Even after powerful shinobi died, their souls would drift through the Pure Land. Returning from death was not considered difficult.
As Naruto pondered the connection between the Pure Land and souls, an eruption of Chakra outside Kirigakure caught his attention. He looked toward the ground beyond the window and narrowed his eyes.
Chakra on that scale could not possibly have been unleashed by an ordinary shinobi.
The only possibility was that the Fourth Mizukage had entered Tailed Beast Transformation, causing the Three-Tails within him to run rampant.
The Nine-Tails had sensed the Three-Tails' Chakra as well and said in a gloomy tone, "It's the Three-Tails' Chakra. I never expected that guy who hides away and sleeps all day to carry so much resentment in his Chakra."
"Naruto, are you ready to fight the Three-Tails and the Three-Tails Jinchuriki?"
Naruto nodded. He had long been prepared to battle the Fourth Mizukage. Only that way could he successfully obtain the Three-Tails' Chakra, which had been one of the purposes of this trip from the very beginning.
Seeing that Naruto intended to challenge the Fourth Mizukage, Minato Namikaze smiled helplessly and merely told him to be careful.
Without wasting any more words, Naruto leaped straight out of the Mizukage's office building. His figure flashed across the rooftops of Kirigakure, and several minutes later, he landed atop a tree outside the village.
The Fourth Mizukage had already shed his Jinchuriki form and completely transformed into the Three-Tails' true form, a massive beast as large as a small mountain.
The Three-Tails was a colossal turtle. Though its body was not particularly agile, its heavy shell and the river terrain allowed it to unleash an endless stream of Water Release techniques, leaving dozens of Kirigakure shinobi groaning in misery.
Before long, most of the Kirigakure shinobi