All-Killing Ash Bones vs. Susanoo

Gathering strength, then a slash.

The giant Susanoo moved.

It looked large and cumbersome, but that wasn't the case.

The grass-green Spiral Sword emitted a silvery-white glow, spinning rapidly.

The massive storm transformed into wind blades, condensing around the Spiral Sword. Following Shisui's will, it slashed towards Kazama Kaguya.

"Damn it, Danzo, you've caused me nothing but trouble."

Seeing the situation turn for the worse, Kazama Kaguya cursed Danzo under his breath before quickly flying away to dodge.

The Otsutsuki clan's flight capabilities were very strong. Coupled with Kazama Kaguya's massive burst of Chakra, his speed reached at least 200 meters per second.

However, the speed at which the Susanoo launched its attack was not much slower. The giant Spiral Sword, carrying the storm, covered the sky and pursued relentlessly.

Kazama Kaguya's expression changed drastically. His entire skeleton expanded and erupted from his body, forming a three-meter-tall, arc-shaped shield that firmly protected him.

"Shikotsumyaku: Bone Shield, block this!"

Rumble!

The air was rent by the sharp sonic boom of the slash. The ground was cleaved open like tofu, trees were sent flying, and rocks shattered.

Such a large and powerful attack was terrifying.

A direct hit meant death, a graze meant injury.

The storm attached to the Spiral Sword, like dense blades, continuously struck the Bone Shield. Its power was no weaker than a B-rank Wind Style: Vacuum Blade, tearing cracks into the shield.

The bones formed by Shikotsumyaku were said to be the hardest things in the world.

Yet now, under the Susanoo's attack, they groaned under the strain.

Even with his maximum speed, Kazama Kaguya couldn't evade all of the attack.

"Shikotsumyaku, repair yourselves." Kazama Kaguya continuously used Chakra to promote bone healing.

Although he didn't directly face the Spiral Sword of the Susanoo, and the Bone Shield wasn't broken, the immense impact force was still unimaginable.

Kazama Kaguya was sent flying like a cannonball.

From the perspective of Aburame Ryoma and Kisame Hoshigaki, it looked as if the Susanoo had cleaved Kazama Kaguya from the sky to the ground with a single sword strike.

Bang!

The ground exploded, creating a large crater. Trees and rocks flew everywhere, and dust billowed.

In the center of the crater, a two-meter-tall, pale white bone sphere was embedded in the dirt, motionless.

"Kazama!" Kisame Hoshigaki, his face full of anxiety, shouted and quickly used Shunshin to approach.

Seeing the rare opportunity, Aburame Ryoma, who was not far away, glanced at the motionless, towering Susanoo and immediately launched his attack.

"Secret Technique: Insect Orb."

Dense Kikaichū flew out from Aburame Ryoma's black robe, covering the area like a black net.

"Scram."

Kisame Hoshigaki couldn't deal with the Susanoo, but he was more than capable of handling Aburame Ryoma.

He shielded the Bone Shield and quickly formed hand seals.

"Water Style: Water Dragon Tornado."

A rapidly rotating, ascending water column, resembling a tornado, was summoned. Thanks to the vast Chakra provided by Kisame, the Water Dragon Tornado reached twenty to thirty meters high and, within a few breaths, killed all the Kikaichū in the air.

Then, the Water Dragon Tornado roared and charged towards Aburame Ryoma.

"Secret Technique: Insect Wall."

A small number of Kikaichū flew out, spinning at high speed for defense, while Aburame Ryoma took the opportunity to Shunshin away.

The exchange between the two was swift; they separated after a brief contact.

Kisame Hoshigaki was worried about Kazama Kaguya's safety and wasn't in the mood to fight.

He still had the role of a bodyguard and only wanted to confirm his employer's safety as soon as possible.

Aburame Ryoma, on the other hand, had run out of Chakra.

Meanwhile, at the center of the Susanoo's forehead, Shisui Uchiha was gasping for breath.

The moment he unleashed that attack, he felt his Sharingan's power drain like a breached dam. The consumption was immense.

A wave of weakness washed over him. Blood streamed from his eyes as if it were free, his vision was tinged with red, and external objects became even more blurred.

"The Sharingan's power consumption is too great, and my eyesight has deteriorated significantly. With my remaining Sharingan power, I can at most use one more Susanoo attack."

Shisui assessed the enemy's combat strength.

This time, he wanted to save his final blow for the "tailless Tailed Beast," Kisame Hoshigaki.

As for the person he had just cleaved from the sky to the ground, he didn't believe that person still had any combat capability.

"He's probably barely hanging on by a thread," Uchiha Shisui surmised.

He intended to lock onto Kisame Hoshigaki and finish him off in one go.

Just as he was about to act, he suddenly sensed the ground beneath Susanoo trembling.

"There's an attack from underground," Uchiha Shisui instinctively raised Susanoo's giant foot and stomped down hard.

The giant foot, over twenty meters long, descended like half a small mountain, as if trying to crush the enemy hidden underground like a rat.

The moment Susanoo's giant foot landed, it let out a deafening roar.

The surrounding earth rippled like water, and the ground sank two to three meters.

"Earth Style? Heh..."

An ambush against Susanoo, formed by Mangekyo Sharingan?

Uchiha Shisui didn't want to comment further on such a foolish tactic.

But just then, he suddenly felt a strange sensation from Susanoo's giant foot.

It felt like stepping on a nail, as if his sole had been pierced by something.

Although Susanoo being attacked didn't cause him pain, he could clearly sense the feeling of being pierced by an foreign object.

He looked down and saw that the ground where Susanoo stood was now covered in dense, gray bone spikes.

They were dull gray, covered in cracks, three to five meters tall, and about as thick as a fist. They sprouted from the ground like wild grass in spring.

But they held no trace of vitality, instead exuding an ominous aura, like the decaying bones of the dead.

A faint sound then came from underground.

"Shikotsumyaku: All-Killing Ash Bones: Sawarabi no Mai."

"This is..." Uchiha Shisui was startled and immediately wanted to retreat.

But before he could act, he saw countless gray cracks spreading from bottom to top, engulfing the lower half of Susanoo.

Susanoo's two giant legs instantly became like shattered porcelain.

A chilling sense of crisis surged into his brain.

Uchiha Shisui's pupils contracted violently, the four-tomoe pinwheels in his eyes spinning wildly. He sensed a deadly threat.

The next moment.

Rustle...

A night breeze blew through the heavens and earth. The dense forest of gray bone spikes, blown by the wind, instantly turned into a sky full of decaying bone ash.

The gray ash scattered lightly, taking Susanoo's two legs with it, disappearing completely into the world.

Susanoo instantly lost its lower half. A large amount of its ocular power was turned to ash by All-Killing Ash Bones, and a terrifying backlash immediately struck the Mangekyo user.

"Ah... my eyes!"

From the center of Susanoo's forehead, Uchiha Shisui let out a heart-wrenching scream.

Blood began to stream from his Mangekyo Sharingan.

The four-tomoe pinwheel pattern flickered a few times before disappearing completely, like a light bulb that had lost power.

Following that, the green Susanoo's upper body, outer clothing, muscles, meridians, and bones rapidly vanished, until the majestic energy giant returned to nothingness.

Uchiha Shisui's Mangekyo Sharingan was forcibly deactivated.

He had no means of flight. Without Susanoo's support, his eyes bleeding, he fell screaming from a great height.

Beside Kisame Hoshigaki, bone spikes erupted from the ground like flowers, and Kazama Kaguya emerged from within, his face pale and weary.

He looked at the falling Uchiha Shisui and grinned, "Letting you show off with Susanoo, huh? Stepped on a nail, didn't you."

Beside him, Kisame Hoshigaki stared intently at the drastically changed boy before him, his expression completely altered.

This was because the sickly appearance of Kazama Kaguya had completely vanished.

He had transformed into the appearance of a seven or eight-year-old child, his Byakugan pure and flawless, his white hair nearly reaching his heels. On either side of his forehead, a pair of peculiar, bone-like small horns flickered in and out of sight.

Even more striking were the row of cracked gray bone spikes growing behind him, piercing straight towards the sky and emanating a deathly aura that signified the end of all things.

Clearly, this was the very thing that had just destroyed Susanoo.

"You... What kind of ability is this? It's completely different from Shikotsumyaku."

He examined the transformed Kazama Kaguya from head to toe, his shock growing with every glance.

"Your body is undergoing a metamorphosis. Your Bloodline Disease has actually been cured? Your physical strength and Chakra reserves have increased many times over. If this hadn't happened right before my eyes, I would find it unbelievable."

His face was filled with confusion. As Kazama Kaguya approached, his muscles tensed involuntarily, and he instinctively jumped back.

He sensed a terrifying threat from Kazama Kaguya, like a poisoned senbon – sharp and deadly.

Goosebumps rose all over his body.

Kisame Hoshigaki suppressed his myriad of questions, remaining vigilant and wary.

He hadn't forgotten the complex and contradictory relationship between the two of them.