Chapter 174
The chakra of the Tailed Beasts is composed of two types: the yang-attribute blue chakra and the yin-attribute purple-black chakra. These two chakras are mixed and compressed to their extreme limits inside the mouth, in a yin-yang ratio of 2:8, forming a super-dense sphere. When released in a single breath, it becomes the infamous Bijūdama (Tailed Beast Ball).
Its destructive power is enough to obliterate an entire shinobi village. If not for the Fourth Hokage's Hiraishin no Jutsu (Flying Thunder God Technique) during the Nine-Tails' attack, Konoha would've been long reduced to rubble.
No one has ever dared to block a Bijūdama with their bare body, but there was once a lunatic in the Akatsuki who tried to block it with a decapitation sword. Now? The grass on that guy's grave is two meters high.
So when Aburame Hatsuizumi rushed right up to the Bijūdama, practically touching it, everyone was stunned.
Hatsuizumi didn't have Hidan's immortality, nor Tobi's intangibility. Even Guren's crystal-based spatial control surpassed her in defense. So far, all she'd shown was her terrifying offensive capabilities. How the hell could she block a Bijūdama?
Tobi's eyes were full of disbelief. A perfectly healthy person was just going to die like this. Hidan, however, looked thrilled that Hatsuizumi might bite the dust. Those bugs she used were absolute monsters—his body couldn't handle that kind of torment.
At first, he didn't take them seriously. Ants were ants, right? No matter how many there were, how much damage could they do? Turns out that "limited" damage cost him half his damn body. Now, Hidan was buried in rocks like a turtle, terrified of exposing even a pinky lest those bugs find him again. He looked like a cursed little Three-Tails hatchling now.
A blinding light pierced through the mist created by the Three-Tails. That huge blue-and-purple Bijūdama looked like a second sun lighting up the night—but it never exploded.
Even without the explosion, Hatsuizumi was still hit by the aftereffects. Tobi and the others had been right—she had many ways to attack, but in terms of defense? She was running on fumes.
"Pfft~" Blood spilled from the corner of her mouth and landed on the Three-Tails' massive head beneath her.
But slowly, the reason for the Bijūdama's disappearance became clear. Bathed in the blinding white light, the Three-Tails finally noticed something off about the tiny creature in front of him.