After training all afternoon, Naruto had completely lost track of time. By the time he woke up, it was already dusk.
Checking the time, he saw that it was already six or seven in the evening.
After extracting Chakra for so long, Naruto was getting hungry too.
He took out the Nutritional Cans the system had given him earlier from beneath the table.
Although the system's built-in storage space could store rewards he obtained, and apparently even his own belongings, with quite a large capacity as well.
There were fewer people watching him now, but there was still a risk of being discovered. So Naruto had placed the cans beneath the table early on, avoiding the risk of having them appear out of thin air.
"Let me see what this canned food tastes like."
Naruto eagerly opened the can, and a fragrant aroma drifted out.
Using his chopsticks, Naruto scooped out the meat inside and gave it a proper taste.
This flavor! It was incredible!
As expected, anything produced by the system was top-notch.
Although Ichiraku Ramen was delicious, anyone would get tired of eating it every day.
Sometimes, he could go a few times to milk the system by completing repetitive quests.
But ramen was still ramen. Its nutritional value was rather limited.
And Naruto was currently in a physically weakened state. It was time to rely on the system's Nutritional Cans to properly build himself back up.
After finishing the can, Naruto began extracting Chakra again. By the time he was done, it was already the middle of the night.
At Naruto's age, he was in the middle of growing. He needed plenty of sleep to develop quickly.
Before bed, he ate another can to replenish his nutrition.
Extracting Chakra for so long had left Naruto mentally exhausted. After finishing the can, he lay down on the bed, pulled the blanket over himself, and immediately fell asleep.
In his dream, Naruto's consciousness gradually shifted from hazy to clear.
Rubbing his eyes groggily, he asked curiously, "Good grief, where the hell did I end up? Is this still the world of Naruto?"
Looking at the gloomy surroundings, he seemed to be in some kind of basement?
The dark, damp environment immediately told Naruto where he was.
Why did I suddenly come here?
Naruto looked behind him, but there was no way back in sight.
"Then I can only move forward. Let me see what you look like, Kurama!"
Naruto walked down the corridor. As he went deeper, the water pooling in the passage grew deeper, eventually rising past his ankles.
Naruto reached the end of the corridor, and just as he arrived.
A drop of water seemed to fall from above, breaking the stillness.
"Brat, come here!" A deeply seductive voice came from the depths of the corridor.
Naruto looked toward the voice.
A cage made of red pillars came into view.
Within the cage, a massive orange figure as large as a small hill appeared before Naruto. It was lying on the water's surface, its nine tails constantly swishing behind it!
It was you, Tamamo-no-Mae!
Sorry, wrong story.
It was you, Nine-Tails!
An extremely ominous aura of Chakra emanated from the Nine-Tails.
"Brat, come here. Come here!"
Under the Nine-Tails' seductive call, Naruto slowly walked toward it.
System Quest issued: Make the Nine-Tails surprised. The more times it is surprised, the richer the quest reward!
The system chose this moment to make its presence known.
Naruto had never been tempted by the Nine-Tails to begin with. He was merely playing along.
As Naruto got closer and closer to the seal, the Nine-Tails grew increasingly pleased.
"Good, good. Come closer, closer. There is a seal in front of you. Hurry up and remove it!"
The Nine-Tails' tone shifted from patient guidance to faint urgency.
Naruto saw the seal on the cage.
Naruto knew that if he truly touched that seal, perhaps his bargain-bin father and bargain-bin mother would appear.
He was not ready to face either of them yet.
So Naruto pretended to be bewitched, and just as he was about to touch the seal.
He suddenly pulled back his hand and grinned at the Nine-Tails. "Oops, I pulled it back. What do you think? Didn't see that coming, did you? Surprised? Caught off guard?"
The Nine-Tails had not expected Naruto to resist the temptation of its voice. Everything Naruto had done before had been an act. He had been playing it.
Nine-Tails surprise count increased by one!
It instantly flew into a rage and shouted furiously, "Damn you, you little brat! You dared to deceive me! You deserve to die!"
Its nine tails whipped wildly behind it. The Nine-Tails stood up and clawed fiercely at the cage.
Unfortunately, the seal was incredibly sturdy. Its claws struck the cage before Naruto, unable to harm him in the slightest.
"Scare me however you want. I'm not afraid at all!" Naruto leisurely clasped his hands behind his head and looked confidently at the Nine-Tails' claws.
Nine-Tails surprise count increased by one!
"How can this be? Isn't this your first time seeing me? Why aren't you afraid of me?" Now it was the Nine-Tails' turn to be dumbfounded.
This was its first time meeting Naruto, yet Naruto was not afraid of it at all. Was the brat thick-skinned, or just slow on the uptake?
Still, having remained inside Naruto for so long, it had seen Naruto's usual treatment with its own eyes.
The Nine-Tails thought, I may not be human, but these villagers are truly dogs!
"Brat, do you want my power? With my power, you could easily kill the villagers who usually despise you. Even your Hokage-sama, I could defeat him with ease!"
The Nine-Tails continued tempting Naruto.
"You only need to remove the seal on the cage. Then I can give you everything you desire and grant you invincible power over the world!"
The Nine-Tails kept boasting, trying to beguile Naruto.
Naruto immediately smiled and asked, "You can give me anything? Even power invincible in the world?"
The Nine-Tails revealed what it believed was a kindly smile and continued, "Of course. Anything. What do you want? I can help you achieve it, as long as you remove this seal!"
Naruto thought for a moment and said, "Then can you make me strong enough to beat Uchiha Madara?"
"Uchiha Madara?! Where did you hear that name?" The Nine-Tails was instantly surprised again.
Nine-Tails surprise count increased by one!
Hearing that name brought back certain unpleasant memories for the Nine-Tails.
Back then, it had once been so high-spirited.
Until it met Uchiha Madara. With his powerful Mangekyō Sharingan, that man had captured it as easily as catching a pet.
When it woke up, it had already signed a summoning contract.
When it woke up again, it was already on some battlefield. Uchiha Madara had put some strange armor on it. The Uchiha Clan really knew how to get creative.
That was a memory the Nine-Tails did not want to revisit.
"Brat, answer me. Where did you hear that name?" The Nine-Tails had been sealed inside Naruto from the moment Naruto was born. It had watched everything Naruto had experienced. There should have been no way for him to know Uchiha Madara's name.
"I see. If you can't beat Uchiha Madara, can you beat Hashirama Senju?" Naruto continued.
Nine-Tails surprise count increased by one!
The Nine-Tails instantly became furious and roared, "You brat, are you deliberately picking a fight? You're deliberately bringing up those names, aren't you?!"
In an instant, the Nine-Tails violently slapped the sewer water, trying to splash it at Naruto.
Unfortunately, restrained by the cage, it could only stir up slight ripples in the sewer water. Naruto did not feel anything beneath his feet.
However, the names Naruto mentioned once again drew the Nine-Tails into its memories.
Uchiha Madara had captured it in the first place to fight against that man, Hashirama Senju.
Even earlier, that man had said something like, "Nine-Tails, your power is too great. For the peace of the shinobi world, I must seal you away."
Then all it remembered was that he seemed to clap his hands together, use some Wood Style ninjutsu, and effortlessly take it down!
"You're angry already? I haven't even said much yet." Naruto smiled faintly. He had not even begun to exert himself.
Seeing that Naruto before it was somewhat unusual, the Nine-Tails stopped dwelling on it.
"Get lost first!" A shockwave passed through the cage and rushed toward Naruto.
The Nine-Tails had lured Naruto in to begin with, so naturally, it could also drive him out.
His consciousness instantly became blurry.
By the time Naruto regained consciousness, some time had passed. He was lying on his own bed.
"Why did that Nine-Tails get angry in the middle of talking? I still had a whole bunch of things to say. Getting kicked out this time was such a loss. System, claim my reward!"
Congratulations, Host. You completed the quest to make the Nine-Tails surprised. Reward: Complete Uzumaki Clan Physique!
Naruto understood this quite easily.
His father, Minato Namikaze, was merely a commoner, while his mother, Uzumaki Kushina, was a pure-blooded member of the Uzumaki Clan.
As the combination of the two, he could be considered mixed-blooded and not a pure member of the Uzumaki Clan.
After receiving the system's reward, the complete Uzumaki Clan Physique.
Naruto calmed himself and felt the changes in his body.
It felt as though something he had been missing had been filled in and made whole.
Meanwhile, everything he had originally possessed still seemed to remain, unaffected in any way.
He could feel that the vitality within him had become even more vigorous, and his Chakra reserves had multiplied several times over!
So this is the Uzumaki Clan Physique? Such powerful vitality... It feels like there's something extra inside my body too.
With a thought, a small chain seemed to appear in Uzumaki Naruto's hand.
"Huh, this is... Adamantine Sealing Chains?"
Adamantine Sealing Chains were a special ability of the Uzumaki Clan, capable of restraining Tailed Beasts. Only red-haired descendants with the clan's bloodline could use them.
Red hair was a sign of pure blood.
Naruto stood up and walked to the mirror, carefully examining himself in the reflection.
After his Uzumaki Clan Physique had been completed, he seemed to have become more handsome. Even the whisker marks on his face appeared to have decreased.
The Adamantine Sealing Chains had awakened as well. When he poured more Chakra into them, the number of chains would gradually increase, and their strength would steadily grow.
But his hair remained yellow, unchanged.
It seemed that completing the Uzumaki Clan Physique only altered his internal traits, without greatly affecting external characteristics.
Naruto wondered whether the Mind's Eye of the Kagura had changed as well.
He used the Mind's Eye of the Kagura again, and this time, many changes had indeed occurred.
If the previous Mind's Eye of the Kagura had provided an image like a radar display, showing only several points with Chakra and their rough directions.
Then this new Mind's Eye of the Kagura offered three hundred and sixty-degree detection with no blind spots. Based on the unique nature of a person's Chakra, it could even feed back their specific appearance.
The effect had more than doubled.
"It's over, it's over, it's over. I got ripped off!"
Just a few times had earned Naruto the complete Uzumaki Clan Physique. If he had made the Nine-Tails more surprised earlier, could he have obtained Asura's special physique? If he had been even bolder, perhaps the special physique of the Otsutsuki Sage, or even the alien physique of the Otsutsuki Clan.
If he could do it over, he would definitely tell the Nine-Tails from before, "I'll make sure to surprise you properly. I won't bring up Uchiha Madara and Hashirama Senju anymore!"
Still, awakening the complete Uzumaki Clan Physique now was not a loss either.
And after awakening it, Naruto felt incredibly hungry!
It felt as though the deficiencies within him had been filled, but he still needed energy to replenish himself.
So Naruto took out several more cans and devoured a full four cans before finally feeling full.
After all, the canned food produced by the system was already extremely filling.
This showed just how much nutrition Naruto had truly lacked!
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