Chapter 474: Fierce Battle
Above the heavens, a giant white bird flew at maximum velocity toward the castle, its back to the setting sun.
The yellow-haired youth atop the massive bird had curled into a tight ball from the freezing cold. "That bastard Yahiko, exactly what kind of ghostly place did he send me to? It's freezing... Do people living in a place like this even have the energy to mount a rebellion?"
Sensing the familiar chakra signatures drawing closer, Ryo steadily parsed out that Deidara's arrival wasn't a coincidental passage; he was heading straight for them. Glancing back at Doto Kazahana, who seemed to be deliberately stringing out his words to buy time, a realization smoothly dawned on Ryo.
So he did request backup from the Akatsuki organization.
The giant white bird drew closer and closer. Facing the aerial beast, Doto Kazahana finally caught sight of it. A look of supreme joy erupted across his face after a brief pause, and his tone turned instantly severe: "Koyuki! I am currently the ruler of the Land of Snow officially recognized by the Akatsuki organization! Are you firmly resolved to commit treason and mutiny?!"
Ryo burst into laughter. Doto Kazahana should rightfully be counting his blessings that the person deployed was a little brat like Deidara. If it had been anyone else, they would have thoroughly investigated exactly who the real traitor was, and Doto's demise would have been significantly more tragic.
Doto Kazahana's repetitive glances toward the sky were finally detected by the rest of the group, and everyone systematically focused their sight on the massive white bird in the heavens.
"Cool~! Cameraperson, quick, aim right at it!"
The cameraperson possessed rapid reflexes, immediately locking the camera lens straight onto Deidara. Seizing a spark of divine inspiration, Ryo seamlessly added a special effect to the camera... Fire!
A jumping beam of electrical light erupted from the front of the camera lens, striking the giant white bird with absolute, lightning-fast precision... The giant bird spiraled downward out of control.
"Which absolute bastard is shooting at my bird again? Un!"
Differing from his childhood days, the current Deidara could land with perfect composure even if his bird was blasted to absolute pieces—especially with a soft blanket of snow beneath his feet... After executing two buffering flips, Deidara landed his remaining bird fragments near the castle compound.
"Filming a movie? Disaster! Did I actually fly in the wrong direction? Un!"
Doto Kazahana was entirely dumbfounded upon catching sight of this yellow-haired youth. Could this seriously be the legendary backup dispatched by the Akatsuki organization...?
"Konoha ninjas?" Deidara razor-sharply noticed Kakashi's group of four. "Is this location truly the Land of Snow Daimyo Mansion? Un!"
"Where on earth did this yellow-haired guy come from? Why does he give off a trace of Naruto's vibe?" Sakura whispered.
Naruto was currently racking his brain to think up proper script lines; it was a blessing they were actively filming, otherwise, he would have started shouting and hollered long ago.
"Deidara of the Hidden Stone Village?" Kakashi turned his head to look at Ryo, who gave him a reassuring 'rest easy' gesture.
"You are the Land of Snow Daimyo Doto Kazahana, and you are the mutinous rebel Koyuki Kazahana? Un!" Deidara recalled Ajisai's explicit instructions when she contacted him, pouting his lips: "Every single one of you stand perfectly still! Refrain from fighting, and wait for that bastard Yahiko to arrive!"
Koyuki Kazahana aimed her sword straight at Doto Kazahana: "The real traitor is Uncle Doto! Back then, he murdered my father to usurp the mantle of Daimyo of the Land of Snow!"
"Koyuki, you absolutely cannot spout such random nonsense!"
"Tch, a mere minor nation... Hey! You bastard! What on earth is that thing!" Deidara was startled.
Koyuki Kazahana's prop longsword had suddenly emitted a brilliant red laser beam, lancing directly toward Doto Kazahana!
Doto Kazahana had fundamentally never anticipated such an offensive method. Fortunately, Nadare Roga stood behind him and swiftly dragged him clear of the trajectory.
Naruto, who had been brooding for a long while over what lines to deliver, felt his spirits instantly surge upon witnessing this. He immediately wove hand seals: "Multi Shadow Clone Jutsu!"
A massive horde of Narutos charged ferociously toward Doto Kazahana, shouting righteously: "You bastard! How dare you send people to ambush the client of us Konoha ninjas!"
"You bastard! Art is an explosion! Kats!"
A cluster of clay spiders blasted a portion of the Narutos into absolute scatter, but for every Naruto that fell, thousands more surged forward in a relentless wave...
Kakashi massaged his temples, casting a helpless look at Ryo: "Engage. You two join Naruto in pinning down the Akatsuki's Deidara."
"Understood, Kakashi-sensei!"
"You three brats get the hell away from me!" Deidara was packed to the brim with intense frustration. He had explicitly agreed with Yahiko to refrain from fighting Konoha ninjas.
Eh? It looks like they were the ones who initiated the attack first? Then you can't rightfully blame me!
"Art is an explosion! Kats!"
Koyuki Kazahana wore a face full of complete innocence. If she narrated this to the audience, they would likely refuse to believe it—the sword had honestly initiated the movement on its own...
The director, however, was incredibly ecstatic: "Cool~! Capture it, capture it!"
Hoisting Tsukika onto his shoulders once more, Ryo's voice rippled beside Koyuki Kazahana's ear via telepathy: "Kakashi is currently engaging in a one-versus-three. Aren't you going to step forward to assist? Rest easy, your sword has been imbued with a special effect by the Great Ancestor!"
Koyuki paused. Turning her head to glance at the smiling Ryo, she grit her teeth, lifted her blade, and charged straight to the front of Kakashi's position.
"Koyuki, you—"
Kakashi was startled. Just as he was preparing to barricade her retreat, he witnessed a brilliant red light coil around Koyuki's blade. With a single strike, the colossal fat man, Mizore Fuyuma, was blasted an immense distance away.
Exactly how does the Senior manage to continuously add these special effects? Kakashi shattered an ice wall with a single clean blade strike, driving straight toward Doto Kazahana. This is even better!
"This won't do, Koyuki still can't breach their defensive parameters like this," Ryo murmured. Donning his Sage shroud, the crimson glow dancing across Koyuki's longsword instantly transformed into a serene, pale cyan radiance, its raw cutting power elevating to a completely superior tier!
"Niece Koyuki, you leave your uncle with zero choice! Ice Style: Black Dragon Blizzard!" Doto Kazahana roared at the top of his lungs, a colossal black dragon erupting directly from his fist.
Koyuki Kazahana subconsciously swung her sword upward. The pale cyan blade radiance not only cleaved the massive dragon completely into two halves, but its residual kinetic momentum carried forward to strike straight at Doto Kazahana.
"Dammit! What kind of ghostly weapon is that sword?!" Doto Kazahana dodged in a thoroughly disheveled manner, only to have his armor sliced open by a follow-up strike from Kakashi.
"Ice Style: Swallow Snow Storm!"
Nadare Roga wove hand seals with rapid precision. A flock of ice swallows materialized out of thin air, drifting in a neat line toward Kakashi to rescue the battered Doto Kazahana.
Koyuki Kazahana immediately drove her blade straight toward Nadare Roga, expelling a cyan beam. She proceeded to wildly and randomly hack her sword dozens of times without a shred of technique, which thoroughly exhausted Ryo's fine control...
Dozens of pale cyan blade beams blanketed Nadare Roga in a dense grid. He immediately erected multiple thick layers of ice walls to form a defense in front of his body, but they failed to obstruct the blade radiance in the slightest!
His armor shattered tier by tier, and Nadare Roga collapsed to the ground with a face full of absolute disbelief!
"Cool~! Princess Koyuki executed that beautifully!"
Gripping the longsword in her hands, Koyuki Kazahana suddenly felt a torrential wave of heroic pride welling up inside her: "Thank you, Great Ancestor..."
Mimicking her previous actions, she unleashed another consecutive dozen blade beams to systematically slaughter the colossal fat man, Mizore Fuyuma. Koyuki Kazahana pointed her longsword directly at Doto Kazahana, who was currently being pursued and cut down by Kakashi: "Uncle Doto, the debt of vengeance for murdering my father shall be fully settled this exact day!"
Doto Kazahana's countenance was incredibly terrible. Fighting and retreating simultaneously, he fled straight inside the castle, hollering loudly: "Lord of the Akatsuki, save me!"
Deidara was currently in the dead center of a ferocious clash against the three students. Hearing the cry, he given a subtle pause, immediately maximizing the scale of his explosions: "Art is an explosion! Kats!"
A C2 dragon bomb was deployed. He originally intended to forcefully push back the three students, but he hadn't anticipated that a sudden, blue skeletal ribcage would materialize out of thin air to pinch it into absolute pieces with a single bare hand!
Sasuke's countenance was thoroughly cold and aloof: "Naruto, Sakura, get back! The opponent's raw strength is quite decent, I am going to test the limits of this technique—Susanoo!"
Naruto stood entirely frozen: "This skeleton... exactly when did Sasuke master this?"
In the distance, Ryo fell into deep thought: With Sasuke and Deidara locking horns like this, could it possibly lead to...
"Great Ancestor, put me down. You appear to be incredibly exhausted?" Tsukika spoke up with concern.
Ryo offered a gentle smile: "It's no issue, this special effect demands a fraction of effort, but it cannot stump the Great Ancestor!"
To grant an ordinary civilian like Koyuki Kazahana the raw capability to systematically slaughter established Jonin, Ryo had to entirely expand his colossal chakra pool across the ambient air columns. Within this brief duration, a full quarter of his total chakra had been cleanly drained away—equivalent to an entire Nine-Tails vanishing into thin air!
"He fled straight inside the castle blocks? The Great Ancestor needs to close the distance a bit, otherwise, the special effects won't connect smoothly..."
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