Naruto : Akatsuki Bizzare Strategist! Chapter 199 199: Kakashi the Travel frog

"Yikes... there seems to be a problem," Kushina, who was watching from the tree branch, suddenly raised a finger with a highly awkward expression.

Kushina had previously modified the seal circuit on Danzo's body, synchronizing the release of the Reaper Death Seal with his suicide vest.

As long as Danzo used the Reverse Four Symbols Seal, his own body would be torn apart and devoured by the void, perfectly eting the sacrifice conditions to release the Reaper's stomach.

Danzo's face had been wrapped up in bandages, essentially covering the painted-on Death God mask.

Instead of putting a physical mask on him, Kushina had followed the traditional Uzumaki thod and directly painted the summoning formula onto Danzo's face while he was anesthetized.

According to the original plan, Danzo would use the Reverse Four Symbols Seal in an open, harmless clearing, simultaneously dying and releasing the souls of the Fourth Hokage trapped within the Death God.

But now?

Danzo self-destructed prematurely in a panic over a paintbrush, forcing Kakashi to use Kamui to transfer the exploding geezer to save the neighborhood.

Where was he transferred?

Now everyone in the loop knows the "Masked Man" is Obito Uchiha.

Kakashi's Kamui and Obito's right eye share the exact sa pocket dinsion.

What does this an?

When the Fourth Hokage and the Nine-Tails were violently released from the Reaper's stomach... they were directly dumped into the Kamui Dinsion.

'Well, well.'

Obito wakes up every day to find he's unwittingly playing a collection gacha ga called [Travel Frog: Kakashi Edition], eagerly waiting to see what random souvenirs Kakashi has mailed him today.

The first few tis, Kakashi mailed him severed arms and a lot of shit.

Today, Kakashi mailed him an expanding black hole of death, a literal piece of shit on a brush, his old Sensei's ghost and a weapon of mass destruction.

Did he hit the jackpot? Is he pleased?

This is exactly why Kushina looked so embarrassed.

They, sort of, maybe, did sothing catastrophically huge.

"Lord Third... I..." Kakashi staggered, seeming to realize the nightmare of what he had just done.

Sending his dead teacher's soul over to the enemy base was one thing.

But sending the other half of the Nine-Tails over?! That's a disaster of apocalyptic proportions!

How could he face his elders and peers?

Uh, aning, how could he face Makoto and the Akatsuki Organization who were working so hard to save this world?

'Hmm.'

Kakashi's mind and body, crushed under the imnse weight of political anxiety and chakra depletion, gave out.

Thud.

He fainted dead away into the grass.

Kakashi is really sothing; his fainting-to-screenti ratio has far surpassed Hinata's by now.

But there's no helping it.

The Hashirama cells that Obito had secretly injected into Kakashi last ti were a one-ti-use consumable.

After restoring Kakashi's eyesight to normal, they only reduced the side effects of vision deterioration for the next few uses.

Fainting is still an inevitable protective chanism of the body.

To put it bluntly, it's still due to insufficient chakra bandwidth.

Of course, Kakashi's actual chakra reserves aren't low—he's not the "Chakra asurent Unit" (1 Kakashi = 0.5 Kisa) that everyone jokes about.

(After losing his Sharingan, Kakashi single-handedly fought 50 special Jonin and wildly spamd massive Ninjutsu, including an Earth-Style Wall that enveloped the entire village, without breaking a sweat.)

The problem lies with the Sharingan's overly strict anti-theft chanism.

When implanted in a non-Uchiha, unless they have compatible Hashirama cells installed as a driver, their max MP is directly halved and continuously drained.

It's nothing like the Byakugan, which relies on the Caged Bird Seal instead of a parasite drain.

...

After sending Kakashi to his exclusive, permanently reserved hospital bed, the group discussed the situation and decided to urgently contact Agakure via the Akatsuki rings.

When the Second Hokage learned the news, he instantly teleported over using Flying Thunder God and first glared murderously at Hiruzen.

"Silently giving away half of the Nine-Tails to the enemy—quite impressive leadership, Monkey," Tobirama sneered.

"We didn't an to! It was an accident!" Kushina defended him.

"What we need to clarify right now is whether that Kamui Dinsion is a completely isolated alternate space, or if souls can leak out."

Tobirama clapped his hands together and summoned a White Zetsu clone, which struck a seductive weird pose on the ground.

"Go on, Monkey. Soone go dig up the Fourth's grave and bring back so DNA samples."

"...Isn't that highly inappropriate?" Hiruzen looked incredibly uncomfortable.

"Still worried about desecrating the dead? If you won't go, I will." Tobirama shot Hiruzen a sharp look.

If they kept fussing about "disrespecting the deceased" now, they'd all beco deceased permanently soon enough and wouldn't have to worry about it!

The Nine-Tails wouldn't threaten Agakure's forces.

Those with Edo Tensei bodies had nothing to fear either.

But what if?

What if the Masked Man controlled the Yin Nine-Tails and recreated another Nine-Tails Night?

Could anyone in Konoha survive a second round?

Or what if he didn't attack Konoha but targeted ordinary civilians in other nations?

"I'll go." Kushina volunteered, her face grim.

She was going to dig up her husband's grave.

Minutes later, Kushina returned with a dust sample from the coffin.

Tobirama began the Edo Tensei ritual using the White Zetsu.

Poof.

As expected, it failed and the ashes scattered.

"Either your Reaper Death Seal release failed completely, or this Kamui Dinsion truly exists independently from the Pure Land, trapping both the soul and the Nine-Tails inside like a vault."

Tobirama concluded with a grave expression.

"Then... what should we do now?" Kushina asked worriedly.

This was all her fault.

If she hadn't considered using Danzo as a suicide bomber to retrieve the other half of the Nine-Tails as a gift for Naruto, this wouldn't have happened.

"Where's Kakashi? Wake him up. Have him use Kamui to suck in. I'll go investigate what's happening." Tobirama looked around, searching for the silver-haired ninja.

"Um, Kakashi overexerted himself and passed out. He's in a coma."

"Besides, Lord Second, it's too dangerous! Even with an immortal Edo Tensei body, you'd still be walking blindly into an enemy stronghold!" Kushina argued.

"Exactly. We don't know what traps are waiting in there," Hiruzen added.

"Then there's no other way. We wait."

Tobirama completely gave up the idea.

Not because he was persuaded by their concern for his safety, but simply because he learned Kakashi was out of chakra.

Under these circumstances, without their guide, there was truly no alternative.

....

anwhile.

Inside the Kamui Dinsion.

Danzo, who had been transported via the portal, completed the Reverse Four Symbols Seal inside the dinsion.

The black sphere expanded, absorbing a bunch of giant concrete blocks and empty space, before fading away.

Fortunately for the Masked Man, he wasn't actually hanging out in his lounge at that exact mont.

This ti, the Masked Man finally had a stroke of luck.

Obito avoided the suicide bombing, but because he wasn't there, he couldn't imdiately discern what transpired after the explosion ended.

The Reaper Death Seal had been broken by Danzo's sacrifice.

A puff of spiritual white smoke drifted out of the void.

This was the soul representing Minato Namikaze.

Under normal circumstances in the real world, shortly after being unsealed from the Reaper's stomach, the soul would begin ascending naturally to the Pure Land.

But within the Kamui Dinsion? There was no heaven to ascend to.

It was a closed server.

At this mont, Minato's soul was like a glitching NPC—constantly seeking an exit protocol yet remaining stationary due to finding no valid coordinates.

In such conditions, unless driven by intense lingering attachnts, floating souls rarely develop subjective consciousness.

They just sleep.

However, while Minato lacked subjective awareness, the Yin Nine-Tails very much possessed it.

Tailed Beasts are miraculous entities—aggregates of pure chakra where the chakra constitutes both their physical form and their soul.

Realizing they were trapped in a dark void, the Yin Nine-Tails actively consud its own massive chakra reserves to forcibly awaken Minato's soul consciousness.

Then, it infused Minato's ghost with Nine-Tails chakra.

This temporarily granted Minato a glowing, golden physical form, enabling him to speak and use ninja techniques.

Minato gasped as his eyes snapping open.

He was glowing bright yellow now!

"FOURTH HOKAGE!" A massive, demonic voice bood in his head. "The chakra lingering in this place feels detestable! It's from that masked bastard who controlled back then!"

"Nine-Tails? Wait... What? Could this be the Masked Man's alternate dinsion?" Minato looked around at the endless rows of grey concrete blocks.

"EXACTLY! Get out of here now using your Space-Ti Ninjutsu!"

"..."

"ARE YOU FUCKING DEAF?!" The Nine-Tails roared.

"I can't!" Minato sweated nervously. "This is a completely separate dinsion... I can't sense any external space-ti Flying Thunder God coordinates from in here! I didn't leave any marks inside this place!"

"THEN WHAT DO WE DO?!"

"We can only wait for the space-ti portal to reopen from the outside... Nine-Tails, return to my body to conserve chakra for now. We need to set an ambush."

And so, the Yellow Flash and the Demon Fox sat down on a concrete block, waiting to jump-scare whatever poor bastard opened the door next.

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