"You bugs on the ground, welcome to my hunting ground. Ready to become pincushions?"
Kidomaru's voice, thick with mockery and cruelty, drifted down from the dense canopy forty or fifty meters above the ground. His bizarre six-armed body hung upside down from a thick branch, like a giant venomous spider waiting for prey to fall into its web.
As Kidomaru finished speaking, extremely faint golden glints suddenly flickered throughout the seemingly peaceful woods around them.
"Everyone, stay still! There are incredibly fine Chakra Threads all around us!" The veins at the corners of Neji's eyes bulged again, and his Byakugan vision instantly pierced the dim woods. Within a hundred-meter radius around them, he saw countless golden spider threads, almost invisible to the naked eye, woven into an impenetrable net that sealed off every escape route.
"Damn it! Quit playing tricks and get down here!" Naruto was impatient, and seeing the enemy hiding above them and taunting them made his anger flare. He drove his legs hard and charged straight toward the tree where Kidomaru perched, ready to leap up and smash him down with a Rasengan.
"Naruto! Come back! Don't touch those threads!" Shikamaru's face changed in alarm. He reached out to grab Naruto, but it was already too late.
Naruto had charged less than five meters when his body abruptly stiffened. Several extremely tough golden spider threads instantly wound around his hands and feet. The more he struggled, the tighter they constricted, even cutting deep into his flesh and drawing blood.
"Idiot! This is Spider Sticky Gold, made by mixing my bodily fluids with chakra. It's a hundred times harder than steel! Once you're stuck, all you can do is wait to die!" Kidomaru laughed triumphantly from the tree. He held one hand to his mouth and spat forcefully,