At the Hidden Rain Village gate, Madara's face went dark as he watched Rinjin and Kagami clowning around.
Senju... Madara...
This bastard was getting more ridiculous by the minute!
He had no idea that in the infamous doujin "Forbidden Love," Uchiha Madara actually changed his surname to Senju. As for why, Rinjin would swear he was pure and innocent and had no clue.
Watching Rinjin's laughter grow ever more shameless, Madara's brow furrowed deep. His voice cut through the rain, cold and sharp:
"Uchiha who've sunk to guarding the gates of a small village don't deserve the name!
Rinjin, I'm done talking. Hand over the Two-Tails, and this ends."
Rinjin just shrugged, grinning:
"Heh, I always thought you were tougher when you were alive.
Did Edo Tensei forget to bring your brain along for the ride?"
His voice grew serious, the smile fading.
"Today you want the cat, I hand it over.
Tomorrow you want to kill our villagers—should I just roll over then?
Cut the crap. If you want to fight, let's fight."
Madara nodded, face like stone, killing intent swirling around him.
After all these years, Rinjin had clearly grown stronger. But so had Madara—restored to his prime, at the absolute peak of his power. He could freely switch between Eternal Mangekyo Sharingan and Rinnegan, making him even more dangerous than in his youth. Add Edo Tensei's near-immortality, and not even Hashirama's resurrection would faze him.
Right now, Madara was the strongest he'd ever been.
"I've wanted a real fight with you for ages. So let me show you what true power looks like!"
Rinjin's smile vanished. He locked eyes with Madara, dead serious.
"You picked this fight—don't blame me if I take over this whole war."
No more words. Rinjin shrugged off his raincoat and tossed it aside.
"Let's go!"
Both men shouted at once, blasting toward each other.
Nearby, Nagato—brought along by Madara—was just about to attack under Kabuto's control when, in an instant, he lost all connection. He looked up. The young man who'd stood quietly beside Rinjin now stared at him, expressionless.
The strange part? The guy's eyes were Mangekyo Sharingan—
Four tomoe, shaped like a Fūma Shuriken.
One second later, Kabuto—lurking in the shadows—lost all contact with Nagato.
Madara, locked in combat with Rinjin, noticed immediately, his lips curling.
"Broke free from Edo Tensei in a flash?
Interesting...
Guess these kids aren't as weak as I thought."
Rinjin shot back, "That's my boy Shisui!
For world domination, his Mangekyo's Kotoamatsukami—he's a genjutsu prodigy!"
Off to the side, Shisui, usually calm, shrank his neck and shot Grandpa Rinjin a look.
Damn! Grandpa's mouth really runs wild!
The clash continued.
Rinjin closed his eyes—Sage Mode already active. To avoid Madara's Izanami, he used the frog kata he'd swiped from Mount Myoboku.
In short: invisible punches.
Frog kata burned through senjutsu chakra much faster than maintaining Sage Mode or making toad oil, but for Rinjin, that was no problem. His chakra reserves were practically bottomless.
First exchange—Madara dodged Rinjin's massive fist, but half his head exploded into dust from an invisible blow.
Madara froze.
What kind of sage technique was this?!
But the old warlord had centuries of experience. Thanks to his Edo Tensei body, after a few rounds, he'd already figured out the strengths and weaknesses of Rinjin's technique.
Fast as hell.
But the invisible punches could be sensed—
At their core, they were pure senjutsu chakra.
And since it was chakra, they could be countered with sealing or chakra absorption.
But Madara didn't bother—not because he didn't want to, but because he couldn't.
He knew:
For this fight, Mangekyo Sharingan was more useful than Rinnegan.
Especially against a guy whose fists could crack mountains.
Without hesitation, Mangekyo tomoe spun in Madara's eyes. A blue skeletal Susanoo snapped into place around him.
He kicked back, hands flying through seals.
"Fire Release: Dragon Flame Anthem!"
Four blazing dragon heads roared toward Rinjin.
Rinjin barely blinked—he punched, shattering the dragons into a shower of sparks.
"Old man, you really don't need to bust out moves like that."
He muttered, then clapped his hands together, voice low and fierce:
"Lightning Chakra Mode, on!
Sixth Gate—open!
Seventh Gate—open!"
Blue lightning and steam erupted from his body, mirroring the Susanoo's glow across the battlefield.
Madara's eyes narrowed, all casualness gone.
He'd seen firsthand how tough Rinjin was.
And the dragon flames had confirmed it—this guy's body hadn't aged a bit.
No holding back.
Madara slammed his hands together, and Susanoo began to evolve.
Chakra surged, bones growing, then wrapped in muscle as more chakra poured in.
Seconds later, a complete Susanoo—two hundred meters tall—towered over the Hidden Rain gate.
Kagami and Shisui watched, faces grim.
They could summon Susanoo too, but only up to the fourth stage—the hooded robe form. This monster was on another level.
Rinjin stared up at the giant, instantly sour.
A mecha.
This thing was his obsession.
Jealousy flared into anger. Rinjin hated anyone who could summon a mecha in front of him.
He clapped his hands, forming seals he hadn't used in ages.
"Expansion Jutsu!
Damn it—Super Expansion Jutsu!"
With the Seventh Gate open, his chakra reserves exploded.
The Super Expansion Jutsu took his size even further.
With a sound that echoed across the lake, a nearly two-hundred-meter-tall Rinjin giant appeared.
Truth be told, this wasn't even Rinjin's strongest regular form.
His usual max was a hundred meters—
Sage Mode's toad oil for heat,
Seventh Gate for raw chakra,
Lightning Chakra Mode for speed,
Part of his chakra for size, the rest for Flying Thunder God's short-range teleportation.
But now, eighty percent of his chakra was going to just maintaining his two-hundred-meter form.
He didn't care.
If he couldn't pilot a mecha, he'd become one himself.
And if he was a mecha, there was no way he'd accept being shorter than the other guy!
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