Yomotsu Hirasaka, in a sense, was less a space-time ninjutsu and more a space-time door. It was somewhat similar to the Flying Thunder God, yet fundamentally different.
The Flying Thunder God instantly swaps space, teleporting the user from point A to a coordinate at point B. Yomotsu Hirasaka, on the other hand, directly opens a portal. You could stick your head through on one side and have your butt hanging out on the other...
But I digress. For Otsutsuki Urashiki to use his space-time door to defend against Guy's Daytime Tiger was an incredibly astute choice. The immensely powerful Daytime Tiger, which should have turned him to ash, passed straight through the portal and struck a location miles away from Konoha.
A moment later, the colossal boom of the Daytime Tiger's impact echoed from the distance.
But the failure of this ultimate move to connect did not mean Guy was exhausted. Daytime Tiger wasn't a chakra-based attack; he still had strength left.
He began to walk on air, dashing around Otsutsuki Urashiki at a speed a hundred times faster than Rock Lee, searching for an opening.
"Damn it! This guy... this guy!" Otsutsuki Urashiki's Rinnegan struggled to track Guy's movements. His vision could keep up, but his body couldn't. This was the first time in a long while that he had encountered such a troublesome opponent.
Guy's speed had surpassed the absolute limit of what he could react to. Guy, seeing that his opponent's Rinnegan seemed to possess the ability to predict the future, began his assault. In the close-quarters combat that followed, Urashiki continuously dodged Guy's fists. But even when his Rinnegan predicted the blow, his body couldn't evade it. Finally, Guy's first punch landed.
"A hit! Now taste the wrath of Konoha's Green Beast!" Guy's eyes lit up. His long-range attack, the devastating Daytime Tiger, had been dodged by his opponent's space-time ninjutsu. Now that he had landed the first punch in close combat, he wouldn't stop until his opponent was dead.
One punch, two punches... Guy's fists were incredibly powerful. After being hit more than a dozen times, Urashiki was heavily injured, coughing up blood. If this continued, he would be beaten to death.
"Eight Gates Released Formation Secret Technique: Reverse Lotus!"
Guy roared, using the bandages inscribed with jutsu formulas and his own chakra to unleash his ultimate close-combat technique. He wrapped himself around Urashiki and began to plummet from the sky.
Urashiki's pupils shrank. If this hits, won't I die?
[Shinra Tensei]
With a last, desperate burst of strength, he released a powerful gravitational repulsion, pushing Might Guy away. He then dragged his heavily injured body back into the sky.
"You bastard! You bastard! I will never forgive you!"
At this point, Urashiki was a gruesome sight. His body had been battered by Guy's close-range assault, so much so that his internal organs were exposed, his intestines spilling from his stomach.
Blinded by rage, or perhaps simply unaware that the Eight Gates was a "ten minutes of god-mode, two weeks of bedrest" kind of skill, he didn't realize that if he had just come back the next day, Guy would have been finished.
"Did he win?" Kakashi muttered, watching Urashiki in the sky as Guy gathered his strength to leap back into the air.
He hoped Guy could win. This was the Seventh Gate. If he couldn't win now...
Otsutsuki Urashiki plunged a hand into his own face, gouged out one of his eyes, and swallowed it.
[Crane Form]
At that moment, a golden Rinnegan opened on Otsutsuki Urashiki's forehead. This was the most complete state of the Otsutsuki clan: the Crane Form.
And now, the Rinnegan on his forehead had, in a sense, truly caught up to a real Rinnegan, the kind Nagato and Kaguya possessed. It was no longer the crippled version he had before, unable to use many of the Rinnegan's abilities.
His original eyes also regenerated into new Rinnegan, and like the third eye on his forehead, they both turned golden.
But this state was only temporary. The eye he had gouged out would still be gone after he reverted. It was like the Izanagi of the Mangekyo Sharingan; once lost, it was lost forever.
The golden Rinnegan was like a forbidden technique. Activating it granted immense power for a short time, but the price was the loss of an eye.
"A golden... Rinnegan?" A sense of dread washed over Kakashi. He shouted, "Guy! Finish him, quickly!"
"Roger that!" Guy yelled back.
It had all happened in a split second—his opponent had gouged out his own eye and eaten it. By then, Guy had already reached him.
[Super Shinra Tensei]
In his Crane Form, Urashiki unleashed a massive attack with a single gesture. Guy crossed his arms in front of him for protection but was still sent flying. The gravitational field was simply too absolute. Unless he used Daytime Tiger, not even Morning Peacock could break through Shinra Tensei.
Otsutsuki Urashiki looked coldly at Guy, then waved his hand at his red-glowing fishing basket. Two massive streams of chakra flew out and transformed into Tailed Beasts. With just a glance from him, the Rinnegan pattern appeared in the Tailed Beasts' eyes.
Having temporarily achieved a complete Rinnegan, he was no longer the weakling he had been before. His abilities had increased dramatically. The two Tailed Beasts, the moment they appeared, exuded a massive pressure. Before, they had been stored in his red fishing basket as a chakra supply. Now, they were his tools.
The two Tailed Beasts opened their mouths, each preparing a Tailed Beast Bomb.
Then, Otsutsuki Urashiki unleashed his new technique: [Amatsu Mikaboshi]...
Seeing the tattered remains of Konoha about to face destruction once more, Guy shot a final, apologetic look and a thumbs-up towards Kakashi in the distance.
"My eternal rival... it's a shame I won't get the chance to beat you one more time."
In the distance, Kakashi saw Guy's expression and his face filled with terror. "Guy! Are you going to...?"
[Eighth Gate of Death: Open!]
After opening the eighth and final gate, Guy's presence was sublimated once more. Anyone could see that something was wrong.
"Evening Elephant!"
BOOM!
BOOM!
Far more powerful than the Seventh Gate's Daytime Tiger, the Evening Elephant, fully enhanced by the Eighth Gate, struck the two Tailed Beasts. They let out a mournful cry and, before they could even finish gathering their Tailed Beast Bombs, were killed by Guy.
The power of the Eighth Gate was terrifying.
After the Evening Elephant, both Tailed Beasts were dead on the spot. Guy, his eyes a savage red, flew towards Urashiki in the sky. His eyes were red because they were now completely filled with blood vessels, and the red steam-like chakra was his life force, his very blood, beginning to burn.
Urashiki tried to use his Preta Path to absorb Guy's chakra, but his Rinnegan saw that this, like the Morning Peacock, was not chakra. It was taijutsu. He couldn't absorb the shockwave.
And so, he used [Super Shinra Tensei].
"Night Guy!" Might Guy roared, unleashing his final technique. He could already feel his body beginning to fail.
The two previous Evening Elephant punches, one for each Tailed Beast, had already fractured the bones in his arms. After so many years of training, Guy's body was as tough as the Fourth Raikage A's without his Lightning Release Armor, but even he couldn't withstand the Gate of Death.
The Gate of Death released all the body's limiters and safety measures, allowing a person who could normally only use eighty percent of their strength to unleash one hundred, or even two hundred percent, ignoring the screams of protest from their cells.
[Super Shinra Tensei]
Under the power of Night Guy, the gravitational field was directly distorted and warped. It couldn't even maintain its protective hold. Otsutsuki Urashiki was struck, and half his body was instantly obliterated. He was dead.
"Gasp... gasp... damn it! What is that technique?!" Otsutsuki Urashiki, once again drenched in a cold sweat, stared in terror at Guy charging towards him.
It turned out that everything he had just seen was a prediction from his Rinnegan. He saw that in a few seconds, he would be brutally killed by Guy's ultimate move. Not even the universe's foundational force, Super Shinra Tensei, could block that kick.
What do I do?
Guy had already killed the two Tailed Beasts with two punches and was now looking up at him, his blood-red eyes filled with a savage expression. For the first time, he felt utter despair.
Neither his space-time ninjutsu, Yomotsu Hirasaka, nor Super Shinra Tensei could stop that kick.
And his own Amatsu Mikaboshi couldn't compete with it either. What was going on?
Are the natives of this world really this ferocious?
Just as Guy lifted his leg and roared, "Night Guy!" Otsutsuki Urashiki threw out a black box.
The black box rapidly released a large amount of smoke that enveloped his enemy. Guy, thinking nothing of it, kicked forward with immense kinetic energy, but then—time froze.
Guy, flying into the smoke, began to slow down. Slower, and slower. His movements, which had been so fast that even a Mangekyo Sharingan could barely track them, were now as slow as a snail's crawl. Finally, he came to a complete stop.
Guy, with the Eighth Gate open, in the middle of his final technique, Night Guy, was frozen in time. And this time-freeze could last for ten thousand years...
"Phew... phew... finally... I survived."
Otsutsuki Urashiki, drenched in sweat, stared in terror at the frozen Guy. His savage expression looked as if it would break free from the time-freeze at any second. Terrified, Urashiki no longer thought of capturing the Nine-Tails. He opened a Yomotsu Hirasaka and fled.
"Guy!" Kakashi cried, running to his side. At that moment, the surrounding smoke and Guy slowly descended to the ground, looking as if they were encased in glass.
A giant piece of glass, over a hundred meters in diameter.
Inside the glass, the flowing smoke had frozen the air, and the person within it. Through the hazy smoke, only Guy's savage expression and his final kick could be seen.
Guy was frozen inside.
Tears streamed down Kakashi's face again. The last time he had cried like this was when he had killed his own teammate, Rin. But now, he was helpless. He hated himself for being too weak.
"Guy! Hold on! I'll get you out!" Kakashi formed a Chidori, clinging to a sliver of hope that he could save him. But a hand pressed down on his.
"Kakashi, calm down. Guy has already opened the Gate of Death. If you get him out, he'll die immediately. We don't know what this jutsu is, but at least Guy is sealed inside, and he's not dead yet..."
"But..."
Jiraiya, dragging his heavily injured body, shook his head at him. Kakashi finally gave up in despair. He understood. It was better for Guy to be sealed inside by this unknown jutsu. Once released, having opened the Gate of Death, he would surely die.
"Damn it! He actually killed two of my Tailed Beasts! Good thing I still have one left..." Otsutsuki Urashiki grabbed a pill and popped it into his mouth. The pill was refined from the chakra extracted from the Tailed Beasts. And everyone knew how fast Tailed Beasts recovered; they would be back in a few days.
Right now, Urashiki was in a sorry state. He had activated his ultimate mode, but not only had he failed to defeat Guy, but he had also lost an eye.
He was now beginning to question his life. His fight with Guy had been a truly pathetic defeat. In the past, he could at least escape if he couldn't win. This time, he didn't even have a chance to flee. After opening the Eighth Gate, Guy could not only kick away a Super Shinra Tensei, but he was so fast that Urashiki couldn't even use Yomotsu Hirasaka in time.
That was the flaw in his space-time ninjutsu. The Flying Thunder God was coordinate-based; a single thought and you swapped places. His space-time jutsu was a portal. If the enemy was as fast as Guy, he simply couldn't escape.
Now, Urashiki was hesitant. Should he continue collecting the Tailed Beasts, or should he just tuck his tail between his legs and go back to his own world?