"Ugh… ah…" A muffled sound squeezed out from between Samui's teeth.
Sweat burst out instantly, soaking through her undershirt and white flak vest. The damp, icy fabric clung tight to her skin. Her pale-blond bob stuck to her cheeks, and a few strands even ended up between her lips—she'd bitten down on them without realizing.
"I'm guessing you don't want to keep experiencing the pain of interrogation," Kiyohara said flatly.
Since it was genjutsu, it only made the brain think it was going through it—there wasn't much real physical damage.
Which, of course, also meant Samui could "endure" this so-called electroshock therapy for a very long time.
"I… won't talk…" Samui forced the words out through trembling lips. Her azure eyes locked on Kiyohara, even though her pupils were starting to drift from pain.
In the gaps between jolts, she kept biting the tip of her tongue—sharp pain to stop herself from slipping deeper into hypnosis.
Images flashed through her mind.
The towering Raikage Rock in Kumogakure, glittering under the sun.
Killer B-sensei's awful rap in the training grounds—and his brutal, exacting instruction.
Yugito, face cold as stone while demonstrating taijutsu… then quietly slipping her an extra soldier pill during breaks.
The comrades she'd grown up with, huddled around a campfire between missions, sharing strong Land of Lightning liquor…
Bonds.
That was what Kumo shinobi cherished most.
Kiyohara raised an eyebrow.
A typical jōnin would've broken long ago under this level of genjutsu interrogation.
"Interesting."
Samui's will was strong—but time was short. Kiyohara increased the output of his genjutsu.
The moment her mind loosened, he pressed in for information.
Samui's gaze went hollow.
Whatever Kiyohara asked, she answered.
"How many came?"
"We came…"
"What jutsu do you use?"
"I use…"
"Any follow-up reinforcements?"
"…"
Just as Kiyohara continued extracting answers, an enraged shout echoed from outside the cave.
"Let Samui go!"
Yugito had finally arrived.
Kiyohara withdrew his ocular power. Samui collapsed to the ground like she'd been released from a vice, panting hard, body still twitching faintly.
She struggled to lift her head toward the entrance, hope flashing in her eyes.
Yugito-sama… she's here…
I'm saved!
Kiyohara turned to face the cave mouth.
Yugito stood there—but she looked nothing like before.
Dark-red tailed-beast chakra flowed over her skin like liquid. She was down on all fours, hips raised, a chakra tail swaying behind her. Catlike whisker-marks spread across her cheeks, her pupils narrowed into slits, and her teeth had sharpened.
She looked like a predator about to pounce.
"A nasty little wildcat," Kiyohara commented.
Matatabi—the Two-Tails—was a cat, a demon cat in form. In shinobi myth, such cats were symbols of ill omen.
That name made Yugito's eyes burn even sharper.
She could see Samui's battered state in the cave. The tear tracks and sweat on her face. The way her vest was soaked through and clinging to her body's lines…
This Konoha brat had dared to treat Samui like this.
"You'll regret it." Yugito's fists clenched so hard they shook.
"Will I?" Kiyohara replied calmly.
Yugito wasn't a "perfect" Jinchūriki like B, but she could still draw on tailed-beast power.
A dangerous opponent.
If she launched a Tailed Beast Bomb, not just this cave—this entire valley could be erased.
But Kiyohara didn't panic.
In a sense, the Sharingan was the Sage of Six Paths' fail-safe against the tailed beasts.
Madara had controlled the Nine-Tails with it. Obito had controlled the Three-Tails.
So Kiyohara could handle the Two-Tails as well—somehow.
Sure, those two had Mangekyō.
But even with three tomoe, Kiyohara could still disrupt her—if only for a moment.
A moment was all he needed. With his mobility, he could escape.
"Die!"
Yugito stopped talking. All four limbs fired at once.
Boom!
The ground exploded beneath her. In an instant she crossed twenty meters, claws snapping for Kiyohara's throat—so fast she left afterimages.
Kiyohara didn't dodge.
He raised his right arm to block.
The skin of his forearm turned pitch-black, gleaming like metal.
Steel Release!
Earth Release: Earth Spear!
Double Hardening!
CLANG!
A deafening metal-on-metal crash rang through the cave.
Yugito's white claws raked across Kiyohara's arm, sparks blasting outward.
Her pupils tightened.
Her claws could shred steel—yet all she left were shallow pale marks, and even those were fading at a visible speed.
"How…?"
"Little wildcat—being that reckless won't get you adopted," Kiyohara said coolly, then drove force through his arm, knocking her claws aside.
It wasn't just Steel Release—Earth Spear was layered in too.
Pure tearing wasn't going to break his defense.
Yugito skidded back two steps, suspicion flashing—then turning into a cold smile.
"Hardening jutsu? Sure, impressive. But how long can you keep it up? It burns chakra—can you outlast me?"
As a Jinchūriki, her chakra reserves dwarfed ordinary shinobi.
A war of attrition was her territory.
She lunged again—
But just as her claws were about to reach Kiyohara's throat, a faint rumble of thunder seemed to roll.
Crackle!
Blue lightning erupted from Kiyohara's body, flowing like water across his skin. His black hair bathed in electric light, pale-blue arcs dancing over him.
Lightning Release Chakra Mode!
"What?!"
Yugito's claws did hit him—and a numbing paralysis surged back into her.
She recoiled in shock, leaping backward.
She knew this technique too well.
It was Kumogakure's signature—used by the Raikage line.
Ordinary Kumo shinobi could only stimulate parts of the body. Only the Raikage and a handful of rare geniuses could sheath the entire body in lightning chakra for overwhelming speed and defense.
How could this Konoha brat have learned it?
"You… where did you steal that?!" Yugito's voice shook.
Kiyohara rolled his wrist, lightning flowing with the motion.
"Steal? I saw it openly on the battlefield. As for why I learned it…"
He paused.
"I'm a genius. I saw it once and I can do it. Hard to understand?"
Half true, half not.
The Sharingan had indeed copied the chakra-flow "template" from when the Raikage used it—but actually mastering it required absurd chakra control.
Kiyohara just happened to have both: the Sharingan's blueprint, plus massive mental energy and Lightning affinity to replicate it.
Yugito's heart slammed.
She'd seen plenty of prodigies.
But someone who could learn Lightning Chakra Mode after seeing it once?
A monster like that didn't exist in her experience.
"Lightning Chakra Mode" might only be listed as B-rank difficulty, but the real requirements were brutal:
1. Vast chakra reserves.
2. Control fine enough to release chakra across the entire body.
3. A strong enough body, or the current would rebound and damage you.
"Even if you can use Lightning Chakra Mode—so what?" Yugito forced her shock down and raised her stance again. "You just learned it. How much power can you really bring out?"
Two-Tails chakra surged through her system, leaking outward.
Before her words finished, she charged again.
Faster. Stronger.
The chakra around her claws thickened until it looked almost solid.
Kiyohara didn't retreat. He stepped into her.
He lowered his center of gravity, raised a fist—
And punched.
Magnet Release: Rotating Magnetic Field!
An invisible magnetic field expanded from him. The earth beneath his feet trembled.
This wasn't ordinary magnetism—it borrowed the power of the ground, amplifying his physical force through a rotating field.
No tricks.
Just raw speed and power.
Fist and claw collided.
BOOM!
A terrifying shockwave detonated from the impact point. Cracks spiderwebbed across the cave walls as rocks shook loose and fell.
Samui was blasted into the wall, then dropped with a thud onto the floor.
Outside, snow was swept away in an instant, exposing the brown frozen earth beneath.
Yugito's face twisted in disbelief.
Her chakra claw shattered.
Agony flared in her right hand as she was launched backward.
Two-Tails chakra could harden and extend her nails, and when coated in tailed-beast chakra they were harder and sharper than many ninja tools.
"Yugito-sama!" Samui cried.
Yugito twisted midair and landed, but still skidded backward more than ten meters, carving two trenches in the snow.
She looked down.
One bone was broken.
Tailed-beast chakra was already repairing it, but the pain was real.
She lifted her head toward Kiyohara in the cave.
"Impossible…" she muttered.
She was the Two-Tails Jinchūriki. With tailed-beast chakra, her strength surpassed most Kumo shinobi.
Even if he used Lightning Chakra Mode and some strength-boosting technique, he shouldn't be able to shatter her chakra claw with one punch—and send her flying that far.
But Kiyohara didn't stop.
He kept pressing.
Yugito barely had time to breathe before another punch hit her.
This time, experience saved her—she twisted like a cat midair before slamming into a tree, landing on her feet.
Lightning crackled.
Kiyohara was on her again.
Her broken nails regrew and met his fists.
Impact after impact rang out.
"Your strength is real," Kiyohara said casually. "Too bad you're young."
Yugito was even younger than Rin by a year—she couldn't truly bear tailed-beast power.
With Kiyohara's speed advantage, he was dominating her completely, never giving her the space to form a Tailed Beast Bomb.
"And your chakra control is crude. The tailed beast gives you a huge pool, but you're still using it like an animal—pounce and tear."
That stabbed straight into Yugito's pride.
She was Kumogakure's pride.
Who was this Konoha bastard to judge her?
"Hmph."
Her red chakra suddenly shifted to an eerie blue—like blue flames—coating her body, black curse-like patterns curling through it.
A second chakra tail began forming behind her.
Samui's heart steadied slightly.
Two tails… this was Yugito's partial tailed-beast transformation.
In this state, strength, speed, and recovery would surge.
"Yugito-sama, you've got this!" Samui shouted, hope reigniting in her bright blue eyes.
Yugito didn't answer. All her focus locked onto Kiyohara.
Kiyohara was too fast. A moment's distraction meant getting hit—and she'd already been hit several times.
The tailed-beast cloak's defense and regeneration kept her in the fight.
She found a narrow opening and formed seals.
"Mouse Hairball!"
She opened her mouth and spat dozens of basketball-sized blue chakra orbs.
They scattered like living things, then attacked from every direction—each radiating terrifying heat.
Worse: chakra strings extended from Yugito's fingers, controlling every orb's trajectory.
Remote control. Constant angle changes. Near-impossible to guard against.
Kiyohara watched the swarm without changing expression.
He inhaled, chest expanding, seals already complete.
"Fire Release: Great Fireball Jutsu!"
A torrent of flame poured from his mouth—no longer a "ball," but a true flood of fire.
Under Kiyohara's chakra output, the blaze stretched over ten meters like a burning river, swallowing all the blue orbs.
BOOM BOOM BOOM BOOM!!
A chain of explosions rocked the valley.
Blue and red flames intertwined. The heat vaporized all nearby snow.
When the fire cleared, Kiyohara stood in place. The hem of his clothes was scorched, but he himself was uninjured.
Yugito's pupils shrank.
How much chakra does this guy have?
And that size—was that really Great Fireball Jutsu?
She'd fought Uchiha before, but never seen a fireball that massive.
And the cost should be enormous—yet Kiyohara had been using Lightning Chakra Mode, Magnet Release… and still looked unfazed.
Is he a Jinchūriki too?
No. Impossible.
Konoha only had the Nine-Tails Jinchūriki—a red-haired woman. Not him.
"You—"
Yugito tried to speak, but Kiyohara moved.
This time his speed reached a new level.
Magnet Release!
Leaf Body Flicker!
Lightning Chakra Mode!
His Lightning Chakra Mode wasn't yet smooth, but it still added a boost.
Yugito saw his outline blur—
Then he was right in front of her.
"So fast—"
The thought barely formed before his fist slammed into her abdomen.
Thud!
A heavy impact.
Yugito folded, the blue-flame chakra membrane on her belly rippling violently. She flew backward, snapping three dead trees before stopping.
"Cough—!"
She staggered up.
Impossible.
Tailed-beast chakra stimulated cells, raising the Jinchūriki's physical stats across the board.
Her speed should've surpassed many elite jōnin.
But that strike—she hadn't even seen it.
What is this monster?
Kiyohara kept moving at high speed, lightning trailing behind him in long streaks.
The Sharingan's dynamic vision let him handle this speed.
Kiyohara smiled faintly—Yugito simply couldn't bear the Two-Tails' power yet.
Too much chakra tore the body. Tailed-beast chakra was corrosive.
When Naruto lost control, Yamato once said the chakra cloak would keep tearing Naruto's body apart and healing it again, because the human chakra network couldn't support such massive chakra.
Excess chakra leaked outward, and that leaking chakra—seeking stability—would gather back around the Jinchūriki.
That's why only full tailed-beast transformation could bring out the true power of a beast.
Samui was stunned.
She sat slumped on the freezing cave floor, wide-eyed, watching the battle outside reflected in her blue irises.
Yugito-sama… was being suppressed?
Samui bit her lip until it broke, the salty taste filling her mouth.
She wanted to stand, to help—but her body wouldn't obey.
The genjutsu interrogation had strained her mind, and the shockwave had slammed her into the cave wall.
Now everything hurt. Her chakra flow was chaotic.
"How…?" Samui whispered.
In her understanding, Yugito was Kumogakure's pride—able to use the Two-Tails' power at twelve.
But now?
That Konoha shinobi named Kiyohara was beating Yugito-sama down.
His speed was too much—Yugito had no time for anything beyond Fire Rat Jade.
"Is this… Uchiha power?" Samui thought of the village rumors.
Kumo had fought Konoha many times; they knew the Uchiha name well—Sharingan, Fire Release, countless monsters.
But someone like Kiyohara—Magnet Release, Sharingan, and even learning Lightning Chakra Mode after seeing it once—
She'd never heard of such a thing.
Outside, Kiyohara kept fighting Yugito.
He even started using Uchiha-style taijutsu—treating Yugito like a high-HP punching bag to sharpen his own close combat.
Yugito's vision flickered—Kiyohara was suddenly to her left, sword sweeping in with a ribbon of wind chakra aimed at her throat.
She threw up her left arm, blue flames compressing into a thick chakra layer.
Bang!
The moment they collided, Kiyohara had already spun with the rebound. His left leg whipped out like a lash into Yugito's waist.
Lightning chakra wrapped the kick. The speed made the air boom.
Yugito blocked with her right arm at the last second.
Thud!
She stumbled hard to the right, pain like cracking bone tearing through her arm.
"Ah!" She cried out, tumbling twice before she could stand.
She gasped, sweat pouring down her forehead. Her back wounds healed slowly under tailed-beast chakra, but the pain stayed sharp.
Humiliation.
A humiliation she'd never known.
As Kumo's Two-Tails Jinchūriki, when had she ever been suppressed like this?
And by someone only a few years apart from her?
Yugito stared at Kiyohara, fury burning.
Her tailed-beast chakra surged more violently. Blue flames rose higher from her body, and her second chakra tail fully formed.
"I'm going to… kill you!"
Kiyohara stood his ground, breathing a little harder.
Chakra cost is higher than I expected, he calculated. Lightning Chakra Mode boosts speed and defense, but it burns chakra like crazy. Add constant Sharingan, Magnet Release, Steel Release…
He felt his remaining reserves.
Jinchūriki chakra really is monstrous. If we keep trading like this, I'll run dry first.
Kiyohara made the call instantly.
His goal was already achieved: dragging Yugito away to relieve pressure on the main battlefield.
Enough time had passed.
With Minato and Orochimaru, that window was huge.
Time to withdraw.
Kiyohara began forming seals.
His right arm turned jet-black with metallic sheen—Steel Release chakra fully flooding it.
At the same time, Magnet Release chakra formed an invisible field around his arm.
The field began rotating at high speed, generating immense magnetic force.
He precisely confined that force to the arm's surface—forming an invisible acceleration layer.
Then Lightning chakra surged in.
Blue arcs danced along the arm, merging with the magnetic field into a stronger electromagnetic effect.
"Magnet Release: Electromagnetic Acceleration Punch!"
Kiyohara roared, driving his fist forward.
This punch was faster than anything he'd thrown before.
Yugito didn't even see the motion—only felt a crushing pressure slam into her instincts.
Animal intuition screamed: Don't take it head-on!
She tried to dodge—
Her body couldn't move in time.
Kiyohara's fist was already there.
Behind Yugito, her two chakra tails shaped themselves like hands to shield her.
Samui's eyes went wide as Kiyohara's punch collided with Yugito's tailed-beast chakra.
BOOM!
A visible white shockwave expanded outward like a sphere from the impact point.
The cave ceiling began collapsing. Huge stones dropped.
Samui was blown off her feet again, smashing into the cave wall.
But she ignored her own pain—forcing her eyes open toward the center.
Dust filled everything.
When it cleared slightly, Samui saw a scene she'd never forget.
Yugito was thrown back like a cut kite, tracing a parabola before smashing into the ground.
Cracks spread across the frozen earth like spiderwebs.
"Yu… Yugito-sama…" Samui's voice trembled.
No answer.
Yugito was embedded in the rock wall, eyes shut—apparently unconscious.
But her body began to change.
Kiyohara watched with the Sharingan, reading chakra flow.
Deep inside, a mass of chakra was leaking rapidly from the center of her abdomen.
That's the seal point? he thought.
A seal was likely similar to Tsunade's Strength of a Hundred Seal.
Because tailed beasts were, at their core, gigantic chakra aggregates—just with form and self-awareness.
Too bad I don't have a way to absorb chakra, Kiyohara thought. Otherwise I could study the Two-Tails' chakra.
He watched as more and more chakra erupted from Yugito, growing denser.
At the same time, her body swelled as the tailed-beast cloak thickened.
Samui's face went deathly pale.
"No… the Two-Tails… it's rampaging…"
As a Kumo shinobi, she knew exactly what that meant.
When a Jinchūriki lost control, the beast's will took over—turning them into a destruction-only monster.
The chakra continued expanding, fully swallowing Yugito.
Then the chakra began to solidify—forming muscle, bone…
A massive feline beast appeared in the valley.
Over twenty meters long, its entire body covered in flowing azure flames marked with black patterns.
Its ears stood high. Its tail split into two, each as long as its body, swaying slowly.
Its eyes became heterochromatic—left green, right yellow.
The complete tailed beast…
The Two-Tails.
"ROAR!"
It howled at the sky, the sound making the whole valley tremble.
Then it lowered its head—those mismatched eyes locking onto Kiyohara.
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