Fortunately, Kakashi already had Isobu inside him.
Isobu's immense chakra could rapidly heal Kakashi's injuries.
That was another benefit of having such vast reserves of chakra.
Even so, this was too much!
If he let this guy keep going, something would go wrong sooner or later.
Looks like I'll have to...
"All right, the farce is over."
"Kakashi, Konan, Yugito..."
"Time to get a little serious."
Just then, Uchiha Kazama's voice rang out.
At the sound of his voice, all three of their expressions changed.
Was that... mockery?
In any case, smiles curled at the corners of all three of their mouths.
"Finally, we can fight properly."
"Tell me, Hokage, why exactly did you make us stall for time?!"
By now, signs of Tailed Beast Transformation had begun to appear on Yugito's body.
Fire, who was undergoing a transformation in front of her, also felt a sudden pang of dread.
It was as though Yugito, who had posed no threat moments ago, had suddenly become some terrifying monster.
"I need these things."
"If we'd crushed them right from the start, they would have run."
"Let alone willingly summoned something like this."
As Uchiha Kazama spoke, he had already appeared beside Kakashi.
Yet his hand slipped into Earth's body like a phantom.
Earth, who had been attacking wildly just a second earlier, now stood motionless, as if someone had pressed pause.
The next moment, Uchiha Kazama withdrew his hand.
He was holding a red fruit.
It was the very fruit Earth had just summoned and swallowed.
"Oh, is that it?!"
"Then let me cut off their escape route."
Konan nodded, and countless sheets of paper appeared out of thin air around her.
Every one was a top-grade Explosive Tag.
There were at least tens of thousands of them in this enclosed