Chapter 52 - 3: Madara Uchiwa

A massive cloud more than 2 kilometres wide, incandescent, releasing a horrible heat, descended from the sky, devouring everything in its path.

The ninjas present didn't even have time to react before being engulfed.

Gaara, with the help of Tsuchikage, created hundreds of walls of sand and earth trying to protect the units to the best of their abilities.

However, the heat was such that even the sand began to melt into glass.

"Agh!"

"Help!"

"OUUUCH!!"

*Booom* *Booom*

More than 63% of the ninjas present were annihilated, the circulating hot air made the atmosphere unbreathable.

Gaara and Kitsuchi, having spent a large amount of Chakra, began to pant.

"Gaara I'll try to seal the third Mizukage, feel you can hold out against the fourth Hokage for about 2 minutes?"

"No, I don't think I can resist for so long, but go take care of Mizukage." Then Gaara run towards Haruto, who landed on the ground further on.

In turn, Kitsuchi headed for the third Mizukage.

The surviving ninjas didn't give up, they rushed at Haruto, following Garra, who was in the lead.

Haruto then raised his right palm from which a light orange chakra emanated and pointed in the direction of Gaara and the ninjas.

"Shakuton: Divine ..."

But at the same time, Haruto's right hand grabbed his left arm and ripped it off.

"He's starting to regain control over his body." Thought Gaara, before executing several seals and hitting the ground with his palms. Suddenly, several spears of sand came out of the ground and attacked Haruto.

The other ninjas also began to use their most powerful ninjutsu without the thought of conserving their Chakra.

"Gear 2: Phase 1"

Haruto's body suddenly released a huge amount of green chakra and then instantly disappeared and reappeared in front of Gaara.

Thereupon abruptly kicking him in the belly, throwing Gaara backwards and then beginning to attack all ninjas in his field of vision with unspeakable brutality.

2...8....31...73...210...340

Two minutes later, only Gaara and Kitsuchi were left standing amidst hundreds of dead bodies.

But they were tired, their Chakra reserves were exhausted, their muscles and their whole bodies were suffering.

Only their willpower allowed them to stay on their feet.

Haruto suddenly appeared in front of them and put his two palms, healed thanks to Edo Tensei, against their heads, as they had no more powers left to react.

It all happened in just a second, but both felt like a hundred years had passed.

They felt like they were being crushed by an insurmountable mountain.

An orange light came out of Haruto's palms, both wanted to move backwards but Haruto's actions were so fast that they didn't have the time.

Both of them knew they were going to die.

"Well, not bad, you survived."

Then the orange light disappeared with the green chakra coming out of Haruto's body.

Haruto let them go, then looked around for a moment and saw the ground that had been completely devastated and the dead ninjas.

He sighed slightly before looking at Gaara and Kitsuchi who fell to the ground due to exhaustion.

"Now explain to me what's going on here." Haruto, stared at Garra.

...

In a cave hundreds of miles away.

"I can't let them have the 4th Hokage as an ally, so I have to get rid of him."

Then Kabuto, whose eyes and nose were bleeding, executed a dozen seals with a nasty smile on his lips.

"Don't think that you have won, fourth Hokage."

....

After Gaara's explanation, he understood the situation, but he wasn't really interested in it, what he was interested in was how the Edo Tensei was able to summon him from another world.

As he was thinking about it, a coffin slowly came out of the ground about 20 meters from Haruto.

Gaara and Kitsuchi, seeing this, slowly got up from the ground with facial expressions that couldn't hide the seriousness of the situation.

The coffin opened slowly, and then a man with long spiky black hair with a slight blue tint, red combat armour and completely dark pupils came out.

"Madara Uchiha..." Whispered Haruto.

While he was Hokage, Haruto had access to all of Konoha's secret files and information, including what concerned Madara Uchiha and his fight against the first Hokage.

"What's going on?!" Exclaimed shocked Kitsuchi.

"If that man is Madara Uchiha, then who's the man in the mask?" Asked astonished Gaara.

"Then the masked guy we thought was Madara…is not Madara?!"

Both felt like they had been struck by lightning. If Madara is dead then who caused this war, who could have caused all this chaos? The identity of the man became more and more mysterious.

"It doesn't matter who he is, we still need to stop him, You two get the hell out of here, the fight that's about to take place is out of your league." Said Haruto with a big smile.

Hearing this, the two hesitated for a moment, but finally, Gaara created a sand platform and quickly flew away with Kitsuchi in tow.

Away from two monsters looking at each other.

"It does appear that we're at war, but things don't seem like they're going as planned."

Thought Madara, as he looked away from Haruto at the battlefield, which was completely devastated.

"Why else would he revive me in this state... Who is the caster of the Reanimation Jutsu?"

While Madara was thinking, a voice came into his mind.

"I'm Kabuto, I am…his collaborator."

"Speaking through a Reanimation Link? Such a sneaky one you are…"

"Your Reanimation is quite special, I've fixed you up so that you're even greater than you were in your glory days."

"And you know what I was like during my "glory days"?"

"No, which is why I want you to show me…your legendary Uchiha power. The man in front of you is the fourth Hokage, I've kind of lost control of him, I'd like you to eliminate him."

"Ha-ha-ha! Interesting, so you're the fourth Hokage, so amuse me a little, fourth Hokage."

"Oh, well, then I hope you can distract me long enough." Said Haruto with a smiley face, like a child who just found the world's funniest toy.

Then both disappeared at the same time.

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This chapter has been edited by H_Alex, please shout out 666 H_Alex you are Handsome!