Naruto: Uchiha Youngjo's Konoha Spring

Chapter 174 The Three-Tails in its Powerful Armor, Pain's Sudden Arrival
"So you are the leader of the Hidden Mist rebels?" Kakashi looked up at Mei Terumi above the Six-Tailed Saiken's head and said coldly.

"Kakashi Hatake?" Mei Terumi gritted her teeth, staring at Kakashi hovering in mid-air. "Why are you here?"

Kakashi glanced back at the Three-Tails' injuries before speaking to Mei, "To be able to force a tailed beast to this point, it's no wonder your Fourth Mizukage swallowed his pride and begged our Konoha for help."

"What?" Mei Terumi looked at the Three-Tails behind Kakashi in disbelief. The Three-Tails had shaken off the acid and regrouped. Although in her eyes, Yagura Karatachi was already a heartless person, she did not expect that the other party's bottom line could be so low.

Konoha and Kirigakure have a deep-seated hatred for each other during the war. Almost every member of Kirigakure now has a relative who died at the hands of Uchiha Touko. Yet now, Yagura Karatachi, in order to secure his position as Mizukage and continue his brutal rule in the Blood Mist Village, is actually asking their enemy for help.
“Now that we’re here, your rebellious activities should come to an end,” Kakashi said.

As Kakashi finished speaking, the figure of the Six-Tailed Saiken slowly dissipated, and Mei Terumi and Utakata landed back on the ground.

"Utaka?" Mei Terumi looked at Utaka with a puzzled expression.

Utakata, having withdrawn from his Tailed Beast form, looked at Kakashi with a solemn expression: "His eyes are the Mangekyou Sharingan."

"What?" Mei Terumi exclaimed in surprise. Now she understood why Utakata had given up on the Tailed Beast Transformation. Facing the user of the Mangekyou Sharingan, the power of the Tailed Beast was completely suppressed, and it was not as good as relying on the power of the Jinchuriki alone. "Did Uchiha Tokō also bestow this power upon you? He is really generous."

“No, this is just a gift from a friend,” Kakashi said.

"What do we do now?" Yu Gao said with a solemn expression. After the battle just now, he still had the strength to fight again thanks to the tailed beast. However, as a Jinchuriki, he was no different from being given away for nothing in front of the Mangekyou Sharingan user. Meanwhile, Mei Terumi, who was the main force against Kakashi, had almost run out of chakra during the attack on the Three-Tails.

If it were just Kakashi alone, it wouldn't be so bad, but there's a Three-Tails lurking behind him.

"Now, we can only retreat and reconsider our options." Mei Terumi looked at the battle situation around her, and although she was very unwilling, she could only grit her teeth and say these words.

"Everyone, listen up! Take your wounded comrades and retreat!" Mei Terumi and Utakata retreated rapidly, then shouted to the remaining rebel ninjas on the battlefield.

"Hmph, trying to escape?" Kakashi sneered, then looked at the Three-Tails behind him.

Seeing this, the Three-Tails began to gather the power of the Tailed Beast Ball again. This time, it was targeting the rebel ninjas who were gradually gathering on the other side of the battlefield and preparing to retreat.

Seeing this, Yu Gao gritted his teeth and entered the Tailed Beast Transformation state again, and began to condense the Tailed Beast Ball. After all, if the Three-Tails' Tailed Beast Ball were allowed to fall among their remaining ninjas, less than one-tenth of them would survive.

The two Tailed Beast Balls collided in mid-air, and the aftershocks of the explosion overturned a group of resistance fighters who had finally managed to regroup under the pursuit of Konoha's elite forces. The next moment, the Three-Tails suddenly roared and charged towards the Six-Tails on its four short legs.

"I'll hold him off, you take the men and retreat!" Yu Gao shouted, and the six-tailed rhinoceros hound wriggled its body and blocked the three-tailed hound.

The two tailed beasts began their melee. The Three-Tails, being injured, was quickly overwhelmed by the Six-Tails. Mei Terumi took this opportunity to gather her subordinates and find the heavily injured Zabuza.

"Lady Terumi Mei, Lord Kisame is currently engaged in a fierce battle with a Konoha ninja at the south gate, and we've suffered heavy losses on our side," a ninja who had rushed from the southern battlefield reported to Terumi Mei.

Because the Konoha ninjas joined the battlefield from the south, the South Gate unit, which originally faced the least pressure, has now become the side that suffers the most losses. Even their captain has been entangled by Konoha's strongmen and has not yet been able to escape the battlefield.

Mei Terumi glanced at the Six-Tails, who was locked in hand-to-hand combat with the Three-Tails, took a deep breath, and ordered, "Break through the south gate, and provide support to Kisame along the way."

"Yes!"

Kakashi floated in the air, watching Mei Terumi lead the remaining rebel forces southward. Then, Kakashi took out a radio and issued orders to his subordinates.

"Let them leave from the south."

"Yes!"

After receiving a response, Kakashi hung up the radio, then looked at the increasingly intense battle of the tailed beasts and sneered.

"You can leave, but the tailed beast can stay." After Kakashi finished speaking, he floated to the back of the Three-Tails, which was being pushed back by the Six-Tails' acid. His two Mangekyou Sharingan eyes spun rapidly, and his ocular power and chakra gathered into a dark blue skeleton. The skeleton attached itself to the Three-Tails' body, repairing the cracks in the Three-Tails' shell that had been riddled with holes by Mei Terumi's Lava Release ninjutsu. The remaining skeleton then gathered into a suit of armor on the Three-Tails' head and forelimbs.

The Three-Tails' power suddenly surged, and it bit down fiercely on the Six-Tails, tearing off a large piece of flesh formed from chakra.

Liuwei let out a mournful cry, and Yu Gao inside him also felt unwell.

Meanwhile, Kakashi had already arrived inside the Tailed Beast Space within the Three-Tails' body.

Kakashi frowned as he looked at Yagura Karatachi, whose eyes were lifeless. The markings in Yagura's eyes were exactly the same as those in his own Mangekyou Sharingan. Kakashi sighed inwardly.

He finally understood why the Hidden Mist Village had become increasingly chaotic in recent years.

“Obito, so all these years, you’ve already helped Rin take revenge on Kirigakure?” Kakashi said. “Then, leave the rest to me.”

As Kakashi spoke, he used his eye power to connect with the Kaleidoscope mark on Yagura's body.

During this process, Yagura Karatachi briefly regained his senses. Looking at Kakashi in front of him, Yagura Karatachi's eyes were bloodshot, but before he could speak, the power of his Mangekyou Sharingan overwhelmed his will once again.

Blood and tears welled up in Kakashi's eyes. After all, he did not have the bloodline of the Uchiha. Continuously activating the Mangekyou Sharingan had caused more damage to his body than he had expected. However, Kakashi was still holding on and manipulating Yagura Karatachi to burn his own life force to empower the Three-Tails.

Under Kakashi's control, the Three-Tails went completely berserk, using reckless and ruthless fighting techniques. This made Utakata, who had planned to retreat after seeing that Mei Terumi and the others had successfully left, feel extremely troubled.

The close-quarters combat between the two tailed beasts intensified, and the two giant beasts, which kept moving, knocked down a large number of houses. At this moment, the survivors of Kirigakure could only kneel down helplessly, their hearts filled with fear and helplessness when humans faced natural disasters.

On the contrary, the Konoha ninjas reacted calmly to this situation. A few of the bolder ones even thought to themselves, "This commotion is far less than what the Nine-Tails caused back then." Meanwhile, when Mei Terumi led the survivors of the resistance to the battlefield at the south gate of Kirigakure, the battle between Might Guy and Kisame Hoshigaki was nearing its end.

"Kisame! Let's retreat!" Mei Terumi couldn't help but remind Kisame, who was still using ninjutsu to fight Might Guy.

"Youth can't be abandoned at the last minute!" Might Guy shouted upon hearing this, and then red flames ignited under his feet. He stomped through the water beneath him and kicked Kisame in mid-air.

At this moment, Kisame, who had already become one with Samehada, faced with this unavoidable kick, used his strongest ninjutsu. The water beneath his feet began to gather in the air, and a huge shark stood in mid-air, roaring towards Might Guy.

Seeing this, Mei Terumi could only squeeze out the last bit of chakra in her body and spray out a ball of orange acid, trying to at least somewhat hinder Might Guy's offensive.

However, before the acid she sprayed could even touch Might Guy, it was evaporated by the high temperature generated by friction between the air and Might Guy.

"Is this the power that physical techniques can have?" Mei Terumi stared in astonishment at Might Guy, who transformed into a meteor and charged towards Kisame from below, and said in disbelief.

For Mei Terumi, the shock to her worldview tonight was greater than that of the past twenty years. The last time she encountered such a situation was on the battlefield of the Third Shinobi World War, when she, as a reserve member of Kirigakure, heard that Uchiha Touko had wiped out nearly a hundred of their Kirigakure troops by himself.

Mid-air, Might Guy collided with a giant water shark that roared towards him.

An explosion, no less devastating than the collision of Tailed Beast Balls, rang out. The giant shark in the air shattered in the explosion, turning into a mist that scattered and caused the water droplets to land on the faces of the people below, almost everyone was startled by the scalding heat.

Might Guy and Kisame, exhausted from their struggles in mid-air, plummeted downwards. Seeing this, the Konoha and the resistance ninjas rushed forward to catch their respective leaders. However, after landing, Might Guy only managed to catch his breath before staggering to his feet, while Kisame, bleeding from the corner of his mouth, had completely lost consciousness.

"Retreat!" Mei Terumi said through gritted teeth.

Tonight's operation was almost a success, but the sudden appearance of Konoha ninjas ruined everything. Two of the strong members of the resistance were seriously injured, and it was uncertain whether Utakata, who was responsible for covering the rear, could escape.

When Mei Terumi and her group left, the Konoha ninja did not stop them in any way, allowing the remnants of the resistance army to escape from Kirigakure.

At this point, the battle between the two tailed beasts was coming to an end.

After the Three-Tails and the Six-Tails used their last bit of power to spit out a Tailed Beast Ball right in front of their faces, a violent explosion completely engulfed the bodies of the two tailed beasts.

After the dust from the explosion dissipated, the figures of the two tailed beasts had vanished, leaving only the bodies of Yagura and Utakata on the ground, both lying there, their fates unknown.

Kakashi emerged from the void and came to the two of them, looking at them who were barely breathing.

"In that case, this trip was worthwhile."

However, just as Kakashi was about to place a seal on the two Jinchūriki, a whooshing sound suddenly came from afar.

Kakashi frowned and entered Hollowfication mode, as countless attacks from summoning beasts passed through his body.

Kakashi turned around and saw six figures dressed in red cloud robes flying rapidly toward him.

"Akatsuki Organization?"

"Put down the Tailed Beast and leave this place with your people, or you will die," the orange-haired man who was the leader of the six said expressionlessly.

"What if I say no?" Kakashi touched the mechanism on his wrist and said with a serious expression.

"Before God, your resistance is insignificant." Pain raised his hand, a purple light flashing in his Rinnegan, "Universal Pull."

A tremendous suction force appeared out of thin air beside Kakashi, and caught off guard, Kakashi instantly lost his balance, his body flying uncontrollably toward the opponent.

Fortunately, Kakashi reacted quickly, using Kamui to enter Hollowfication mode. His illusory body broke free from the control of gravity and hovered in mid-air.

"Hmm?" Pain also noticed the anomaly, his brow furrowing. "The ability to make your body intangible? How long can you maintain that?"

As soon as he finished speaking, the five figures beside him, dressed in red cloud robes, launched their attacks. A barrage of ninjutsu, ninja tools, and explosive tags enveloped the area where Kakashi was located.

"This is troublesome." Kakashi gritted his teeth as he looked at the overwhelming attack. Kamui's intangibility could only last for five minutes, but the opponent's attack was clearly much more than that.

Kakashi thought for a moment, then turned and ran toward the two Jinchuriki who had fallen to the ground not far away. Since the other party had appeared at this time, they must have been eyeing the two Jinchuriki of Kirigakure. Getting closer to them would make the Akatsuki members hesitate to act.

However, just as Kakashi was about to reach the two lying on the ground, two giant eagles with black rods stuck in their bodies descended from the sky, grabbed the two lying on the ground, and flew into the air.

"Damn it!" Kakashi gritted his teeth. If the Jinchuriki was taken away by the other party, then their operation tonight would have been a complete waste.

"Is it not enough that your Akatsuki organization provoked Iwagakure? Do you also want to start a war with Konoha?" Kakashi said, looking back at Pain after seeing that the summoning beast had already grabbed Yagura and Utakata and flown into the sky.

"This is just a small warning. Sooner or later, our Akatsuki organization and your Konoha will have a war," Pain said expressionlessly. "At that time, you great nations will also taste the pain of war."

At that moment, a bolt of lightning ripped through the night, and the summoning beast, the falcon, which was holding two Jinchūriki, was struck by the lightning from the sky and turned into a cloud of blood mist. At the same time, the jet-black eye power began to gather around Kakashi.

Seeing the Susanoo gradually taking shape beside him, Kakashi breathed a sigh of relief. Although he didn't know how Uchiha Touko had managed to get here from thousands of miles away, he could rest assured as long as he was here.

(End of this chapter)