[Hashirama: "But I'm just stating facts…"]
[Hiruzen: "Even First Hokage-sama can't beat him?"]
[Itachi: "That's Six Paths level."]
[Madara: "…"]
[Hashirama: "Madara, why so stormy?"]
[Tobirama: "He's just sour."]
[Izuna: "Watch your mouth, mad dog."]
[Ōnoki: "Less chatter—if Six Paths Obito breaks the barrier, then what?"]
[Sasuke: "He won't."]
kr-kr-krack—
The Four Red Yang Formation groaned.
Obito's five flaming "arms" pulled, space itself creaking; then the barrier split with a blast that rattled the world.
Music tightened like a noose.
Obito's face didn't change—as if he'd swatted a fly.
"Did he just break it?"
"That seal was woven by the Hokage—it pins the Ten-Tails!"
"Is this… what a god looks like?"
Silhouetted against the moon, Obito flickered—reappearing atop the Myōjin Gates.
Minato called out, desperate. "Obito, stop!"
[Obito: "I crossed the line already. There's no turning back."]
[Minato: "Obito…"]
[Boruto: "Uh, dumb question—how did Dad beat this guy?"]
[Naruto (present): "…"]
Up close, Obito was all cold divinity—a man who'd forgotten he was one.
Tobirama, Hashirama, and Hiruzen arrived, eyes narrowed.
"I'll be blunt—he's stronger than me," Hashirama said, Sage Mode already blooming and still not enough.
Hiruzen grimaced. "As much as I hate to agree… yeah."
Minato whisked Naruto and Sasuke away with Flying Raijin, leaving only the Edo Tensei trio on the field.
Wind hissed; sand hissed with it.
[Madara: "Hashirama, where's your thousand-meter Buddha?"]
[Hashirama: "This body isn't peak!"]
[Tobirama: "And who made these Edo shells?"]
[Orochimaru: "Most likely… me."]
[Tobirama: "Then why half a Hashirama?"]
[Orochimaru: "Tight schedule."]
[Kabuto: "Peak Hashirama vs. Six Paths Obito?"]
[Hashirama: "Probably loses. Six Paths and 'super-Kage' aren't the same species."]
[Itachi: "Different tiers of life."]
[Sasuke: "Say what you want. If I feel like it, I end him."]
[Fugaku: "Mind your elders."]
[Boruto: "So even Sasuke-sensei can't—?"]
[Sarada: "Were you not listening? Different tiers."]
A Truth-Seeking Orb slid into Obito's palm, spearing through his hand to form a staff.
He swept once—
—and half of Hashirama and Tobirama's Edo bodies disintegrated.
Too fast for the eye. Too clean to process.
[Denki: "That… was real?"]
[Itachi: "That is Six Paths."]
[Minato: "Stop—please stop!"]
[Black Zetsu: "Obito, you idiot! You ate the Ten-Tails—what about Madara?! How do we beat Naruto and Sasuke now?!"]
[Obito: "Simple."]
Hashirama's shredded body burst into wood, binding Obito like living ropes.
Tobirama flashed in, slapping down scores of tags—
His forbidden masterpiece: Multiplying Explosive Tags.
Hiruzen vaulted upward; below, the world turned white.
Explosions chased themselves across the dark—
*bang—bang—bang—*night became day; the blast train rolled on for minutes.
Boruto-era kids gaped.
"I thought the Second inventing half the forbidden section was textbook hype…"
Heads nodded. Those books were insane: First palm-slapping Kurama; Second inventing basically everything.
[Boruto: "So Grandpa's Flying Raijin was based on Second's theory?"]
[Tobirama: "It's mine, brat."]
[Sarada: "And the Darkness jutsu?"]
[Tobirama: "Also mine."]
[Shikadai: "Shadow Clone?"]
[Tobirama: "Mine."]
["…"]
Silence. Respect. Mild terror.
[Chōchō: "Not the point—Obito just deleted First Hokage."]
[Shima: "Are they even human?"]
[Fukasaku: "Hey now—watch the phrasing."]
Smoke thinned.
The crater glowed.
Obito hovered untouched—Truth-Seeking orbs spinning like a black halo, nullifying everything.
[Tobirama: "Conventional ninjutsu won't scratch Six Paths Obito."]
[Hashirama: "Then what now?!"]
[Tobirama: "Brother. Calm. Please."]
[Rasa: "He's a Sage now… how does the Alliance even resist?"]
[Sasuke: "Doesn't matter. I will."]
Obito's gaze lowered—unblinking, inhuman.
The orbs rearranged, edges sharpening, humming like fate.
Naruto clenched his fists somewhere off-screen.
Sasuke's Sharingan flowered into the eternal pinwheel.
The air tasted like iron.
Next beat decides who breathes.
To be continued…
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