Jigen merely frowned, as though Naruto's rampage were no more than a mildly irritating noise. He looked at Naruto again, his gaze indifferent.
The next instant, several more Black Receivers appeared out of thin air. They pierced straight through Naruto's newly formed Chakra Cloak and drove into the joints of his limbs and his Chakra points!
"Aaagh!" Naruto screamed. The Nine-Tails Chakra surging wildly from him seemed to have been cut off at its source. It stalled, shrank, and was forcibly driven back into his body.
Even more frightening, he felt his connection to Kurama grow so faint it was almost completely severed!
He struggled desperately, but the Black Receivers did more than pin his body in place. They kept absorbing and disrupting his Chakra, leaving him unable to control even a finger. All he could do was roar in defiance like a trapped beast.
Only then did Jigen walk over. He crouched before the immobilized Naruto, took the boy's chin, and forced those blue eyes, blazing with anger and defiance, to meet his own.
"Naruto Uzumaki, you need to be taught how to use power. In time, I'll teach you to behave." Jigen's voice remained flat. "Now come with me."
"Like hell I'm going with you! Bastard! Kill me if you can!" Naruto roared. Though he could not move, the fire in his eyes had not dimmed in the slightest.
Jigen's frown deepened. His fingers tightened slightly around Naruto's chin, as if he were considering whether to teach this stubborn "future adopted son" a more lasting lesson.
Just then.
"Hello. Anyone feel like having some ramen?"
A warm voice, carrying a touch of everyday life utterly out of place at this scene of imminent bloodshed, sounded from the shadows of the woods behind Jigen.
Jigen stiffened almost imperceptibly.
With