The wind howled.
Kakashi's eyes blazed scarlet. His hundred-meter-tall, blue-green Susanoo spread its wings and roared. Its two chakra swords swept across each other, smashing out a violent ring of air that knocked aside every All-Killing Ash Bone raining from the sky.
"Go!" Kakashi roared.
The nine Adamantine Sealing Chains around Naruto snapped taut, winding precisely around Sakura's, Hinata's, and Sasuke's waists. He became a streak of blinding golden light and plunged toward the faint opening in space below, marked by Konan's beacon.
Just a little farther.
They were about to touch the glimmer of white light that meant the Shinobi World.
Above them, Kaguya watched it all. A cold smile curved her lips as she thrust her wide sleeve downward.
The laws around them overturned.
There was no sensation of tearing, no feeling of weightlessness.
The churning sea of lava and its warping heat vanished completely in a tenth of a second.
In their place came bitter cold and a howling blizzard.
Bang! Bang! Bang!
They struck the ice one after another. It was hard as iron, and the wind drove goose-feather-sized flakes across their cheeks like blades.
Naruto rolled twice, then dropped into a crouch. The sun mark on his palm burst with dazzling white light. Pure Yang Chakra spread into a golden dome ten meters wide, shielding everyone inside.
"Hiss—" Sasuke sucked in a breath and dropped to one knee. He pressed his left hand over his bleeding eye. The crimson blood had barely slipped between his fingers before the cold froze it into dark red ice.
"What kind of place is this now?" Naruto breathed out a white cloud. It turned to ice crystals the moment it left his mouth and fell to the ground.
"Amenominaka. Ice-Snow Space." Kakashi dismissed his Susanoo and braced his hands