Kurotsuchi and Suigetsu stared at Hinata in astonishment. They simply could not understand how a girl who had seemed so gentle and fragile a moment ago-soft on the outside and even softer within-could suddenly become someone who frightened even them.
Every hair on Suigetsu's body stood on end as he stared at Hinata. He was certain that if she wanted to kill him now, he would not survive a single move against her. That premonition was so strong that he had already placed her firmly on his list of people never to provoke.
Suigetsu thought to himself, Thank goodness I didn't mouth off in front of this girl earlier. If she killed me one day because she was in a bad mood, what a pointless death that would be.
Kurotsuchi watched Hinata as well, her feelings tangled. After a while, Hinata finally stopped absorbing natural chakra. A layer of it covered her body, every bit as powerful as the chakra Naruto and Sasuke now possessed.
Hinata slowly raised one hand, and the golden light in her White Eye flared brilliantly. She thrust her palm forward with a sharp cry of "Eighty Gods Vacuum Attack!" Immensely powerful natural chakra poured from her hand and surged furiously toward the barrier.
An unending torrent of natural chakra battered the barrier, making it tremble and shaking the entire cave along with it. The once-calm barrier grew wildly unstable, rippling violently, but no matter how much Hinata increased her power, she could not break through that thin layer.
Hinata gritted her teeth and kept absorbing the surrounding natural chakra to replenish what she had spent, all while maintaining the output of her Eighty Gods Vacuum Attack. She seemed determined to smash through the barrier by force.
Meanwhile, after Naruto and Sasuke finished transplanting their Eternal