Outside the cage in the alternate dimension.
Through the gaps between the bars, Obito and Kabuto saw the imprisoned Ten-Tails.
Compared to the towering, ferocious Ten-Tails they remembered, all claws and fangs... the Ten-Tails before them was still in its embryonic state, much closer to a "seed."
Obito said, "So this is... a juvenile Ten-Tails?"
Kabuto Yakushi said, "It hasn't devoured an Ōtsutsuki and become a God Tree yet. This is the Ten-Tails in its most primal form."
"Guh!" Disturbed by their presence, a blood-red eye squeezed out of the fleshy growth beneath the irregular spikes on the Ten-Tails' back!
"ROAR!!" A primal, savage wave of murderous intent came roaring through the bars!
Yet all three people present could subdue a Complete Body Ten-Tails single-handedly. To them, that wave of killing intent was little more than a spring breeze.
Obito turned his gaze and said, "What are you planning to do with this little cutie?"
Sasuke flicked his cloak and leaped onto the top of the sealing vessel.
He met the Ten-Tails' gaze at close range.
Those distant memories surfaced once more...
"Jura... it's been a long time."
In his previous life, after Isshiki died, Code, the inheritor of his white Kāma, had used "Divine Technique: Claw Mark" to split this Ten-Tails into numerous "Claw Grimes." This had ultimately caused the Ten-Tails to mutate and awaken as a humanoid being with self-awareness... Jura.
He was a terrifying monster with Isshiki's appearance, Rinnegan in both eyes capable of firing Tailed Beast Bombs, the divine technique Claw Mark, and Wood Release of a phenomenally terrifying scale.
Furthermore, Jura's offshoots could absorb a ninja's chakra, take on a similar appearance, and use that ninja's abilities.
"Hidari," "Matsuri," "Mamushi," and "Ryu" were his most notable offshoots.
Because Hidari had absorbed Sasuke's chakra, he could