*Boom!

In the heart of a dense forest, under the silver glow of the moon, a masked man stood in a small clearing.

One of his arms was tightly bound in glowing chains—the Uzumaki chains of Kushina.

With a swift, powerful motion, Kushina yanked the chains, pulling the masked man off his feet.

He was flung through the air, crashing into the ground with a heavy thud. Dust and leaves swirled around him as he struggled to regain his footing.

Kushina didn't give him a chance to recover.

She rotated the chain like a whip. With a sharp crack, she swung the chain again, lifting the man off the ground and slamming him into a tree.

Desperate to escape, the man attempted to use his ability to become intangible and slip away from the chains' grasp.

He focused his chakra, feeling the familiar sensation of his body beginning to phase out.

But the Uzumaki chains, imbued with Kushina's chakra, glowed brighter and tightened their hold.

"There is no escaping from that you brat!" Kushina growled and started thrashing the masked man left and right.

But the man kept trying, his body flickered in and out of solidity, but the chains held firm, binding him to the current dimension.

"Enough!" The man groaned with rage and cut off the arm which was wrapped in the chains.

Kushina however immediately charged at him, her physical parameters right now were off the charts due to being strengthened by the Nine Tails Chakra Cloak.

*BAM!

The man couldn't activate his technique in time as Kushina's arm, glowing with intense chakra, swung forward in a devastating lariat.

The force of the blow was like a thunderclap, her arm slamming into Obito's chest with immense power.

*Crack! *Crack!

The impact was so intense that it shattered his ribs, the bones cracking under the pressure.

The sheer force lifted him off his feet, sending him flying through the air.

He crashed into the ground with a heavy thud, skidding across the dirt and leaves.

Pain radiated through his body as he lay there, gasping for breath.

*Blergh!

Blood spurted from his mouth, staining the ground red. He struggled to get up, each movement sending sharp pains through his broken ribs.

'This isn't going as planned at all. Her utilization of the Nine Tails chakra is something unheard of! Even Mito Uzumaki didn't have this level of control. What the hell was she doing all these years to improve so much?' The man thought.

"The Raikage does that a lot, I've heard. For someone who has never seen what that is like, I think I did pretty well." Kushina grinned, the slitted red eyes and the dark whiskers on her cheeks giving her a terrifying look.

...

(With Minato)

Minato had a few sweat running down his forehead when he was dropped in the middle of nowhere. He immediately put two of his finger down and closed his eyes, sensing his surroundings.

'They are close by.'

He makes a few hand signs and slams his palm on the ground.

"Summoning jutsu!"

A small red frog with blue markings around his eyes and on top of his head appeared with a puff of smoke.

Minato wasted no time. "Go tell the Third, it was exactly as we had expected. Bring the reinforcements."

The red frog adopts a serious look and immediately de-summons itself.

Minato looks at the spot the frog was just at and think about his wife and son.

'I hope both you are alright.'

With a deep breath, he gets up and turns around. The Kages had located him already, well considering the fact that he didn't teleport himself far this wasn't surprising.

He needed to deal with them one way or the other, so there was no use running at this critical moment.

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*Swoosh! *Swoosh! *Swoosh! *Swoosh!

"We meet again, Minato!" Ay greets Minato with a wide grin.

Minato ignored him and instead stared at Rasa. "What is the meaning of this Kazekage?"

While asking that, he also noted mentally that the Mizukage was not present.

As for Onoki, he was just staring at Minato with hatred seeped deep in his eyes.

Rasa's eyes hardened and he said simply, "At the end, all that matters to all of us is the well-being of our own village, Yondaime. Sorry, nothing personal."

With that said, Rasa clasped his palm.

Gold Sand Wave!

The Kazekage was indeed a formidable foe. Even when not surrounded by sand, he could simply generate it out of thin air using chakra.

The golden sand wave, immense and powerful, surged forward with a relentless force, threatening to engulf Minato completely.

Minato jumped a great height to avoid the wave. The golden sand twisted and coiled, following him.

"ELBOW!" Ay screamed and suddenly appeared besides Minato covered in his Lightning Release Chakra Mode.

*Chwing!

With a flash of yellow light, Minato disappeared, the signature of his Flying Thunder God Technique. He reappeared a short distance away, but was immediately targeted by Onoki.

"Dust Release: Detachment of the Primitive World Technique!" Onoki's voice boomed across the battlefield, and a blindingly bright cube of white light formed between his hands. The cube expanded and rapidly surged forward towards Minato, obliterating everything in its path.

*Chwing!

In an instant, Minato activated his Flying Thunder God Technique, vanishing from his position.

He reappeared several meters away, but Onoki was relentless. The Tsuchikage adjusted the trajectory of his attack, the cube of energy following Minato with uncanny precision.

Minato moved with lightning speed, throwing his marked kunai in a wide arc, teleporting from one point to another in rapid succession.

*Chwing! *Chwing! *Chwing!

The battlefield became a blur of motion, the cube of Dust Release energy carving through rock and earth, leaving nothing but annihilation in its wake.

"Guillotine Drop!" Ay who had been paying attention quietly successfully guessed the place Minato teleported to.

His form blurred as he descended with the might of a thunderclap, aiming precisely at Minato's reappearing form.

In a fraction of a second, Minato materialized right where the Raikage had predicted.

But Minato was no ordinary shinobi; his reflexes were razor-sharp. Just as A's attack was about to connect, Minato's hand flicked, releasing another kunai into the ground right behind the Raikage.

*Chwing!

He teleported again, mere inches from the point of impact.

The ground where Minato had been exploded, debris flying as A's Guillotine Drop smashed into it. But instead of the satisfying crunch of victory, the Raikage felt nothing but air.

Minato turned on his left foot swiftly and a large Rasengan materialized on his right palm.

*BOOOOM!!!

"GAH!" Ay vomited blood as he was flung towards a tree. Minato had quietly unleashed a large Rasengan on his unguarded back instead of screaming the name of the jutsu like an idiot.

Ay crashed through a tree, the trunk splintering on impact. He didn't stop there—each tree he smashed through exploded into fragments, the sound echoing like thunderclaps.

Dust and debris billowed up, forming a cloud that looked like a meteorite had slammed into the earth.

Ay finally skidded to a halt. But Minato didn't pay attention to him as he had more pressing matters to deal with.

A cube of Dust Release shot towards him, slicing through the air with incredible speed. The ground trembled beneath its path, and the sound of its movement was like a high-pitched whine, growing louder as it closed the distance.

'Dust release is certainly the most troublesome to deal with here. Since that is the case, I will take you down first.'

During the fight, Minato had laid plenty of his special kunai all over the battlefield. He picked one from the ground and shot towards Onoki, his speed so immense that it seemed he had dissolved into thin air.

Rasa immediately reacted. With a wave of his hand, streams of gold dust surged forward, aiming to block and trap Minato. The golden particles twisted and turned, forming intricate patterns and barriers in an attempt to slow the Yellow Flash.

Onoki clenched his jaws in anger and charged up yet another cube of Dust Release.

"DIE!" The Tsuchikage screamed, the cube expanded and with in a flash devoured the form on Minato.

But, Onoki, while old, certainly wasn't senile. He knew such a simple way of attacking can't take down Minato. He turns his head around, trying to see where Minato is.

"Above you!" Rasa's scream alerted him and he looked above. Rasa who had reacted faster than him had already dispatched his Gold Sand to capture Minato.

Minato danced in the air as he dodged the sand, grabbing a kunai with both of his hand, he mustered up all his strength to stab the Tsuchikage.

"ARRRRRGH!" Onoki screams mustering up all of his chakra. He jumps and flies toward Minato charging up the biggest cube he has so far.

"SPLIT!" However, Onoki is a smart man. He knew that size didn't matter to Minato, as he would simply teleport away. So, he split the cube into multiple and they all shot towards Minato forming a beam.

*Swish! *Swish! *Swish!

Minato danced in the air with a grace of a skilled dancer. He only slightly moves his body to narrowly dodge the beams. All the beams move past him, until they converge and home in on him.

This takes Minato off guard but he still manages to move himself out of the way, though the kunai in his hand falls on the beam's path and gets disintegrated.

Ay and Rasa seeing the opportunity both jump towards Minato. Using the sand as the foundation Rasa who also was closer than Ay is able to immediately close in the distance between him and Minato.

While, Ay only manages to reach Onoki. Onoki seeing Ay, immediately uses his Light-Weight Rock Technique to make Ay float.

"Finally!" Onoki seeing this immediately guides the beams towards the ground to erase any kunai he has lodged there. The beams converge to one single point and the devastation that is causes isn't any less than that of a tailed beast bomb.

However, the Kages who now are all mid-air do not care.

Minato was now mid-air unable to dodge, that was all that mattered to them.

Rasa using his Gold Sand immediately wraps Minato.

*Chwing!

"Huh!?" Ay looks in surprise as he suddenly finds himself in another location, about to be buried in the Gold Sand mid-air.

Onoki who just realized only manages to turn his eyes to where Ay was a moment ago only to see a big blue orb of chakra covering his vision.

*BOOM!

There was no disgusting sound of flesh being torn apart by the Rasengan nor did Onoki make a sound.

After all, the Rasengan just made Onoki's head dissappear from the world in an instant.

The destruction of the Dust Release on the ground had also stopped by now.

And the headless corpse of the Tsuchikage fell on the ground.

Using the Gold Sand as platform, Rasa himself came down while also guiding down the Raikage. Both stare at Minato with wide eyes.

Minato's face was stoic, there was not a hint of pity or remorse on his face. His face was a blank slate as if he had just killed a coackroach.

"That was Flying Thunder Level 3," he said.

That was all he said.