Preparing to Kill

"I'm the supreme authority in the Land of Rain! If I'm not qualified, is Yahiko?

A powerless sheep can't survive in a forest full of wolves. He'll only lead the Land of Rain to ruin."

Hanzo growled and formed a hand sign. Water gathered into a Water Dragon Bullet nearly ten meters in radius and hurtled toward Nagato.

Hanzo of the Salamander was losing his composure. He could feel death closing in.

The tremendous Water Dragon Bullet swept away the beasts Nagato had summoned like a flood washing the world clean.

Even the mortars and machine guns Nagato summoned through the Asura Path lost much of their power when they fired into it.

Water had over eight hundred times the resistance of air. An AK-47 fired underwater had an effective range of just one meter. An ordinary bullet lost all killing power after traveling three meters through water.

And Hanzo was a master of Water Style. His Water Dragon Bullet was compressed, making it denser still.

Nagato stared blankly at the oncoming attack. It's huge. That could kill me...

Then he gritted his teeth, thrust out a hand, and shouted, "Shinra Tensei!"

Chakra became a powerful repulsive force that surged forward, barely holding back the Water Dragon Bullet and shielding Nagato.

A ninja without a sturdy enough body would have had his bones shattered by water that dense.

But the Water Dragon Bullet was so powerful that it blasted Nagato away along with the repulsive field of his Shinra Tensei.

Once Nagato was sure the Water Dragon Bullet could no longer deal him a fatal blow, he dropped Shinra Tensei and pointed his other hand at Hanzo.

Banshō Ten'in!

Hanzo and Ibuse beneath his feet were wrenched off the ground by gravity and sent flying toward Nagato.

"Honestly, why can't