"I say, you, causing such a big commotion just to get yourself into the hospital?"
Kurama lay on the ground, propping his head with his paws, a look of utter confusion on his face.
"What do you know? It's a cheater's business, stay out of it." Naruto lay on the ground with his eyes closed, coldly snorting with disdain.
"Cheater? Speaking of which, you always say things like 'no cheats, no life' and 'a small cheat isn't cheating.' So what exactly is cheating?"
Hearing a new term again, Kurama felt a bit confused, and thinking of the things the other party used to complain about in the Sealed Space, he couldn't help but ask his question.
Naruto suddenly sat up, still with his eyes closed, but a sly curve appeared at the corner of his mouth.
"You really want to know?"
'This brat!'
Kurama looked at the annoying expression on the blond kid's face, not knowing what mischief the other party was up to now.
"Say it or don't." Kurama tsundere-ly turned his head away.
"Since that's the case, then I'll show you."
"You'd better watch closely."
As he spoke, Naruto slowly opened his eyes.
The tsundere fox, who had turned his head away, kept his peripheral vision fixed on Uzumaki Naruto's changes. Immediately after, the fur on his body suddenly stood up one by one, and his body suddenly leaped up from the ground, the entire fox instantly bristling on the spot.
"Is this a genjutsu? When?"
Kurama subconsciously thought he had fallen into a genjutsu and immediately adopted a defensive posture, his two eyes fixed on Naruto's eyes.
When Naruto opened his eyes, his originally sky-blue pupils were actually blood-red, and within those blood-red eyes, three tomoe rotated continuously, eventually linking directly into a single line, forming the shape of a fox's vertical pupil.
This matter was extremely unexpected for Naruto. The system had originally given him only a one-tomoe Sharingan, which he then needed to upgrade himself.
What he didn't expect was that when he obtained this Sharingan, the experiences of the past five years kept flashing back in his mind.
The malice as substantial as reality, the pain like falling into an abyss, combined with his long-term rigorous physical training, and the spiritual power of two lifetimes, directly allowed him to awaken the Mangekyo Sharingan.
He didn't expect that after more than a year of transmigration, he finally carried his backpack.
The past is the past, and now is now.
His previous strength, no matter what, still required him to cultivate it himself. Although he had borrowed a little of Kurama's power, overall, it was the result of his own efforts.
Moreover, with that kind of cultivation, besides the rapid increase in strength at the beginning, progress would slow down later. His current strength had actually reached a bottleneck.
After all, in the original work, Naruto's strength had several explosive points due to Nine-Tailed Beast Chakra and Sage Mode. Now, Nine-Tailed Beast Chakra cannot be used easily, and he has nowhere to train Sage Mode.
So, his strength could hardly make any significant progress.
But now it was different. He had directly picked up his backpack. With these eyes, even if he didn't use them, the feedback they provided to his body and Chakra just from the Mangekyo Sharingan awakening already far surpassed his year and a half of arduous training.
Plus the two ocular techniques within these eyes, he already had some Kage-level strength. If those idiots still didn't know better, he could directly take them all to become immortals, and Hiruzen Sarutobi wouldn't be able to stop him.
Indeed, no matter how much effort one puts in, it can't compare to cheating. Effort is inferior to bloodline, and bloodline is inferior to cheating.
Effort plus bloodline plus cheating—if Uzumaki Naruto doesn't succeed, who will?
All of Uzumaki Naruto's achievements today are the result of his hard work.
"Hehehehe, hahahahaha, hahahahaha—"
In this deathly silence, suddenly, a low and hoarse laugh broke the stillness. It seemed to come from an endless abyss, echoing all around, gradually rising, turning into an unbridled, wild laughter.
This wild laughter contained endless madness, liberation, mockery, and ecstasy. Now, the offense and defense had shifted.
"This brat."
Kurama already knew this wasn't a genjutsu; this brat had truly awakened the Mangekyo Sharingan. But he looked at the other party's wild laughter.
"Why does he look a bit like that scoundrel Uchiha Madara?"
Kurama muttered to himself, the more he looked, the more something felt off. Suddenly, he widened his eyes, staring intently at Uzumaki Naruto, pondering some past events.
He remembered that neither Minato Namikaze nor Uzumaki Kushina should have the Uchiha Clan bloodline. But why would Uzumaki Naruto suddenly awaken the Mangekyo Sharingan? He seemed to have suddenly discovered a blind spot in the situation, and it started to feel a bit unsettling.
Hiss, my head feels so itchy, like it's about to grow a brain.
But his hair is exactly the same as Minato Namikaze's.
Yet he was indeed born to Uzumaki Kushina.
And the Vortex Clan bloodline in Naruto is genuine. He suddenly thought again, Uzumaki Kushina seemed to have a good friend in the Uchiha, and often went to the Uchiha Clan to play. Could it be, some blond Uchiha?
Kurama felt like his CPU was overloading, smoke was almost coming out of his fox head. He just felt that human relationships were too complicated, and indeed, their Tailed Beast minds were simpler.
"I say, you seem to be thinking some very rude things, Kurama."
Kurama was still brainstorming, the expression on his fox face changing unpredictably. Naruto swore he had never seen a fox capable of so many human-like expressions.
"Cough, cough," Kurama immediately coughed a few times, feeling a bit awkward, and scratched his head with a paw. After all, even if he was a fox, it was quite embarrassing to openly ponder which of the other person's parents had cheated.
"By the way, what's the deal with your Mangekyo Sharingan, brat? I've never seen you with a Sharingan before."
Naruto smiled and said self-righteously, "The past is the past, and now is now. This is cheating."
Awakening Mangekyo Sharingan = cheating?
Kurama was a bit confused.
However, Naruto's equation was quite accurate; the Sharingan is indeed cheating. After all, awakening a Mangekyo, the improvement an ordinary Ninja gets in a lifetime of training probably isn't as great as someone awakening a pair of Mangekyo Sharingan.
"Enough about that." Naruto suddenly leaped up, standing directly from the ground, looking at Kurama with a challenging expression.
"Kurama, spar with me."