The Old One Came After the Young One

The relentless, savage blows were more than even a Tailed Beast could withstand.

Matatabi's head was smashed apart again and again. Each time she restored it with Chakra, it was obliterated in an instant.

Eventually, Matatabi could no longer heal fast enough.

"Ahhh!"

Kazan roared and kept punching.

Dark red lightning blazed brighter, almost staining the sky crimson. Immense waves of Haki burst forth with every punch he threw.

The attack lived up to its name: utterly ferocious and unending, like rain pouring down in a storm.

The Two-Tails had lost count of the blows she had taken. Her mountain-sized body was riddled with holes.

Yet Kazan kept swinging. His fists fell like a downpour, battering her without end.

"Argh!"

Yugito Nii and Matatabi could only hold on. If they failed, they would be pounded into paste.

Seeing this, Kazan attacked even more savagely. His fists hammered forward one after another, dark red Thunderclaps lighting half his face until he looked like a demon.

Behind them, the Cloud Shinobi army trembled.

The sight was terrifying. Dark red lightning seethed and roared around Kazan, bursting from him without pause.

Obito and the other Konoha Ninja were hardly any calmer. They had not been calm for even a second.

Kazan was beating the Two-Tails, one of the Nine Tailed Beasts, so badly she could not fight back. Her body of Chakra kept bursting apart.

They were stunned. Was he even human?

Matatabi's head had long since been smashed apart and could no longer reform.

But both Matatabi and Yugito Nii knew they could not let this continue. They had to fight back.

Under the relentless assault, Matatabi raised a huge paw, trying to break Kazan's barrage.

Instead—

Boom!

In the space of a breath, her foreleg exploded too. It took hundreds of