"Is this the power of Senjutsu Chakra? It's really powerful."
Looking around at the surrounding scene, the man in black robe was a little surprised at the power of this ninjutsu.
He raised his eyes and looked at Minato, who was now dozens of meters away from him, and felt a little nervous.
The Fourth Hokage Minato Namikaze, who is called the Yellow Flash by the entire ninja world, was indeed worthy of his reputation.
That speed was so fast that even his eye powers couldn't fully track it.
If the masked man next to him had not taken action, he would have been in danger at that moment.
"At this distance, I should be able to use that move again in time."
The masked man was also staring at Minato in the distance, his eyelids lowered, and he said, "He just transferred a large number of civilians and ninjas at once. The power of his Sage Mode has almost reached its limit."
As expected, the orange eye shadow on Minato's face, which represented the Sage Mode, gradually disappeared.
"This ability is..." Just as Minato was pondering the black-robed man's abilities, the Nine-Tailed Fox's consciousness in his mind let out a sound of surprise.
"Kyuubi, what do you know?" Minato asked immediately. Considering their experience, the Nine-Tails, which had existed for who knows how many years, was obviously more knowledgeable than the Third Hokage.
After hearing Minato's question, the Nine-Tails' consciousness in his body paused, and then said with hatred in his voice: "I have no reason to help you!"
The Nine-Tails spoke in a deep voice. Minato had just suppressed the Nine-Tails in Kushina's body. In a sense, they were enemies.
So, knowing the source of Kyuubi's hatred, Minato stopped asking further questions.
"I'm sorry, it's all I can do for Kushina."
However, Minato did not blame the Nine-Tails, but instead said something slightly apologetically.
In the past, he, like everyone else, believed that the tailed beasts were weapons used to maintain the balance between countries.
But in fact, the tailed beasts also had feelings. It was unfortunate for humans to be the jinchūriki, but the tailed beasts that had been sealed in human bodies were even more unfortunate.
If you thought about it carefully, the tailed beasts had not done anything harmful to humans.
However, they were used as weapons to balance the power between countries and were sealed into different people's bodies one after another.
"Don't think I'll tell you if you say that," the Nine-Tailed Fox's disdainful voice came from within Minato's body, but there was still a slight pause in its voice.
"Ah." Minato knew that it would not be possible to eliminate the hatred in its heart in a short period of time.
However, even without the information provided by the Nine-Tailed Fox, he gradually figured out the abilities and characteristics of the man in black robe.
Combining so many special abilities in one person was indeed a headache, both offensive and defensive.
But it didn't mean there were no loopholes.
For example, just now, if the masked man hadn't taken action, Minato would have most likely injured him.
The most troublesome thing now was that the barrier he used to lock the battlefield had been destroyed, and at this distance, the masked man could take the black-robed man to where the crowd gathered at any time.
This was the most difficult part.
"Whoosh!"
Sure enough, under the sight of Minato and others, the masked man once again sucked the man in black robe into somewhere, and then he himself began to be pulled into the vortex-shaped space ripples.
Upon seeing this, Minato suddenly formed seals with his hands.
He instantly expanded his sensor to the maximum.
The masked man disappeared, but his chakra fluctuations appeared somewhere in Konoha the next moment.
Swish, swish, swish!
Minato had already marked the four people scattered around: Uchiha Yoruki, Hatake Sakumo, Jiraiya, and the Third Hokage.
The mark emitted a faint light, and then the five figures instantly moved to somewhere in Konoha.
In a place in Konoha, Minato and his group and the masked man and the man in black robe appeared almost at the same time.
This battlefield had already been devastated by the impact of ninjutsu.
The core of this battlefield was two people, one of whom looked almost exhausted and covered with bruises.
On the other hand, his opponent did not suffer any serious injuries except that the hood of his black robe was torn.
"Give me your heart!" The man let out a sinister laugh and suddenly punched toward Senju Nawaki who was several meters away from him.
His forearm immediately flew out from his sleeve, and extending from it was a thick black line.
With this special ability, the man's arms could stretch on the spot.
At this moment, Nawaki seemed unable to resist. Looking at the attack that was about to fall on him, there was no fear in his eyes.
He was the descendant of the First Hokage and would never be afraid of any enemy!
"Swish!"
At this moment, a ray of azure light tore through the air, cutting through the thick black line and severing it.
Swish!
At the same time, Minato appeared beside the flying kunai. He held the kunai in his left hand and grabbed the hand that was almost touching the left chest of Senju Nawaki with his right hand.
"Minato!?" Nawaki didn't even understand the situation at the moment, but he blurted out the words subconsciously.
"Nawaki, are you okay?" Minato chuckled, and then his blue eyes turned to look at the person who was going to kill Senju Nawaki.
There was no doubt that he was an accomplice of the masked man, and the chaos in Konoha was instigated by them.
"So fast!" The man exclaimed in surprise, and then met Minato's gaze.
The moment he stared, horror welled up in his eyes.
Because he had seen the same look once, decades ago.
If it wasn't for luck, he would have died that year.
"The Hokage of Konoha?" The man's expression returned to normal instantly, and then the masked man and the man in black robe appeared beside him.
"What a pity." The newcomer looked at Nawaki with some regret. If Minato had arrived a moment later, he would have dug out Nawaki's heart.
"You lost a hand," the masked man glanced at the man's empty sleeve and murmured.
"Haha, simple." The man chuckled nonchalantly, and a thick black line like a blood vessel extended from his sleeve and then reached toward the body of a Konoha ninja lying nearby.
It wrapped around the man's arm and actually cut off a section of his forearm. Then the black line wrapped around the severed arm and rolled back.
The forearm was pulled back into the man's sleeve along the black line, and then it squirmed slightly a few times.
The man raised his arm, then clenched his palm a few times as if nothing had happened, and said, "That's all."
"Not bad," the masked man commented indifferently upon seeing this.
But when this scene fell into the eyes of Minato and the others, they were horrified.
This person could actually cut off the hand of a corpse and then attach it to his own broken arm as a replacement?
The abilities of these mysterious people who attacked Konoha were so strange.
Jiraiya and Hatake Sakumo were both veteran strongmen in the ninja world, but they had never heard of these abilities before.
"This is..." At this moment, Minato seemed to be pondering something.
Hiruzen, who was not far away, suddenly narrowed his pupils, stared at the man who had just replaced his hand, and exclaimed in surprise:
"This is the secret technique of Takigakure."
"You are Kakuzu, the S-rank traitor ninja of Takigakure!
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