The Riding-Naruto Spot Should've Been Mine!

Nagato sensed Madara's intentions and immediately made the Ten-Tails fire a Tailed Beast Bomb to stop him, but it was already too late.

The exploding Tailed Beast Bomb had even helped break part of the Chibaku Tensei's seal.

The Nine-Tails was pulled out by Susanoo as well.

"You, you, you..."

Naruto stared blankly, not recognizing Madara at all. If not for the difference in size and color, he would've almost thought Sasuke had come to rescue him.

But the Nine-Tails inside Naruto immediately roared.

It's Madara! That bastard!

Naruto! Watch out, he...

The Nine-Tails hadn't finished warning him when it realized that its mental connection with Naruto had suddenly been severed!

The next moment,

that familiar, domineering figure appeared before the Nine-Tails in Naruto's mental space.

The Nine-Tails' fur bristled. It bared its fangs and lunged at Madara.

"So you're here after all?"

"Demon fox, long time no see!"

Madara's spiritual form greeted the Nine-Tails with a laugh, as arrogant as ever. He merely glared at it.

The Nine-Tails froze in place, Mangekyo patterns appearing in its eyes.

It had clearly been controlled by the Sharingan's Genjutsu.

Madara's Eternal Mangekyo wasn't specialized in Genjutsu, but bolstered by his monstrous reserves of ocular power, his Genjutsu was every bit as potent as Itachi's.

Obito could control both the Three-Tails Jinchuriki and Isobu himself at the same time. How much more could Madara do?

Taking control of both the Nine-Tails and Naruto with Genjutsu wasn't difficult.

"Hmm?"

"Only half of the Nine-Tails?"

"The other half is sealed somewhere else?"

"Well, this should still be enough..."

Madara chuckled, a little surprised, but not particularly bothered.

Half the Nine-Tails was indeed weaker than the whole, but it was still more than enough. After all, fifty thousand and a hundred thousand were in the same