Scratch!
Claw!
Bite!
Tear and gnaw!
Tail pulling, wrapping!
This time, Kurama displayed its strength to the fullest. It had genuinely not fought so unrestrainedly in a long time.
Once upon a time, it was a free and unrestrained Tailed Beast, occasionally assisting when Asura's Chakra reincarnations needed help. Other times, Kurama did not wish to have too much contact with humans.
Until it encountered a group of humans, the Gold and Silver Brothers, whom it swallowed whole. Yet, these bastards actually ate its flesh.
Later, it encountered Madara, who controlled it without a word and fought a great battle with Hashirama. Then, Madara was defeated by Hashirama. Hashirama felt that it was too strong, so he decided to seal it. Even though Hashirama was barely clinging to life and on his last legs at that time, with Mito's cooperation, sealing it was still more than enough.
After that, inside Mito's body, it lived a life worse than death. Mito's constitution was too restraining for it. If it were outside, Kurama was confident it could defeat Mito. It could constantly attack Mito with Tailed Beast Balls. But inside Mito's body, Kurama could only be continuously drained of Chakra by Mito.
As for later entering Kushina's body, Kurama willingly cooperated. However, it had a premonition that if it didn't actively cooperate with Kushina, it would still be drained of Chakra by Kushina in the end. This woman had already reached Asura's level.
Looking at the women around Kazuki, each of them would possess absolute power to crush it in the future.
This made Kurama once believe that it was not very strong at all, but rather a weakling. Fortunately, it once again fought Eight-Tails. While not bad, Eight-Tails was far from being as good as itself.
This was great. It seemed it wasn't that it was too weak, but rather that the people it had encountered were all too powerful.
Tailed Beast Ball!
The more Kurama fought, the more excited it became. A massive Tailed Beast Ball landed at close range on Eight-Tails' body, making the already disadvantaged Eight-Tails even more dishevelled.
"Kushina, now's your chance." Kurama was enjoying the fight, but it hadn't forgotten Kushina's objective.
"I know."
Kushina controlled her body, extending Adamantine Sealing Chains from Kurama's body, connecting them to Eight-Tails, rendering Eight-Tails immobile.
Then she used her Fuinjutsu, beginning to extract Chakra from Eight-Tails' body. A continuous stream of Eight-Tails' Chakra was steadily drawn out by Kushina.
"Alright, this much should be enough. If too much is lost, it won't be good for the Ninja World."
Seeing that Kushina had quickly extracted nearly one-tenth of Eight-Tails' Chakra, Kurama immediately advised, "After all, Tailed Beasts also need Natural Energy to recover their Chakra. Eight-Tails' Chakra wasn't consumed through battle, but entered your body, which harms the Ninja World."
"Is that so?" Kushina nodded thoughtfully.
She had heard Kazuki talk about Tailed Beasts before, that Tailed Beasts could absorb Natural Energy to recover their strength.
If they consumed Chakra through normal combat and then absorbed Natural Energy to recover, this was part of the Chakra cycle. Naturally, it wouldn't have much impact on the natural world.
However, she was extracting a portion of Eight-Tails' Chakra, and Eight-Tails needed to absorb Natural Energy to recover. Therefore, she couldn't extract too much of Eight-Tails' Chakra.
"There's quite a difference from your Chakra, isn't there?"
Kushina thought for a moment, then sealed this portion of Eight-Tails' Chakra within her body, entrusting Kurama with its safekeeping.
As for what to do with it later, that was up to Kurama itself.
Afterward, she performed a Fuinjutsu with both hands, and in an instant, completely sealed Eight-Tails.
Alas, everyone said Tailed Beasts were powerful, but for her now, a mere Eight-Tails was nothing. Even without Kurama's power, Kushina was confident she could contend with Eight-Tails, even overwhelm it.
With the Fuinjutsu applied, Bee felt his connection with Eight-Tails severed, as if no matter how powerful he was, he couldn't use it.
"That's natural. I'm not like other Tailed Beasts." Kurama smiled confidently.
Putting aside those cheats, Kurama could confidently smile and say, "I am number one in the world."
"Hmm? There's another powerful Chakra approaching, but it's not as strong as Eight-Tails. It must be Two-Tails."
Suddenly, Kushina sensed a powerful Chakra along with a group of people rapidly approaching, and she said to Kurama.
"Hmm, Two-Tails' strength is actually quite good. Its Chakra isn't abundant, but it is very fast, among the best of the Tailed Beasts. Of course, it's not as good as me." Kurama had absolute confidence in itself.
Perhaps many people would say that Eight-Tails' power was great, but in Kurama's opinion, Eight-Tails' power couldn't compare to its own. Two-Tails was very fast, but it still couldn't catch up to Kurama.
Of course, Kurama couldn't swim in water like Three-Tails, nor could it fly like Seven-Tails. But Kurama was the most comprehensive and most powerful.
Eight-Tails was far from being Kurama's match, let alone Two-Tails.
"Then the next step is to obtain Two-Tails' Chakra."
With a thought, Kushina controlled the golden Kurama to leap, charging out of Cloud Lightning Gorge and towards the Kumogakure army.
As for the unconscious Bee, Kushina simply ignored him. Whether to kill him or not meant nothing to her. Kurama also had no intention of killing.
"Kushina charged straight in?" Kazuki's lips curved into a smile, he didn't pay too much attention.
Just as Mito could quell the First Great Ninja War back then, Kushina could also do the same now. It was just a Kumogakure. Kushina was more than capable of dealing with it.
It was just Two-Tails. He wondered if it would cause any trouble for Kushina.
Kazuki then turned his gaze towards Mikoto's side. Facing Third Raikage, B, and the future Fourth Raikage A, Mikoto still appeared to be at ease.
There were too many strong individuals in Kumogakure. Including Bee and the later Two-Tails Jinchuriki, there were almost five Kage-level powerhouses. It seemed necessary to weaken Kumogakure.