Kumogakure: Hand Over the Uchiha Clan Head's Corpse!

"Lord Hokage, something terrible has happened!"

The urgent report shattered Konoha's tranquility.

Senju Compound.

Mito Uzumaki, who had been meditating at home, suddenly opened her eyes. She had abruptly sensed a powerful surge of negative emotion. The Nine-Tails inside her had gone berserk without warning, frantically battering against the Four Symbols Seal.

"Fox, what are you going crazy for this time?"

Mito was baffled. She could only frown and endure the agitation brought by the Nine-Tails as she stabilized the seal.

Within her mental world, the Nine-Tails was wildly slamming against the bars, roaring in fury. "There can be no mistake! I sensed it—it was that sly human----"

More than being forcibly suppressed by Madara Uchiha and Hashirama Senju's absolute strength, the Nine-Tails could not tolerate having its chakra invaded and devoured by weak humans no better than insects.

It could clearly sense that those two horned ninjas also carried the Sage of Six Paths' bloodline.

In the end, everyone who had ever harmed it was a descendant of the Sage of Six Paths.

"Roar!!!"

A Kumogakure delegation led by Kinkaku entered Konoha.

Kinkaku narrowed his eyes slightly and looked toward the depths of the village. He could sense that the Nine-Tails' chakra was hidden somewhere within Konoha, but its location was vague, impossible to pinpoint precisely.

This was probably the only chance in his life to set foot in Konoha as a living man.

Though Konoha also bore the suffix "hidden village," both its scale and economic strength far surpassed even the second-ranked ninja village.

This was no longer merely a ninja village. It was more like a prosperous, international metropolis of the Shinobi World.

Looking up, Konoha Commercial Street was bustling with prosperity. Such flourishing splendor was enough to stir intense jealousy in every Kumogakure ninja.

Kinkaku took