On the battlefield, Obito's arm slowly swept before him.
The Truth-Seeking Balls behind him flowed along his arm, forming a canvas that wrapped half his body.
The white-haired man, with nine tomoes arranged neatly on his back and spikes burning with orange Chakra flames, swept his gaze. His crimson Sharingan focused on Naruto in the distance.
"Not good, Naruto, dodge!" Jiraiya, still in Sage Mode, felt Obito's surging malice and shouted for Naruto to be careful.
"Just looking at him sends chills down my spine, what a monster. But this isn't the first time I've fought someone like him!" Chakra surged on Naruto's body.
Inside the Sealing Space in his abdomen, the Nine-Tails excitedly raised its head, observing the outside world through Naruto's consciousness. "Listen, that guy's technique is called Truth-Seeking Ball. It's the old man Six Paths's Ninjutsu. It contains all seven Chakra Natures. Anything that touches it will be annihilated!"
"Hmm... I see," Naruto rubbed his chin. "I don't understand a word of it!"
"Fool!" The Nine-Tails, trying to act cool in its cage where it could only show off to the bars, held its forehead and roared loudly.
"Hahaha, isn't it fine that you understand, Kurama? We're comrades, right?" The boy laughed and turned back, raising his hand and grasping the empty air toward the seal before the Nine-Tails.
"Oh? Quite bold. Aren't you afraid I'll take the opportunity to steal your body?" The Nine-Tails raised an eyebrow.
"Would you?" Naruto extended his fist toward it.
The Nine-Tails raised its head, Tsundere-ly snorted, and also extended its fist to bump against Naruto's.
The two's vast Chakra bands now formed a connection, flowing between their bodies, indistinguishable.
Naruto's Chakra outside immediately soared. The golden flames suddenly expanded. The outline of a giant fox slowly emerged.
"Heh, meaningless struggle!" Obito raised his arm again. One Truth-Seeking Ball floated to the back of his hand.
A hole pierced through his pale hand, like a sight, aiming the Truth-Seeking Ball behind it at Naruto.
The next moment, the pitch-black Truth-Seeking Ball flowed like water, thrusting forward in the form of a long, thin spike, heading straight for Naruto's brain.
"Not good!" / "Damn it!" / "Stop!"
Only Tsunade, Jiraiya, and the Edo Tensei Reincarnated Third Hokage reacted to Obito's lightning-fast attack.
The three simultaneously launched their strongest offensives at Obito, who was releasing Ninjutsu.
However....
"Shinra Tensei!!!"
Accompanied by a deep, low roar, a figure in a red armored suit descended from the sky. The trembling of Chakra erupted out of nowhere. A powerful repulsive force bashed away the three charging Ninjas, pushing them flying into the distance.
Madara, having been equipped with a Rinnegan and regained all his abilities, laughed uproariously. "Where is Haruno Sakura? Come, fight me again!"
Jiraiya and Tsunade, crashing to the ground, continuously kicking up dust and gravel, had just exhausted their internal Senjutsu Chakra and fallen out of Sage Mode. They lay on the ground, helplessly watching Obito's Truth-Seeking Ball stab toward Naruto.
"Idiot Naruto, what are you spacing out for at a time like this!" A flash of lightning passed by. Sasuke, in his half-dragon form, charged out from a blind spot.
His long sword swung, cutting Naruto in half with one blow. Obito's Truth-Seeking Ball spike accordingly missed.
'Huh?'
Everyone present was stunned, including Obito, who was launching the attack, and Madara, who was guarding against the five Kage surrounding him, who also glanced sideways.
"Quite rude, aren't you, you evil Uchiha brat!" Naruto's eyes turned crimson, a deep, low voice coming from his throat.
"You are?"
The Sharingan in Sasuke's pupil spun. Yin Release Chakra sank into Naruto's thoughts, and he saw Naruto sitting cross-legged on the giant Tailed Beast.
"A secret technique similar to Kirigakure's Hozuki Clan's Hydrification?" Obito determined Naruto's state from the severed edge of his body. "Hmph, boring trick!"
His body leaned forward. With the unparalleled speed and power granted by the Ten-Tails Mode, he shot forward. The Truth-Seeking Ball shaped into two sickles at his hand, slashing fiercely at Naruto and Sasuke.
Then, the six-pointed star in Sasuke's pupil spun. His Mangekyo Dojutsu, Amenominakushi, disrupted the order of the space around him and Naruto, causing the two to be thrown into the sky by spatial compression.
"A great help, Uchiha brat!" The Nine-Tails, speaking with an uncle voice while wearing Naruto's face, had an indescribable sense of incongruity.
Though its words were courteous, the Nine-Tails acted extremely fiercely. After the fox head appeared, it quickly gathered a purple Tailed Beast Bomb in its mouth.
"Attack together!" Sasuke transformed into a cherry dragon, accumulating heat breath in his mouth. The armament armor once again stabbed the Susanoo sword into the flames to increase power.
A purple flame ray and the Tailed Beast Bomb simultaneously erupted, falling toward Obito below.
Boom!!!
Instantly, the world was plunged into darkness.
The dazzling, extreme explosion pierced the heavens and the earth, releasing a terrifying light that dragged the entire Land of Water into darkness.
All sound was drowned out by the even greater tremor. In an instant, the entire battlefield fell silent.
Amidst the explosion, Madara pushed Jiraiya and the other four Kage to the edge of the battlefield. "Since that guy isn't here, I'll pass the time with you!"
After the smoke and dust at the center of the explosion cleared, at the heart of the scorched earth turned to lava, a pitch-black egg shell slowly cracked open, revealing Obito inside.
"What?"
Facing Obito, who was completely unharmed, Naruto and Sasuke were both shocked.
But Obito did not give the two time to hesitate. The flames burning on his shoulder spikes suddenly lengthened, directly piercing Naruto and Sasuke's bodies.
"Damn it, this is!" Sasuke struggled to focus his gaze, trying to activate his Ocular Power again.
But the crimson Chakra hand that had pierced him seemed to have anticipated this, tracing small sealing runes on his skin, causing a pitch-black hue to spread in his eyes!
"Damn it, that guy is trying to pull me out!!!"
Inside Naruto's abdomen, the Nine-Tails' expression changed. Then, a strong suction feeling descended upon the dark Sealing Space. A crimson giant hand violently grabbed the Nine-Tails.
"Kurama!!!"
Naruto charged forward and grabbed the Nine-Tails, just as in the first time he learned the Nine-Tails Mode, using his own spirit to engage in a Chakra tug-of-war with him.
"No, this will damage your soul!" The Nine-Tails roared at Naruto.
"Hey, Kurama, don't go back on your word! Didn't you say you'd help me become Hokage and go together to change the situation of you Tailed Beasts!" Naruto panted. The spiritual body his will had gathered showed cracks.
The powerful will, refined through years of training in Haki with Sakura, began to faintly crumble due to resisting the negative power contained in the Ten-Tails' Chakra.
"Ah, sorry!"
The Nine-Tails had already transformed into a vast Chakra Mass. It looked down at the boy who was risking his life for it, and the corners of its mouth slightly curved up.
'Ah, old man Six Paths, that moment you talked about must be now, right?'
The Nine-Tails, nearly melted, suddenly struggled, gathering a ferocious beast head, viciously biting down on the place where Naruto was holding on, cutting off that portion of Chakra.
Then, under the extraction of the Ten-Tails' claw, the Nine-Tails was completely pulled out of Naruto's body, merging into Obito's body.
"Naruto, Sasuke!" Kakashi looked at his two disciples, suffering severe injuries, his eyes filled with bloodshot veins.
He even ignored the Truth-Seeking Ball dust scattered around Obito, ready to rush forward and fight to the death.
Crack!
At the critical moment, just as Kakashi was about to be pierced by a Truth-Seeking Ball,
A pink figure descended from the sky and pinned him to the ground.
"Ahaha, sorry, Kakashi-sensei, I didn't see you when I landed~"