Tatsumi sat alone on the branches of a large tree.
The sun was setting, and the last rays of light shone on his face.
Tatsumi quickly chewed on a soldier pill, recovering his chakra.
His current state was not good.
His own chakra was less than a quarter full.
Inside the sealing scroll he and Minato had researched together, there was more than twice that amount of chakra.
When Tatsumi's kunai missed Sakada, he immediately started running.
Then, he used a shadow clone to buy time.
The memory of the shadow clone had just returned.
Tatsumi already knew he was poisoned.
The originally purplish wound on his arm had now turned dark purple.
To prevent the poison from spreading further, he could only stop, rest, and recover his chakra.
Sakada said the poison would fully erupt in forty minutes.
However, Tatsumi felt that once he started fighting, he would die in twenty minutes.
And now five minutes had passed.
He had just contacted Teacher Orochimaru. It turned out that Orochimaru had encountered another team of Sand Shinobi.
Orochimaru and Tsunade, who had dealt with that team, were on their way.
Which meant he had to hold on for another ten minutes?
So, the time left for Tatsumi was running out!
Tatsumi touched his head.
He only felt dizzy and started to have wild thoughts.
Just now, he had mistaken a tree branch for Kushina.
Whatever he feared would appear before him.
Whether it was the poison or the impending death, Tatsumi was experiencing hallucinations he had never had before.
Tatsumi patted his head, forcibly trying to cheer himself up.
But as time passed, he kept seeing images of Mikoto and the others being killed.
He couldn't shake them off, they were like a persistent film.
Whitey suddenly popped its head out, reminding Tatsumi.
They're here?
Sakada, who wasn't a sensor ninja, had found him, it seemed the poison could guide the opponent.
The Sand Shinobi's poison is really troublesome!
A figure suddenly appeared in front of Tatsumi.
"So you're here!" Sakada's voice came.
Tatsumi looked up, but he saw several Sakadas.
Sakada was holding something, Tatsumi couldn't see clearly.
He squinted and looked carefully.
Then, Sakada's afterimages gradually merged together. The opponent appeared in Tatsumi's field of vision.
Finally, he saw clearly.
Instantly,
a chill,
rose from the soles of his feet.
Tatsumi felt like he couldn't breathe.
Sakada was holding—Mikoto's corpse!
No,
impossible,
this is impossible!
Tatsumi felt the world spinning.
This must be a genjutsu!
That's right,
it's a genjutsu.
Tatsumi immediately disrupted his chakra flow.
But,
before his eyes,
there was no change.
July was so warm, but Tatsumi only felt emptiness in his heart, that chilling coldness was so clear.
He kept telling himself that this was a genjutsu!
But he knew,
it wasn't!
Tatsumi's heart was filled with fear.
"You killed her… you killed her…" Tatsumi muttered, his voice trembling, repeating the words like a broken record.
Sakada chuckled. "Oh? Looks like the poison is taking effect."
His smirk deepened. "Nice eyes."
"Back then, I watched your father kill my teacher with this same look in my eyes… It's wonderful, isn't it? To finally taste this kind of pain?"
Each word cut into Tatsumi like a knife.
A tear slipped down his cheek.
Why cry?
Why cry?!
Mikoto isn't dead…
Sakada, you bastard!
But deep inside, he knew.
Mikoto was gone. Completely.
This wasn't a genjutsu.
It wasn't a nightmare.
It was real.
This was hell.
Then—
A flash of red ignited in Tatsumi's eyes.
His double-tomoe Sharingan spun wildly.
The haze of poison and despair cleared, revealing Sakada's form with chilling clarity.
A cold aura radiated from Tatsumi.
This time, there was no hesitation, no fear—only pure, unrestrained madness.
Sakada narrowed his eyes, sensing the change.
From the darkness, Tatsumi's voice echoed—low, lethal.
"Lightning Release: Chidori."
A surge of chakra crackled to life in his hand, twisting and shrieking like a thousand birds.
Sparks flared as Tatsumi stepped onto the branch.
Then—he launched himself.
The force of his leap split the air as he rocketed toward Sakada, lightning trailing behind him in an electric storm.
Sakada's hands flew into a seal.
"Earth Release: Multiple Earth Wall!"
Massive walls of earth rose between them.
A-rank defense—powerful enough to stop most attacks.
But Tatsumi didn't stop.
His Chidori, infused with pure, seething chakra, crackled louder, its form shifting—bordering on Raikiri.
Lightning met earth.
And pierced straight through.
One wall.
Two walls.
Three—shattered!
Tatsumi didn't slow.
Didn't think.
Didn't hesitate.
"I will kill you!"
"I will kill you!"
With Chidori still shrieking in his hand, Tatsumi kicked off the last broken wall.
Then, like a thunderbolt—
He drove straight for Sakada.
"Die!"
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