Kurama stood on a boulder that had not melted, his eyes fixed on Neji.
"You bastard, are you deliberately targeting me?"
Wasn't he, though? Whether it was the Spear of the Earth or the Meteor Shower, Kurama had been the one getting hurt.
Neji said, "...You've got the wrong idea."
That was all Neji could say.
Sasuke looked up at the sky. Should he throw in a jutsu to liven things up, too?
Neji's fireballs had done him a huge favor.
Neji said, "You don't mind if I call in some help, do you?"
Sasuke said, "Help? Of course not."
Now that he had manifested his Perfect Susanoo, he knew exactly how powerful it was.
He did not think any helper Neji summoned could match him.
Kurama felt the same way.
Though it did not show on the surface, all of them, Neji included, had inevitably grown somewhat arrogant after gaining such tremendous power.
That was also why they had let Neji unleash two powerful jutsu in succession. They knew he could not hurt them.
"Summoning Jutsu!"
Originally, the Hyuga Clan had no particularly impressive summoning beasts.
But Hinata had once taken Neji somewhere.
Somewhere he would not forget for a long time.
Afterward, he had signed a contract with the creatures there.
Though those creatures were incredibly powerful, their very strength made summoning them inconvenient at times.
Every one of them radiated a scorching aura.
Their surface temperatures reached over a thousand degrees Celsius. Merely standing there affected their surroundings, let alone the people nearby.
Neji slapped his hand onto the boulder beneath his feet, which floated in the magma and had yet to melt.
The summoning beast Naruto and Sasuke expected did not appear.
"Did... the summoning fail?"
"No! Something's wrong with the way the magma is flowing!"