Black Zetsu covered Naruto's body, binding him completely and leaving him unable to move.
Kaguya Ōtsutsuki's pale palm slowly reached toward Naruto. Clearly, she wanted to steal his chakra!
"Naruto Uzumaki, hand over your chakra!"
A gloomy yet excited voice rang in his ears. Black Zetsu stared smugly at Naruto, as though he could already see his miserable end.
"You... you..."
Naruto struggled desperately, trying to escape his bonds.
But Black Zetsu's restraints were too powerful. No matter how hard he tried, it was useless.
"Hehehe, forget it. You'll never escape my restraints!" Black Zetsu let Naruto keep struggling, utterly unconcerned. "Even Madara couldn't escape them, let alone you!"
As he spoke, Kaguya's palm had already settled on Naruto's body. She was about to reclaim the chakra that belonged to her.
Just then...
Bang!
Naruto vanished in a puff of smoke!
Huh?
Wait... this was a Shadow Clone?!
It was actually a Shadow Clone!
Both Black Zetsu and Kaguya froze involuntarily.
Neither had imagined that after all that effort, what they had finally caught was Naruto's Shadow Clone.
How was that possible!
The one who had unleashed Sage Art: Lava Release Rasenshuriken just now was clearly Naruto's real body!
Kaguya and Black Zetsu had seen it very clearly. That was why they had immediately attacked Naruto and finally restrained him.
They had thought the battle was about to end. Who could have imagined that they had caught a Shadow Clone?
Could it be... that the one using senjutsu attacks had been a Shadow Clone from the very beginning, rather than Naruto's real body?
Exactly!
This had been Naruto's battle plan all along.
He had hidden his real body among the Shadow Clones. The one attacking all along had been a Shadow Clone, not his real body.
During the battle, Naruto's