Starting with rogue ninjas, building the insect kingdom.

Chapter 577 The Death of Kiba Inuzuka

Meanwhile, inside another earthen wall partition.

Kiba Inuzuka crouched beside Akamaru, one hand resting on Akamaru's back, feeling his partner's heartbeat.

Akamaru's ears perked up, and a low, threatening whimper escaped his throat.

"One man and one dog, for two brothers." Sakon and Ukon stepped out, a smile on their faces. "That's fair."

He stood up, rubbed his nose with his thumb, and flashed his signature smile: "Fair? You've got it wrong."

"Woof!" Akamaru chimed in.

Sakon and Ukon tilted their heads, seemingly finding it amusing: "Your little dog counts too."

"A puppy?" Kiba's smile widened. "You'll soon find out whether Akamaru is a puppy or not."

"Humanoid Ninja Art: Beastman Clone!"

After a puff of smoke, Akamaru transformed into a white-haired boy, standing shoulder to shoulder with Kiba. The two shared identical red diamond-shaped tattoos and equally sharp, piercing eyes.

"Two against two." Ya flexed his wrists and waved forward. "Come on."

Sakon and Ukon glanced at Akamaru, then at Kiba, and the two brothers laughed in unison, "Do you know what our greatest advantage is?"

"Not interested." Kiba launched the first attack, delivering a fierce kick straight at Sakon and Ukon's face.

Neither Zuo Jin nor You Jin dodged; they simply raised their hands to counterattack.

The soles of their feet collided with their hands, making a sound. But to Ya's surprise, Sakon and Ukon's bodies didn't move at all; instead, Ya's ankles were grabbed.

"Not bad strength, and the speed is decent too," Sakon and Ukon commented. "You must have taken quite a bit of insect medicine regularly. If you're going to steal it, fine, but why did you have to steal the worst version? But I can't blame you, since you've already done quite well to even steal it."

Tooth's pupils contracted, then his face contorted in a snarling expression, "You're not allowed to humiliate us."

Heaven knows how hard they trained day and night to defeat the enemy. Yet all they received in return was such contempt and insults.

"You're the thief! Your whole family are the thieves!"

"Boring dignity. Ukon, it's your turn to shine."

The next second, Sakon and Ukon's bodies split into two people, Sakon and Ukon, who separated from the same body, one on the left and one on the right, with their teeth sandwiched in the middle.

Ukon licked his lips. "What we brothers excel at isn't physical combat. It's parasitism."

Sakon and Ukon simultaneously reached out and placed their hands on Kiba's left and right shoulders.

Ya felt something drilling into his body, but he couldn't quite put his finger on it.

"You...you're invading my body?"

"Clever." Sakon's voice came from the left side of his teeth. "Our brotherly ability is called 'Parasite Destruction Technique.' I can break down my body's cells, merge them into the other person's body, and then—"

Tooth's right arm rose uncontrollably, and he punched himself in the face.

"—Control your body."

Akamaru let out a furious roar and pounced on Ukon.

But Ukon's body instantly turned into a cloud of smoke, from which countless tiny tentacles emerged and burrowed into Akamaru's mouth and nose.

"Akamaru!" Kiba's pupils trembled violently.

Akamaru's body stiffened, then began to convulse. Its eyes alternated between their normal black and scarlet, the color of Ukon's pupils.

"No..." Kiba's voice trembled, "Don't hurt Akamaru!"

"Harm?" Ukon's voice came from Akamaru's throat, carrying an eerie double tone. "We won't hurt you. What we want to do is make sure you can never be separated again."

Both the left and right sides exert their power simultaneously.

Ya felt as if her body was being torn apart from the middle by an invisible hand, from her left shoulder to her right waist. A line of blood appeared on the surface of her skin, growing deeper and wider.

"No--!"

The screams of the teeth echoed through the partition.

His body began to split from that line of blood, one half to the left and the other half to the right. The left half was controlled by Sakon, and the right half was controlled by Ukon. The two forces pulled outwards at the same time, as if trying to forcibly break a whole person in two.

Blood splattered, bones shattered, and internal organs exposed to the air.

Akamaru is also experiencing the same pain.

"Gah... Ugh..." Akamaru's mouth made a sound, but it was impossible to tell whether the sound was Akamaru's or Ukon's.

Tooth's vision was splitting; the scene he saw was cut in two. His left eye looked to the left, and his right eye looked to the right. The images could not overlap, and his brain could not process such information, causing his consciousness to begin to collapse.

The miracle is that, despite all this, he is still alive.

"This is..." Sakon's voice came from the left.

"Our brothers'..." Ukon's voice came from the right.

"Unique medical ninjutsu."

Tooth's consciousness completely collapsed into chaos; his body no longer belonged to him.

Not long after, he felt his body slowly healing. When he regained consciousness, he felt a furry thing on his body. When he reached out and touched it, he found it was Akamaru.

"Hehe, Akamaru is so nice. None of that was real, it was all a dream."

Kiba Inuzuka was thinking about something wonderful when, in the next second, he finally saw his body clearly. Half of it was connected to the dog, and the other half was also connected to the dog. He and Akamaru had become monsters.

"Ah—" Completely collapsed, consciousness blurred, and finally, after the mental breakdown, the body also collapsed.

Sakon and Ukon merged back into one, standing in the center of the pool of blood, and licked the blood from the corner of their mouths.

"It's really not fun to play for long!"

That's right, Sakon and Ukon inherited Orochimaru's modification techniques and Yomi Dark Medical Ninjutsu. He's also a regular guest on the Nebula Team.

At this moment, all three earthen walls collapsed simultaneously.

Kakashi Hatake finally managed to escape from Kabuto Yakushi's captivity in a sorry state.

What they saw were three gruesome corpses. Only Nara Shikamaru remained human-like; the other two were beyond saving.

Kabuto Yakushi stood at the entrance of Orochimaru's experimental base, his hands behind his back, watching the scene before him.

He smiled and said, "Don't worry, their souls have already been contained by the formation. They will become a valuable material in the future."

Kakashi's eyebrows trembled slightly after hearing this, but he didn't linger with them. He quickly put the three corpses into his Kamui Dimension.

Then he jumped away from there to join Naruto and the others.

He admitted that it was his mistake that caused Konoha to suffer such heavy losses.

He missed the enemy's cunning and their cruelty.

But perhaps this is their fate, the destiny of ninjas.

Moreover, he never imagined that everyone would survive this ordeal without a single death.

It was truly when he saw these children die in front of him that he couldn't remain calm.

"Naruto, Sasuke, I think I've let you down," Kakashi thought to himself, blaming himself.