"The First?!"
Everyone was stunned. The Senju brothers, who seemed like gods in their eyes, had been torn apart by Madara Uchiha without a sound.
"What jutsu was that?"
"I don't know! I couldn't see or sense a thing!"
Hiruzen Sarutobi and the others were shaken. Even the mighty First had been no match for him, his body shattered in an instant.
The Second Hokage had been planted in the ground like a radish, unable to move.
"The legendary Rinnegan..."
That eye was extraordinary. Even incomplete, with only one eye, it held unimaginable power. It was the stuff of legend.
Minato Namikaze moved. One glance later, he had already crossed space.
"No trace of movement at all. That spatial distortion!"
"Another Flying Thunder God Ninja?!"
Madara Uchiha raised his gaze. Minato Namikaze was coming at him from above through the Flying Thunder God. The Hokage Robe on Minato's back marked him as Konoha's current Hokage.
"Sage Art: Big Ball Rasengan!" Minato Namikaze entered Sage Mode in an instant.
He held a Special Kunai in one hand and drove the enormous Rasengan down with the other.
He had already dealt with Rasa. It had not been difficult; in fact, it had been almost easy.
Kazekage Rasa, hailed by the Sand Shinobi as the strongest Kazekage of all generations and second only to one other in the current era, had not even managed to tear Minato's robe with his Gold Dust.
"The Fourth Hokage?" Madara Uchiha looked up and casually raised his right arm, actually catching the Big Ball Rasengan with his hand.
But the expected destruction never came. Madara Uchiha's arm was like a black hole, swiftly absorbing the Big Ball Rasengan without being shredded by its wind.
"What?!" Minato was startled and instinctively used Flying Thunder God to escape.
Whoosh!