Capítulo 248: Chapter 248
Itachi and Kisame—this pair, out of the entire Akatsuki, was quite formidable, especially Itachi.
His Mangekyō Sharingan's abilities, Tsukuyomi and Amaterasu, were known to be some of the most dangerous techniques in the ninja world. Amaterasu was considered the strongest physical attack, while Tsukuyomi was touted as the ultimate mental attack—at least, according to Zetsu. But as with any ability, the effectiveness depended on who it was used against.
For someone like Dak, however, these techniques were nothing more than trash. The truly troublesome abilities from Itachi were the forbidden techniques Izanami and Izanagi.
As for Kisame, his Water Release techniques, large chakra reserves, and his chakra-absorbing sword Samehada were of little concern to Dak. Kisame might be an expert at dealing with Jinchūriki, but against an opponent who didn't rely on chakra at all, like Dak, he was practically useless.
In terms of the most dangerous Akatsuki duos, Itachi and Kisame might rank near the top. But in this battle, they were far from being a threat.
Amaterasu.
The pattern in Itachi's right eye spun rapidly as black flames erupted toward Dak.
Water Style: Great Shark Bullet Technique.
Simultaneously, Kisame unleashed a massive shark-shaped water bullet, designed to absorb chakra and grow stronger the more it absorbed.
Unfortunately for Kisame, he had no idea that Dak didn't have any chakra. Even worse, Dak had no intention of engaging in close combat with these shinobi at all.
While the two launched their attacks, the Immortal Duo—Hidan and Kakuzu—were silently creeping up from below, hoping to catch Dak off guard.
Meanwhile, Sasori controlled several puppets from the front, attempting to distract Dak. In truth, Sasori was still seething. Though he and Deidara had differing views on art, Sasori had come to respect his partner far more than his previous partner, Orochimaru.
The two shared a strong bond within the Akatsuki, so seeing Deidara killed in front of him had understandably left Sasori enraged.
In the original timeline, Sasori was the one who died first. But now, fate had reversed, and it was Deidara who perished before him.
Sasori's puppets were a formidable weapon, but even his Hiruko puppet wasn't enough to change the tide.
While Hiruko bolstered his close-range capabilities, it also limited Sasori's ability to unleash his true potential with his Red Secret Technique: Performance of a Hundred Puppets. With Hiruko hindering the spread of his chakra threads, Sasori couldn't control as many puppets as he would have liked.
However, Sasori hadn't needed to go all out for a long time—his usual strategy of using the Third Kazekage Puppet was more than enough to handle most battles.
The other Akatsuki members hadn't moved yet. Perhaps they were waiting for the right moment, or perhaps they had their own agendas. Either way, they didn't make any immediate attempts to strike.
Dak raised his hands, and in front of him, dozens of space doors suddenly appeared.
These doors swallowed the Amaterasu flames, the Great Shark Bullet, and all of Sasori's puppets into the Door-Door Space.
The attacks didn't disappear completely, but once the space doors closed, the chakra that the jutsu and puppets were connected to was severed.
The Great Shark Bullet remained intact, since it was a self-sustaining jutsu. But the Amaterasu flames vanished, as if they had entered a vacuum, and the puppets collapsed, lifeless, without the chakra threads to control them.
"What kind of jutsu is this?" Obito, standing on the surface of the lake, stared upward, bewildered.
This was the same technique that had caused Deidara's clay bombs to vanish earlier. Without fully understanding it, Obito had no intention of jumping into the fray. He preferred to let the others test Dak's capabilities first.
"..." Pain remained silent, refraining from ordering the three members near him to attack.
Konan was similarly quiet, as she needed to stay focused on protecting Nagato's real body. The Konan standing here wasn't even her true self—it was a paper clone.
Her real body was hidden in a large tree nearby, guarding the incapacitated Nagato, whose legs had been rendered useless in battle against Hanzo years ago.
Nagato's actual body was far stronger than the Six Paths of Pain, but using it came at a severe cost to his health. Konan wasn't willing to risk Nagato's life by letting him fight in person.
Neither Konan nor Nagato knew that the Rinnegan eyes Nagato possessed weren't truly his own. After years of using them and watching Nagato grow weaker, they simply assumed this was the price of wielding such immense power.
It had never crossed their minds that these eyes might not even belong to Nagato.
Only Zetsu knew the truth, but he didn't reveal it to anyone.
For the rest of the Akatsuki, Zetsu was just a weak spy, not someone who could contribute much in combat. As a result, no one expected him to help.
As for Obito, he stood aloof. As "Uchiha Madara," he wasn't under direct orders from Pain and could act on his own. For now, he was content to observe.
The battle above continued.
Hidan and Kakuzu had closed in on Dak from below, attempting to ambush him, believing he wouldn't notice them.
But Dak's perception came from both his Observation Haki and his psychic abilities. He could sense every living being around him—even two corpses would be detectable. He simply hadn't bothered dealing with them yet because he didn't consider them a threat.
Kakuzu's strength lay in his many ninjutsu techniques, but without anything particularly special about him, he posed little danger to Dak.
Hidan, with his pseudo-immortality and Curse Technique: Death Controlling Possessed Blood, was a nuisance, but his lack of skill in drawing blood through taijutsu made him less of a threat than Kakuzu.
"It's not over yet," Dak murmured.
Earlier, he hadn't just absorbed Kisame's water attack into the Door-Door Space. Like Flying Thunder God, it was redirected.
Suddenly, a space door opened beneath Obito, Konan, and Pain. The Great Shark Bullet emerged from the door, its massive maw wide open, heading straight for the group.
Obito immediately used Kamui to phase through the attack.
Konan didn't even try to dodge. The Great Shark Bullet tore through her paper clone, which quickly dissipated. Meanwhile, a new paper clone emerged from the Akatsuki hideout nearby.
"Shinra Tensei," Pain calmly deflected the attack, sending the shark crashing into the lake and exploding into a torrent of water.
"Where's Zetsu?" Pain asked, glancing around, realizing that Zetsu was missing.
In truth, Zetsu had been the first to sense danger and prepared to flee. After observing Dak's abilities, Zetsu, who had survived for millennia, felt an overwhelming sense of dread. How could there be someone this powerful who he had never heard of?
In his mind, Zetsu was already beginning to suspect that Dak might be a member of the Ōtsutsuki Clan. It was the only explanation for someone with such immense power and no chakra signature.
Once Zetsu made up his mind to flee, he quickly tried to slip away from the battlefield. He was opportunistic and not one to face danger head-on.
But just as Zetsu turned to leave, he found himself face-to-face with an eerie pair of glowing blue eyes.
Before Zetsu could comprehend what was happening, darkness enveloped him, and his consciousness faded.
Back at the battle, Konan had misinterpreted the situation.
She assumed that Dak was targeting Zetsu because he seemed like an easy target—nothing more than a weak spy.
"..."
Obito, meanwhile, was stunned. He had no idea if Zetsu had been defeated or if he had simply fled.
Given Obito's knowledge of Zetsu's true nature, he suspected the latter.
But if Zetsu had indeed fled, why hadn't he sent a signal?
"I'll go look for him," Obito lied, using Kamui to vanish from sight.
Inside his personal dimension, Obito began sprinting away. He didn't know what was going on, but his instincts screamed that something was terribly wrong. He needed to regroup, and quickly.
However, Obito soon stopped in his tracks.
"What the hell is this?!"
His lone eye widened in shock as he stared ahead into an abyss of darkness, forced to halt his escape.
(End of Chapter)
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Capítulo 249: Chapter 249
Obito raised his head, glancing around. In the Kamui Dimension, an immense wall of darkness blocked his path.
He cautiously placed his hand on the barrier, confirming its solidity. Something was indeed obstructing his way.
This was unprecedented. The Kamui Dimension had never shown any limitations like this before!
Realizing something was wrong, Obito turned around to find that darkness surrounded him on all sides.
Since when did the Kamui Dimension have physical boundaries?
A cold sweat dripped down his forehead, and a hint of confusion flashed in his remaining eye. According to all his prior experience, the Kamui Dimension was a reflection of the shinobi world—its shadow. The dimension should be as vast as the world itself.
Yet now, it had shrunk to a confined space.
Obito exited the Kamui Dimension and returned to reality, looking back at where the dark barrier had been.
"Nothing?!" Obito's eyes widened in disbelief.
There was no sign of the barrier—everything appeared normal.
But the moment passed, and Obito realized something was off. It felt as though something was distorting his vision. He focused on a tree for a couple of seconds, and suddenly, the tree seemed to bend unnaturally, only to snap back to its original state in an instant, as if the distortion had been a mere illusion.
He performed a hand seal, attempting to disrupt any potential genjutsu, but nothing happened.
And yet, deep down, Obito doubted that he was under any illusion. Could it be tied to the strange occurrences in the Kamui Dimension?
Grabbing a nearby branch, he reached toward where the dark barrier had previously appeared.
Snap.
The branch was instantly twisted and broken by some unseen force, with half of it disintegrating into fine dust, drifting away.
The landscape in front of him, though visually intact, now seemed to belong to another world—a world too familiar to Obito.
This technique was eerily similar to the powers of his Kamui.
His left eye, the one capable of warping space, had been lost, but now he was witnessing something that closely resembled its abilities. Kamui could distort space for brief moments, severing limbs or warping parts of people and objects away.
However, what Obito saw before him seemed to be a permanent spatial distortion. Whether it would revert in time or remain forever was uncertain, but one thing was clear:
He was trapped.
Swallowing hard, Obito realized this wasn't something he could easily escape. He turned his gaze back toward the direction he had come from, unable to shake the feeling that the mysterious figure was somehow responsible for all this.
As that thought took root, it became impossible to ignore.
"Wait... If that's the case, where's Zetsu?" Obito muttered.
Even if this space had become a cage, Zetsu wouldn't have been defeated by just a water shark bomb.
Even now, Obito couldn't fully comprehend Zetsu's fate. He still assumed Zetsu was waiting somewhere, just like him, possibly observing from the edges of the battlefield.
With no other options, Obito decided to return to the battleground to assess the situation.
When he arrived at the lake five minutes later, he was stunned.
Twelve bodies floated on the lake's surface—Deidara, Kakuzu, Hidan, Sasori, Kisame, Uchiha Itachi, and the Six Paths of Pain.
Hidan's head was missing, and his body had been severed into numerous pieces, scattered across the battlefield. The lake's surface was tinged with a faint red, marking the site of a recent battle.
Among the debris were countless puppet fragments, indicating that Sasori had unleashed a large number of his puppets before dying.
"You're back?"
Thud.
"Ahhhh!"
Before Obito could fully process the sight, the mysterious figure's voice came from behind him. In an instant, a hand shot out from beside his head, and within moments, Obito's remaining eye was gouged out.
Everything had happened so fast.
Obito realized that this individual's physical capabilities far exceeded those of a normal person. The speed of his attack alone would have made it impossible for most shinobi to react.
On the other side, Dak gazed at the figure of Obito, who had momentarily escaped using Body Flicker Technique.
"Well, now you won't have to worry about using Izanagi anymore," Dak remarked calmly.
Moments ago, while focusing on Itachi, Dak had nearly fallen prey to Tsukuyomi—if not for his Conqueror's Haki, things could have gone wrong. Not to mention, there was the constant threat of Itachi's crows.
Every time one appeared, Dak would crush it with psychic power to avoid inadvertently encountering the one containing Shisui's Mangekyō Sharingan and its dangerous Kotoamatsukami.
As expected, Itachi had attempted to use Kotoamatsukami to alter Dak's will.
But Dak now held Itachi's Shisui Eye in his hand, preventing the jutsu from being used.
As for Itachi himself…
The body of Itachi floating on the lake was, in fact, still alive. He had used Izanagi to reverse his death, faking it for the moment. Dak, of course, knew this, but he didn't expose Itachi's act.
His reasoning was simple: leaving Itachi alive would allow Sasuke to awaken the Eternal Mangekyō Sharingan, fulfilling his desire for revenge. Once that was done, Dak could potentially recruit Sasuke to the Pokémon League as a powerful asset.
Despite being a complicated character, Itachi's unwavering dedication to protecting Konoha was something Dak could respect. Allowing Itachi to live would help preserve stability in the shinobi world.
"What's your goal?" Obito's voice called out.
By now, Obito had come to realize that Akatsuki was finished, and with it, the Moon's Eye Plan.
"For peace," Dak replied simply.
"Peace? Hahahaha! Do you even know that Akatsuki's entire purpose is to maintain peace in the shinobi world?!" Obito sneered.
"Spare me the fake peace from Infinite Tsukuyomi," Dak scoffed, waving his hand dismissively.
If the Moon's Eye Plan succeeded, Dak's ambitions for reshaping the shinobi world into a Pokémon World would be thwarted.
To destroy this plan, Nagato, Obito, Madara, and Zetsu—the four individuals who knew how to implement it—had to die.
"..."
Obito hadn't expected Dak to be aware of the Moon's Eye Plan. "I'm telling the truth. Without Akatsuki, the Fourth Great Ninja War will break out within months!"
"Is that so? Then let it happen," Dak replied indifferently, tilting his head, confused by Obito's reasoning.
Why would Akatsuki's fall trigger more war?
Based on Dak's understanding, Akatsuki was responsible for igniting countless small wars throughout the shinobi world. By monopolizing war commissions from smaller nations, Akatsuki was steadily expanding the scale of conflict, disrupting the established systems of the great nations.
Wasn't Akatsuki already making wars worse?
"You'll regret what you did today!" Obito declared with certainty.
In his mind, Dak was making a grave mistake if he truly believed that Akatsuki was the cause of war rather than a means of controlling it.
"You can die now," Dak said coldly, raising his hand. He had no intention of debating further, and with a swift motion, he crushed Obito's heart.
Although Dak didn't fully understand Obito's logic, he couldn't dismiss the possibility entirely. Without Akatsuki, the Fourth Great Ninja War might indeed come sooner than expected.
In the time of Boruto, the five great nations managed to maintain peace due to their alliance against Akatsuki and its remnants, as well as the larger threat of the Ōtsutsuki Clan. The cooperation born from the Fourth Great War endured, with the five villages working together for decades.
However, with Akatsuki destroyed before the Ōtsutsuki threat could emerge, the likelihood of the five villages maintaining their unity was slim. The balance of power would be shattered, and war would be inevitable.
Without a common enemy to unite them, the shinobi world might descend into chaos, as the great nations resumed their power struggles.
For the world to find peace, there could only be one solution:
The unification of the shinobi world.
The wars must continue until one nation emerged victorious, dominating the others and uniting the world under one rule.
Only then would true peace be achievable.
This had once been Madara's belief as well. Before he was manipulated by Zetsu and misled by the falsified writings of the Sage of Six Paths, Madara had planned to unify the shinobi world by force.
But in the end, Madara was swayed by Hashirama's dream of a peaceful Konoha, leading him down a different path—until the day he uncovered the altered stone tablet.
Had Madara been more ruthless, had he pursued his original vision, the shinobi world wouldn't have endured three major wars. And Zetsu's schemes would have been thwarted from the start.
In a way, Oda Nobunaga had done the same in his own world—unifying warring states into a singular empire. History had proven the effectiveness of that approach.
And now, Dak believed it was time for the shinobi world to follow suit.
True peace could only come through unification.
Yet, Dak had overlooked one crucial detail: the shinobi world didn't have a Nobunaga.
The one person capable of unifying the world, Madara, had already strayed too far off course.
(End of Chapter)
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