Gaara's gaze suddenly shifted to the Byakugan girl chasing after Sasuke from behind.
Or rather, it was Shukaku within Gaara that controlled Gaara to turn his gaze towards Hinata.
Nine Tailed Beasts... all from the Ten-Tails.
When they were the Ten-Tails, they may have had no self and no memories.
However, when the Sage of Six Paths separated the Nine Tailed Beasts from the Ten-Tails' body, the Nine Tailed Beasts inherited some of the Ten-Tails' memories.
Those are memories etched deep in my soul.
For example... a certain young woman with Byakugan, just like Hinata!
Shukaku first met Hinata in the Forest of Death.
Hinata is different from other Hyuga Clan ninjas. Due to her wish before transmigrating, the bloodline of the Hinata Otsutsuki clan has automatically awakened within her.
The blood is reviving itself.
In the Forest of Death, Shukaku sensed the power of the Otsutsuki clan, which is why it didn't dare to come out at that time.
Furthermore, the power of the God Tree faintly exists within Hinata's body.
If the Byakugan is a power inherited from the Otsutsuki clan, then the Sharingan is a power inherited from the God Tree.
Therefore, although the Sage of Six Paths, Hamura Otsutsuki, is the elder brother, it is his Hagoromo Otsutsuki, who should be considered a true Otsutsuki clan.
The Hyuga Clan is the main Main Family of the Otsutsuki clan.
Even Kaguya Otsutsuki, the Progenitor of Chakra, did not evolve her Byakugan into the Tenseigan.
Therefore, in the Tenseigan, it also possesses a certain amount of God Tree power.
If the Rinnegan is primarily activated by the power of the God Tree, with the power of the Otsutsuki clan playing a secondary role...
So the Tenseigan is a Dōjutsu that was awakened by using the power of the Otsutsuki clan as the main source and the power of the God Tree as a supplement.
After Kaguya Otsutsuki devoured the God Tree Fruit, the power of the God Tree instantly gained the upper hand, which is why she awakened the Rinnegan with nine Tomoe.
That's why Shukaku was too scared to come out when he sensed that Shukaku possessed both the power of the 'Otsutsuki' and the 'God Tree' in the Forest of Death Hinata.
But as Gaara and Hinata got closer several times, Shukaku finally sensed it.
Hinata's power is actually still very weak.
Then there's nothing to be afraid of!
"Oh hahahaha—"
Gaara let out a wild, unrestrained laugh, it was unclear whether the laughter came from Gaara himself or from Shukaku within him.
Hinata and her six companions approached Sasuke. Sasuke looked at Hinata and asked, "This guy is acting a bit strange, what should we do?"
"Byakugan!"
Hinata focused her Chakra on her Byakugan. Without turning her head, the Byakugan's vision penetrated the Eight Trigrams Seal within Naruto and saw the Nine-Tails in the sewers.
Hinata had already discovered the cracks in the Eight Trigrams Seal during her match with Naruto.
Hinata took Naruto's hand.
Naruto immediately turned bright red, and he looked at Hinata shyly, saying, "Hinata, what's wrong with you...?"
Hinata ignored Naruto and said to Sasuke and the others, "Come here, all of you, hold hands!"
Although somewhat puzzled, Sasuke and the others still held hands and joined Hinata and Naruto.
Hinata whispered, "Calling the Little Fox, calling the Little Fox! Please... lend us a little bit of your power!"
In the sewers, Nine-Tails sensed Hinata's Dojutsu power and immediately roared in fury, "Bastard! It's you!"
Hinata blinked and said cutely, "Little Fox, don't be angry yet! Can you lend us some of your power? We're going to fight Shukaku."
Please! I beg you!
"We can just use the Shadow Clone technique!"
Moe Jutsu activated!
Nine-Tails: "..."
Who to attack? Shukaku?
Is that the fat raccoon cat that's yellowish-brown with purple markings and that keeps calling itself "stinky fox"?
'Boom--'
In an instant, a surge of Chakra flowed from Naruto's body, and the crimson Demon Fox Cloak on Hinata, Sasuke, Shikamaru, Rock Lee, Lee, Shino instantly ignited.
"Cut!"
Nine-Tails gave a haughty snort, then closed its eyes, no longer wanting to pay attention to Hinata.
Hinata smiled and said, "Thank you, Little Fox! I'll come visit you again sometime!"
That arrogant Nine-Tails is no match for the Moe Jutsu; it obediently lent out its power.
Of course, it's also possible that Hinata beat it up before!
In short, Nine-Tails is very honest!
On the other side, Shukaku, the entire tanuki, was in a terrible state.
I think I ran into that stinky fox, and... there were a lot of stinky foxes.
My Jinchuriki... could he be surrounded by that stinky fox?
Sage of Six Paths, I want to report you! That Nine-Tails- Tailed Fox is cheating!
Shukaku: Should I let my Jinchuriki be killed by the opponent? Wouldn't that make me free?
Actually, if it were any other Tailed Beasts, Shukaku could very well have beaten Gaara to death.
But the Nine-Tails is different.
Nine-Tails) once offended Shukaku, and in a way that was thorough.
The Nine-Tails said: The power of the Tailed Beasts is arranged according to the number of their tails.
All right!
Shukaku also admits that Nine-Tails's power is the strongest, but I Shukaku... am definitely not the weakest.
But the key point is that the Nine-Tails, which was once in its complete form, only had eyes for the Eight-Tails.
The other seven Tailed Beasts were no different in Nine-Tails's eyes.
They're all weaklings.
Nine-Tails thinks it's the strongest, Eight-Tails is next, and who cares about the remaining seven weaklings? Let's just rank them like that!
Gaara let out a sharp, piercing howl. "Kill them!"
Feeling the surging Chakra within their bodies, Sasuke and the others were instantly stunned...
"This is..."
Hinata explained, "This is the hidden power within Naruto; we're just borrowing it for a bit."
Naruto scratched his head, somewhat puzzled, and asked, "Speaking of which... if this is the hidden power within me, then why can you use it, but I can't?"
That's right!
Hinata six all have the Demon Fox Cloak, but Naruto, the pure Nine-Tails Jinchuriki, has not received even a tiny bit of power from the Nine-Tails!
Hinata patted Naruto on the shoulder and comforted him, "Maybe Nine-Tails just hates you! But if you can become friends with Nine-Tails, maybe it will lend you its power!"
Naruto nodded in strong agreement and hid to the side to call for Nine-Tails.
"Shino! Protect Naruto!"
Hinata called out loudly, "Everyone! Let's go!"
In fact, even before chasing Gaara, Hinata had already thought of a way to deal with Gaara.
I'll act cute and borrow some power from the Nine-Tails.
With the Nine-Tails 'Chakra, even Genin like Shikamaru, Shino, Rock Lee, and Kiba can unleash tremendous power.
If Kurama (the Nine-Tails) refuses to lend it, then we'll have to let them retreat first.
Fortunately, although the Nine-Tails is a bit arrogant, it can't resist the power of its Moe Jutsu. And since it heard that it was going to fight the Little Tanuki, it was relatively easy to talk to.
Then, I won't be able to give Gaara the chance to Complete Tailed Beast Transformation.
If we can just use the same method we used to fight the Nine-Tails to send Shukaku back, Gaara will be trapped.
Then, we'll bring Gaara back to Konoha and exchange him for some money with Sunagakure...