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Chapter 140 – Ashes of the Guardians

Chapter 140 – Ashes of the Guardians

The wind blew softly across the mountaintop, carrying the scent of pine and old stone.

At the Fire Temple, monks swept fallen leaves from the stone paths while smoke rose from the meditation halls. A quiet peace lingered, until Chiriku opened the scroll he’d been handed.

His eyes scanned the message. No orders from the capital. No notice from the Daimyo. And their weekly courier hadn’t returned.

Chiriku narrow...

Chapter 139 – The Quiet Revolution

Chapter 139 – The Quiet Revolution

A few calm days passed in Konoha after Sakura’s training began. The village looked peaceful, like always. People walked the streets, children played, and shops stayed open late into the evening. But beneath the surface, things were changing fast. Hajime had set something big in motion, and Tsunade had agreed to follow through.

That morning, the Hokage Tower felt especially quiet. Tsunade sat in her office, reading a scroll wi...

Chapter 138 – Sparks of Change

Chapter 138 – Sparks of Change

The sound of heavy breathing echoed through the training field behind the Hokage Tower. Sakura stood soaked in sweat, her hands pressed against her knees as she tried to catch her breath. Her legs trembled, and her body ached all over. Every part of her felt like it had been pushed to the limit, again.

Hajime stood nearby, his tall figure calm as always. His armor was off, replaced with a simpler dark training outfit. He had watche...

Chapter 137 – Awakening of the Seed

Chapter 137 – Awakening of the Seed

Hajime stood silently in his underground lab, lit by a soft blue glow from the crystal lights embedded in the walls. The air was calm. His armored figure loomed beside the large surgery table. On it, Sakura lay still, already under the effects of his psychic-induced sleep.

Before she dozed off, Hajime had spoken gently to her.

“Don’t worry. When you wake up… it’ll all be done,” he had said.

Sakura didn’...

Chapter 136 – The Nine Organs of Rebirth

Chapter 136 – The Nine Organs of Rebirth

The morning sun crept slowly over the rooftops of Konoha, casting long golden rays across the Senju Compound. Birds chirped faintly in the distance, and a warm breeze rustled the paper windows. Inside the quiet bedroom, a large bed rested near the window, bathed in soft light.

Hajime lay still, eyes open, half-covered by pale sheets. Beside him, Tsunade slept peacefully, her long golden hair messy across the pillows. One ...

Chapter 135 – Ichiraku Ramen

Chapter 135 – Ichiraku Ramen

The day had grown quiet. The sky outside turned orange and purple as the sun slowly dipped behind the mountains. Hajime stood alone in the lower levels of the Hokage Tower, deep within his secret lab. Rows of glowing tubes, storage scrolls, and strange equipment lined the walls around him.

Hajime had just sealed away the Type-00 and Type-01F gene-seed samples, making sure they were safe and untouched. His armor was placed neatly on a tall display sta...

Chapter 134 – The Seed of the Progenitor

Chapter 134 – The Seed of the Progenitor

The lab was quiet.

Faint lights lined the walls, pulsing slowly with each breath Hajime took. Sakura had left hours ago, but her words still echoed in his mind.

“I want to be useful. I want to stand beside you.”

He sat alone, hand resting on his knee, the other holding a Miniature Containment Pos, inside was the rinnegan, though his eyes focus on it. His mind had gone deeper, into memory.

Memories from the Grey Knigh...

Chapter 133 – The Eyes of God

Chapter 133 – The Eyes of God

Beneath the Hokage Tower, the silence of Hajime’s personal lab was deep and profound. Humming lights above cast sterile brightness across rows of scrolls, monitors, and sealed containers, each containing something extraordinary.

Among them, four rested on a reinforced altar: a pair of Rinnegan, a Byakugan, and a Kokugan, each encased in chakra-sealed crystal. These weren’t relic...

Chapter 132 – Ashes and Echoes

Chapter 132 – Ashes and Echoes

Outside the Hokage Tower, the evening breeze rustled through the trees as a sudden pulse of warped chakra cracked the air. Space twisted like folded cloth, and Hajime appeared in full armor, towering in the center of the street. Around him, a dozen scientists were bound and silent, their hands sealed behind their backs with glowing chakra threads. Behind them lay several large storage scrolls, sealed with reinforced kanji,and 1 metallic ...

Chapter 131 – Clones

Chapter 131 – Clones

The ruins above were still smoldering. Cracks split the earth where Hajime and Jigen had fought, the sky now quiet and starlit. Where once stood a temple, only scorched stone remained.

Hajime stood alone among the rubble, his armor humming faintly, silver-gray plates flecked with ash. In the center of the devastation, a single stairwell remained that he smash open, spiraling downward into the unknown. He walked forward and began his descent....

Chapter 130 – The Vessel of Greed

Chapter 130 – The Vessel of Greed

The halberd swung with thunderous momentum, arcs of warp-lightning tearing through the air. But just before impact, Jigen vanished, his form swallowed by a swirling portal of fractured space. The halberd sliced through empty sky, its edge crackling against nothingness.

Above, far beyond the shattered ruins of the temple, Jigen reappeared.

He hovered in the stratosphere, silent, still.

Wind howled thinner up here. The...

Chapter 129 – The One Who Watches

Chapter 129 – The One Who Watches

The wind howled across the shattered peak where the temple once stood, its ruins still smoldering beneath a sky darkened by soot and smoke. The crater glowed faintly in the night, molten stone dripping from exposed cliffs.

Jigen stood on a distant ridge, arms crossed, watching the devastation with unreadable eyes. His cloak fluttered gently as heat shimmered upward from the ruin. The very mountain trembled under the weight of th...

Chapter 128 – Temple of Greed

Chapter 128 – Temple of Greed

The rain returned the moment Hajime stepped back into Amegakure.

Thin mist hung in the air, droplets streaking his silver armor as he stood silently on the tower’s highest spire. Konan’s paper charms still fluttered from nearby poles, remnants of the Akatsuki’s once-silent control. Now, the village lay quiet, its people unsure of what had changed… only that something had.

But Hajime didn’t stay long. He wasn’t here...

Chapter 127 – Return to the Leaf

Chapter 127 – Return to the Leaf

Hajime and three figures appeared in the office Of Hokage In the Hokage Tower, armored boots touching down on the polished tile of the corridor. In one hand, he held his helmet, silver and clean. Behind him followed three figures, cloaked, silent, and marked by war.

Konan moved with calm precision, her paper flower clipped behind one ear, her eyes watching every corner with quiet alertness. Nagato walked slowly, no longer bound...

Chapter 126 – The Weight of Judgment

Chapter 126 – The Weight of Judgment

The battlefield lay in a broken hush. Debris and charred soil painted a grim canvas under the gray light of dusk. Blood, ash, and silence mingled in the air. The storm had passed. Only its consequences remained.

Itachi stepped forward from the ruins, his Akatsuki cloak fluttering softly in the wind, frayed and torn. His expression remained calm, as it always had, but the way his eyes movedl slow, deliberate, watching every st...

Chapter 125 – The Fall of Shadows

Chapter 125 – The Fall of Shadows

The battlefield smoldered with the aftermath of Konan’s final onslaught. Charred paper fluttered down like ash, blanketing the broken earth. The air was thick with smoke and silence. Only the faint hum of chakra and crackling embers remained.

Kakuzu limped from the center of the devastation, hunched over and coughing. Blood oozed from his seams, and his remaining Earth and Water hearts pulsed erratically within his body. Realizing the battle w...

Chapter 124 – Final Reaping

Chapter 124 – Final Reaping

The battlefield was in ruins.

Smoke curled through the shattered landscape. Fires crackled across scorched earth, their glow flickering against broken stone. The sky above was dark, choked with ash. Once-solid ground had been torn open by jutsu and destruction, leaving deep craters and twisted wreckage.

Only four figures remained standing.

Hajime and Itachi stood at the center of the chaos, calm amidst devastation. The black flames of Amat...

Chapter 123 – Ashes of Akatsuki

Chapter 123 – Ashes of Akatsuki

Smoke drifted across the ruined battlefield like tattered shrouds. Rubble crumbled from shattered towers. The air was thick with chakra residue and the faint, nauseating tang of scorched flesh. Lightning still crackled from the remnants of Kakuzu’s attack, dancing across a cratered wall where it had failed to even singe the man it was meant to kill.

Kakuzu stood still, arms crossed, as his glowing lightning mask hissed and coole...

Chapter 122 – The Warp Halberd

Chapter 122 – The Warp Halberd

Obito wheezed as he stood, arms slightly raised, trying to ignore the pain pulsing in his ribs. The blow Hajime had landed wasn’t just powerful, it had felt inhuman. He had phased in only for a millisecond, and yet that instant had been all Hajime needed to hurt him.

Still, Obito smirked behind his mask. “You’re strong,” he muttered. “But not untouchable.”

Hajime said nothing.

Instead, he reached behind his ...

Chapter 121 – Shield of Paper, Shadow of War

Chapter 121 – Shield of Paper, Shadow of War

Konan stood in front of Nagato, her body tense, eyes filled with dread. Her paper wings spread wide, hundreds of sharp-edged sheets floating in the air around her like blades waiting to strike. She didn’t speak, she didn’t need to. Her message was clear: she would not let Hajime reach him.

Hajime, standing amidst the ruin Nagato’s own attack had caused, didn’t flinch. Dust and ash clung to his silver-grey armo...

Chapter 120 – Gods Watch From the Shadows

Chapter 120 – Gods Watch From the Shadows

The rain poured endlessly over the metal towers of Amegakure, cloaking the city in a dull haze. Thunder echoed in the distance, but the storm wasn’t natural. This rain carried chakra. Hidden within the side of a cliff, just beyond the city’s edge, a pale figure blended into the shadows, White Zetsu. His plant-like body merged with the terrain as he observed the ruins of a battle that had already ended.

Below him, the...

Chapter 119 – “Wrath of Heaven”

Chapter 119 – “Wrath of Heaven”

The smoke from the fallen Paths of Pain had barely cleared. Black rods lay scattered across the muddy cliffs, their faint chakra signatures flickering like dying embers. Rain fell harder now, as if the sky itself was trying to wash the battle away.

Hajime stood tall at the center of the battlefield, unmoved. His grey-silver armor gleamed under the storm, untouched, pristine. His golden halo sp...

Chapter 118 – “A Rain Without Mercy”

Chapter 118 – “A Rain Without Mercy”

The cold drizzle fell steadily across the Land of Rain. Clouds hung low, hiding the sun. A windless silence stretched over the muddy valleys and broken cliffs that marked the edge of Amegakure. In the distance, the tall iron towers of the hidden village pierced the sky, steam and mist rising from their vents like ghosts.

Suddenly, a figure appeared.

There was no flash of light. No sound. Just the sharp pressure of space folding, and...

Chapter 117 – Before the Hunt

Chapter 117 – Before the Hunt

The lab was quiet.

Cold light from crystals filled the wide space with a steady glow. Deep underground, far below the Hokage Tower, the forge chamber now rested. The fires had dimmed. The heat was gone.

And there, resting beside the tall silver armor stand, was the finished Golden Iron Halo.

Hajime stood in silence.

He looked at it, the radiant ring forged from alloy and power, floating just inches...

Chapter 116 – Halo of Iron, Halo of War

Chapter 116 – Halo of Iron, Halo of War

The faint golden light of dawn filtered through the sealed windows of the Hokage's private quarters, though none of it reached the outside world. The chamber, insulated with layers of sound-dampening and privacy seals, remained wrapped in absolute stillness. No chakra leaked, no whispers escaped, only the quiet rhythm of breathing filled the room.

Hajime stirred.

Lying on his back, his silver eyes opened slowly, gaze...

Chapter 115 – Return from the Sands

Chapter 115 – Return from the Sands

The cave had grown silent after the last battle cries faded. In the wake of Sasori and Deidara's defeat, only the soft flicker of chakra seals remained etched into the cavern walls. Gaara lay unconscious but unharmed in the center of the chamber, still cocooned in a faint shimmer of chakra threads that were beginning to fade.

Sakura knelt beside him without delay. "His vitals are stable," she murmured, pressing a hand to his chest and concentr...

Chapter 114 – Death of Art Duo

Chapter 114 – Death of Art Duo

The sandstone cavern echoed with the distant flap of wings. The air was heavy with ancient dust and tension. Hajime stood silently at the center of the circular chamber, his massive frame casting long shadows under the flickering torchlight. His gleaming silver armor, adorned with faint psychic etchings, reflected the glow like a statue of war. Behind him stood Naruto, Sakura, and Chiyo, alert and ready.

Faint symbols carved into the stone pulsed g...

Chapter 113 – The Poisoned Path

Chapter 113 – The Poisoned Path

The desert wind blew hard against them, warm and sharp like the breath of a giant. Hajime, Naruto, and Sakura stood at the border of Sunagakure. The huge walls of the village loomed in the distance, rising from the endless sand like a fortress carved into the world itself.

Hajime’s presence was impossible to ignore. Standing at 2.65 meters tall in his gleaming silver war armor, glowing red lenses in his helmet, and carrying weap...

Chapter 112 – The Desert Storm Begins

Chapter 112 – The Desert Storm Begins

A quiet knock echoed against the reinforced threshold of Hajime’s hidden underground lab. The psychic locks that sealed the entrance shimmered faintly, sensing the visitor’s intent. With a low hum, the seals momentarily released, allowing the stone door to slide open.

An ANBU in regulation mask descended the stone steps with practiced calm. The gleaming light of chakra crystals reflected off obsidian walls etched with pa...

Chapter 111 – The Path Forward

Chapter 111 – The Path Forward

A shimmer of white light cracked through space and gently folded inward.

In a heartbeat, Hajime and Sakura reappeared inside the Hokage Tower, just outside Tsunade’s office. There were no marks, no summoning seals, just Hajime’s unique method of teleportation, born from his mastery of the Flying Thunder God’s principles, fused with his psychic perception. As long as he could sense the destination, he could go there.

Sak...