Dare Touch Hinata? Tear Kamui Chains Apart with Bare Hands!

The entire area of Land of Iron's Fortress City. Morning.

The blizzard was whipped into sharp blades by the gale-force winds, scraping fiercely against the eaves.

A piercing alarm ripped through the sky. Three colossal, mountain-like beasts crashed into the civilian area, their massive feet trembling violently with each landing. Debris mixed with snow flew everywhere.

Obito stood at the edge of a distorted spatial rift in mid-air, the single eye on his orange mask radiating a mocking light.

"Human nature is always the most vulnerable to testing." His voice was hoarse, carried by the wind and snow. "If we save them, the defenses will break. If we don't, your so-called alliance agreement is worth less than a piece of paper. Gentlemen, choose."

Naruto stood atop the ruins, without replying.

He only glanced at the Five Kage around the round table out of the corner of his eye.

The next second, the deafening Lightning Release of the lightning completely drowned out the wind and snow.

"Stop talking nonsense!"

The Fourth Raikage, enveloped in blinding blue arcs of electricity, crashed through the remaining floor-to-ceiling window like a runaway train.

"Compare! The one on the left with the horns!"

"Yo! Big brother speaks, Eight-Tails is on the move! My swordsmanship is absolutely top-notch, you idiot!" Killer B muttered incoherently as he drew seven Ninja Blades from his back simultaneously, transforming into a whirlwind of blades as he charged straight at the giant beast on his left that was attempting to crash into the houses.

The Raikage then flashed to the chin of the central behemoth, his right arm muscles bulging high, the veins seemingly about to burst through the skin.

"Lightning Oppression Horizontal!"

A simple, heavy slash sent the tens of tons of spirit beast crashing onto its back, collapsing half of the deserted street.

Obito's eyes narrowed slightly beneath his mask.

"Kazekage! Stop the one on the right!" Ōnoki's short body floated into the air, his hands rapidly Hand Seals, and a dazzling cube-shaped white light shone from his palms.

"Dust Release: Particle Style: Atomic Dismantling Jutsu"

The white beam of light grazed precisely across the rooftops of the civilian area, without damaging a single brick or tile, but instantly vaporized half of the giant beast's hind leg on the right.

The behemoth lost its balance, howling as it lunged forward, about to crash into a shelter.

Boom!

A two-meter-thick, dark golden sand wall rose from the ground, firmly holding back the massive body of the falling beast. Gaara pressed his hands together, fine beads of sweat appearing on his forehead. The surface of the sand wall emitted a teeth-grinding scraping sound, yet he did not retreat an inch.

"Water Release: Water Formation Pillar!"

Terumi Mei's red lips released several high-pressure streams of water, precisely extinguishing the grain silos that had been ignited by the summoned beasts.

On the street below, Tsunade smashed a giant rock blocking her path with a punch, then turned and yelled at the medical team, "What are you standing there for! Get stretchers and rescue them! Mifune, seal off the area!"

"Samurai, draw your swords!" With a swing of Mifune Land of Iron, Mifune quickly formed a human wall, protecting the civilians behind him.

It took no more than ten breaths.

Obito's meticulously prepared trap was shattered by the Five Kage in the simplest and most brutal way.

There was no shirking of responsibility, no passing the buck.

Naruto crossed his arms, his icy blue eyes fixed on Obito in mid-air, a mocking smile playing on his lips.

"Looks like your plan backfired." Naruto's voice was calm. "Did you really think a few beasts could make them turn against you? They've already signed off on the rules I just set."

Obito did not respond.

He lowered his gaze, staring at the surging golden Pure Yang Chakra around Naruto, and gently tapped his palm with the knuckle of his right middle finger.

Buzz!

A very eerie muffled sound came from the air.

Without warning, the space to Naruto's right distorted, and a Kamui Chains, as thick as a wrist and covered in black thorns, shot straight toward the back of his neck like a venomous snake.

It was so fast that even the sound was left far behind.

Naruto didn't even turn his head; he stomped his right foot, shattering the roof tiles.

"Flying Thunder God!"

With a flash of golden light, he instantly appeared in mid-air, more than ten meters away. The chain missed its target and struck the roof tiles, tearing a large hole in the roof with the power of space.

Obito's attack missed, but he showed no intention of retracting the chains.

The Sharingan behind the mask spun rapidly, its crimson light leaving a trail of afterimages in the wind and snow.

"Quick reaction." Obito's voice rang out from Naruto's left front, "But what if it's her?"

The chains that had been piercing the air suddenly folded and turned in a bizarre manner.

Space was forcibly torn apart once again.

The chain appeared abruptly to the side of a watchtower.

There, Hinata was activating her Byakugan, providing the samurai below with the Coordinates of the summoning beasts 'Chakra weaknesses.

The chain was less than a meter from her heart.

Naruto's pupils suddenly contracted.

Breathing stopped instantly, and before the brain could even process a complete thought, the heart pounded violently against the ribs in the chest cavity.

"Hinata!" Naruto's throat tightened.

The distance was too close; even with the Flying Thunder God, he would need to lock onto the mark beforehand. And there was no Kunai for him on the watchtower!

Obito's lips curled into a cruel smile, "Saviors always have to pay a price."

The wind and snow seemed to slow down at that moment.

Hinata did not retreat.

The veins around his Byakugan bulged, and the pure white light in his eyes was intense to the extreme.

In her vision, the movement of the chains and the Chakra nodes distorting space were as clear as the lines on her palm.

"I'm not... a burden who can only stand behind you!"

Hinata bit her lower lip tightly and suddenly clenched her hands into the starting stance of Gentle Fist.

High-density Chakra instantly condensed at his fingertips, enveloping his palms like a tangible blue flame.

"Eight Trigrams - Empty Wall Palm!"

Boom!

A jet of air, entirely compressed from Chakra, struck the weakest point of the second Kamui Chains with perfect precision.

The immense recoil caused Hinata's body to slide backward uncontrollably, her shoes carving two deep scorch marks into the wooden plank.

A sharp, piercing pain shot through my fingertips, and my knuckles instantly turned red.

But that deadly chain was deflected by half an inch!

Even a mere half-inch would have been enough to graz Hinata's shoulder and embed it into the stone wall behind her.

Obito's gaze sharpened.

Just as he was about to forcefully pull back the chains for a second strangulation, a hand burning with golden flames gripped the end of the Kamui Chains tightly.

Sizzle!

The high-temperature Chakra collided with the spatial power, unleashing a piercing burning sound.

Naruto appeared out of thin air in front of Hinata, shielding her tightly behind his back.

He didn't turn around, but instead grasped Hinata's trembling fingers with his own, the warm Yang Release Chakra in his palm quickly soothing the stinging pain in her fingertips.

"Well done." Naruto's voice was low, but it carried an undeniable certainty.

Hinata felt a lump in her throat, and her frantic heartbeat miraculously calmed down after feeling that warmth.

"Naruto-kun..."

Naruto released her hand and turned to stare at Obito above.

There was no anger in his eyes, only the cold indifference of looking at a dead person.

"Touch my people." Naruto's right arm muscles bulged, and nine dark golden sealing chains shot out from his back like nine raging dragons, instantly binding Obito's Kamui Chains tightly.

Who do you think you are?

Creak!

Two very different chains were locked in a fierce struggle in mid-air.

The space was torn open with visible black cracks, and the surrounding wind and snow were swept into them and instantly annihilated.

Obito felt an irresistible force transmitted through the chains, and his body was actually dragged half a step towards Naruto.

"Yin–Yang Release..." Obito stared intently at the golden chains with his single eye, his tone finally showing a slight fluctuation, "You actually managed to forcibly interfere with the flow of Kamui's Chakra?"

There are many things you don't know.

Naruto suddenly pulled his right hand downwards!

Boom!

Half of the Kamui Chains was actually torn off. Obito groaned, covered his right eye, and his figure rapidly faded in the distorted space.

"Don't think this is over, Naruto Uzumaki."

Obito's Hollowfied body was gradually sucked into the Uzumaki. "This war has only just begun."

"You showed off and then ran away?" Naruto spat, not giving chase.

Because he could clearly sense that the sealing chains, at the moment they broke the Kamui Chains, captured a set of extremely hidden spatial Coordinates.

That's the address of Obito's Obito.

Naruto retracted the chains, glanced at the wisp of black ash remaining in his palm, and sneered, "You can hide for a while, but you can't hide forever. I'll twist your mask off along with your head sooner or later."

Below, the Five Kage have completely defeated the three-headed summoning beast.

The Raikage wiped the snow off his face, looked up at Naruto on the watchtower, and shouted as loud as a broken gong, "Kid! Where did that masked bastard go?"

Naruto leaped down and landed steadily in the middle of the street, with Hinata following closely behind.

"He ran back to his rat hole." Naruto dusted off his hands and glanced at the Five Kage.

These usually high-ranking figures were now covered in dust and looked rather disheveled. But Gaara's sand protected the streets, Ōnoki's Dust Release didn't harm the innocent, and the Raikage and Killer B's violence was kept within precise limits.

"That was well done," Naruto rarely praised, "You guys didn't treat this alliance like toilet paper."

"Enough nonsense!" Ōnoki rubbed his aching back and snorted irritably. "I'm not so old and blind as to let a beast trample civilians to death right under my nose. However, that Masked Man's abilities are indeed troublesome."

"Troublesome? No matter how troublesome it is, it's just a bedbug that dares not see the light of day." Raikage clenched his fist, his knuckles cracking.

Terumi Mei brushed a damp strand of hair behind her ear, her eyes showing a hint of seriousness. "That spatial fluctuation just now... he seemed to be targeting the girls from Hidden Leaf. If it was targeting the Jinchūriki, our formation would have collapsed."

"It won't work on anyone." Naruto walked to the ruins of the round table, picked up the scroll stamped with the Five Kage seals, and dusted it off. "The rules are set. Hidden Leaf will take this job. No matter if it's 100,000 White Zetsu or some nobody."

Just then, an extremely violent geological tremor came from the deepest part of the earth.

It's not the superficial damage like the one caused by the summoned beast just now.

Instead, it was a dull, rumbling sound that seemed to tear the entire Land of Land of Iron apart.

Hinata's expression changed drastically, and she pressed her hands against her eye sockets again.

"Naruto! There's something incredibly terrifying rising from underground!" Her voice was urgent, even trembling with disbelief. "The amount of Chakra... it's like an entire Chakra!"

Naruto's eye twitched suddenly.

In Sage Mode, an aura filled with destruction, antiquity, and extreme arrogance was frantically squeezing upwards through the weak point in space that Obito had broken.

"Madara..." Naruto pressed the tip of his tongue against his teeth and slowly uttered a single word.

Click.

The floor tiles beneath their feet began to crack visibly, inch by inch. A dark red light, like karmic fire crawling out of hell, suddenly pierced through the cracks.