NARUTO: SECOND GOD OF SHINOBI

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As Hiruzen gazed towards the sky, he noticed the clouds rising ominously, ready to strike down.

Without hesitation, the first clone raised his hands and shot a thunder spear towards the sky.

Meanwhile, the original Hiruzen invoked a massive Wind style hurricane jutsu, and the last clone unleashed a Water style Tornado jutsu.

Together, the elements roared to life, creating a destructive vortex of natural energy.

The first clone, now wielding compressed natural thunder to the extreme, formed a bident—the Lightning Style: Heaven's Lance.

In mere moments, six massive Rasengan, each fused with different nature transformations, materialized in the six hands of Hiruzen's Susanoo.

Each Rasengan radiated immense power: the Wind Rasengan glowed light green with two rotating rings, exceeding 10 meters in size.

The Fire Rasengan blazed in a brilliant blue roaring flames, while the Water Rasengan shimmered in aqua blue.

The Lightning Rasengan gleamed ominously in black, the Earth Rasengan took on a brown hue, and lastly, the Natural Energy Rasengan pulsed with pure senjutsu energy.

With a decisive clap of his hands, Hiruzen shouted, "Sage Art: Combination Style—Cyclone Destruction Rasengan Smash!"

The hurricanes and tornadoes merged, hurtling towards Madara with devastating force.

The Heaven Lance and six Rasengan followed, turning the battlefield into a maelstrom of elemental chaos.

Madara, witnessing the sheer scale of the assault, was momentarily taken aback.

He contemplated, What monstrous chakra control—the Third Hokage is summoning S-rank jutsu as if they are mere child's play.

Raising his hand, he began absorbing the cyclone destruction with the Rinnegan's Preta Path.

Despite his efforts, the attack's scale was overwhelming. Though he managed to absorb a significant portion of the cyclone, his Susanoo shattered upon impact.

He continued absorbing the remaining six Rasengan but couldn't fully neutralize them before Hiruzen appeared beside him.

Madara instinctively thrust his right palm forward to deflect, but Hiruzen channeled natural energy into his left fist and slammed Madara's hand down.

With his right hand inches away from madara chest, he conjured a Yang Release Rasengan—a glowing yellow-orange sphere with two rotating rings—and drove it into Madara's chest.

The left hand of madara absorbing the jutsu slowly struggled and rasengan explosion occurred.

The force of the attack launched Madara into the ground, creating a massive crater over a kilometer wide.

His right arm and leg were severed, and his chest was punctured front and back bearing the mark of rasengan rotation.

The residual Yang Release energy caused his cells to deteriorate rapidly, but Hashirama's cells unparalleled healing abilities, combined with the sage chakra from hiruzen jutsu he absorbed, halted the destruction just in time.

Gasping for breath, Madara summoned the King of Hell, allowing it to swallow his injured body.

Moments later, he emerged fully healed, his arm, leg, and chest restored. Standing at the crater's edge, Hiruzen observed the King of Hell's abilities in astonishment.

"Is this the Rinnegan's power?" Hiruzen mused aloud.

"With abilities like repulsion, absorption, and now this… it's formidable indeed. With such power, you could be nearly undefeated."

Madara, hearing the praise, smiled. "Sarutobi Hiruzen, you are indeed powerful. Your mastery over chakra arts, ninjutsu, and sage arts has surpassed even Hashirama.

You are a worthy opponent. But these eyes—the Sage's eyes—possess the power to change the world. With them, I will achieve my goal."

Hiruzen, sensing Madara's resolve, prepared himself.

His thoughts raced, Hah! If only I had developed Yin-Yang Release, I could have started working towards Kekkai Mōra the Truth-Seeking Balls.

But soon without hesitation, he flashed towards Madara, initiating another round of taijutsu.

Madara, however, was no longer interested in close combat. He extended his hand and invoked Shinra Tensei, aiming to repel Hiruzen.

Anticipating this, Hiruzen used Shave to evade and shot upwards into the sky using Moon Walk by kicking the air beneath him.

Intrigued by Hiruzen's technique, Madara remarked, "Interesting. By pushing against the air, you can walk in the sky? Very impressive. Let's see how far it goes."

With a pull from his Rinnegan's Banshō Ten'in, Madara launched himself skyward.

Hiruzen sped towards Madara and swung his leg with monstrous strength. "Tempest Kick!" he called, unleashing a wind slash that tore through the air towards Madara.

Reacting swiftly, Madara used Shinra Tensei to deflect the attack, but Hiruzen, seizing the brief interval, unleashed a barrage of Tempest Kicks.

Madara attempted to absorb the wind slashes with the Preta Path, but to his shock, the slashes sliced through the absorption field, grazing his chest and leaving a deep gash.

As more wind slashes approached, Madara skillfully evaded them, though his thoughts were chaotic.

What kind of wind slashes are these? They don't even use chakra… is this pure taijutsu by compressing air?

Seeing an opening, Hiruzen activated Swift Release, flashing behind Madara in an instant.

"Shigan!" he shouted, compressing air with his finger and launching it towards Madara's heart and eyes.

Sensing the danger, Madara evaded the deadly strikes and summoned chakra receivers from his body, anther taijutsu skill with compressing air in finger size blast.

In response, Hiruzen compressed natural energy into a solid azure-colored staff, fully aware of the chakra rods' ability to disrupt chakra flow.

Madara, once again surprised by Hiruzen's ingenuity, remarked,

"You never cease to amaze me, Hiruzen. Compressing natural energy into a solid form… Your genius knows no bounds. I almost feel reluctant to kill you. Why not reconsider and join me?"

Chuckling, Hiruzen replied, "I don't care whether this world has peace or not. I'm already satisfied. So once again, my answer is no."

Madara's expression hardened. "Very well, Hiruzen. I will show no mercy." He clapped his hands together while being in air and pushed his palm forward invoking,

"Super Shinra Tensei!"

In response, Hiruzen compressed chakra and natural energy around himself and clapped his hands.

"Sage Art: Wind Style—Almighty Push!"

A massive burst of air, infused with chakra burst and natural energy, exploded outward to meet Madara's attack.

The two forces collided with tremendous power, shaking the entire battlefield.

As the dust settled, Hiruzen chuckled. Hah! A makeshift Shinra Tensei… can it really match it? 

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