Chapter 111: Naruto's Nine-Tails Power Explodes
"Sasuke-kun, if I'm not mistaken, your seat isn't here, is it?" Iruka, who had come to the classroom with his textbooks, looked at Sasuke sitting to Naruto's left and couldn't help but say.
If he remembered correctly, the relationship between Naruto Uzumaki and Sasuke Uchiha wasn't that good, was it?
Sasuke, with several bandages on his body and some bruises still visible on his skin, said, "It is now."
He put on a cool, little expression and continued, "I have already swapped seats with someone else, and that person agreed."
Iruka: "..."
Shouldn't he, as the teacher, be the one to arrange something like changing seats?
But the number one prodigy in the class always had special treatment.
Iruka thought for a moment and decided not to say anything more.
"You're pretending so badly..." Naruto muttered under his breath. He remembered that this arrogant guy had almost cried last night when faced with Ikeizumi-sensei's "rejection."
Naruto looked left and right and found many fierce glares staring at him, seemingly from the girls in the class.
Damn it!
Why is this arrogant guy so popular with girls?
He pouted in jealousy and couldn't help but change the subject, asking, "By the way, why do you have to sit next to me?"
Sasuke just snorted and crossed his arms without answering.
Naruto, feeling snubbed, yawned. But since this was the first time someone was willing to approach him, he felt a bit curious and couldn't help but change the subject again, asking, "Is your brother really going to annihilate the clan?"
Sasuke's face visibly turned cold.
He looked down at the desk, quietly clenched his fists, and said, "This is what Ike...Ikeizumi-sensei said, it's the 'future evil' of Uchiha Itachi, my brother. I won't let him succeed. I want to prove that his actions are wrong."
"It's just..." Thinking of the ridiculous gap between himself and Uchiha Itachi, Sasuke's mood became depressed.
He was sure that he could gain great power by following [Absolute Justice]; Uchiha Izumi was the best example.
But Sasuke didn't know how long it would take.
He also didn't know if he could stop Uchiha Itachi after he gained great power.
"Don't worry!" Naruto put his hands behind his head, laughed, and said, "[Justice] is not lonely! Even if you can't defeat Uchiha Itachi, I will help you. If the two of us go together, can't we beat him?!"
"Heh..." Sasuke thought Naruto was too naive and didn't know how powerful the Uchiha clan was.
But for some reason,
he felt a little touched.
Clatter—Suddenly, the sound of chalk hitting the floor rang out. Sasuke looked up and was astonished to see that Iruka Umino's expression on the podium had suddenly become extremely dazed, and his movements had frozen as if he were a jammed machine.
It wasn't until Sasuke saw a white feather floating down from the air, just brushing past Iruka's nose, that he was shocked to see that Iruka-sensei had fallen asleep while standing!
Because he heard snoring coming from the teacher with his eyes closed!
Bang—Another sound rang out. Sasuke hurriedly turned his head and saw a classmate behind him sleeping soundly on his desk.
No! Not just one!
The moment countless white feathers began to fall, Sasuke couldn't help but widen his eyes.
He was shocked to find that everyone in the class, except for himself, had fallen asleep!
"What's going on?!" Sasuke was so startled that he abruptly stood up. He hurriedly turned his head to look at Naruto sitting next to him.
"He...he's asleep too?!"
Sasuke was completely shocked.
The moment footsteps suddenly rang out, Sasuke immediately turned his head to look in the direction of the classroom door. The pupils in his eyes visibly contracted slightly.
"Bro...brother..."
Uchiha Itachi, who walked in slowly and openly, said coldly and expressionlessly, "Sasuke, you have made the wrong choice. You shouldn't have chosen this path that leads to an unknown future."
"Where...am I..." Naruto looked around in confusion. He found that he was in a strange place.
The damp and dark environment made him frown slightly. There were strange doors on both his left and right.
And he was currently in a long corridor.
"Wasn't I in the ninja academy..." Just as Naruto was muttering to himself, a terrifying roar startled him. When he quickly turned his head to look, he froze.
He saw that behind him were two huge, towering iron gate. Something terrifying seemed to be imprisoned behind the gates.
"Heh heh, kid, you don't look like you're just delicious! Come a little closer, and let me eat you!" A deep, muffled voice suddenly rang out, making Naruto look up in shock.
"A big...fox..." Naruto was shocked, but then he quickly reacted. He exclaimed in awe, "Are you the Nine-Tailed Demon Fox sealed inside me by the Fourth Hokage?!"
"Kid, thanks to your emotional outburst a few days ago, the seal left by the Fourth Hokage has loosened."
Kurama's terrifying face was grinning. It lowered its head to stare directly at Naruto: "Otherwise, it would be difficult to meet you!"
Naruto came to his senses and asked, "Did you come to meet me on your own?"
Kurama squinted and grinned menacingly: "Kid, look up."
Naruto was stunned. He looked up and found that the scene of the ninja academy classroom was displayed above his head!
He saw Sasuke.
And he also saw a ninja around the same age as Uchiha Izumi.
"Your companion is very 'dangerous'! The person who made everyone fall asleep is your companion's brother." Kurama's voice was full of temptation. It said, "Are you going to stand by and watch... and just sleep through this?"
"He...is Uchiha Itachi?!" Naruto was even more shocked.
"Kid, do you see the sealing tag on the gate?" Kurama said quietly: "As long as you tear it off, I can give you great power to break his genjutsu. At the same time, I can give you the power to defeat him with just one hand."
"Do you see all this chakra?" Kurama instantly released an astonishing wave of chakra. A large amount of visible red chakra spread throughout the sealed space.
Kurama continued, "Tear it off. They are all yours!"
"I really don't want that arrogant guy to be harmed by Uchiha Itachi. Even if I don't particularly like him, he has, after all, come to believe in Ikeizumi-sensei's [Absolute Justice] just like me."
"But..."
Naruto clenched his fists, looked up, and stared directly at Kurama. He said, "You, who caused the tragedy of the Nine-Tails' attack years ago, are the embodiment of evil! If I have to borrow the power of evil to help that arrogant guy, I refuse!"
"Because I don't believe that you have such good intentions! You must have another motive. You must be using me. If I accept your manipulation, it will definitely lead to very bad consequences."
"If I accept your power, it will probably only harm everyone in the village... I'm right, aren't I? Nine-Tailed Demon Fox!"
His voice made a look of unbelievable astonishment appear on Kurama's terrifying face.
What followed was the frustration and shame of having his little trick exposed by a seven-year-old brat.
"You brat!!!"
Kurama stretched out its giant claws, trying to reach Naruto.
But the powerful seal prevented it from touching Naruto at all.
Naruto took a half-step back and said, "I don't care about your power at all. Because as long as I choose to believe in [Absolute Justice], [Absolute Justice] will bestow its power upon me."
"Kid! What this old man wants to give you, you have no right to refuse!"
Kurama bared its teeth. Just one of its giant canines was almost bigger than Naruto's entire body.
A surge of red chakra spread out from the iron gates.
"Feel the old man's power! You brat! You will become addicted! This is much more powerful than some 'justice' you've never even heard of!"
A large amount of chakra surged toward the young Naruto.
The sealing tag on the iron gates was shaking violently, as if a strong wind was constantly blowing it.
Naruto: "!!!"
In the classroom, where white feathers were slowly falling.
"Ugh, cough cough cough..." Sasuke held on tightly to Uchiha Itachi's arm, trying to pry open the other's not-so-burly arm, but the arm was clamped around his neck like an iron vise. Even with all of Sasuke's strength, he couldn't open it.
The intense feeling of suffocation had already turned Sasuke's face red and blue.
His young body was lifted up by Uchiha Itachi with one hand.
"Sasuke, Uchiha Ikeizumi's [Absolute Justice] is not suitable for you. Or rather, this ideology is not suitable for Konoha. It conflicts with Konoha's Will of Fire. The existence of this ideology will only cause Konoha to fall into endless internal strife."
Uchiha Itachi's eyes showed the crimson Three-Tomoe Sharingan.
"Look at Shimura Danzo, who was killed by him. Look at the Shimura clan, which was annihilated by him. Look at the clansmen and kin who died at his hands. And look at the fear the ordinary people of Konoha have of him."
"My foolish little brother... why do you always disappoint me so much? Since you want to believe in your so-called absolute justice, then I will let you kill a person with your own hands."
"When your hands are stained with blood, you will not be worthy of believing in your so-called absolute justice. Only then can you walk on a true and correct path for the future."
"And you, who have been abandoned by justice, will also witness with your own eyes how the Uchiha clan is slaughtered by me."
"Of course..."
"Some of the things I am saying, you will never remember for the rest of your life. You will only live on like a stray dog, filled with deep hatred."
Sasuke's already wide eyes widened even more.
"Ugh...cough cough cough! U...chiha...I...tachi!"
Sasuke's face was flushed. Every word he squeezed out took all his strength: "You...are really...insane!"
A One-Tomoe Sharingan also faintly appeared in Sasuke's eyes.
Staring into Sasuke's eyes, Itachi's lips curled into a smile that even Sasuke, who was so close, could barely see.
'Sasuke, this is the hatred! This hatred can unleash the true power of the Uchiha bloodline. Compared to this hatred, Uchiha Ikeizumi's absolute justice is nothing.'
'Only the path I have chosen for you is the most suitable one. Forgive me, Sasuke... one day, you will discover the truth. On that day, you will definitely understand my good intentions.'
'But, even if you don't understand, it doesn't matter. As long as I know that everything I do is for your own good, that is enough.'
'After all, my sacrifices never seek emotional rewards.'
Uchiha Itachi, who had a calm expression, was experiencing emotional turmoil in his heart that was no less than Sasuke's.
Uchiha Itachi closed his eyes slightly, forcing back the tears that were about to fall during his moment of self-pity.
When he opened his eyes again, Sasuke was on the verge of suffocating, and his eyes were rolling back.
Uchiha Itachi's hand, which was gripping his throat, had just loosened a little.
Suddenly!
A small hand reached out from the side and grabbed Uchiha Itachi's wrist.
"...Hmm?!"
BANG!!!
A deafening roar rang out in the ninja academy, startling the Konoha ninja, whose nerves were already on edge these past few days, especially the ninja academy teachers.
"The commotion seems to be coming from Iruka's class!"
When they left their students and hurried over, they suddenly found a ninja dressed as an Anbu member lying unconscious on a tree outside the window.
Before they could be surprised for long, the wall of Iruka's classroom not far away suddenly shattered!
A figure, accompanied by broken building debris, shot out. If they weren't mistaken, it also looked like an Anbu ninja.
Then another figure rushed out of Iruka's class.
This...
Why does it look like a red fox?!
"Wait!" A ninja academy teacher's pupils contracted. He looked at the "red fox's" back and muttered, "Could that be the demon fox kid, Naruto Uzumaki?!"
His voice wasn't loud, but the other ninja academy teachers around him heard it clearly.
They were immediately shocked.
The horrifying and terrifying scenes of the Nine-Tails' attack seven years ago flashed through their minds. Many of them were survivors of that period, and some had almost died that night. They had a lot of psychological trauma from that day.
"This is bad!!!"
Not far away.
"Lord Ikeizumi, there seems to be a commotion over there." A cat's ears are always more sensitive than a human's. After Kijiro reminded him, he jumped up from Izumi's shoulder.
The moment he landed, he almost knocked the girl over.
Kijiro said with a serious cat face, "It seems to be the ninja academy. It looks like two ninja are fighting in the ninja academy."
"The ninja academy?" Izumi didn't have time to complain about Kijiro. She said in surprise, "Isn't it a school day today?"
"Follow me, rookie." Uchiha Ikeizumi left a few words and rushed toward the ninja academy.
"Huh? Senpai, wait for me!"
The Uchiha Police Force naturally has the duty to maintain order in Konoha. Uchiha Ikeizumi couldn't be killing people every second of every day.
Otherwise, all of Konoha would not be enough for him to kill.
More often, Uchiha Ikeizumi patrols Konoha as a member of the Uchiha Police Force, maintaining Konoha's public order.
Something like a riot happening at the ninja academy.
He naturally had to go and see what was going on.
"It probably has nothing to do with Naruto and Sasuke, right?" The girl, who was trying her best to keep up with Uchiha Ikeizumi, muttered worriedly.
Kijiro said, "Meow, with the power of those two kids, how could they cause such a commotion?"
"But...isn't Naruto a jinchuriki?" Izumi hesitated.
Kijiro's cat face stiffened. He grabbed a strand of Izumi's hair, pulled it hard, and shouted, "Rookie, shut your mouth! Do you know what the consequences of a jinchuriki losing control are?"
Izumi's expression darkened, and her mood became low: "My father died in the last Nine-Tails' attack... and my Three-Tomoe Sharingan awakened that night..."
Kijiro: "..."
Meow! How could I forget that?
Damn me!
"Nine-Tails... jinchuriki..." Uchiha Itachi stepped back, then jumped onto the roof of a ninja academy building. He looked down at Naruto Uzumaki, who was completely enveloped in a ball of red chakra.
Uchiha Itachi frowned. Running into such a situation was completely outside of his expectations. Naruto Uzumaki was also put under genjutsu, so how did he suddenly wake up? And how did he suddenly unleash such an astonishing amount of chakra?
"Did the seal suppressing the Tailed Beast loosen?" But he always felt that something wasn't quite right.
Because Naruto Uzumaki didn't seem to be out of control.
Even though the red chakra on his body was extremely violent.
He could still see a hint of rationality in the eyes of the young jinchuriki.
"This situation... is more like the jinchuriki borrowing the Tailed Beast's chakra!"
Uchiha Itachi was shocked. Although he didn't know much about jinchuriki, he roughly knew that this was something that could only be achieved when the bond between the jinchuriki and the Tailed Beast reached a very deep level.
"It is indeed a very powerful force, but at your age, you can't unleash the full potential of this power. And... although you seem to be rational, it's better to be safe than sorry. You should get a good night's sleep first."
The Three-Tomoe in Uchiha Itachi's eyes instantly transformed into the Mangekyou Sharingan.
The moment their eyes met,
the genjutsu from the Mangekyou was directly implanted into Naruto's body.
"Heh, Mangekyou Sharingan..." Kurama's eyes in the sealed space narrowed suddenly, but it quickly shook its head slightly: "No, it's not the same as that Mangekyou Sharingan from back then."
Kurama had the ability to break Uchiha Itachi's Mangekyou genjutsu on Naruto, as long as it used its chakra to disrupt the chakra on the brat's body.
But thinking back to the damn brat's arrogant attitude earlier,
Kurama was so annoyed that it couldn't help but bare its teeth.
"Hmph!" Kurama snorted and let Naruto's eyes roll back, and his entire body went limp and fell to the ground.
"Phew! Cough!" Uchiha Itachi coughed slightly. The power of the Mangekyou, even just using a genjutsu that wasn't Tsukuyomi or Amaterasu, made his body feel weak.
He glanced at the ninja academy teachers not far away, and then at the Iruka-class classroom, where two large holes had been blasted in the wall.
Although he felt a little unwilling, he also knew that the commotion was too big, and it wouldn't be long before many people would be attracted here.
"Although I feel that some things need to happen sooner, there is still a year's buffer time. You and I have all the time in the world, Sasuke. You can't escape..."
Uchiha Itachi muttered to himself. After he lifted all the genjutsu, his figure instantly disappeared.
And the moment he disappeared, Sasuke, in the Iruka-class classroom, grabbed his throat, leaned against the wall, and stumbled out.
"Cough...deadlast...cough cough cough..." The discomfort in his throat and the previous feeling of suffocation made him feel dizzy.
But he still insisted on walking to the hallway and looking at the two large holes in the wall.
Sasuke tried his best to look up through one of the large holes to the outside.
He couldn't see Uchiha Itachi, who had already gone down the wrong path.
But he saw Naruto lying on the ground not far away.
"Damn it...why are you so nosy, deadlast! This was none of your business...cough cough!" Sasuke said some dismissive things, but he still struggled to go in Naruto's direction.
When Sasuke arrived, he saw that Naruto Uzumaki was already surrounded by a group of ninja academy teachers.
"You are..." One of the ninja academy teachers looked back, feeling a sense of familiarity. After seeing Sasuke, he thought: "Uchiha Sasuke, the young genius in Iruka's class?!"
Sasuke: "..."
The term "young genius" pricked Sasuke's nerves. If he was really a genius, how could he have seemed so weak in Uchiha Itachi's hands?
How could he have had no power to fight back and been almost choked unconscious by the other person with just one hand?
The real young genius...
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