"I say, you, you made such a big noise just to get yourself into the hospital?"
Kurama lay on the ground, using his two paws to support his head, his face full of confusion.
"What do you know? You should stay out of my business." Naruto closed his eyes and lay on the ground, snorting disdainfully.
"Brother ? Speaking of which, you always say that if you don't cheat, you'll die, and that a small cheat doesn't count, so what exactly is a cheat?"
Kurama was a bit confused when he heard the new word again, thinking about the things Naruto had complained about in the sealed space before, and couldn't help but raise his own questions.
Naruto suddenly sat up, still with his eyes closed, but a cunning arc appeared at the corner of his mouth.
"Do you really want to know?"
'This brat!'
Kurama looked at the look on the little yellow-haired face that begged for trouble, and didn't know what bad idea the other party was coming up with.
"You can say it or not." Kurama turned his head away proudly.
"In that case, let me show you."
"You better watch carefully."
As he spoke, Naruto slowly opened his eyes.
The tsundere fox turned his head away, but the corner of his eye kept staring at Naruto's changes. Then, the hair on his body suddenly stood up, and his body suddenly jumped up from the ground, his fur bristling on the spot.
"Is this an illusion? When?"
The Nine-Tails subconsciously thought he was in an illusion, and immediately took a defensive posture, staring at Naruto's eyes.
When Naruto opened his eyes, the pair of eyes that were originally as blue as the sky turned blood-red, and in those blood-red eyes, three magatama were constantly rotating, eventually connecting into a line, turning into a fox's vertical pupil.
This was something Naruto hadn't expected. The system originally gave him only a pair of one-magatama Sharingan, which he had to upgrade himself.
What he didn't expect was that when he got the Sharingan, the experiences of the past five years kept flashing back in his mind.
The malice that was like a tangible substance, the pain that felt like falling into an abyss, combined with his long-term physical training and the mental strength from his two lives, allowed him to awaken the Mangekyō Sharingan directly.
It was unexpected. After more than a year of traveling, he finally hit the jackpot.
The past was the past; the present was now.
His strength still needed to be cultivated by himself. Although he had used Kurama's chakra a little, most of it was from his own efforts.
However, such cultivation had a pattern: rapid growth at the beginning, then a bottleneck period. His current strength had reached a plateau.
After all, in the original work, Naruto's strength exploded several times because of Kurama's Chakra and Sage Mode. But now, Kurama's chakra wasn't easily accessible, and he had no place to practice Sage Mode.
So, his progress was slow.
But now, it was different. He had just hit the jackpot. With these eyes, even if he didn't use them, the feedback from his body and chakra when the Mangekyō Sharingan activated was far beyond what his hard training had achieved in a year and a half.
And with the two pupil techniques in these eyes, he already had some super-shadow-level strength. If those idiots hadn't gotten their own eyes, he could have directly become an immortal and even Sarutobi Hiruzen wouldn't be able to stop him.
Sure enough, no matter how hard you try, you can't beat cheating. Hard work can't match bloodlines, and bloodlines can't match cheating.
If he, Uzumaki Naruto, didn't succeed with hard work plus bloodline plus cheating, who would?
His achievements today were all the result of his hard work.
"Hahaha, hahahaha, hahahahahaha—"
In the dead silence, suddenly, a low, hoarse laugh broke the silence. It seemed to come from an endless abyss, echoing around, gradually rising, until it turned into a wild and unrestrained laughter.
This wild laughter contained endless madness, relief, ridicule, and ecstasy. The tables had turned.
"This kid."
Kurama had realized that this was not an illusion. This kid really awakened the Mangekyō Sharingan. But when he saw Naruto's wild laughter, something didn't sit right.
"Why does it look a bit like that bastard Uchiha Madara?"
Kurama muttered to himself. The more he looked, the more something felt wrong. Suddenly, his eyes widened. He stared at Uzumaki Naruto and recalled some things from the past.
He remembered that neither Minato Namikaze nor Kushina Uzumaki had any Uchiha bloodline. But why had Naruto awakened the Mangekyō Sharingan? A terrifying thought suddenly crossed his mind. Some details didn't add up.
Hiss, my head itches, like I'm about to develop a brain.
But his hair is exactly the same as that guy, Namikaze Minato.
But he's definitely born of Uzumaki Kushina.
And Naruto's Uzumaki bloodline was undeniable. It suddenly occurred to him that Kushina had a good friend in the Uchiha clan and used to visit them often. Could it be that yellow-haired Uchiha?
Kurama felt his CPU was about to overload. His mind was in a whirlwind, and his fur was about to smoke. The complexity of human relationships was overwhelming. It seemed that tailed beasts were simple-minded creatures after all.
"I say, you seem to be thinking about something very rude, Kurama."
Kurama, lost in thought, showed a strange, anthropomorphic expression. Naruto swore he had never seen a fox make so many human-like faces.
"Ahem." Kurama immediately coughed a few times, feeling embarrassed, and scratched his head with his claws. Even if it was a fox, it was still awkward to think about which parent might have cheated.
"By the way, what's the deal with your Mangekyō Sharingan? I've never seen you with a Sharingan before."
Naruto smiled confidently, "The past was the past, and the present is now. This is cheating."
Kurama blinked.
"Awakening the Mangekyō Sharingan = cheating?"
Kurama was still confused.
But Naruto's equation seemed almost correct. After all, after awakening the Mangekyō, no ordinary ninja, even one who trained their whole life, would reach this level.
"Let's not talk about this." Naruto suddenly jumped up from the ground, looking at Kurama with a provocative grin.
"Kurama, practice with me."