"Captain Darui!"
Half asleep, Darui snapped his eyes open and headed straight to the coastline.
"Sound the alarm! The enemy's here!"
Two figures, one gold and one silver, stood on the sea.
Kinkaku and Ginkaku exchanged glances, sinister smiles curling their lips.
"What a disgrace! We actually fell victim to a technique belonging to Second Hokage Tobirama Senju-a man we defeated!"
"Nothing we can do about it. Looks like we're being forced to face the enemy!"
The First Division had already assembled, and the Hidden Cloud ninja along the coastline recognized the Gold and Silver Brothers!
At headquarters.
"This enormous chakra... and the Nine-Tails' chakra..."
"There's no mistake. It's Kumogakure's once-renowned brothers, Kinkaku and Ginkaku!"
Cold sweat beaded on A's forehead.
"In that case, let me go..."
"There's no need, Raikage. The supreme commander can't take the field yet."
"The Gold and Silver Brothers are terrifyingly powerful!"
"We have someone better suited to handle them."
Minato turned to Shikaku.
"Shikaku, contact Xuanhui. Have him lead his team out onto the sea. The First Division is to hold the coastline. They must not set foot on the water!"
"Um... I've got a bit of a situation here, too."
Just as Minato finished giving his orders, Karatachi Yagura's voice came through the communications system.
"Mizukage, what's happening on your end?"
"There aren't any strange white creatures here. I'm facing an army raised through Impure World Reincarnation.
Their leaders are... what look like the Kage of past generations!"
Karatachi Yagura sat atop an earthen pillar, aiming his Water Release telescope ahead.
Several figures stood together in the desert.
"Isn't this the Second Hokage... Tobirama Senju's technique?"
"To think we'd be brought back to serve as tools in another war..."
The speakers were the Second Tsuchikage, Mu, and the Second Mizukage, Hozuki Gengetsu.
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