blueteamnovel Chapter 495: The Death of Ōnoki
Chapter 495: The Death of Ōnoki
Uchiha Obito stood on a utility pole, looking at the familiar yet unfamiliar Konoha.
He held only the purest hatred for this village.
Perhaps a tiny sliver of affection for his classmates remained. He had matured very early; he had fallen in love with Rin Nohara at first sight in their first year at the academy.
Now, Rin was with Namikaze Minato on the Land of Hot Water front line. There was nothing left in Konoha for him.
Sarutobi Hiruzen was pinned outside Konoha's walls by the Raikage. Fox was pinned high in the air by Ōnoki.
"Perish, Konoha..."
A spatial vortex swirled in Uchiha Obito's right eye. He was about to unleash the trump card prepared for Konoha.
The Six Paths of Pain and Tobi would appear. The three of them together could swiftly destroy Konoha.
Uchiha Obito's expression changed!
From the corner of his eye, he saw a white bird swoop across his field of vision.
While fighting Ōnoki, Konoha's Fox had summoned a flock of birds.
That cunning Fox had discreetly let the birds patrol within Konoha itself.
Yōkō instantly appeared, a Great Spiraling Sphere forming in his hand, slamming toward Uchiha Obito.
Whatever Obito was planning, he had to be stopped.
The blue light of the Spiraling Sphere illuminated Uchiha Obito's face.
The spatial vortex in Uchiha Obito's right eye immediately reversed its rotation, and he vanished instantly.
The Spiraling Sphere struck empty air, destroying the utility pole.
Concrete and reinforcing steel fragments flew everywhere as a bundle of wires snapped.
Yōkō immediately began sensing, even activating his Byakugan to locate Uchiha Obito.
Found him!
Uchiha Obito had appeared in the forest atop the Hokage Rock.
Obito, so you also know that's a sparsely populated area, a good place for mischief, huh?
Yōkō often went to the dense woods on the Hokage Rock, where he had left Flying Thunder God marks.
He vanished and reappeared behind the Hokage Rock.
A Great Spiraling Sphere over two meters in diameter appeared again, crashing into Obito's chest.
Obito's body became intangible. The Spiraling Sphere passed through him as if through air.
Uchiha Obito snorted coldly. "Fox, I admit you're fast and strong. But as long as I choose not to be hit, you cannot harm me."
He waited a few seconds but received no reply from Fox.
The continuously spinning Spiraling Sphere was merely to prevent Uchiha Obito from shifting into the Kamui Dimension.
The sphere overlapped with him. He couldn't transfer it now, or parts of his body within Kamui would also be injured.
A tremendous roar erupted.
The Thousand-Handed Vidyārāja burst from the ground. A massive Vidyārāja statue, over a kilometer tall, appeared on the Hokage Rock.
Yōkō knew that Uchiha Obito's Kamui intangibility lasted at most five minutes. Beyond that, it would fail.
Konan had used six hundred billion explosive tags for a continuous five-minute attack. Yōkō also had a method: he would use the Thousand-Handed Vidyārāja for a continuous five-minute assault.
Three wooden hands per second would sustain the attack for over five minutes.
The Great Spiraling Sphere overlapped with Obito. Obito tried to escape but found Fox not only had powerful taijutsu but could also fly. He couldn't break free from the sphere.
Behind the Hokage Rock, an earth-shattering bombardment began.
At first, Konoha shook as if in an earthquake.
Everyone thought such a fierce attack would end in an instant. However, 5 seconds, 10 seconds, 30 seconds, 1 minute, 2 minutes...
On Konoha's streets, ninja shouted, "Don't move! Get down!"
Civilians heading for the shelters beneath the Hokage Rock had to pause, seeing the terrifying battle raging above them.
Kyōi tightly held her son Yozora's hand, both lying prone on the ground.
Yozora looked up at the kilometer-tall wooden statue on the Hokage Rock, its back to the village, seemingly reaching into the clouds. He asked, "Mom, what jutsu is that?"
Kyōi replied, "That's the village's strongest secret technique, Wood Release. It must be a Senju clan member."
"Mom, I want to be like that person someday, protecting Konoha!"
Kyōi's expression became troubled. "We are ordinary people. It's enough if you grow up safe and sound.
Your father is a ninja. He said he went to the Land of Whirlpools front.
He's worked hard for over a decade, yet he hasn't become a village elite.
Don't rush, Yozora. Don't pressure yourself too much. There's nothing wrong with being an ordinary chūnin like your father."
"Dad is always so busy, always leaving the village on missions. I don't want to be like Dad!"
Kyōi pressed Yozora's head down, afraid of flying debris.
A ninja nearby responsible for evacuation suddenly shouted, "Get up! Continue evacuation! That Lord has reinforced the Hokage Rock! Despite such intense shaking, the rock hasn't shattered!"
Hearing the ninja's shout, the civilians got up and continued toward the shelters under the Hokage Rock.
The evacuation ninja looked at the battle on the Hokage Rock, puzzled. What level of hatred drives such a relentless, non-stop bombardment for so long?
After over four minutes, anticipation filled Yōkō's eyes.
Soon...
Uchiha Obito had been on the ground, enduring blow after blow from the wooden hands.
As the leading wooden hands struck and their chakra dissipated, the following hands smashed down, shattering the previous ones into splinters.
Those splinters were tiny compared to the hands, but to ordinary people, they were like terrifying wooden spears.
Facing the continuous onslaught, Uchiha Obito had no time to activate intangibility.
At precisely 4 minutes and 40 seconds, a bright light suddenly illuminated the side of Yōkō's face.
The one-armed Ōnoki had flown to one side of the Thousand-Handed Vidyārāja.
"Dust Release: Detachment of the Primitive World!"
The cubic Dust Release barrier expanded rapidly, instantly swallowing nearly half of the wooden statue.
Yōkō was stunned. He hadn't even sensed Ōnoki's approach.
The blazing white barrier lit up the night sky, destroying the Vidyārāja's shoulder and many of its wooden hands.
Truly Dust Release. Such power, capable of destroying Wood Release.
Truly Ōnoki. Interrupting the Vidyārāja's attack at the most critical moment.
If Ōnoki had been even slightly earlier, the Vidyārāja's hands could have diverted some to block him.
But now...
The hand barrage was interrupted. Uchiha Obito seized the opportunity, turning intangible and vanishing from the spot.
When he reappeared, sweat instantly beaded on his forehead, drenching his hair.
Too close. I was almost beaten to death by those thousand hands.
Lucky Ōnoki helped me out.
Uchiha Obito looked up at the sky, his gaze halting.
Ōnoki...he...
Mid-air, over a dozen Wood Release spikes pierced through Ōnoki's chest from behind!
Fox hovered behind Ōnoki, having used Wood Release: Wood Spikes on him.
Ōnoki had been killed by Konoha's Fox!
Yōkō's fox mask shifted slightly, peeking out from behind Ōnoki's hair.
"Ōnoki, though we are enemies, I held respect for you. I had hoped you would recognize the power disparity between Iwagakure and Konoha and act accordingly.
But you are like a rock in a latrine—stubborn and hard.
Do you know what crucial matter you just ruined for me?"
Ōnoki spat blood, turning his head to look at Fox behind him. He snorted coldly and said:
"My crushing defeat and fear before Uchiha Madara were the greatest shadows of my life.
Since then, I vowed never to retreat, no matter the enemy.
So what if it was Uchiha Madara? So what if it's you?
Dying in battle is the fate of all shinobi. So what if you're strong?
I will absolutely never retreat!"
Thud! Thud! Thud!
More wooden spikes erupted, piercing all of Ōnoki's internal organs.
Ōnoki's fist was clad in stone, forming a Rock Fist that he swung backward.
However, with all his organs pierced, Ōnoki's Rock Fist ultimately stopped a mere dozen centimeters from Fox's mask before hanging limply.
The gust of wind stirred by that final Rock Fist was Ōnoki's unknown swan song.
(End of Chapter)