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When Naruto arrived next to Shukaku, Temari and Kankuro had already run far away.
"Brat, put the smelly..."
Before it could finish speaking, Naruto had already swung his Mojia Treasure Brick in a wide arc, aiming it.
A sand wall rose from the ground, blocking the Treasure Brick. The clash of iron and sand produced a heavy, muffled thud.
"Stinky fox, is this how you discipline your Jinchuriki?" This time, the Nine-Tails didn't refuse the call; Shukaku's voice echoed into the Seal Space.
"Hmph..." The fat orange cat sneered disdainfully.
If you want to fight, then fight. Why are you talking so much nonsense?
"Then I'll discipline him for you!"
"You're not worthy."
"Then come out and fight me."
"You're not worthy."
"I'll kill him, and see if you come out then!"
"You're not worthy."
Shukaku's tails thrashed wildly in anger.
The sand wall that blocked the Treasure Brick transformed into a giant hand, grabbing the Treasure Brick and Naruto along with it, flinging them towards the sky. At the same time, the surrounding sand gathered into sharp spikes, stabbing upwards. In the desert, it was the king.
"Shadow Clone Jutsu!"
Two clones appeared. One clone flung the other two away before heroically sacrificing itself. The sand spikes continued to pursue Naruto. The other clone spun a few times in the air, landing steadily, then stepped into a forming teleportation gate.
Naruto, with no purchase in the air, used the Wudang Cloud Ascent Steps. He took out a rock in the air, infused it with chakra, and transformed it into a one-cubic-meter stone wall. He stepped on the falling stone wall, using the leverage to rise diagonally a bit further. The sand spikes pursued relentlessly, and Naruto continued his Cloud Ascent Steps. Using this method, Naruto narrowly dodged multiple attacks in the air.
"Wind Style: Drilling Air Bullet!"
"Summoning Jutsu: Double Iron Pot." With nowhere to dodge, Naruto could only hold up the iron pot to defend himself. The Drilling Air Bullet struck the iron pot, sending Naruto, along with the pot, flying backward over thirty meters.
Shukaku, having already calculated Naruto's landing spot, controlled the sand to open a crack several meters deep, waiting for him. Naruto, spinning and flying backward, unable to do anything, was forced to fall into the pit. The bottom of the pit was quicksand; Shukaku intended to crush him with pressure.
"Brat, this isn't the ocean, I..."
Splat.
A wooden bucket struck its head. The water-filled bucket shattered, and a stream of fishy-smelling seawater drenched Shukaku's forehead. The clone Naruto had sent away had gone to the Land of Waves, and Naruto's frantic jumping in the air earlier was to gain a wider view. The clone teleported into the air, tossed the wooden bucket, which struck the smug Shukaku's head, then dropped down and was impaled by Shukaku.
But it didn't matter. There was a large group of clones in the Land of Waves, carrying wooden buckets filled with water, waiting to teleport over. No ocean? No problem, I'll bring it to you! In ancient times, Jingwei carried stones to fill the sea; now, Naruto pours water to soak the sand.
Naruto could also conjure water from his personal dimension, but the water retrieved from there was always a small bucket, similar in size to a trash can in his previous life, which was less convenient than having clones fill wooden buckets in the Land of Waves and then teleporting them over.
Shukaku also saw the purple teleportation gate above. Last time, Naruto had used this trick to dodge its Tailed Beast Ball. Unexpectedly, this move could be used in this way too? Shukaku took a deep breath, and its already enormous belly grew even larger, bulging as if pregnant with ten babies.
"Wind Style: Sand Cloud!"
A fierce wind swept up sand and stones, obscuring the sky and sun, completely blinding vision. Naruto, sensing the unusual movement of the sand beneath his feet, leaped to evade.
"Wind Style: Sand Shuriken!" Sand formed into small stones, which Shukaku propelled with Wind Style like bullets towards Naruto.
Naruto's keen reflexes allowed him to dodge a few stones. He knew the power of this technique, so he conjured a stone wall in front of him, curling his body into a ball to hide behind the rock. Being hit by the stones wasn't the problem; the problem was that the stones, once embedded in his body, would turn into fine sand, which Shukaku could control!
Both Naruto and the stone fell towards the ground under Newton's mighty force. Before landing, Naruto pushed off the stone wall to glide away. The one-cubic-meter stone wall, however, was gradually crushed by the sand and stones upon impact. He hadn't glided many meters before he jumped up again, using the iron pot as a shield. At the same time, he received information from the second clone, which had delivered seawater and then died.
Behind him, a gigantic black shadow was approaching. It was estimated to be a sand wave at least ten meters high. Hidden by the sand cloud, the clones falling from the sky couldn't see Naruto, but they could see Shukaku and the sand wave—they were too big to miss. If the sand cloud were dispelled at this moment, one would see a funnel-like vortex on the ground. Shukaku was blowing stones in front of Naruto, while a ten-meter high sand wave surged behind him.
The iron-pot-shielding Naruto, who had landed and jumped again, finally saw the teleportation gate fully form. Using the invincibility period of the teleportation, Naruto warped high into the sky. The moment his body solidified, the power of Mother Earth captured him.
He jumped a few steps, stepping on the summoned stone wall. Before he could even get close to Shukaku's head, a wind-attribute chakra sphere assailed him head-on.
"Big fox, tell me, how do I fight this?" In his current state of no visibility, with Shukaku's machine-gun-like attacks and anti-aircraft artillery, he couldn't stand on the ground, the air wasn't safe, there were stones in front and sand waves behind, and he couldn't even get close. He truly almost ended up going "GG" after getting "A-ed" in.
"Brat, it can't keep this up for long." Tailed Beast Chakra wasn't limitless; it would be exhausted and needed time to recover. If Shukaku kept this up, it truly couldn't last much longer.
"You want me to wear it down?" Are you mistaking me for the Third Raikage, trying to wear down a Tailed Beast? With this attack intensity, not dying would already be a blessing from my ancestors.
"Mhm, don't stop the seawater. Increase its burden."
"I feel like you're hiding something from me."
Kurama slurped its soda, saying nothing. It never lied to people, but that didn't mean it had to tell everything.
Kurama indeed had its plan. It wanted to train Naruto's strength. Opportunities to fight a Tailed Beast (to prevent being flagged) alone were rare. If he missed this chance, who knew when the next one would be. With this brat's recovery ability, plus with itself and that white-haired guy watching, nothing bad would happen. It was a good opportunity to let him further develop his body.
Normally, training this brat would push him to his limits, but training to the limit and fighting to the limit were different. Fighting to the limit might allow for breakthroughs. However, this brat never even got the chance to fight to his limit; his body was even more "Tailed Beast-like" than a Tailed Beast itself. It was just that his current strength was lacking. In a few more years, once he got stronger, Kurama felt it might even be dragged to death by him. Not just itself, but perhaps even nine Tailed Beasts in a relay battle wouldn't be able to outlast him.
Furthermore, Kurama also wanted to use this opportunity to annoy Shukaku. Once Shukaku was exhausted and realized it still couldn't kill this brat, Kurama would then go out and beat it up again. Shukaku's expression at that time would surely be priceless.
This thought came from a complaint Naruto's clone had made while watching a movie where the protagonist fought a boss, which he'd seen over the past two days. What is despair? It's when you work yourself to death, only to realize you can't beat the boss, and then the boss undergoes a second transformation, becomes even stronger, and beats you up again.
According to the boss setting described by that clone, Kurama saw itself as the boss after the second transformation. It was a good time to test this theory on Shukaku.
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