Hollow, Obito!

The Ten-Tails' body was still expanding.

The Demonic Statue of the Outer Path's transformation of flesh and blood had spread to its chest. Vast patches of grayish-white, wooden skin peeled away, exposing the dark-red true flesh beneath, textured like living tissue. Eight of its nine eye sockets glowed with dark crimson light; only the one corresponding to the Nine-Tails remained hollow and open, like a giant eye missing its eyeball. The phantoms of nine tails lashed behind it, each carrying enough power to reshape the terrain.

Naruto, Kakashi, and Guy stood beneath the Ten-Tails' shadow, looking up at the ancient calamity awakening before them. Its Chakra was so heavy it felt tangible, crushing the breath from their lungs.

"We have to stop it—" Naruto gritted his teeth as the golden Kurama Link Mode burned steadily over his body, nine golden tails swaying behind him.

Kakashi did not answer. His right eye—that Sharingan—was fixed firmly on the Ten-Tails' head. He had made his judgment. The Ten-Tails still lacked the complete Chakra of the Nine-Tails and Eight-Tails; its resurrection was still in progress. If he could use Kamui at this moment to warp and tear apart the section currently transforming, even if only to slow its formation—

Kamui, activate.

The three tomoe in his left eye spun rapidly as the spatial coordinates locked onto the part of the Ten-Tails' head changing from wood to flesh. Chakra surged madly from his eye socket. Space began to distort and collapse, and the wooden shell on the Ten-Tails' head visibly bent and cracked.

Boom—!

The Ten-Tails released a deep roar, like the earth itself raging, and its enormous body shuddered violently. A gash torn open by Kamui split across its head, spraying black fluid everywhere.

Blood began to flow from Kakashi's right eye. He gritted