Reunion

As the two spoke, the streetlights around Konoha Cemetery lit up as well.

Buyuan was still digging tunnels underground to escape. She could not see the signal outside, much less come over to help stop Kakashi.

Bufeng saw it, but her first reaction was to keep running. She had no desire whatsoever to encounter that masked muscleman again.

Kakashi had intended to let this guy live a little longer, but his hands had not stopped moving. He had even begun forming Hand Seals.

He would never allow anyone to toy with the corpses of the dead, especially when those buried here had once been Konoha's Heroes. He would never allow such a thing to happen. Though he wanted to see Rin again, it absolutely could not be in this way.

"You're courting death."

Kakashi mobilized all the Chakra in his body. A faint flash of lightning flickered in his eyes, a sign of profound mastery over Lightning Style. He intended to finish this with a single blow.

The short sword gathered a light breeze around it as it shot toward Fudo from above, as though it meant to cleave him in two.

Fudo had thought that even if he could not summon all the dead underground, bringing out some of them would still count as a reluctant success. Taking advantage of Kakashi's distraction, he immediately began casting the technique.

He had severely underestimated Kakashi's reaction speed, as well as the activation time of his Ultimate Creation.

In an instant, he saw the situation clearly. Even if he took the blow head-on, he would not gain enough time to activate his ninjutsu. So, he ran.

He rolled backward on the spot, barely avoiding the force of the slash.

"Earth Style—Swamp of the Underworld!"

From in front of him all the way