"Nine-Tails, what happened?"
Renya looked at the panicked Nine-Tails in front of him and asked in confusion.
Konoha had long issued an announcement forbidding anyone from targeting the Three-Tails and Nine-Tails.
Given Konoha's strength, other ninja villages shouldn't be so recklessly bold.
But judging from Nine-Tails' current state, it had clearly been attacked.
And the attacker was likely quite powerful, otherwise Nine-Tails wouldn't be in such a sorry state.
The Nine-Tails, originally in a berserk state, gradually calmed down after hearing Renya's question.
"I was targeted by a very strong person!"
Today, just like usual, it was basking in the sun in the wild when suddenly the sky split open without warning, revealing a black crack.
A white-robed Ōtsutsuki Urashiki stepped out from within, floating in midair while staring at the Nine-Tails below.
He shamelessly declared that he would collect the Nine-Tails' chakra.
"Oh~" Urashiki curled his lips into a smirk, "Finding a wild Nine-Tails saves me the trouble of extracting it from a Jinchūriki."
His voice wasn't loud, yet it clearly reached the Nine-Tails' ears.
The Nine-Tails slowly opened its massive eyes, its crimson vertical pupils locking onto that tiny white figure above, which radiated a dangerous aura.
This guy is strong!
"ROAR!"
The Nine-Tails' enormous body instantly rose upright, its terrifying roar snapping surrounding trees in half and sending rocks flying!
"You damn bastard! How dare you interrupt my sunbathing!"
"What a temper."
Urashiki showed no fear. Instead, he gracefully raised his hand, gathering chakra in his palm and forming a red chakra fishing rod.
"However, prey that's hard to tame is more fun to catch, isn't it?"
As he spoke, he flicked the rod. An invisible chakra fishing line shot toward the Nine-Tails at astonishing speed, targeting the immense chakra radiating from its body.
"What?!"
The Nine-Tails felt its chakra rapidly draining away and was both shocked and enraged.
This was the first time it had encountered someone so bizarre!
It abruptly retreated, but a considerable amount of chakra had already been taken.
Urashiki toyed with the red paper crane in his hand, narrowing his eyes in satisfaction.
"As expected of Nine-Tails chakra..."
Sure enough, traveling through time had been a wise choice.
Here, the tailed beasts hadn't been sealed inside Jinchūriki, and there was no annoying pest interfering with the process of obtaining chakra.
Soon enough, he would gather all the chakra and return to the main family without issue.
Just as he was about to repeat the same trick and use the fishing rod to extract more Nine-Tails chakra—
The massive Nine-Tails before him vanished without any warning!
That's right, it disappeared instantly.
Ōtsutsuki Urashiki: "???"
Where's the Nine-Tails?
Where did my huge Nine-Tails go?
In the blink of an eye, it was just… gone?
But he quickly calmed down and carefully sensed the Nine-Tails' chakra.
Soon, he detected its presence in the distance.
Without hesitation, he headed straight toward that direction.
...
Konoha Village.
"You're saying there's a guy in white clothes holding a red fishing rod trying to seize your chakra?"
Renya said, somewhat in disbelief.
Based on Nine-Tails' description, that person should be Ōtsutsuki Urashiki.
But that shouldn't be right!
Normally, Urashiki would indeed come to the ninja world, but that would be during Uzumaki Naruto's middle age.
Even if their timeline belonged to the past ninja world, Urashiki using an Ōtsutsuki artifact to travel here shouldn't place him in this time period!
"Kid, did something happen?"
The huge commotion from Renya summoning the Nine-Tails couldn't escape the notice of Uchiha Madara and Senju Hashirama.
Even Senju Tobirama and Uchiha Izuna, who had been arguing at home, rushed over the moment they saw the Nine-Tails appear.
After hearing the Nine-Tails' account and seeing Renya's disbelief, Madara and Hashirama guessed that something troublesome had occurred.
"It's not really a big deal," Renya explained. "It's just that a member of Ōtsutsuki Kaguya's clan has appeared in the ninja world. His purpose here is to collect tailed beast chakra."
The sudden appearance of an Ōtsutsuki clan member would indeed bring some trouble.
But it wasn't something unsolvable.
The Ōtsutsuki clan's strength lay in their overpowered abilities and stats.
For example, Urashiki, a pure-blood Ōtsutsuki, possessed blue Rinnegan and was naturally capable of using Yomotsu Hirasaka.
Moreover, he had several special abilities:
Time rewind—reversing time locally for a short duration, enough to nullify most attacks.
Chakra fishing rod—directly extracting an opponent's chakra or even ninjutsu, making it extremely suppressive against chakra-dependent enemies.
Paper crane teleportation—granting extremely high mobility and making him difficult to lock onto.
Each of these abilities alone was troublesome, and when combined, they made him nearly unbeatable against opponents below Six Paths level.
But he lacked combat experience.
As long as his abilities were countered by Renya, his actual strength wasn't something to fear.
To put it simply, if those unfair abilities were stripped away, Uchiha Madara could easily defeat him.
Renya even felt that even without his help, Urashiki wouldn't be a match for Madara.
The current Madara not only possessed the Rinnegan but could also use Hashirama's sage chakra.
Dealing with an inexperienced Urashiki didn't seem difficult at all…
After all, Madara had the advantage in power, experience, and battle IQ across the board.
"Kaguya's clansman?"
Uchiha Madara immediately became interested.
He hadn't expected a member of Ōtsutsuki Kaguya's clan to come to the ninja world—looks like he could finally have a proper fight.
He had been in retirement all these years and hadn't had the chance to make a move.
"Collecting tailed beast chakra?" Senju Hashirama focused on something else entirely. "Does he also want to cast the Infinite Tsukuyomi and create a peaceful ninja world?"
Uchiha Madara: "..."
Renya: "..."
As expected of Hashirama—no one could pick a fight like this on purpose.
Saying something like that in front of Madara was basically a direct provocation.
"What are you all talking about?"
Senju Tobirama, hearing phrases like "collecting chakra," "Infinite Tsukuyomi," and "ninja world peace" from afar, immediately became alert.
He locked his gaze firmly on Uchiha Madara's back, afraid that this guy was about to make a comeback.
He knew it—the inherently evil Uchiha wouldn't give up their plans so easily!
"Tobirama, Izuna, you came just in time!"
Senju Hashirama said with a serious expression upon seeing the two.
"A member of Kaguya's clan has appeared in the ninja world..."
After his explanation, the two quickly understood what had happened.
"Kid, how strong is that guy?"
"Not as strong as Kaguya."
"Then leave it to me to handle!"
With Izuna's help, Uchiha Madara put on his armor and spoke with great confidence.
"A mere Ōtsutsuki—I'll make sure he never returns!"
Ever since being revived and returning to the village, he hadn't had a satisfying fight.
This so-called Ōtsutsuki clan was perfect for relieving his boredom.
"Big brother, you're amazing!"
Uchiha Izuna looked at him with admiration.
With his brother taking action, the Ōtsutsuki were nothing to fear.