CHAPTER XX: The Mizukage, the Giant Clam, and the Mirage

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Third person's point of view

Before Gaara and Minato can completely seal the Second Mizukage and the Third Raikage, they escape and begin ruthlessly attacking the Fourth Division.

Meanwhile, the battle between the Tsuchikage and Mū drags on with none being able to get the upper hand on the other using the Dust Release: Detachment of the Primitive World Technique. Mū warns his pupil to call for assistance as the situation did not look good for his aged disciple.

As the Mizukage and Raikage reveal their abilities and how to counter them, the Mizukage summons his Giant Clam and the Third Raikage breaks away from him with a group inclusive of Temari follow him.

Gaara and Minato leave the sealing of the Mizukage up to the members of his division and opts to go after Mū instead, greatly offending the Mizukage. During the battle with the Tsuchikage, Naruto arrives and uses his Planetary Rasengan, and with Gaara and Minato's assistance is able to land a hit on Mū sending the Tsuchikage flying.

The Tsuchikage quickly uses his Earth Release: Added-Weight Rock Technique to weigh Mū down to the point that he cannot move at all, and Gaara subsequently seals him. Gaara remembers and immediately questions Naruto and Minato as to why they're on the battlefield just as Shikaku speaks to them and explains why Naruto and Minato were there. Gaara asks Naruto if he can handle using the Nine-Tails' chakra so easily, and he answers that he doesn't plan to die until becoming the Hokage, and is not a kid just because Gaara is Kazekage.

Mobilising to where the Third Raikage was, the two Kage head over to confront the Second Mizukage. The shinobi there are still struggling to defeat the Second's Demonic Illusion: Steaming Multistoried Building, and are attacked by his Water Balloon Technique before Minato rescues them. Elsewhere his sensory sand locates the real Giant Clam which the Tsuchikage then tries to destroy, but he doesn't have enough chakra to use his Dust Release.

He instead uses a weighted stone fist to break the clam's shell thus dispelling the mist. However, the Tsuchikage strains his back, allowing the Second Mizukage to use his Water Gun Technique to shoot the Tsuchikage before he can escape. Meanwhile on Gaara's battlefield, the division struggles to defeat the Second Mizukage.

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After the attack the Tsuchikage is revealed to be a sand clone shocking the Second Mizukage as the sand rose up to seal him. However, before the tags can be completely applied, Gaara's Desert Layered Imperial Funeral explodes and the Mizukage's ominous face appears in the sky above them.

As hail begins to fall, the Tsuchikage explains that this was not genjutsu again, but the Second's Steaming Danger Tyranny technique. As a chibi-like clone forms before them and begins to attack the Fourth Division, Gaara with Minato at his side sets out to find the real Mizukage who, as the Tsuchikage noted, had been left severely weakened after using this technique.

Finding him, the couple moves to immediately seal the Mizukage, but once again before the seals can be applied, the clones intervenes this time, ripping them off the sand pyramid. Popping his head out from atop the pyramid, the Second greets his opponents serenely before ducking back in to avoid a volley of shuriken launched at him.

Commenting that this was a good spot to hide, the Mizukage tells the Kazekage and Tsuchikage that he would no longer divulge the mechanisms behind his techniques, because if they were unable to defeat him, they had no hope of taking on the opposition's leader. Narrowly protecting his division from another explosion, Gaara then directly takes on the clone and is successfully able to stop the clone after using a mixture of his sand drenched in hail and his father's gold dust to both halt the clones movements and stop it from exploding by keeping it cool.

Greatly impressed by this feat, the Second beams at Gaara and Minato, stating that he, Minato and Naruto Uzumaki who had made his way to the battlefield eventually made a good combination. Before being sealed, the Second declares that he had found the golden egg amongst the current Kage after all.

Elsewhere on the battlefield, it is revealed that before being sealed away, Mū had split himself in half. Unable to free his other half, Kabuto Yakushi contemplates his next move which would buy him enough time to summon his trump card. On the Alliance's side, everything has come to a standstill in the face of the threat of the White Zetsu Army clones infiltrating their ranks, especially at the Logistical Support and Medical Division.

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