" You shouldn't have refused him. You have no idea how terrifying that human is, " Chomei said with a sigh, then added before leaving,
" Goodbye… I don't think it will be long before we meet face to face! "
" Hmph. " Matatabi snorted coldly, yet she couldn't help but recall those ominous crimson eyes.
...
" Sean. " Chomei's voice echoed in Sean's mind.
" Don't take Matatabi seriously. She's just skeptical. As you know, humans aren't trustworthy. "
Sean raised an eyebrow and said with a cold laugh,
" Chomei, I'm human too. "
Chomei replied,
" I know, but you're different from other humans. It's just that Matatabi doesn't know that… "
" I don't have time to show her that, " Sean commented seriously before adding,
" Can you locate her? And don't worry, I'll set her free once she finishes her task. "
Chomei was silent for a moment before replying, " Yes, I can do that, but… "
Sensing the hesitation in his voice, Sean said firmly,
" Chomei, you can trust me. I promise I'll free her once her task is done. "
Chomei sighed and began guiding Sean toward Matatabi's location. The Tailed Beasts could sense each other's chakra, but only when one was relatively close to another.
Just like Chomei and Matatabi.
Under Chomei's guidance, Sean flapped his wings and flew toward a location outside the village. No ninja had noticed him yet, as he was flying at a high altitude.
" She's below… right under us, " Chomei's voice echoed in his mind.
Sean looked down, activating his Sharingan. He was flying above a large temple built a few miles outside the village.
It seemed that the Hidden Cloud Village, like the Hidden Waterfall Village, feared the possibility of a Tailed Beast breaking free and causing chaos.
So they had built the prison for the Two-Tails outside the village.
" Ninjutsu: Transformation Technique. "
His facial features changed into those of a random ninja he had previously seen in the Uchiha clan.
He stopped flapping his wings and fell toward the temple, forming hand seals while ignoring the resistance of the air around him, then began weaving several seals at high speed.
His chest swelled with the air he inhaled.
" Fire Style: Great Fire Dragon! "
Orange flames burst from his mouth, expanding into the shape of a massive fire dragon that continued to grow as Sean kept feeding it with a huge amount of chakra.
All the ninja and workers in the temple raised their heads, staring in shock and fear at the enormous fire dragon. They didn't even have time to move before it crashed into the surface of the temple, piercing its way downward.
Boom!!
A wave of flames rose like a small mushroom cloud, sweeping through the entire area and turning almost everyone into charred corpses.
The Fire chakra nature was not weak at all, as others claimed, especially since Sean had reinforced the jutsu with the chakra of the Seven-Tails.
He flapped his wings, moving away from the blazing flames, and landed on the burning, crumbling roof of the temple.
" Hello. "
Sean said calmly as he looked at the massive flaming cat bound by several enormous metal chains connected to a strange seal at their ends.
Matatabi's eyes darkened in shock when she saw that Sean had actually appeared. Before she could speak, her eyes met those ominous crimson eyes of the detestable human.
" Let's free you from these restraints. "
Sean muttered, staring coldly at Matatabi, who stood motionless like a statue, her large eyes bearing the unique pattern of his Mangekyo Sharingan.
Just like Chomei, she had no resistance against the visual power of Sean's eyes.
As if sensing something, Sean jumped upward. At his previous position, a metal kunai pierced through the temple's surface.
Tssh!!
The sound of an activated explosive tag echoed.
Sean flapped the six wings behind him and quickly retreated upward.
Boom!!
The explosive tag completely destroyed the temple's roof. Sean waved his hand, dispersing the smoke from the explosion, and looked coldly at the person responsible for throwing that kunai tied to an explosive tag.
A large, middle-aged man with dark brown skin and bright blonde hair.
For a moment, Sean thought he was the Third Raikage, so he raised his guard to the maximum. The Third Raikage was not someone he could face, even as the Seven-Tails' Jinchuriki and a Mangekyo user.
" Damn you! Who are you!? " the man below shouted angrily, staring with killing intent at the flying youth.
" Hmm… you're not the Raikage, " Sean said, placing a hand on his chin, ignoring the killing intent coming from the man who resembled the Raikage.
" Most likely someone related to the Raikage by blood, " Sean thought, lowering his guard slightly.
He formed a hand seal.
" It's best to move before the real Raikage appears this time! "
Poof!!
Five shadow clones appeared beside him. The beauty of the Shadow Clone Technique was that it created copies that also possessed the power of the Tailed Beast within him.
The clones scattered downward.
As for him, he placed his hand behind his back and drew the sharp blade from its sheath. Moonlight gleamed along the blade, reflecting onto Sean's serious face.
Whoosh!
He dashed rapidly toward the Cloud ninja who intended to attack the clones, but the man immediately retreated and was forced to raise a kunai crackling with blue lightning to block Sean's lethal strike.
Clang!
Crack!
The sound of metal clashing echoed, quickly followed by a harsh breaking sound.
Sean activated the Body Flicker Technique and retreated, shaking his arm slightly to dispel the paralysis caused by the Cloud ninja's lightning chakra.
He threw the broken blade to the ground. It was just a low-quality steel blade, which is why it couldn't withstand a weapon enhanced with lightning chakra.
" You're from the Uchiha clan! How dare you attack the Land of Lightning!? . Is Konoha trying to start a war !? "
The Cloud ninja shouted angrily while keeping his head lowered,
careful to avoid making eye contact with the Uchiha youth before him. He wasn't even sure if Sean was truly an Uchiha, as his eyes were completely different from the Sharingan he had seen before.
Sean didn't respond. He formed hand seals again.
" Fire Style: Great Fire Dragon! "
" After this, I should focus on mastering Wind chakra, " Sean thought as he released flames from his mouth, forming a massive dragon that lunged at the Cloud ninja, who coated his body in lightning and vanished at high speed, dodging the attack.
Whoosh!
The Cloud ninja appeared behind him, holding a lightning-coated kunai aimed at Sean's neck, but Sean had already read his movements with his eyes.
The Cloud ninja smiled as he saw his kunai pierce Sean's neck, but that smile quickly vanished.
" Something's wrong… " he thought anxiously, as the usual sensation of piercing flesh did not come.
Poof!
Tssh!!
The "Sean" he struck turned into a log. Not only that, several explosive tags were attached to it.
" Damn it! " the Cloud ninja cursed, pushing his lightning chakra to the limit to stimulate his body and escape the explosion.
Boom!!
A massive fiery cloud rose, and the shockwave completely destroyed the temple.
" Ugh… " the Cloud ninja groaned in pain, lowering his gaze to the sharp piece of stone that had pierced his left side.
No matter how powerful a ninja was, in the end, he was still just human.
He gritted his teeth, ignoring the pain that had accompanied him since becoming a ninja. He pulled out the blood-soaked stone and threw it onto the ruined ground.
He glanced around, trying to locate Sean, but found nothing except the remains of bodies from the consecutive explosions and the destruction of the temple.
As for Sean, there was no trace of him… and worse, the Two-Tails had also disappeared!
Without hesitation, the Cloud ninja grabbed his kunai and stabbed his own arm forcefully, piercing skin and muscle.
" Ugh! " he groaned, but ignored it, his eyes widening in shock.
" I'm not under a genjutsu… they really left!! " the words came out of his bloodied mouth in disbelief.
" Damn it! Damn it! Damn it! " he cursed furiously, pulling the kunai he had used to test whether he was under genjutsu from his arm.
He activated his lightning technique, cauterized the bleeding wound on his side, then used the Body Flicker Technique and rushed out, trying to determine if he could still catch the man who dared to steal the Two-Tails.