After Souya and Sasori joined the battle and Yagura was killed, the outcome of the four battlefields around Sunagakure was no longer in doubt. The remaining Kirigakure shinobi were quickly wiped out.
However, the Third Kazekage did not immediately counterattack to drive the Kirigakure forces out of the Land of Wind. Instead, he sent his main force to the border and coastline first, preparing to wipe out every last Kirigakure shinobi and completely crush Kirigakure's main forces!
Outside Sunagakure, at a site piled with corpses, many Kirigakure shinobi lay bound nearby, unconscious.
The Third Kazekage stood to one side, staring in astonishment at the intricate array etched across the ground. The circles on either side of it each contained one of the characters "Impure" and "World."
At the center of the array, outlined in black runes, lay a Kirigakure shinobi.
"Ah!"
As clumps of dirt wound around his body, the Kirigakure shinobi's eyes flew open, and a piercing scream tore from his mouth, as if he were enduring the torture of a thousand insects devouring his heart.
A moment later.
When the dirt wrapped around the shinobi's body fell away, the Third Kazekage saw that the man had taken on someone else's appearance.
But his eyes were a lifeless, solid black, and fine cracks covered his torso and face, making him look like a battered doll that had been stitched back together.
"So this is... the Impure World Reincarnation Jutsu?"
The Third Kazekage stared blankly as the "corpse" performed various ninjutsu and moved with ease. Apart from its vacant expression, everything about it was just as it had been in life.
"Unlimited Chakra..."
"To think such a bizarre secret technique exists..."
Even as Kazekage, seeing a Forbidden Jutsu of this strategic caliber for the first time left him murmuring in