Controlling the Six-Tails Jinchuriki

A pitch-black Susanoo, twenty-five meters tall, stood towering on the deserted island like a war god from the underworld. Its armor glimmered with a cold metallic sheen, its face was a stretch of profound darkness, and only where its eyes should have been burned ghostly blue flames—the projection of Uchiha Narong's Mangekyo Sharingan. Its right hand gripped a massive tachi wreathed in black lightning—Wood Release: Lightning Blade, which fused the life force of Wood Release with the violent power of Lightning Release.

Its opponent was the Six-Tails Saiken, over thirty meters tall and fully transformed into a tailed beast! This terrifying creature, like a gigantic slug, was covered head to toe in slick bodily fluid with powerful corrosive properties. Six milky-white tails thrashed wildly, giving off suffocating, evil chakra. Inside its gaping maw, a complete Tailed Beast Bomb, condensed with destructive energy, was about to take shape. The purple-black sphere of energy radiated annihilating waves, twisting even the space around it!

"Roar—! (Die!)" Saiken, completely dominated by the tailed beast's consciousness, let out a deafening roar and violently fired the Tailed Beast Bomb in its mouth, a blast powerful enough to destroy mountains! The Tailed Beast Bomb turned into a destructive beam. Wherever it passed, the air evaporated, and the ground was plowed into deep trenches as it blasted straight toward the black Susanoo!

"Perfect timing!" Inside the crystal in Susanoo's head, Uchiha Narong's Mangekyo Sharingan spun wildly, his fighting spirit soaring to its peak! He swept both hands forward!

"Wood Release: Lightning Blade Slash!"

The pitch-black Susanoo moved! Its enormous body displayed astonishing speed utterly at odds with its size. With one step, the earth shook and the mountains trembled! The massive tachi in its hand, wreathed in black lightning, met the destructive Tailed Beast Bomb beam head-on with a force that seemed to tear the sky apart! The blade contained not only Susanoo's unmatched power, but also the unique suppression Wood Release held over tailed beast chakra, as well as Lightning Release's piercing force and violence!

Rumble, rumble, rumble—!!!!!!!!!

An unprecedented, terrifying explosion resounded through the clouds! It was like the thunderous roar of the world being split open at creation! The purple-black energy of the Tailed Beast Bomb slammed hard into the Wood Release tachi wrapped in black lightning!

Blinding light instantly swallowed everything! A violent energy shockwave expanded madly in every direction in a sphere! The entire deserted island shook violently. With the collision point at the center, the ground rose layer by layer like waves, then shattered! In the distant sea, the shockwave pressed out an enormous depression and raised a tsunami dozens of meters high!

"Crack... crack..."

The stalemate lasted only a brief instant! Under the destructive energy impact of the Tailed Beast Bomb, fine cracks began appearing across the black Wood Release lightning blade! After all, this was a full-force strike from a complete tailed beast, while Narong's Wood Release Susanoo was still in its infancy. The fusion was not yet perfect, and there was still a gap in power!

"Hmph! Wood Release: Life Drain!" Narong grunted, but his gaze was sharp as he pushed the power of the Hashirama cells with all his might! The wooden framework inside Susanoo lit up with a glowing emerald light. Powerful vitality surged out, swiftly repairing the cracks in the lightning blade! At the same time, where the blade touched the Tailed Beast Bomb, the properties of Wood Release activated and began forcibly absorbing and neutralizing the violent chakra within the Tailed Beast Bomb!

One side waned as the other waxed! The Tailed Beast Bomb's light dimmed and shrank at a visible speed! Meanwhile, the black Wood Release lightning blade grew even more imposing!

"Now! Break!" Narong roared!

"Boom—!!!"

In the end, the Wood Release lightning blade completely cut through the shrunken core of the Tailed Beast Bomb! The residual explosive energy knocked Susanoo back dozens of meters, leaving two deep trenches in the ground. Its armor was damaged in many places, but with the vitality of Wood Release supporting it, the core framework rapidly repaired itself. Narong, too, was pale from the violent drain on his chakra and eye power, his breathing ragged.

As for the Six-Tails Saiken, after releasing a complete Tailed Beast Bomb, its aura had clearly weakened by a large margin, and its massive body swayed. The consumption of a Tailed Beast Bomb was enormous. Even a complete tailed beast could not fire them continuously.

"An opening!" Narong endured his exhaustion, brilliant light bursting from his eyes! He needed to end this quickly. The longer things dragged on, the more variables there would be. The people Genji sent to investigate could arrive at any moment!

"Wood Release: Deep Forest Emergence: Compression!"

He formed hand seals and poured his vast chakra into the earth beneath his feet! Though its range was far inferior to the First Hokage's, its power was far more concentrated! In an instant, countless thick trees covered in thorns burst from the ground and, as if alive, wildly wound around the enormous Six-Tails Saiken! These trees were not only incomparably tough, but also possessed the property of absorbing chakra!

"Roar!" Saiken struggled furiously, lashing its tails and spitting highly acidic slime, corroding and destroying the trees winding toward it. But the trees grew extremely quickly, and Wood Release was naturally suppressive toward tailed beast chakra. Before long, Saiken's limbs and part of its body were firmly bound, and its movements became sluggish.

"I'm not done yet! Wood Release: Hotei Technique!"

Narong formed seals again. Several giant wooden palms suddenly stretched out from underground, like the five-finger mountain of the Tathagata Buddha, and seized Saiken, which had been temporarily trapped by the trees! The giant palms contained powerful sealing force, further restricting its movements.

"Roar, roar, roar!!" Saiken let out roars of rage and pain, struggling madly. Its chakra was being consumed violently, and even the tailed beast cloak covering its surface began to turn unstable, faintly showing signs that its complete tailed beast transformation was about to be undone.

"Now! Mangekyo Sharingan: Genjutsu: Sharingan!"

Seizing the instant when Saiken's mind fluctuated violently from struggle and exhaustion, Narong took his chance and drove the eye power of his Mangekyo Sharingan to its limit! An incomparably powerful mental force, like an invisible sharp sword, pierced through the barrier of tailed beast chakra and stabbed directly into Utakata's true spirit, which had been suppressed deep within Saiken's consciousness and was at its most fragile!

"Aaaaaah—!" Utakata let out a miserable scream! In an instant, his mind was filled with endless negative emotions and illusions. The image of his master Harusame's tragic death replayed again and again; the village's pursuit and betrayal, boundless loneliness and hatred... These wounds, which had already been buried deep in his heart, were infinitely magnified and twisted by the Sharingan's genjutsu!

"Does it hurt? Do you hate them? Give up resisting... sleep... leave everything to me... I can give you power, give you a chance for revenge..." Narong's cold, seductive voice, like demonic whispers boring into the brain, echoed through Utakata's mental world.

Utakata's consciousness had already been in chaos due to the tailed beast transformation, and now, under the impact of a Mangekyo-level genjutsu, his last shred of clarity completely collapsed. His mental defenses crumbled, and his eyes became hollow and vacant.

Success! Joy stirred in Narong's heart, but he did not dare relax in the slightest. He continued pouring out eye power, carving a brand of absolute obedience into Utakata's completely defenseless mental world. At the same time, he controlled Wood Release to strengthen the restraints and began suppressing the rampaging Six-Tails chakra.

Without Utakata's consciousness actively supporting it, the fully transformed Saiken gave an unwilling wail. Its enormous body began rapidly shrinking, and dark-red chakra receded like the tide. In the end, Utakata's true body was revealed inside, unconscious and covered in wounds.

The battle was over! Uchiha Narong had won!

"Hah... hah..." Narong was nearly spent as well. He released the Wood Release Susanoo, landed on the ground, and dropped to one knee, panting violently. His face was as pale as paper, and sharp pain pulsed through both eyes. The side effects of overusing the Mangekyo had begun to appear. The Hashirama cells were running madly, repairing the damage to his body and replenishing his chakra.

"Lord Narong! Are you all right?" Black Zetsu emerged from underground like a ghost and asked with concern, though it was feigned. Several White Zetsu also appeared and began vigilantly patrolling the surroundings.

"I'm fine... just overextended." Narong waved a hand, forced himself to stand, and walked to the unconscious Utakata's side. He checked him over and confirmed that Utakata had been completely controlled by his genjutsu, his spirit had fallen into slumber, and the Six-Tails had been temporarily suppressed.

"Black Zetsu, take him away at once. Use the strongest sealing formula to imprison him and make sure nothing goes wrong. He is still useful, an important reserve fighting force and... experimental material." Narong gave the order coldly.

"Yes! Lord Narong!" Black Zetsu answered respectfully. His body turned into a pool of black liquid, wrapped around the unconscious Utakata, then swiftly sank underground and vanished.

"White Zetsu, clean up the battlefield immediately! All traces left by Wood Release, especially the fragments and chakra residue from large-scale Wood Release, must be completely removed or disguised as destruction caused by ordinary Earth Release and Water Release! Move quickly!" Narong continued ordering.

"Understood! Leave it to us!" A large number of White Zetsu clones poured in from all directions and began swiftly handling the traces of battle like cleanup workers. They dragged the enormous tree remains underground, used special spores to break down chakra traces, and even simulated scenes of Water Release impacts and Earth Release collapses to cover up the truth.