Double-transformation: I, Sakura Haruno! Will crush the pirates!

Sasori, Deidara: .....

Payne, you good-for-nothing bastard!

"Leave Scorpion to me!"

Chiyo watched as Deidara released a clay creation that swallowed Gaara whole, and then prepared to take off.

With a flick of his right hand, he released a massive amount of kunai, senbon, and shuriken from the seal, turning the clay bird into a beehive.

"Don't even think about running away!"

Sakura dashed towards Deidara, her Cloud Reaper flashing with lightning once more.

"Damn it, this guy's escape technique is a counter to mine! Brother Sasori, come and help me!" Deidara exclaimed in surprise as he watched his clay being crushed into dust like vegetables by the other party.

But Sasori, who was already locked in a fierce battle with Chiyo, had no time to pay attention to him.

The whistling giant sword had already reached Deidara when, at the critical moment, a hand grabbed his body and pulled him backward.

Then, spacetime spiraled out and released ripples, collapsing to create a center point that sucked Deidara into it.

"It's you again, 'Uchiha Madara'. Is your arm fully healed yet?"

Upon seeing Obito Uchiha wearing a mask, Sakura didn't hesitate and scattered Flying Thunder God kunai all over the surrounding land.

“Sakura Haruno…” Obito Uchiha’s tone was unfriendly as he reached out and pressed his hand against his throbbing left arm.

Previously, in order to help Orochimaru get close to Uchiha Sasuke, he tried to intercept Haruno Sakura in the Kamui dimension, but she tore off his original arm, so he now has two implanted arms.

Realizing that this woman was not easy to deal with, he had tried every means to bring her into the organization over the past two years.

But this woman was impervious to reason; no matter how he tried to persuade or threaten her, her will to oppose them was as strong as steel, unwavering in the slightest.

It even made him wonder if the world was wrong, or if he himself was at fault.

"Our goal has been achieved. If you want the One-Tailed Jinchuriki, I can give it back to you!"

Obito Uchiha snapped his fingers, and Gaara, whose breath was almost gone, fell out. Obito grabbed him and threw him toward Sakura.

"I don't think having Jinchuriki alone is enough. Why don't we leave your lives behind as well!"

Sakura bit her finger and slapped it on the ground. A two-meter-long slug rolled and landed on the ground, just in time to catch Gaara as he was thrown at her.

"Sakura-chan? What do you want?"

The slug wriggled slightly and then noticed Gaara on its back. "How outrageous! Someone has taken his life away! He'll die if this continues!"

"Slug, take care of him for me, just three minutes!"

Sakura bowed her head and gave Slug a brief instruction, then took a step forward and followed the Flying Thunder God Kunai's spacetime anchor point to Obito Uchiha's vicinity.

"Hmph, you think you can defeat me in three minutes? How arrogant!"

Obito clasped his arms together, channeling his burning chakra into the technique.

As he channeled his chakra, the spiraling, ripple-filled spacetime hole reappeared before his eyes, this time with a crimson glow in the center.

Immediately following, accompanied by terrifying flames, a blindingly large clay spider burst forth from it, and the explosion rapidly blasted towards Sakura!

"go to hell!"

Obito unleashed their powerful combination attack.

This is a targeted improvement he made in his battles against Sakura over the years, with the aim of alleviating the problem of his insufficient attack power with only one side of the Kaleidoscope.

boom! boom! boom!

The clay spider, which exploded immediately upon release, gave Sakura no chance to use her lightning to interfere. Flames and shockwaves erupted and ravaged the earth, while the Flying Thunder God kunai on the surrounding ground were blown away by the explosion.

With her vision obscured by the explosion, Sakura lost her ability to locate Obito using her Observation Haki. She immediately followed the direction the kunai was moving and used spacetime teleportation to create distance and avoid a sneak attack.

"You can't escape, Sakura Haruno!" Obito's body rose from the ground below Sakura, his arm twisting slightly as he stabbed towards Sakura's abdomen.

"As a user of space-time ninjutsu, do you even believe yourself when you say something like that?" Sakura rolled her eyes.

Armament Haki formed a suit of armor around his abdomen, producing a screeching sound as Obito's hand slammed down on it.

At the same time, Sakura, no longer holding back, unleashed a powerful slash with her Blazing Light Sword, piercing through Obito's head and leveling the mountain range at the border between the Land of Wind and the Land of Rain.

"My God, what kind of power is that?!"

Inside the Kamui dimension, Obito's pilot—Deidara—widened his eyes and began to stammer.

"Hurry up and prepare the clay, or you'll have to deal with her yourself later!" Knowing Deidara was a chatterbox, Obito threatened him to shut up, then focused his attention back on Sakura.

"Have we discussed it?"

Sakura carried the Cloud Reaper, a rainbow light flashing in her eyes.

"How did you..."

Obito was startled, half a sentence still stuck in his throat.

The illusory light of time and space spread lightly, and a terrifying power dozens of times greater than the collapse of the sky, along with lightning, accompanied the girl's extremely imposing figure.

A violent attack is coming!!!

Chapter 254 Stop hitting me!

The mountains... could now perhaps be called plains.

The clouds moved like whirlpools on the surface of the sea, and flashes of lightning occasionally illuminated their terrifying outlines.

With its head and horns prominent and its scales gleaming, and two long whiskers fluttering in the wind, the enormous creature lowered its head once more and opened its mouth, igniting the sky.

"Yasaka Magatama!"

On the ground, the crimson Aragami unleashed a jet-black divine weapon, three enormous magatama linked by rope-like structures, which were then hurled out like shuriken.

It spun and sliced ​​through the flames, slashing at the giant dragon in the sky.

Sasuke, who was floating in the clouds, was startled and instinctively tried to manipulate the flames to avoid them.

The dragon's massive body was an excellent target, not to mention that the Yasaka Magatama created by Itachi Uchiha by fusing Amaterasu from his left eye and Tsukuyomi from his right eye could reproduce the power of mythology and had the effect of piercing prey across millions of miles.

Just as the Yasaka Magatama was about to kill Sasuke, a roar came from the ground.

"Wind Release: Spiral Shuriken!"

Nearly half of his body transformed into phosphorus crystals, and Naruto's black phosphorus hand, wrapped in Armament Haki, suddenly extended.

Propelling the high-pitched, azure shuriken into the sky, it finally collided with Itachi's Yasaka Magatama.

boom!

Suddenly, the sky collapsed and the earth cracked.

Above the dark sky, crimson flames and azure storms spiraled outwards, as if brutally ravaged by an iron hammer.

Sasuke seized the brief opening Naruto created for him to regain his human form, but immediately lost his ability to fly and began to fall to the ground.

"soften!"

Naruto stepped onto the ground, and fluid red phosphorus surged, weaving in mid-air to form a soft net that caught Sasuke.

"Really, didn't Sakura remind you not to use your unfamiliar beast form to fight him?"

Seeing Sasuke's disheveled appearance, Naruto, with his arms crossed, complained.

He originally intended to participate in Gaara's rescue, but after seeing Sasuke's disadvantage, he had no choice but to give up and turn back to rescue him.

"I'm sorry, I lost control this time!" Sasuke readily admitted his mistake.

"Fine, I'll help you out this time!"

Naruto raised his fingers to form the Ren character seal, and after a large amount of smoke burst out, his shadow clones stood densely packed on the ground.

"Watch his eyes. Use your Observation Haki instead of your sight. Never make eye contact with him!"

Sasuke did not refuse Naruto's offer and drew his long sword, assuming a fighting stance.

The brief encounter made him realize the gap between himself and Itachi Uchiha. However, just as Sakura had once said, he stayed in the village and possessed a weapon that Itachi could never have.

—Those are my reliable companions in the village!

"Alright, let's go!"

Naruto, who was mixed in with the shadow clones, shouted loudly, and then a large number of shadow clones began to charge towards Itachi.

With his eyes closed, Sasuke drew his sword, lightning crackling across his body.

"Have you made any good friends yet...?"

Itachi, suspended in a massive cloud of Yin Release chakra, looked down at Sasuke and Naruto charging toward him, a barely perceptible smile playing on his lips.

Looking back at the half-mountain range that had been leveled in the distance, Itachi knew that his mission was complete.

Immediately, a thick surge of chakra erupted from his body, carrying wisps of crimson blood, making the Susanoo on the outside of his body even larger.

"It seems my mission has come to an end. This final blow will be our farewell. Struggle to live on, Sasuke!"

Uchiha Itachi formed hand seals and shouted, "Freeze!"

The massive chakra mass, carrying malice and coldness, settled down, and the tengu mask on the face of the towering phantom of a god fell away.

A pair of crimson wings blotted out the sky, and flames suddenly ignited from the earth, enveloping everything in sight in terrifying heat.

A parched, scorching hurricane swept through, and two greatswords imbued with powerful sealing energy were drawn from beneath the wings.

"cut!"

Blood flowed from Itachi Uchiha's pupils, even though his eyes, having reached the Mangekyou Sharingan level, would not go blind.

However, when he increases the output of his pupil power, blood still overflows.

After paying the price, they naturally gained unimaginable power from the technique.

What was originally just an ordinary swing of the longsword has now expanded into a terrifying disaster due to the crazy increase in chakra.

A terrifying light, bright enough to scorch an ordinary person's eyes, flashed by, and a giant sword, almost filling the entire sky and wreathed in flames that could incinerate everything, pierced into the earth.

The next instant, the raging flames engulfed the outline of the matter.

Sasuke and Naruto's sprint was cut off, and without hesitation, they took off running towards Sakura.

"This ninjutsu isn't like a normal fight... He really wants to kill you, doesn't he?" Naruto asked, turning back as he accelerated using his wind-style chakra.

"How should I know that those Uchiha who defected back then were all lunatics? He was the leader of all the lunatics!" Sasuke, who merged his figure into the lightning and dodged the falling fire rain, looked up and cursed angrily.

In the distance, Sakura, who was using Flying Thunder God Technique to chase Obito, looked up and glimpsed a corner of the future with her Observation Haki.

The girl's pupils reflected the impending cataclysmic thunder and fire, and she couldn't help but gape, "Damn, who beats their little brother to death?"

It's impossible to know what the wolfish older brother is thinking right now, but an attack powerful enough to incinerate everything is about to erupt.

Sakura herself has Armament Haki, which isn't a problem, but her teammates are either too old or half-dead.

With no other option, she dodged the clay bomb thrown by Obito by stepping back, and used the Flying Thunder God Technique to bring Gaara to Chiyo's side.

Sakura suddenly intervened in the battle between the two puppeteers, causing them to stop fighting at the same time.

Chiyo looked at her with a puzzled expression. "Hmm, what's wrong?"

"No time to explain!" Sakura formed an earth-style hand seal.

Earth Release: Earth Flow Wall creates a large number of earthen walls, enveloping the three of them layer by layer.

Then the temperature in the air dropped sharply, and a thick layer of solid ice formed on top of the already airtight earth-遁 (earth-遁 is a type of defensive formation).

"hardening!"

Still not satisfied, Sakura pressed her arm against the wall, and Armament Haki enveloped the wall, creating the strongest defense she could currently create.

Outside, bewildered by Sakura's inexplicable actions, Sasori, Obito, and Deidara exchanged bewildered glances.

However, since the other side relaxed their pursuit, it gave them an opportunity.

"withdraw...."

Before Obito, hidden beneath his mask, could even finish his command, a forest of flames descended from the dark clouds, piercing the astonished faces of the three in a near-frozen moment.

Even Sasori and Deidara had no chance to react.

The puppet Hiruko shattered instantly, and Deidara was also severely injured and collapsed to the ground after his arms were pierced by the stream of light.

At first, Obito was able to maneuver around the Heavenly Flame using his space-time ninjutsu, but as time went on, the seemingly endless Yin Release flames remained as violent as ever.