Tamura Hiroshi and Minato Namikaze's battle remained unhurried, though it scared Sara, who was being carried on his shoulder, so much that she kept her eyes tightly shut. Those golden light swords brushing past time and time again were simply too perilous.
After fighting like that for over ten minutes, Minato Namikaze seemed to sense something, and his figure suddenly vanished, reappearing beside Uzumaki Kuuhina.
At that moment, Uzumaki Kuuhina had been completely sealed off by the Wood Release; neither breaking forward nor forcing her way outward was proving feasible.
The Wood Release trees here were simply too numerous, and their growth rate was far too fast. Coupled with the addition of Sage Jutsu power, they were all the more resilient, and shattering them consumed even more chakra.
Fighting up to this point, even with her and the Nine-Tails' chakra depleted by more than half, they still hadn't been able to push through any further.
If they continued consuming chakra at this rate, even exhausting the Nine-Tails' chakra completely would make reaching the Dragon Vein impossible.
"Stupid fox!"
This realization infuriated Uzumaki Kuuhina, causing her to curse the stupid fox harshly. If that stupid fox could just hand over that power, she definitely would have been able to break through and help Minato complete this mission.
"Jiraiya-sensei is injured. The plan has failed. Let's go!"
Controlling his chakra to wrap around his fiancee's body, Minato Namikaze executed the Flying Thunder God Technique to return to his teacher's side.
He had sensed his teacher's chakra suddenly weaken—the classic sign of injury. Clearly, the battle over there had already been decided, and continuing to fight here held no meaning whatsoever.
He could only stall that fellow, not kill him, and couldn't even injure the Queen of Roran whom the fellow was carrying.