Waves

Gyūki's strange actions left Uchiha Obito somewhat puzzled as well.

In that brief moment, the bull-headed octopus monster took the opportunity to drill back into the hole it had just made.

"It just came out from there, and now it's running back in. What is it trying to do? Seeking its own death..."

Uchiha Obito smiled at first, but his expression abruptly changed.

"Not good!"

Catching a turtle in a jar was all well and good, but if the jar was alive—and vicious enough to want to eat people—it was no longer such a pleasant experience.

Realizing something was wrong, Uchiha Obito hurried after it. Unfortunately, even with the space-time ninjutsu Kamui, he still failed to catch up in time to stop Gyūki's mad action.

A muffled explosion sounded from underground. The surrounding earth cracked apart inch by inch, and a mass of reddish-brown fluid, mixed with dirt and fragments of some unknown animal, splattered in every direction.

"One step too late."

At the same time, the Giant Island Turtle, whose attention had been drawn by Deidara's Explosive Clay, suddenly let out a scream. Then the entire Giant Turtle Island began to shake violently, leaving the ninja standing atop it unsteady on their feet as the rock and soil attached to its surface began to collapse bit by bit.

"What happened? What did the Eight-Tails do?"

"Since defeat is already certain, of course it stirred up the situation so it could escape amid the chaos."

If it had been confident in the battle earlier and had therefore been forced to charge up from underground, now it had truly reached the end of the road. It could only drag the Giant Island Turtle's fighting power into the fray and buy some time.

"The Eight-Tails probably directly attacked the giant turtle from