Watanabe Ichiro sensed that the vast, unfamiliar chakra had been intercepted by another chakra signature he knew a little better.
He guessed that Hatake Sakumo had intercepted the enemy who had just rushed over.
After the two chakra signatures clashed several times, the enemy suddenly unleashed a strange chakra. From what he sensed, it should have belonged to the Eight-Tails.
But this was clearly not information "Leaf Dragon" should have known, so Watanabe Ichiro vaguely told Hiruzen Sarutobi that he suspected the enemy possessed tailed beast chakra.
And there seemed to be only one tailed beast living near the Land of Lightning that had accidentally revealed its whereabouts-the Eight-Tails.
The enemy was very likely the Eight-Tails' jinchūriki. Hiruzen Sarutobi immediately pieced everything together and began worrying about Hatake Sakumo's safety.
Although Hatake Sakumo's swordsmanship ranked among the best in Konoha, his chances against a tailed beast's jinchūriki were slim.
He might win if he could cut the jinchūriki down before the Tailed Beast Transformation, but if he missed that window and allowed the jinchūriki to activate a Tailed Beast Cloak, the outcome would be obvious.
They had to reinforce Hatake Sakumo. Hiruzen Sarutobi reached that conclusion at once.
Although he was not sure whether he could defeat the Eight-Tails himself, the First Hokage had once said that tailed beasts were nothing more than a bunch of little pets.
And the Second Hokage, Hashirama Senju, had said, "Tailed beasts are powerful and extraordinarily dangerous, but subduing them isn't difficult."
During an earlier chat in his office, Uchiha Ichiro had also said that tailed beasts were easy to handle.
I've already developed my Five Basic Nature Transformations quite thoroughly. Fighting one shouldn't be that hard...
For some inexplicable reason, Hiruzen Sarutobi found his confidence growing.
*It's fine. They all said so, and