Naruto: Starting from the Reincarnation of the Otsutsuki

Purple's words plunged the irritable Red into a long silence.

Upon learning that the lunar branch had successfully rebelled and that the remaining main branch had been wiped out, they were not without anger.

To say there isn't would be a lie.

It could be said that, in their current state of being, tainted by the earth, they were more awake than ever before.

Sober enough to see many things clearly.

Perhaps, the ending was already written in fate.

Broken walls and piled-up rubble, the past has become a tragic and desolate memory...

Even Qing Shi being struck down by that golden light might have been a predetermined part of the wheel of fate.

"Qing...stop it."

Chi finally spoke, his voice carrying a deep sigh.

"Perhaps this is the closed loop of fate. The blood debts on the moon are the seeds sown by our ancestors, and we have already paid the price."

"You've already carried too much for the family. There's no need to trap yourself in the nightmares of the past because of that crippled body."

"Now that we've been given a second chance at life, let's go and see the landscapes of the ninja world for us..."

"The rest can be left for future generations to deal with."

The members of the Rainbow Squad chatted amongst themselves, like a stream washing over a stubborn rock, trying to wear away the deep-rooted obsession in Hinata Seiran's heart.

"..."

Hinata Seiran looked slightly taken aback.

What obsessions did he have? Any that he had held onto had been worn away during the more than ten years of separation from his family.

What he truly craved was only his own remains, which contained the pure bloodline of the Otsutsuki clan.

Looking at the Rainbow Squad's "enlightened" appearance, he suddenly felt it was absurd and even wanted to laugh.

"...In that case," Hyuga Seiran took a deep breath and replied, following their lead, "then help me one last time, transfer my chakra, and let the giant Tenseigan cleanse me..."

However, before he could finish speaking, a sudden change occurred!

boom--!!

A violent explosion, completely unexpected, erupted overhead.

Immediately afterwards, a blinding white light slashed straight down, like a giant sword forged from light, instantly leveling the entire cave and the mountainside to the ground.

Faced with this devastating "Dust Escape" light, the members of the Rainbow Squad didn't even have time to make any defense before their bodies began to disintegrate in the light waves.

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"Damn Orochimaru, he's like a persistent ghost!"

Onoki hovered in mid-air, his chest heaving violently. His once neat shadow robe was now tattered and covered in blood and dust.

This rout was an unprecedented humiliation in his decades-long rule over Iwagakure.

First, they were ambushed by a group of elderly Uchiha who appeared out of nowhere, and then they fell into a ninja army trap that Orochimaru had somehow acquired.

In order to preserve his remaining high-end combat power, Onoki had no choice but to abandon another batch of cannon fodder, allowing the two tailed beastmen to help him retreat in two separate routes, while he himself attempted to detour back to the Land of Earth from the Land of Iron.

But to his surprise, as soon as he stepped into the Land of Iron, he was relentlessly pursued by Orochimaru.

"Father... what should we do?"

On the ground, the sound of loess conveyed suppressed pain; his left arm was a shocking bluish-purple, swollen to the point of being almost transparent.

Behind him, the wounded Iwa ninja squad members were all injured, their expressions filled with grief and despair.

"Take the rest of the men and immediately cross the border of the Land of Iron, then take a boat back to the Land of Earth!"

Onoki landed gracefully, fiercely wiping the blood off his face, a fierce look, like a trapped beast struggling, appearing on his aged face.

"Now that things have come to this... Iwagakure and Konoha are locked in a life-or-death struggle."

"Then I have no reason to hold back."

After saying that, Onoki suddenly clasped his hands together, once again gathering the depleted chakra within his body, and aimed at Orochimaru, who was pursuing the troops near the huge ruins in the distance.

However, just as the white cube in his hand condensed again, preparing to completely flatten the area within a hundred meters.

The once silent, snow-covered sky seemed to receive some kind of summons.

"boom--!!!!"

A beam of cyan-green chakra, visible to the naked eye, swooped down from the starry sky.

It was like igniting a strange jade in the polar night, illuminating the surrounding snowfield within a thousand meters in a dreamlike and illusory way, yet it was also fraught with danger.

Ōnoki, now floating back into the air, had eyes full of fear.

At the edge of the ruins, Orochimaru, standing in front of the Konoha members, also held his breath slightly.

All eyes were fixed on the center of the destruction.

"What is that...?"

At the center of that almost liquefied cyan chakra, a pitch-black figure slowly rose.

Immediately afterwards, a clear and ethereal voice, filled with absolute killing intent, rang out from the ruins, locking onto Onoki in mid-air without any attempt at concealment.

"Bloodstained Elimination... Dust Escape..."

"Chakra has become so abused and wasted in the hands of you Kage."

His feet left the ground, as if he had escaped the gravity of the mortal world, and his long hair flew wildly backward in the raging air currents.

"I originally wanted to observe for a while longer..."

"Looks like there's no need to wait any longer..."

With both hands firmly forming the "未" mudra in front of the chest.

A terrifying aura, enough to suffocate anyone, spread outwards in a ring from the shadowy figure.

The winter night, which should have been silent, trembled violently under this strange fluctuation of chakra.

"That's...?!" Orochimaru's pupils shrank sharply as he stared intently at the figure that gradually overlapped with the wanted criminal image drawn by Konoha.

"green!"

A gasp, filled with disbelief and trembling, pierced the oppressive air.

Hiashi Hyuga arrived late with members of the Hyuga branch family.

Upon learning of the victory on the main battlefield, he quickly informed his family, telling them not to evacuate.

He planned to take advantage of the opportunity to hunt down the Iwagakure forces so that the Hyuga clan could once again achieve a wave of military merit.

Unexpectedly, what they encountered was such a magnificent sight.

It's that black robe again, the one that cuts off the whites of the eyes and reveals everything...

"It's that guy again!"

Why is he here?!

The family members behind them gasped in shock, their fear spreading like a plague.

Several of the ninjas, whose limbs had been broken by Ao's own hands not long ago, were now deathly pale and instinctively retreated.

However, this sense of panic was completely incomprehensible to most of the Uchiha clan and other Konoha ninja.

"Who cares about green or blue? Anyone who blocks the way will die!"

A sinister glint flashed in Uchiha Setsuna's eyes. He gripped his ninja sword tightly in his right hand, ready to rush into the sky and slash the figure down.

"etc."

A cold and undeniable voice rang out.

A slender snake had somehow climbed onto Uchiha Setsuna's shoulder, its cool scales clinging to his neck.

Uchiha Setsuna felt a chill run down his spine. He was about to step forward to question them, but the moment he met those sinister vertical pupils, he abruptly stopped in his tracks.

If you support Orochimaru...

Perhaps this is an option for the Uchiha clan.

Moreover, the current battle situation...

Uchiha Setsuna's eyes flickered, but he finally stopped.

Orochimaru, however, withdrew his gaze a moment later and stared intently at the changing figure in the sky.

The black robe on Qing's body was bathed in the green light.

Ultimately, the black color faded, and it sublimated into a blue-green chakra pattern.

Immediately afterwards, a sphere that seemed capable of devouring the infinite silently appeared behind them.

One...

Two...

Three...

Just as the fourth black sphere was about to solidify, Onoki, who had been watching, finally made a move.

This terrifying aura involuntarily reminded him of the psychological trauma inflicted on him by Madara Uchiha.

He keenly sensed that this intense, almost tangible killing intent... was not directed at the Konoha army in the distance.

Instead, it was aimed directly at him, the Earth Shadow!

"We absolutely cannot let him complete that technique!"

Onoki's face was contorted with rage as he rapidly formed hand seals, unleashing his last remaining strength.

"Earth Release: Rigid Form Technique!"

Rumble—!

As he spewed out magma-like chakra, a gigantic stone gargoyle instantly materialized in the void.

"Earth Release: Super Lightweight Rock Technique!"

With the aid of the super-light heavy rock, the rock giant's originally heavy and slow body is now several times lighter, and its speed has become much faster.

Just as he was about to succeed, Onoki formed hand seals once again.

"Super Heavy Rock Technique" is ready to be unleashed.

But before he could finish forming the hand seals, the fourth black sphere behind Qing, which was on the verge of taking shape, suddenly collapsed.

"Success...the interruption was successful!"