Yellow Flash, the Only Flaw!

Six tri-pronged kunai were embedded throughout the canyon, less than twenty meters apart, protecting Minato, Qian Ye, and the two wounded in the center.

Blue flames rose from Yugito Nii's body.

Two-Tails Chakra covered her limbs, and cat ears and a second tail condensed into shape.

Dodai raised his right arm as twelve Hidden Cloud elites formed hand seals simultaneously.

"Lightning Release: Earth Walk!"

Several bolts of lightning surged across the sand, sealing off every possible foothold for Minato.

Chiyo's ten fingers twitched lightly, and Chakra threads reconnected the puppet wreckage scattered throughout the canyon.

Over a hundred poison senbon rose from different directions.

Lightning Release lay ahead, puppets behind, and the half-transformed Yugito Nii overhead.

Pakura supported Qian Ye, her fingers clenched tightly around his collar.

"Can Minato Namikaze stop them?"

Qian Ye leaned against her shoulder, gasping heavily.

"Take out the word 'can.'"

"Watch closely."

"This is the future Fourth Hokage's debut."

Pakura did not understand the latter half, but she could hear Qian Ye's complete confidence in Minato.

Minato stood before them, his blond hair lit by the lightning.

"I represent more than just myself now."

"Behind me are comrades I must bring back to Hidden Leaf."

He tightened his grip on the tri-pronged kunai.

"Bearing my comrades' lives on my shoulders, I will not lose."

Dodai swung his hand sharply.

The lightning rushed to Minato's feet.

The poison senbon fell at the same time.

Minato vanished from where he stood.

The poison senbon pierced the sand, while the Lightning Release blasted the surrounding rocks apart.

The next moment, Minato appeared beside a kunai on the canyon's left side.

A Hidden Cloud ninja had only just turned around when the tri-pronged kunai sliced across his bracer, severing his ninja blade.

Minato followed with an elbow driven into