Raikage A shot up from his seat, jolting the table with a thunderous crash. Volatile Lightning Release chakra crackled across his body, as though he might strike at any moment.
"You brat from Konoha, this is the Five Kage Summit! Not a place for you to run wild!" Tsuchikage Ōnoki hovered in the air, his aged voice full of reproach, yet a shrewd, calculating gleam flickered in his clouded eyes.
Kazekage Gaara remained silent, but ripples of emotion stirred in his green eyes.
Ao, whom he had accused, went deathly pale. He instinctively covered his masked right eye, his body tensing as he snapped back, "That's nonsense! You're slandering me!"
Yet his panicked movements and trembling voice had already betrayed the turmoil raging within him.
Every Kage-level guard present reassessed the young man standing behind Tsunade. He was far too unfamiliar, and far too arrogant. Yet this very man had exposed one of Kirigakure's most closely guarded wounds with his first words, in a gathering of all Five Kage.
Overwhelmed by shock and fury, Ao instinctively activated the Byakugan in his right eye. He stared fixedly at Toru Kujyo through the gap in his eye mask, trying to see through this brazen fool.
But what he saw chilled him to the bone!
Through his Byakugan, he saw the chakra within Toru Kujyo: vast, pure, and boundless as the sea. That surging vitality was even more terrifying than Lord Yagura's, the Perfect Jinchuriki he had once known! This was not chakra any ordinary shinobi could possess!
He's a monster!
"Silence!"
Just as the tension threatened to erupt, an aged yet steady voice rang out.
Everyone turned toward the voice. The speaker was not the Fifth Mizukage, whose stunning beauty was so widely rumored, but an elderly man with a deeply lined