"Konan, what the hell happened? Who tore down our home?"
Konan's voice came through the curtain of rain.
"Madara Uchiha. Obito Uchiha. And Orochimaru."
Hidan froze for a moment.
"Uchiha? Aren't they our..."
Konan cut him off.
"Stop asking questions. Just fight."
Hidan shut his mouth, swung his scythe, and went back to hacking at White Zetsu.
Kakuzu stood behind him, his green eyes sweeping over the battlefield as he made rapid calculations.
White Zetsu corpses weren't worth anything, and neither were bodies raised through Impure World Reincarnation, since they weren't real corpses.
His gaze fell on Madara Uchiha and Genya Uchiha in the distance. How much were their bounties worth? Then he shook his head. He couldn't beat them!
Finally, his gaze settled on Obito. Obito Uchiha's bounty ought to be substantial.
Kakuzu narrowed his eyes and headed toward Obito.
Tendrils writhed behind him as all five hearts mobilized their chakra at once.
Seeing where he was headed, Hidan shouted.
"Old man Kakuzu! Where are you going?"
Kakuzu didn't look back.
"Collecting corpses."
Hidan watched his retreating back, the corner of his mouth twitching.
"That guy... here he goes again."
Then he slung his scythe over his shoulder and followed.
Meanwhile, at Naruto's home in Konoha.
Naruto woke with a jolt.
It wasn't a nightmare. The Nine-Tails' chakra had suddenly surged inside him, as though something outside had given it a hard tug.
He sprang up in bed, his hair a bird's nest. His eyes weren't even open yet, but he was already cursing.
"Kurama! What are you doing?"
Inside the seal, the Nine-Tails lay on the ground with one eye open, its pupil narrowed to a slit.
His voice was urgent, without its usual impatience.
"Naruto, someone is trying to summon me."
Naruto's hand stopped halfway through