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In terms of classification, there are sealing jutsu that exist solely for sealing and can be undone, like the Four Symbols Sealing Jutsu. There are also sealing jutsu that exist solely for erasure, with irreversible results, like the Inner Four Symbols Sealing Jutsu.
Before today, no one really knew what would happen if you used this kind of "kill the goose and get the golden eggs" sealing jutsu against a tailed beast. So, Haori was about to take another step ahead on the path of exploration.
After reminding his teammates to watch out for large-scale attacks, Haori took out the Inner Four Symbols scroll and threw it towards the Two-Tails, which was charging straight at him. Then, he quickly retreated, moving out of range of the jutsu's effect. At the same time, the scroll reached its designated attack position. He expected his teammates to have disappeared by then.
Everything was ready in an instant. Haori raised both hands, preparing to form hand seals.
But the word "explore" is written as "探知" (tàn zhī) in Chinese, but a lot of the time, it can be read as "作死" (zuò sǐ), which means "to commit suicide."
The problem was that the Inner Four Symbols Seal required a specific process and steps to activate. In other words, it needed a certain amount of time.
Although tailed beasts are called "beasts," they are clearly different from ordinary wild animals. This difference is evident in both their strength and their intelligence.
The key point is that they can understand human language and easily understand its meaning.
Whether they understand a lot or a little, at least they have intelligence. That's a great thing. After all, there are many individuals in the human world who can't understand human language and don't have intelligence.
Since their birth, how many times have the tailed beasts been sealed? They probably can't even count. So, when they saw the scroll flying towards them, the Two-Tails had a strange feeling. Combined with Haori's previous warning to his teammates, it immediately felt that this thing was a threat.
So, the Two-Tails instinctively reacted… It swung its tail and knocked the huge scroll that was flying towards it back along its original path.
The process of Haori activating the Inner Four Symbols Sealing Jutsu was roughly divided into two steps. The hand seals he formed were also two different types. First, the first hand seal was very simple. It was just about releasing the seal limited to the scroll itself, restoring it to its original size from the size that could be held in the palm of his hand.
After that, the next step was to activate the hand seals of the sealing jutsu itself. During this process of forming hand seals, the sealing jutsu on the scroll would draw a large amount of chakra from Haori, to open the sealing barrier.
For Haori, the Inner Four Symbols consumed a lot of chakra. After using this move, as a ninja, he basically had no stamina left.
Although Haori's positioning was excellent, his hand speed was also very fast. So, when the huge scroll slammed back into his face, the activation hand seals of the Inner Four Symbols Sealing Jutsu were just missing one seal…
He almost didn't manage to form it.
This was probably the first time in Haori's life that he was grateful that his hand speed wasn't even faster… Was this feeling what they called "breaking out in a cold sweat"?
If he had been even slightly faster, this wouldn't have been an attack. It would have been actual suicide. A simple and brutal death.
High power, easy to cause friendly fire, sealing is risky, be careful when using it.
Sealing jutsu shouldn't be used in frontal, fast-paced battles. Throwing scrolls everywhere, Haori was probably the only one in the ninja world who did this. The concept and theory of offensive sealing jutsu were probably first proposed by him.
Wow, there really is someone who throws a grenade back at you. This kind of awesome "jutsu rebound," Haori had never seen it before.
It's a bit of a subtle way of saying it, but the Two-Tails really threw Haori's jutsu back at him.
But he was a seasoned veteran of the battlefield. This sudden situation, and the near-miss blunder, although it made him stunned, didn't make him stupid.
The Two-Tails was now right in front of him. Its huge front paw was about to slam down.
Because they were both within the range of the Inner Four Symbols Seal, Haori couldn't use this jutsu unless he wanted to die with it. So, moving forward or backward was the same. And retreating further wouldn't do any good. So, instead of retreating, he moved forward, charging straight at the Two-Tails.
The tailed beast's initial priority target was Haori, the attacker, but now it had changed. The first target was no longer Haori himself, but the scroll that had fallen to the ground.
With its intelligence, it could understand that this thing was still working, meaning that the threat of being sealed still existed.
So, the Two-Tails' paw slammed down on the scroll!
Then, a blue fox fire-like flame ignited beneath the Two-Tails' paw. Then, the large Inner Four Symbols Sealing Scroll quickly disappeared in the flames… along with the jutsu that had drawn Haori's chakra.
All that effort for nothing. The seal hadn't activated. It hadn't dealt a fatal blow. Haori had wasted a huge amount of chakra.
But that's how battles are, full of uncertainty. If everything had gone according to Haori's plan, wouldn't he be invincible?
Haori never had such a shallow thought, thinking that every attack he launched would achieve its intended value. If one attack didn't work, then he would wait for the next one.
So, in this situation, he charged forward without paying attention to what was happening behind him. Using the extreme speed brought by Lightning Release's super-activation of body cells, he shifted his body, instantly appearing below the Two-Tails' abdomen. Then, the Chidori Sharp Spear in his hand lit up. He stabbed directly upward, piercing deeply into the Two-Tails' abdomen, and at the same time, the Chidori Sharp Spear made a linear cut as he moved at high speed.
In terms of feel, cutting a tailed beast wasn't much more difficult than cutting through an Iwagakure ninja's Earth Release.
Perhaps the Jinchūriki was still somewhere inside the tailed beast's body. It was possible that Haori's attack accidentally cut Yūgao Uzuki. With the Chidori Sharp Spear's attack power, theoretically, it could even kill someone without the spearhead.
But this possibility was very slim. Haori didn't have that kind of luck. His attack only caused the Two-Tails to roar in pain, not disappear.
According to a certain law, it was likely that the Two-Tails had hidden the Jinchūriki in its nape. At this point, you would only need to use two large utility knives to cut a specific spot on its nape, which could potentially cause the simultaneous demise of the Jinchūriki and the tailed beast…
But unfortunately, Haori didn't have a yearning for freedom.
From beginning to end, Haori crossed paths with the Two-Tails. The Chidori Sharp Spear only inflicted external wounds before dissipating.
Then, he shifted to the left, dodging a tail that slammed down.
After charging forward a short distance, his teammates, who had realized what had happened, reappeared beside him.
What embarrassed Haori wasn't that he had just wasted a lot of chakra, or that he had almost killed himself. It was that his teammates were now looking at him with innocent eyes.
What about your ultimate move? Was it just that attack that seemed to castrate the Two-Tails? Everyone hid, and then there was just this little commotion?
Well, in any case, Gamabunta and the super-sized Chōji Akimichi moved forward again to block the Two-Tails, trying to regain aggro.
Minato naturally knew what had just happened. The Inner Four Symbols Sealing Jutsu's technique had been destroyed by the Two-Tails. So, he asked Haori, "Haori, can you prepare the seal a second time?"
Haori shook his head decisively. For him, the Inner Four Symbols Seal, which used so much chakra, was the real thing with a cooldown. And the special versions he had made with stored chakra were long gone.
You don't know until you see it. The world is truly amazing. It's normal for attackers not to have health bars, but to run out of mana? How does that work?
In any case, besides his ultimate burst, honestly, Haori really couldn't handle a boss-level enemy like a tailed beast. But… should he fight the Two-Tails here?
The problem was that time didn't allow Minato's squad to fight leisurely.
"Minato, a large group of Kumogakure ninjas are starting to move."
Shizune Yūgao, who was in charge of reconnaissance, issued a warning, as expected.
Samui, who was trying to send a message, should still be on her way. And the reason Kumogakure was starting to move was undoubtedly because of the Tailed Beast Ball, a move with such high recognition.
The tailed beast or Jinchūriki that existed on this battlefield could only be Kumogakure's, not Konoha's. So, they were acting more aggressively.
And they had the advantage in distance.
So, it seemed like there was only one path ahead for Minato's squad.
"We can't teleport the tailed beast… No, nothing." Haori's suggestion almost slipped out, but he stopped himself.
He originally wanted to ask Minato if he could teleport the Two-Tails away with him. They could change locations and slowly grind it down. But the problem was that with something as large as a tailed beast, the Flying Thunder God could teleport it, but the distance would be very limited. It wouldn't be able to teleport it very far.
Space-time ninjutsu also has its limits.
Besides, if they wanted to teleport to a place that was convenient for fighting, where would that place be?
Konoha camp? Have a large group of ninjas gang up on the tailed beast? That would be a suggestion that only a Kumogakure spy would come up with. Putting the tailed beast among the ninjas wouldn't be a gang-up. It would be a reverse massacre.
Killing the tailed beast wouldn't be a quick process.
So, even with the AB duo, Minato's squad's plan was only to eliminate the Eight-Tails Jinchūriki, not to deal with the Eight-Tails itself.
Compared to directly dealing with the tailed beast, instantly killing their shared destiny, the Jinchūriki before they transformed into a tailed beast, was much easier.
No matter what, this battle was practically over.
Minato's squad's only gain was probably intelligence. At least they knew that Kumogakure had a new Jinchūriki, a young female ninja. The next time a Konoha ninja encountered her, they had to be extra careful.
Let the Kumogakure ninjas who were coming to help subdue their own tailed beast. Thinking about that scene… it seemed pretty good.
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