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"Idiot, how could it be the same!"
The Nine-Tails' voice immediately echoed in Naruto's mind, saying irritably, "That's the Three-Tails' Chakra, far inferior to this old man's!"
"Three-Tails? Is it also a Tailed Beast?"
Upon hearing the Nine-Tails' words, Naruto's gaze toward the "youth" instantly became fervent. He asked, "So that youth is like me, a Jinchuriki with a Tailed Beast sealed inside his body?"
"That's right."
The Nine-Tails affirmed, then corrected, "However, that guy isn't some 'youth'; he's Yagura Karatachi, the Fourth Mizukage of the Hidden Mist Village. He just looks young, but he's old enough to be your grandfather!"
"Huh?!"
Naruto was incredibly surprised by the Nine-Tails' words. His gaze toward Yagura Karatachi became strange. He then said, "What a peculiar guy. He must have a tough life looking like that.
But Big Fox, are you very familiar with the Three-Tails? You even know its Jinchuriki's information so clearly. Do you have some special way of communicating?"
Naruto remembered that the Nine-Tails had been sealed in Konoha Village since the First Hokage's era and hadn't been released for decades. Logically, it should know nothing about the outside world.
However, the Nine-Tails now knew so much about other Tailed Beast Jinchuriki's information. Naruto felt that it must have some way to communicate with other Tailed Beasts that allowed it to obtain this information.
"Yes."
The Nine-Tails was silent for a moment, then replied, "We Tailed Beasts can indeed communicate in a special way."
There was indeed a special space where Tailed Beasts could communicate anytime, anywhere. The Nine-Tails had originally planned to tell Naruto about this after the seal on his body was broken. Now that Naruto had noticed it himself, it naturally wouldn't conceal anything.
"Indeed!"
Naruto immediately became interested upon hearing the Nine-Tails' reply and pressed, "So Big Fox, you can chat with other Tailed Beasts anytime? What do you usually talk about?"
The Nine-Tails had expected Naruto to ask about other Tailed Beasts or Jinchuriki information, but instead he was curious about what Tailed Beasts usually talked about. This made it a bit speechless. It then replied, "This old man doesn't usually contact other Tailed Beasts, nor does he chat with them."
In fact, the relationship between Tailed Beasts was not very harmonious, and they wouldn't casually contact each other unless there was something important—at least for the Nine-Tails.
"I see."
Naruto was a little disappointed by the Nine-Tails' answer. Just as he was about to ask more, the Ninja from the Hidden Mist Village had already launched an attack on them.
Yagura Karatachi, the Three-Tails Jinchuriki and Fourth Mizukage, directly confronted the Masked Man, with several Hidden Mist Village Ninja cooperating with him in battle.
"Water Release! Water Dragon Bullet Jutsu!" x3
Naruto and Kisame Hoshigaki were also each targeted by several Hidden Mist Village Ninja, who simultaneously unleashed Water Release attacks on them.
Naruto didn't want to fight, so he directly dodged with lightning speed.
"Water Release: Exploding Water Colliding Wave!"
Kisame Hoshigaki, on the other hand, directly retaliated with an even more powerful Water Release. He leaped into the air, quickly formed hand signs, and then spat out a massive amount of water, directly washing away the water dragons attacking him and submerging the attacking Ninja and the ground below over a large area. Even Naruto was almost affected.
"You fellow—"
Naruto dodged the Water Release unleashed by Kisame Hoshigaki, then looked at him with a gloomy expression and asked, "You were trying to take me out too, weren't you?"
"Sorry, I had no such intention."
Kisame Hoshigaki denied Naruto's claim, then grinned and said, "However, if you were to be caught in the crossfire like that, you couldn't blame me. You could only blame your own bad luck."
"That's true."
Naruto nodded in agreement after hearing Kisame Hoshigaki's words, then raised the Longsword·Infinity in his hand. Dazzling lightning erupted around him, and he said with a smile, "Then if you get caught in my power and die, you can't blame me either, right?"
"!"
Upon hearing this, a hint of caution flashed in Kisame Hoshigaki's eyes. He then formed a hand seal and grinned, "Of course!"
"I say, you two, aren't you a bit too leisurely!"
At this moment, a beautiful figure suddenly appeared beside the two, formed a hand seal, said something to them, and then opened her mouth and spat a stream of brown viscous liquid at them.
Naruto and Kisame Hoshigaki simultaneously retreated, dodging the viscous liquid spat by the woman. The liquid landed on the ground, instantly corroding the hard rock.
"Hiramekarei: Release!"
A roar came from behind the retreating Kisame Hoshigaki. It was a young man with black-framed glasses and jagged teeth, wielding a strangely shaped greatsword, slashing at him from behind.
Bang!
Kisame Hoshigaki used his bandaged weapon to block the opponent's attack, but he was still directly sent flying by the immense force contained in that blow, heavily crashing into the water below.
"Lady Mei Terumi, I'll handle this traitor! Please feel free to deal with the other one!" the jagged-toothed youth shouted at the beautiful woman, then quickly chased after Kisame Hoshigaki, who had been sent flying by his attack.
"Chōjūrō—"
The woman named Mei Terumī glanced at the jagged-toothed youth's retreating figure, then looked at Naruto and said in a lighthearted tone, "Handsome man over there, it's just the two of us now. Aren't you going to let me see your face?"
"Sorry, I'm afraid not."
Naruto shook his head, glanced at the water below, and said with regret, "It would have been better if you two had come a little later."
If these two hadn't appeared, he would have been ready to take out that annoying shark-faced Kisame Hoshigaki.
"What an unromantic man."
Mei Terumī said with regret upon hearing Naruto's words, then opened her mouth and spat a stream of boiling hot mist at him.
"Boil Release: Mist Technique!"
The scorching mist quickly enveloped Naruto, making sizzling sounds upon contact with him and actually corroding his armor.
Seeing this, Naruto immediately unleashed dazzling lightning, dispelling the surrounding high-temperature mist, and then directly transformed into a streak of lightning, escaping the mist-covered area.
"Lightning Release? He doesn't even need hand signs?"
Mei Terumī looked at the disappearing Naruto, her expression immediately becoming serious. She then turned her head and asked behind her, "Ao, can you find him?"
"Sorry, Lady Mei Terumī."
A one-eyed man in blue clothes appeared behind Mei Terumī. He pressed two fingers on his eye patch, his expression a bit grim, and said, "That person's speed is too fast. My vision can't keep up—found him, he's up there!"
Before he finished speaking, he suddenly pointed upward and shouted.
Mei Terumī immediately looked up.
She saw Naruto's figure bathed in lightning, with lightning wings on his back gently flapping, allowing him to float high in the sky. Around his body, a large amount of thunderclouds were rapidly gathering, and within the thunderclouds, terrifying lightning constantly surged, as if it could erupt at any moment.
"He can even gather lightning—"
Mei Terumī looked at the lightning surging within the thunderclouds gathering around Naruto, her expression instantly becoming extremely grim. She then quickly formed hand signs and whispered,
"If that level of lightning fully erupts, the Village will be in danger!"
"Lava Release: Melting Apparition Technique!"
Mei Terumī quickly finished her hand signs, then leaped up and spat a huge stream of brown viscous liquid at Naruto, who was suspended in mid-air.
Naruto had seen this move just now and knew that the viscous liquid had strong corrosive properties, so he raised his hand and pointed at the incoming liquid.
Divine Punishment!
Boom!
A dazzling lightning bolt, half a meter in diameter, struck down from the thunderclouds, instantly scattering the incoming viscous liquid, and then, without losing momentum, struck toward Mei Terumī below.
The speed of the Divine Punishment was so fast that Mei Terumī, who was in mid-air, had no time to react.
"Lady Mei Terumī, watch out!"
The one-eyed man below shouted, then leaped up and used his body to shield the unavoidable Mei Terumī, taking that Divine Punishment for her.
Boom!
The dazzling Divine Punishment struck the one-eyed man's body, instantly charring him all over.
"Ao!"
Mei Terumī exclaimed, immediately catching the man's charred body as they fell from mid-air. She then injected Chakra into him while shouting,
"Ao, are you alright?"
Naruto merely glanced at the two, then shifted his gaze to the water where Kisame Hoshigaki was located. He unleashed his Observation Haki, instantly locating him.
"Found you!"
Naruto locked onto Kisame Hoshigaki, who was fighting the youth named Chōjūrō in the water, with his Observation Haki. The corner of his mouth under the mask slightly curved. Then he raised his hand and pointed downward, softly shouting,
"Divine Punishment: Judgment!"
Rumble!
Instantly, endless lightning descended from the thunderclouds around Naruto, like ten thousand rays of light falling from the sky, illuminating the entire water area created by Kisame Hoshigaki's Chakra with dazzling brilliance.
Endless lightning rolled and surged in the water. The massive volume of water was instantly evaporated by the surging lightning, and then the figures of Kisame Hoshigaki and Chōjūrō emerged from it.
The youth named Chōjūrō had already been electrocuted unconscious by the endless lightning, his life unknown.
Kisame Hoshigaki, on the other hand, had merged with his weapon, transforming into a half-human, half-fish state, to withstand the recent Divine Punishment: Judgment. Moreover, the lightning-induced injuries on his body were rapidly recovering.
"He actually withstood it?!"
Naruto looked at the half-human, half-fish Kisame Hoshigaki, a hint of surprise in his eyes. He had just concentrated most of the lightning's power to strike Kisame Hoshigaki precisely, and he hadn't expected him to survive that level of lightning.
"This guy, as expected, is a monster just like his appearance!"
Naruto looked at Kisame Hoshigaki, who had already recovered from his injuries, and sighed, then slightly tightened his grip on the Longsword·Infinity.
Lightning flashed on the wings behind him.
Boom!
With a gentle flap of his lightning wings, Naruto's figure instantly vanished from his original spot, transforming into a streak of lightning. When he reappeared, he was already beside Kisame Hoshigaki, and the Longsword·Infinity in his hand mercilessly slashed toward his neck.
Clang!
Kisame Hoshigaki instinctively tilted his head and simultaneously raised his arm to block. A deep wound was cut on his arm, and dark curses rapidly spread from the wound.
"Hmm?"
Kisame Hoshigaki saw the curses spreading from the wound on his arm and immediately felt a bad premonition. He then formed his left hand into a blade and harshly slashed at his injured right arm, directly severing the entire arm before the curse could spread to his body. The severed arm was already completely stained black by the curse.
"He's quite decisive!"
Kisame Hoshigaki looked at the arm on the ground, stained black by the curses. Before he could even breathe a sigh of relief, he heard Naruto's voice from the side, followed by a whooshing sound like a death knell.
Clang!
A large mouth covered in barbs emerged from Kisame Hoshigaki's body, biting the incoming blade. He then immediately took the opportunity to quickly retreat, putting distance between himself and Naruto.
"This sword—is it alive?"
Naruto looked at the strange weapon biting the blade of the Longsword in his hand, his eyes filled with surprise.
From this weapon, he actually felt an incredibly vast life force, as if it wasn't a weapon but a living creature.
"That sword has Isobu's aura. It should be a weapon crafted by the Ninja of the Hidden Mist Village using its body!" the Nine-Tails' voice echoed in Naruto's mind.
"Who is Isobu?" Naruto asked curiously.
"Isobu is the Three-Tails' name," the Nine-Tails replied.
"The Three-Tails' name?"
Naruto immediately became interested upon hearing this, then asked, "So you Tailed Beasts also have names? What's your name, Big Fox?"
"Hmph, if you want to know this old man's name, wait until you break the seal!" the Nine-Tails said proudly.
"Hehe!"
Naruto didn't care about the Nine-Tails' tone at all. Instead, he said with a smile, "Don't worry. When I see Jiraiya Sensei again, I'll ask him to help me break the seal. Don't forget to tell me your name then!"
"We'll see about that then," the Nine-Tails replied casually, then reminded him, "That guy seems to be escaping."
Naruto heard this and looked at Kisame Hoshigaki. Indeed, he saw his figure sinking into the water. He then raised the Longsword·Infinity in his hand and said with a smile,
"Don't worry, he can't run."
"Roar!"
Naruto was about to chase Kisame Hoshigaki to deliver a fatal blow when he suddenly heard a high-pitched roar. He looked in the direction of the sound and saw a giant turtle covered in sharp barbs appear in the distance, with a terrifying Chakra ball forming in front of its mouth.
"That's—a Tailed Beast Ball!"
Naruto immediately guessed the turtle's identity.
"That's the Three-Tails, isn't it? Has she escaped from the Fourth Mizukage's body?"
"The Three-Tails hasn't escaped; it's fully lending its power to its Jinchuriki."
The Nine-Tails explained again,
"When a Jinchuriki and a Tailed Beast are in sync, the Jinchuriki perfectly wields all of the Tailed Beast's power, using this complete Tailed Beast transformation in a conscious state."