training to master Sage Mode and hadn't succeeded yet. That was the extent of his current abilities.
Akira gave Naruto a few tips about harnessing the Nine-Tails' chakra and offered some advice on Sage Mode, having been through similar training himself.
During those days, Naruto also sparred with Gaara several times. Back during the Chunin Exams, Naruto had been terrified of Gaara. But now, Naruto had the upper hand in their sparring sessions, which irritated Shukaku, the One-Tail sealed inside Gaara.
Shukaku already hated the Nine-Tails, and now seeing his own Jinchūriki being outdone by Naruto only made him more furious.
During one of their sparring sessions, Akira quietly collected some of Shukaku's chakra, as well as some of the Nine-Tails' chakra, and sealed them away.
In the original story, it was clear that in order to revive the Ten-Tails, you needed the power of all nine Tailed Beasts. But it wasn't necessary to have the full power of each beast. For example, the Nine-Tails' chakra had been split into Yin and Yang, and even half of its chakra had been sufficient.
So while you needed the chakra from each of the nine Tailed Beasts, it wasn't necessary to have every last bit of their power.
With that in mind, Akira seized the opportunity to gather some of Shukaku's and the Nine-Tails' chakra. Who knows? Maybe one day, he might be able to collect all the chakra from the nine Tailed Beasts, and who knows what benefits that might bring?
It was just a little insurance for the future.
One day, while Naruto and Gaara were once again sparring, Akira was observing when suddenly the piercing sound of alarms rang through Sunagakure, followed by a series of explosions.
"We're under attack!" Gaara's face hardened as he looked toward the source of the explosions.
"It seems the Akatsuki are here. And it looks like they've been spotted," Akira said calmly.
He had been expecting this. The simulator had shown that the Akatsuki would attack around this time.
"Let's go help!" Naruto shouted, quickly bolting toward the battle.
Seeing Naruto run off so urgently to help Sunagakure, Gaara felt a flicker of surprise. Despite their rivalry, the fact that Naruto, who had experienced similar hardships as a Jinchūriki, was so quick to aid his village, moved Gaara in a small way.
He didn't say it out loud, but Gaara's feelings toward Naruto were changing. He didn't see him as an enemy anymore but rather as someone similar to himself.
Akira and Gaara quickly followed Naruto, heading toward the source of the commotion.
Soon enough, they saw the attackers.
Perhaps because Rasa, the Fourth Kazekage, was still alive in this timeline, the Akatsuki's attack force was even stronger than in the original story.
Two of the attackers were in the sky, while the other two fought on the ground.
In the sky, Deidara was riding his clay bird, launching aerial bombardments with heavy explosives. Alongside him was Konan, using her paper wings to fly through the air, supporting Deidara with her paper-based attacks.
The two airborne fighters were taking full advantage of their ability to fly, drawing much of Sunagakure's attention.
On the ground, Sasori, using his Performance of a Hundred Puppets, and Zetsu, with his black-and-white split body, were causing chaos as they moved through the battlefield.
"I've found the One-Tail's Jinchūriki!" Zetsu shouted, his exceptional sensory abilities quickly pinpointing Gaara's location. He pointed directly at Akira and the others.
"So it really is the Akatsuki attacking Sunagakure!" Akira said.
Although the village had prepared for this, seeing four figures in black robes with red clouds made Rasa's face darken. These figures matched the descriptions from the intel perfectly.
Rasa's expression grew even more grim when he saw Sasori.
Sasori had once been Sunagakure's pride—a genius puppet master, much like how Kakashi was renowned as Konoha's Copy Ninja. But now, Sasori had betrayed the village and joined the Akatsuki. And worse, here he was attacking Sunagakure.
Deidara, flying high above, was doing the most damage with his explosives. Rasa couldn't stand by and let that continue. He manipulated his gold dust, shaping it into a massive hand to grab Deidara out of the sky.
As the Kazekage, his top priority was protecting the lives of Sunagakure's citizens.
However, Deidara's clay bombs came down like rain, shattering the golden dust into pieces with explosive force.
It seemed that Deidara's firepower was enough to overpower even the Kazekage.
"No wonder Deidara's firepower is considered on par with a Kage," Akira thought as he watched the scene.
The Third Kazekage had been assassinated by Sasori and turned into a puppet. The Fourth Kazekage, Rasa, had been killed by Orochimaru in the original timeline.
Even Gaara, the Fifth Kazekage, had been captured by the Akatsuki, and Shukaku had been forcibly extracted from him.
If you really think about it, Sunagakure's Kazekages didn't have the best track record.
And now, even Rasa was being overwhelmed by Deidara's attacks.
Rasa wasn't weak by any means—he was definitely Kage-level. But if you quantified his strength, he'd probably rank around 20,000 points.
While anything from 10,000 to 100,000 points was considered Kage-level, Rasa's 20,000 points only made him slightly stronger than Danzo. No wonder Orochimaru had been able to assassinate him so easily.
Orochimaru's power was well over 30,000 points, and with the element of surprise on his side, it wasn't shocking that Sunagakure hadn't even realized their Kazekage had been replaced by a fake.
"Alright, let me handle this!" Naruto shouted, eyes locked on Deidara.
With a loud cry, Naruto raised his hand, and the sharp sound of his Rasen Shuriken filled the air. This was the S-rank wind-style jutsu that incorporated nature transformation into the Rasengan.
Naruto aimed carefully, then hurled the Rasen Shuriken toward Deidara in the sky.
Fighting Deidara, with his ability to fly, was tricky. The only way to take him down was with a powerful ranged attack like the Rasen Shuriken.
Meanwhile, Akira's attention shifted to Konan.
Since Nagato's attack, Hinata had been left in a coma, like a lifeless shell.
Now that Konan had appeared, it was time for Akira to settle the score.
Activating his three-tomoe Sharingan, Akira focused on using his left eye's ability to extract techniques from his opponent.
First, he extracted the Clone Technique. Worthless. He quickly discarded it and tried again.
Next, he got the Rope Escape Technique. Again, useless. He tried once more.
Then, Paper Shuriken. No good. He kept going.
Finally, he succeeded in extracting the Dance of the Shikigami—Konan's signature paper jutsu.
Perfect.
With a thought, Akira's body transformed into countless sheets of paper and began to flutter through the air.
It was Akira's first time experiencing the sensation of flight, and it felt exhilarating.
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The Dance of the Shikigami was a jutsu that Uchiha Akira found quite fascinating. It allowed him to turn his body into countless pieces of paper—a technique so unique that not even the Sharingan could copy it. Like the secret arts of the Nara, Yamanaka, and Akimichi clans, this jutsu belonged to the realm of Yin-Yang Release rather than the five basic nature transformations.
With his body transformed into paper, Akira resembled a whirlwind of scattered sheets, rising into the sky.
"What the...?" Konan's eyes widened in disbelief as she watched the paper storm form in front of her.
She immediately recognized the jutsu—it was her signature technique. But how could Akira use it? This jutsu was supposed to be hers alone, exclusive to her.
In the air, the sheets of paper came together, reshaping into Akira's form. However, his body was clearly marked with numerous cracks—folds where the sheets had stacked on top of one another—showing that Akira was not in his flesh-and-blood form but was instead composed of countless pieces of paper.
Behind him, the paper gathered into the shape of wings, making Akira look like an angel as he hovered in midair.
"Big Sis Konan, what's this guy to you?" Deidara called out from atop his clay bird, his face filled with shock. The jutsu Akira was using was a clear trademark of Konan's.
"I have no connection with him! This must be the work of his Sharingan—it's an absurdly powerful eye technique!" Konan answered, her gaze locked on Akira's Mangekyō Sharingan.
"Again with these blasted Sharingan powers…" Deidara muttered darkly.
He had joined the Akatsuki after being defeated by Itachi's Sharingan. Now, seeing Akira's Mangekyō in action brought back those memories, and his expression grew grim. He raised his hand, sending a barrage of clay birds flying toward Akira.
"So… am I being underestimated?" thought Rasa, the Fourth Kazekage, feeling somewhat annoyed. Deidara had been fighting him moments earlier, but the moment Akira showed up, Deidara had shifted his attention to Akira, ignoring Rasa entirely.
It was as though Rasa wasn't even worth the effort anymore. A Kazekage, one of the five Kage, standing at the pinnacle of the ninja world, being disregarded like that?
"Chidori Stream!" Akira called out, summoning a surge of lightning across his body. The violent crackle of electricity exploded outward from him, engulfing the incoming clay birds.
As the lightning made contact with the clay, the birds lost their energy and fell lifelessly from the sky.
Lightning Release countered Earth Release, and while Deidara's clay bombs were a secret technique, they still fell under the category of Earth-style jutsu. Akira's lightning nullified them instantly.
Akira's eyes turned toward Deidara, and with a single motion, he extended his hand.
A spear of blue lightning, the Chidori Sharp Spear, shot out from his palm, stretching over thirty meters as it hurled toward Deidara.
Deidara dodged as best he could, but his bird was not so lucky. The lightning spear struck the clay creature, sending Deidara and his mount spiraling down from the sky.
Even in his base form, Akira's strength was among the best of Kage-level ninjas. He had effortlessly taken down Deidara with a single attack, showcasing his overwhelming power.
"Alright… I guess I can see why he ignored me," Rasa thought, his earlier frustration vanishing instantly. Watching Deidara—who had been giving him trouble moments earlier—being swiftly defeated by Akira made Rasa's irritation disappear.
Seizing the opportunity, Rasa manipulated his gold dust, sending it rushing toward the falling Deidara.
Meanwhile, Gaara, controlling his sand, was pursuing Zetsu. Zetsu's Earth Release made him hard to pin down as he could easily disappear into the ground, but Gaara's sand could crush the rocks and soil below, forcing Zetsu to stay on the run like a cornered animal.
As Gaara chased Zetsu, a thought crossed his mind. What even is this guy? Half-black, half-white—Gaara had never seen anything like him.
He glanced over at Naruto's fight, curious to see how his rival was faring. After sparring with him for days, Gaara wasn't keen on losing to him now.
On the other side of the battlefield, Naruto had unleashed four tails of the Nine-Tails' chakra, launching a full assault against Sasori.
With the four chakra tails, Naruto's combat style had grown more versatile. Despite Sasori's formidable Performance of a Hundred Puppets, even his poison-laced puppets were no match for Naruto's chakra shroud.
Naruto's chakra-formed arms slammed into the puppets repeatedly, reducing them to splinters.
Meanwhile, Akira turned his attention toward Konan.
Paper Shuriken!
Konan attacked, hurling several sharp paper projectiles toward Akira.
"Fire Style: Great Fire Annihilation!" Akira's hands flew into a series of seals, and he exhaled a massive wall of flames. The inferno surged forward, swallowing up the paper shurikens.
As expected, paper was highly flammable. Despite its sharpness, Konan's attack couldn't withstand Akira's flames and burned away quickly.
The fire continued to surge toward Konan, forcing her to react. Physical attacks could be dodged by turning her body into paper fragments, but if she did that now, she'd only increase her surface area and burn faster.
Flapping her paper wings furiously, Konan barely dodged Akira's fire jutsu, but no sooner had she avoided it than she was already hurling more paper shurikens his way.
Akira's Sharingan caught the trajectory of each shuriken, and with a powerful beat of his paper wings, he soared upward, gracefully dodging the attacks.
In midair, Akira moved with precision, like a butterfly dancing through the flowers, avoiding Konan's attacks with ease. His hands crackled with lightning as he prepared to strike.
There was no hesitation in Akira's movements—he didn't hold back, not even for a second.
Within moments, Akira closed the distance between them, and with a swift blow, Konan was struck by his lightning.
Her body dissolved into countless sheets of paper again, scattering in all directions. When she finally reformed, she had fallen to the ground, clearly injured and struggling to stand.
Akira descended gracefully, his expression cold as he stared down at her.
"You came after Hinata, so don't blame me for coming after you. You don't deserve my mercy," Akira said, the crackling lightning in his hand showing that he meant every word. His gaze was unwavering as he stepped closer.
"You shouldn't expect mercy either," Konan said, despite being cornered. A small smile crept onto her lips.
"Huh?" Akira's instincts flared, sensing that something was off.
"This entire area is rigged with thirty thousand paper bombs. Enjoy!" Konan smirked as her words landed like a bombshell.
Akira's Sharingan caught sight of the shift in the landscape. The ground beneath them was not solid earth—it was covered in paper bombs. The entire area was rigged to blow.
So that's why she let herself fall! She lured me down here on purpose! Akira thought, cursing himself for not noticing sooner.
Thirty thousand paper bombs? How much money had she wasted? Not even Tsunade was this reckless with resources.
Before Akira could react further, the fuses on the paper bombs ignited. A massive chain of explosions rocked the battlefield, shaking the very ground itself.
The deafening booms drew the attention of everyone nearby. The sheer force of the blasts was enough to temporarily deafen those close by.
"Akira… he… he'll be okay, right?" Naruto asked, his voice filled with panic as he watched the colossal explosion unfold.
It wasn't that Naruto doubted Akira's strength, but the sheer scale of the explosion was terrifying. Even for someone as powerful as Akira, surviving a blast of this magnitude seemed impossible.
"Ha! Big Sis Konan! Amazing! This is real art!" Deidara shouted, his voice filled with awe as he watched the thirty thousand paper bombs detonate.
Deidara always claimed that art was an explosion, but even he had to admit that Konan's mastery of explosive art surpassed his own.
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