After finishing breakfast, Izanami took Naruto to the familiar training ground in the backyard. After instructing Naruto to do some simple exercises for a warm-up, Izanami went inside the house to get something.
Naruto did some simple exercises and then began to run around the training ground. While running, he began to chat with Kurama to relieve his boredom.
During this past year, Kurama and Naruto's relationship became very close. After all, with Izanami leaving a spiritual clone inside Naruto's mind palace, Kurama naturally didn't dare to play any dirty tricks on Naruto. What's more, although he won't admit it himself, he actually likes the new environment in this place now.
After all, the reason why tail beasts wanted to break free from their Jinchuriki is due to their wanting freedom. After all, no one liked to stay in a gloomy place for the rest of their lives. And what's more, in this sealed place, there was literally nothing for them to do. Most of them were going crazy due to boredom.
Even if they wanted to sleep to kill time, the Jinchuriki inside them would forcibly use their chakra, which would hurt them. And what infuriated them even more was that they could see everything the Jinchuriki saw. It's like a kind of torture where they would show the victim the things he longs for to break his spirit. So, seeing the outside world, they gradually yearned for freedom, and their inner hatred grew even more stronger.
This is why, when a tailed beast escapes from its seal, the first thing it does is not escape but throw a huge tailed beast bomb at its enemy. This is simply for revenge and to relieve the anger in its heart for all the mental torture it had suffered.
Originally, Kurama, who also suffered all this, would not change his attitude even with Izanami's presence. But unlike the rest of the tailed beasts, he is in a far better situation than them.
After all, not only is the scenery inside the mind palace way better than it is in the outside world, but it also has many ways to keep it company. Every day, Kurama, Minato, Kushina, and Izanami would get together and watch films, play games, and even practice.
Due to this, Kurama never felt bored. In fact, he even felt a bit overwhelmed because Izanami is now forcing both him and Kushina to learn sealing techniques the right way.
Although Kushina is a sealing master, she was not able to inherit all the Uzumaki-style sealing techniques due to her young age when she was taken to Konoha. So, although it may be a bit rude to say this but Kushina is not using even half of her inheritance properly.
Sealing techniques are like programming languages. In the early years, the Uzumaki clan would only impart simple and basic concepts of sealing arts to their descendants. This is the first part of their training.
After they gradually understood the concepts, the elders would then teach them the advanced skills and tricks, or cheats. And this process couldn't be replicated by someone studying a ninja scroll alone, since the crucial part of this process is to impart the experiences of the elders to the younger generation.
Mito Uzumaki, who was Kushina's guardian in Konoha, also didn't have that much time to do this process completely. After all, at the time Kushina came to Konoha, she was very old and was nearing her death.
But still, she managed to impart at least 48% of her knowledge to Kushina before her death. But this still wasn't enough for Kushina to show her true potential.
Originally, with Kushina's talent, becoming a sealing grandmaster wouldn't be a problem. You should know the reason why she was chosen as the next Jinchuriki was because she showed the highest talent in sealing arts.
But not being able to inherit all of Mito's experiences, her lack of talent in researching Kushina's sealing level was stuck at master.
And this is why Kushina is forced to participate in the sealing art class by Izanami. Izanami intended to let Kushina complete her training.
As for Minato, who is also good at sealing arts, well, Izanami just gave him a long scroll containing all her knowledge in chakra and jutsu creation. And ever since then, he had been staying in his room reading like a madman all day and night.
He was so engrossed in this that sometimes Kushina had to beat him first before she could talk with him. Otherwise, even if Kushina were standing naked in front of him, he would not look up from the book.
Don't ask why that is so specific.
At first, Kushina was very angry about this and went to confront Izanami and complain to her. But what Izanami said left her speechless.
"Well, I don't blame him after all, this book is the ultimate prize every genius in research is yearning for. I remember Tobirama also had that same attitude when I just let him take a peek at this book.
I remember Hashirama even using Wood Release to imprison his brother for a week straight before he calmed down and returned back to normal.
But after that day, Tobirama's creation of forbidden jutsu increased tenfold. My book allowed him to see the truth about chakra, allowing him to break through all the stumbling blocks he had before. " Izanami explained as if it were no big deal.
Well, after that, Kushina and Kurama studied under Izanami without any complaints. Although the training was very hard, especially for Kurama, who had zero knowledge in sealing arts, the rewards were worth the effort.
In just a few months, Kurama managed to become a sealing expert, while Kushina managed to break through the sealing grandmaster stage.
If the outside world were to know about this, then the sealing masters in the whole world would commit suicide over this. Especially when they realize a tailed beast is able to use sealing arts that 90% of ninjas couldn't do.
As for Minato, well, he is still absorbed in the book, and Izanami concluded that he would finish the whole book in about another week or so.
But even though Minato had done nothing but read a book, everyone could see how much of a transformation he was going through by looking at his aura. His aura is changing from that of a youthful teenager to that of an old sage who has seen through the end of time and space.
Since Minato is still occupied with his training, both Kushina and Kurama got a rare time to relax. And Kurama, not wanting to get entangled with Kushina (they both have that love-hate relationship). So during this time, he had been hanging out with Naruto.
'Hey, Kurama, why do you think big sis Izanami suddenly decided to give me a training? ' Naruto asked in his mind.
'Hmph, what makes you think I know anything about it? Go ask for her yourself, Kurama said through the mental link.
'And besides, it isn't that strange. After all, she would be leaving Konoha in a few days, so I guess she wanted to give you some homework to do while she is away, Kurama added.
'Yeah, that's true, I guess. ' Naruto nodded in agreement, hearing Kurama's analysis.
While the fox and the kid were chatting in the mindspace, Izanami, whom they were talking about, came back.
"Hey, Naruto, that's enough for the warm-up. Come here for a bit, " She said, making Naruto stop his jogging and come towards her.
Coming near, Izanami Naruto's attention was instantly drawn towards the objects she was holding.
On Izanami's hands there were ...
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