A black spear pierced Naruto's heart.
Black Zetsu's clammy voice echoed through Origin Ball Space. "Mother, I've got him."
The last trace of wariness vanished from Kaguya's eyes, replaced by utter coldness. Absolute gravity had only just lifted. Sasuke's hand was half an inch from her, but she tilted her head at an unnatural angle and evaded him.
The next instant, Kaguya pressed her long, pale hand against the Eight Trigrams Seal on Naruto's abdomen without the slightest resistance.
"Your chakra is mine."
A terrifying suction erupted. Naruto's eyes rolled back, and the Yang Release cloak blazing around him dimmed in an instant, like a candle snuffed out by a gale.
"Naruto!" Sasuke swung the Kusanagi Sword back at Kaguya's arm, but the white hair she whipped toward him wound tightly around his neck.
Bang!
Sasuke was hurled away like a sack of rags. He smashed through three layers of solid rock, leaving shards of purple Susanoo scattered across the ground.
Below them, Hinata gritted her teeth and tried to rush up, but Sakura grabbed her shoulder and held her back. It wasn't that Sakura didn't want to help. The Ten-Tails' devouring force was too unnatural. Even the air around it was twisting; anyone who approached now would be sucked dry.
Naruto's consciousness plunged into an abyss.
Within his mindscape, black sludge poured into the seal's cage like filth flooding up from a sewer.
The black sludge bound Kurama's limbs and held his enormous body fast. Baring his teeth, he roared, "That disgusting feeling again! That bastard Madara Uchiha used it on me, and now this old hag too!"
He struggled desperately, but the bloodline suppression exerted by the Chakra Progenitor was overwhelming. The sludge crawled through his fur, forcibly draining his very essence.
"Hey, dumb fox! What happened to