"Was that meant to show me Kushina's strength? So Wuye really traded for the Multiple Shadow Clone Technique for Kushina's sake. I thought it was just an excuse..."
The Third stood before the floor-to-ceiling window, watching the figures of a group of ninjas jumping about on Hokage Rock. He could not help shaking his head. "That isn't enough."
"Go capture her."
At his command to the air, two Anbu instantly revealed themselves. "Yes."
The next moment, the two vanished with the Body Flicker Technique.
"Bang, bang, bang..."
After arriving on Hokage Rock, nearly every flicker of their bodies destroyed a Shadow Clone. Within less than a minute, only a dozen or so Kushinas remained.
"Anbu... Looks like this is the only way..."
Kushina was about to surrender and proceed to the next step when the Nine-Tails' voice suddenly reached her. "Kid, you did well just now. Use this chakra."
A surge of orange-red chakra instantly filled Kushina's chakra pathways. Startled, she quickly formed hand seals with both hands. "Multiple Shadow Clone Technique!"
"It's useless... Urgh..."
One of the Anbu had just shaken his head when he suddenly discovered that, amid a series of bangs, thousands of Kushinas had appeared around them!
Thousands of them!
"Try catching me now! Nyah nyah nyah!"
What kind of spectacular sight was it when thousands of Kushinas fled at once?
It was like a swarm of locusts blotting out the sky as they scattered from Hokage Rock. The two Anbu were utterly stumped.
Which one were they even supposed to catch?
When someone used the Multiple Shadow Clone Technique to escape, probably no one could stop them...
"Forget it."
When the two Anbu returned looking thoroughly bedraggled, the Third merely waved a hand without holding it against them.
His eyes remained fixed on the direction