Naruto: From Fake to Real, Deceiving the Ninja World.

No, there are still living people.

Those were Nagato and Obito Uchiha, who stood silently in the distance.

"And you?" Hinata Kumokawa asked with a polite, inviting tone, as if they were meeting for the first time. "Would you like to come in?"

Is he crazy? Or something else?

Obito Uchiha narrowed his eyes, sensing that something was amiss.

He turned to look at Nagato beside him, and Nagato raised his arm at that moment.

"Shinra Tensei." A deep, emotionless voice echoed.

Bang! !

A powerful repulsive force suddenly erupted, instantly compressing and distorting the surrounding air, emitting a shrill whistle of unbearable strain.

The dark figure seemed to have crashed into an invisible wall, and was sent flying back into the darkness once more.

Seeing this, Obito Uchiha breathed a sigh of relief, and his slight suspicion dissipated.

"Walk."

Nagato strode forward, but Obito hesitated.

“Nagato,” he said in a deep voice, “why don’t we wait for them to come out here? If there’s anything important, we can take it from them then.”

Upon hearing this, Nagato also stopped in his tracks, remained silent for a moment, and let out a barely audible sigh.

"So that's how it is..." he murmured to himself.

"What?" Obito was stunned, not understanding.

hum! !

The sharp, piercing sound reached Obito's ears, and he felt the hairs on his body stand on end.

Following the sound with his crimson Sharingan, and with his powerful dynamic vision, he saw the figure in front of the door.

That guy didn't enter the underground palace, or rather, he came out again.

Several shadowy spikes pierced out from behind Hyuga Kumokawa.

The water ring instantly exploded in front of him, forming a white mist that left a channel in the air, pointing directly at Uchiha Obito in the distance.

Obito Uchiha never expected that he would become that guy's target.

And the speed at which it was made was beyond expectation.

but……

"Meaningless."

Obito Uchiha's three-tomoe Sharingan spun, instantly transforming into the Mangekyou Sharingan and unleashing the Hollowfication of Kamui.

The spikes came like a sudden storm, but they only managed to tear the hem of Obito's clothes before he disappeared.

Obito suddenly appeared in another place, but the next moment, a piercing sonic boom rang out again.

hum! !

The black shadow's spikes unleashed a gust of wind that whipped up the ground where he stood, raising dust several meters high before slicing through Obito's neck.

Obito Uchiha had no visible injuries on his neck, but his eyes were filled with an intense coldness as he stared at the dark figure in the distance.

This was not unexpected for Hinata Kumokawa.

Because the slash didn't feel like it hit anything, it was more like it cut through a phantom and sliced ​​through layers of air.

"Is this the Hollowfication of the Right Eye Kamui?" he wondered to himself.

Just then, Obito's figure vanished again, and in the blink of an eye, he appeared beside Hyuga Kumokawa, attempting to absorb him into the Kamui dimension...

呲!

Hinata Kumokawa's arm, shrouded in shadow, transformed into a blade. He turned, and the cold, clean blade slashed towards Obito's head like clear water.

This time, Hyuga Kumokawa saw it: the moment it touched Obito, the blade was submerged again, without drawing out a single drop of blood, and went straight through.

But Obito missed.

His palm pierced through Hinata Kumokawa's body.

"Does the body only materialize when the intangibility is dispelled during an attack?"

"And it can also achieve short-distance instantaneous teleportation through blurring?"

Hinata Kumokawa pondered the effects of the intangibility, thinking, "Without a wide-range, long-duration attack, Kamui's ability is indeed difficult to deal with; he can run away at any time if he wants to..."

As he pondered, the blade pierced through Obito's neck, and Obito's outstretched hand passed through Hyuga Kumokawa's body. Behind him, his pupils narrowed slightly.

"Got you?"

A chain slipped from his sleeve, and he wanted to materialize it again to bind the guy behind him.

However, in an instant, the black shadow transformed into a blade and slashed at Obito's neck again. Obito's expression darkened, and he was forced to enter Hollowfication mode once more.

He let the blade pass through his body, and the chains pass through Hyuga Kumokawa's body as well.

Like a ghost, Obito kept looking for an opportunity to try and absorb him into the Kamui dimension.

However, every time he materialized, he was attacked, and each time he was forcibly interrupted by Hinata Kumokawa.

"What kind of bloodline limit is this?!" Obito's face behind his mask gradually darkened.

hum!hum!hum!

The dark figure slashed like a blade, unleashing terrifying speed.

However, Hyuga Kumokawa's speed in controlling the shadow attacks was just within Obito's ability to react.

It doesn't reach the speed of spacetime like Minato Namikaze, and it's impossible to capture the moment Obito's body materializes.

Finally, realizing that a stalemate was pointless, Obito pulled himself into the Kamui dimension, his figure disappearing from the spot and reappearing beside Nagato.

"..."

Looking at the dark figure in the distance, Obito Uchiha frowned.

What's wrong with that guy?

The last time I felt this frustrated and powerless was when I faced Minato Namikaze, and my intangibility was exposed after only a few moves.

Although that guy couldn't hurt him like Minato Namikaze did, he has clearly figured out the logic behind his transformation between reality and illusion.

In this way, while the other party can't touch him, they also can't touch the other party.

If this continues...

"Are you trying to escape?" Nagato's tone was as calm as still water. "Madara."

Upon hearing this, Obito Uchiha's face darkened beneath his mask, especially when he was addressed as "Madara," which made his eyes turn sinister.

Nagato's sudden recovery from his disability was already quite irritating to him.

If we can't even handle some nobody who suddenly appears out of nowhere, then we'll really have no say in front of Nagato or in the Akatsuki organization.

Thinking of this, Obito Uchiha's expression darkened slightly. As a vortex appeared in the space, his figure was also drawn in and disappeared from the spot.

This time, he didn't rush to show up.

Hinata Kumokawa simply stood there quietly, his face shrouded in shadow, making his expression impossible to discern.

Buzz! Buzz!

Hundreds or even thousands of sword lights flashed out instantly around Hyuga Kumokawa!

The ground was slashed into countless jagged grooves by the endless shadows, and the falling blood droplets shattered into a blood mist amidst the overwhelming blade light.

Those shadowy figures transformed into blades, and they showed no sign of stopping, continuously slashing around Hyuga Kumokawa, as if they wanted to keep going forever!

However—amidst this suffocating storm of blades, in the shadows beneath his wide robes, a figure appeared silently.

hum!

Obito suddenly appeared from beneath him, as if he had crawled out of his body, and his body quickly left the Kamui dimension.

The Mangekyou Sharingan flashed with a cold, chilling light, and space rippled like twisted silk, revealing an invisible, powerful pulling force.

Obito had already estimated that, given this guy's reaction speed and the speed at which he controlled the shadows, he had about one second.

Obito didn't even dare to appear behind him, nor did he touch the other's shadow; he was betting on this one second of opportunity.

One second is enough; no one can resist that twisting, dizzying sensation.

"it's over!"

Looking at the figure distorted by space, Obito declared in a chilling tone.

However, just as Obito was about to suck him into the Kamui dimension...

Obito Uchiha did not see that a dark figure had mysteriously risen from the shadow beneath his feet.

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Meanwhile, those who had previously flooded into the underground palace were unaware of what was happening outside.

Tick ​​tock...tick tock...

The air was thick with the smell of dust and a chill that seemed to emanate from deep within the rocks.

Occasionally, water droplets could be heard falling from the dome, their hollow, distant echoes adding to the eeriness of the scene in the dim light.

Unlike the outside, the underground palace was not pitch black. The walls were covered with luminous, moss-like plants, which were barely visible to a ninja.

But it is precisely because of this that when they looked up and saw what was in front of them, they felt a profound shock and tremor that went deep into their souls.

The first thing that catches the eye is ten irregularly shaped pillars that arch upwards like a mountain range...

No, that's not a pillar.

Those were ten enormous tails!

The enormous dome was higher than anyone could have imagined, yet the light could barely outline the shape of a colossal object.

Its rough, rocky skin was covered with twisted muscle lines, and its massive torso lay prostrate like an inverted mountain, beneath which were limbs and claws as twisted as mountain ranges.

That single, scarlet eye seemed to cast a gaze capable of freezing the soul, piercing through countless years, looking down upon the tiny intruder.

Even though it is just a stone statue, it exudes an absolute pressure from the very top of the life level that is enough to make people suffocate and tremble!

Enormous! Ancient! Ferocious! Deadly silent!

However, what shocked everyone even more than the colossus itself were its ten tails that rose high behind it, like divine pillars supporting the sky!

At the end of each tail is a "sphere," a "sphere" that shimmers with different strange lusters.

Like the most magnificent offerings and spoils of war, they were restrained and held aloft at the tips of the ten tails in a entwined manner!

But soon, everyone noticed that the black sphere of light on the third tallest tail was completely empty.

"Ghost Mask?"

Kakuzu was able to read the characters engraved on the bottom of the tail.

Despite his seemingly indifferent attitude towards money, reading ancient books is actually one of his only two interests besides making money.

He was thus able to know that the thing inside the sphere of light should be called the Ghost Mask.

However, it seems that someone beat them to it and took the things inside.

After a brief moment of deathly silence, everyone present vanished instantly, rushing towards the other nine orbs of light.

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puff! !

Just then, a tearing sound, like tough leather being pierced by a sharp blade, rang out from outside the door.

"puff!"

Obito suddenly coughed up a mouthful of blood and stiffly looked down at his abdomen.

Behind him, a ninja-like figure stood up, his arm piercing through his chest, blood gushing from the flesh.

Most importantly, the dark shadow was wriggling like a living thing, like a bloodsucking worm inside his body, consciously drawing blood from him.

Shadow Legion: Ghost Ninja.