"Bastard, what kind of move is this?" Bee steadied himself.
The Tailed Beast Chakra on his body had been beaten to shreds, and fragments of dark red Chakra were constantly peeling off the surface.
"Is that all you've got?" Naruto asked back indifferently.
After the fusion with Asura's Chakra, his physical power and Chakra volume had long since surpassed the limits of an ordinary ninja. He hadn't even used his full strength for those few punches just now.
"Bee, the enemy is much stronger than we estimated. We can't win in this state, use the second state." Gyūki's voice rang out, its tone even more serious than before.
"Yo!" Bee let out a long howl toward the sky.
The next moment, Eight-Tails Chakra soared into the sky.
The Tailed Beast Chakra Cloak's surface revealed Eight-Tails' skeletal and muscular textures. A pair of curved horns appeared on his head and eight tails swayed in the air behind him.
In this state, Bee maintained complete sanity and could freely borrow all of Eight-Tails' Chakra, with both speed and power reaching the Jinchuriki's peak.
Bee charged straight at Naruto with a speed disproportionate to his size.
Naruto stood in place, his mouth slightly open. Without any hand signs, a fireball was spat out from his mouth. Immediately followed by a second, then a third...
He spat out several fireballs in succession, the blazing fire illuminating the entire battlefield in red.
"This non-hand sign Ninjutsu again!"
"But I'm not afraid of you now, you fool, you bastard!"
Bee's body crashed directly into the incoming fireballs. The fireballs smashed into his Tailed Beast Chakra Cloak and exploded with a roar, flames scattering in all directions.
Amidst the continuous roar of shattering fireballs, Bee forced his way through all the flame barriers and charged to the spot where Naruto had just been standing. But there was no one there.
"Bastard, where is he?" Bee braked.
"Have you ever been kicked at the speed of light?" Just then, a voice came from behind him.
Bee's pupils shrank, and before he could turn his head, a golden light exploded against the side of his face.
Light Speed Kick!
Naruto's right foot, enveloped in blinding white light, slammed into Bee's cheek.
Bee's body was sent flying sideways by this kick, crashing into the distant forest.
Naruto retracted his right foot, hovering in mid-air. He looked down at his leg, which was still emitting a white film of light.
The power of this kick was greater than he had expected. The moment the Light Speed Kick hit Bee's face just now, he clearly felt that the power of the Light Release Chakra had improved significantly. It seemed that with the doubling of his Chakra volume and the increase in physical strength, the power of Light Release had risen accordingly.
Outside the arena, all the spectators were stunned.
What just happened?
They only saw a flash of golden light behind Bee, and then he flew out.
On the Konoha side.
Shikamaru asked, "That just now... did Naruto kick the Eight-Tails Jinchuriki away with one kick? Did I see that right?"
Kakashi narrowed his eyes slightly, a complex light flashing deep within his pupils.
'This speed and explosive power must be the Kekkei Tota, Light Release, that Hokage-sama mentioned.'
If the target of that blow had been himself, even if he had activated his Sharingan to track the trajectory in advance, his body wouldn't have been able to react in time.
...
In the battlefield.
A Tailed Beast Ball broke through the air from the smoke, shooting straight at Naruto's face at an astonishing speed.
"You fool, you bastard, die!" Bee's roar came from deep within the smoke.
Immediately followed by a second, third, fourth...
Bee turned himself into a high-speed rapid-fire turret, Tailed Beast Balls pouring out from deep in the forest.
Facing this dense barrage, Naruto's entire body lit up with golden light as he charged straight into the barrage, weaving through the dark red barrage at high speed.
"What is this? Light?"
Bee stopped his rapid-fire assault, eyes widening as he watched the golden figure moving freely through the explosions.
It wasn't just him, all the onlookers were stunned.
This level of mobility was simply not something a normal ninja could achieve. It completely exceeded their understanding of speed.
Naruto made a sharp turn in mid-air, then reached into his ninja tool pouch with his right hand to pull out a Flying Thunder God kunai, which he threw in Bee's direction.
Shadow Clone Shuriken Technique!
The Kunai split into countless copies in mid-air, each blade coated in Wind Chakra.
"Fool, you fool!"
Bee moved at high speed through the rain of Kunai with agility that defied his size. His tails whipped around, deflecting any Kunai that slipped through, while he opened his mouth and fired another Tailed Beast Ball at Naruto.
Naruto swayed slightly, dodging it, and reached into his ninja tool pouch again. This time, he pulled out ten Flying Thunder God kunai and flung them toward Bee. The ten kunai split simultaneously in mid-air, and this time, the number of copies far exceeded the previous attempt.
Countless Kunai wrapped in Wind Chakra descended like a green rainstorm, covering such a vast area that it completely engulfed the entire zone where Bee was located.
"Bee, something's not right!" Eight-Tails' voice rang out in Bee's mind, its tone tinged with anxiety.
Bee, who was frantically dodging the rain of Kunai, took a moment to scan his surroundings. The ground, tree trunks, rocks, and everywhere else were studded with those specially made, uniform-looking Kunai.
His pupils constricted sharply as a memory sealed away for many years was suddenly pried open.
Back when he and A fought Minato, that man's Kunai had looked exactly like this. Once he had them covering the entire battlefield, what followed was a one-sided slaughter.
"Flying Thunder God Technique?"
"This is Yellow Flash's technique!"
"Can't hesitate anymore. If we let these Kunai continue to fill the field, we won't even have a place to stand. Bee, use your full form to attack his physical body directly." Eight-Tails said.
"Yo!" Bee let out a roar to the sky.
The next moment, the Chakra on his body expanded at an unprecedented speed, and eight tentacles fully materialized from behind him.
Immediately after, a massive ox-headed, octopus-like monster rose from the expanding Chakra.
"Roar!"
Eight-Tails opened its jaws. Chakra gathered and compressed frantically in its mouth at an eight-to-two ratio of Yin and Yang.
The scale of this attack was completely different from the rapid-fire energy projectiles from before. This was a genuine, full-power Tailed Beast Ball. A single strike was enough to alter the terrain.
The two White Zetsu in the shadows were observing the changes on the battlefield, but their focus was different from the others.
One of the White Zetsu stared at Eight-Tails' massive body, its tone thoughtful. "The Eight-Tails Jinchuriki has fully entered Tailed Beast Mode. What exactly is that golden light on the Nine-Tails Jinchuriki? I didn't sense any Nine-Tails Chakra fluctuations. This is definitely not Nine-Tails's power, it's a completely different Chakra system."
The other White Zetsu's mind was not on this question. It turned its head toward a large tree nearby. A flying thunder god kunai had been embedded in the trunk at some point.
"Hey, one of the Nine-Tails Jinchuriki's Kunai has landed over here."
The White Zetsu who was analyzing Naruto's Chakra had its train of thought interrupted and turned its head toward the Kunai with some impatience.
Its gaze lingered on the mark for less than a second before the expression on its face shifted from confusion to contemplation, and then from contemplation to alarm.
"How could the Nine-Tails Jinchuriki's Kunai have landed here? At this distance, so far from the battlefield? Was it intentional, or accidental?"
Just then, the Eight-Tails in the center of the battlefield finished charging its Tailed Beast Ball and fired it toward Naruto.
Naruto raised his right hand. A spatial seal unfolded out of thin air in front of his palm. The moment the Tailed Beast Ball collided with the spatial seal, it was swallowed up completely.
At the same time, the mark on the flying thunder god kunai embedded in the tree trunk beside the two White Zetsu suddenly lit up.
Both White Zetsu noticed the abnormality simultaneously.
"Oh no, this is the Flying Thunder God Techni—"
The next moment, the transferred Tailed Beast Ball appeared directly above their heads.
Boom!!! Rumble!!!
The area where the two White Zetsu had been hiding, along with the entire hilltop, was wiped off the map.
The shockwave, carrying debris and broken trees, swept in all directions, forcing even the Kumo ninjas and Konoha Anbu, who were hundreds of meters away, to lower their centers of gravity to steady themselves against the blast.