"Naruto: Ice God"Chapter 155: Setsuna's Ocular Jutsu
Seeing the enormous salamander pinned beneath an even larger toad, Nagato was the first to cry out in disbelief.
"Jiraiya-sensei?!"
"And me too, Nagato-nii!"
Uchiha Obito appeared before Nagato, and upon seeing Yahiko's injuries, immediately pulled out the medical kit Rin had given him before departure.
"You treat Yahiko-nii first—I'll go help that perverted sage fight!"
Carefully handing over the medical kit, Obito cast several reluctant glances back before rushing off to support Jiraiya.
"Hanzō, it's been quite a while since our last battle."
Watching the salamander voluntarily cancel its summoning and depart, Jiraiya didn't dare let his guard down, maintaining vigilant watch over the distant Hanzō.
"..."
Hanzō didn't respond, instead dissolving into a puddle of water and vanishing from his position.
"Body Flicker Technique, eh? I've already seen that move of yours!"
Ducking beneath the swing of a sickle, Jiraiya kicked backward, only to have his leg caught by iron chains.
"Wild Lion's Mane Technique!"
Feeling the chains tighten around his ankle, Jiraiya remained calm, manipulating his hair to entangle Hanzō within its grasp.
"Water Release: Water Shockwave."
Forcibly breaking free from the hair's restraint, Hanzō abandoned his weapon and, ignoring the exposed flesh of his wounds, formed hand seals to launch a Water Release attack at Jiraiya.
This scene was perfectly captured by Jiraiya as he turned around.
Staring intently at Hanzō's wound, Jiraiya canceled his summoning jutsu, using the sudden loss of footing to create distance between them.
Both plummeted to the ground, and the instant Jiraiya landed, he unleashed a prepared technique: "Toad Oil Bullet!"
A mouthful of viscous oil splattered across Hanzō, coating him in sticky slime.
"Fire Release: Great Fireball Technique!"
Obito, who had been waiting in the wings, keenly seized this opportunity, spitting out a Fire Release technique, preparing to serve up some flame-grilled Hanzō.
Crack.
A bone-chilling sound of fracturing echoed. Faced with the approaching Great Fireball, Hanzō chose to bend backward, contorting into an unnaturally grotesque position to avoid becoming a hot dish.
"What the hell, Feng Bai!"
Witnessing such a movement, Obito was completely bewildered.
How could a human possibly perform such an action?
"Heh heh heh, I merely came to visit my adorable students, yet I've stumbled upon quite the spectacle. Hanzō, as the Demigod of the Shinobi World, why would you attack these children?"
Jiraiya noticed Obito's confusion but simply waved his hand, signaling him not to make a scene. He maintained a relaxed expression, preparing to slowly approach Hanzō.
However, after taking just two steps, Jiraiya was struck by an intense sense of crisis.
His body instinctively leaped to the left, and a deep furrow instantly appeared where he had been standing.
Wind Release?
No—there had been no sound of cutting air.
Who was it?
Instinctively glancing behind him, Jiraiya saw only a group of Amegakure ninja standing at the cliff's edge.
Accompanied by the distinctive sound of Hanzō's Body Flicker Technique, Obito's frustrated shout echoed across the battlefield: "Damn it, perverted sage! That guy escaped!"
Seeing Hanzō flee, his subordinates also abandoned their entanglements and retreated from the area.
"Call me sensei!" Jiraiya corrected Obito with an exasperated expression, but when he turned his head, his face had grown serious.
Whether in terms of ninjutsu or combat style, that person was undoubtedly Hanzō, but those movements and the exposed flesh...
"In any case, let's check on Yahiko's condition first."
Ultimately, this was Amegakure's internal affair. He himself could intervene, but involving Obito would change the nature of the situation entirely.
Therefore, Jiraiya could only bury his doubts deep within his heart, maintaining his usual carefree expression.
Only after the battlefield had returned to silence did Setsuna emerge from the shadows with Black Zetsu.
"Failed again..." Black Zetsu spoke without learning his lesson, as usual.
"Shut up, worthless fool." Setsuna scolded as expected, directly causing Black Zetsu to transform into Red Zetsu.
"Why didn't you inform me that Jiraiya was in the Land of Rain?"
"My apologies—we don't particularly monitor that individual." It was White Zetsu who responded.
"That man actually sensed my 'Toyo-kumono'—he's definitely no ordinary ninja." Setsuna instinctively covered his left eye, mentally comparing Jiraiya's strength.
White Zetsu's half-face showed sudden understanding: "Ah, you mean that slash?"
"Exactly. Toyo-kumono—an invisible attack. Until now, no one has ever detected it, not even Hanzō." Setsuna gritted his teeth. It seemed his ocular jutsu wasn't completely imperceptible after all—there was still the possibility of detection.
"What now? This Jiraiya fellow is quite formidable. Hanzō alone might not be sufficient." Black Zetsu spoke in his raspy voice, having regained his composure.
As if to complement Black Zetsu's words, the somewhat disheveled Hanzō dragged his feet as he approached the group, followed by several subordinates.
"Lord Hanzō, these two individuals are..."
Hattori and Kamida, known as Hanzō's right and left hands, tensed their bodies upon seeing Setsuna.
Out of trust in their leader, they refrained from attacking immediately.
However—
Setsuna glared intensely with his left eye, and instantly, blood lines appeared across the necks of all the Amegakure ninja present. They clutched their throats and collapsed.
"Just Jiraiya? These Amegakure fellows have decent strength—I refuse to believe they can't overwhelm a mere youngster." Walking slowly before the fallen figures, Setsuna watched them lose their vitality before activating his right eye's ocular jutsu.
"With 'Kuni-no-Tokotachi', I am invincible! Hahahaha!"
Letting out a spine-chilling maniacal laugh, the previously fallen Amegakure ninja rose from the ground one by one, staring at Setsuna with vacant expressions.
"That Jiraiya fellow arrived at the perfect time. When he dies before Nagato, I refuse to believe Nagato can maintain his current state!"
...
The major hidden villages, having suffered casualties in the Third Shinobi World War and preparing to lick their wounds, began stirring restlessly again due to several recent major events.
First was the Battle of Kikyo Mountain—Rasa's defeat and return to his village resulted in scolding from the Daimyō, followed by Konoha's newly appointed Fourth Hokage Sakumo forcing him to apologize and pay reparations, causing Sunagakure's power to plummet rapidly.
Ōnoki, the neighboring opportunist, caught wind of this chance and was about to capitalize on it, but Rasa, sensing the danger, shamelessly approached Konoha to sign an alliance treaty.
Sakumo understood that Iwagakure's strengthening would bring no benefit to Konoha, so he agreed to the alliance request. However, regarding Rasa's proposal to reduce reparations, he refused to budge an inch.
This firm stance earned Danzō's admiration, and combined with Hiruzen Sarutobi's warning before stepping down, Danzō and his Root organization gradually began to quiet down.
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