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On the vast ocean, the ship carrying the Konohagakure ninja sailed towards the Land of Fire.
Itachi, Izumi, and the others stood at the bow of the deck, the sea breeze blowing in their faces, instantly clearing their minds.
"What's wrong?"
Izumi looked at Itachi beside her, who was staring intently in one direction.
"Nothing," Itachi replied calmly, but inwardly he was thinking, "It's been a while since I left Kirigakure. It's about time they made their move."
His eyes lowered slightly, but he still muttered to himself, "Kisame, we pursue different paths, so I must eliminate you as soon as possible."
Back when they were in Akatsuki, Itachi and Kisame had worked as a two-man team.
Due to their different positions, they weren't exactly friends, but they admired each other.
Itachi's rebirth had changed Deidara's original life trajectory, but knowing Kisame well, he knew his beliefs were unchangeable.
Now that the plan to use Shisui's Kotoamatsukami to expose the Fourth Mizukage's true identity has been accomplished, Itachi, acquainted with history, naturally seeks to eliminate the masked man's power as soon as possible.
Kisame holds a unique position within Akatsuki, for he truly understands the masked man's purpose.
His initial choice to team up with Itachi was, in fact, to monitor him on behalf of the masked man.
Itachi has already relayed all his information on Kisame to the Fourth Hokage.
Now, Konohagakure possesses a single individual capable of completely neutralizing Kisame.
In the dense forests of the Land of Birds, Might Guy, in a fighting stance, stares at Kisame, clutching Samehada, his expression growing serious.
Kakashi, standing to his side, nods and draws a white dagger from his back.
His father, Sakumo Hatake, was once the renowned White Fang of Konohagakure during the Second Shinobi World War, a master of swordsmanship.
The dagger White Fang left behind was broken long ago when Kakashi performed the Kannabi Bridge mission.
After that battle, Kakashi lost his most important friends one after another, leaving him depressed for many years.
However, the dead are gone, and under the guidance of the Fourth Hokage, Kakashi gradually emerged from the shadows.
Kakashi reshaped the short sword, inheriting the Hatake clan's swordsmanship.
Sakumo's swordsmanship, adapted from the Hatake clan's, was once the most powerful in the ninja world.
Facing Kisame, who wielded the great sword Samehada, it was forbidden to use ninjutsu, as it would only make him even more powerful.
Drawing out the white short sword, Kakashi raised the forehead protector covering his left eye.
"Chi!"
He had already unsealed his Sharingan before arriving, and his blood-red eyes trembled.
"Eight Gates, Fifth Gate: Gate of Limit, open!"
Might Guy shouted, his body trembling slightly.
The power he unleashed shook the air, and his entire face suddenly became ferocious.
Swish!
The next moment, Guy and Kakashi vanished from their positions.
"How fast!"
Kisame exclaimed, his face tense, his heart pounding with shock.
He glanced to his left, where Guy had already appeared, unleashing a powerful punch.
Kisame didn't retaliate immediately, for Kakashi immediately moved to Kisame's right, white dagger in hand, slashing down.
"Both of them using taijutsu, clearly targeting me!"
Analyzing their attacks, Kisame determined their trajectory and swung his Samehada sword horizontally.
"Bang!"
Samehada met Guy's punch with a muffled sound, like heavy objects colliding.
Then, Samehada cried out in pain again.
Guy's powerful five-point attack sent a tearing pain through Kisame's palm, but he didn't have time to process it.
After taking Guy's blow head-on, the blade had already deviated from its previous trajectory.
At this time, Kisame stretched out his other hand and slapped Samehada hard, forcibly correcting its trajectory.
"Ding!"
Samehada clashed with the white dagger again, and all the strength of Kisame's hands was pressed on Kakashi.
Kakashi himself was not good at strength, so he was slightly pushed back.
But at this time, Guy on the other side came up again.
Kisame's strength was spent at this time, and new strength had not yet been generated, so he had no room to fight back by himself.
But he immediately let go of the hand holding Samehada.
"Bang!"
Samehada's body, covered with barbs, directly burst the bandages that bound it.
It twisted its body, opened its mouth, and bit towards Guy.
At the same time, Kisame, having repelled Kakashi, immediately formed hand seals with his hands.
As the wielder of Samehada, Kisame's strength lies not only in his own power, but also in his tacit coordination with Samehada, the great sword.
The previous exchange had taught Kisame that if he engaged Kakashi and Guy in a physical duel alone, he would undoubtedly lose.
Therefore, he must first create a favorable position and distance himself from the two.
Just as Kisame placed his hands together, preparing to form hand seals, Kakashi observed his movements and began forming his own.
"Water Style," Kisame quickly completed his hand seals, and just as he was about to unleash his jutsu—
"Fire Style: Flame Bullet!"
Kakashi, however, had beaten him to the punch, already completing his jutsu.
"Boom!"
A blazing flame surged towards him, leaving Kisame no time to unleash his Water Style.
"His hand seals are so fast!"
Kisame had never expected Kakashi to be able to execute his jutsu even before he had finished forming his seals.
"Slurp!"
At this moment, Samehada was knocked back by Guy, standing right in front of Kisame.
When the flames reached Samehada, they vanished at an astonishing speed.
Kisame was now free to unleash his jutsu.
"Sixth Gate: Gate of View, open!"
Guy suddenly roared, his entire body enveloped in a green glow.
With a swish, his speed skyrocketed, and before Kisame could unleash his jutsu, he struck Samehada in front of him with a fist.
"Bang!"
Samehada was instantly sent flying by the blow.
"Water Style: Great Waterfall Technique!"
"Splash!"
But at this moment, Kisame finally unleashed his jutsu, a torrent of water erupting from his mouth.
However, before his water could fully form, Guy reappeared beside him.
"Oh no!"
Kisame was powerless to resist.
Facing both Kakashi and Guy simultaneously, he was quickly trapped.
At this moment, Kakashi, standing by, suddenly noticed that behind Guy, space was twisting and swirling, releasing a figure.
A masked man appeared behind Guy, extending his hand toward him.
"The Konohagakure ninja are coming really fast!"
A cold look flashed in the scarlet eyes beneath the mask.
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"Watch out behind you!"
Kakashi immediately warned Might Guy.
Judging by the speed of the masked man's attack, his palm could reach Guy as his attack landed on Kisame.
The Fourth Hokage had warned that when fighting the masked man, one must never allow him to touch them.
The moment the masked man touched one's body, his space-time ninjutsu would absorb it.
As he warned, Kakashi suddenly shot in that direction.
Might Guy, who was attacking Kisame, reacted instantly.
He glanced sideways, meeting the masked man's gaze.
He immediately changed the direction of his attack, spinning mid-air and sweeping out with his right leg.
The masked man continued forward, and Guy, like a green shadow, passed through him.
Then, the masked man glanced sideways, noticing Kakashi's movements.
"Splash!"
Without Guy's attack, Kisame continued to spew a stream of water, gradually forming a small waterfall.
Swish!
At this moment, Kakashi flung his dagger directly at Kisame.
However, the dagger's trajectory was also aimed at the masked man, whose body was slightly overlapping Kisame's.
The dagger, launched at high speed, first pierced the masked man's body.
Almost instantly, Kakashi vanished and reappeared beside the dagger.
Kakashi's dagger, naturally bearing the time and space markings of his Flying Thunder God Jutsu, was on it.
The masked man glanced back, landing next to Samehada, the large sword that had just been sent flying by Guy's punch.
With a backhanded move, he lifted Samehada with one hand and flung it towards Kakashi's back.
Swish!
Then, with the incredibly fast speed of Guy, who possessed Sixth Gate power, he reappeared beside the masked man.
Just then, the masked man threw Samehada, and Guy's attack overlapped the masked man's body.
"Piercing through again!"
Guy gritted his teeth.
"Water Style: Water Formation Wall!"
Kisame, using the Great Waterfall Technique, which had already begun to take shape beside him, erected a wall of water before him.
As Kakashi appeared, he formed seals with both hands, and lightning flashed from his palms.
"Sizzle!"
Raikiri took shape in his left hand, but Kakashi noticed Samehada behind him, mawed and biting him.
He lowered his eyes and dodged to the side.
From Kakashi's position, no matter which side he attacked, Kisame or Samehada would respond.
This was all because the masked man had seen through Guy and Kakashi's attack patterns.
"Sizzle!"
As Kakashi dodged, Samehada let out a strange cry.
Kisame, understanding the situation, immediately understood, and the wall of water before him vanished.
He caught Samehada steadily, standing atop the Great Waterfall Technique.
His shark-like eyes, bloodshot, glared at Kakashi and Guy with murderous intent.
The masked man didn't continue his fight with Guy.
The latter's Sixth Gate movements and speed were truly swift, leaving him with no opening to reach Guy.
He then used space-time ninjutsu to draw him into another dimension.
He then immediately made eye contact with Kisame.
Kisame understood, and the masked man darted directly towards Kakashi.
Kakashi had mastered the Flying Thunder God Jutsu, so only the masked man's eye technique could corner him.
Kisame's next opponent, naturally, was Guy.
Watching the masked man lock onto him, Kakashi, on guard, with his right hand, pulled a unique trident-shaped kunai from his ninja tool bag.
Buzz!
He gripped the kunai's handle without hesitation, and the "Sword of Ninja Love" symbol on the handle glowed faintly white.
"That symbol…"
The masked man noticed the movement of Kakashi's right hand, which was behind his back, and saw the glowing symbol.
As before, out of fear, the masked man abruptly stopped attacking Kakashi.
He landed on the trunk of a large tree, staring directly at Kakashi.
Their three eyes intertwined for a few seconds.
Then, a figure suddenly appeared beside Kakashi.
The masked man immediately noticed the blond man in the white divine robe.
He lowered his eyes and said in a low voice, "The Fourth Hokage."
Minato, summoned by Kakashi with a kunai, also immediately noticed the masked man on the tree trunk in front of him.
"Is that special mark now able to transmit chakra fluctuations?"
The masked man mentally analyzed this.
He had just noticed Kakashi inject a tiny amount of chakra into the mark on the Flying Thunder God kunai.
Immediately, the chakra forming the mark rippled slightly.
This slight fluctuation, like a chain reaction between shadow clones, instantly transmitted to the original body.
The original body immediately sensed the mark and moved forward using the Flying Thunder God Jutsu.
"He's improved the Flying Thunder God Jutsu again!"
The masked man looked at Minato with a look of fear.
The Flying Thunder God Jutsu was developed by the Second Hokage, Tobirama Senju, but as far as the masked man knew, Minato had refined it numerous times.
"What a troublesome man," the masked man gritted his teeth.
One of the purposes of his initial attack on Konohagakure was to eliminate Minato.
As long as Konohagakure's Fourth Hokage lived, his plans would be thwarted.
Now, it seemed, the masked man's theory had been fully confirmed.
Shisui Uchiha's eye technique possesses the power to completely alter another person's mind.
Kakashi and Shisui traveled to the Land of Water to use this ability on Ao, allowing Ao to see through their true selves with his Byakugan.
Furthermore, Konohagakure's intelligence system was incredibly powerful.
The masked man was astonished that they knew Kisame Hoshigaki, one of the Seven Ninja Swordsmen of the Mist, was his trusted confidant.
Therefore, after the Land of Water incident, they immediately dispatched Kakashi and Might Guy to surround and kill Kisame.
This interconnected operation, while supposedly operating in the shadows, was actually hindered at every turn.
"Since you dare to attack Konohagakure's ninja, you should expect to pay the price one day," Minato glared grimly at the masked man.
The intelligence provided by Itachi had been crucial in enabling Konohagakure's plan to reach this point.
To this day, the boy, seemingly only ten years old, had already performed remarkable feats for the village, largely unnoticed.
Five years ago, Itachi risked his life to protect Konohagakure in times of crisis.
More than six months ago, he rescued Shisui and subsequently devised this plan to dismantle the enemy's power in Kirigakure.
Itachi was undoubtedly an outstanding Konohagakure ninja and a hero to the entire village!
Then, Minato's gaze shifted from the masked man to Kisame.
"This guy is… Konohagakure's Yellow Flash?!"
Kisame's face trembled upon seeing Minato.
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