There is immense tension in the atmosphere. A gust of wind blew as hairs of Sakumo Hatake and A flutter. Both of them stares at each other as the ultimate confrontation between them is about to start.

Both sides have already fought for two days and have suffered a serious loss of manpower and resources. The time to end this fight has come as a face-off between the Commanders of both sides will start. ​​

If any of the sides are able to gain the absolute advantage over the other or receive reinforcement, then the scales will turn in their favor.

Both Sakumo and A immediately makes hand signs as they face against each other.

'Wind Style: Vacuum Serial waves'

'Lightning Style: Lightning Dragon Jutsu'

Boom…

Both jutsus collide and cancels each other.

'Lightning Release Chakra Mode'

The Third Raikage wraps his body in a layer of lightning Chakra. His hairs stick up as lightning crackles from his body. His muscles expand as the lightning stimulates his nervous system, thus increasing his speed and reflexes.

'Lightning Release: Body Flicker'

Zoom…whizz…

'Fast, so fast.' I am amazed by his speed as my Sharingan can barely track Third Raikage's movements. The third Raikage creates a gust of strong wind as he mows through many Konoha Ninjas, sending them to the afterlife.

'Wind Style: Pressure point Bullet'

Sakumo inhales a large amount of air as he compresses it into a bullet and fires it toward the Third Raikage. The density of the Chakra in the bullet is visible to the naked eye as the compressed air travels at supersonic speed, creating ripples around it.

Bam…

The bullets slam into Raikage, halting his charge. Some smoke rises from Raikage's body. The smoke clears out to show the perfectly fine body of Raikage. There is no damage to his body, not even a single scratch.

The Raikage cracks his neck as he makes some hand signs as black lightning crackles in his hand.

'Black Lightning: Black Panther'

The black lightning in his hands condenses into a panther. The panther growls as it charges towards Sakumo.

Growrrr…

Sakumo had a serious expression as he makes various hand signs,

'Wind style: Vacuum Great Sphere'

The giant wind sphere entangles the black lightning panther as the panther struggles to free itself from the sphere. The sphere and the panther dissipate altogether.

Sakumo pants lightly as he used lots of chakras in his previous jutsu. He takes a deep breath as he gets ready for the next move of the Raikage. The Third Raikage, on the other hand, doesn't even break as much as a single drop of sweat as he easily flays enemies left and right.

It becomes clear to Shinobis that the third Raikage is stronger than the White Fang.

Sakumo draws out his White Chakra Blade a infuses chakra in it.

'Kenjutsu style: Executioner's Slash'

A large white blade made of Chakra attacks the Kumo ninjas as it continues to travel towards the Third Raikage. The Third Raikage tanks the hit with his body as smoke rises from his body. There is no injury on his body but the impact of the blade pushes him back.

The Third Raikage riles up his Chakra as his lightning cloak thickens. His muscles and veins pop out as he charges toward Sakumo,

'Lightning Style: Lightning Straight'

He runs towards Sakumo and punches at him with his maximum speed. Sakumo infuses large amounts of Chakra in his white chakra blade as the blade turns white and starts to hum. A very thick but fine line of wind chakra coating appears on Sakumo's blade as it collides with Raikage's punch.

Sakumo is able to parry the punch as he directs it sideways, thus avoiding the lethal blow. Raikage's punch slams in the nearby ground. An intense Shockwave travels through the ground, a large crater is formed at the place of impact.

Sakumo jumps in the air to avoid the shockwave as he immediately makes some hand signs,

'Wind Style: Compression Bomb'

He fires a compressed air bomb towards Raikage. The momentum of the jutsu pushes back Sakumo even further as he summersaults and lands on the ground. Raikage just brushes off the jutsu as he makes some hand signs,

'Earth Style: Rock Spikes'

Many rock pikes fire off in Sakumo's direction who flickers and dodges them.

Raikage raises his right hand near his chest as he concentrates an enormous amount of lightning chakra into the finger-tips of his hand.

"That's the ultimate technique of Raikage-sama. The ultimate spear, Hell stab. Only a few people are aware of the fact that Raikage-sama not only possesses the 'Strongest Shield' but also the 'Strongest Spear'."

"So, Raikage-sama finally decided to use this technique to finish the fight."

"Raikage-Sama's spear is even stronger than his shield. You can see that scar on his chest. It is the result of his fight against Eight-Tails where he fell upon his own hand and stabbed himself in the chest."

"Yes, this proves that Raikage-Sama's spear is even stronger than his shield. I wonder how White Fang will deal with this move of Raikage-sama."

"White-Fang will fall today. No ninja is alive to tell the tale of sharpness of Raikage-Sama's spear."

The morale of Kumo shinobis rose as they saw Raikage preparing his ultimate techniques whereas the morale of Konoha's shinobis takes a hit as they murmur among themselves.

"Will Sakumo-san will be fine against the ultimate technique of Raikage."

"I hope he will be."

Izuna has a frown on his face as he sees Raikage's hand.

'Shall I use my Mangekyo Sharingan to attack him? But I don't have any powerful jutsu capable of harming him? This guy even tanked the Sage mode Rasenshuriken of Naruto and even a tailed-best bomb from Eight-tails. Naruto has to trick him in stabbing himself. I can't take that risk and get close to him.'

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Meanwhile at Iwa Battlefront,

Minato successfully destroyed the Kannabi Bridge thus preventing the invasion of the Iwagakure. Kakashi and Rin stand beside him as he sighs in grief.

Kakashi and Rin have tears in their eyes as their teammate Obito died in a confrontation with Iwa ninjas. Kakashi has a fresh vertical scar across his left eye and his left eye is replaced by a Two-tomoe Sharingan.

This Sharingan is a parting gift from his late teammate Obito. Minato tries to convince Rin and Kakashi as he speaks,

"We must honor Obito's last wish and prevent Iwa ninja from invading Land of Fire. Obito was a brave ninja who sacrificed himself for the sake of his friends. I am sure he wants both of you to fulfill his dream."

As Minato is conversing with his team, a Special Jounin runs in his direction as he shouts,

"Minato-san, Minato-san…We have an emergency Minato-san. Near a thousand Iwa shinobis are marching towards the border at 2 o'clock. We need to stop them, Minato-san."

The special jounins breathes heavily as he relays the news to Minato and asks for his help.

"I will be right there. You just carry my Kunai to the battlefront. I will teleport there, after I have finished my matters here."

Minato gives one of his signature tri-fork Kunai to the Special Jounin. After receiving the Kunai, the shinobi dash back to borders.

"Kakashi and Rin, we are in the middle of a war. For now, hold your grief for a while and focus on the battle. I am sure Obito doesn't want both of you to follow in his footsteps and meet him in the afterlife.

Kakashi, I have a mission for you. Head to the Kikoyo pass and assist the squad deployed there in the battle against enemies. The identities of the enemy Ninjas are unknown to us. Be careful on your way. Rin assist Medical-nins in the camp to nurse wounded shinobis."

"Yes, sensei!" Both Rin and Kakashi wipe their tears as they follow Minato's orders.

Minato stares at their back as he mutters,

'I hope you are doing fine, Izuna. I don't want another of my students to lose their lives in this battle. I don't know how I will answer to Kushina after this battle. She would be sad to hear about the death of Obito.'

Minato sighs again as he disappears from his spot only to appear on front lines against Iwa.

Around, a thousand Iwa shinobis are lined up as they push back the Konoha's shinobis. The Konoha shinobis are in a defensive position as they are somehow holding against the continuous assault of the Iwa Ninja. But their defense seems to be crumbling as Iwa ninjas are growing more and more frantic.

"Minato-san! You are finally here. We need your help in dealing with the Iwa ninjas. At this rate, our defenses will be breached shortly."

The Captain of the division fills up Minato on the situation of the battlefront.

"Don't worry, I have arrived just on time. I will deal with them."

Minato takes out a storage scroll from his pocket and infuses Chakra in the scroll.

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It was a hectic day. I am exhausted, my house is under renovation and I have to shift places.