One shinobi seemed to sense something and instinctively turned back.
He saw that mass of highly condensed chakra.
Its terrifying pressure made even the air around it seem to distort.
"Not good!"
"It's Karatachi Yagura!"
"Karatachi Yagura is ambushing us!"
When the others heard the shout, they hurriedly turned around as well.
And then they saw the Tailed Beast Ball that was about to finish forming.
One by one, their eyes widened.
"Not good! Run!"
But it was already too late.
Yagura's Tailed Beast Ball was ready.
"Go!"
A ball of highly compressed chakra shot toward the members of the Kaguya Fleet and Ninja Blade Glory Fleet at extreme speed.
"Boom!"
A massive explosion erupted.
At the point where the Tailed Beast Ball landed, the ground directly sank dozens of meters.
With the impact point as the center, a crater several hundred meters wide formed.
The shinobi nearby had no survivors under that explosion.
Some were blasted into fragments, charcoal, powder—
Gone.
The shinobi farther away were also affected by the blast wave.
Some were sent flying backward, coughing blood.
Some lost arms and legs, heavily wounded.
Originally, the two great fleets had held the advantage.
But Yagura's appearance instantly changed everything.
The situation reversed in an instant.
All from a single Tailed Beast Ball.
This was the shinobi world.
This was what ninja were.
When individual strength reached a certain level, numbers became meaningless.
The two great fleets collapsed and fled in miserable disorder.
Yagura snorted coldly.
"This is your outcome!"
"Kirigakure is my Kirigakure."
"My strength is not something you can compare to."
Yagura watched the other Kirigakure shinobi pursue and kill the members of the two great fleets before withdrawing his gaze.
"After this, both the Kaguya Fleet and the Ninja Blade Glory Fleet will suffer severe blows. In the short term, they will no longer be able to amount to anything."
"With only the Uchiha Fleet left, they won't be able to stir up any waves."
Yagura looked west.
"Next, it's your turn, Rasa!"
Very quickly, the news of the two great fleets' collapse spread across the entire shinobi world.
Especially the scene of Yagura using the Tailed Beast Ball.
Kumogakure.
The Fourth Raikage looked at Killer B.
"Killer B, can you do that?"
Killer B nodded.
"I can do it, but that Yagura's Water Mirror Technique is troublesome. Now that he has also obtained Samehada, if I really face him, I may not necessarily be his opponent."
The Fourth Raikage frowned.
"The Water Mirror Technique is indeed troublesome."
"But luckily, before Kirigakure is likely to clash with Kumogakure, they will probably go against Sunagakure or Konoha first. That should be enough for us to gather sufficient intelligence."
Konoha.
Hiruzen Sarutobi looked toward the direction of Minato's family.
"Yagura did not deceive this old man. Being able to control a tailed beast to such a degree truly means it is no longer a threat to the village, but a weapon that can be controlled."
"Its value is extremely high."
"Once Kushina finishes giving birth, Minato can take her and try it."
"Once Kushina reaches Yagura's level, Konoha's strength will increase greatly."
"The Nine-Tails is far stronger than the Six-Tails."
Iwagakure.
Onoki fell into thought.
"Iwagakure has two tailed beasts."
"If both of them could reach Yagura's level, then we would no longer face the problem of lacking successors."
"But Roshi left the village in anger."
"Han is still young."
"If only we could obtain Kirigakure's method of taming tailed beasts."
Takigakure.
The leader of Takigakure listened to Yagura's deeds, his heart surging with excitement.
"Although Takigakure is only a small shinobi village, we also possess a tailed beast. A perfect jinchuriki is equivalent to an entire shinobi army. It may not be impossible to contend with the great shinobi villages."
"Even if we cannot become a great shinobi village…"
"We still have a chance to become the number one shinobi village beneath them."
"We must find a way to become perfect jinchuriki!"
Sunagakure.
Some shinobi were faintly worried.
After all, the relationship between Kirigakure and Sunagakure was the worst. Now that Yagura had dealt with the fleets, would he come after Sunagakure next?
Would Kirigakure truly accept paying that enormous war indemnity?
Furthermore, Sunagakure still held several hundred Kirigakure shinobi captives.
"Can Kazekage-sama deal with him?"
One shinobi looked toward the Kazekage Building, anxiety on his face.
The person opposite him was displeased.
"You don't trust yourself, but you don't trust Kazekage-sama either?"
"Kazekage-sama led us from Sunagakure's terrible situation to where we are now. How can you doubt Kazekage-sama's strength and ability?"
"Yagura is only strong because he relies on tailed beast chakra."
"It's just that the people he dealt with were too weak."
"Jinin Akebino? Fuguki Suikazan? What do they even count as?"
"Kazekage-sama fought four of them by himself and killed them all."
"Yagura still let them escape. Not once, but twice."
"And the Kaguya clan isn't that strong either. How much stronger could they be than the Red Mountain clan?"
"Kazekage-sama wiped out the Red Mountain clan alone in one night. Can Yagura do that?"
Rasa listened to these discussions and understood their concerns.
After all, for a long time, the shadow cast by tailed beasts over shinobi had been far too large.
Basically, every shinobi village that possessed a tailed beast had experienced a tailed beast rampage.
Once such a rampage erupted, it meant massive casualties and losses.
Sunagakure had suffered tailed beast rampages more than once.
In all of Sunagakure, very few people could suppress a tailed beast.
And even when it was suppressed, the process inevitably brought enormous casualties.
"Yagura…"
Rasa had not expected Yagura to become a jinchuriki so quickly.
It was still habitual thinking. He had assumed Yagura would wait until the Three-Tails revived.
"Looking at it this way, Yagura directly killed Utakata and sealed the Six-Tails into his own body?"
"To do that to someone from his own village who had committed no mistake… that really is ruthless."
"But he thinks becoming a jinchuriki means he can do whatever he wants?"
"Naive!"
Rasa looked out the window.
"If you dare come to the Land of Wind, then come directly!"
"What do I, Rasa, have to fear?"
After suffering Yagura's attack, the three great fleets temporarily endured in silence.
Even though they did not know Yagura's movements.
Along with them, the other fleets also became more obedient for a while.
The situation in Kirigakure and the Land of Water stabilized.
What no one expected was that an elite shinobi squad from Kirigakure had already silently arrived at the border of the Land of Wind.
A Sunagakure outpost was destroyed.
Through the intelligence obtained from the Sunagakure shinobi, Yagura learned Sunagakure's approximate location.
A nearby Sunagakure patrol squad discovered the abnormality.
"Who goes there?"
"Report to Kazekage-sama, quickly!"
Seeing that he had been discovered, Yagura no longer hid.
He drew in a deep breath, then shouted forward in his loudest voice.
"Rasa, come out and die!"