"How did they disappear?"
Naruto Uzumaki watched in astonishment as the Black-Red Cubes falling from the sky abruptly vanished, then immediately looked around.
Sasuke Uchiha shook his head. "They haven't disappeared!"
Although he had only just arrived, he had already discerned how the enemy fought.
Before Sasuke had even finished speaking.
A mass of Black-Red Cubes reappeared, their enormous bulk and weight bearing down on Shihōin Naraku, who stood where he was.
"Naruto! Get back!"
Sasuke abruptly seized Naruto by the back of his collar and pulled him several dozen meters back.
Their sheer momentum alone made it clear that the shock waves from the falling Black-Red Cubes would be enough to reach them.
They had to retreat some distance.
Even as he was hauled backward, Naruto kept his eyes glued to the center of the battlefield. "Big Brother Naraku!"
Black chakra rods poured down like a torrential rain, while Black-Red Cubes crashed down from every angle.
Crater after crater was smashed into the ground. Shock waves hurled rubble and dust dozens of meters into the sky, and the entire area seemed to be repeatedly ravaged by an invisible giant hand.
Yet Naraku continued weaving unharmed between those devastating impact points.
His movements left even Naruto and Sasuke, watching from outside, feeling dizzy.
One moment he was in the very center of the rain of chakra rods, and the next he appeared twenty meters away.
An instant before a cube struck, he was already gone. As his afterimage was smashed apart, his real body had already circled into another blind spot in the attacks.
The attacks were so dense that there were almost no gaps, yet they could not so much as touch the hem of his clothes.
Naraku became a fluid streak of lightning. Wherever he passed, black chakra