Elsewhere, Neji had already entered the Land of Fire and was flying toward the Fire Temple in its central region.
His target was the Nine-Tails chakra kept at the Fire Temple.
Bringing Sasuke along was out of the question. So much had happened during this trip to Kirigakure in the Land of Water that things had strayed completely from Neji's original plan.
That afternoon, Neji arrived at the Fire Temple wearing a mask. As soon as he activated his Byakugan, he spotted the boy named Sora.
Sora was currently an apprentice ninja monk at the Fire Temple. As a Pseudo-Nine-Tails Jinchuriki, he had gone berserk several years earlier, even breaking through the temple's supposedly impenetrable sealed iron wall.
Kazuma sealed the Nine-Tails chakra in that child's hand! After awakening his Tenseigan, Neji's eye power had undergone a tremendous transformation. He could now see the source of even sealed tailed beast chakra.
This Nine-Tails chakra had been collected by Kazuma and his companions during the Nine-Tails' Attack, when Naruto Uzumaki was born. Vast quantities of Nine-Tails chakra had spread through Konoha like clouds of smoke, and they had seized the opportunity to gather it.
Of course, the amount they had collected back then had not been enough to create a Pseudo-Nine-Tails Jinchuriki.
The Nine-Tails chakra inside Sora had been cultivated and strengthened by Kazuma and his companions before being transplanted into Sora and sealed there.
After night fell, Neji silently entered the room where Sora was resting and knocked him unconscious before he could react.
Neji then carried him out of the Fire Temple and used Five Elements Unsealing to undo the boy's Five Elements Seal. Afterward, he used the Tenseigan's ability to absorb the Nine-Tails chakra and store it temporarily.
Unexpectedly, someone at the Fire Temple quickly discovered that Sora