"Naruto Uzumaki!!!!!"
"You have no idea what you're facing!"
Naruto did not respond.
He did not even spare Toneri another glance.
Instead, his gaze briefly settled on Hinata. Only after confirming that she had found her footing and understood his intent did he slowly turn to face the green light head-on.
Vast amounts of golden chakra surged from his body, forming a dense cloak of Nine-Tails chakra.
At the same time, Naruto's pupils became cross-shaped, and prominent whisker markings appeared on his cheeks.
This was Naruto's Nine-Tails Mode combined with Sage Mode!
Put simply, it was Sage Fox Mode!
Gold and green, two utterly different lights, faced off within the cave, dividing the entire space in half. One half blazed like the sun, while the other was as cold and dark as deep space.
Seeing that Naruto showed not the slightest fear, his eyes instead brimming with the desire to fight, Toneri was enraged.
"Who do you think I am?!"
In an instant, Toneri moved!
His speed was unbelievable. He had practically crossed the distance between them in the span of a visual afterimage.
As for Naruto, he did not retreat, nor was that his fighting style.
Facing Toneri's headlong charge, Naruto unleashed his power in an instant and boldly met him head-on.
Boom-!!!!!
The instant the two collided head-on for the first time, violent energy erupted, and the entire cave shuddered fiercely.
Golden and green chakra crashed together, unleashing a visible ring of shock waves that spread in every direction.
Weblike cracks appeared in the rock walls. Even the ground was torn up, shattering into countless tiny stones that floated in the air for less than half a second before being pulverized by the pull of the two forces.
The instant the shock wave spread, Hinata swiftly dodged away,