"I said let me out, so I go out? Wouldn't that make me lose face? I'm not going out!" the Nine-Tails said stubbornly.
Naruto scratched his head, very confused. "You big fox really are hard to serve. How come one moment you say you want to go out, and the next you say you don't?"
"On this point, you're kind of similar to the big tanuki on Gaara. Last time, Gaara told him not to come out, but he still insisted on coming out."
Hearing Naruto mention the One-Tail in the same breath as itself, the Nine-Tails could not endure it.
"Don't compare me to that stupid tanuki. With that guy Fujiwara Nagasawa outside, only if I were stupid would I go out," the Nine-Tails said with glaring eyes.
"Why won't you go out if Uncle Nagasawa is outside? Are you very afraid of him?" Naruto asked curiously.
With the truth discovered by Naruto, the Nine-Tails felt somewhat embarrassed and closed its mouth. It lay on the ground and ignored Naruto, treating Naruto as air.
Seeing that the Nine-Tails was ignoring him, Naruto boldly walked up to the iron bars, reached his hand inside, and grabbed at the Nine-Tails' fluffy body.
The Nine-Tails shot up with a whoosh, the fur on its body instantly exploding outward, each orange hair standing up as it looked at Naruto with bared fangs and brandished claws.
"Kid, you're very brave," the Nine-Tails said in a low voice.
Naruto put both hands on his waist and said in a self-righteous manner, "You've lived here for so long. I can't even touch you once? Your fur feels pretty comfortable."
The Nine-Tails' eyelids twitched. It felt that it was somewhat at a loss against Naruto.
Pretending to be fierce and scaring him had failed, so it really had no way to deal with Naruto.
"Nine-Tails, can you tell stories? I heard from Gaara that Shukaku can tell stories. I really like listening to stories," Naruto continued asking.
"Uncle Nagasawa said you seem to know Uchiha Madara and our Konoha's First Hokage, Senju Hashirama. Can you tell me about them?"
"No, I don't know them, and I don't want to talk," the Nine-Tails directly gave a triple denial.
The Nine-Tails had not expected that a child like Naruto could be so annoying and infuriating. In one short sentence, the top three people on the ranking of people it hated most had actually appeared.
The Nine-Tails suddenly thought of something. Didn't this kid like training? It could just give him some Chakra and send him away, saving itself from being annoyed here.
In order to send Naruto away sooner, the Nine-Tails controlled its own Chakra to enter Naruto's body.
Because the Nine-Tails was not speaking, Naruto was a little depressed. He looked at the ground, then suddenly discovered that the ground had already been occupied by a kind of red Chakra, and that red Chakra was continuously surging into his body with him as the center.
"Is this the Tailed Beast Chakra Uncle Nagasawa talked about?" Naruto was very curious. He felt that a huge amount of Chakra had suddenly appeared inside his body, and it already belonged to him.
"Nine-Tails, thank you for the Chakra," Naruto thanked it very politely.
"Hmph, as my Jinchuriki, you cannot lose to that stupid tanuki's Jinchuriki," the Nine-Tails snorted coldly.
"Also, hurry up and leave. Stop annoying me here," the Nine-Tails said impatiently.
"Then I'm leaving. I'll come chat with you again when I have time." Naruto waved at the Nine-Tails, then his consciousness left the consciousness space, and he opened his eyes.
"Naruto, what happened to you just now? A red Chakra suddenly came out of your body, then you seemed to become a lot stronger," Sasuke asked anxiously.
Seeing that Naruto had originally already been stronger than him, and now had suddenly become stronger again, how was he supposed to surpass Naruto?
Naruto scratched his head and said, "Actually, the Nine-Tails gave me Chakra. Just now in the consciousness space, the Nine-Tails and I chatted very happily, then it gave me Chakra. It also said something about not letting me lose to Gaara."
Gaara nodded and said, "The One-Tail also gave me Chakra once before, then I could suddenly use a lot of sand."
Sasuke: ...
Sasuke wanted to report these two people. Wasn't this cheating? How was someone like him without a Tailed Beast supposed to play?
"Unfortunately, once it's used up, it's gone. I can only have the One-Tail give me more again," Gaara said again.
Sasuke was speechless. It would actually give more.
"Hehe, next time my Chakra is used up, I'll go collect rent from the Nine-Tails again," Naruto said with a smile.
The Nine-Tails secretly listening inside: ...
Children these days were really incredible. Just now, he had said that they chatted happily and it gave him Chakra, and now it had become rent.
"Unfortunately, it seems the Nine-Tails' Chakra doesn't have any special ability." Naruto tested it and discovered that he was about the same as before. It was just that he had a large amount of extra Chakra.
Naruto tried using the Nine-Tails' Chakra to cooperate with the operation of Sun Breathing Style. This attempt was incredible. Naruto's body instantly erupted with pale red Chakra flames, and his aura suddenly surged.
Naruto felt that his strength at this moment was much greater than usual. He casually found a nearby large tree and violently punched out. The part that was struck instantly shattered.
"Uncle Nagasawa, it seems that using the Chakra the Nine-Tails gave me to use Breathing Style is stronger than using my own Chakra." Naruto asked his doubt.
"One reason is that the Chakra the Nine-Tails gave you is more than your own, and the second is because a Tailed Beast's Chakra is different from ordinary Chakra. That is why Breathing Style produced this kind of change," Nagasawa thought for a moment and explained.
Chakra was an existence with tremendous possibilities. Tailed Beast Chakra was one of the more special kinds, and the Nine-Tails was special among the special.
Other Jinchuriki, even if they became perfect Jinchuriki and could fully transform into their Tailed Beasts, had no way to fully transform into their Tailed Beasts while maintaining a human form like Naruto. It was that mode where the whole body emitted golden light, the Nine-Tails Chakra Mode.
Could it be that the relationship between the Eight-Tails and Killer B was not good enough? When the Eight-Tails was forcibly extracted, it even deliberately left Killer B a tail to save his life.
But Killer B's full Tailed Beast transformation was turning into the Eight-Tails' appearance, and he could not maintain a human form like Naruto.
Although there were now quite a few people practicing Breathing Style, the only Jinchuriki practicing Breathing Style at present was Naruto, so Nagasawa only now learned that Tailed Beast Chakra could actually have a positive influence on breathing.
"So strong!" Sasuke saw Naruto easily punch a tree apart, opened his mouth wide, and was very surprised.
Having extra Chakra to use was one thing, but it could actually make Breathing Style stronger too. How was this supposed to be played?
Sasuke felt his vision go black, as though the streetlights on the path of his life had all broken at once and everything became dim.
The sharp Nagasawa naturally noticed Sasuke's state. Nagasawa smiled and rubbed Sasuke's head, saying:
"Sasuke, Naruto and the others have their advantages, and you also have your own advantages. The Sharingan of the Uchiha Clan is very powerful in battle."
Moderate setbacks could stimulate stronger motivation. If it was excessive, one might never recover.
"Sharingan..." Sasuke's eyes lit up. Right, he still had the Sharingan of the Uchiha Clan. This was the reason the Uchiha Clan was powerful.
As long as he awakened the Sharingan, his vision would be strengthened. At that time, seeing through Naruto's moves would be extremely easy, and he would also possess powerful Genjutsu ability. Wouldn't defeating Naruto then be easy?
Sasuke instantly felt that he could do it again. For now, he would let Naruto lead by a little. Once he awakened the Sharingan in the future, the situation would definitely change. The great future was his?
Seeing Sasuke filled with fighting spirit again, Nagasawa showed a gratified smile.
Of course, he would not tell Sasuke that the Chakra the Nine-Tails had given Naruto now was only an extremely small portion. In the future, you, Sasuke, would have the Sharingan, and Naruto would also obtain more Nine-Tails Chakra.
The Nine-Tails could even use Senjutsu Chakra while Naruto was fighting with Senjutsu, then refine Senjutsu Chakra inside Naruto's body to supply Naruto.
Naruto's success could not be separated from the Nine-Tails' silent dedication. Others only saw all kinds of extravagance when Naruto displayed his divine might on the battlefield, as though his Chakra were endless, but they could not see that there was a Nine-Tails inside his body anxiously refining Chakra.
However, Nagasawa could not say whether Naruto or Sasuke had greater potential, because Sasuke's eyes had the chance to evolve into the Rinnegan.
Sasuke himself was the reincarnation of Indra's Chakra. He only needed to transplant Hashirama cells on the foundation of the Eternal Mangekyo Sharingan, and he would have a chance to awaken the Rinnegan. Madara awakened the Rinnegan this way.
If he had the Rinnegan, then the Rinnegan's help to Sasuke would definitely not be inferior to the Nine-Tails. At that time, it would still depend on himself.
Actually, Nagasawa was thinking that if Eternal Mangekyo plus Asura Chakra equaled the Rinnegan, then if Naruto were transplanted with a pair of Eternal Mangekyo Sharingan, could Naruto also obtain the Rinnegan?
Unfortunately, Konoha currently had no Eternal Mangekyo Sharingan at all. They were all ordinary Mangekyo.
However, there were quite a few Mangekyo. Fugaku, Shisui, Obito, Orochimaru, a full four pairs of Mangekyo.
'If all Uchiha could awaken the Mangekyo, how much prosperity would that increase?' Nagasawa could not help thinking.
Unfortunately, at present, they did not have a gentle method to stably awaken the Mangekyo.
If they used Orochimaru's method to help those Uchiha awaken their eyes, even if their eyes awakened, they would betray the village.
Thinking of this, Nagasawa glanced at the prosperity.
[Konoha Prosperity: 3788]
Ever since the joint Chunin Exams and Five Kage Summit in March, Konoha's prosperity had entered a wave of explosive growth. After breaking through three thousand, it was still growing rapidly. In just five short months, it had grown by nearly eight hundred prosperity again, even more than the whole of last year. It was the fastest-growing year.
Of course, this year's growth being so fast was also inseparable from the accumulation before.
The ninja school reform expanded the ninja school, increasing Konoha's reserve ninja, and the ninja who graduated were also of higher quality.
The two special departments, the Medical Department and Special Combat Class, were also developing in an orderly manner, holding a special position in the emerging Konoha.
The Six Powers had also been fully popularized in Anbu, and the training team's work had come to an end for now.
Nagasawa's vigorous development of Konoha's commerce had also received returns. Today's Konoha was already completely different from before. It had directly added a new commercial district, and there were even many things from other countries sold inside.
Together with Konoha's unique medical talismans, even without the help of the Gold Organization, Konoha could completely break free from the Daimyo's financial control. It would no longer be unable to support its ninja just because the Daimyo did not give money, because the current Konoha was truly very rich and had great potential.
With the long accumulation, plus this year's events that shocked the Ninja World and the alliance signed with the other Four Great Ninja Villages, returning the Ninja World to peace, Nagasawa felt that it was only right for prosperity to skyrocket.
The skyrocketing prosperity also made point income higher. Adding the points left over from before, even after Nagasawa spent seven hundred and twenty thousand to raise the Head Captain's fusion degree to seventy percent, he still had seven hundred and eighty thousand points left, enough to raise the Head Captain's fusion degree to over eighty percent.
However, because Nagasawa liked to save a portion of points in case there was an urgent need, he did not rush to add points.
Nagasawa was still quite looking forward to reaching four thousand prosperity and entering the world where he had done the breakthrough mission before.
What identity would he enter with? In the Pirate world, he had not completed the mission in his own image, but had fought in Whitebeard's place.
If he entered again, would it be in his own image, or would he still be inside Whitebeard's body?
Nagasawa hoped it was the former. That would be more interesting.
When watching the anime, he had long found those Celestial Dragons unpleasant. He had to go beat up that group of people who deserved a beating with his own face, then make a huge disturbance in the Holy Land Mary Geoise.
He could also spar with Mihawk in swordsmanship, although with his current level, it would be somewhat bullying the weak.
However, if Mihawk saw Whitebeard's swordsmanship from before being used by a stranger, and even more powerfully, he would probably start doubting life. Thinking of this, Nagasawa smiled unkindly.
Nagasawa wanted to get to know Shanks and witness the strong person with the Face-Face Fruit.
He would also go look at the Whitebeard Pirates and see what the Whitebeard Pirates would be like in this timeline where Ace had not been killed by Akainu.
In the original work, after Whitebeard died, the remaining members of the Whitebeard Pirates did not have an easy time.
Then he would casually kill some pirates who deserved to die. Finally, Nagasawa wanted to help the Revolutionary Army. Although Nagasawa had never done revolution, he had still studied some theories, and perhaps they would be very helpful to them.
In Nagasawa's eyes, although the Hokage world was rotten, it was still better than the Pirate world.
There were not mountain bandits everywhere in the Hokage world, while in the Pirate world, there really were pirates everywhere. Some countries even had to raise the flag of a powerful pirate crew to avoid being plundered by other pirates.
If it was the world of Tobirama's breakthrough mission, the expressions on the faces of those who thought he had sacrificed himself when they saw him appear again should be very interesting.
It was hard to say for others, but Nagasawa was sure Naruto would shout loudly. He might even think that he had been reincarnated by Orochimaru with the Impure World Reincarnation.
However, for that world, Nagasawa's desire was not very strong. After all, the big boss Kaguya had already been resolved, and there were no opponents. On the Pirate side, he could still fight Kaido, Big Mom, and even the Five Elders, but in the Hokage world, he could not very well bully Naruto and Sasuke.
Although they were not from the same world, he was still Naruto and Sasuke's teacher after all. He was not so far as to bully students.
At most, Nagasawa would go to that world to see whether any new Otsutsuki would arrive. If there were, he could take the opportunity to learn about them, to avoid being caught off guard in his own world.