Naruto: The Abstract Strategist of the Akatsuki

"There's even a way to do this? Uncle Obito is truly a master strategist."

Naruto's expression immediately turned serious when he saw Obito wrap Yomotsu Hirasaka with Truth-Seeking Balls.

"After all, he's from the Uchiha clan like me, so we can't underestimate him."

Sasuke, with a cold expression, nodded in agreement.

Are two idiots praising an moron for being exceptionally intelligent?

This caught Kushina off guard, causing her to lose her composure and choke on the words she was about to say.

Kushina decided to keep quiet and do more than she said, opening a second portal inside Obito's body with a wave of her hand.

—This is the solution.

Has anyone ever said that Kaguya's Yomotsu Hirasaka can only open one portal?

Even if we take a step back and say that the entrance to Yomotsu Hirasaka only has two doors, right?

It's absurd that Obito thought he had cracked the Yomotsu Hirasaka by blocking one door, and it's even more absurd that Naruto and Sasuke praised Obito for it.

Because Obito's body is currently "open," and in order to show Naruto and the others his wit by breaking through Yomotsu Hirasaka, he is still in a state of hearty laughter. So when Kushina opened the second portal, everyone saw him immediately.

Obito himself noticed it and his expression immediately changed.

Knowing he couldn't keep up the act any longer, Obito quickly closed his body after wrapping the second portal with Truth-Seeking Balls.

His reaction was quick this time. Naruto's side launched an attack immediately after realizing there was a second door, but they still didn't have time, and all their attacks hit the Truth-Seeking Ball's protective shield.

"Sorry, Fourth Boss, we shouldn't keep playing around like this. Give us another chance, and we'll launch a full-scale attack."

Hashirama Senju withdrew the wooden doll's arm, turned around, bowed earnestly to Kushina, and apologized.

In his view, the reason he missed that opportunity was because he was still immersed in the success of the prank and Obito's "breakthrough" and did not launch an attack immediately.

"Mom, sorry, Sasuke and I need to get serious too."

Naruto quickly apologized as well.

He realized that this was not the time to joke around.

Losing focus during battle and missing opportunities is a huge problem.

Kushina didn't say anything and simply raised her hand.

Although no one could see it, they all chose to believe that Kushina had opened the third door.

Naruto said he would be serious, but in his heart, the core goal of his plan was still to save Obito.

So even though in theory, after receiving the Six Paths inheritance, he and Sasuke's strength had surpassed that of Hashirama and Madara's combined strength, they were still a step behind.

Hashirama, however, was different. He would never forgive Obito, the scoundrel who had destroyed the bonded ninja world he had created.

If it weren't for the fact that Wood Release attacks were ineffective against Obito, and that Yellow Soup could actually disgust him, Hashirama would never have simply used a wooden barrier to enclose the portal and pour in Yellow Soup.

"Die! You who have altered everyone's will, you are unforgivable!"

Hashirama Senju clapped his hands together and entered Sage Mode again, but this time he wasn't going to use the True Thousand Hands technique.

Wood Release, as a derivative of the Divine Tree, surpasses its predecessor and is inherently effective against Tailed Beasts, which possess massive amounts of chakra. Among all Wood Release techniques, True Tree Thousand Hands represents the pinnacle of physical attack, while Myōjinmon represents the pinnacle of suppression.

"Myojinmon!"

Hashirama Senju clapped his hands as usual, summoning whatever he called out.

The selected target does not need to be aimed manually.

According to the setting, Myojinmon fell from the sky.

But just as Madara Uchiha's Heavenly Meteor was essentially summoned rather than pulled directly from outer space, Myojinmon could theoretically appear directly on a person.

However, this means that the Ming Shen Gate loses its important functions of fall damage and instant suppression.

After all, the Myojin Gate is different from other Wood Release techniques. As a powerful and suppressive Sage Art, Wood Release itself is unable to move.

Unlike other Wood Release techniques, which either have fists and feet, can open and close doors, or are like tentacles.

The Myojin Gate that Hashirama Senju used this time was not intended to suppress Obito from the outside, preventing him from flying or moving. Instead, he directly summoned it from within Obito's body after punching him in the abdomen through the Yomotsu Hirasaka Portal.

As a former tailed beast hunter and the creator of the first Jinchuriki, Hashirama Senju was well aware of the power difference between tailed beasts and Jinchuriki.

Just as mentioned before regarding the difference between the Ten-Tails and its Jinchūriki, the Ten-Tails is a beast that does not understand the concentration and control of its power and only attacks mindlessly.

Jinchuriki can concentrate their power, so the Ten-Tails Jinchuriki is stronger.

Obito is now the Ten-Tails' Jinchūriki. Myōjinmon might be able to suppress the Ten-Tails, but he can't suppress Obito, because Obito can concentrate his power to destroy Myōjinmon.

However, this only applies to the parts that Obito can control with his own will.

What does that mean?

For example, the hands and feet, and the muscles.

Myojinmon was pressing down on Obito's shoulder; with just a little effort, he could destroy it.

However, many parts of the human body function autonomously.

You can consciously control your breathing to temporarily stop, but you cannot control your heart to stop, your stomach to stop moving, or your blood to stop flowing.

Of course, the ninja world is full of strange and wonderful things, and who knows, someone might have developed a similar forbidden technique that can be controlled, but we won't discuss those here, we'll only talk about normal humans.

It is clear that Obito reached the Six Paths level, but he still retained a considerable number of human characteristics.

It's clear from the fact that he had to perform seppuku on himself to begin dealing with the Flying Thunder God Technique and Yomotsu Hirasaka that Obito cannot freely control every part of his body.

After all, Obito was just the Ten-Tails' Jinchūriki, not a slime.

Hashirama Senju used this advantage to suppress Myojinmon inside Obito's body.

If one had the Byakugan to see through things, they would be surprised to find that Obito's large and small intestines were being suppressed by various sizes of Myōjin Gate.

What's even more terrifying is that Obito forgot one thing: the Obito Uchiha of this world is different from the Obito of the real world. The Obito of this world has tools to commit his crimes.

Hashirama Senju directly used the Myojin Gate to help Obito tie his leg!

The Ten-Tails Jinchuriki can destroy the Myojinmon by concentrating their power, but the places where Hashirama Senju placed the Myojinmon were precisely those that could not be controlled by conscious will.

This series of overwhelming pressures from the Myojin Gate caused Obito to fall heavily to the ground from the air.

"Naruto, our chance has come!"

Sasuke and Naruto exchanged a glance, and then charged forward.

This time, there's no need for any maneuvering; they'll use the Six Paths Earth Explosion Star to seal it directly!