Kurama seemed to know the mindset of the other Tailed Beasts and immediately let out a disdainful snort audible to all of them.
'Now you know how I feel! Let you country-bumpkin Tailed Beasts who've never seen the world dare to laugh at me.'
As Naruto walked towards everyone, his stomach shrank a bit with each step.
It seemed Life Return also enhanced the power of the Baku Baku no Mi.
After the last incident with the [Nature Will], Naruto would never again try to fuse those unknown energies.
As long as it was swallowed by him, it would be forcibly decomposed into the most basic energy and absorbed by the Baku Baku Factory.
Feeling the sense of power transmitted from his limbs and bones, Naruto almost lost control of the weight of his steps, nearly stomping his foot right into the ground.
After being nourished by that pure energy, it felt as if every cell was cheering.
Naruto's body also 'grew' at a visible rate under everyone's ghost-like stares.
His originally B-sized frame instantly expanded several times, roughly looking to be over 2.3 meters tall.
What made everyone feel even more breathless was that sense of pressure, as if from a difference in 'life hierarchy'.
It had nothing to do with Naruto's subjective consciousness… it was purely an instinctive awe of life.
Even the Tailed Beast's Jinchuriki were no exception.
Rather, it was precisely because they shared the Tailed Beasts' senses that they could feel that pressure more clearly.
"Ugh-"
Naruto couldn't help but stop and stretch on the spot.
With a series of crackling, thunder-like pops from his bones, his physical strength increased yet another notch, already very close to his other self's level.
Right now, he felt like someone who had been carrying heavy weights for a long time, suddenly taking them off.
That feeling of being able to breathe through every pore almost made Naruto completely intoxicated in it.
It was only now that Naruto could faintly sense the subtle difference between the air in the Ninja World and the air at sea.
That faint, almost imperceptible energy, drifting thinly in the air.
Was it Chakra? Or Natural Energy?
It should be said, it was both.
The body was like a sponge, and when it grew, it could hold more.
The surrounding Chakra and Natural Energy seemed to be drawn by a vortex, actively drilling into his body.
'This won't do.'
Frowning slightly, Haki once again enveloped his entire body, isolating the drifting Natural Energy outside.
Call it once bitten, twice shy, or call it cautious, but now Naruto wouldn't easily try to let Natural Energy enter his body unless absolutely necessary.
Who knew if he would be influenced by that consciousness again, and if he could successfully break free on his own a second time.
Even after being isolated by Haki, the Natural Energy still stubbornly tried to get in, but all attempts were in vain.
In everyone else's view, they saw Naruto first 'eat' the previous monster, then 'inflate' into a small giant himself.
Coupled with the sudden burst of aura now...
-It was really easy to misunderstand.
"Be careful! Naru… Naruto seems to be affected by that thing!"
Yugito was the first to react, issuing a warning to the two Jinchuriki beside her.
B was also seeing Naruto like this for the first time, his expression immediately turning serious as well. He and Roshi rushed to Naruto's left and right sides, attempting to suppress any potential 'rampage'.
They were so fast that even Jiraiya didn't have time to explain.
Several large tails directly wrapped around Naruto's body.
"Snap out of it! Naruto!"
While restraining Naruto with octopus tentacles, B also roared loudly in Naruto's ear with his booming voice, hoping only to help the other maintain his 'true self'.
Seeing the new comrades' stance as if facing a great enemy, Naruto felt both annoyed and amused, but the goodwill in their hearts was still transmitted to Naruto's mind without any concealment.
"Alright, alright, don't be so alarmed."
Like casually brushing off leaves stuck to clothes, Naruto gently 'pinched' the Four-Tails' tails and the Eight-Tails' tentacles.
Then, without any effort, he pulled them off his body.
Of course, from the perspective of the other two, that terrifying, almost irresistible brute force was quite despairing.
'Is this guy even human?'
The same thought arose in both Roshi and B's minds.
"Huh? Get away!"
Suddenly, Naruto's eyes looked in another direction, and he let out a loud shout.
The previously 'gentle' movement suddenly intensified, directly throwing the two Jinchuriki away.
Just as the two were thrown aside, a massive yellow spear shot over from afar.
Its speed was so fast that even B, a Perfect Jinchuriki, could only barely see a blur.
Chains extended from behind Naruto, layering over each other to block in front of him.
But upon contact with the faintly glowing spear, they were pierced through without any hindrance.
This spear seemed to have a natural countering property against Chakra Constructs.
If Chakra doesn't work, then just don't use it!
Naruto simply dismissed the Adamantine Sealing Chains, then the muscles in his arms bulged, a layer of ink-black Haki coating his arms.
The sharp forked spear tip was grasped by Naruto's hands. At the point of contact between his palms and the spear, even space seemed to distort slightly.
Bzzzzzzzzzz-
The piercing sound made everyone present cover their ears.
The spear that fell from the sky 'struggled' for a few seconds before finally calming down.
It was at this moment that everyone could clearly see the spear's appearance.
Different from the slender shaft, the spear's tip was unusually wide, forked forward like sharp claws, with red patterns coiling on it.
The Tailed Beasts present felt an inexplicable familiarity upon seeing it.
They felt they had seen it somewhere before.
Who knows what substance this spear was made of… even after being squeezed so hard by Naruto, the spear showed no cracks.
"Senjutsu?"
That was Naruto's first impression after making physical contact with the spear.
Just like the Ninjutsu he released after entering Sage Mode, the spear was composed of Natural Energy mixed with Chakra.
"Again?"
Everyone was still recovering when Naruto's Observation Haki detected the next attack arriving.
He wasn't about to indulge it either.
Gripping the peculiarly shaped spear with one hand, he turned it around, simultaneously coating it with Armament Haki.
In the next moment, the spear returned along its original path at a speed faster than before.
That was pure brute force.
The contend of flesh and blood against nature.
The second spear collided with it mid-air.
The spear on Naruto's side, because it was coated with a bit of Haki, was even harder.
Shoom!
The later spear in the air was directly shattered into countless fragments, while the one Naruto threw continued unabated, flying into the distance.
The fragments fell on the heads of the few.
B reached out, brushed them off into his palm, and observed them carefully.
"This is... sand?"
As B spoke these words, the Tailed Beasts finally remembered where they had seen that spear before.
"It's Shukaku's power!"
"The One-Tail's Jinchuriki is here too?"
That was Shukaku's Sand Spear!
Touted as the hardest 'absolute attack', though it couldn't compare to Sage of Six Paths' staff, of course.
'But was it always like this?'
The Tailed Beasts all felt the spear seemed somewhat different from their memory.
At the very least, the original Sand Spear shouldn't have been this strong.
The others received prompts from the Tailed Beasts within them and passed the information on to Naruto.
Thus, the image of a short, frowning figure resurfaced in his mind.
Naruto remembered, 'Wasn't the One-Tail Jinchuriki that guy I knocked out with a Rasengan back then?'