Escape From Konoha

"Kisame..."

Terumi Mei's gloomy face showed disappointment and helplessness.

Maybe he was aware of Kisame's true feelings, so he had such emotions.

Because no matter what the other party's reasons are, betrayal is betrayal. Not only she, Mizukage, and Kirigakure behind her cannot tolerate Kisame, but the Kingdom of Demons will also not allow betrayers to exist.

At this point, even without prior communication with the Kingdom of Demons, Terumi Mei could clearly know what the attitude of the Kingdom of Demons was.

The traitor must die!

Kisame's concealment caused some flaws in the original plan of Oni Country and Kirigakure.

In the original risk prevention plan, they thought that if there was an accident in the plan, it would most likely be the actions of the Alliance Army, which would exceed expectations... But they did not expect that the Akatsuki side would be the first to have an accident.

"Ming, there is nothing more to say, kill him. This is our explanation to the allies and ourselves."

The third Mizukage stood up, his old wrinkled face filled with a sharp aura like frost.

"I see."

Mei Terumi also understood this. She put away the complexity that emerged in her heart and understood that it was her Mizukage's responsibility to deal with Kisame at this time.

"That's right. Let's fight happily on this battlefield called the last."

As if sensing Terumi Mei's mood, Kisame bared his fangs and laughed.

With that said, he jumped forward. Due to the fusion with the same shark muscle, his physical strength could be said to have been greatly increased. Even when moving on land, his speed was definitely not slow.

Not to mention, the frighteningly huge chakra is no less than that of a tailed beast. If it is directly hit, one can imagine what the consequences will be.

"Be careful not to get close to him!"

The Third Mizukage instructed, holding out a finger.

"Water Release·Water Iron Cannon!"

The water balls as hard as iron balls were like cannonballs, fired from the fingers of the third generation Mizukage, making a sharp sound in the air.

Kisame had no intention of avoiding it, and swung out a heavy punch, colliding with the water ball as hard as steel.

boom!

The first water ball that was touched exploded violently like a bomb, kicking up thick dust.

Then more water balls flew into the dust and smoke, attacking Kisame inside.

Then, the sound of continuous bombings was heard, causing violent impacts on the ground. Countless potholes appeared on the ground, and there were obvious traces of wet water in them.

Kisame rolled out from the impact. Although he absorbed part of the chakra of the water ball, the impact of the explosion was too much, making it impossible for him to safely absorb all the flying water balls as chakra. Not only that, he was even covered in colors.

Especially the arms, blood was flowing and the skin was torn. Under the conditioning of chakra, the wounds healed quickly.

But Kisame was anything but relaxed.

He is in this state to fight with the Water Release Ninjutsu, Water Release: Big Explosive Water Wave, but now due to the existence of the Third Mizukage, his ability to create large-scale waters can be said to be completely blocked by the opponent.

In addition to being proficient in various series of water escape ninjutsu, the third generation Mizukage also has the ability to absorb water escape and convert it into his own chakra, which can block most water escape.

Unfortunately, his Water Release and Great Explosive Water Wave were within the area that was restrained by the Third Mizukage.

As long as the Third Mizukage is around, he can only maintain this state and fight on land. The situation can be said to be very unfavorable from the beginning.

On the other side, Mei Terumi also took action, forming seals with her hands, and the white steam from her mouth spread rapidly and rushed towards Kisame.

"Boiling Escape·Qiao Mist Technique!"

The flesh on Kisame's face began to twitch, and he quickly retreated from the range of the steam and retreated towards the safe area.

Just by looking at him, his body covered in steam caused extensive burns.

If it were a step later, it is very likely that even the flesh and blood of the whole body would be corroded and fester.

Terumi Mei once went to the Kingdom of Demons to conduct experiments. The steam acid mist created by the Kagemist Technique has such strong corrosive power that even the third stage Susanoo is difficult to defend and will be dissolved by the acid mist.

For the human body, in direct contact, within a few seconds, all the flesh, blood and bones in the body will be dissolved into a pool of blood.

It is a very cruel Blood Succession Limit, just like Sunagakure Jonin Hayakura's Burning Release, the attack method is very cruel and terrifying.

Kisame retreated to safety and began to pant.

The cooperation between the Third Mizukage and Terumi Mei was very clever. One of them defended his Water Release, rendering most of his Water Release useless.

Once Terumi Mei's two blood inheritance limits touch the body, Kisame does not dare to absorb it within the realm of the technique, because the speed at which he absorbs chakra will definitely not kill him as fast.

Boiling Release and Melting Release, without a tailed beast-like physique, would be impossible to withstand.

It's a pity that although Kisame has the same chakra as the tailed beasts, his body's toughness is far less than that of the tailed beasts.

It is impossible to win if they are suppressed like this.

No matter how much chakra he had, without supplies, it would be consumed to death by two people. After all, he needs to consume a lot of chakra to recover from his injuries.

Facing two Mizukage, having tailed beast level chakra is not guaranteed to be sufficient, not to mention one of them is very restrained in his ability.

"In this case, we can only win with speed!"

Kisame made a decision, a large amount of chakra began to gather towards his feet, his body bounced on the ground, and flew out as fast as lightning.

"Boiling Escape·Qiao Mist Technique!"

Terumi Mei narrowed her eyes, and more steam and acid mist spurted out from her mouth, covering Kisame into the acid mist realm in the blink of an eye.

The Third Mizukage stands behind Terumi Mei. The magician can escape the erosion of Boiling Escape, but the Third Mizukage is not immune. When entering the acid mist field, his body will also be dissolved.

The moment he rushed into the acid mist, Kisame cracked the corners of his mouth and formed seals with his hands.

"Water Escape·Water Prison Technique!"

Kisame quickly spit out water from his mouth, and the thick sphere wrapped Kisame's body. Using this method, although it was still impossible to avoid Terumi Mei's boiling escape 100%, as long as the water prison dissolved before Kisame could Avoid being dissolved by acid mist.

Terumi Mei also knew what Kisame was planning, so he immediately stepped back and distanced himself from Kisame.

The water prison technique originally used to imprison enemies has now become Kisame's means of defense against acid mist.

In addition, Kisame has the ability to breathe in water, so even if he does not release the water prison for a long time, he will not drown in the water ball.

Seeing that Terumi Mei had plans to retreat, Kisame would not miss this opportunity. He controlled the water ball wrapped around his body and flew straight towards the direction of Terumi Mei's retreat.

At this time, the Third Mizukage suddenly took action.

A torrent of water spurted out from his mouth, like a sharp blade extending infinitely, sweeping forward.

Kisame flew the water ball into the air, avoiding the rapid fire.

This is a water dragon blade that can cut even the body of a tailed beast. Kisame didn't dare to go up and try it himself to see how sharp the rapids were.

As soon as Kisame dodged like this, he immediately lost the best time to pursue Terumi Mei.

"Melt Escape·Monster Melting Technique!"

The soluble fluid turned into liquid and swept over the mountains and plains, causing Kisame to lose his foothold in an instant.

After Kisame landed on the ground, the water ball burst into white heat and dissolved at an unimaginable speed.

While delivering a large amount of chakra to support the water prison technique, Kisame quickly moved the water ball away from the dissolving area.

"It's really not an easy thing to do both of you at the same time."

If it was one-on-one, Kisame had the confidence to absolutely defeat them.

But when the two of them joined forces, Kisame found that his confidence in defeating them had been gradually disintegrated and was not as strong as it was at the beginning.

He used almost all his means to deal with the enemy, but none of them achieved the desired results.

If this continues, the situation will become increasingly unfavorable to him.

Knowing the truth, Terumi Mei and the Third Mizukage would never let him get close to them and try the taste of chakra.

There was a faint fluctuation on Kisame's grinning blue face.

Just use shark bombs to create an opening for attack. Thinking of this, Kisame no longer hesitated.

After taking a deep breath, Kisame formed seals with his hands, and all the chakra in his body erupted from his body in a visible way, filling the air with an unimaginable heaviness.

"This is--"

"retreat!"

Terumi Mei and the Third Mizukage didn't hesitate and immediately knew what Kisame planned to do.

Just as Kisame knew them thoroughly, they were also very clear about Kisame's moves.

For example, fuse with Samehada to enter the tailless tailed beast state, and use Water Release and Big Explosion Water Wave to create a favorable combat environment for the tailless tailed beast state.

In addition, he also has a water escape technique that can restrain chakra-based ninjutsu!

Sure enough, the moment the two of them stepped back, a huge and loud roar echoed throughout the surrounding area.

"Water Release: Shark Bullet!"

A super-large shark water bomb, comparable to a small mountain and about the same size as a complete tailed beast, was completely solidified in the void. Its neatly arranged teeth were like sharp swords, with a cold light and cold aura shining on it, as far as possible. He opened his mouth to reveal a bottomless mouth, like an abyss, sucking in air and creating unparalleled wind pressure.

The pair of huge eyes emitted a cold light, driving the body directly towards the position of Terumi Mei and the Third Mizukage.

"Melt Escape·Monster Melting Technique!"

"Water Release·Water Dragon Slash!"

The corrosive torrent burst out and rushed towards the huge shark, and the torrent that cut through iron as much as mud followed closely behind, rushing straight into the shark's black hole mouth, trying to penetrate it.

The giant shark made a terrifying and eerie scream from the huge mouth of the black hole. It opened its mouth further and swallowed up the corrosive torrent and rapids in one mouthful.

Boom!

After the shark, which was already very large in size, absorbed more chakra, the water flow that formed its body quickly expanded from the inside, making the shark grow in size by a full round.

Click!

Click!

Wherever it passed, the ground was rubbed and shattered by sharks.

The surrounding air poured back into the abyss of the shark's mouth, so that the bodies of Terumi Mei and the Third Mizukage were drawn into the surrounding air currents, restricted to a certain area, and unable to move freely.

"ha--"

Kisame's proud voice has not yet been heard.

A dark shadow appeared, causing his laughter to stop abruptly.

The creepy aura made the hairs stand on end all over his body, and he subconsciously moved his body.

Poof!

Blood spilled into the sky.

Some of the blood even splashed on Kisame's own face.

An arm flew away.

"Well--"

The miserable screams were suppressed by Kisame, but his twitching and twisted face still showed his extreme pain.

Out of the corner of his eye, Kisame only saw a shadow flashing past, then disappearing into the darkness.

A pair of quiet, cold eyes seemed to open in the darkness, staring at him.

Kisame seemed to sense that these cold and ruthless eyes had their owner, but they couldn't see it with the naked eye.

It was as if the shadow had never existed from the beginning, like a poisonous snake in the dark, hiding in the dark and giving him a fatal blow at any time.

Due to the unstable state of the operator, the giant shark also came to a standstill in an instant.

There was a whistling sound.

Kisame turned his head.

A streak of watery light flashed across.

The torrent passed through his neck, and blood sprayed out again

"Cough...uh...cough..."

Kisame's hoarse and breathy voice came out of his mouth, and he stumbled backwards while vomiting blood.

The shock of fainting almost made him faint, but he did not fall down due to his amazing vitality.

The giant shark fell to the ground with a faint breath, stopped in front of the Third Mizukage and Terumi Mei, and did not continue to sprint forward.

The Third Mizukage kept his mouth slightly open and stood with his hands in a hand seal, his old face expressionless.

Kisame looked at him.

The rapids came again.

An exaggerated slash spanning dozens of meters in length appeared on the ground. Kisame's other arm also flew out, and blood mist sprayed out from the wound, spreading around.

"ah--"

Kisame finally couldn't help but let out a cry of pain this time.

After losing both arms, even in this state, it is impossible to heal, let alone use ninjutsu.

In other words, the outcome of this battle has been decided.

Kisame fell down, his chest rising and falling slightly, proving that there was still a glimmer of life, and his muscles began to separate from his body.

The biological sword covered with barbs was also covered in blood and had a lot of wounds. It was obviously because of being one with Kisame before, it had been severely injured, and it let out a weak whimper of pain.

Ta, tap.

The sound of footsteps came, and it was the figures of Mei Terumi and the Third Mizukage approaching, appearing in Kisame's eyes that were opened as much as possible.

"Ha...ha...that's true...as for Mr. Shiraishi...you have no mercy...at all...for the traitors..."

Because his neck was damaged by the Third Mizukage, even though Kisame has amazing resilience, he can only maintain a certain level of vocalization in this state. Moreover, some words in the sounds cannot be clearly articulated at all, and one can only vaguely make out a rough outline.

Kisame already knew who the shadow that attacked him just now was. Without that unexpected sneak attack, the result is still unknown.

But Kisame was not unwilling to accept this ending.

There is no hatred towards people like Shiraishi and Terumi Mei.

Rather, he felt extremely happy that he could die with hatred and denial in his heart.

He is a traitor.

He took refuge with the Pufferfish Ghost in Xigua Mountain, secretly massacred his colleagues, and betrayed them.

He saw that the Watermelon Mountain Puffer Ghost secretly betrayed the interests of the village in order to eradicate dissidents in the village and seize the position of Mizukage, so he betrayed him and gave him a fatal blow.

He was persuaded by Yagura to kill the Daimyo of the Land of Water, and in the name of rebelling against the ninja, he became a spy for Kirigakure and the allied forces of the Demon Country, and joined the Akatsuki.

And now, he betrayed Kirigakure and the allied forces of the Kingdom of Demons, concealing the most important information at the last critical moment.

If he had sent out this news earlier, the Kingdom of Demons could have invited the Alliance Army to take action in advance to prevent Nagato from awakening the Ten-Tails and nip the danger in the cradle.

What should I do?

What am I doing?

who I am?

What is my reason for doing this?

At this moment, even Kisame himself began to blur.

With constantly switching personalities, life is full of calculations, conspiracies, betrayals, and deceptions... This world is full of lies that deceive people and are deceived by others.

A smile appeared on Kisame's face, a lonely and numb smile.

Terumi Mei didn't speak, just stared at this former colleague, thinking that this war could change the identity of the other party's spy, remove his identity as a traitor, and let him live under the sun again.

But for such a betrayal, if Kisame wanted to clear his name, not only would she and Kirigakure not allow it, but the Kingdom of Demons would not allow it either.

"Xiguashan is right...betrayal...is such a heavy thing...people like me...cannot be trusted...ha...ha..."

Kisame vaguely remembered the last words of his first boss, the Suikoyama Fugu Oni.

That vicious curse still echoes clearly in my ears.

Xiguashan, his first boss, had great trust in him and regarded him as his right-hand man.

His second boss, Yagura, did the same to him, liberating him and giving him the status of the Seven Ninja Swordsmen.

The third boss, Nagato, still trusts him so much that this kind of trust can even be extended to the point of being a confidant.

The three bosses were all identical, but he betrayed them.

He betrayed Watermelon Mountain, betrayed Yagura, and also betrayed Nagato.

Standing in the triangle, he had been sincere to everyone, but in the end he chose to betray.

"Haha...ha...uh..."

Kisame's miserable laughter sounded very sad, but also relieved.

He didn't understand it in the past, and it wasn't until this moment that he understood what he was thinking.

"...Only at the moment of death do people know what they are thinking..."

Thinking of what his colleague Uchiha Itachi once said to him in the past, Kisame felt even more self-deprecating.

He didn't know if Itachi got the answers he needed when he died, but he did understand what he was thinking now.

"It turns out that the one who has never forgiven me... is myself..."

Kisame's smile became even sadder, and he understood what had been holding him back all these years.

The guilt that comes from being given trust and then deceiving others has been born from the first betrayal, and it has always existed in his heart until one day it took root and completely swallowed up his hope of living. Almost exhausted.

It's not that he doesn't have anyone's trust, but it's because he has gained the trust of countless people that he feels that he is guilty.

Being trusted is also a kind of sin.

Terumi Mei looked at Kisame's miserable state. Blood was gurgling from the wound where the opponent had lost his arms, dyeing the nearby ground red.

She silently took out a kunai from her ninja tool bag, held it in her hand, and moved forward emotionlessly, taking steps towards Kisame step by step.

The third Mizukage watched silently, just standing there, motionless.

"The fifth... fifth generation... please... finally... let me... die... as a traitor..."

Kisame tried his best to support the ground with his back and tried to sit up.

However, a cold edge flashed past, and Kisame's words stopped abruptly, and his body stiffened.

Terumi Mei's figure flashed behind Kisame, and the kunai was covered with blood, dripping down.

Blood splashed from Kisame's split neck, and the body that had been propped up halfway fell down again, this time motionless, his chest no longer heaved, and there was no breath in his nostrils.

"deep……"

The old voice of the Third Mizukage sounded from behind.

"I'm fine, Sandaime-sama. Rather, after dealing with the traitorous ninja who abandoned the village, I feel happier than ever before."

Terumi Mei calmly wiped away the blood of Kunai, took back the ninja bag, turned around, and showed a bright and beautiful smile to the Third Mizukage.

"..."

The third Mizukage nodded silently.

Terumi Mei's words have already established Kisame's identity.

He is an extremely vicious S-class rebellious ninja who assassinated the Daimyo of the Land of Water, betrayed his Kirigakure compatriots, and joined the terrorist organization Akatsuki.

…

"He's dead..."

Ayane said this, just announcing this fact.

"Um."

Shiraishi had no more words coming out of his mouth.

The flame of life of the traitor Kisame has been confirmed to be extinguished, and it will be ended by Terumi Mei herself.

From the moment Shadow Dancer took action, this ending was already doomed.

"There was obviously a secret medicine in his ninja tool bag that could enhance his strength, but he didn't use it in the end."

Ayane felt confused. Since he had betrayed, why not contribute his last strength?

This kind of incomplete betrayal and incomplete loyalty reminded Ayane of Uchiha Itachi, an extremely complicated Uchiha tribesman.

No matter which path I chose, I didn't follow through to the end. I chose to give up halfway and felt self-loathing.

"He just wants to die. For him, giving him death is a kind of mercy."

Shiraishi gave this answer.

The shadow behind him also swayed, and then returned to normal.

Ayane nodded with understanding, and then stopped paying attention to the battle over there with her white eyes.

"Next, things here are almost coming to an end..."

After Shiraishi said this, he slowly loosened his hands holding the seal, as if the work had been completed and there was no need to continue maintaining it.

With the top of Ten-Tails' head, Nagato's body stiffened for a moment, and a fleeting sadness flashed in Rinne's eyes.

"Kisame..."

Kisame's chakra suddenly disappeared, leaving only Samehada's aura. There was no doubt that the former Kirigakure ninja who was loyal to Akatsuki and one of the Seven Ninja Swordsmen, Inigaki Kisame, was dead.

However, it was too late for Nagato to lament the passing of Kisame. Suddenly there was a violent vibration under his feet, and the released chakra turned into a torrent and dissipated from the Ten-Tails' body.

"Oops--"

Feeling the rapid collapse of chakra in the Ten-Tails' body, Nagato's expression changed in shock.

"Bah, bah, bah, bah!"

The strange and loud howling of the Ten-Tails made people's eardrums hurt, and they subconsciously wanted to cover their ears to prevent the sound waves from shattering the eardrums.

However, no matter how hard the Ten-Tails suppressed it, the chakra in the body was like a dam that suddenly burst, and the broken chakra turned into several rivers and poured out in all directions.

These dispersed chakras gathered on the earth to form a giant beast with different heads and shapes, and grinning teeth.

The Ten-Tails' body also began to shrink violently at a speed visible to the naked eye, and began to return to a humanoid form like a dead tree.