"Come out, Three-Tails!"
Without wasting words on Yagura Karatachi, Obito directly removed the Three-Tails' Tailed Beast seal on his stomach.
"What are you trying to do?"
Shouting hastily, hoping to create some commotion to alert the Kirigakure ninja outside, Yagura Karatachi was simultaneously shocked to feel the surge of chakra inside his body.
'This guy had already planted a contingency on me while controlling me.'
'Not good, the Three-Tails is breaking through the seal!'
A red-and-black chakra gushed out of Yagura Karatachi's body, slithering out from his eyes, ears, mouth, and nose like black snakes, making it impossible for him to utter another sound.
He could only watch helplessly as the masked man before him sneered mockingly, could only watch as the chakra inside him expanded bit by bit, then was drawn out, gradually taking the form of the Three-Tails' true body.
This completely uncontrollable and loathsome feeling quickly reminded him of everything that had happened when he was Mizukage.
Back then, he had been manipulated in the same way, just as powerless, just as helplessly watching the masked man behind him enact a series of policies that harmed Kirigakure.
"Go, Three-Tails! Let Kirigakure truly experience what pain means!"
'The village that hurt Rin—I will never let it go!'
Obito forcibly extracted the Tailed Beast from Yagura Karatachi, severing his role as a Jinchūriki, then used his Sharingan to control the Three-Tails, sending it rampaging out of the prison cell before slowly vanishing from the scene.
'And Konoha...'
'With this Three-Tails incident, let's see how Kirigakure still plans to ally with Konoha!'
———
"I'm not interested in your underwear. If you really want a fight, then if you lose, promise to help us form an alliance with Kirigakure!"
Uchiha Kage had no idea what Terumi Mei was thinking. She had already been seen naked by him, yet she was still trying to tempt him with underwear?
"Not... not interested?"
Not only had he blurted out her quiet muttering for everyone to hear, but he also dismissed her with a phrase as belittling as "not interested"...
Especially coming from such a handsome young man, Terumi Mei felt deeply wounded.
"So that's how it is. A kid pretending to be serious to hide his embarrassment?"
Yes, that must be it. With her charm, how could any man possibly not be moved?
"Big sis doesn't mind shy little boys. Bullying them is even more fun. But what if you lose?"
She realized that, from the start, she had been led by the nose.
"You already said it earlier. If I lose, you won't let Konoha and Kirigakure form an alliance."
"No way! That means I wouldn't get anything out of it at all..."
Terumi Mei figured that, without any surprises, Kirigakure would definitely form an alliance with Konoha.
Which meant that even if she won, she wouldn't gain anything?
"Fine! If you lose, you have to join Kirigakure!", After thinking for a moment, Terumi Mei quickly settled on the demand she wanted most.
This guy, who had seen her naked—if he stayed in Kirigakure as her subordinate, she might just be able to forgive him.
"No way! You crazy woman, if you want to bully my student, you'll have to get past me first!", Kurenai Yuhi, though curious about what exactly had happened between Uchiha Kage and this Kirigakure kunoichi, could no longer hold back when she heard this.
'My... student—how can I let someone else take him away?'
"Yeah! Kage-kun isn't a commodity! You can't use him as a bet!"
Even Hinata, rare as it was, firmly voiced her objection.
"Hmph. The strong take everything from the weak. That is the iron rule of the ninja world. If you're not happy about it, come at me together. I'm not refusing," Terumi Mei had no concerns about losing.
The gap between an ordinary Jōnin and an elite Jōnin like her was even greater than the gap between a Genin and a Jōnin.
"You! Then I will...", Kurenai Yuhi drew her kunai.
She had thought this woman was a decent person, but she turned out to be another villain with her sights set on her student.
"Sensei, let me handle this. There's no need for you to step in against her."
Terumi Mei's jutsu had too wide a range. Uchiha Kage didn't want the recently recovered Kurenai Yuhi to get hurt again.
"Oh? Are you saying I'd hold you back?"
Kurenai Yuhi pinched her student's waist, then, mimicking Terumi Mei's earlier move, whispered in his ear.
"Hmph! No matter what, you're not allowed to lose! Once this fight is over, I'll deal with you!"
First humiliation, then the thing about returning clothes—Kage must have had some kind of entanglement with this woman.
Kurenai Yuhi decided that once she got rid of Terumi Mei, she would properly interrogate her troublesome student.
"Don't worry, sensei. I won't embarrass you."
Uchiha Kage had already figured out how to deal with Terumi Mei.
"Sensei..."
Seeing that Uchiha Kage was really going to fight that Kirigakure woman, Hinata glanced at Kurenai Yuhi with some resentment.
"Trust him. He's strong, so don't worry."
Kurenai Yuhi patted Hinata's shoulder.
Then, she leaned in to whisper playfully in her student's ear, "If he really might lose, we'll just run back to Konoha and never come to Kirigakure again."
No mission was more important than her student.
"Mm!"
Hearing this, Hinata finally nodded in relief.
"You... You should be more proactive in the future, you hear? Don't always rely on sensei to help you..."
The number of wild women outside was increasing. If Hinata remained as passive as before, one day, Uchiha Kage really would be stolen away by another woman.
———
At Kirigakure's ninja training ground.
"Oh? A wise decision. Knowing you can't beat me, so you don't let your teammates suffer."
'So, saying that his teacher doesn't need to fight meant that he, as the student, can handle me?'
'Hmph! Does he really think I had used my full strength that day?'
'Today, I will show him the price of angering me!'
Watching the lone boy walk forward to face her, Terumi Mei had already decided—today, he would taste the humiliation she had suffered.
She would melt off all his clothes and see how he reacted...
Hehehe.
Imagining the handsome boy standing completely bare before her, Terumi Mei couldn't help but giggle foolishly.
"A defeated opponent, huh? At least your persistence in losing over and over is admirable."
'Does this woman have issues?'
'She's already smiling before the fight even starts...'
'It's kinda creepy.'
Uchiha Kage involuntarily shrank back a little.
"You! That was only because you and that pink-haired girl used underhanded tricks. Otherwise, I would have..."
The phrase "defeated opponent" instantly yanked Terumi Mei out of her fantasies and ignited the fury and humiliation buried in her heart.
"Enough talk! This time, taste my passionate jutsu!"
'Earth Release: Earth Pillar Technique!'
Raising herself onto a higher platform, Terumi Mei then unleashed her most powerful large-scale attack ninjutsu.
'Lava Release: Melting Monster Technique!'
"Fighting against me, who possesses two Kekkei Genkai, you have no chance of winning!"
A massive amount of sticky, highly corrosive acid spewed from her mouth. Watching as the boy was about to be surrounded and engulfed by her acid, Terumi Mei spoke smugly.
'However, why hasn't this guy dodged my jutsu yet? Could it be a shadow clone?'
"Kekkei Genkai? I actually have them too."
'And not just two—three.'
Sharingan, Perception Release, and the Ice Release he was about to use, which he obtained from Haku.
'Ice Release: Frozen Snow Technique!'
Although it was nearly sunset, the glow of the setting sun still bathed everyone in warmth.
But soon, that warmth was entirely replaced by the cold aura emitted from Uchiha Kage's hands, filled with ice and snow.
With a gust of frigid air swirling through, the lava-like corrosive liquid that had just been flowing and covering the entire training ground instantly became coated in a transparent layer of ice, completely immobilized.
"Ice Release? Isn't this..."
'Isn't this the Kekkei Genkai of Kirigakure? But it should have been... wiped out when the village carried out the Blood Mist policy.'
'How could this Uchiha boy possibly have this Kekkei Genkai?'
Seeing her Lava Release so easily neutralized by Ice Release, Terumi Mei was both shocked and infuriated.
'Did this brat actually hide his strength from me last time?'
"Hmph, you may be able to freeze the lava, but can you freeze my Boil Release?"
'Boil Release: Skilled Mist Technique!'
Combining Fire Chakra and Water Chakra to create boiling acidic mist.
After confirming the wind direction, Terumi Mei confidently launched this jutsu at Uchiha Kage, who was standing on the ice.
"My passionate high temperature is impossible for you to freeze!"
"Then I'll just lock it up."
'Ice Release: Ice Prison Technique!'
Another large-scale ninjutsu, but this time, it was cast by Uchiha Kage.
Rumble!
One after another, thick ice walls rose from the ground around Terumi Mei and himself, enclosing both of them within a brightly lit crystal-like ice prison.
At the same time, the high-temperature acidic mist from Terumi Mei's mouth was also sealed inside.
Sizzle...
The acidic mist corroded the thick ice walls while the cold air from the ice walls condensed it into frost. Both forces canceled each other out.
"You... you want to make me..."
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