Chapter 89 - Coming Out
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10 hours prior…
A young man with blond hair and blue eyes stood up without any clothes. His body has overgrown his clothes as well and couldn't keep up with the transformation causing them to rip to shreds.
Even though there wasn't anyone looking, he raised one of his hands and snapped his fingers.
Click!
In that moment, the cave that he dwelled in exploded without so much of a resistance to his newfound powers.
He stared at the sun in the sky with a smile on his face as his eyes reflected a deep calm lake that couldn't be disturbed by anyone.
"Sun after 2 years huh… How blinding." He muttered beneath his lips.
He grasped his arms to gauge his strength and closed his eyes to observe the changes in his body.
His body housed 1,000 jounin's worth of chakra as well as the qualitative change. He had already noticed it before, Chakra was an impure energy. Sage Chakra was pure energy derived from nature.
His original Chakra was replaced with Sage Chakra. The marking of sage has also disappeared, it was simply the mark of a borrower of Natural Energy. His body has changed and is now fit to host Natural Energy itself instead of mixing with the impure energy called Chakra.
The first thing he did as he awakened was use Nature Transformation, although his Chakra has changed to Sage Chakra, it was still the same principle.
[Earth Release] + [Water Release] = [Wood Release]
He didn't need any sort of hand seals and simply ordered the energy in his body to stimulate the chakra within the ground and the moisture in the air.
This was without any cost as he could still muster the power of nature. If he was in a space that didn't possess such energy, he could use his Sage Chakra instead.
Not long after, a tree spurted out from the ground and rose up to become a huge tree.
This time, he manipulated [Wind Release] to cut up the tree into the cellular level and made himself clothes to wear.
Just a simple brown long sleeves and brown pants.
He chuckled upon using his newfound powers and wore the clothes manually.
As he was wearing the clothes, Kurama said in contempt "Uwah… You're basically a god at this point."
Naruto smiled and replied "Isn't that the point of this training in the first place?"
"Tsk!" Kurama clicked his tongue and decided to mind his own business.
Naruto, who finished wearing clothes, bent his knees and jumped as high as he could.
Boom!
Crater was created into the ground as Naruto jumped up. Naruto, who arrived at the highest point, looked at the surroundings, it didn't change much. It's been only two years.
Naruto used [Wind Release] to float in the sky.
He breathed in the fresh air that missed so dearly after being in seclusion for a whole two years.
As he flew into the sky, his long blond hair waved gently at the breeze of the wind.
Naruto found it irritating so he merely cut his hair haphazardly but still came out perfect as he conjured a mirror out of water using [Water Release].
He nodded as he saw himself in the mirror and narcissistically said "I'm still as handsome as ever."
"Narcissist." Kurama commented.
Naruto chuckled and said "I'm only saying what I see. I don't lie. If I see an ugly person, I'll call him/her one and if I see a handsome/beautiful one I'll call him/her handsome/beautiful. You're just jealous of my handsomeness."
Kurama grumbled "Forget about that, when are you gonna release me? I wanna breathe fresh air too!"
Naruto sighed as he descended to the top of the mountain and sat cross legged "You've already been sealed for decades. What's a few more minutes of waiting?"
After a few seconds of him sitting down, he used [Shadow Clones] to create 10 Jounin Clones.
They all headed in different directions without orders as they already received it before Naruto even created the clones.
It's to gather intel on what's been happening everywhere.
Naruto who sat cross legged, closed his eyes and entered his mindspace to see a cage that housed Kurama.
Kurama smiled menacingly and excitedly as he saw Naruto. He was finally going to be released!
Naruto blew air as he smiled seeing Kurama's excitement.
Grabbing the seal on the cage, he felt a foreign chakra materializing causing him to wonder. "Hm?"
Kurama asked in confusion, hearing Naruto's wonder "What's wrong?"
Naruto smiled and shook his head as he already knew this chakra. The only person who could have put it here was the sealer in other words, his father. The 4th Hokage, Namikaze Minato.
'Even in his death, he was still worried about me?' Naruto thought with a smile as he slowly ripped the seal feeling the warmth from his father's worry for him.
A few seconds later, before he could rip the seal, a person appeared and tried to stop him "Don't do it. The nine-tailed fox is dangerous."
Naruto grinned and replied "It's fine, dad. Look at Kurama. He's smiling plus… I'm strong enough to make him kneel on the ground."
Minato looked at Naruto in surprise as he thought 'He knows who I am?'
But shook his head and said "Not yet! You're too young. Come back when you're stronger."
Naruto couldn't help but chuckle and ripped the seal in one go.
Rip!
"What did you do?!" Minato panicked as he saw Naruto continue on with ripping the seal.
Although he panicked, he came to his senses immediately to see Kurama sitting and laughing "Hahahaha! Just look at your face! Yondaime!"
"T-This…" Minato scratched his head to see that Kurama didn't attack and asked to answer his curiosity "What's going on?"
Naruto lightly laughed and said "It's fine, dad. Kurama and I are friends."
"Kurama? You mean the nine-tailed beast?" Minato stared at Kurama in surprise. It had a name?
Naruto nodded and continued "That's right. Kurama is a friend, I'm going to free him."
Minato looked at Naruto in worry, "Jinchuuriki's die when they free their tailed beast."
Naruto explained "That's for normal Jinchuurikis, I'm not the same."
"Even with your Uzumaki bloodline, you'll still suffer serious internal injuries if you do that." Minato explained cautiously while still watching Kurama's movements.
Naruto shook his head and pointed behind Kurama "I'll be fine. Believe me dad. By the way, is that mom's energy over there?"
"Hm?" Minato as well as Kurama turned their attention to the direction Naruto pointed at and saw chains coming out intending to chain up Kurama.
Kurama was about to leap away heard Naruto snap his fingers.
Click!
The chains crumpled into one and was pulled in their direction.
Along with the sound of the chains, a woman's voice screamed "Ahhhhhhhhh! What's going on!!!"
Naruto snapped his fingers again, and deactivated his [Sage Chakra] that pulled the woman. It was a red haired woman. Naruto nodded as he confirmed that this was his mother, Uzumaki Kushina.
Minato who was standing on the spot was about to move and catch Kushina but found that the trajectory of Kushina's fall was within his arms.
Minato catched Kushina and let out a dry laugh as he looked at Naruto who was standing on the opposite side as him. "Was that intentional?"
Naruto chuckled and let himself fall backwards as a chair caught him from behind, "Yes. The scream was out of the calculation though."
"Minato?" Kushina asked in surprise as she was caught by Minato.
Minato laughed lightly and replied "Yes dear."
"Who's th…" Kushina was about to ask as she saw Naruto sitting on a chair with a smile on his face.
She immediately struggled out of Minato's arms and rushed to hug Naruto "Naruto!!!! You've grown up so well! You're so handsome just like your father!"
Naruto smiled at his mother and nodded as he was being hugged "Of course, I'll be handsome like dad. I'm his son."
Minato also chuckled as he looked on the side at the mother-son interaction. As he chuckled, a chair materialized in front of Naruto. He nodded as he sat down, he knew that this was a chair made for him to sit down by his son.
He asked in amazement as he stared at Kurama "What'd you do? Why is the nine-... I mean Kurama is so friendly?"
Naruto nodded and explained "Simple. I just treated him like an intelligent being. Y'all treated him like some mindless beast if you did that to me, I'd get angry too."
Minato scratched his head in embarrassment as he replied "I mean he's too powerful, great power means great ability to cause destruction, it's natural that he'd be feared."
Naruto titled his head and nodded as it made sense. As he nodded, his mother, Kushina freed him from the hug and asked "How have you been? Have you been living well? Have you been eating well? Did the 3rd old man treat you well? Did you find yourself a girlfriend?"
Naruto chuckled at the series of questions and said "No need to rush, judging by the amount of energy you both possess, we still have a few hours if you don't expand chakra uselessly."
Rise!
Beside Minato rose another chair and as it rose, it caught Kushina's attention, she got its meaning but then hugged Naruto again "No way! I wanna stay seated in my handsome son's lap!"
Naruto chuckled and nodded as he didn't mind.
"So How have you been?" Minato was the sane one in this moment as he asked first.
Kushina just nodded as she also wondered how Naruto was doing.
Naruto replied "Well if it's for the past 2 years it's been lonely."
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