When the Nine-Tails turned its head, Yuhara completely lost his composure.
Is it looking at me? Is it?
Why? On what grounds?
What did tonight's events have to do with me?!
He was flustered, then panicked, and finally grew furious... As mentioned before, due to the negative mental effects brought about by Nature Energy, Yuhara's mind wasn't completely clear at this point. Compared to his normal self, he was more impulsive and irritable.
After all, his "Senjutsu" came from Jugo. Under the impact of such a massive amount of Nature Energy, the fact that he hadn't completely lost control and gone insane was already something to be thankful for.
Thus, while the Tailed Beast Ball was taking shape, Yuhara took a deep breath. Then, strips of mercury streamed outward from behind him. Once their other ends were firmly anchored to the surrounding tree trunks, Yuhara rapidly retreated. In an instant, the strips went taut, and the tree trunks were even pulled slightly askew.
Using the silver strips as a bowstring and his body as the arrow, Yuhara was launched away at high speed... This wasn't an escape, because he wasn't rushing away from Konoha. He was charging toward Konoha!
By then, the Tailed Beast Ball had finished forming, and the Nine-Tails spat it at Yuhara. As the strongest existing tailed beast, the Nine-Tails made this attack look effortless. Its motion resembled casually spitting, but because of the Tailed Beast Ball's tremendous speed, the originally spherical orb had gradually been stretched into an ellipsoid as it tore across the sky toward its target.
So, to put it nicely, Yuhara's move was a desperate bid for survival. To put it less nicely, he was a cornered dog leaping over a wall.
After shooting forward at high speed, the trees growing across the