"Who was the enemy? With your strength, how did you end up this badly hurt? Why didn't you call for help at the start?" Uchiha Shunichi paid no attention to the Fourth Raikage's promise. He was merely curious.
In truth, the enemy's identity was easy enough to guess. Only a handful of people in the entire Shinobi World were capable of something like this.
At the question, the Fourth Raikage said bitterly, "There was no time to react. The sensory ninja were killed immediately, and I... could barely hold out against him."
"The power of the Rinnegan... was too overwhelming!"
The mention of the Rinnegan immediately brought Uchiha Madara to Shunichi's mind. But the Fourth Raikage's next words overturned that guess.
"The person who attacked me was the leader of the Akatsuki-Nagato."
The Five Great Shinobi Villages actually had quite a bit of intelligence on Nagato. But very few people had ever faced the leader of the Akatsuki directly.
The Jinchūriki and others who had fought Nagato were all dead.
Even the Fourth Raikage's intelligence had come through Tsunade.
How could hearsay be taken as fact?
And so, the Raikage had been brought to his knees... Even after realizing something was wrong during the battle, he had been powerless to turn the tide. Forget protecting the five daimyō-he hadn't even been able to get a message out.
"Nagato? It sounds like someone used Impure World Reincarnation on him again. Next time I see him, I'll have to seal him," Shunichi said thoughtfully.
Better not tell the Raikage that I instantly killed the reincarnated Nagato just a few days ago!
All-Killing Ash Bones did not harm the soul. It seemed this technique was better used on the living; it wasn't particularly effective against those brought back through Impure World Reincarnation.
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