"Naruto?"
Hiruzen Sarutobi's heart clenched. How had he stumbled into this dead end?
He had seen Naruto's talent in the Central Tower and thought he still needed another ten years to mature.
But today's battle against Shukaku had utterly stunned him!
A twelve-year-old facing a tailed beast head-on and treating it like a punching bag? That strength was simply monstrous!
Had the First Hokage been this strong at twelve?
Hiruzen did not dare imagine how powerful Konoha would become once Naruto grew up.
Yet that glorious future was about to be snuffed out inside this purple cage!
All because of the two unkillable monsters before him, brought back by Impure World Reincarnation!
Shukaku had struggled beneath Naruto's hands?
But to the First Hokage, crushing that sand tanuki would be easier than breathing!
The gap was far too great!
It was over! It was all over!
This genius, unseen in Konoha for a century—no, a millennium—the sun carrying the village's hopes, was about to be extinguished within this inescapable prison!
"I've doomed Konoha!"
The Third Hokage's eyes turned bloodshot. His nails dug into his flesh as he hated himself to the core!
If he had not been softhearted enough to let Orochimaru go back then, would today have happened?
Wait!
Hiruzen Sarutobi suddenly froze!
This was the Four Violet Flames Formation! How had Naruto entered without making a sound?
A huge question instantly swept away his despair!
Orochimaru's snake-like eyes narrowed dangerously. He was quite curious about the route this brat had used to pass through the wall.
Could the Four Violet Flames Formation have a flaw after all?
This blond brat could get in. Could others get in as well?
However...
His gaze swept over the two war gods beside him, and his confidence surged!
With the First and Second