The next day, Naruto still didn't pick up Jiraiya. Instead, he went to the Land of Snow, leaving a white-haired pervert to guard Konoha alone.
Around a bonfire and stone walls, Naruto had a clone pull Yugito out of the Extreme Bliss Refrigerator and place her on a spread tapestry.
At this moment, Yugito had lost her rebellious spirit from yesterday and was in a deep, unconscious sleep. She had transformed from a fiery wildcat into a docile ragdoll cat. Her face was beautiful, her figure stunning, and her body still warm.
As for the Two-Tails within her, it seemed... mostly fine.
"Brat, it and I are both products of the Sage of Six Paths. Furthermore, with a Jinchuriki and a seal separating us, do you think it would affect me?" The Two-Tails' voice carried a hint of pride.
Naruto, adding firewood, asked without looking up, "How was it produced?"
Two-Tails: "..."
Is this Jinchuriki of Kurama mentally ill? Everyone else cares why it's ineffective, but your focus is so strange?
"Do you remember how you were born?"
"No. So you're still not coming out?"
The Two-Tails felt it clearly couldn't keep up with this person's train of thought. Mourning for Kurama, it said, "I'm not coming out."
Dropping the last piece of wood, Naruto clapped his hands: "Alright then, open the gate, release Method One."
With that, he left a clone and ran away.
"Who is Method One?"
Naruto didn't reply. He ran several hundred meters until he felt he was far enough, then stopped and looked back.
A minute later, the clone finally arrived with Method One. As soon as he focused, the clone was impaled by the chains on Method One's body and died. The remaining chains stretched, one towards Naruto, and one into Yugito's abdomen.
As the chain inserted, the unconscious Yugito twitched violently, then her body stiffened and became still.
And Method One remained unconscious throughout.
"Brat, what is this?" The Two-Tails, bound by chains and being pulled out, screamed in panic.
Naruto calmly replied, "Something that can pull you out."
Unless absolutely necessary, he really didn't want to use Method One. Even though this monk was still unconscious, his uncontrollable chains were a bane to Jinchuriki. Every time he used him, it took a long time to send him back.
"You take him away, I'll come out!" The Two-Tails was truly panicked. These chains were actually devouring it, extracting its chakra!
"If you had cooperated earlier, it would have ended sooner." Naruto released dozens of clones to approach Method One. Some attracted the chains, some resisted with swords. After a lot of effort, finally, one clone risked its life to grab Method One and teleport him away.
"Come out."
"Alright," With a sigh from the Two-Tails, a powerful chakra erupted from Yugito's body. Blue flames soared, and in a blink, a large blue cat appeared. The large cat crushed the stone walls, trampled the bonfire, its front paws straight, hind legs crouched, like a house cat, except behind it were two fiery tails.
Flames scorched the snowy ground, melting the snow. In a moment, white mist rose. It had already opened.
"So beautiful," Naruto exclaimed. The Two-Tails, in this form, was probably one of the more aesthetically pleasing Tailed Beasts. The originally most beautiful Nine-Tails was still orange. The Sage of Six Paths' aesthetic sense was indeed flawed.
"Thank you." The Two-Tails remained motionless, its two tails swaying. "Go ahead."
Naruto stood in front of the Two-Tails like a small bean sprout, puzzled. "You... you're not resisting?"
What happened to the arrogance and calmness of a cat lord? What's with this attitude of 'I don't care'? Are all you guys who aren't afraid of boiling water so shameless?!
"Mm, hurry up, it's quite cold."
Now it was Naruto's turn not knowing how to proceed. If it resisted, Naruto could go up and beat it up, but without resistance... it was boring.
But if he didn't hit it, how would he account for the stolen box? Walking around the Two-Tails, Naruto finally arrived at its tail, pulling out the Kusanagi Sword.
"You're going to cut off my tail?" The Two-Tails turned to look at him.
"Mm."
The Two-Tails cat looked strange. One tail looked better.
"You... never mind, just do it."
Naruto held the long sword, hesitant. Finally, he made up his mind and brought it down fiercely. But before the blade could even reach the tail, the tail detached itself. It detached.
Naruto was stunned: "It can fall off on its own?"
"Brat, your understanding of Tailed Beasts as chakra entities is too limited." The Two-Tails swayed its sole remaining tail. At the base of the tail, another one was slowly coalescing and growing.
It's not that I'm limited, it's that I can't understand your inhuman operations at all.
"Can I go back now?"
Naruto waved his hand: "Go back."
So tired. The rumored Flaming Demon Cat turning out to be such a docile and cowardly cat almost shattered his worldview.
This just doesn't match your intellectual big sister's voice at all.
No matter what Naruto thought, the Two-Tails jumped into the air nearby and quickly disappeared, leaving behind a mess, a steaming puddle of hot water, and a tail.
"Thump..."
Yugito fell into the snowdrift.
Naruto had a clone throw Yugito back at the Cloud Village gate. He sat for a long time, unable to comprehend the Two-Tails' personality problem. He finally gave up thinking and brought Tenten over.
As soon as she arrived, the cold air stimulated her nasal cavity, and Tenten couldn't help but sneeze: "Achoo... This is... the Land of Snow?"
"That's right."
"What's wrong with you? And what's that?!" Seeing Naruto looking traumatized, Tenten asked, then noticed the tail in the hot spring.
"A cat tail. You don't need to worry about that. Just help me seal this box."
Sealing Tailed Beast Chakra and sealing objects were not the same system; Tenten couldn't do the former.
"Where's such a big cat?!"
"There is. The Uchiha clan's ninja tool suppliers have records..."
"Eh? There really is?"
The two walked and chatted. Tenten continued to perform the Shoulder-Pressing Foot-Kick Sealing Method, while Naruto went to retrieve the Bashōsen.
After sealing, Tenten rubbed her ears with the scroll. Naruto handed her the Bashōsen: "For you."
Tenten asked in surprise, "What is this?"
"Bashōsen, a Sage of Six Paths tool."
This young girl had accompanied him to seal the mountain for ten days, constantly busy, her hands swollen until now. He would feel bad if he didn't give her something.
Tenten patted the scroll: "It's the same type as this?"
"Mm."
"Let me see." Tenten gave the scroll to Naruto, picked up the Bashōsen, and examined it: "I... why do I feel like it's missing two symmetrical feathers at the top?"
"I pulled them out. For my collection."
"Eh? So it's a defective product?"
Naruto activated his "It doesn't hinder its use. I've tried it; it consumes quite a bit of chakra, so use it sparingly."
"But it feels weird with a piece missing."
"As long as it works."
In the evening, Naruto finally brought Jiraiya back.
Jiraiya sat at the table, watching Naruto cut meat with the Kusanagi Sword, and his anger flared.
Jiraiya had discussed this incident with others in Konoha. The AB brothers being seriously injured was secondary; their physiques could recover anyway, and the over seventeen hundred kidney problems were not a big issue. The Kusanagi Sword was not a great sword, and the wounds were small. As long as there wasn't massive bleeding, it was no problem for a ninja to fully heal them, at most, a year of physical weakness.
The main point was the blow to their image!
Being cornered and beaten by one person, with a whole village of powerless ninjas—one didn't even need to think to guess that Cloud Village's future mission volume would decrease by at least thirty percent.
This was the cruelest part.
I told you to be gentler, and in a blink of an eye, you almost wiped out Cloud Village. Even if you didn't, they won't recover for years. If I don't say anything, are you just going to erase the Land of Lightning?
Also, you've taken that little girl away repeatedly, and you didn't even notify me?! Do you still consider me your master?!
"Alright, eat," Naruto placed the plate on the table and sat opposite him.
"You wait until I finish eating!" Jiraiya glared fiercely at Naruto as he picked up a piece of meat to his mouth. The meat was tender and chewy, then a burst of chakra exploded: "Pfft!!"
"Wicked disciple, what did you give me to eat?"
"Two-Tails roasted Eight-Tails!" Naruto said proudly. No one else could truly make this dish.
Jiraiya's eyes twitched with anger. "You... poisoned me again?!"
Is Tailed Beast meat something an ordinary person can endure?!
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