The Four-Tails struggled violently, its Chakra surging wildly through the barrier. Terrifying streams of molten rock kept spraying from its body.
The lava's erosion had damaged some of the Four-Limb Heavy Seal's runes on the ground. With more room to move, the Four-Tails suddenly whipped its head around and aimed its mouth at Uzumaki Kuming. Terrifying Chakra gathered in its mouth as it prepared to blast him with a Tailed Beast Bomb.
"Hmph!"
Uzumaki Kuming was in the middle of undoing the seal on the "Rice Cooker" container when he saw the Four-Tails rapidly gathering Chakra. With a thought, one of the Chakra chains binding the beast shot up. Just as the Four-Tails was about to spit out its Tailed Beast Bomb, the chain smacked it across the cheek, knocking the attack off course and sending it flying in the opposite direction.
It slammed into the barrier and exploded. A violent shockwave burst from the barrier wall, kicking up sand and sending it surging in the opposite direction.
The massive explosion and the sandstorm engulfed everything inside the barrier. Outside, Minato Namikaze, who was guarding it, felt the Chakra he had poured into the barrier rapidly drain away. The red barrier showed no sign of wavering from the explosion, but its color had faded somewhat.
At one corner outside the Four Red Yang Formation, a figure emerged from the sand behind Uzumaki Kuming's Shadow Clone, which was maintaining the barrier. It slowly "swam" toward the clone.
"What are you?!"
Uzumaki Kuming's Shadow Clone sensed something before the figure drew near. He turned around and barked the question. The next instant, a strange creature resembling a Venus flytrap appeared beside him, and a sharp wooden spike stabbed straight into the clone's back.
"Poof!"
The Shadow Clone vanished on the spot from