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A few days after playing "Rice Fragrance."
"Thump! Thump! Thump!"
The sound of heavy objects hitting the ground reverberated, one after another.
Naruto got up, dusted himself off, and then, carrying a stone slab, he bounded up a pointed stone pillar beside him. He placed the slab flat on top of the pillar. Before the slab could fall, Naruto leaped directly onto it and sat down.
This was the most crucial step in cultivating Sage Arts: sitting on a flat stone slab balanced atop a pointed stone pillar, maintaining balance, and remaining perfectly stillānot just his body, but his mind as well. Only in this way could natural energy surge into his body.
However, given Naruto's personality, the difficulty of achieving stillness in both body and mind was considerable.
Three seconds laterā¦
"Thump. Thwack."
Both the stone slab and Naruto landed on the ground.
Naruto didn't need Fukasaku to pull him up or spider webs to catch him. As long as he didn't land headfirst, this height posed no threat. If he fell, he fell. A little pain would help him remember.
He dusted himself off again, picked up a new slab, and scampered back up, faster than a monkey.
Looking at the newly created crater, Sage Fukasaku's eyebrows twitched wildly. His head ached. He now seriously doubted Jiraiya's purpose in sending this child over.
Did you send him here to cultivate Sage Arts or to demolish the place?
Making a crater wasn't a big deal; it could be filled later. But this stone slab was a floor tile from Mount MyÅboku.
Anyone who observed the original series carefully would notice that the stone slabs the protagonist used during Sage Mode training were very similar in size and shape to the floor tiles on the ground, just a lighter color because the ground ones had been trampled on for years.
The pile next to him were spares, also used for Sage Mode training. Originally, there was a large quantity, but with Naruto's speed of destroying one every two or three seconds, no amount could hold up. These past two days, Sage Fukasaku had been transferring stone slabs from other areas.
As the saying goes, "Never regret enteringĀ Naruto; in the next life, wreak havoc on Konoha Village."
Naruto, having wreaked havoc on Konoha Village, now extended his destructive tendencies to Mount MyÅboku. The first casualties were Mount MyÅboku's floor tiles.
He had practically stripped a layer off the ground.
"Thump! Thwack."
Seeing Naruto pick up another stone slab, Fukasaku's eyelids twitched as he said, "Little Naruto, let's stop here for today."
Logically, they shouldn't run out of stone slabs, but Naruto just didn't play by the rules. In the past, others who came to Mount MyÅboku to train would arrive via Reverse Summoning, so Mount MyÅboku was prepared. But Naruto had his teleportation gates and could come at any time, which caught Fukasaku off guard.
Naruto was completely unaware of this. He thought Mount MyÅboku's storeroom was full of stone slabs. After all, in the original story, Jiraiya trained for several years, and there were still plenty, right?
Walking over to Fukasaku, Naruto asked suspiciously, "Why? I still have plenty of stamina!"
Sage Fukasaku pinched his brow.Ā I know you have abundant stamina, but I beg you, save some floor tiles for Mount MyÅboku.
At this rate, even the floor tiles from the Great Sage Toad's palace will have to be moved here.
But he couldn't say that. It would be too embarrassing for a place as vast as Mount MyÅboku to not even be able to supply simple stone slabs.
"Training requires a balance of work and rest. Go sit by the oil pond and perceive natural energy," Sage Fukasaku casually made up an excuse.
"Oh," Naruto replied, walking back to the oil pond to begin his Sage Arts training.
He didn't cause any trouble. His greatest strength was his obedience. If Jiraiya told him to cause less trouble, he would cause less trouble. Aside from frying insects and playing the piano, he spent all his time on training. For days, he lived a life of two points and one lineāoil pond and stone pillarāwithout causing any trouble.
Time passed quickly in Sage training.
The alarm clock rang.
Opening his eyes, and after a hearty meal, Naruto returned to the Land of Wind to continue his iron drag.
While Sage training was important, it was a strengthening buff. Physical fitness was the foundation, and a solid foundation would make a Sage even more powerful.
In the desert, a blond figure walked alone, not even bringing his pets. Their bodies couldn't compare to Naruto's, and the drastic temperature changes from teleporting back and forth were too much. Naruto feared they wouldn't be able to handle it.
Jiraiya was absent. Naruto's clone had personally seen him go to the kabuki district and hadn't returned yet. Having spent so much time together, Naruto still didn't know if he had ever had "more than friendly" relations with those women. He hadn't seen it in the original story, nor had he ever followed him in person now.
Although based on his relationship with Tsunade, such a thing shouldn't happen, Japanese culture was mainstream in Naruto, and it was common for Japanese men to frequent entertainment districts; they were practically everywhere. Sometimes, Naruto would maliciously speculate that if Jiraiya did engage in such acts, would his future son, when out looking for women, discover that he was dating his own sisters?
However, Naruto still leaned towards Jiraiya not having done anything out of line. It was because of his top-tier strength in the ninja world. This kind of strength suggested he was someone who had practiced "virgin boy skills" for fifty years. Correlating with this was Tsunade's bottle of 50-year-old Daughter Red wine.
Unfortunately, Jiraiya's "virgin boy skills" ultimately fell short, defeated by Pain, who could absorb chakra.
Even walking alone in the desolate desert, Naruto's imaginative mind couldn't stop wandering. He wasn't truly alone; there was always a fox spirit inside his belly accompanying him.
Thinking of the two of the Legendary Sannin, Naruto's thoughts drifted to Orochimaru.
Then, outside one of Orochimaru's secret bases.
"Boom! Boom! Boom!"
Seven explosions echoed, and Sasuke, hearing the sound, stopped fighting the reanimated corpses and walked out of the base.
The seven explosions were the secret signal Naruto had set with him.
After his clone exchanged some information known only to the two of them with Sasuke, Naruto first sent Sasuke to the Land of Waves. Then, the clone had Sasuke stab him with a Chidori, and Naruto himself also arrived in the Land of Waves.
Naruto didn't have any particular reason for calling Sasuke out this time. He just wanted to tell Orochimaru, "I can take Sasuke away anytime. What will you do?"
Orochimaru had never met Sasuke with his true body, evidently having learned about Naruto's teleportation and guarding against him, fearing Naruto would bring a car full of men to attack him. Since he had guessed the general idea, Naruto wasn't trying to hide anything. He deliberately showed it to him openly, hoping to make him lower his guard.
Because Naruto had a next move waiting for him.
Naruto couldn't defeat Orochimaru, but that didn't stop him from having a long-distance confrontation with him.
Come on, Orochimaru, let's go a few rounds.
On the other side, Karin was talking with the reanimated people, reporting to Orochimaru. Although she had been snatched halfway, after comparing her life in the Grass Village with her current life, Karin decisively chose to stay. In the Grass Village, her treatment was practically public; anyone who caught her would bite her. But here, she became exclusive.
Although she was exclusive to Sasuke and Kimimaro, both of them were exceptionally handsome. Karin, who liked handsome men, after a period of grinding her teeth and pondering with anger, realizedā¦
It doesn't seem so bad after all.
Coupled with Orochimaru's persuasive abilities, which rivaled Naruto's, Karin became Orochimaru's follower.
Karin's sensory ability was the Kagura Mind's Eye, which had a wide range and could perceive the color of chakra. For instance, in her perception, Sasuke's chakra was purple. This was a deep-level perception, so in her perception, Naruto's chakra color was constantly changing, with more colors than she had ever seen. And it was exceptionally cheerful, even more so than during the last Chunin Exam. For so many years, she had never seen such a happy person. This was partly due to the clones being happier than Naruto, and partly due to Naruto's learning of Sage Arts.
Naruto was indeed very cheerful, because there were no major worries to trouble him. Money, love, progress in strengthāhe lacked nothing. How could he not be cheerful? Coupled with his personality, even a rich person like Wang Sicong wasn't as happy as him. And Naruto's main attribute was Wind, so it would be a disservice to that attribute not to be happy.
After hearing Kabuto's message, Orochimaru replied, "Understood."
He had guessed that Naruto could take Sasuke away, but he understood Sasuke. This was a person who pursued strength, and no one could help him gain strength faster than he could. He would return.
He also had subsequent plans for this, but those plans would have to change. Because Kimimaro had come back to life, and not only was he alive, but his Shikotsumyaku had even shown some changes!
This greatly interested him. It was a miracle, and he had to research it. Through his research, he found that Sasuke's chakra didn't have this function, and neither did a mix of Karin's and Sasuke's.
That left only two possibilities: either a mix of Sasuke and Naruto's chakra produced the effect, or Naruto's own chakra was inherently miraculous. Through Karin, he also knew that Naruto's chakra was indeed miraculous. How could the chakra that could freely change color, the only one in the entire ninja world, not be miraculous?
But no matter the outcome, it always came back to Naruto Uzumaki. Plus, Naruto's home-building and teleportation abilities.
So Orochimaru thought:Ā I must obtain him!
Then he asked his partner Danzo if he had a plan to acquire Naruto.
Danzo replied, "I don't know. We'll discuss it later."
Regarding this current Nine-Tails Jinchūriki, Danzo certainly had his own ideas. The rumors about the "demon fox" in Konoha were spread by him, intending for the villagers to bully Naruto, cause the Nine-Tails to rampage, and thus give him an excuse to take custody of the jinchūriki.
Initially, the rumors worked very well; everyone discussed them fervently. Then, it turned into speculation about why the demon fox had not appeared for so long, suggesting some dirty dealings behind the scenes. Finally, it becameāWho is the demon fox?
Danzo was so angry he wanted to smash the table.Ā Is this jinchÅ«riki sick? He doesn't even leave his house?
He then did some mental calculations: this jinchūriki had appeared in public no more than five times, and all of them were after graduation. Danzo felt he had appeared in public more times than Naruto.
What was he supposed to do? He couldn't just send people to kick down his door and snatch him just because the kid was making mud figurines at home, could he?
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