Konoha Crush Plan 12

Hiruzen Sarutobi looked closely. The newcomer was Tobirama Senju! His red eyes, stripped of all life, fixed hollowly on his target. He had already completed the final hand seal during his charge.

Hiruzen's pupils contracted. He knew this technique all too well! Developed by the Second Hokage, it was a terrifying Genjutsu capable of robbing an entire battlefield of sight!

"No! It's the Second Hokage's Bringer-of-Darkness Technique!"

The moment his horrified cry rang out, Tobirama's technique took effect!

"Genjutsu: Bringer-of-Darkness Technique!"

Humm!

Everything before Hiruzen went black. It was not the darkness of closed eyes, but an absolute, abyssal darkness in which he could make out neither a glimmer of light nor the faintest outline!

His hearing, touch, and other senses remained, but the instant his sight vanished, his sense of direction and distance became hopelessly distorted!

"Hah, got you!" Mahito's vicious laugh came from the left, accompanied by the shriek of his spirit form tearing through the air.

"Demon Claw!" Naraka's attack reached silently from behind and to the right.

Worse still, the trees seemed to come alive in the absolute darkness. Thick branches and tough vines coiled and lashed from impossible angles. Hashirama Senju was attacking indiscriminately, guided by his instinct for Wood Style!

Blind and surrounded, Hiruzen faced attacks from his former mentors and strange enemies on every side. In an instant, he was in greater danger than at any point since the battle began!

"Enma!" he shouted. Relying solely on decades of combat instinct and his rapport with his old partner, he whirled the Adamantine Staff into an impenetrable blur, struggling to fend off attacks from every direction. The clang of metal and the crack of splintering wood rang endlessly through the dark.

The Dog Talisman still radiated warmth from inside his clothes, supplying what seemed