"What did you say? Yugito was attacked!?"
In the Hidden Cloud Village office, upon hearing the news, the Fourth Raikage slammed his hand on the desk in a fit of rage.
The table in front of them couldn't withstand the weight and shattered on the spot.
The three Genin in the office were trembling with fear at the sight, and even the Jonin ashamed.
"Yes... yes, Lord Raikage. As soon as we encountered the enemy, Yugito- sensei told us to run for our lives, so we immediately came back for help. I don't really know what happened after that."
These three Genin were none other than the three brats following Yugito. Little did they know that even though they had been traveling day and night, they were still much later than Orochimaru.
"Lord Raikage, their objective is very clear: they're after Yugito. Could it be... that they've set their sights on Tailed Beasts?"
It was Dodai who spoke. He had this thought after learning the news, since Jinchuriki were first and foremost a resource for the Hidden Cloud Village's military preparations, and only secondly Jonin.
Upon hearing this, Raikage also considered this possibility, and it seemed quite likely.
Just as he was about to say something more, he suddenly sensed a Chakra fluctuation, and the ground trembled slightly. Although it was very slight, the Dodai and the Jonin who brought the group here also Jonin it.
"What happened?"
"This direction... is bad!"
As soon as Dodai finished speaking, Raikage darted out of the window. At that moment, as if he had realized something, his expression changed, and he immediately gathered his men.
After being cooled down by water, the Eight-Tails reappeared, and immediately roared at the sky.
The next moment, a black sphere appeared in front of Gyūki, clearly intending to use the Tailed Beast Bomb to kill Orochimaru.
However, Orochimaru was not intimidated at all; he was eager for Orochimaru to use this move, since he had almost exhausted his energy just now.
Orochimaru neither dodged nor evaded the incoming Tailed Beast Bomb, but simply stood still.
The black sphere exploded in front of Orochimaru as expected, and the violent energy swallowed everything around it.
But this situation only lasted for a few blinks of an eye. The energy wave, which was originally going to expand outward, contracted inward little by little like a deflated balloon until it disappeared completely.
"What happened?"
This unusual scene alerted both Eight-Tails and Hitsu.
"Gran Rey Cero!"
Before the smoke and dust had even cleared, an attack no weaker than the previous Tailed Beast Bomb shot out from the smoke and dust, its target being them.
"Oh no! Get out of the way!"
The Eight-Tails dodged to the side without hesitation, but the attacks seemed to have eyes, following them wherever they went.
They only stopped when they had almost circled Cloud-Lightning Gorge. Looking back, they saw that the higher peaks of Cloud-Lightning Gorge had been smashed in half, which was terrifying!
When they looked at the figure again, both Eight-Tails and Killer B felt their hearts sink. Fortunately, the opponent was also panting heavily, so such an attack must have been very exhausting.
Indeed, Orochimaru, using this attack for the first time, failed to control his strength and Shirou a lot of energy.
"Gyūki, one more time! The opponent should be about to give up!"
Orochimaru had just retracted his outstretched hand when he saw his opponent condense another Tailed Beast Bomb. Moreover, as soon as he launched one, he continued to condense another, clearly intending to kill him with a series of Tailed Beast Bomb.
At this moment, he missed Amenominaka, Momoshiki Otsutsuki, which could absorb the Tailed Beast Bomb and then return it to the opponent in double.
"Since you're going to play like this, don't blame me for being unsportsmanlike!"
After saying that, he immediately activated the Sonido and appeared in front of the first Tailed Beast Bomb.
As he touched the Tailed Beast Bomb, the Sonido was activated again. When he reappeared, his figure was on the side of the Eight-Tails, and the Tailed Beast Bomb landed behind him.
After doing all this, he flashed toward the second Tailed Beast Bomb, followed by the third, the fourth, and a total of five Tailed Beast Bomb.
Orochimaru reversed their direction of travel and changed their target from him to the Eight-Tails.
"Holy crap! Is this Genjutsu?"
"Get out of the way!"
Seeing that the Tailed Beast Bomb they spat out was instead attacking them, the Eight-Tails and Killer B instantly felt a chill run down their spines.
Is this the legendary case of "lifting a stone to drop it on one's own foot," or "trying to steal a chicken but losing the rice instead," or "I'm hitting myself"?
Without the slightest hesitation, the Eight-Tails- Tails immediately flung a section of its octopus tentacle far away, and the next moment its body was engulfed by the Tailed Beast Bomb.
Five Tailed Beast Bomb are equivalent to five Tailed Beasts releasing their Tailed Beast Bomb simultaneously. If Orochimaru were attacked by so many Tailed Beast Bomb at once, he would either be reduced to ashes or explode and die.
The explosion lasted for a full minute before subsiding. Once the smoke cleared, a huge crater appeared, and water began to pour into it.
As far as the eye could see, the entire Cloud-Lightning Gorge had been transformed into a lake, with no hills remaining, and the water level had clearly dropped considerably.
"Compare!"
Just as the canyon returned to calm, a figure enveloped in lightning rushed into the canyon.
However, after scanning the entire lake, there was no one left to be seen.
"Killer B, you little brat, come out here right now!"
As the Raikage looked around, he shouted that the Kumogakure had only just discovered what had happened, which was his dereliction of duty as the Kage.
Since very few people knew that Killer B was training here, and there was usually no one watching over him, he realized that he had been careless.
After a while, a group of Hidden Cloud Village arrived and, after learning about the current situation, also began their search.
However, Cloud-Lightning Gorge is too large, and it would take a long time just to circle around it. Even if these ninjas scattered, it wouldn't be that fast.
Ten minutes later, a figure suddenly poked its head out of the water and breathed a sigh of relief after finding no one around.
"Gyūki, has that person left?"
Killer B was still a little worried, so he asked the Eight-Tails inside his body. When the Eight-Tails cut off its tail to survive, its main body had already returned to Bee's body.
What remains outside is merely its clone, a unique life-saving skill of the Eight-Tails, which even the Nine-Tails cannot match.
"Hmm! That Chakra has disappeared! But I found a few familiar Chakra, one of which should be your older brother's!"
Hearing that his older brother had also come, Bi involuntarily shrank back, feeling a little afraid of his Raikage older brother.
It's not fear, but rather being controlled by the other person since childhood, like a younger brother being afraid of his older sister—an innate bloodline suppression!
"Lord Killer B Bee! Is that you?"
Just as Killer B was thinking about how to deal with his older brother, he suddenly heard shouts coming from not far away.
"It really is you, Big Man!"
The newcomer was Jonin from Kumogakure. His voice was loud enough to immediately attract the attention of those nearby, and the group hurried over.
He had just climbed out of the water and hadn't even had a chance to catch his breath when suddenly a fist the size of a sandbag came flying at him, hitting him squarely in the chest.
"What's wrong with you, kid? You're so old and you still can't put my mind at ease!"
Killer B taking that punch. Just as he was about to launch a zero-frame attack, he heard a familiar voice. The voice contained more concern than blame.
The only person who would dare treat him like this is his older brother. Not only could he not fight back when he was beaten and scolded, he also had to greet him with a smile.
"Big... Big brother! I'm fine, I'm perfectly alright!"
Raikage looked him over several times, and only breathed a sigh of relief after finding that nothing serious had happened.
"It was my oversight, brother! Next time, if we change the location, we'll send you a few more people."
Hearing this, Killer B was not happy at all; instead, he secretly groaned that it would be difficult to sneak out to play now...
Little did Orochimaru know that his small action made the Hidden Cloud Hidden Cloud Village keep a closer eye on Killer B, further increasing the difficulty of the Akatsuki's mission!