The Miserable Nine-Tails and Hagoromo's Bountiful Harvest

At this moment, because the Nine-Tails had held nothing back just now, Naruto's entire body now contained not only the bloodline of the Uzumaki Clan, but also the Nine-Tails' Chakra.

The Nine-Tails realized what had happened and struggled on all fours to get up and reclaim his Chakra, only to find that he couldn't connect with it at all.

"Damn it!"

"What's going on? Why can't I get it back?"

This was Chakra he had been storing ever since he was sealed away.

After all, both Mito Uzumaki and Kushina Uzumaki had been incredibly skilled at Sealing Jutsu.

Back then, whenever the Nine-Tails extracted Chakra, he was doing all the work for someone else's benefit.

As though it had found something amusing, the light on Naruto's forehead, which had been gradually fading, suddenly grew dazzling.

In Naruto's sealed space, he then began gradually absorbing the vast quantity of ownerless Chakra.

Pinned down by the Gate of the Great God, the Nine-Tails felt a chill run through him.

It made no sense. This shouldn't be happening.

Even the Nine-Tails, who had been controlled by Madara Uchiha and manhandled by Hashirama Senju,

couldn't quite understand what was happening now.

Wait, are all Uzumaki this freakish?

Mito and Kushina had a foundation to work from, but this brat was an orphan, and what he was doing was even more outrageous than what either of them had done!

"You little brat! Stop that right now!"

Growing weaker by the moment, the Nine-Tails let out an angry roar, but it was no use.

Unlike before, his voice couldn't get past the bars at all. Naruto, sitting cross-legged, merely frowned before ignoring him.

While Naruto was absorbing the Nine-Tails' Chakra,

Hagoromo, who had already returned home, was suddenly alerted by the system panel.

[Detected disciple 'Naruto Uzumaki' using the Gate of the Great God to sever the Nine-Tails' connection to his Chakra.]

[Synchronized acquisition channel opened. Acquisition rate: one tenth of the source.]

"Holy crap!"

Hagoromo, who had been about to do some training, was stunned. Wait, taking a disciple comes with benefits like this?

The torrent of Chakra that followed immediately interrupted Hagoromo's thoughts.

And so, master and disciple began cultivating from a distance.

As Hagoromo sat cross-legged and settled his mind, he found himself in an unfamiliar place the next moment.

Sensing the Yang Release Chakra and its various attributes all around him, nearly overflowing, Hagoromo couldn't help being a little amazed.

"I've struck gold!"

Gathering his focus, Hagoromo began absorbing it.

As he absorbed it, Hagoromo's expression gradually grew a little strange.

He realized that his absorption worked on a completely different principle from Naruto's.

What Naruto was absorbing now could directly expand his Chakra reserves.

Hagoromo's absorption, on the other hand, did more to improve him in every respect.

Simply put, the Nine-Tails Chakra Hagoromo was absorbing was being used to transform his body.

After all, his own bloodline was that of an ordinary civilian in the Shinobi World.

Naruto, though he had only half the Uzumaki Bloodline, was also the son of the Fourth Hokage, Minato Namikaze, who was no ordinary man himself.

After all, how could an ordinary person possibly become Hokage step by step through his own efforts?

So Naruto's constitution didn't need improving, while Hagoromo's body was like land that had been parched for a long time.

It continuously absorbed the Nine-Tails Chakra, then came back to life.

"You little brat, you've gone too far! You're not just absorbing it yourself—you brought someone else along too!"

Though the violent Nine-Tails had already lost control of his Chakra, he could still clearly sense that two people were absorbing it.

Hagoromo, who was hiding in the sage jutsu formula on Naruto's forehead, grinned when he heard that.

After all, he could clearly see what the Nine-Tails looked like now.

Just as he would when Naruto forcibly borrowed his Chakra in a tug-of-war for the first time later on, the Nine-Tails' massive body now looked malnourished.

He was skin and bones, and even the once-plump fox's bright red fur had grown somewhat dull and lusterless.

With the Gate of the Great God suppressing him on top of that, Naruto probably wouldn't be disturbed by the Nine-Tails' Chakra for a while.

And even after the Gate of the Great God disappeared, Hagoromo reckoned the Nine-Tails' influence on Naruto would be negligible.

After all, Naruto was now using the Nine-Tails' Chakra to expand his own Chakra reserves.

In a roundabout way, he could be called a different kind of Perfect Jinchuriki.

If the seal really failed to hold in the future, Hagoromo thought Naruto should at least be able to barely retain control of his mind when the Seven-Tails' energy erupted.

That was a great improvement over the original.

After all, in the original story, Naruto's mind could already be seen to have sunk completely into violence in the Three-Tails state.

And so, Hagoromo gradually shut off his senses and focused on absorbing the Chakra.

As Naruto and Hagoromo continued absorbing it, the eyelids of the Nine-Tails, who had been raging furiously, gradually grew heavy.

"You little brat... I won't let you get away with this..."

Before he finished speaking, the Nine-Tails fell asleep.

In the vast space, the once enormous quantity of Chakra dwindled more and more, gradually drying up.

Pop—

A sound like a pipe being pulled out rang out, and Hagoromo, sitting in his own home, woke up.

Hagoromo clenched his fist, his bones cracking intermittently.

"That feels great!"

Hagoromo now felt that his body, which had been transformed by Yang Release Chakra at noon, had improved even further.

And by a great deal.

After all, it had just been cleansed by Yang Release Chakra, and now Nine-Tails Chakra had washed through it as well.

It felt even better than eating a bowl of shaved ice during the hottest days of summer.

Just before withdrawing, Hagoromo had checked on Naruto's current condition again.

Naruto was already asleep. After all, even though his own bloodline was strong, the Nine-Tails' Chakra was also the power closest to the seed of this world.

So, after absorbing it, he felt warm all over and fell asleep.

With nothing wrong with his disciple, Hagoromo relaxed and eagerly opened his own panel.

[Name: Sawada Hagoromo]

Age: 17

Spirit: 50

Constitution: 45 (75% boost from Yang Release Chakra)

Strength: 45 (75% boost from Yang Release Chakra)

Speed: 30

Chakra: 12000 (75% boost from Yang Release Chakra)

Hand Seals: 30

Ninjutsu: Three Basic Techniques, Great Fireball Technique, Phoenix Flower Jutsu, Wind Release: Wind Cutter (C-rank), Wind Release: Great Breakthrough (C-rank), Earth Release: Double Suicide Decapitation Technique (C-rank)

Taijutsu: Konoha Whirlwind, Leaf Great Whirlwind

Genjutsu: Fox in the Heart Technique

Chakra nature: Wind Release Chakra Nature Transformation (extraordinary)

Chakra attributes: Fire (proficient), Water (latent), Wind (extraordinary), Lightning (latent), Earth (beginner), Yang (mastered+)

What a haul. What a haul.

Hagoromo looked at the panel, his eyes shining brightly.

The gains from absorbing one tenth of the Nine-Tails Chakra this time were enormous.

Not only had the various stats on the panel improved significantly, but even the hidden Chakra attribute panel had appeared.