Battle sense.

(Third person pov).

The moment Minato appeared behind a jonin and struck him down with a Rasengan, the entire Rain ninja camp erupted into chaos.

The force of the Rasengan crushed the jonin's back in a single, precise blow. His body slumped lifelessly, face-first into the dirt.

Shouts echoed into the night, flames from the central bonfire casting erratic shadows across the camp as confusion swept through the ranks.

"A Konoha ninja!" a jonin cried out, having seen Minato's face clearly in the firelight.

Kandachi, the elite jonin leading the enemy forces, narrowed his eyes sharply.

"Summon!" he roared, slamming his palm into the ground.

With a massive cloud of smoke, a monstrous beast materialized before them—the Conch King.

Perched atop it was Kandachi himself.

A grotesque fusion of conch, clam, and oyster, the creature floated in the air, using compressed jets of air expelled from its spiraled tail to hover ominously. Its massive body was layered with natural armor, spikes jutting from its carapace, and several whip-like tongues writhing and snapping with deadly intent.

From their position hidden behind rocks and foliage, Ren and Kakashi both stiffened.

"It's floating using compressed air," Ren whispered. "And those tongues… they paralyze if they hit. Watch out."

Kakashi gave a curt nod, eyes scanning upward toward the creature.

Back at the center of the camp, Minato was already on the move.

With a sudden yellow flash, he vanished from view and reappeared behind a second jonin near one of his marked kunai. Without hesitation, he slit the man's throat cleanly.

Another body hit the dirt.

The enemy shinobi were stunned.

"What… what kind of jutsu is this?"

"Teleportation?!"

Minato didn't reply. Instead, he vanished again—reappearing across the battlefield, this time just a little further from his next target. The jonin reacted in time, dodging and preparing to counter.

Minato threw his special kunai at the man. The jonin sidestepped it, keeping Minato in his line of sight.

Big mistake.

The moment the kunai passed behind him, Minato flickered and reappeared at its location—directly behind the jonin.

With one clean strike, Minato drove his kunai into the enemy's skull.

A third kill. Clean. Efficient.

The enemy finally realized what they were up against.

"He's using those kunai to mark locations!"

"He can teleport to wherever they are!"

Still, they didn't fully grasp the situation. They were facing **Minato Namikaze**, the man who would soon be feared across all five nations as the **Yellow Flash**.

Had they known, they would've run.

But it was already far too late.

Minato performed a single hand seal. "Wind Release: Great Breakthrough!"

A massive gust tore through the camp, snuffing out the bonfire in an instant. The battlefield plunged into near-total darkness.

Now, only those trained to channel chakra into their eyes could see.

High above, Kandachi remained calm.

"Use the mist," he ordered coldly.

The Conch King opened its mouth, releasing a dense fog that spilled across the entire area. This wasn't ordinary mist—it was laced with a paralyzing genjutsu designed to disable anyone without specific resistance.

Kakashi staggered slightly under its effect. But thanks to Ren's earlier warning, he was prepared and broke free.

Ren, empowered by natural energy, was completely immune. His chakra naturally disrupted genjutsu influence.

Moving swiftly, both ninja split off.

Kakashi flickered forward and engaged a special jonin. Steel clashed with lightning-coated kunai as sparks lit up the fog with each blow.

At the same time, Ren vanished beneath the surface using **Mayfly**.

Silent. Undetectable.

He emerged behind another special jonin, skull-crushing punch delivered in a single strike. Blood sprayed. The body dropped.

Ren's gaze turned toward a third Rain ninja preparing a fireball toward Minato.

Without hesitation, Ren formed a seal.

The earth beneath the enemy turned to mud.

"A swamp…?"

That was all the jonin managed to say before a barrage of earth spikes erupted from below, impaling him instantly.

Back in the mist, Kakashi was still locked in battle.

Their blades sparked as they clashed, but eventually, Kakashi found his moment. A quick flicker and a lightning-coated kunai pierced his enemy's eye.

Another down.

Ren and Kakashi regrouped momentarily, taking cover as the fog began to lift.

Kakashi had downed one.

Ren had taken out two.

But the heart of the battlefield still belonged to Minato.

When the genjutsu mist had first hit, Minato had started disrupting his chakra flow—a technique to render himself immune, though it temporarily made him unable to use ninjutsu.

It was a gamble, but it worked.

As soon as the mist lifted enough, two jonin launched a dual-element attack—Fire and Wind Release, combining into a flaming tornado aimed directly at Minato.

He responded instantly.

Cancelling the disruption, he vanished in a flicker.

Moments later, a fireball launched from their right—Minato's counterattack.

The jonin blocked it with an Earth Wall. But by the time it crumbled, Minato had already vanished again.

Now, his focus was on Kandachi, still hovering high above the battlefield atop the Conch King.

Minato narrowed his eyes.

He couldn't teleport to Kandachi unless he had a seal placed.

So he made his move.

The Conch King unleashed a volley of needle-like spikes from its shell. Minato dodged expertly, weaving through them like a blur.

Then he jumped.

He delivered a direct punch to the Conch King's armored face.

No damage.

But Minato didn't care.

In the moment of impact, he'd placed a Flying Thunder God seal.

Kandachi laughed from above. "Is that all you've got?"

But the smirk Minato had shown before disappearing wasn't desperation.

It was confidence.

He had tagged the beast.

Now, the entire battlefield belonged to him.

Kandachi didn't know it yet—but his defeat had already begun.

Only six enemy ninja remained:

* One elite jonin,

* Two special jonin,

* Three regular jonin.

The end was approaching—and Minato, Ren, and Kakashi were not about to let them escape.

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