Naruto's shadow clone directly picked up the slightly flushed Princess Sara, then nodded. Her slender white finger passed through the heavy buildings, pointing in a certain direction.
After receiving the instructions, several of Naruto's shadow clones leaped alongside Sara, swiftly weaving through the buildings.
Naruto narrowed his blue eyes and glanced toward the battle between Mirai and Kushina, only to discover that the giant confronting Gamabunta and the others had already left.
Although he moved slowly, a bad feeling rose in his heart. He then said to the civilians before him, "I'm afraid something dangerous will happen next, so we have to hurry."
His gaze darkened, and his once clear, bright pupils gradually condensed into crimson, becoming rare vertical slits.
"Multiple Shadow Clone Technique!"
A massive cloud of smoke gathered around the crowd. Naruto suddenly summoned more than two thousand shadow clones. Even with his immense chakra reserves, the continuous expenditure made his eyelids droop.
This sight stunned the civilians of Rōran, but Naruto ignored their reactions. The clone squad immediately took two people each, and all the clones split up the thousands of civilians among themselves.
Whoosh! Whoosh! Whoosh!
More than two thousand of his shadow clones scattered at once, racing toward areas beyond the Dragon Vein's reach.
Just as Naruto used the shadow clone technique to create a large number of clones, Mirai and Kushina encountered each other midway and stopped.
Kushina came to a halt atop a building. Suddenly, she felt something strange in her abdomen—a tremendous force trying to break free of its cage.
However, with Kushina's current sealing ability and chakra capacity, the Nine-Tails naturally could not make any changes.
She had no time to investigate why the Nine-Tails had suddenly stirred, and was forced back again.
Mirai had arrived at Tanro's hiding place.