Chapter 139: Breaking the Seal
"Kushina! Kushina! How are you?"
Seeing the violent Chakra fluctuations erupting from Uzumaki Kushina's body, and seeing her lying on the ground in pain.
Minato Namikaze used Flying Thunder God to teleport back instantly, then tried to support Kushina.
But Kushina's entire body was now filled with deep red Tailed Beast Chakra. This Chakra was corrosive and burning; Minato Namikaze had only just placed his hand on her.
In the next second, he felt his hand being scorched and instinctively pulled it back.
"This... what on earth is going on?"
Looking at Kushina's current state, Minato Namikaze fixed his gaze on Uzumaki Ruming nearby.
Since Kushina was being held back by Uzumaki Ruming, Minato Namikaze naturally understood Uzumaki Ruming's intentions; it just so happened that he and Kushina had the same plan.
Thus, Minato Namikaze wasn't worried about the situation here and hadn't paid much attention to it.
But who would have thought... that because of this brief moment of inattention, Kushina would end up like this.
"I... I didn't do anything."
Facing Minato Namikaze's questioning, Uzumaki Ruming looked very innocent.
Clearly, everything had been going smoothly according to plan, with an advantage on every battlefield.
His battle with Kushina was like playing house, but suddenly Kushina's expression changed, and then Nine-Tailed Chakra erupted from her whole body. It gave him a fright too; he thought the girl wanted to get serious.
When the Nine-Tailed Chakra erupted from Kushina, Uzumaki Ruming instinctively jumped back, thinking she was about to get serious.
But seeing Kushina in such pain, Uzumaki Ruming knew something was wrong and was about to step forward to check.
The next second, a golden figure appeared right beside Kushina, looking at him with eyes full of wariness.
Just as Uzumaki Ruming and Minato Namikaze were confronting each other, Uzumaki Roka finally rushed over. Seeing the two of them, she shouted in anger.
"What are you two standing there for! Haven't you noticed the Nine-Tailed is going berserk? Hurry up and seal it first!"
Uzumaki Roka's angry shout immediately interrupted their confrontation and gave them both a way out.
In an instant, the three of them exerted their strength together, preparing to suppress the Nine-Tailed inside Kushina... The scene returns to when the Sealing Space had quieted down, where she was already locked by fourteen chains.
After a visit from its other "brothers," the Nine-Tailed's chains had finally been upgraded from fourteen to sixteen.
Even its mouth, which could previously yawn, was now tightly bound by two chains.
But as they say, a blessing in disguise... perhaps intentionally, or perhaps by coincidence, five clumps of Tailed Beast Chakra were left not far from the Nine-Tailed.
Although these five clumps of Chakra weren't much for a Tailed Beast, they were more than enough for the current Nine-Tailed, whose power was mostly sealed.
Just then, something seemed to happen outside, leaving that red-haired girl with no time to worry about it.
The opportunity... had come!
Red Chakra threads slowly emerged from the Nine-Tailed's body, then gradually crawled toward the clumps of Chakra ahead.
Finally, as they approached, they split into five, and the five Chakra threads climbed onto the Chakra clumps and stabbed into them fiercely.
Soon, five different types of Chakra flowed rapidly along the threads into the Nine-Tailed's body.
After all the energy in the Chakra clumps was absorbed... Five-Tails emerged from the Nine-Tailed's body.
These Five-Tails were clearly the tails of the other Tailed Beasts, but these Five-Tails appeared very illusory.
Among them, four temporary tails together wrapped around the chains on one of the Nine-Tailed's own tails.
Meanwhile, that octopus tail slowly disappeared, moving toward the Nine-Tailed's right front claw.
"Crack... crack... crack!"
Under the pulling of the Four-Tails, the already taut chain finally snapped, and one tail was completely liberated.
The Nine-Tailed's massive Chakra finally had an outlet, and the immense Chakra poured out from the freed tail.
After the tail stretched in the air a couple of times... it turned toward the other taut chains nearby.
"Crack... snap!"
Another chain was torn apart.
Just as the Two-Tails were about to continue destroying the remaining chains... "Adamantine Sealing Chains!"
Two golden chains shot in from a distance, tightly restraining the two unsealed tails.
"Mmu... mmu... mmu!"
Seeing the newcomer, the Nine-Tailed made muffled sounds from its bound mouth.
Although it was unclear what it was saying, it was certainly cursing very foully.
"Crack... crack... crack..."
The chains and the tails wrestled with each other in the air, but from the sound...
It was obvious that just two chains were clearly unable to hold back the Nine-Tailed's Two-Tails.
Actually, this was normal.
The chains in the Sealing Space were actually the manifestation of the sealing array; now that two chains were broken, it naturally meant the array was damaged.
Although it wasn't damaged to the point of being completely unusable, its power was greatly reduced.
Originally, relying on the power of the array, most of the Nine-Tailed's power was sealed, and Kushina could use her own Adamantine Sealing Chains to deal with the Nine-Tailed at will.
She could even extract Chakra as she pleased, as long as her consciousness could bear it.
But now that the seal was damaged, and Two-Tails were completely free from the seal's suppression, the two chains were clearly struggling to suppress them.
Seeing that the two chains were becoming increasingly unable to suppress the Nine-Tailed, Kushina prepared to use another two chains.
Soon, the chain that had been binding the Nine-Tailed's mouth slowly dissipated, then quickly reappeared from behind Kushina, wrapping toward the Two-Tails.
"Roar!!!"
After losing the restraint of the chain, the Nine-Tailed could finally speak.
A loud and angry beast roar echoed through the Sealing Space for a long time.
"Nine-Tailed! How on earth did you break through the seal?"
"Humph!"
"Red-haired girl! You can't trap me!"
"When I get out... I'll use you to trim my nails first!"
"Hmph! Such boastful talk. Grandpa Rumei is right outside; when he sees my current state, he will definitely come in to reinforce the seal. Let's see how I deal with you then!"
But unexpectedly, Kushina's threatening words only made the Nine-Tailed's struggle even more violent.
It was actually normal; hope was right in front of it, but hearing there were helpers outside meant the day it would see the light again was about to turn into bubbles. Any sentient creature would go mad in this situation.
What? You say the Nine-Tailed can see the situation outside?
Wasn't it because they thought the Nine-Tailed was being submissive before that they closed the viewing channel?
So it didn't know there were people from the Uzumaki Clan outside.
In the Sealing Space, the power of the Nine-Tailed's Two-Tails was still increasing bit by bit, and the chains gradually made cracking sounds, clearly showing the Nine-Tailed had the advantage.
But this small advantage clearly wouldn't make it possible to break free from the chains quickly.
For a moment, a brief balance appeared between the person and the beast.
Seeing this, Kushina instead breathed a sigh of relief; as long as she held on for a bit longer, the Nine-Tailed could be resealed soon.
At this thought, Kushina's tense heart couldn't help but relax a little.
But in the next second, as if seeing something incredible, her pupils contracted, and the black of her eyes reflected a growing red.
"Bang!"
That streak of red struck Kushina directly, causing a ripple in the surrounding space, and then the red-haired girl was sent flying back at high speed.
Along with it, the four chains restraining the tails also completely lost their power and snapped.
"Kushina!"
Just as Kushina was swatted away, three figures appeared in the Sealing Space.
Seeing the red-haired girl fly out, a certain blond-haired guy cried out in alarm and quickly chased after her.
Only Uzumaki Ruming and Uzumaki Roka were left in place.
"Roar!"
Seeing two more red-haired Ninjas appear before it, the Nine-Tailed's roar echoed through the space once again.
This roar seemed to be venting the anger in its heart, but also seemed like a bluff.
Hearing the Nine-Tailed's roar, Uzumaki Ruming and Uzumaki Roka both turned their heads and stood ready.
But when they saw the Nine-Tailed's current appearance, they were both shocked.
[Is this... the seal being broken?]
Seeing that the chains on two of the Nine-Tailed's tails had disappeared, Uzumaki Ruming was shocked inwardly.
Although he didn't know the exact strength of the Nine-Tailed's seal, he knew the power of Uzumaki Mito and Konoha.
One person was responsible for the technique, and one village was responsible for the sealed object; it could be said that the Nine-Tailed's seal was currently the strongest seal in the Ninja World.
But even so, the seal was broken by the Nine-Tailed from the inside.
However, that wasn't the main point; the main point was that the Nine-Tailed actually had an extra right claw.
The chain that originally locked the Nine-Tailed's right claw was still there, and even the claw was still there, but there was another claw at the arm.
It was this pair of claws that had attacked Kushina and swatted her away with one blow.
"Has... has the Nine-Tailed mutated?"
Looking at the bizarre scene before him, Uzumaki Ruming's brain clearly couldn't quite process it, so he asked the Uzumaki Clan's greatest mind.
"Mutated my foot! That locked claw clearly isn't the Nine-Tailed's Chakra!
Something we don't know must have happened in this Sealing Space."
"Seal the Nine-Tailed first!"
After saying that, she quickly performed the Adamantine Sealing Chains to suppress the Nine-Tailed.
"Oh, oh, okay."
Soon, Uzumaki Ruming and Uzumaki Roka each went after the Nine-Tailed's claws and tails.
The chains wrapped around them once again.
Thanks to the resources provided by the Hidden Sand Village, and because both were in their prime, the Nine-Tailed was actually suppressed by the two of them.
If Kushina's suppression of the Nine-Tailed before was a 40-60 split, then Uzumaki Roka and Uzumaki Ruming's suppression of the Nine-Tailed was a 70-30 split.
Soon, the Nine-Tailed's offensive was suppressed, and it could only let out bursts of roars, occasionally resisting, but all to no avail.
Just as the Nine-Tailed was suppressed, a blond-haired guy carrying the red-haired girl appeared before them.
Looking at the weak Kushina lying in the blond-haired guy's arms, Uzumaki Ruming said with concern.
"How are you? Kushina?"
"Cough... cough... Grandpa Rumei, I'm fine! I'll be okay after a few days of rest."
"That's good, that's good."
"Kushina, do you know what exactly happened to the Nine-Tailed? Why did it suddenly go berserk?"
Seeing that Kushina was fine, Uzumaki Ruming asked about the main issue. After all, if this wasn't cleared up, even if the Nine-Tailed was resealed, there would still be a possibility of it breaking the seal again.
This time it was because he and Uzumaki Roka were here, but what about next time?
"I... I don't know either. When I came in, two of the Nine-Tailed's tails were already free. While I was in a stalemate with the Nine-Tailed, its claw somehow broke free from its restraint and swatted at me. I didn't react in time and..."
Hearing Kushina finish her story, Uzumaki Ruming also had a headache.
"This... this doesn't sound like any useful information at all!"
"What about before? I sensed the aura of other Tailed Beasts on the Nine-Tailed. Kushina, did you let the Nine-Tailed come into contact with other Tailed Beasts earlier?"
"Other Tailed Beasts..."
"There were!"
While Kushina was still thinking about Uzumaki Roka's question, Minato Namikaze had already answered for her.
"Kushina suppressed the Nine-Tailed once before at the Service Area. Later, seeing no result for a long time, the other Jinchuriki came in, and only then did the Nine-Tailed quiet down."
"Ah, right!"
After hearing Minato Namikaze's account, Kushina's brain finally retrieved this memory and she said.
"The Nine-Tailed had been shouting before, and finally, the other Tailed Beasts told me the reason, which made the Nine-Tailed quiet down."
"Then did their Chakra stay in your body?"
"This... I don't know. The situation was urgent then, so I didn't pay attention."
After hearing Kushina's account, the other three looked at each other.
Well! It seems the problem has been found. Presumably, the other Tailed Beasts left Chakra in the Sealing Space, which was then used by the Nine-Tailed.
At this thought, the others also breathed a sigh of relief.
As long as the Nine-Tailed hadn't broken the seal with its own strength, everything was fine.
As long as they successfully suppressed the Nine-Tailed again and repaired the seal, it would be fine... Finally, under a period of wrestling and following the Nine-Tailed's unwilling roar, the Nine-Tailed was completely suppressed.
Seeing this, Uzumaki Ruming and Uzumaki Roka looked at each other and began to form hand seals.
The original seal couldn't be repaired now, since there weren't many auxiliary sealing materials, but some arrays that only required Chakra to draw were still possible. As long as no accidents happened... they could wait until Kushina returned to Konoha to properly repair the seal.
But often, the more one doesn't want something to happen, the more it will happen.
Just as the two were forming hand seals to perform the Sealing Jutsu, their bodies suddenly began to become illusory, a clear sign of insufficient Chakra.
Because of this situation, the Sealing Jutsu that was about to be completed also failed completely, and the suppression on the Nine-Tailed disappeared entirely.
The beast's eyes, which had been closed under suppression, now suddenly snapped open.
"Roar!!!"
An angry roar echoed throughout the Sealing Space... on the desert.
The Nine-Tailed's Chakra rampage made everyone turn their heads to look.
Unlike the concern of Uzumaki Ruming and the others, a look of relief appeared on Burubi's face.
It couldn't be helped; the current battle situation was very unfavorable. If it continued like this, the Allied Forces would surely end in failure.
So if you were to ask who on the scene most wanted something to happen to the Nine-Tailed, it was definitely him.
He wanted a powerful person to appear in this battle more than anyone else, whether they were an ally or an enemy!
Because the war needed a new change.
Seeing more and more Nine-Tailed Chakra leaking out, the smile on his face also grew wider.
Until... he noticed those two red-haired people walking to the Nine-Tails Jinchuriki's side.
Then the Nine-Tailed's Chakra began to decrease bit by bit.
This made him feel very uneasy.
Seeing that Nagato was currently dealing with the Four-Tails and Five-Tails, he decided... to sneak in.
A Tailed Beast Ball began to take shape in his mouth, aimed at Nagato's direction, while a tentacle behind him quietly slipped into the sand, creeping toward the Nine-Tails Jinchuriki's direction.
As the Tailed Beast Ball erupted, the tentacle also gave the three red-haired and one yellow-haired people a fierce blow.
Then... "Roar!!!"
Even more violent Nine-Tailed Chakra emanated from Kushina's body.
Two-Tails... Four-Tails... Eight-Tails...
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