Danzo's face hardened; the agitation Tsunade had stirred minutes before had been replaced by cold composure.
"Tsunade! I'll admit you're skilled — but the victor will be !" he declared.
"Attack!" he barked.
On his command, four Root shinobi sprang forward and surrounded Danzo and the others. A city-sized earthen wall, dozens of ters high, erupted up around them, sealing them in.
Soone imdiately reinforced it with a sealing jutsu.
Danzo laughed. His body grew faint and translucent — he'd activated Izanagi again.
He was trapped, yes, but Izanagi would let him shrug off the consequences.
"Hahahaha, Tsunade — enjoy the Thick Earth Seal!" Danzo crowed, delight twisting his weathered features.
Tsunade and the pinned Sasuke both went pale. Danzo hadn't only used the Thick Earth Seal; he'd layered an Earth Release technique — Earth Release: Iron Finger — into it. The technique hardened the earth until it was like steel, and as the seal tightened over ti it would grind them into paste.
"This is bad," Tsunade muttered.
She threw a fist.
Boom.
The impact rattled the air. A shallow crater marked the steel-like wall, but against that massive shell the damage was negligible.
Slowly, inexorably, the walls began to compress inward.
Both of them frowned, but the pressure increased only gradually. Still — given the technique's escalation, they would be crushed within a minute if they couldn't break free.
Outside the barrier Danzo laughed aloud. "Tsunade, you didn't expect this, did you? I prepared this long ago — to catch you unready!"
Muscles twitched across his face as he grinned like a man watching a turtle trapped in a jar.
A huge silver block of tal materialized within the seal. Shisui and the other nearby shinobi stiffened; many wanted to charge in and free Tsunade.
Naruto held Shisui back. "Don't rush in yet. Let's see what they can do," he said.
Shisui paused and, despite his worry, felt strangely steadied by Naruto's calm. Could Naruto really think Tsunade and Sasuke might break Danzo's seal?
Four figures took positions at the corners of the bright silver block outside the barrier, palms to the ground, channeling chakra. Black sealing runes crawled across the tal's surface.
Danzo watched the silver block shrink with gleeful eyes. Soon Tsunade would die by his hand — the jutsu was rciless.
Inside the cage, Tsunade scanned the dim interior. Light from a casual Fire Release she'd conjured illuminated their prison, but the air was thin; even sustaining the fla would burn chakra fast.
Tsunade battered the tal again and again, but each strike left only a dent. Worse, the tal's density kept rising.
Sasuke's Sharingan tracked the compression with cold clarity. The more desperate the mont, the calr he beca — there had to be an answer. Naruto had said every thing in the world had a counter: chakra opposed chakra, jutsu opposed jutsu.
If the wall had been ordinary steel, Tsunade's blows would have long since shattered it; the sealing-augnted earth, however, was a different order entirely. Without space ninjutsu, or imnse power to overwhelm the technique, escape would be near-impossible.
Tsunade's mouth tightened. Summoning Katsuyu and performing the Reverse Summoning Technique would work — but she hated the idea. It felt like admitting defeat.
"Kid, co here. I'll pull you out with the Reverse Summoning Technique — otherwise you'll end up crushed," she told Sasuke.
Sasuke, frowning in thought, suddenly brightened. "No need." His eyes flashed. "If we electrolyze the iron in front of us, we can reduce it back to pig iron. Pig iron is soft — we can break that easily."
"That's it," Tsunade said, hope and steely resolve returning to her face.
Sasuke's eyes suddenly glead, his Sharingan spinning with focus.
Tsunade blinked in confusion.
Electrolytic iron? She had heard of iron conducting lightning, but not electrolyzing it.
Sasuke, however, had once pored over science books while studying the Railgun technique—at Naruto's insistence.
After all, as Naruto liked to say, "A shinobi who doesn't understand science isn't a good shinobi."
"As long as we mix in acidic water," Sasuke said, excitent growing in his voice, "we can electrolyze the iron! Once it breaks down into pig iron, it'll be soft enough for you to smash apart like dirt!"
Tsunade stared blankly for a mont, still trying to keep up with his explanation.
Outside, Danzo felt no more movent from within the silver cage. A grin spread across his wrinkled face.
"Tsunade! I told you resistance was futile! Die in despair!" he bellowed, laughing maniacally.
Inside the seal, Sasuke was already at work. His hands blurred through a sequence of hand signs, summoning a small stream of Water Release—slightly acidic, just enough to conduct the process he needed.
It wasn't as corrosive as i Terumī's Lava or Boil Release, but it was enough for his plan.
If only I had her Kekkei Genkai, he thought briefly. I could have lted this thing in seconds.
Lightning crackled around his right hand. He channeled Chidori into the acidic water, sparks leaping as the mixture hissed and stead against the tal.
"Electrolysis…" he muttered, pushing his chakra harder. The walls began to sizzle and distort, their hardened structure starting to soften.
Seeing Sasuke's movents, Tsunade stopped her futile punches and simply watched. She could tell—this was working.
"Lady Tsunade!" Sasuke shouted through gritted teeth.
"Now—expand this opening!"
Tsunade's eyes narrowed. She could see it—the tallic surface had changed. Her lips curved into a fierce grin.
"Got it!" she roared, drawing back her fist.
Boom!
The explosion shook the entire barrier. Even outside, Danzo staggered back from the shockwave, a dark premonition crawling up his spine.
No… it can't be!
Bang!
Another thunderous impact. The silver prison trembled.
Boom!!!
A final, deafening crash tore through the field. One side of the massive tal block shattered, a burst of steam and impure water gushing out as the barrier collapsed.
From the wreckage, Tsunade and Sasuke leapt free.
Tsunade landed first, clapping Sasuke on the shoulder with a broad grin.
"You've got so brains on you, kid! Hahaha!"
Sasuke exhaled, a faint smile tugging at his lips.
I, Uchiha Sasuke, am a true academic, he thought with quiet pride.
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