Obito and Madara resolved to unleash their trump card!
Tobi and Black Zetsu emerged from the ground one after the other.
A horde of White Zetsu appeared behind them, surrounding Naruto!
Naruto tilted his head. "What's this supposed to mean?"
One White Zetsu answered honestly, "Obito and Madara are about to use their trump card! Tobi and Black Zetsu are reinforcements helping them pull it off. And to keep you from interfering, we're in charge of holding you off!"
Understanding dawned on Naruto. "Oh, I see. Cannon-fodder tactics? But isn't this against the rules?"
Another White Zetsu laughed. "Rules? Did our challenge say we weren't allowed to bring reinforcements?"
Naruto murmured, "Seems it really didn't..."
Yet another White Zetsu laughed. "You can go back to Amegakure and bring reinforcements too! Oh, wait, I remember. You took a 'Curse Mark of Tongue Eradication,' so you can't go back until the battle's over, can you?"
The other White Zetsu chimed in!
"We scouted the area! You're all alone out here!"
"Hurry back and get reinforcements!"
"Come on! Go, then!"
Clatter!
Naruto calmly unfastened the Gunbai and wrapped his Adamantine Sealing Chains around its handle. He said to the White Zetsu, "You lot are always like this. You can't even save yourselves, yet you're still running your mouths..."
The White Zetsu erupted in righteous fury. "You know perfectly well what you've done! Every last one of us White Zetsu is your sworn enemy!"
"Even cannon fodder has backbone!"
"You can kill a Zetsu, but you can't humiliate him!"
"Get him! Let's drown this yellow rat in spit!"
The White Zetsu charged fearlessly to their deaths.
Naruto sighed. "You're right. Thinking back, we've crossed paths so many times, and not one of you has ever begged for mercy or backed down. You really do