War Correspondent

And so, Uchiha Izuna headed to the Land of Earth, Senju Tobirama to the Land of Lightning, Uchiha Madara to the Land of Wind, and Senju Hashirama to the Land of Water.

Land of Lightning, Cloud Village.

Countless afterimages flickered rapidly across the sky.

Senju Tobirama was single-handedly taking on the First Raikage and the pseudo-jinchuriki brothers, Kinkaku and Ginkaku.

"I never expected your strength to be this formidable. I truly believed that, aside from Senju Hashirama and Uchiha Madara, no one in this world could stand against the combined might of myself, Kinkaku, and Ginkaku."

Standing two meters tall, his body wreathed in Lightning Style chakra and his hair spiked up like a Super Saiyan, the First Raikage stared at Senju Tobirama with a grave expression.

"Hmph, he's only fast, that's all!" Ginkaku retorted, sounding unconvinced.

"That's right. If not for his speed, he wouldn't be a match for the three of us at all," Kinkaku said coldly, his eyes fixed on Senju Tobirama with wary intensity.

Kinkaku: Long yellow hair, two horns protruding from his head, six whisker-like marks on his cheeks. He wears a purple short-sleeved shirt under a white Cloud Village jonin vest. The character "Gold" is tattooed on his arm, and he carries the Golden Canopy Rope, the Banana Palm Fan, and the Amber Purifying Pot.

Ginkaku: Long gray hair, two horns protruding from his head, six whisker-like marks on his cheeks. He wears a purple short-sleeved shirt under a white Cloud Village jonin vest.

"First Raikage, known as the strongest ninja in the Land of Lightning—your strength is indeed impressive. However, Kinkaku and Ginkaku, legend says you two brothers possess the bloodline of the Sage of Six Paths, allowing you to freely wield his five great ninja tools. By consuming the flesh and blood of the Nine-Tails, you gained its chakra and are revered as the 'Two Lights of the Cloud.' But in my eyes, you are nothing more than this! Without the Sage of Six Paths' tools, you two are barely stronger than an average elite jonin," Senju Tobirama stated with a cold, detached expression.

If not for those tools of the Sage of Six Paths, he would have killed Kinkaku and Ginkaku in an instant.

"Is that so? Then let's drop the space-time ninjutsu and the ninja tools, and see who is truly superior!" Kinkaku sneered at Senju Tobirama.

"Very well," Senju Tobirama replied calmly.

"Agh! Tailed Beast Mode!" Kinkaku roared. Wine-red Tailed Beast chakra instantly erupted across his body, and six long, blood-red tails sprouted from his back. His eyes remained sharp and clear, showing no signs of losing his sanity to the beast's influence.

Beside him, Ginkaku shifted into the exact same state.

"Come at me together!" Senju Tobirama's gaze swept over the three of them. Even with Kinkaku and Ginkaku boosting their power to the Kage level, his expression remained unchanged.

"Haha! As long as you don't use your space-time ninjutsu, I refuse to believe you can defeat three Kage-level experts," the Raikage laughed loudly.

[Sage Mode]

Senju Tobirama closed his eyes, then snapped them open a moment later. Dark markings appeared around his eyes, and a golden radiance of sage chakra emanated from his body.

He had entered Sage Mode in an instant.

BOOM!

Kinkaku, Ginkaku, and the Raikage launched their attack on Senju Tobirama simultaneously. The ground beneath them shattered instantly under the force of their movements.

A streak of golden light flashed by.

Senju Tobirama appeared directly in front of Kinkaku. He threw a punch, the sound of a sonic boom echoing instantly.

"What!" Kinkaku gasped in shock.

"Water Style Rasengan."

With the blue Water Style Rasengan in his hand, Senju Tobirama slammed it hard into Kinkaku's back, right before the latter's panicked eyes.

BOOM!

Kinkaku's entire body was sent flying by the immense force, crashing into a massive boulder behind him and shattering it on impact.

"Big Brother!" Ginkaku cried out in alarm. He never imagined that even without using space-time ninjutsu, Senju Tobirama's speed would remain so overwhelming—even faster than the Raikage.

"Your opponent is me!"

At this moment, the Raikage finally closed the distance to Senju Tobirama.

The two clashed countless times in an instant, while Ginkaku could only assist the Raikage from the sidelines using Tailed Beast Bombs.

Without the use of the Sage of Six Paths' tools, Kinkaku and Ginkaku in Tailed Beast Mode were roughly on par with an average Kage-level ninja.

Otherwise, the two of them would not have been subdued by the First Raikage, and besides, they were not yet the Kinkaku and Ginkaku of the Second Raikage's era.

"Damn it, this can't go on!"

"The Raikage is simply no match for him."

Kinkaku said, his expression grim.

He had not used the Sage of Six Paths' tools, and Senju Tobirama had not used the Flying Thunder God Technique either.

The gap between the two had not narrowed; if anything, it had grown wider.

[Water Style: Heaven's Weeping]

Countless water needles sprayed from Senju Tobirama's mouth at high speed, attacking the Raikage.

"Not good!"

Sensing that immense chakra, the Raikage's pupils constricted. His purple Lightning Style chakra cloak rapidly gathered toward his chest, enveloping his entire body in a sphere of lightning.

Before Senju Tobirama's eyes, all the water needles were deflected by the Raikage's chakra.

"To think you'd use that move to block my Heaven's Weeping!"

"Then, [Water Style: Water Blade Slash]!"

Senju Tobirama infused Water Style chakra into his kunai, which began to glow with the light of the technique, and he brought it down from above, slashing toward the Raikage.

"So fast!"

Although the Raikage could see Senju Tobirama's figure, he was already struggling to react in time.

Just then, Kinkaku and Ginkaku made their move.

"Senju Tobirama, get into my gourd!"

A three-inch red gourd was tossed into the air by Kinkaku, growing against the wind until it became a three-meter-tall golden gourd in the blink of an eye.

Senju Tobirama's heart skipped a beat. His attention was drawn to the golden gourd in the air; facing the legendary tools of the Sage of Six Paths, he dared not be careless.

"I knew you two would eventually resort to the Sage of Six Paths' tools."

Having long guarded against this move from Kinkaku and Ginkaku, Senju Tobirama shifted his focus and instantly vanished using the Flying Thunder God Technique.

Kinkaku and Ginkaku began to unleash the various abilities of the Amber Purifying Pot, the Golden Canopy Rope, the Seven-Star Sword, and the Banana Palm Fan, launching an assault on Senju Tobirama.

"Draw it out, Golden Canopy Rope!"

Ginkaku shouted.

Senju Tobirama suddenly felt his body lose control temporarily, and his movements came to a halt.

"Curse him, Seven-Star Sword!"

Kinkaku yelled, drawing his sword to strike.

[Lightning Style: Roaring Thunder]

The Raikage released a sharp, massive spear of lightning from his mouth, a ten-meter-long bolt of lightning shooting toward Senju Tobirama.

Boom!

After the explosion, the battlefield fell into a deathly silence, as if time itself had frozen.

The three of them could hear each other's breathing clearly.

"Is he dead?"

Ginkaku asked, unable to confirm.

"Even if he isn't dead, he certainly has no strength left to fight," Kinkaku said.

"That's right. Being hit by my move! Even Senju Hashirama would be severely injured if he didn't die, let alone Senju Tobirama," the Raikage said with a confident look.

"Hello everyone, I am your field reporter. We are here on the battlefield in the Land of Lightning, covering the Ninja World's speedster versus the Land of Lightning's strongest, the First Raikage, and the two lights from the Cloud."

Suddenly, the voice of Otsutsuki Yuhao rang out across the scene.