Six-Tails Saiken

Uchiha Akira's jutsu had been interfering with Haori, leaving him no chance to use an S-rank jutsu like the Tailed Beast Bomb.

Just now, Uchiha Akira had sent him flying with a punch, giving him the perfect chance to use this decisive technique.

Seeing Haori, the half-transformed Jinchuriki, gathering chakra for a Tailed Beast Bomb, Uchiha Akira's lips curled into a sneer. "Let's see whether your Tailed Beast Bomb is faster, or lightning!"

With a flash of lightning around him, Uchiha Akira leaped straight into the air.

"Lightning Style: Thunder Punishment Divine Sword!"

As he raised his right hand, a bolt of lightning shot into the dark, roiling clouds filled with flashes of electricity.

The next moment, lightning flickered across the entire expanse of dark clouds, converging above him in an instant.

Endless bolts of lightning intertwined, forming a hundred-meter-long Sword of the Thunder God that stretched across the sky.

"That's... lightning of this magnitude..."

On another battlefield, with Might Duy's help, Konoha's Jonin had killed the Kirigakure Jonin. As they were about to head over and help Uchiha Akira, they witnessed a shocking sight.

The Thunder God Sword spanning the heavens nearly shattered Kakashi and the others' understanding of what was possible.

They had never seen a jutsu of such power and scale, not even on the battlefield during the Third Shinobi World War.

"That's..." Hyuga Homura stared toward the battlefield, his expression grave. "Kirigakure's Six-Tails Jinchuriki has entered Partial Tailed Beast Transformation and is charging up a Tailed Beast Bomb!"

He looked at the others around him and said solemnly, "We need to get out of here. Whether it's Akira's jutsu in the sky or the Tailed Beast Bomb, we could get caught in the blast from here. We might get hurt."

As soon as he finished speaking, the Thunder Punishment Divine Sword that had been hanging over the distant battlefield disappeared, as if it had never been there.

At the same time, Kakashi rapidly formed Hand Seals, then slammed his palm against the ground. "Earth Style: Multiple Earth-Style Wall!"

With a rumble, several thick walls rose from the ground in succession, shielding everyone there.

On the other battlefield, Uchiha Akira was plummeting rapidly. He waved his right hand, and the Thunder Punishment Divine Sword above him vanished.

Then, with a flicker, the sword appeared above Haori, the Six-Tails Jinchuriki, who had nearly finished forming a Tailed Beast Bomb and was about to unleash it.

A deafening explosion shook the heavens and the earth as boundless lightning burst forth. Under the storm of thunderbolts, the entire area shattered, and in an instant, the world was lit up with blinding light.

Boom! Boom!

Then came an even more violent explosion. The Tailed Beast Bomb detonated under the lightning's assault.

An endless wave of light and heat erupted, swallowing the lightning in an instant and forming a gigantic mushroom cloud.

The earth trembled, and the soil churned!

Everything within a radius of a thousand meters was swallowed by the light and heat of the explosion.

On the other side, Might Guy and the others were watching over the wounded, staring at the battlefield in stunned silence. The shock wave had just swept over them, like a force-ten typhoon.

If they hadn't used Earth Style to weaken the wind, some of the wounded might have been blown away.

"Guy, did you see that?" Ebisu nudged Might Guy. "That Lightning Style just now..."

"What kind of enemy could make Senior Akira use Lightning Style on that scale...?" Genma Shiranui murmured.

"Could it have been a Tailed Beast...? That pillar of chakra that shot into the sky..." Might Guy muttered quietly.

They weren't the only ones talking about it. The dozens of wounded and medical staff present were also discussing what had happened. The commotion had been enormous.

Even they could see the lightning sword that had stretched across the sky.

"Have faith in Konoha's Jonin!"

"There's nothing to worry about. They're from the Uchiha Clan and the Hyuga Clan!"

"That's right. With them there, we're sure to win!"

"..."

They said that, but every single one of them looked toward the battlefield.

Feeling the energy storm roar past them, Kakashi, Might Duy, and the others gazed toward the battlefield with grave expressions and worried looks.

"What's happening over there, Homura?" Chiba Ryu asked Hyuga Homura.

With his Byakugan, Hyuga Homura could clearly see what was happening on the battlefield.

"It's bad..." A hint of fear crossed Hyuga Homura's face. He spoke in a low voice. "The Kirigakure Jinchuriki has lost control. The Six-Tails has broken free of its seal and gone berserk..."

The Jonin present looked grim. They couldn't handle a Tailed Beast. Even if they attacked one, they might not be able to do more than tickle it.

Among them, only Might Duy might be able to hold his own.

"What? The Six-Tails broke through its seal!?" The others stared at Hyuga Homura in disbelief.

Hyuga Homura swallowed, then said with difficulty, "That's what happened. At the critical moment, when death was certain, the Six-Tails Jinchuriki chose to take everyone down with him and release the Six-Tails..."

"What do we do now?" Hyuga Homura asked the others.

"We need to hurry over and support Uchiha Akira, then retreat. We can't fight a fully transformed Tailed Beast!" Might Duy said gravely.

"Can we use a Summoning Beast to contact Jonin Minato and get him here? This is clearly beyond what we can handle." Jonin Chiba Ryu looked at Kakashi.

"No. My teacher's Summoning Beast is a toad from Mount Myoboku. Mine is a Ninja Dog." Kakashi shook his head, his expression troubled.

"Wait, Duy. Maybe we don't need to go over." Hyuga Homura looked at Might Duy, his face showing uncertainty and disbelief. "It seems Uchiha Akira has controlled the Six-Tails with his Sharingan..."

"What!?" Everyone looked astonished. They all thought of the legend that Uchiha Madara had once controlled the Nine-Tails.

Kakashi murmured, "The Sharingan can really control a Tailed Beast!?"

"Thank goodness!" Might Duy let out a huge sigh of relief.

Meanwhile, Uchiha Akira walked over from the distant forest, his body scorched in places.

The one who had used the Thunder Punishment Divine Sword just now had only been his Shadow Clone. For a jutsu with a blast radius of a thousand meters and a throwing range of five hundred meters, using a Shadow Clone was the obvious choice.

The battlefield had now become a massive crater hundreds of meters across.

A gigantic creature stood in the crater. Its entire body was snow-white, its shape like a slug, with six tails and a surface coated in viscous fluid.

Now, large patches of its snow-white body were scorched black, as if it had been bombed.

It had clearly been injured in the explosion just now.

"The Six-Tails broke free of its seal at the critical moment..." Uchiha Akira narrowed his scarlet Sharingan.

Haori was definitely done for. There was no way he could have survived the Lightning Style and Tailed Beast Bomb attacks.

But at the crucial moment, it was unclear whether Haori had deliberately broken the seal or the Six-Tails had sensed that its life was in danger and forced its way out through an already unstable seal.

Either way, the Six-Tails had broken free. It was now a fully transformed Tailed Beast.

Seeing Uchiha Akira approach, the Six-Tails Saiken let out a low growl.

Looking at the furious Six-Tails, Uchiha Akira smiled. "If you'd stayed inside, I wouldn't have had much of a way to deal with you. But now that you're out, this works perfectly!"

The three black Tomoe in his left eye spun, transforming into a Mangekyo Sharingan pattern.

In an instant, the Mangekyo Sharingan fixed on the Six-Tails.

A moment later, the Six-Tails, which had been roaring, froze. The entire Tailed Beast seemed to have shut down, standing motionless where it was, as if it had lost consciousness.