Nine-Tails + Three-Tails!!

On Hokage Rock.

Guy sat cross-legged, slowly turning the White Jade Demon-Subduing Prayer Beads around his neck.

He murmured Buddhist scripture, trying to calm himself.

But inside, his thoughts churned like boiling water.

He could not settle down.

Time crept by. Soon it was past ten at night.

Konoha was still lively after dark.

Many ninja and villagers had just finished dinner after a day of work or training.

They walked the streets in twos and threes, amid an air of peace.

It looked no different from any other night.

Then—

Guy's eyes snapped open atop Hokage Rock, fixing on Konoha's western outskirts!

An immense chakra, steeped in violence and malice, surged from that direction.

Like a beacon flaring in the night, it stabbed into his keen senses!

Damn it! They really made their move!

Guy's heart tightened.

Unless he was mistaken, that was where Kushina was giving birth.

The Nine-Tails Attack had come after all!

At the same time, he felt a little relieved.

Kushina was giving birth west of Konoha, outside the village.

The Ninja Turtle Clan's settlement in the mountains behind the village lay to the north.

They were far apart. Might Duy and the others should be safe.

Meanwhile, inside Konoha.

Several ninja with sharp senses detected the strange chakra fluctuation almost at once!

The Nine-Tails' chakra was too violent, too distinctive.

There was no hiding it.

But they only sensed that something was wrong. They did not yet know what had happened.

Guy was desperately anxious, but he did not move immediately.

Instead, he drew a sharp, deep breath.

His chest swelled visibly.

Standing atop the carved head of Hashirama Senju on Hokage Rock.

He roared down at the lights of Konoha, his voice shaking the night sky:

"Enemy attack—!!!!"

"ROAR—!!!!!!"

He drove Lion's Roar