At that moment, in the Laboratory, the One-Tail, Shukaku, lay curled up in the center, his massive body hunched over. As Minato and Kushina continuously formed hand seals, a green Sealing Jutsu Formula appeared around his head, which was somewhat small compared to his body.
To an onlooker, the emerald-green Sealing Formula looked like a restraining band clamped around Shukaku's forehead.
"It really does look familiar..."
Hearing Naruto's assessment of the seal, Tobirama frowned as well.
He had seen something resembling this seal before.
"Let me think. Where have I seen it? Where have I seen it..."
Naruto was still muttering to himself when his eyes suddenly lit up. "That's it! The seal on Neji's forehead!"
"The Hyuga Clan's Caged Bird Seal?" Tobirama realized something at once and hurriedly examined the formula on Shukaku's forehead. "I see, I see. No wonder..."
"Now that you mention it, it really does look like the seal that Hyuga Clan kid had back then," the Nine-Tails suddenly said, having noticed the resemblance too. "But why does that stinking tanuki have a Hyuga Clan seal on him?"
"It isn't necessarily the Hyuga Clan's," Tobirama immediately objected. "Actually, the reason we suddenly made progress in our research on the seal was Urashiki Otsutsuki's corpse. While dissecting... analyzing his body, we discovered a similar power affecting him."
"The Hyuga Clan and the Ōtsutsuki Clan are closely connected. Perhaps this isn't a coincidence..."
Just then, Shukaku, whose seal was being undone, suddenly snapped his eyes open. The emerald-green light on his forehead was gradually fading, but it caused him immense pain, and he howled incessantly.
Neither Minato nor Kushina stopped what they were doing. Clearly, the unsealing had reached a critical stage.
Shukaku's enormous tail lashed about, and he looked ready to go berserk. Suddenly, amid his struggles,