"Swish, swish, swish..."
Five figures landed one after another on the ruins of Root Division. As they looked at the enormous tree in the rubble before them, four of them turned to Kinoe.
Kinoe shook his head slightly. "No one in Root Division could use Wood Release on this scale. Not even I could. If I had to guess, it was probably the person Anbu have been gathering intelligence on."
Uchiha Yun had only joined this small gathering today, so he wasn't sure what Kinoe meant. But he could guess: Kinoe was talking about the Clone Sora.
Namikaze Minato nodded beside him, his expression grave.
Could it be Uzumaki Sora?
Flying Thunder God, Wood Release, and that chilling Chakra just now—was this another new ability?
Even as the Fourth Hokage, representing Konoha, Minato didn't want to provoke Uzumaki Sora, who stood alone. And from the looks of things, Root Division was gone. The only question was what had happened to Danzo...
"Boom!"
The enormous tree pushed aside the falling rubble, and a branch carried an unharmed Uzumaki Sora into the air.
"Well, you're quick. Is it always this lively around here?"
Minato ignored Sora's teasing and asked with a frown, "Did you do this? Where's Danzo? Did you kill him too?"
Sora spread his hands. "He's dead. To keep that old dog from coming back with some trick, I chopped up his body and burned it to ashes with Fire Release."
He glanced at the ruins nearby, scratched his head, and added, "You probably won't find the ashes. The place just collapsed, and now I don't even know where they are."
He's dead?
Minato frowned. "Uzumaki Sora, killing a member of Konoha's High Command means Konoha will hunt you down. I didn't want to fight you."
Sora understood what he