This was a desert, the perfect place for Shukaku to fight. Yet the Nine-Tails was beating him senseless, and he could not even fight back.
The Nine-Tails hammered Shukaku's face with one fox punch after another. They did little damage, but the humiliation was brutal.
"You stinking fox!" Shukaku was so furious he could have spat fire.
They had always traded boasts and insults at the Nine Tails' meetings, but today they were fighting for real.
Shukaku tried to retaliate, but his arms were absurdly short. Before his fist could reach the Nine-Tails, another punch hit his face. All he could do was take the beating.
Rumble!
Shukaku staggered backward under the blows. Sand billowed, and the ground shook without pause.
"Didn't you say the number of tails didn't determine strength? Then why am I pounding you into the ground?"
"Come on, you stupid tanuki! Fight back!"
The Nine-Tails showed no mercy. His fists thudded against Shukaku's body.
Everyone in Sunagakure stood stunned, watching from afar as Konoha's Nine-Tails thrashed Shukaku.
Shukaku had caused enormous damage every time he went berserk. Now he looked like a helpless child.
"Air Bullet!"
Smack!
Shukaku slapped his belly and fired a blast of compressed air.
But the moment it left his mouth, a sweep of the Nine-Tails' tail sent it flying. It landed in the distance and erupted in a vast cloud of sand.
Rasa's face was as dark as Black Zetsu.
The battle was too close to Sunagakure. Shockwaves from the clash between the Nine-Tails and the One-Tail kept battering the village and had already caused considerable damage.
He was forced to raise sand barriers to keep the destruction from spreading.
"Are you done letting off steam?" Kazan asked when he had seen enough. "We still have other places to go."
"That'll