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"Mom, do you think Father can win?" Antares asked quietly, his strange tone carrying far more weight than a child his age should have possessed.
Antares' small fingers tightened around Misaki's hand.
Mother and son stood together along the outer terrace of the Kaminari clan estate, high above the rest of Kumogakure. Their home rested atop one of the twelve colossal mountains surrounding the central administration tower that pierced the clouds like a spear aimed toward the heavens themselves.
Even from this distance, the battle below looked outright apocalyptic.
Lightning flashed endlessly across the valley.
Entire sections of the cliff and the forest behind it had already been flattened.
The sound arrived seconds after each collision.
Booms powerful enough to shake the mountain beneath their feet.
Misaki's crimson hair danced violently in the cold winds sweeping across the countless mountain peaks, while her dark blue eyes glowing due to enhancing them with chakra remained locked onto the battlefield far below on him.
Ay, Her husband and the father to her child.
The Third Raikage.
Currently fighting the 8 tails alone.
"If he doesn't weaken the 8 tails then…" she began softly.
Her voice faltered a bit.
For the first time since Antares had known her, hesitation entered her expression.
"…I don't know if I can help him."
The last part sounded less like an answer to Antares and more like a thought accidentally spoken aloud with slight fear creeping into her voice.
But she was one of the few who fully understood exactly how catastrophic the situation truly was.
Antares slowly turned his gaze away from his mother and intead toward the battlefield miles away from them.
Even from several mountains away, he could feel the insane pressure in the air.
'So much chakra these two are some real monsters.'
He raised the pair of binoculars hanging around his neck and focused on the battlefield once more, his short red hair whipping wildly through the mountain winds as distant flashes of bright blue lightning illuminated the lenses.
Far below the barrier cracked.
Thin fractures spread across the massive blue chakra construct surrounding the battlefield, spiderwebbing outward while violent pulses of crimson chakra slammed repeatedly against its surface from within.
Every impact shook the mountains.
Chunks of stone broke away from nearby cliffs, crashing into the valleys below while shinobi stationed throughout the outer ridges shouted warnings toward one another.
"It's weakening!"
Another pulse struck the barrier.
The entire structure bent inward dangerously.
Then came the roar.
The 8 tails thundered across the land with enough force to physically vibrate Antares chest even from miles away.
Through the binoculars, the tailed beast looked less like a living creature and more like a natural disaster given flesh and nothing like the Anime.
Massive tentacles tore through the ruined terrain while crimson chakra leaked endlessly from its body like smoke pouring from a volcano.
At the center of it all stood one man.
Ay the 3rd Raikage, the future strongest Raikage due to his feats.
Lightning cloaked his body in violent blue arcs while the ground beneath him cracked apart with every movement.
Small compared to the monster before him.
Yet somehow a lot more dangerous.
'I remember from the anime and manga that situations like this happened somewhat often…'
Antares narrowed his eyes.
'…but this is the first time it's gotten this bad from the reactions of the shinobi and the force that was deployed to stop the rampage.'
Blue B had completely lost control.
Gyūki had taken over fully. And unlike the stories he remembered from another life, seeing it in person was infinitely worse.
The scale of the destruction.
The pressure from the chakra in the atmosphere itself felt so real now.
Then another thought crossed his mind as he focused on the massive barrier surrounding the battlefield.
'Wait… isn't that barrier similar to the one used during that zombie filler incident trapping Asuma?'
The structure resembled it almost perfectly.
A layered containment field of condensed lightning designed to trap someone in an almost indestructible layer preventing the person inside to break the barrier or interfere with fights outside of the barrier.
Though this version was clearly far stronger.
Around 20 Shinobi plus the original 12 Jonin maintained it across the valley edges, sweat pouring down their faces while sensory ninja relayed constant updates through communication teams.
'And despite all of that work the barrier was still failing to contain the 8 tails and all its might.' Antares thought in alarm
'My meta knowledge isn't helping me till much later in the story, I need to become stronger! This world seems similar to the Naruto Verse I'm familiar with but I shouldn't treat it like it's 100% factual.' Continuing his thought Antares focused harder on the fight going down miles away
'Who knows how Kishimoto got the inspiration to make such specific art? Maybe he got visions of this world, maybe he created the verse somehow; My soul is here and it became reality.'
'My Reality, After getting hit by…' Antares stray thought stopped after spotting a change in the battlefield
The 8 tails, also known as Gyūki to a select few, suddenly stopped moving.
Even the battlefield itself seemed to hesitate for a brief moment in confusion of the happenings in front of them.
Then Antares and all Shinobi present saw chakra beginning to condense.
Dark energy gathered in small clumps, bright blue and dark red energies coincided directly in front of Gyūki's massive jaws, Bijuu chakra spiraling together violently while the surrounding atmosphere distorted under the pressure alone.
A Tailed Beast Bomb.
The moment the gigantic purplish sphere began forming, the reactions across the battlefield changed dramatically in an instant.
"BIJUU BOMB!" A few Jonin and Chunin scared of death screamed and leaped out of the way so fast that you would think they had the Hiraishin no Jutsu (Flying Raijin) jutsu
"REINFORCE THE BARRIER QUICK!" All the original Elite Jonin that where supporting the barrier asked their fellow Jonin for assistance, meanwhile the medics behind them from BOLT team 6 transferred chakra to them
"MOVE THE SUPPORT TEAMS BACK!" Screamed an Elite Jonin with a composed expression because he trusts his Kage.
Panic spread through parts of the outer formation.
Even experienced Jonin lost composure.
Antares felt his stomach tighten slightly while watching the growing purplish sphere through the binoculars.
The amount of biyuu chakra being compressed inside that attack was absurd.
The ground began trembling and caving in harder the larger the sphere became.
Below
Ay did not retreat.
Lightning exploded around his body as the Lightning Release Armor intensified to another level entirely.
The brightness alone became difficult to look at directly.
"He's going to stop it head on…?" Misaki muttered quietly.
Even though she sounded stunned and confused why he wasn't running away, her father used to fight beast similar to the 8 tails but he was a sealing expert of the highest caliber.
Then Gyūki fired.
The Tailed Beast Bomb erupted forward like a purple comet.
The earth split and tore apart beneath it.
Entire sections of the valley vaporized instantly from the pressure wave alone before the attack had even fully landed.
And Ay charged directly into it.
Antares' eyes widened.
"What?!"
"Is he insane?" He shouted looking extremely agitated even though he cannot follow the movements because of how fast paced the fight was.
The Third Raikage blurred forward in a streak of blue lightning so fast that even enhanced vision caught only a blur trying to track him.
Then
Booooooommmmm!
Swushhh
...
The explosion swallowed everything.
Blinding light consumed the battlefield.
The barrier bent outward violently as shockwaves slammed against its inner walls hard enough to create new fractures across the structure.
Several shinobi maintaining the barrier coughed blood immediately.
Others dropped to one knee huffing and puffing trying to gather air into their lungs instinctively.
The medics behind them working overtime to transfer chakra, almost being depleted.
Antares instinctively shielded his face as hurricane force of category one winds blasted across the mountain peaks seconds later.
Then came the sound.
A deafening roar that shook Kumogakure itself.
Buildings and all of the windows on that side of the battle shattered into pieces.
Smoke consumed the valley.
For a moment
Nothing moved.
Then lightning exploded from inside the smoke.
Ay emerged, he swung his good arm with so much force that the smoke cleared in the area.
His right arm was charred black from hand to his elbow.
"Fuck" Ay cursed for the first time in a while
Steam rose continuously from the burned flesh due to the corrosive chakra of the tailed beast.
Yet the Raikage was still alive and kicking looking absolutely livid.
He is still standing.
….
Even Gyūki paused at that insane durability.
For a brief moment, the monster did not roar.
It stared.
Both of the Gyuki's massive eyes narrowed as smoke rolled off its enormous body since it also tanked the biyuu bomb it launched, its tentacles dragging trenches through the ruined valley beneath it. Even as wild chakra leaked from its body in waves, there was something different in the way it looked at Ay now.
Recognition with a hint of wariness.
'This human is dangerous.'
Ay flexed his burned arm once.
The movement made charred skin crack.
His jaw tightened and veins popped on his head, but he did not look away from the beast.
"Come on then," Ay growled out, lightning crawling across his body in furious blue arcs. "You done throwing toys?"
Gyūki's answer came as a roar that shook the entire barrier.
The beast slammed its tentacles into the earth and opened its jaws again.
Antares' heart dropped.
"No way…Fuck, dad get the hell out of there" yealled out Antares in a panic as if Ay can hear him not knowing exactly how these fights played out in the OG story's but really worried for his father,specially since he never really had a father in his past life and he was starting to really get to know his new family.
Another sphere began forming.
This one was forming way faster.
The chakra did not gather slowly like before. It condensed violently, almost greedily, as if Gyūki had stopped testing the humans and decided to wipe them away completely. Blue and red chakra spiraled into a dense purple mass in front of its mouth, growing larger with every heartbeat.
The barrier teams reacted immediately.
"Second Bijuu Bomb!"
"Hold formation!"
"Pour everything into the barrier!"
The original twelve Jonin pressed their hands harder against the sealing nodes while the twenty supporting shinobi fed chakra into the formation from behind them. Medical shinobi from BOLT's healing division went pale as they forced more chakra into the barrier teams.
But even Antares could tell.
It would not be enough.
The first blast had nearly shattered the structure.
A second would break it.
Misaki's grip tightened around his hand.
Her chakra enhanced eyes glowed even brighter as she distraught watched the gathering destruction below.
"Ay…" she whispered.
The beast fired.
The second Tailed Beast Bomb tore across the valley like a falling star.
Ay moved to intercept again, but this time Gyūki twisted its head at the last second, angling the blast not directly toward the Raikage, but toward the weakest section of the barrier.
The elite Jonin realized it too late.
"Brace!" they shouted
The Bijuu Bomb hit.
The world once again turned white.
Cracks and a very loud shatter sound like glass could be heard from all over the village.
The blue lightning construct exploded outward into thousands of fragments, each piece dispersing into sparks of unstable chakra as the blast tore through the containment field. Several shinobi were thrown backward like broken dolls ragdolling on the rough ground. Others slammed into stone walls and rolled across the ground in the same manner, armor cracked, masks split, bodies smoking from the indirect blast of corrosive chakra.
The explosion ripped through the valley and climbed the mountainside.
For several seconds, Antares could not hear anything.
Only pressure on his ears as they started to bleed from the force of the blast.
Similar things happened across the village with civilians, some outright passed out from the pressure creating nausea.
A crushing wave of heat and wind smashed against the terrace.
Misaki pulled him into her arms instantly, turning her body between him and the shockwave. Red hair whipped around them like flames while the estate's defensive seals flared to life beneath their feet absorbing ambient chakra to power them.
Golden kanji markings spread across the terrace floor.
A transparent barrier rose around them.
The blast struck it a heartbeat later.
The entire estate trembled.
Antares clenched his teeth as the world outside became a storm of dust, lightning, and shattered stone.
Then sound returned as his natural healing factor healed his bleeding ears since it was a minor wound.
Outside all that could be determined was the screaming winds and the collapsing rocks.
Shinobi shouting orders from distant peaks.
Through the chaos, Antares with trembling hands raised his binoculars again to determine the outcome.
The battlefield had become worse than anything he had imagined.
The barrier was gone.
The containment zone had failed.
And Gyūki was free to move.
But Ay the 3rd Raikage was still there.
The Third Raikage burst through the smoke and slammed a lightning coated fist into Gyūki's jaw.
The impact snapped the beast's massive head sideways.
A shockwave rolled outward from the blow.
Gyūki roared and swung a tentacle down like a falling tower.
Ay vanished.
The tentacle struck empty ground and carved a canyon through the valley floor.
A flash of blue lightning appeared on Gyūki's side.
Ay drove his knee into the beast's massive ribs.
BAMM
Another flash.
Another strike.
Boom!
BOOOM
BOOOOOM
The Raikage moved like a living breathing human shaped thunderbolt, appearing and disappearing around the tailed beast, each blow cracking flesh, denting chakra, and forcing the monster to stumble back one step at a time.
Gyūki adapted quickly.
Too quickly and predicting the raikage's next move.
Four tentacles lashed out in different directions at once, limiting Ay's movement. One smashed down from above. Another swept across the ground. Two more stabbed forward like spears.
Ay slipped through the tentacles.
Jumped over the second.
Blocked the third with his good forearm.
The fourth struck him across the ribs.
The sound was disgusting.
A sickening crack was heard in the battlefield.
Ay was launched through three layers of stone and into the remains of a cliffside.
"Father!" Antares shouted before he could stop himself.
The dust cloud remained still for one second.
Two.
Then lightning exploded from the cliff.
Ay stepped out of the crater with blood running down the corner of his mouth.
He grinned through the pain, but not intended for the beast but for his people who were relying on him.
His clothing was pretty much rags at that point.
His right arm was burned and his breathing was noticeably a lot heavier not out of exhaustion but how much chakra he's been exerting during the fight to tank 2 biyuu bombs with his lightning cloak.
But his eyes had not changed; he was ironically as determined as a raging bull. Funny he was fighting what pretty much was the hybrid of a bull and an octopus.
Gyūki snarled.
The beast opened its mouth again.
This time, the chakra formed differently.
Antares felt his skin crawl.
The positive and negative chakra did not expand outward into a sphere for wide destruction. It compressed tighter, Denser. The ratio felt deliberate somehow, like two opposing forces being crushed together in an unstable balance before being forced down the beast's throat.
'The beam?' Antares thought, eyes widening. 'It's not making a normal bomb.'
Gyūki swallowed the condensed Bijuu chakra.
Its body bloating like a massive ballon, the ground disappeared beneath the beast and its throat glowed sikenly purple.
The air in front of its mouth distorted into a narrow point.
Misaki's face changed completely.
"That's not aimed at Ay," she said.
Antares followed the direction through his binoculars.
His blood went cold.
Gyūki was aiming past the Raikage.
Toward the mountains.
Toward the outer residential peaks.
The beast fired.
A concentrated beam of Bijuu chakra ripped from its mouth.
Unlike the bomb, this was not a wide explosion meant to erase everything in a radius.
This was piercing power at its highest form.
A line of destruction ripped outwards at speeds incomparable to the human eye even if enhanced.
The beam cut through the air faster than thought, screaming toward one of the twelve mountain peaks surrounding Kumogakure.
Ay moved.
His body shrouded in version 2 lightning cloak once again.
He appeared beneath Gyūki's jaw just as the beam fired.
"Lateral Bolt of Pain!"
His arm swung in a horizontal chop motion enhanced by his speed and all of the strength he can muster in his body.
The strike slammed into the side of Gyūki's neck with enough force to change the angle of the attack mid release.
The beam jerked upwards away from the residential area of the village.
Instead of striking the heart of the village, it carved across the upper half of a distant mountain.
For one terrible second, nothing happened.
Then the peak slid right off cleanly.
Jonin and BOLT anbu looked at peak with absolute terror since they were about to get atomized into nothingness.
A massive section of mountain, along with several buildings built into its upper ridge, separated from the rest of the rock and began falling into the valley below.
Antares stared in horror.
The scale was ridiculous.
That was not a building collapsing.
That was part of a mountain being shaved off.
"Mom…" he asked in a questioning manner
"They're safe," Misaki said immediately, though her eyes never left the falling structure. "The civilians and the clan members that couldn't fight were moved into shelters the moment the rampage began."
Across Kumogakure, dozens of underground shelters glowed beneath layers of protective sealing arrays. Misaki's seals had been placed years ago throughout the clan districts, outer civilian zones, and emergency bunkers for exactly this kind of disaster.
Not every shinobi was safe.
Not every BOLT operative was out of danger.
But the civilians were behind barriers safe and sound.
The falling buildings smashed into the lower cliffs and exploded into dust and debris. Sealing lights flashed beneath the village as protective barriers absorbed the shockwaves before they reached the shelters.
Antares exhaled shakily.
'This is god damn insane. This is the level of disaster I can only imagine what would have happened to the leaf village during the 9 tails rampage if the 4th wasn't strong enough?'
Below, Ay did not give Gyūki the chance to fire again.
He vanished in a burst of lightning and appeared near the first tentacle.
His hand became a blade.
The chop came down.
One tail fell.
Gyūki roared.
Ay moved again but this time he lined all of the tails up.
Second tail … Third …. Fourth.
The beast thrashed violently, shaking the valley apart as Ay carved through its tails one after another. Each severed limb crashed into the earth like a collapsing bridge, leaking unstable chakra that burned trenches into the ground.
The Eight Tails tried to crush him beneath its remaining limbs.
Ay slipped under the attack and cut the rest if of them off as he drove forward.
Using the momentum he pivot his foot and with pressure the ground caved in.
Swoosh…
Crackle…
His lightning armor flared brighter.
Moving fast into Gyuki's face, his fist pulled back.
Then he punched Gyūki directly in the face again.
The impact was not flashy but far worse.
It was a solid punch with all the strength of the raikage enhanced by his incredible speed.
Crackkk…
The sound cracked across the entire valley like the sky splitting open.
Gyūki's massive eyes rolled upward.
For a brief instant, the tailed beast saw stars.
Actual stars.
Its body locked in place as pain shot through every inch of its enormous frame. The remaining chakra around it flickered wildly, no longer controlled, and focused.
Then Gyūki fell so heavy his body made an indent into the ground.
THUUUDD
Flat on its back and his tails scattered around him separated from his body.
The entire valley trembled from the impact.
Dust rose higher than the mountains.
For several seconds, no one moved.
No one breathed and they dare not believe it was over.
Ay landed atop the defeated Eight Tails, boots planted against scorched flesh, pale blond hair billowing wildly in the wind as he looked up toward the sky, thinking through everything that had just played out worried for his people.
His chest rose and fell heavily.
Blood ran down his face and his arm was burned badly from clashing with the Biyuu bomb.
His body was battered but he was standing victorious.
And Gyūki was not.
On the terrace, Antares slowly lowered the binoculars.
His mouth was slightly open.
"That man is ridiculous."
Misaki let out a breath she had clearly been holding for far too long.
Then her expression hardened.
"It's time."
Antares turned sharply toward her.
"For what?"
"I have to help stabilize Blue B before Gyūki forces itself back out again."
"No." The word came out faster than he intended. "Mom, don't go down there. He just beat it. Let the sealing team handle it." Not wanting his mother to risk it if Gyuki awakens from its stupor
Misaki looked down at him.
For a brief moment, she was not a seasoned Jonin.
Not an Uzumaki, not the wife of a powerful figure but just his mother.
Her hand gently brushed his short red hair away from his face.
"The sealing team was pretty much soundly defeated, you saw it yourself sochi," she said softly. "They cannot restrain a tailed beast's chakra directly especially after they used all of their chakra for the barrier. And they are not Uzumaki."
Antares' jaw tightened.
"But what if it wakes up?"
"Then I will be careful."
"You don't believe in me sochi?." she questioned him, raising an eyebrow at him while running her fingers through his soft red hair similar to her own.
"I DO BUT…" Antares mentioned looking up at her with pleading eyes full of worry for his mother
A small smile touched her face despite the destruction below.
"Trust in me sochi, I may not look it but I was a Jonin." she stated while looking at him, she bent down to eye level with him…
She leaned down and kissed his cheek.
"Stay here."
Moving back up her hand blurred through 3 signs.
Ram →Snake →Tiger.
Lightning gathered around her body.
A crackling clone formed beside Antares in a burst of blue sparks, identical to Misaki except for the faint electrical hum coming from her clone.
The clone placed a hand on Antares' shoulder.
"If anything happens, I love you sochi.." Misaki said to her son while placing another gentle kiss on his cheek
Antares looked between the clone still holding onto his shoulder and his mother.
Misaki formed the Ram seal once again today but this time dense chakra gathered around her legs and feet.
Unlike the Lightning Armor, which stimulated the entire body through the secret Kaminari nintaijutsu, this technique is the original technique that all cloud Chunin and above ninja use for high speed movement and it works by concentrating chakra into the lower of the body for one explosive burst of movement almost impossible to use in actual combat.
'Lightning style: Shunshin no jutsu'
The stone beneath her feet cracked.
Then she vanished.
The air popped violently where she had been standing.
Antares snapped the binoculars back to his eyes and caught flashes of blue lightning descending the mountain in impossible bursts.
Misaki crossed the distance to the battlefield in seconds.
Below, Ay looked up as she arrived.
"You waited till now?" he said, voice rougher than usual because of the fight he just had.
"I was protecting Antares and this fight was way too chaotic for me to help, also Unruly Ay disappeared to help out after he felt the spike i dont know where he is at" Misaki replied in a motherly tone and shrugged at the last part she knew that Unruly Ay should be safe somewhere…
Ay snorted in good humor.
"Good woman, Ay should be fine he isn't weak" The 3rd Raikage stated while looking at his wife go to work
An BOLT member from squad 6 dropped down next to him and started healing his wounds with a glowing palm it was the 'Mystical Palm jutsu'
"Stupid Husband." said Misaki while she walked to the fallen Gyuki.
Despite everything, Ay grinned.
Misaki did not waste another second and moved.
Blue B's body lay at the center of the unstable chakra mass, charred, bleeding, and barely conscious. Gyūki's chakra still leaked from him in violent pulses, trying to expand again even after the beating it got.
Misaki stepped forward and raised both hands.
Golden chains covered in sealing kanji erupted from behind her.
The battlefield froze. Jonin and BOLT operatives looked in amazement, the ones who weren't unconscious.
The chains shot outward and wrapped around the unstable chakra surrounding Blue B, binding the remaining manifestation before it could rise. Gyūki's presence stirred beneath the surface, furious but exhausted.
The chains tightened.
Crimson chakra slowed.
Then began draining through the golden chain links.
Not enough to consume the chakra,but enough to weaken it.
Gyūki's massive presence recoiled.
Inside Blue B's collapsing mindscape, the 8 tails growled.
'Damn Raikage…'
A pause.
Then its eye narrowed as it felt the nature of the chains holding it down.
'An Uzumaki, Just like that wretched woman Mito, sealed us Biyuu in Jars to be sold off like pets?'
Misaki pulled sealing paper from her pouch.
Then ink.
Then a brush.
Even in the middle of the ruined battlefield, with smoke rising around her and injured shinobi watching in silence, her movements were clean and elegant.
Brush touched paper.
A suppressive seal formed stroke by stroke so fast her hands blurred.
Antares watched from miles away, barely breathing.
'Mom has the chains too, what does that mean.?'
'I need more info, this world is no joke'
The paper seal flashed.
Misaki pressed it against Gyuki's chest so it gets sealed back into Blue B.
The remaining chakra surged once.Then collapsed inward, And Gyūki disappeared.
Blue B was left behind, burned, bleeding, and unconscious, but breathing.
A silence fell over the battlefield.
Then the first cheer rang out.
Then another.
Then a dozen also started cheering.
Then hundreds, and Kumogakure erupted in loud cheers.
Not in celebration exactly but in hysterical cheers that people do after they survive crazy things.
Shinobi dropped to their knees from exhaustion. Barrier teams collapsed where they stood since they were the ones keeping up the barriers on the important parts of the village because ambient chakra cant power things that fast unless a lot of chakra is stored into the seals.
Medics rushed toward the injured. BOLT units began spreading outward disciplined as always, securing damaged zones and checking the mountain shelters one by one.
Ay stepped down from the place where Gyūki had fallen.
Misaki caught Blue B's body before he could hit the ground completely.
For one brief moment, husband and wife stood beside each other in the smoking valley.
Both exhausted one from fightning and the other from the rush of emotions and chakra she exerted.
"I dont know why you are so tired Misaki" stated Ay as he walked to piece of rock in the crater the body of the 8 tails made
"Ay you jerk you know damm well i havent trained ever since i got pregnant with Antares" said Misaki as she placed Blue B on the ground and walking to him to also sit next to him
Then a figure landed beside the Raikage.
A woman in dark armor with a mask pushed to the side of her head dropped to one knee.
Ikazuchi.
BOLT's second in command.
"Lord Raikage."
Ay looked down at her.
"Report."
"Shiden has begun reestablishing order. BOLT units are securing the shelters, recovering injured shinobi, and restoring command lines across the outer districts." she said in a militaristic tone with no inflations in her voice like reading a report.
Ay nodded once.
"And the village?"
"Damaged, but holding strong."
Her tone shifted.
Colder.
"There is something else."
Ay's expression darkened.
"Speak." he stated
"A group of 4 Root ANBU were spotted near the far ends of the village. Blank masks. No visible markings. They infiltrated during the chaos."
The cheers across the battlefield suddenly felt very far away.
Ay's lightning flickered once across his shoulders.
Misaki slowly turned her head.
Ikazuchi remained kneeling.
"They were reported to Commander Shiden twelve minutes ago. He dispatched a three man interception team immediately."
Ay stared toward the distant mountains surrounding Kumogakure looking for any visible signs of the aforementioned intruders.
His voice dropped.
"Root."
And the air around the Third Raikage grew heavier but not as intense as the moments before.