"Eh?"
Yugito Nii suddenly sensed the unrest of the Two-Tails inside her, along with a burning pain in her hands.
Instinctively, she threw the twin-tailed cat she had been holding and vanished from the room, reappearing outside in a flash.
Her expression darkened.
To her surprise, she was struggling to suppress the rampaging Two-Tails, Matatabi, within her.
It had been a long time since something like this happened.
Though she wasn't yet a perfect Jinchūriki like Killer Bee, her training was nearly complete.
She and the Two-Tails had already built a strong partnership.
Most of the time, Matatabi would willingly follow her will, allowing her to draw upon its power freely.
In critical moments, it wouldn't resist—on the contrary, it would even help her enter an almost perfect Tailed Beast Mode.
But now, the enraged Matatabi ignored her attempts to calm or restrain it.
It was desperately trying to break free, trying to take over her body and mind.
"Is it because of that little Two-Tails?"
While struggling to suppress Matatabi and soothe it, Yugito tried to figure out the reason behind its sudden loss of control.
Almost instantly, her mind locked onto the strange Two-Tails that had been summoned by Kagetsu earlier.
When their powers clashed, Yugito, as Matatabi's host, had felt something from that other Two-Tails—a strange, unsettling sensation.
Cold.
Deathly silence.
Darkness.
Even the energy it released for just a moment felt eerily familiar.
After thinking it over for a while, she finally remembered where she had felt this before.
A Hollow mask!
Back when the Fourth Raikage and Killer Bee were training to control the Hollowfication mode, they had unleashed a similar, dangerous power.
She herself had experienced it once.
And when she finally regained consciousness afterward, it was only because the Raikage had beaten her awake.
She had almost died that day.
That feeling... it was something even scarier than a rampaging Tailed Beast.
So, that little Two-Tails actually carries the power of a Hollow?
No wonder the Two-Tails felt such a strong reaction.
Having been corrupted by Hollow power before, the Two-Tails despises this kind of power deeply.
Because of this, her Hollowfication training was forcibly interrupted.
"Quick, pull it back!"
Yugito Nii growled through gritted teeth at Kagetsu inside the house. She was barely able to suppress the raging Two-Tails.
The surrounding Cloud ninja and the Leaf shinobi delegation stared at Yugito Nii, who was close to half-tailed beast transformation, as if facing a deadly enemy.
The ominous chakra of the Two-Tails spread around and reached far into the distance.
In the Raikage's office, Ai, who was meeting Minato Namikaze, suddenly felt the oppressive aura from afar.
He immediately stood up, threw a quick word to Minato, and was instantly surrounded by a flash of lightning.
Breaking through the wall, he rushed toward the source of the pressure.
Minato Namikaze, who had keen sensory abilities, also immediately sensed the ominous chakra.
Because he was always near Kushina, he almost instantly confirmed the source of the chakra.
A Tailed Beast!
And it was even close to the Leaf shinobi delegation's residence!
Realizing this, Minato could not sit still.
At the exact moment the Raikage disappeared, Minato vanished from the office too, leaving Dodai alone looking at the empty room and the broken wall, sighing.
While many ninja present were panicked and on high alert, a net shot out silently from the darkness inside the house, wrapping tightly around the suddenly stiffened half-tailed beast Two-Tails.
In the next moment, a black shadow broke off from the Two-Tails' shadow and quickly shrank back into the room.
Just now, Kagetsu silently connected his shadow with the shadow of the Two-Tails using the reflection of the net on the ground.
At the critical moment, he controlled the Two-Tails briefly, preventing it from successfully dodging.
"What happened?"
Suddenly, a figure appeared out of thin air. Minato Namikaze stood up beside Kagetsu.
"The Two-Tails has gone out of control."
The Leaf ninja from the delegation quickly explained the situation to her.
At this moment, Yugito Nii, in her half-tailed beast form, felt her consciousness gradually fading.
She sensed the wild power of the Two-Tails losing control inside her like a receding tide, suddenly weakening within her body.
Though she didn't understand the reason, Yugito Nii tried her best to seize this chance and regain control of her body.
When she could sense the outside world again and had control over her body, she realized she was somewhat trapped.
A net tightly wrapped around her, and it made her feel weak and powerless.
At least her chakra was dulled greatly by the effect of the net.
This directly affected her ability to use chakra, like boosting her strength or performing ninjutsu.
Even worse, the power of the Two-Tails had fallen silent and no longer responded to her commands.
At that moment, a flash of lightning fell from the sky, crashing down like a meteorite, creating a deep crater on the ground.
When the smoke cleared, the tall and strong figure of the Fourth Raikage A, with a furious expression, appeared.
"Yugito Nii?" The Raikage saw her bound by the net and felt anger towards the Leaf Village.
In a flash, he appeared before her and grabbed the net with both hands, trying to tear it apart.
The net's material was strange—it seemed to absorb chakra and was very tough.
Despite the Raikage's brute strength, he only managed to deform the net; it did not break.
"That is a Spirit Suppression Stone. When a tailed beast's power goes out of control, it can be used to suppress the beast's power and help the Jinchūriki regain control over their body. It also restricts chakra and can block its influence."
Before the Raikage could speak, the voice of Kagetsu came from within the Leaf delegation.
"Just now, the Two-Tails lost control unexpectedly. The Spirit Suppression Stone is used to bring it back to consciousness."
Raikage Ai looked at Yugito Nii, as if asking whether what he said was true.
But in his heart, he was already half convinced because he had felt that his chakra's effect on the web was greatly weakened by some kind of power.
He also noticed the crystal-clear stones wrapped in threads on the web.
"The Two-Tails did lose control, but that was because of their cause!" Yugito Nii nodded, but then dragged the Konoha delegation into the matter.
Raikage Ai's face immediately darkened.
As the Raikage, he certainly could not ignore an attack on a jinchūriki from another village.
"Is it really because of us?" Kagetsu's question made Yugito Nii hesitate for a moment.
In the tense atmosphere between them, she realized that if she said the wrong thing next, the consequences could be very bad.
"It's because of a small Two-Tails. It carries the power of Hollow, which made the Two-Tails go berserk," Yugito Nii whispered to Raikage Ai.
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