On the way home, Naruto was a little unhappy.
Along the way, many sixth grade students looked at Naruto in awe, not daring to get close to him.
Naruto was even more irritated.
This feeling was very strange. He wanted to get close to these people, but at the same time, he was impatient with them.
"Naruto..."
Hinata followed behind Naruto and whispered.
Naruto frowned. "What are you doing? Hinata, are you trying to comfort me?"
"No, how could that be? Naruto is a very strong person. There is no need for comfort. Only weak people need comfort." Hinata's voice was very cold.
Naruto felt a bit awkward, but he still nodded with satisfaction.
Sometimes, he really felt that Hinata was very compatible with him, whether it was strength or character.
Unlike the wide forehead with pink hair, who only knew how to drool when looking at him all day long, it was really useless.
"Sensei of Naruto must be a very powerful person, right?" Hinata suddenly said.
"Hmph, of course, my teacher is no worse than Master Yuuji, at least one level of strong. Only Sasuke, that idiot, is unwilling to believe that I have such a strong teacher." Naruto walked away with a cold face.
Hinata was half a body behind him, walking with his hands behind his back, looking at the side of Naruto's face out of the corner of her eye.
Naruto-Kun... these few years have really changed a lot...
"What about you? Are you still thinking about defecting?" Naruto didn't even turn his head.
Hinata was silent.
Naruto said to himself, "Everyone says that Sasuke and I are the strongest geniuses of this year, but they ignored you. I really didn't know that a girl with such a large appetite, clansmen's eldest daughter, the little Princess of the branch family, would behave so mediocre."
"Naruto, I can't compare to the two of you..."
"Of course you can't compare to me and Sasuke, but at least you are second only to us. You are definitely not so mediocre. You have cultivated so hard every day, and your strength should be stronger than what you showed in school."
Naruto looked at Hinata with a proud expression. "More importantly, your appetite is very large. Food can bring abundant body energy, and body energy is the key to refining chakra. Hinata, in front of me, you don't need to hide."
Hinata lowered his head and said calmly, "Is that so? So what if I am? Is Naruto going to report me to Lord Yondaime?"
"Hmph, you think too highly of yourself. You are not worthy of me wasting so much effort. I have time and energy. I might as well go find Sasuke to fight." Naruto said disdainfully.
Hinata nodded silently and continued to follow behind Naruto.
Naruto continued, "If you still intend to defect, I won't stop you. I'm not interested. But you'd better finish off the caged bird first. Otherwise, you won't be able to run far."
A thousand miles away, a blow to the head, this was the terrifying skill of birds in the cage, doomed the branch family to be unable to escape the control of the main family.
However, two years ago, there was an exception.
That was Hyuga Hoheto, who had disappeared without a trace. He was the only one known to have shattered the bird mark in the cage.
Naruto did not know much about this, but Hinata knew it very well.
Hinata had been secretly collecting information about Hoheto, and some of her family members had indeed shared it with her most important Shin.
For example, the ancestral sealing scroll, or digging out clansmen's eyes to make up for Byakugan's flaws.
Hinata knew all of this.
After all, when Hoheto launched the rebellion, his first target was not Hyuga Hiashi, but Hinata.
What Hoheto wanted was Hinata's pure Byakugan.
Unfortunately, after Hinata joined the branch family, this pair of pure Byakugan was equivalent to being crippled.
When they arrived at the fork in the road, the two of them stopped.
"Don't follow me anymore in the future. I wish you good luck. I hope we won't become enemies."
Naruto left these words behind and went home with his hand in his pocket, separating from Hinata.
He was not interested in Hinata, and he would not stop her from defecting.
Hinata looked at Naruto's back.
After a moment of silence, she whispered in a voice that only she could hear: "Naruto, you are the son of the Hokage. When you did not expose me and helped me, you already betrayed the village."
After Hinata returned home and greeted Hiashi, he went to eat something and then cultivate.
Hiashi suddenly said, "After you joined the branch family, you changed a lot. If you had this momentum back then, many things might not have become like this today."
Hinata paused and silently pushed open the door and walked out.
"Sister, can you play games with me?" Hanabi hugged Hinata.
However, Hinata just shook his head, pushed Hanabi away, and went to practice alone.
In this world, everything could be deceived, but only strength could not.
On the other side, Naruto also returned home. Looking at this empty private building, he didn't show any surprise. He just casually shrugged his shoulders.
Used to it.
This room was like this, as if he was the only one living in it.
That night.
After finishing his cultivation, Naruto waited patiently.
After waiting for a while, a figure emerged from the ground.
"It's this kind of appearance again, it's too inferior!" Naruto ridiculed.
"Ignorant fellow, do you know how many people I have scared out of their wits with this appearance? The more mysterious, the more terrifying it is. This is human nature." Xu said.
Naruto nodded thoughtfully and immediately said: "Sensei, that guy Sasuke is always showing off his Sensei. Why don't you show yourself and let me block that smelly fart's mouth?"
"Are you sure? If I stand under the sunlight, then you and Yondaime will be in trouble. I might even have to fight with your father again," Xu said.
The last time Xu fought with Minato, he still wanted to accept Naruto as his disciple.
That time, the two fought outside the village. Xu directly took out the Wood Man Technique and the Wood Dragon Technique, stunning Minato.
Sensei, what are you busy with? Everyone says that you are Shoudai Hokage, but why can't Shoudai Hokage return to the village openly? Naruto was a little annoyed.
He said lightly, "I am doing something very important. If I succeed, it will bring great changes to the world. To some extent, it is also related to you."
Naruto was startled, and soon realized the key point: "It has something to do with me? I am the son of the Hokage, the descendant of Uzumaki, and..."
"Yes, Nine-tailed Jinchuriki." Xu said.
"Is Akatsuki's target Jinchuriki?"
"That's right. Naruto, you are very smart. Akatsuki has always been paying attention to you people," Xu said.
Naruto scratched his head and felt a little confused. "But if that's the case, wouldn't you, Sensei, make a move against me one day?"
"To be more precise, we want to make a move on the Nine-tailed Fox," Xu said indifferently.
Naruto nodded, subconsciously covering his stomach and frowning.
Nine-tailed... Although this big fox was a little annoying, it had indeed helped him a lot in the past few years.
No matter how bad it was, it could still provide him with a large amount of chakra, which was very important.
"Hey, Fox, you heard it too, right? Akatsuki is coming for you."
Naruto's spirit body came out of the sealed space in his body. He said to Nine-tailed through the cage.
"Hmph, this old man has already guessed this possibility. Only an idiot like you who is born with a bad brain would know later." Nine-Tailed sneered.
"You are the idiot. I am the recognized super genius in the village. Even in theory, I am second! I am only a little worse than Sasuke. How can I be stupid?" Naruto immediately retorted.
Nine-Tailed wagged her tail. "You don't understand."
Naruto was 11 years old today.
Nine-Tailed had also observed Naruto for 11 years. She was very familiar with Naruto's situation, but the more she understood, the more confused Nine-Tailed was.
It never stopped stimulating the dark side in Naruto's heart.
This itself was nothing. If it was a human, there would be a dark side in the depths of their heart. If it was a normal person who was played by the Kyubi, even if they were in a positive way of thinking, they would gradually be devoured by the will of hatred and madness.
However, the body of Naruto was very strange.
Every time the dark personality grew a bit, a warm force would appear out of nowhere, dispersing the darkness.
It was as if Naruto's body had been set up in the dark.
If that was the case, then it was fine, but something even more incomprehensible to Kyuubi was happening - the conflict between the light and dark personalities had a third personality interfering.
This third person gave Kurama a very bad feeling, cold and cruel.
It was a bit like... Uchiha Madara.
The subtle change in Naruto made Kurama dumbfounded.
"Naruto, you are very special, and your chakra is also very strange. It is mixed with the power to warm the heart and freeze the heart." Kurama suddenly said.
Naruto was confused.
Nine-Tailed said, "What I mean is that you haven't found a path that truly belongs to you, and you don't have your own will. That's why the characteristics of your chakra are so chaotic. If you can walk on a path that you truly acknowledge, your strength will definitely welcome an explosive growth."
"Well, what nonsense are you talking about? You won't understand even if you say it... However, do you really not want me to save you? Akatsuki has his eyes on you. You can't beat them. Maybe I can ask Sensei to let you go." Naruto said.
"Idiot."
Kurama shook his head and closed his eyes.
This little brat had no idea what would happen to Jinchuriki, who had been deprived of Bijuu...
However, there was no need to explain this matter to Naruto.
In any case, Naruto would have to face it sooner or later, and it was looking forward to Naruto's choice.
"You stinking fox, you actually scolded me." Naruto was extremely angry.
Outside the world.
"Are you done communicating with the Nine-tailed Fox?" Xu said.
"Yes, that stinky fox is even more stinky than Sasuke. It's really hard to get along with. I helped it out of kindness, and it scolded me."
"Of course, Bijuu is an extremely brutal fusion of chakra. If you want to get along with him, you either want to make friends with him or use absolute force to defeat him." Xu said.
Naruto pondered for a while and said: "I don't have the power to deal with Kyubi."
"There will be in the future."
"This is very difficult. What I want is true power."
"For example?"
"Mokuton."
"So that's how it is. You've taken a fancy to Mokuton. This is indeed the power I'm best at." Xu suddenly fell silent.
But the problem was that this Mokuton of his was not the Mokuton of the God Tree system, but the Godzilla system...
This was very awkward.
For this planet, God Tree and Godzilla were both outsiders. As the reincarnation of Asura and the descendant of Otsutsuki, Naruto was obviously more suitable to take the path of God Tree.
But the problem was that Naruto himself did not have Mokuton's blood inheritance. If Mokuton wanted to learn the God Tree system, he would have to transplant Hashirama's cells... or take a step further and directly transplant the genes of the ten tails.
For a moment, Xu did not speak.
Naruto urged: "I can also learn Mokuton, right? I want to learn this. Mokuton is also your strongest power. As your disciple, of course I have to learn this."
"Yes. If this is what you want, I will teach you."
The key was how to teach.
Xu also felt a little awkward.
The next day.
Yuuji secretly extracted some genes from Moegi.
Moegi was Konoha's best friend, and when she grew up, she could also use the so-called Mokuton - although she could only control some flowers and plants, it was more appropriate to call it grass escape.
"I can't directly transplant Hashirama's cells. What if I directly transplant genes like Yamato? But this might cause Naruto's genes to collapse."
Yuuji studied the Moegi genes and indeed found scattered God Tree genes. However, the quantity was too little, and it was 108,000 miles away from Hashirama's.
God Tree system, give up.
Then just let Naruto take the Godzilla system.
As for the method, it was also very simple, that was... stuffing his own cells into Naruto's body.
When Naruto was about to cast the spell, his cells took the initiative to cooperate and extract Naruto's chakra.
He tried to pretend to be the same as the result of transplanting Hashirama's cells.
"Naruto, then I will help you release Mokuton right now." On the mountain behind Konoha, there was no one else. Xu said with a very serious attitude.
"Sensei, please do it. I will try my best to obtain Mokuton's blood limit." Naruto also became nervous.
Xu looked at him very seriously. His robe swayed and brushed against Naruto.
Then he took it back.
The two of them looked at each other.
"Is it over?"
"Yes, no, it's just the beginning."
Xu pondered for a moment and felt that the process was a little improper, so he decided to add something.
Soon, Yuuji's cells in Naruto's body immediately began to go berserk.
Naruto's body twitched and he let out a painful scream.
In Naruto's perception, there seemed to be something wriggling forward in his internal organs. Unprecedented fear surged into his heart.
After a long time, when Naruto woke up again.
Xu had already disappeared, and Anbu was standing all around.
"Why did you faint? Who attacked you?" A Anbu asked.
"No one attacked me. I was cultivating a secret technique, so I fainted." Naruto said.
Many Anbu stared at Naruto for a long time. After confirming that Naruto was not injured or that Bijuu was about to go berserk, they immediately left.
After everyone left, Naruto looked down at his palm, a little confused.
"Is this a success or a failure? Have I learned Mokuton?" Naruto was a little confused.
...
At the same time, in Orochimaru's secret base.
Orochimaru and Shin worked together, and after two years of hard work, they finally had a major breakthrough in cloning technology.
Shin rejoiced because of this and felt that he was not far from the day when his entire body was stuffed with Sharingan.
However, Orochimaru's main focus was obviously not on this.
In the past two years, he had put more energy into other fields.
"Hmph, hmph, hmph, finally, it's finally time for this day to come... This fragment of Gedo Statue can be used like this, hahahaha!!"