The Trial Version of Sage Art: Gate of the Great God Shows Its Power

Time flew once he had a goal.

Just as it did for Naruto now.

When the bell rang, Naruto instinctively stretched. He had been sitting in the same position for the entire lesson, after all.

Hagoromo stopped teaching and began gathering his textbooks and materials.

Before leaving, he looked at the students in the classroom and said,

"Everyone, tomorrow I'll be checking your Chakra extraction progress at random, so remember to review it carefully."

"Yes!"

The students weren't worried in the slightest about extracting Chakra.

After all, whether it was thanks to Hagoromo's teaching or their own aptitude...

To put it bluntly, as long as nothing went wrong, anyone in the Shinobi World could extract Chakra with ease. The only question was how much.

Hearing about the spot check, Naruto, who had been full of confidence, couldn't help looking a little anxious.

After all, he still hadn't managed to extract any!

Just as he was wondering whether he should go find his teacher again, he remembered Hagoromo telling him at noon that he could try again tonight.

Come to think of it, before saying that, Teacher Hagoromo had tapped him on the forehead with two fingers.

Could it be?

Could a gesture like that solve the problem?

At the thought, Naruto unconsciously touched his forehead.

Never mind. I'll go home and try it now!

Teacher Hagoromo would never lie to me anyway.

With that thought in mind, Naruto didn't stay until he was the last to leave the classroom, as he usually did.

Sasuke had just packed his schoolbag and was getting ready to go home when he felt a gust of wind rush past him. He looked up.

A flash of blond hair vanished from sight at the classroom door.

What was that about?

Paying no attention to Sasuke Uchiha's curiosity in the classroom, Naruto raced out of the school gates ahead of everyone else and ran straight home.

Even the parents who usually pointed at him were dumbfounded. They had never seen the "demon fox" so full of energy.

Naruto, running at full speed, simply had no idea what they were thinking. If he had known...

He would have had to say, Pfft~ I have a master now too.

I don't need your attention.

"I'm home!"

As soon as he entered his room, Naruto shouted, then tossed his schoolbag onto the table. The next second, he sat cross-legged on the edge of his bed.

He assumed the standard Chakra extraction posture and began extracting Chakra.

Recalling the steps Hagoromo had taught him, Naruto gradually cleared his mind, closed his eyes, and placed his hands on his knees.

His consciousness had just entered...

Drip~ drip~

A dark, damp sewer.

Naruto kept his eyes closed and paid it no mind. He had appeared here every time he tried to extract Chakra.

He thought it happened to everyone who extracted Chakra, so he hadn't paid it much attention.

Not far from where Naruto sat cultivating, at an end shrouded entirely in darkness, stood a massive red barred gate that towered over the entire space.

A pair of crimson eyes suddenly appeared within it, filled with savagery and unbridled destruction.

The Nine-Tails, whose eyes had been closed, opened them the moment Naruto entered.

"Tch... This brat really is persistent."

His tone was full of undisguised malice.

His nine tails began to swing behind him like towering mountains.

The puddles on the damp ground, which had been still, gradually began to ripple as the Nine-Tails' tails swayed.

Feeling that he had gathered enough power, the Nine-Tails released his crimson, viscous Chakra, which resembled magma. It flowed through the bars and spread toward Naruto.

Naruto, his eyes closed, noticed nothing. He had finally sensed the fluctuations Teacher Hagoromo had described again.

This time, I can do it!

Seeing that Naruto remained the same, the Nine-Tails' grin grew increasingly vicious behind the bars.

"You little brat!"

The next second, the crimson, viscous Chakra sped up, surging toward Naruto.

"Soon! Konoha, this time I'll show you what destruction is!"

The Nine-Tails' Chakra rose like a wave just as it approached Naruto.

It meant to engulf him completely.

But at that moment, a dazzling light burst from the forehead of Naruto, who had been as still as a mountain.

"Hm?!"

Seeing that he was close to succeeding, the Nine-Tails stopped instinctively and narrowed his eyes suspiciously.

The surging Chakra hung motionless above Naruto, as though time itself had stopped.

After a long while, when nothing happened, the Nine-Tails felt as though he had been made a fool of.

Furious with embarrassment, he unleashed the maximum amount of Chakra he could currently command. If what he had released before was only a small wave,

Then this Chakra was like a massive tsunami, filling the entire space.

The Nine-Tails rose to his feet behind the bars, his towering figure like a demon god.

After all, this was the greatest amount of Chakra the Nine-Tails could command.

"You little brat!"

Before the words had even faded...

Suddenly, some ten dark red torii gates appeared above the barred gate as if out of thin air.

Then they dropped straight toward the Nine-Tails like heavy artillery!

Boom—!

The first gate fell straight toward the Nine-Tails' neck as he was about to engulf Naruto in Chakra.

In the next instant, he felt as though fate itself had seized him by the throat, and his tongue shot straight out of his gaping mouth.

Then his nine constantly waving tails were pinned down by the other nine torii gates.

The massive amount of Chakra that had been surging like a tsunami was cut off from him, returning to a viscous, magma-like state as it gathered around Naruto.

Pinned down, the Nine-Tails strained to turn his head and finally saw what was pressing on his neck.

The next second, his fur bristled. "Gate of the Great God!"

No...

Damn it! How is that damned First brat's Gate of the Great God here?!

I've been locked up here for so many years, and I never sensed this Chakra at all.

No, wait...

Realization dawned on the Nine-Tails. He bared his teeth and let out a heavy breath, looking at Naruto not far away in disbelief.

No, rather, at the gradually fading light above Naruto's head.

Only then could the Nine-Tails clearly sense the energy hidden within that light.

An aura he remembered all too well.

"Sage Art..."

Those Konoha people... No, the Fourth, rather. You really did plan far ahead.

Meanwhile, with the Nine-Tails no longer interfering, Naruto had reached the final step.

Chakra itself was made up of spiritual energy and the energy contained in every cell of the human body.

Naruto possessed the constitution of the Uzumaki Clan, which was synonymous with vast reserves of Chakra.