Whoosh.
The enormous orb tore through the smoke, trailing a sharp whistle as it flashed across the sky toward the distant crowd.
"A Tailed Beast Ball!"
In an instant, everyone who saw the light or heard the sound recognized it.
The Tailed Beast Ball was nothing new to them. After all, the Akatsuki Organization's initial assault had begun with one.
But when they got a good look at it, they all gaped, eyes wide.
The orb streaking across the sky was completely unlike the Tailed Beast Balls they had seen before. It was countless times larger.
Then it hit them: this Tailed Beast Ball must have been fired by the resurrected Ten-Tails.
"It's over."
"Are we going to die here?"
"Ah, so we couldn't escape after all..."
As they watched the Ten-Tails' Tailed Beast Ball bearing down on them, the fleeing ninja stopped in their tracks.
It wasn't that they didn't want to escape. They knew that no matter how desperately they ran now, it wouldn't make any difference.
With a rumble, countless vines burst from the ground, forming a dense wooden wall in front of the Ten-Tails' Tailed Beast Ball.
There was no doubt that Yakumo had acted.
She couldn't stand by and watch the Ten-Tails slaughter the Ninja Village Allied Forces' ninja right before her eyes, so she used Wood Release in an attempt to stop its Tailed Beast Ball.
Boom!
The Ten-Tails' Tailed Beast Ball soon slammed into the wooden wall Yakumo had created with Wood Release. The massive wall crumbled in an instant, becoming a storm of splinters.
"!?"
Yakumo froze, then let her hands fall helplessly from the Hand Seals.
She had given everything to that Wood Release technique, yet it had been utterly useless against the Ten-Tails' Tailed Beast Ball. It hadn't just failed