Godlike Power! Perfect Susanoo!

"..."

"..."

Seeing Mei Terumi's embarrassment turn to anger, the three Uchiha men wisely shut their mouths.

After all, this was the Clan Head's private business.

It wasn't their place to say much about it...

Mei had no time for these Uchiha. She stared nervously into the Four Red Yang Release Formation.

Everything that had happened since she arrived in Konoha today had shaken her. But nothing had stunned her more than this—

Shinji Uchiha was this powerful!

Back then, he'd been a chubby-cheeked boy who smiled like a porcelain doll. Harmless to a fault...

No!

A cunning little boy!

They hadn't seen each other in only a few years.

Yet Shinji Uchiha had grown into a man who could stand against anything.

The Shinji Uchiha before her now

frightened her to the core.

Unlike other powerful fighters—Hiruzen Sarutobi, Jiraiya, Karatachi Yagura and Kisame Hoshigaki of Kirigakure...

Next to Shinji Uchiha, they seemed to be on an entirely different level.

Even so...

That was no reason to take a Tailed Beast Bomb head-on, was it?

"Has he lost his mind? Have you? Or... have I?"

Mei stood on the rooftop, the bitter winter wind lifting the two remaining locks of hair at her temples. Her beautiful eyes were full of confusion.

Like the other Uchiha clan members,

she couldn't believe that cunning little Shinji would throw his life away for nothing.

Then...

How would he deal with it? And what was he trying to achieve?

The answer came quickly.

The sky suddenly darkened,

giving everyone their answer!

Over a hundred spiraling Shuriken flew skyward and collided with the Tailed Beast Bomb.

The result—

was like a thousand moths trying to devour an elephant!

The terrifying Tailed Beast Bomb crushed every spiraling Shuriken. It came down with unstoppable force, like a