"Cough... urgh..."
Naruto rolled across the ground more than a dozen times, coughing and dry-heaving nonstop.
Fortunately, he had only eaten a little ramen today, and it had mostly been digested. Otherwise, Naruto would have nearly thrown up his breakfast.
If he did not possess a Sage Body and was not the Nine Tails Jinchuriki, with his incredible resilience, Naruto would have nearly been knocked unconscious by Choji Akimichi's palm strike.
His insides were still churning, leaving Naruto unable to get up immediately.
But seeing Choji Akimichi walking toward him, radiating an oppressive aura completely unlike his usual self, Naruto endured the pain in his body and quickly rose to his feet, forming hand seals with both hands. Closing his eyes, he shouted in his heart, Stupid fox, time to pay the rent!
Whoosh—
As if he had heard Naruto's voice, Kurama, lying inside the cage within the spiritual space where Jinchuriki and Tailed Beast communicated, suddenly opened his red slit-pupiled eyes.
Red chakra immediately surged from Naruto's body, swaying around him like fox tails.
This sight startled many of the ninjas in the stands.
"This is..."
Sarutobi Hiruzen and Orochimaru, disguised as the Fourth Kazekage, both widened their eyes.
The former was shocked that Naruto could already wield Nine-Tails chakra to some extent, while the latter was surprised that the Five Elements Seal he had placed on Naruto had actually been undone.
Judging by Sarutobi Hiruzen's reaction, it clearly had not been his teacher's doing.
Could it be... that idiot had returned?
Thinking of the person who had been pursuing him all these years, Orochimaru's heart sank.
But when he thought of the stage he had prepared for Teacher Hiruzen, he relaxed again.
The battle continued on the field.
Though it was not a Demon Fox cloak, the Nine-Tails'