The Four-Tails' bell-like voice rang across the devastated battlefield.
"Are there reinforcements from the Five-Tails and Eight-Tails too?"
Within the Puppet defenses, Chiyo took a deep breath and looked up at the red giant ape before him. He too could sense two powerful chakra signatures rapidly approaching.
In Son Goku's eyes, the defenses formed by Earth Style and Puppet techniques were no more than rubble at his feet. Ignoring Shukaku as he rallied himself, he looked toward the Sunagakure group and reiterated, "Have you thought it over, humans? If you refuse to hand over the scroll, you'll be facing five Tailed Beasts next."
Shukaku, his sand-like belly swelling as the curse marks on his body pulsed, appeared utterly alone before the crimson giant ape with its blue face and fangs, the demonic fox waving nine tails, and the soaring beetle that blotted out the sun.
"Gulp."
Ebizo, wearing a round headscarf and hiding behind the Earth Style defenses, clenched his teeth to keep his cheeks from trembling, yet he still could not stop the nervous gulp from escaping.
Chakra poured freely from the mountain-like bodies of the Tailed Beasts, each one corroding the minds of the Sunagakure shinobi and wearing down the fighting spirit within them.
"Konoha certainly has a lot of Tailed Beasts!" Chiyo decisively stepped past the defenses, pulled a scroll from his ninja tool pouch, and broke its seal with lightning speed. "But Shukaku isn't the only one on our side!"
A red-and-white Tailed Beast Ball streaked across the azure sky in a dazzling arc and landed precisely beside Shukaku.
Boom!
Towering smoke instantly enveloped the battlefield already shrouded in gunpowder, accompanied by the clattering sound of the Tailed Beast Ball rolling across the ground.
"It's another me."
Kurama, whose cheeks had sunken from the excessive chakra