"Whoosh-"
A gust of wind swept past...
Standing atop a sheer cliff, Shihōin Naraku's loose strands of hair stirred slightly.
Naraku had been standing there for half an hour, but Black Zetsu had yet to appear.
However, with his powerful Observation Haki, Naraku had previously detected chakra fluctuations underground nearby.
It seemed Black Zetsu had stationed White Zetsu around the area in advance, just waiting for him to appear.
Naraku had no intention of bothering with White Zetsu. Only Black Zetsu could truly make decisions, and he was the one Naraku was waiting for.
Various thoughts ran through Naraku's mind as he pondered something.
Roughly another half hour passed before a faint chakra fluctuation began rapidly approaching from underground in the distance.
Naraku turned around and waited for Black Zetsu to emerge.
Rustling sounds rang out as a strange figure resembling a pitcher plant emerged from underground. The half-black, half-white Zetsu appeared before Naraku.
Of course, although he was "before" Naraku, there were at least a hundred meters between them.
Naraku narrowed his eyes slightly. "Do you think a hundred meters is enough to let you escape my grasp?"
As Kaguya Ōtsutsuki's will, Black Zetsu looked down on all ninja from the bottom of his heart. In his eyes, ninja were all thieves who had stolen his mother's chakra, and one day, that scattered chakra would return to her body.
But Shihōin Naraku was different. A ninja with this level of strength required Black Zetsu to take him seriously.
So Black Zetsu remained motionless and spoke in a hoarse, gloomy voice. "Shihōin Naraku, you..."
Before he finished, Naraku had vanished from Black Zetsu's sight.
Before he could react, a powerful force clamped around his neck and yanked the lower half of his body straight out of the ground.
Bam!
Zetsu