The Strongest of the Land of Whirlpools!

Land of Lightning battlefield.

"Brats! Found you!"

All at once, a thunderous shout rang out, jolting Kakashi and Obito from their thoughts. And right on the heels of that roar came a dazzling flash of lightning!

"Lightning Oppression Horizontal Chop!"

With a boom, the tree hollow where Kakashi and the others had been hiding was smashed to pieces by A himself!

Fortunately, their reactions were quick enough. None of the three was really hurt, and all of them basically managed to get out safely. Unfortunately...

Kakashi and the other two looked at the Cloud Ninja surrounding them, standing both in the trees and on the ground, and a drop of cold sweat slowly slid down their foreheads.

They had expected they might be exposed, and they had prepared for it. The Cloud Ninja were not useless, after all. But they had never expected it to happen this quickly.

Crash...

A rose from the wreckage he had smashed apart, shook out his right hand, and looked coldly at Kakashi and the others.

"Brats, the game ends here!"

"Yo—"

"B! Careful! Someone's coming! It's someone from that clan!" Killer B had just been about to speak when the Eight-Tails' warning cut him off. And this tone—it was the first time he had ever heard such pure loathing from the Eight-Tails.

Killer B trusted the Eight-Tails completely. The moment it spoke, his body shuddered, seven blades all flew up, and he clamped them in place one by one, instantly entering combat stance!

"B?" Seeing Killer B enter battle mode, A called out with a frown. Out of trust in him, he immediately activated his Lightning Armor as well!

In the next instant, Minato and Uzumaki Tiezhu flashed in front of Kakashi and the others!

"We're not too late, are we?"

"Hiss... whew..." Looking