"Hmph!"
The Nine-Tails was bound to a stone pillar by enormous chains. Seeing Kushina appear before it, it let out a cold snort.
"What were you going crazy for just now?"
Hearing Kushina's question, the Nine-Tails snorted again and simply closed its eyes.
It did not know whether it was imagining things.
It had actually sensed the aura of that stinking tanuki with only one tail.
Had that one-tailed stinking tanuki come to Konoha? "Hey?"
As the Nine-Tails' Chakra gradually began to leak out, Kushina frowned and threatened, "Behave yourself!"
"Heh~"
Sensing the chains around its body tightening more and more, the Nine-Tails curled its lips and asked, "Did people from Sunagakure come?"
"Huh?"
That was truly rare.
This guy had actually taken the initiative to speak to her.
Kushina looked at the Nine-Tails with interest and raised a brow. "Why are you asking?"
Without waiting for the Nine-Tails to answer, she rubbed her chin with one hand, a thoughtful expression appearing on her face. "Apparently not. But I heard from Mikoto that Uchiha Asuka just returned from Sunagakure."
Uchiha Asuka?
Uchiha?
Hearing the word "Uchiha," then recalling the aura it had sensed at the Uchiha Clan Grounds earlier, the Nine-Tails bared its fangs, its eyes filled with danger.
Could that foul-mouthed tanuki have been abducted to Konoha by the Uchiha clansmen?
No, it was probably controlled by someone's Sharingan and forcibly brought back, right?
After projecting its own experience onto Shukaku, the Nine-Tails thought of what had happened to itself, then of that foul-mouthed tanuki. Its expression darkened further.
Looking toward the Uchiha Clan Grounds, it roared, "You Uchiha really deserve to die!"
"Hey!"
Kushina put her hands on her hips and frowned at the suddenly enraged Nine-Tails. "What the hell is wrong with you?"
Looking down at the