Boom!
"Ahhh! Everyone, run!"
"It's the Nine-Tails! The Nine-Tails has gone berserk!"
"All Anbu, come with me! Chunin and lower, escort the residents to the shelters!"
Hearing the rumbling outside, along with shouts, curses, and hurried footsteps, Yota sprang upright with a kip-up, relief showing on his face.
"It's finally here. If it had come any later, I would've been ready to leave for a while tomorrow!"
A chilling Chakra presence drifted through the night breeze. Feeling the violent Chakra outside, Yota knew that although his own Chakra had nearly surpassed the limits of the Kage level, it was still far inferior to the Nine-Tails' Chakra.
"With this much Chakra, even ordinary people without Chakra-sensing abilities probably feel like disaster is about to strike, right?" Yota muttered, then leaped out of his room. In the distance, the orange-red Nine-Tailed Fox was raising its head and roaring savagely at the sky.
"I'll take this chance to visit the Hokage Residence first." Yota smiled, and his figure vanished in an instant.
Amid the current chaos, Yota moved as freely as a fish in water. Anyone remotely strong had gone outside to deal with the Nine-Tails. Those left in the village were mostly genin, with at most a few weak chunin among them. They could not even clearly see Yota's Body Flicker Technique.
"Who goes there? Stop!"
Only when Yota neared the Hokage Residence did two somewhat capable ninja emerge. Clearly, even in a crisis like this, the Hokage Residence still maintained a minimum level of security.
The two ninja told him to stop, but their hands did not pause in the slightest. In an instant, two kunai flew out. Then two became four, and four became eight, like a dense rain of kunai shooting toward Yota.
Yet Yota had no intention of