Seeing that Yugito had dealt with Hozuki Mangetsu, Obito hurriedly thanked Samui.
"No need to thank me. This was just our mission," Samui said coldly.
Even so, Samui was actually relieved by what had just happened. For all her outward coldness, deep down she cared deeply for her friends and was willing to do everything she could to keep them safe.
Obito had no time to say more and returned to the battlefield.
Mei Terumi was also having a rough time. Although her mission was to throw Konoha into chaos as well, he really couldn't stand the way those people from Sunagakure behaved. Besides, Rin Nohara and Kurenai Yuhi, who had previously gone on a mission with her, were both here.
Mei had no choice but to slack off while catching up with Rin and the others. She had hardly any friends in Kirigakure, whereas she got along quite well with Rin and the girls.
It was all the fault of the Sunagakure clothes she was wearing. They made her look like a villain, and now those two behind her were chasing her.
"Come on, Tingting, stop chasing me," Mei said. Seeing that she was about to be caught, she hurriedly stopped and spoke to Kakashi.
But when she looked back, she discovered that both a big Kakashi and a little Kakashi were chasing her.
"You're Mei Terumi from Kirigakure, right? I recognize you!" Little Kakashi said.
The young adult Kakashi took the opportunity to ask little Kakashi a question.
"She's Mei Terumi from Kirigakure?" The young adult Kakashi was uncertain. After all, in his time, Mei was a famous, formidable woman in Kirigakure.
The young female Shinobi before him still had a girlish air about her and didn't fit that description at all.
"Hey, are you two questioning my identity right in front of me?" Mei said, somewhat displeased.
The two Kakashis exchanged a glance, then spoke.
"Why are you wearing a Sand Shinobi's clothes, and why were you attacking Konoha's Shinobi?" Kakashi demanded.
Mei really had no way to explain that. Was she supposed to become an undercover agent? No, no.
Kirigakure treats me like its own daughter. How could I betray Kirigakure?
Seeing that Mei had no intention of talking, the two of them didn't know what to do for the moment.
Then Rin arrived.
"Stop fighting, both of you." Rin hurriedly tried to stop Kakashi and Mei.
Rin quickly explained things to Kakashi, mentioning that she and Mei had become best friends. As a result, Mei had hardly attacked anyone from Konoha and had been slacking off the whole time.
[Ding, Rasa of Sunagakure has been eliminated]
Before any of them could say anything, someone else had been eliminated, and a Sunagakure Jonin at that.
There weren't many people left now. Aside from those present, Yahiko and his two companions from Amegakure had yet to make a move.
Meanwhile, with no one else to interrupt him and Sasuke, Naruto had started trying to talk some sense into Gaara.
At the moment, Gaara clearly wasn't going to listen to Naruto's talk no jutsu.
Gaara completely relinquished control of his body and fell asleep.
The One-Tail was now able to emerge temporarily through Gaara's body.
The One-Tail stood a full hundred meters tall, drawing everyone's attention.
"This is bad. Sunagakure actually sent a Jinchūriki to infiltrate Konoha," Shikaku Nara, the emergency commander, said with a headache as he looked at the One-Tail.
Konoha's people had nearly put down Sunagakure's uprising, but at this critical moment, a Tailed Beast had appeared inside Konoha.
For now, Shikaku could only evacuate as many people as possible to prevent mass casualties.
Shikaku then had no choice but to go against his conscience and transfer the elite Shinobi near the Four Violet Flames Formation over there. As for the Lord Hokage, none of them could get inside anyway, so they could only leave them to fight one-on-one in there.
If Hiruzen Sarutobi had heard that, he would have cursed. Which bastard said this was one-on-one? Can't you see I'm being beaten up by the First Hokage and Second Hokage together?
Unfortunately, Shikaku had now transferred all the Shinobi outside the formation to where the One-Tail was.
Shikaku was probably thinking, Aren't you the strongest Hokage in Konoha? Dealing with the First and Second brought back with Impure World Reincarnation shouldn't be too much trouble, right?
We'll come rescue you after we deal with the One-Tail.
By now, anyone with eyes could see that Orochimaru's Konoha Crush was on the verge of failure. The Sunagakure Shinobi had already been subdued.
The few people from Otogakure were even less capable of fighting.
The only ones worth mentioning were the people from the other ninja villages who had joined the instance, but they had all been dealt with by Orochimaru and Obito.
Now the group only had to wait until Gaara was dealt with, and then they could all go and rescue the Lord Hokage together.
Now that Gaara had undergone Complete Tailed Beast Transformation, Naruto was no match for him.
"Damn it!" Naruto wiped the blood from the corner of his mouth.
Why did the person before him have the same fate as him, yet he was so ridiculously determined to pull him out of his lonely world?
"Hey, Naruto, don't push yourself. He's not someone we can handle," Sasuke hurriedly said.
The nearly hundred-meter-tall beast before them was beyond their ability to deal with.
"But!" Naruto said, deeply unwilling to give up.
Gaara clearly longed for family and friendship too, so why was he doing this?
The instant he had clashed with Gaara, he seemed to have felt the longing in his heart. It was exactly the same as his own.
Yet he had ended up like this.
"I, Naruto Uzumaki, won't give up!" Naruto was about to charge forward when someone stopped him.
"Little brother, leave the dangerous things to the adults!"
Naruto looked up and saw a young man with orange hair, as well as someone with red hair who gave him a very familiar feeling. That feeling seemed to come from their blood.
The newcomers were Yahiko, Nagato, and Konan. They had actually been there from the start, but since the One-Tail hadn't emerged, they hadn't shown themselves.
Their mission was to seal the One-Tail again.
Yahiko looked at the lively, cheerful boy before him, who felt such sympathy for someone who was clearly his enemy.
"Don't worry, we'll save him."
Yahiko was very confident. There was no other reason: he had just spent gold coins to buy Nagato a Sealing Jutsu. Expensive or not, wasn't spending money on his good brother the reason he earned it?
As for Konan, uh, Yahiko no longer dared hand his money over to her.
Nagato gave a very shy smile. "I'm not very familiar with Sealing Jutsu either."
Nagato then brought his hands together.
"Chibaku Tensei!"
The surrounding earth and trees rose continuously, trapping the One-Tail inside a gigantic mass of stone.
The stone kept growing, absorbing things from its surroundings as it grew larger and larger.
Before long, the One-Tail was completely enclosed in a gigantic stone.
Naruto's head was spinning. What was going on? How had such a huge meteorite appeared all of a sudden? Hadn't Nagato said he wasn't very skilled with Sealing Jutsu?
Nagato was also running low on Chakra, and Konan hurried to support him as he struggled to stay on his feet.
Then, with a bang, the One-Tail was knocked unconscious by a tremendous impact, and Gaara fell out.
Konan caught Gaara with paper butterflies. He had already fallen unconscious.
"Let me strengthen the seal." Nagato looked at the very crude seal on Gaara.
Who on earth was this bad? Do you even know Sealing Jutsu? You made even the most basic seal this crude. No wonder the One-Tail goes berserk every day.
Nagato slowly formed several hand seals, then used the Uzumaki Clan Sealing Jutsu Yahiko had bought him from the shop.
"Four Symbols Seal!"
Nagato continued applying the seal anew, and by the time the final seal was complete, he had exhausted his Chakra.
"It's finally done. He won't go berserk again after this!" Nagato said weakly.
Gaara's older sister, Temari, came over just then and breathed a sigh of relief when she heard Nagato's words.
She had originally thought Konoha would capture them and use them as bargaining chips in an exchange with Sunagakure.