Did bloodline resonance... really exist?
Naruto couldn't be sure. But some profound influence was genuinely surging within him—anger, and a grief even he himself found difficult to understand.
Clearly... this could even be called the first time he had truly "met" the person who should have been called his "mother."
Yet now, his mother's resting soul had been forcibly summoned back from the Pure Land by Orochimaru's selfish desires and imprisoned within a body of dust. She had lost the thoughts she possessed in life, lost her own will, and was now being corroded by the violent Chakra of Kurama remaining within her body, transformed into a monster utterly enveloped by hatred and pain!
Within the sealing space, Kurama clearly sensed the anger and sorrow coming from Naruto. It was deeply unsettled—could Naruto's intense reaction be because he knew the identity of the person before him? No, that seemed unlikely. Then was it an instinctive resonance from deep within his bloodline, one that transcended understanding?
What was more, the one being desecrated before him was not merely his "mother." They were also the last surviving bloodline of the Uzumaki Clan, kin who shared his blood and had now nearly vanished from the Ninja World.
"Roar!!!"
The two small monsters, wrapped in crimson Chakra, let out frenzied roars. Their twisted faces no longer retained the slightest trace of their former appearances.
Kurama could clearly judge that these incomplete Tailed Beast Transformations were roughly equivalent in strength to Naruto's former four-tail state. They were troublesome, but far from enough to pose a real threat to the current Naruto.
"Whoosh—!"
Ahead, a blood-red Chakra claw tore through the air! Behind him, the torrent of Gold Dust controlled by Rasa, glinting with cold light, swept in at the same time!
Faced with this pincer