"Take a deep breath! Don't think about anything!"
Naruto Uzumaki turned his head. His eyes, once as blue as the sky, had now become vertical, bestial pupils like a demon beast's.
"Who are you? I don't know you."
A dark red Chakra Cloak churned constantly over Naruto Uzumaki's body.
The first tail swished behind him, and the faint outline of a second tail began to take shape.
Yamato was drenched in sweat.
"N-Naruto!"
Yamato's voice trembled, and so did his brain, but the hands with which he was preparing to form hand seals remained steady.
"Calm down! Don't let the Nine-Tails' chakra eat away at your consciousness!"
But the moment he finished speaking...
Yamato realized something was wrong.
Although Naruto Uzumaki's eyes had changed...
Neither his gaze nor his expression showed the slightest sign of being "out of control"!
Just as a battle seemed about to erupt inside the Ninja Academy classroom...
Naruto Uzumaki merely glanced at this masked man who had appeared out of nowhere and spouted a bunch of nonsense.
Then he turned his attention back to the newspaper in his hands.
The more he read, the happier he became.
"Hahahaha-"
Naruto Uzumaki threw his head back and laughed.
"Big Brother became Hokage! Hahaha-"
Yamato: "..."
The other Anbu members: "..."
The students and teachers in the classroom: "..."
Shikamaru Nara silently pressed a hand to his forehead and sighed.
"This idiot who only knows the Transformation Technique..."
Meanwhile, at the Hokage Building.
Uchiha Minamoto was reviewing documents when his hand suddenly stopped.
The Nine-Tails' chakra...
And it's inside Konoha...
The location is-the Ninja Academy!?
Uchiha Minamoto abruptly rose from his seat, leaving a single sentence behind before vanishing.
"Everyone, keep working!"
Divine Lightning!
The dozen or so Lightning Doppelgangers exchanged looks.
"The original actually just took off