"What is the target this time?" Nagato asked, watching the departing members as he dragged his weary body to sit down.
"I hear it's the Leaf Village," Konan replied. She had chosen to stay by Nagato's side instead of leaving with the others.
The Leaf Village? Nagato stared blankly outside. Once upon a time, that place had been so familiar.
Sometime after the Akatsuki members had left, Kusuo was enjoying some quality time with Hinata and Shion.
"Kusuo-kun," Hinata's face was beet red.
"Hmm?" Kusuo deliberately lifted his chin, giving her a cool look. But it didn't last long before he burst out laughing. When it came to Hinata, Kusuo was always gentle.
He was leading the two of them back to the Leaf Village, but the moment they entered, he sensed something was wrong. Almost all the Jonin in the village had been mobilized. Kusuo had only ever seen such a response when the Hokage was under attack.
"Was Tsunade killed?" he frowned. But after a few seconds, he dismissed the thought. It was unlikely. With Tsunade's strength, even if she were captured, she should be able to escape easily.
"Kusuo-kun, is something wrong?" Hinata noticed his unusual behavior as soon as they entered the village.
Kusuo shook his head. "It's nothing." But his eyes remained fixed on the surrounding Jonin.
"Look! It's Lord Kusuo! He's back!" someone suddenly shouted.
Hearing his name, everyone turned to look in his direction.
"It's really him!"
"This is great! We don't have to be afraid anymore."
Several ninja immediately ran up to him. "Lord Kusuo, you must save the Leaf!"
Kusuo frowned at their words. "What happened?"
"The Eight-Tails! The Eight-Tails has escaped!"
"Escaped?" Kusuo's brow furrowed. The Eight-Tails was being protected by the Leaf. It was impossible for it to escape unless something unexpected had happened. "Why didn't you protect it properly?" Anger tinged Kusuo's voice.
"This..." The group of Jonin looked at each other, none of them able to explain.
"Just give me the key points," Kusuo pressed. The Eight-Tails escaping wasn't necessarily a bad thing. It would allow Obito to gather the Tailed Beast chakra sooner.
"A while ago, the Eight-Tails seemed to have been provoked by something. It suddenly went on a rampage, and then..."
"And then?"
"...it escaped from the village."
Kusuo listened, frowning, but said nothing.
"Lord Kusuo! You have to save the village!"
Hearing this, Kusuo looked outside the village. Sure enough, on the path they had just taken, there were traces of a battle. And the chakra left on the ground was indeed that of the Eight-Tails, Gyuki!
Several villagers had surrounded Kusuo, Hinata, and Shion.
"Lord Kusuo, you must save our village."
"Children from the village have also been going missing these past few days."
Kusuo frowned, then turned and pulled Hinata away from the crowd. "Kusuo-kun, aren't we going to help them?" Hinata looked at the people behind them, then at Kusuo, feeling torn.
"Don't worry, I will definitely help." Kusuo agreed because he knew that if the Eight-Tails, Gyuki, truly went on a rampage, its power would be immense.
"Oh..." Hinata walked on, glancing back at the villagers at the gate. Their eyes were filled with disappointment. After all, Hatake Kusuo was the hope of the entire Leaf Village, their pillar of spiritual strength.
Late at night.
Hinata was fast asleep. Kusuo gently lifted the blanket and went into the living room. He looked out the window at the Leaf Village. There were no unusual sounds from outside.
Suddenly, a powerful surge of chakra swept through the entire village.
"They're here."
Kusuo gripped his sword and leaped out of the window. He jumped high into the air, looking down at the area outside the village. Sure enough, not far from the village, the Eight-Tails, Gyuki, was rampaging.
"It seems Gyuki really did break out of Killer B, and it looks like it's completely out of control." Kusuo was also puzzled. In the original story, the relationship between Killer B and Gyuki was very good, and Gyuki was a Tailed Beast that had been successfully tamed. Why would it go on a rampage now?
Kusuo landed lightly on a large tree. "Hmm?" He soon noticed something strange about Gyuki. It wasn't attacking randomly; it seemed to be consistently attacking someone.
"Could it be Obito Uchiha?" Kusuo began to guess. The only person who could use space-time ninjutsu like that was Obito. And besides Obito, probably no one else had such a strong desire for the Tailed Beasts.
Kusuo crouched there, watching the battle from afar. Before long, a figure was knocked out of the air. Even from a distance, the spray of blood in the air indicated that the person was severely injured.
"It shouldn't be hard for Obito to defeat Killer B, but it seems he has no way to subdue a rampaging Gyuki."
In the distance, Obito wiped the blood from his mouth. He didn't give up, instead launching another attack on Gyuki. Gyuki, not to be outdone, swung a giant tentacle through the air. A short while later, Obito's body was sent flying again. With this defeat, Gyuki let out a triumphant roar to the heavens.
"No wonder children have been going missing recently. If a child were outside at a time like this, they would definitely be scared into running off somewhere else."
But Kusuo remained focused on the battle before him. "I wonder if Obito can actually beat Gyuki." He watched as Obito's body was knocked back time and time again by the Tailed Beast, while Gyuki's power only seemed to grow stronger. With the inherent advantage of its Tailed Beast power, Gyuki fought without any restraint.
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