"Threads, how coincidental, I've also been quite interested in threads recently..."
Uchiha Shin'yu's hands flashed rapidly, batting away all the Black Lines that stabbed towards him. Although he couldn't see them, he could accurately predict where they would land each time. But the most astonishing thing was his terrifying hand speed, creating countless afterimages in the air in an instant!
Shin'yu retreated while fighting, his footwork appearing chaotic, yet somehow causing Kakuzu to spin in place. At one point, Kakuzu suddenly noticed a fleeting crystal light in Shin'yu's hand.
"Something's not right!"
He immediately stopped attacking, and the masks on either side of his head began to accumulate Wind Release and Fire Release Chakra respectively.
Suddenly, Shin'yu's lips curled up in a smile. Like a conductor waving a baton at a concert, he rapidly waved his hands, his fingertips changing, fluttering and intertwining like butterflies, and then he suddenly pulled!
"Buzz—"
Kakuzu was slightly stunned, only feeling a tightness in his arms, as if he was entangled by something invisible. Before he could exert force to break free, he felt a sense of restraint in his limbs, along with a suffocating feeling of binding on his chest, Black Line tentacles, and everywhere Shin'yu had touched!
He suddenly realized that the air was already filled with imperceptible transparent threads, connected to Shin'yu's ten fingers. He was like a fly that had strayed into a spider web, unable to escape!
The Wind Release and Fire Release combination Ninjutsu that was still being charged was also broken midway.
Shin'yu shook his head and sighed softly, "As expected, I still prefer shape transformation to Chakra nature transformation."
"Pa pa pa pa pa!"
As soon as he finished speaking, countless fine, hair-like threads appeared in the air. These threads were several times more resilient than Kakuzu's Earth Grudge Fear tentacles. In just a moment, he was tightly bound by countless threads, his body uncontrollably pulled into the air, like a marionette at someone's disposal.
"This is... no, these are all Chakra threads! You are... a Puppet Master!?"
Kakuzu's pupils shrank sharply. "No, that's not right! The density of these threads is so great that they are almost sharper than blades. If I hadn't hardened my body in time, I would have been cut into pieces!"
"Is it fun? This is a Ninjutsu I just developed, I haven't named it yet."
Shin'yu elegantly spread his fingers, and softly chanted, "Gold Gathering, Armament."
In an instant, among the dense threads, several suddenly darkened in color, coated with a thick metallic luster, respectively wrapped around Kakuzu's chest, limbs, and the masks on his shoulders.
Shin'yu lightly raised his index finger, and those threads instantly disappeared into Kakuzu's body, their smoothness as if cutting a soft egg with silk thread, effortlessly.
"Chih!"
In the blink of an eye, Kakuzu was separated from his body, his monstrous body cut into pieces, and his Black Lines were also cut off at the same time, turning into countless large and small fragments that rustled and fell. His head rolled to the side, his horrified expression frozen on his face.
This bloody scene was deeply imprinted in the eyes of the three little ones, and everyone's pupils were slightly dilated with fear.
They never expected that the black-ribboned, seemingly refined and easy-going young man would have such cruel methods!
However, the young man did not leave, but stood quietly in place with a smile on his lips, watching Kakuzu's Corpse.
Before long, those fragments actually began to tremble, and countless Black Lines began to sway, like cobras dancing to the sound of a flute, spreading towards the distant head and the surrounding fragments.
"That monster... is not dead yet!"
Orochimaru widened his eyes in shock, forgetting to breathe.
In his eyes, the Black Lines shuttled rustlingly like living things, pulling the fragments on the ground to slowly gather, piecing together a complete body, stitching it together bit by bit, and finally, those threads converged into one, pulling the head back to the neck.
At this point, a person who had just been torn to pieces miraculously returned to his original state.
The Black Lines completely mended all the cracks, and Kakuzu also resumed breathing, panting like a cow.
He revealed an expression of extreme pain, his back automatically tearing open two large holes. Two strangely shaped white masks flew out from the holes, violently shattering into countless Black Lines.
"To think you shattered two of my hearts in one go!" Kakuzu raised his head, glaring fiercely at the youth before him, his gaze predatory. "You've truly... angered me!"
Shin'yu "tsk tsk"-ed, shaking his head, seemingly dissatisfied. "I thought I'd shattered four. I was too soft."
As soon as his voice fell, he disappeared from the spot. The sound of wind rose and fell, and a dozen afterimages instantly flashed around.
Kakuzu immediately swung out his tentacle fists. The Black Lines automatically detached, separating his wrist from his arm. The iron fists pierced through the afterimages, but there was no solid feeling.
"Rasengan."
A piercing buzzing sound came from his ear. A full three Shin'yus held high-speed rotating Chakra balls, pressing them fiercely against Kakuzu's body, blasting him high into the air.
All the afterimages merged into one. Shin'yu raised his sword fingers and swiped towards the sky. A cyan sword energy flashed past, striking Kakuzu's hardened neck, emitting a crisp "clang" sound.
"Damn it!" Kakuzu immediately separated a mask from his body. Lightning gathered in the open mouth, while he formed hand seals with both hands, gathering Water Release Chakra in his throat.
"Water Release Combination Technique: Lightning Water Dragon Bullet!"
A curtain of water spread out, and a water dragon that stirred up rivers and seas fell with a dazzling thunderclap. In the humid air, countless electric sparks flickered incessantly.
Shin'yu smiled, clasped his palms together, and then suddenly pushed them open. With his movement, the majestic roaring water dragon was torn apart from its mouth, as if torn apart by an invisible Big Hand, along with the lightning, falling to both sides.
"Rasengan." Shin'yu raised his right hand, and a stream of light swirled and gathered, and an ice-blue Chakra ball reappeared.
Kakuzu had just landed at this time, and before he could adjust his body, he smelled a dangerous aura. He immediately hardened his arm, protecting his chest.
At the same time, the pitch-black color representing hardening was spreading towards his chest.
Shin'yu suddenly changed his hand gesture. As the blue light condensed, the Rasengan suddenly shrank, as if suspended at his fingertips like a bullet.
"Spiral Bullet!"
"Whoosh!"
The Spiral Bullet shot through the air, the airflow swirling violently, turning into a straight trajectory, passing through the gap in Kakuzu's arm, and accurately shooting into his chest before the pitch black had completely covered it.
Kakuzu's back instantly burst open, the Spiral Bullet passing through his body and blasting the Lightning Release mask behind him into pieces!
"Ugh!"
Kakuzu's face was ferocious, his features twisted together, obviously enduring great pain.
"If I remember correctly, you should still have two hearts..."
Shin'yu moved his wrist, his tone casual. "I'm tired of playing. Now, let's hear my thoughts for now."
"Thoughts?" Kakuzu glared at him fiercely. "You destroyed three of my hearts, and now you expect me to talk to you calmly?"
Shin'yu tilted his head, and faint cyan steam floated from his body. "Third Gate of Life, open."
He took a step forward, and a huge sonic boom set off a roar. A powerful aura rushed towards him, and a figure blocked all of Kakuzu's sunlight. In his rapidly shrinking pupils, Shin'yu's heroic and upright body was reflected.
"This speed!"
"Pfft."
Kakuzu lowered his gaze in disbelief. An arm had already pierced through his chest, pinching a mask in his palm, and his five fingers gently clenched.
"Crack."
That was the sound of a mask shattering.
Too fast, he didn't even have time to react!
His hands, barely raised, were also gripped by Shin'yu's iron-like hands, and with a slight exertion, both of his arms were torn off at the shoulders.
A Big Hand covered the top of his head, and then, the young man with the black blindfold revealed a bewitching smile, lifting his hand like pulling a radish. Under the tearing force of a tyrannosaurus, his head and body were instantly separated, leaving only the still connected but soon to be severed Black Lines snapping one by one.
Kakuzu's face was pale, and a deep sense of powerlessness arose in his heart. In front of this guy, he was like a toy to be manipulated, disassembled at will.
Shin'yu lifted Kakuzu's head in front of him, his frivolous tone like a demon from Hell, "Now... are you willing to listen to my thoughts?"
This guy has been toying with me from the beginning! Kakuzu's face was full of disbelief, his expression changing several times, and finally he resigned himself to his fate.
Uchiha Shin'yu was simply a monster, invincible in Ninjutsu, invincible in Taijutsu, and as an Uchiha, his Genjutsu was definitely not bad either...
If he had shown this terrifying Taijutsu from the beginning, he was afraid that even if he had ten hearts, he wouldn't have been able to last a few rounds.
"Let's hear it," Kakuzu said in a low voice, but there was no sign of humiliation on his face.
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