Seconds earlier, on the distant battlefield, Tsunade had been recovering her chakra while watching Naraku heal his injuries.
Suddenly, Shihōin Naraku, who had been sitting against a boulder to heal, sprang to his feet. He closed his right hand, and Kurikara appeared in his palm.
Before Tsunade could speak, he hurled the blade in his hand into the distance.
"Naraku, you..."
Immediately afterward, as Naraku stood tall, his heart began pounding violently, and his entire aura changed in an instant!
Rumble...
Terrifying waves of chakra surged from Shihōin Naraku, sweeping up like a gale.
Pressure so intense it seemed tangible poured out, making the entire world around him tremble violently.
The ground seemed to be kneaded by an invisible giant hand, splitting into bottomless cracks.
Even the air began to waver!
Naraku stood at the center of the storm, yet seemed unusually calm.
Tsunade struggled to raise a hand before her eyes, shielding them from the wildly surging tempest. "Naraku, you're all right now?!"
Though she had her doubts, Naraku looked as though he had recovered completely.
But just a moment ago, quite a few of his injuries had still been unhealed. How had he suddenly become all right?
Tsunade could not quite understand it.
"Teacher, I have no time to waste." Naraku slowly reined in his surging aura and said without looking back, "Madara has obtained the Rinnegan, and it looks like he's become the Ten-Tails Jinchuriki, just like Obito."
Tsunade paled in shock. "What?"
The news could not have been worse.
Earlier, the Allied Shinobi Forces had paid an enormous price to kill Obito, the Ten-Tails Jinchuriki.
Even Naraku had been injured because of it, only recovering now.
She had never expected Madara to become the Ten-Tails Jinchuriki as well.
Would this never end?
More importantly, as Tsunade