"Lord A, Lord Bee, over here!"

  The Cloud's A-B duo arrived at the location where Habara had fought earlier. Or rather, after the two Cloud ninjas that Habara hadn't dealt with reported the battle situation, A and Bee, who were searg everywhere for the Yellow Fsh, rushed over.

  Then they saw a very extravagaal "dandelion."

  Glittering fihreads interwoveween the ground and the trees, holding the thing ihe extremely low temperature caused tiny dewdrops to g to each line... If it weren't for the fact that a person with an exploded head was stu the middle of this thing, and that this person's body was also shattered on the ground, anyone would have to say that this thing was quite artistic.

  "This is the enemy's jutsu?"

  A asked this as he reached out aly touched a thin thread. The skin of his hand was easily cut.

  And when he covered his palm with Lightning Release, providing ample defense, and then pulled with force, the metal thread, thihan a hair, first emitted a mournful sound, then was forcibly snapped by him.

  The metal thread was extremely tough and sharp, but that didn't mean it was iructible. However, A still took the threat of this thing seriously, because under normal circumstances, if a tearing force lied to these threads, it would definitely be the ninja's body that was cut first, not the thread itself.

  "Yes, Lord A, at that time..." The ninja then described the battle situation to A.

  "To be able to use such a powerful jutsu, yet feign weakness at first? What a treacherous guy..." A, the type who preferred a direct frontation, looked down on such shameless sneak attacks. "Hey, Bee, you pull Toroi out?"

  Killer Bee's forehead was covered in cold sweat. He took a step back as if frightened. "The Eight-Tails' fear, infinite, octopus legs, sliced!"

  Octopuses were naturally afraid of such thin, long, -like things, and the Eight-Tails wasn't a tailed beast known for its physical strength. In fact, the Eight-Tails' characteristic was its powerful regeive ability... Habara's "Mercury Lamp" could definitely cut through the Eight-Tails' body with retive ease.

  "You're useless!"

  A habitually pined about his unreliable brother, but he quickly noticed Bee's abnormality.

  Killer Bee was taking steps backward, while his eyes kept gng at a rge tree to his right. And when A noticed the dire of his gaze, Bee gave an almost imperceptible nod.

  With the brothers' rapport, A naturally uood instantly what Bee was veying.

  There was someone hiding in that tree, silently their as.

  So, the moment, A, who had just been talking about some strange ninjutsu, suddeed. Intense lightning covered his entire body, and then he jumped high and punched a certain spot oree!

  "Hiding so close! Yellow Fsh, you uimate us!"

  The person hiding there aly spying was her than Minato Namikaze, ag alone. And although the A-B duo's as were incredibly sudden, Minato wasn't about to be hit by a single blow.

  Minato's figure disappeared from the tree, and then A's entire arm sank into the trunk where he had inally been standing. Then, Minato's figure appeared on the ground.

  "Wait, I..."

  Minato wao ask the Cloud what they were doing, but the Cloud brothers didn't give him a ce to speak.

  Killer Bee directly began to "transform." Although this perfect jinchuriki wasn't at his most perfect state yet, he couldn't worry about that now.

  "Tailed Beast Transformation, my decision, Yellow Fsh, no esg my vision!"

  The battle between two future Kage was on, once again.

  And this time, the battle became even more difficult for Minato Namikaze tha. Because although he was very strong, he was only specialized against humanoid oppos, not against tailed beasts... In dealing with tailed beasts, the Yellow Fsh wasn't as specialized as one might think.

  And Minato Namikaze couldn't simply retreat, because he had to sider the possibility of these two enemies directly attag the Konoha camp...

  The Cloud's muscle brothers VS Konoha's Flying Thunder God Hokage, this se seemed to have appeared somewhere before.

  Even though their stro fighters were already ehe main forces of Konoha and the Cloud remaiationary. On the one hand, the people fighting were momentarily uo rey information; oher hand, this "standoff" betweewo sides was ultimately a "misuanding." It happeoo suddenly. Iy, her side repared for an all-out battle in the short term. Plus, her side could afford the sequences of defeat, so both anders were extremely restrained, adopting a posture of passive defeher than active offense.

  Uhese circumstances, Habara, who had finally obtained new ninjutsu, had absolutely no opportunity to practice or train. Even he had to be ready to be thrown into battle at any time.

  In Habara's impression, although single bat and small squad battles between ninjas were iing to watch, rge-scale, army-like bat between ninjas was... to put it bluntly, ugly.

  Because ninjas weren't ons designed fe-scale, head-on battles in the first pce.

  Moreover, ninja group bat was ineffit. Fet about modern warfare; imagihrowing a regiment of Konoha ninjas onto the Western Front of World War II... They probably wouldn't even make a spsh.

  A ninja army's energy proje was negligible. A regiment of ninjas' bat effectiveness wasn't even equal to a single Karl-Ger?t mortar.

  Of course, this applied to the current stage; ter on, ninjas would start developing all sorts of strange chakra ons.

  Regardless, firepower was true justice... It was clear that everyone had a little Deidara living ihem.

  The huge chakra rea soon attracted the attention of both Konoha and the Cloud. They noticed the battle, but...

  Both sides remained restrained.

  It wasn't until several hours ter that a battle-worn Yellow Fsh returo the Konoha camp.

  The battle was decred over. The result seemed to be another draw.

  The Eight-Tails had caused Minato Namikaze a great deal of trouble, but regardless, since he was able to safely return to the camp and no Tailed Beast Bombs or anything like that came flying over, the oute of this matter table.

  Minato Namikaze seemed to have brought a problem and then solved it, and also seemed to have her brought a problem nor solved it. Truly, a "Schr?dinger's Minato."

  After this, the temosphere betweewo sides tinued for a few days, and then gradually eased. As the saying goes, the first drumbeat inspires, the sed weakens, and the third fades away; the all-out battle seemed uo happen.

  So...

  What exactly happened during this time?

  It was utterly baffling.