The kunai infused with wind-style chakra chipped on the spot.
Its tip scraped across the back of Chikage's neck, leaving only a shallow cut.
Before any blood could seep out, a surge of visible blue-green chakra erupted from within Chikage.
That life energy was concentrated to the extreme.
The tiny wound healed in the blink of an eye, leaving the skin smooth and flawless, without even the faintest white mark.
Tobirama Senju's pupils abruptly contracted.
Even in his Impure World Reincarnation state, he instinctively sensed a power familiar to his very bones.
"Second, ambushing someone who's off the clock will cost you morality points."
Chikage's voice drifted lightly through the air.
Before Tobirama could activate Flying Thunder God again, a palm wreathed in a dense wave of green energy shot toward him.
The hand moved too fast for him to react.
Five fingers spread wide and clamped firmly around Tobirama Senju's throat!
Chikage seized Tobirama's neck with a backhand grab, the muscles in his arm swelling slightly.
Boom!
A life storm formed from nearly a hundred units of chakra erupted from Chikage's body.
Green shock waves spread outward from the two of them.
The muddy water left on the ground was blown up and backward by the rushing air.
Even the shattered paving stones along both sides of the street groaned and creaked under the pressure.
Orochimaru's control seal deep within Tobirama Senju's mind was forcibly scoured by that vast torrent of yang release chakra.
A fleeting trace of clarity actually appeared in his dull, cloudy gray-white eyes.
Tobirama looked down at the young man gripping his neck.
As he felt the terrifying vitality pouring endlessly into his body from that palm, the Second Hokage of Konoha's voice shifted in pitch.
"My elder brother's Sage Body?!"
"How could you possibly