Utakata: "..."
Forced back onto his feet, Utakata was pale, blood trickling from the corner of his mouth. His earlier attempt to wrench free of the chains had gotten him slammed into the ground, leaving him with internal injuries.
Although his strong regenerative abilities as a Jinchuriki meant there were few visible wounds, he was nowhere near fine.
Utterly bewildered, Utakata frowned and glanced at the two men on either side of him, both wearing the same white-faced masks.
So—what was going on now? If they wanted to capture me, hadn't they already done that?
An internal dispute? Or... was someone trying to frame someone else?
When Utakata said nothing, Muren turned toward Uzumaki Reikawa, looking rather bored. As if thinking something over, he said, "Adamantine Sealing Chains... You're Uzumaki Reikawa? Come to think of it, didn't you refuse to join Genkyo before, then get captured by the Akatsuki?"
Uzumaki Reikawa made no further move to attack. He nodded with apparent resignation. "The leader rescued me."
Meanwhile, hidden in the shadows, Pain slowly sprouted a question mark over his head. "?"
At that, Muren shrugged as though he understood. "All right, I think I get it. But why are you capturing the Six-Tails?"
"The Akatsuki has its sights on the Six-Tails."
"And?"
"So I figured I'd strike first."
"Makes perfect sense..."
Just as Muren was about to say something else, he noticed that a mass of transparent bubbles had appeared around them without either man realizing it.
The seemingly harmless bubbles shimmered with rainbow colors in the sunlight. They drifted silently beside the two men, then exploded with a boom!
"Fuck!"
Between the force of the explosions and the liquid splashing out of the bursting bubbles, enormous holes were eaten into the surrounding trees and even the ground!
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