Wood Style: Deep Forest Emergence
White Flame Style: Divine Solar Cataclysm
Hashirama, having successfully trapped the phoenix, took a deep breath as, the next moment, thousands of huge tree roots emerged from the ground and rushed towards Itachi.
Itachi, seeing this, formed a small white sphere between his palms. Just when the tree roots were about to reach him, he crushed the sphere within his palms. The next moment, heat waves of thousands of degrees rushed out from the center of his palms, engulfing the nearby thousands of meters.
Sage Art: Wood Style: True Several Thousand Hands
Hashirama, seeing the world burning, understood that his Wood Style was at an inherent disadvantage against the White Flame Style, and doing any other jutsu would just be a waste of time and chakra. So, he performed his strongest jutsu.
The next moment, the ground beneath him started to crack as huge roots and vines started to entangle with each other.
Itachi, on the other hand, seeing Hashirama performing the infamous Thousand Hands Buddha, became excited.
"Hashirama, let's decide this battle with this final move. This is my strongest sword move, an imitation of someone I once watched and admired."
As Itachi said this, he formed a white sword in his hands as he pointed it towards the sky. With his infusion of Magical Energy, the sword started to glow as it also expanded. Within seconds, the white sword expanded to a length of thousands of meters.
'No, it isn't enough..... it isn't beautiful enough..... let's add Golden Lightning.'
Itachi, disappointed by the appearance of the attack, added Golden Lightning to the sword energy, and indeed the attack became more spectacular with the sword becoming Golden, brightening the other dimension.
Hashirama, on the other hand, who had almost completed forming his masterpiece, seeing Itachi experiment with his sword move, sweated a little. Just the white version made Hashirama feel immense pressure, as if that sword would slice his Thousand Hands Buddha like an obsidian knife slicing butter. Now, the golden version upgraded that obsidian knife to a mythical blade while he was still butter.
'It's still not that artistic..... let's add Space-Time Energy.... space can increase the cutting power while time can increase the destructive power.....with their addition it might look even more mysterious....'
Feeling that the sword was still under control, Itachi, with his newly artistic obsession, added Space-Time Chakra to it.
With the infusion of Space-Time Energy, the golden sword piercing the sky became even more mesmerizing, while Hashirama felt as if he was seeing death wanting to curse Itachi to death.
The space around him became more compressed while time started to flow slower for him, making him feel as if he was in 3G while everyone else was using 5G.
" Divine Sword : EXCCCAAALLLIIIIBUUURRRR "
Seeing Hashirama fully prepared, Itachi swung his golden-white sword downward towards Hashirama while shouting with excitement. Feeling the threat of death, Hashirama infused everything into his attack as the Thousand Hands attacked Itachi as well.
Before the two attacks even met, the space between them distorted under the immense pressure. Just when the two attacks were about to meet, something unexpected occurred.
A white alien with blue hair appeared between the two attacks. The moment Urashiki opened his eyes, he saw malice.... infinite malice from the world.
In front of him was a ten-kilometre-long golden sword containing Space-Time, Lightning, and Fire Energy, while on the other side was a thousand-meter-high Thousand Hands Buddha made of Wood Chakra and Sage Energy. What's even more despairing were the Space-Time instability around him.
He is Otsutsuki Urashiki, who has travelled from the future to take the Nine-Tails' chakra from the child Naruto. But his plan was interrupted when Sasuke and Boruto entered the Space-Time channel and pushed him out randomly.
Just now, there was a tear in the Space-Time channel, and he exited, but hell greeted him. With only a few milliseconds to act, Urashiki hurriedly transformed his Byakugan into the Blue Rinnegan and tried to use his Temporal Rewind ability to return to the Space-Time channel. However, because of Itachi using Space-Time Energy with Excalibur, Urashiki couldn't go back in time.
A few milliseconds later, the two attacks collided with Urashiki, who tried to use Origami Replacement.
BOOOMMMMMMMMMM
The next second, Urashiki, who escaped the main attack, was blasted thousands of meters away, heavily injured by the residual power of Itachi's attack.
On the other hand, all thousand hands of the Thousand Hands Buddha were instantly burned and destroyed by the blade of Excalibur as it passed through the entire thousand-meter giant, dividing it in two before it rappidly dissipated into ashes. But this wasn't enough to consume the power of Excalibur, as the blade continued past the Buddha and carved a straight line of destruction stretching for hundreds of kilometres.
Hashirama, seeing a crater hundreds of kilometres long and unknown depth while being more than a kilometre wide, sweated heavily.
"Sasuke, you shouldn't interfere in adults' matters."
Itachi, seeing Hashirama alive, looked towards the perpetrator with disappointment.
"Otsutsuki Urashiki has arrived, so you should play your ninja game afterward."
Sasuke, seeing the injured Urashiki trying to get up, spoke while silently thanking his luck. Urashiki's time of arrival was truly the worst.
If he had arrived there instead of Urashiki, he might not even have been able to collect Boruto's ashes..... maybe he would also have died, as just replacing Hashirama, who was at the edge of the battle, had consumed too much chakra and ocular power. If he had appeared in the middle of the two attacks, he might not even have been able to use Space-Time Jutsu properly.
"Itachi, let's take care of Urashiki first."
Seeing Urashiki get up, Sasuke said to Itachi while unsheathing his sword.
"Otsutsuki? Is that the alien creatures clan, the Sage of Six Paths talked about?"
Hashirama, hearing about the Otsutsuki, forgot to thank Sasuke for his rescue and asked about Urashiki while observing him.
"Indeed, that's Urashiki Otsutsuki, an escapee from my timeline. Boruto and I chased him here."
"Sasuke, I think I have to take care of someone else. Though, there are still many of your helpers present."
As Itachi said this, without giving Sasuke time to refuse, he disappeared and appeared in the sky above the arena.
"Everyone, last year I held a meeting regarding the threat of the Otsutsuki Clan. I had assumed that we still had time, but it seems I was mistaken. An Otsutsuki has interfered in my and the First Hokage's battle midway and wants to destroy the Ninja World.
Although I can take care of him, I want to give all of you the chance to fight him. This Otsutsuki is just a minion, making him the perfect opponent for you all.
I hereby declare the Dusk Competition void and request all Kage-level and capable ninja to enter the purple Space-Time crack to enter the battlefield."
As Itachi's voice reached the entire Mizumori, purple portals emerged in front of groups of ninja.
---
"Otsutsuki, huh..... looks like I can stretch my body a little."
Nagato, hearing Itachi's voice and seeing the portal open in front of him, said coldly while his Rinnegan radiated immense pressure.
"Leader, I want his body."
Sasori also became unusually excited as he made his request to Nagato.
"Sasori-kun, Itachi-sama promised the first Otsutsuki body to me. You can fight for the next one."
Orochimaru, sitting beside Sasori, licked his lips with his snake tongue and said creepily.
"Stop, the three of you. Look, everyone is scared because of you. We are Akatsuki, shouldering the mantle of world peace. You can't act like that."
Yahiko, seeing the nearby group of Jonin pressed to the ground by Nagato's ocular power and chakra and then frightened by the discussion between Orochimaru and Sasori, immediately stopped everyone lest they deteriorate the reputation of the Akatsuki even more.
Nagato, hearing this, reluctantly reduced his GOD AURA and moved towards the purple portal. Other strong ninja like Minato, Kushina, Tobirama, Ai, Bee, Ohnoki, Obito, Shisui, Fugaku, Izumi, and others soon followed.
Itachi, seeing this, nodded with satisfaction. So many Kage-level and Super Kage-level ninja, along with Sasuke and Hashirama, were more than enough to take care of Urashiki.
"Isshiki, you should stop hiding."
Itachi then looked at a mountain twelve kilometres away and said coldly.
"Uchiha Itachi, nice to meet you."
Hearing Itachi's words, Isshiki (Jigen) appeared on the mountaintop while speaking to Itachi in a condescending tone.
---