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Katsumi shielded herself with her purple defense and blinked for a second, only to see that Sakura disappeared. Then, she pummeled her on the back and as the pink-haired kunoichi swung her left leg using Earth Shock Wave with White-Blossom Crane techniques combined together.

The brunette gasped out of breath and shrieked. "AHHH!"

"It's over," Sakura stated calmly.

However, a smile began to creep upon Katsumi's face when she spoke malevolently. "Too bad."

Sakura widened her eyes in shock when the black serpents already bitten her ankles, filling up with much as poison as there is inside them, especially the rest of the intoxicated chemicals. Her vision started to blur into a slight haze of different hallucinations as the sound waves were ringing through her ears. She dropped down on one of her knees on the ground. She started coughing up blood on the ground and held her body steadily with her right arm for support.

"Do you really think you can defeat me with your puny little ass jutsus at me? Huh?! I'm glad that I took all of my time to set up the stones around this mountain that contains dark energy. They absorb every chakra if you hit me with a single strike. I'm able to take up all of your powers just like that. They come in pretty handy," Katsumi explained as she continued to watch Sakura suffer from the poison and hallucinations in amusement. She chuckled at this, saying. "Awww… Getting weak on the knees already? Don't worry, in the next two minutes. Your soul will be out of your body once your eyes start to shut down! Hahaha!"

The pink-haired kunoichi didn't respond to her after her head was tilted down. Her body was left in several scratches and bruises on her arms and legs. She quivered a little in pain since she ran out of her antidote tubes from her waist pack. From that moment on, she was breathing heavily until she slowed down and stopped instantly.

"You're wrong," her inner self spoke out firmly.

Katsumi raised an eyebrow in peculiar ways as she questioned. "What did you say?"

"You are wrong…!" Sakura looked up as she performed hand signs for the last time with every last bit of her strength as soon as possible. Her voice became deep when her chakra began to emerge with her inner half's, which brings out a light pink aura around them, much to Katsumi's puzzlement. "Ninja Art… Cherry Blossom storm!"

Then, the walls of the cave suddenly gave a loud roar, causing the rocks to tremble deliberately and pushing the brunette off of the surface. They started to swirl up into a huge tornado and smash the serpents into pieces as they disappeared off into dust.

Sakura quickly concentrated on her last chakra as she continued to gather all the rocks that were fusing before they became a gigantic boulder. She made a long circular motion three times and transformed it into a beautiful flower with pink petals that shine too brightly in front of their very eyes. Everything else around them continues to quake nonstop as it gets convulsively harsh, whereas the storm was spinning simultaneously. She held her hands together in a praying position and held onto the cherry blossom flower in her palms as her bright green eyes glowed intensely and exclaimed out loud. "Quaternary…!"

Katsumi questioned in confusion and annoyance. She took a few steps back and shook in fear at the sight of her transformation. "What?!"

"Ultimate Bloom!" The pink-haired kunoichi finished her sentence out loud as the flower started to burst out through beaming light rays that were appearing out of the petals and suddenly exploded. Everything went blank as the rocks were broken in half and walls had resolutely crumbled, resulting in havoc, much to Lee and the others' dismay.

A few seconds later, Sakura continued to pant shortly while gazing calmly at the brunette who slowly fell into her knees with her mouth open weakly.

"We did it… We made it!" Her inner self said proudly in an exhaustion tone of her voice.

"Yeah. She's barely moving now…" Sakura said, feeling relieved in her mind.

At that moment, she felt a huge poisonous sting that was currently running through her vessels, so her body collapsed down due to numbness and severe loss of blood. Her breathing was starting to shorten as well as her vision began to blur. She kept fluttering her eyes clearly, but there were voices calling out to her as their footsteps were approaching, then it all turned into blackout.

On the other hand, the blonde-haired ninja got startled at that moment when his senses came into notice. He glanced around to hear the whispers until he realized that they are not inside his head after all.

"Hey, Naruto, What's wrong?" One of the shinobi allies asked in concern.

"My friend… She's…" he murmured softly.

"Huh?! Did anything happen?" He asked further skeptically.

"We can try to find her," the second ninja ally volunteered willingly as the others nodded in agreement.

"No, it's alright," Naruto shook his head disapprovingly, politely and continued on. "Our friends are looking after her. Anyway, we should get going."

"Hmm," they replied back in unison.

Later on, the rest of Temari's division squad had been having trouble fighting against Madara, who recently absorbed every power that the shinobi used. But they didn't know that Kabuto was in control of the dead bodies of the enemies. The Uchiha was standing next to Muu as they discussed the issue.

"I awakened these eyes shortly before my death. Kabuto, you said something didn't you…? Did you do something to this body?" Madara asked blankly.

"I already told you. You've been completed beyond what you were in your prime," Muu explained, but Kabuto was the one talking in his voice.

"You bastard. You've taken advantage of the secrets of my body. Someone like you who can't even read the stone monument of Uchiha. You deciphered them?" Madara questioned in annoyance.

"It was based on a hypothesis crafted from the data Orochimaru and I gathered after many years of research. And now, you are proof that our hypothesis was correct. The sage of the six paths. I can now touch a fragment of that God's power. With your power, I've created…" Muu said maliciously.

"Don't get the wrong idea. You didn't create this power," Madara remarked calmly as he summoned a gigantic ball of rock above the sky that shook everyone in horror.

"What is this?" The other ninja asked nervously.

"This is on an entirely different level…" Temari said, panicking on the inside as the sweats on her side temples were beginning to form.

"Is this… the power of God…?" Gaara questioned, feeling speechless.

As soon as the gigantic earth rock ball was descending down upon the land, Onoki made a quick move by flying up in the air and placed both of his hands upon it. He used Earth Release: Ultra-Light Weight Rock technique that reduces the amount of pounds the boulder has and musters every last strength he has within him.

"Just a little more. I can stop it with just a little more push…" the old man Tsuchikage said, growling to himself in thought.

"Hm. Now how would you deal with the next stack, Onoki?" Madara asked darkly in a low tone of his voice.

The second boulder sat on top of the first one, which caused the Tsuchikage to lose his strength.

Meanwhile back in the hidden cloud conference building, Tsunade and the rest of the allies have received the recent information and sudden uproar from the others. They already knew that Madara Uchiha was resurrected and would do nothing to gain power and destroy, using a large rock to obscure the entire sky to drop on the fourth division squad.

"This is a disaster. We are losing many of them…" Inoichi thought in frustration while both of his hands were placed on the bubble satellite.

"There's no mistaking it. Lady Tsunade, at this rate-" Shikaku glanced around quickly in panic.

"I'm heading out!" She replied back with a death glare in determination and stormed off the room.

Outside the middle of the desert, the team has been affected by Madara's powerful jutsu, which causes a lot of damage on their behalf. The impact was so strong that most of the allies could barely move an inch, yet Naruto had the strength to approach the old Tsuchikage in concern.

"Old man?!" He called out.

"Don't worry, he's alright," one of the shinobi informed gently and continued on. "But his injuries are severe."

"I see…" Naruto understood this.

During that time while Madara and Kabuto, who's inside Muu's body, were discussing what they should do next to obliterate every single one of the shinobi in the fourth division squad. Then, Naruto closed his eyes and asked for Kurama's help and as soon as he did, the nine-tailed fox's chakra started to consume his entire body, giving him more power. A few minutes later, Naruto charged against them and performed his Multi-Shadow Clone technique, carrying each Rasengan on their hands. The counterattack became successful, much to the other's relief at how Naruto saved them. Though, he was feeling drained out from all the energy he used. Luckily, Gaara came to his side and held his shoulder with his arm.

"We shinobi spend our whole lives in battles. Fighting only for our own countries, our own villages. Never empathizing with others, only taking for ourselves! The hatred has boiled over into world war three times already," Onoki explained reasonably as he looked up at where Madara was standing.

"That is the cycle of life. How have you lived so long, yet learned nothing from our painful past?" The Uchiha questioned skeptically.

"I've lived a lot longer than you, and I've learned more too! It's because I understand the suffering of the past that I can think of a better way to create our future!" Onoki argued back boldly.

"And that better way… is a fourth ninja world war?" Kabuto in Muu's body said, smirking slyly.

"When I look at them, I realize how we aren't simply leaving a record. We're building on our past mistakes. Very slowly, but steadily getting better… Moving towards peace," Onoki concluded.

"There's no point in this world changing any further. Mankind will be better served sleeping peacefully in the Infinite Tsukuyomi," Madara confided.

"I lost sight of who I was because of you. But this time, I will pick myself up and rediscover who I am!" Onoki stated and stood up slowly, declaring. "You're the one going to sleep."

Gaara looked over his shoulder as he noticed that Onoki was starting to collapse again due to injury. He looked back to the front and said calmly with his eyes narrowed at the two enemies. "Let's all pick ourselves up…"

At that moment, the red-haired Kazekage has a backup plan in his mind that he will soon inform Naruto, Temari, and Onoki.

This was only just the beginning for them.


TO BE CONTINUED...