Nine-Tails Jinchuriki

After seeing Gamabunta, the massive Summoning Beast, Toroi hurriedly formed hand seals and used the Summoning Technique as well.

Turtle Island of the Cloud Hidden Village raised many large Summoning Beasts. Toroi summoned a black bear over twenty meters tall. The massive bear swung its sharp claw blades and charged at Gamabunta.

Gamabunta drew the short sword from his back and swept it horizontally, only to discover in surprise that the black bear had blocked it with its claw blades.

What a powerful Summoning Beast. As expected of the Cloud Hidden Village...

Seeing that taijutsu gave him no advantage, Gamabunta immediately used ninjutsu: Water Release: Bullet, triple burst.

Water bullets more than ten meters in diameter instantly destroyed the forest ahead, their aftershocks battering everyone nearby.

Amid the chaos, Minato kept a clear head and rushed straight toward Kushina, the Uzumaki Orphan.

At that moment, Toroi's subordinate, the Cloud ninja, dragged his kunai across Shinmen's throat, leaving a bright red streak of blood as he stared intently at Kushina.

Kushina had just gathered her chakra and was about to unleash it when she saw her younger brother being threatened. She froze instantly.

Around the battlefield, Toroi hurled a sky full of square shuriken.

As long as those special Magnet Release shuriken struck Konoha's people, the next wave of Magnet Release shuriken would automatically track them.

Far away, both Hyuga Hiashi and Hizashi Hyuga had activated their Byakugan. They stared in shock toward Gamabunta's location. How had such a terrifying battle broken out there?

Nara Shikaku also saw the giant toad and bear. "Who is Minato Namikaze fighting?"

"Cloud ninja! Two squads of Cloud ninja!"

When Gamabunta appeared, Hiruzen Sarutobi slowly turned his head atop the tower at the center of the Death Forest.

Gamabunta had actually appeared? What had Minato encountered? Did he really need to summon Gamabunta?

"Send someone over! Find out what happened!"

The Third Lightning Kage also saw the black bear Summoning Beast from Turtle Island of the Cloud Hidden Village and realized that their true mission had taken a troublesome turn.

What was supposed to be a covert capture mission now required them to use a giant Summoning Beast.

Still, the Third Lightning Kage believed in his son.

"Sarutobi, how can you let ANBU interfere with the exam? That goes against the rules, doesn't it?"

Faced with the Third Lightning Kage's question, Hiruzen Sarutobi hesitated before waving for the ANBU to return.

If it was Minato, he should be fine...

Within the immense torrent of the Bullet, Minato glanced at Kushina and saw that her pupils had changed into the red slit eyes of a demon fox.

After seeing her younger brother tortured, Kushina was on the verge of going berserk.

Minato reached Kushina before Ei Yano Yu could, rescuing the panicked and sluggish girl. The two landed on the trunk of a large tree.

"Kushina! Wake up! Kushina!"

Minato's calls did nothing. Reaching out to take Kushina's hand did nothing either; his hand was even burned by the Nine-Tails Chakra.

In the original story, Naruto had gradually learned to use the Nine-Tails Chakra under Jiraiya, though Jiraiya did not understand the Nine-Tails and merely watched over him from the side.

Kushina had studied under Mito Uzumaki as a child. Her command of the Nine-Tails Chakra far surpassed Naruto's at the same age.

In a very short time, a layer of Nine-Tails Chakra cloak appeared around Kushina.

Having been trained by Mito Uzumaki, Kushina's use of Nine-Tails Chakra had become instinctive.

Minato glanced at Ei Yano Yu charging toward them and chose to trust Kushina.

Kushina was very strong right now.

In the original story, after Tsunade became Hokage, she had likewise trusted Naruto, allowing him to carry out missions and fight rather than keeping him in the village as a decorative mascot.

Tsunade had seen the strength of a Nine-Tails Jinchuriki and knew that a Nine-Tails Jinchuriki was no weaker than those Kage-level members of the Akatsuki.

With the Nine-Tails Chakra cloak appearing, Kushina's safety would not be an issue for the time being. The problem now was preventing her from losing control of the Nine-Tails Chakra and going completely berserk.

Minato looked toward Kushina's younger brother. He had to save Shinmen, or Kushina would definitely go berserk today.

Ei Yano Yu shouted and drew out even more Lightning Release chakra as he charged toward Minato and Kushina.

Yet in the next instant, Ei Yano Yu froze.

He had vanished. The blond brat had vanished?

The ANBU ninja beneath the tree also trembled. Minato Namikaze, the strongest Konoha ninja here and a disciple of Jiraiya of the Three Ninja, had actually not stood in front of the Nine-Tails Jinchuriki?

The ANBU ninja inwardly cursed. This was bad, far too bad. Did Minato Namikaze not know that Kushina was the Nine-Tails Jinchuriki?

With Minato no longer in his way, Ei Yano Yu looked at Kushina and immediately recognized what this was.

The village had records of Kinkaku and Ginkaku. After biting off and eating the Nine-Tails' flesh inside its stomach, both had been able to wear a Nine-Tails Chakra cloak.

The Eight-Tails and Two-Tails would also enter Chakra cloak mode when they went berserk. This Uzumaki Orphan before him was clearly the Nine-Tails Jinchuriki.

The Cloud Hidden Village's ANBU had never said that the Uzumaki Orphan was the Nine-Tails Jinchuriki!

The Cloud Hidden Village had indeed suspected that the Uzumaki Orphan might be the Nine-Tails Jinchuriki, but they had quickly dismissed the idea.

Konoha Village had not even sent full support to Uzushio. How would they dare make an Uzumaki Orphan the Nine-Tails Jinchuriki? Were they not afraid that the orphan would use the Nine-Tails to take revenge?

They had been more inclined to suspect that some secret Senju Clan ninja had become the Jinchuriki.

It seemed their guess had been wrong.

Having gained crucial intelligence, Ei Yano Yu grew even more excited.

The Uzumaki Orphan surely carried clues to perfect Sealing Techniques and a Perfect Jinchuriki. Such clues were more direct and more useful.

They only needed to capture the Uzumaki Orphan, or obtain some of the orphan's body tissue, and bring it to the edge of the Death Forest. There, the Raikage's Assistant Dodai had contingencies prepared to send it back to the Cloud Hidden Village.

"Come on! Nine-Tails Jinchuriki!"

Even facing a Jinchuriki, Ei Yano Yu was not afraid.

Kushina's demon fox slit eyes locked onto the approaching Ei Yano Yu. She suddenly swung her fist and clashed with him.

The ANBU ninja charged at Ei Yano Yu without fear of death, but unfortunately, his strength was far too inferior to that of the future Fourth Raikage. He was sent flying by a single punch.

Ei Yano Yu did not want anyone getting in his way.

Meanwhile, Ei Yano Yu's teammates placed two Sealing Scrolls at the side and prepared to use Sealing Techniques on Kushina.

These Sealing Techniques had all been obtained from the corpses of Uzumaki Clan ninja.

As the oldest genin, Uchiha Yashiro immediately shouted, "Let's stop those two Cloud ninja with the Sealing Scrolls first!"

In Uchiha Yashiro's view, the battle between Ei Yano Yu and Kushina overflowed with chakra and carried overwhelming momentum. It was not something they could participate in, but they could interfere with the Sealing Techniques around the edges.

Hearing this, Mikoto also circled around to the rear and charged at the Cloud ninja holding the Sealing Scrolls.

Human Bullet Tank!

For some reason, Akimichi Jirokuma was no longer afraid at this moment.

When Kushina's teammate had just been beaten to death, his legs had trembled with fear. Yet after Minato vanished, he was no longer afraid.

His ninja instincts told him to charge forward. He could not run.

Finding an opening, the Human Bullet Tank charged at Ei Yano Yu.

Ei Yano Yu said only one thing: "Meaningless trash."