True Villains Aren't Scary

Minato Namikaze said excitedly, "Naruto, this thing absolutely can't be called something as simple as a Rasengan anymore. It should be called Spiral Super Wheel Black Crack Rotation."

"It's called Great Spiraling Ring."

A calm voice rang out as Naruto cut off his father's urge to name the black sphere.

He remembered seeing this form of Rasengan in the Naruto movie Road to Ninja. In the movie, Uzumaki Menma had thrown a Great Spiraling Ring at Konoha.

Its power rivaled Nagato Uzumaki's Universal Pull, flattening Konoha in the blink of an eye.

"Uh, all right."

Minato Namikaze was slightly disappointed, but he felt that the name his son had chosen was fitting as well.

Kurama suddenly lowered his head before Naruto and asked, "Naruto, how much Chakra did it take for you to form that thing? Its essence is already extremely close to my Tailed Beast Bomb."

"It consumed about two-thirds of my Chakra," Naruto Responded after closing his eyes and carefully sensing it.

A Trace of surprise flashed through Kurama's crimson eyes. Then he grinned and said, "Heh heh, brat, once you grow up, your Chakra reserves could completely rival Hashirama Senju's."

"You might even surpass him. I know the Uzumaki Clan very well. To say nothing else, my first Jinchuriki, Mito Uzumaki, actually had no less Chakra than Hashirama Senju."

Naruto nodded. He recalled how people on the internet in his previous life often joked in the comments under Naruto videos.

They said that although they were all ninja, people like Naruto and Hashirama Senju measured their Chakra in tons, so it should be called Chakra-ton. Everyone else measured it in grams, so it was called Chakra.

Kakashi was the most typical example.

In battle, he did not even dare use Chidori too many times before he ran out of Chakra. Every time, he just muddled through with Earth Style Ninjutsu.

Then there was Gaara by comparison.

In one anime episode involving Takumi Village, when Gaara fought Seimei, he claimed that he had very little Chakra left. Yet while suppressing Shukaku inside him, he caught his breath and immediately hit his opponent with the ultimate move, Desert Funeral.

"What should we do with this thing, then?" Naruto asked, holding up the Great Spiraling Ring in his hand.

Minato Namikaze froze. He glanced at Kurama, then quickly shifted his gaze away.

"Roar!" Kurama bellowed. As if he had immediately sensed something, he cursed, "Bastard! Fourth Hokage! What are you thinking? I can sense your ill intent!"

"Uh..." Minato Namikaze's face heated up. He had forgotten that Kurama could sense the malice of others within the seal. Besides, the Chakra he was using now had been replenished by Kurama.

He had merely been thinking that since Naruto had cultivated this thing under Kurama's guidance, Kurama should be the one to deal with it.

Naruto's eyes flickered as he calmly said, "Father, Kurama, you both said this seal is very sturdy, right?"

Kurama raised his fox head. He had already guessed Naruto's idea, but he said nothing.

Minato Namikaze understood Naruto's meaning as well, but he frowned and said, "Naruto, the Rasengan can't be thrown. And if a Chakra sphere of this level explodes against the iron gate, it'll be too dangerous for your mental consciousness."

Kurama spoke up instead. "Naruto, link your Chakra with mine. You should be able to use a Chakra hand to grab that thing, right? Once the Chakra hand grabs it, just send it outside the iron gate."

Minato Namikaze's heart stirred. "Right! That works too, although it's different from the way I was planning to have you deal with Kurama."

Kurama's crimson vertical pupils immediately widened, and he said in an unfriendly tone, "Oh? Fourth Hokage, what exactly were you planning?"

Naruto said nothing upon hearing that. This plan truly was not bad. Back when he had reconciled with Kurama and linked their Chakra, a layer of golden Chakra had instantly covered his entire body.

Following Kurama's instructions, he had experimented inside the seal. The Chakra on his body could take physical form as all kinds of Chakra hands.

However, after Kurama and he had studied it many times, they found that this Chakra could not pass through the iron gate.

The moment Naruto stepped through the iron gate, the Chakra around his body would not only be forcibly drawn back to Kurama inside the seal, but it would also take away part of Naruto's own Chakra, leaving him intensely weakened.

When Minato Namikaze had discovered this, he had been confused for a long time. Logically speaking, the seal he had set should not have produced such a result. Its ultimate purpose was to convert the Nine-Tails' Chakra into his son's Chakra.

Even now, he had not figured out why his seal had caused this outcome.

"Thank you, Kurama!" Naruto first turned and smiled at Kurama in thanks. Then he walked to the iron gate, and his tone immediately changed. "I know the Rasengan can't be thrown."

"But this can!"

Minato Namikaze cried out in alarm, "What?!"

Naruto had already extended the hand holding the Great Spiraling Ring beyond the iron gate. Before Minato Namikaze's stunned gaze, he swung it hard, and the newly named Great Spiraling Ring flew into the air.

The instant Naruto let go, he grabbed his father and rushed to Kurama's claws.

"Please, Kurama!"

Kurama glanced over. Outside the iron gate, the thing resembling his Tailed Beast Bomb was already close to hitting the ground. His two claws instantly closed around Naruto and his father. Then he shifted his body, and his nine tails swept around, wrapping his entire body into a ball.

Boom—

The Great Spiraling Ring exploded before it even reached the ground.

As the tremendous roar rang out, an immensely terrifying spherical shockwave instantly formed on the other side of the sealed iron gate, rapidly expanding in all directions. Blinding light filled the entire Sealed Space at the same time.

Wrapped within Kurama's body, Naruto and Minato Namikaze could even feel the Sealed Space seeming to tremble.

After quite a while, Kurama sensed that the aftershocks had completely passed. He withdrew his tails and looked at the iron gate. A flash of disappointment crossed his eyes before he released his claws and let Naruto and Minato Namikaze out.

"Hm? The seal actually has cracks?"

Minato Namikaze had only just regained his vision when his expression turned uncertain.

"Fourth Hokage, is that true?" Kurama's ears perked up at once.

Naruto was already carefully probing the seal. He knew the Eight Trigrams Seal too, and he quickly confirmed that his father's feeling had been right. The seal truly had tiny cracks.

When he had first learned the Eight Trigrams Seal, he had asked his father whether he could directly undo the seal on his body. Minato Namikaze had said it was impossible.

To undo the seal, he had to obtain a key specifically corresponding to the Sealing Jutsu Formula. This key was unique to each person who cast a seal. Even if Naruto knew the Eight Trigrams Seal, any key he made would not match it.

Later, Naruto had casually asked how to undo the Reaper Death Seal, but the Fourth Hokage had refused to say a word.

Naruto had not pressed the issue. He knew the plot. Undoing the Reaper Death Seal was not difficult, but the person who released it had to offer up his life as a sacrifice.

Orochimaru had personally demonstrated it, but he had exploited a loophole in the sacrifice with the Reanimation Jutsu, sacrificing only a body that was of no importance to him.

Once Naruto confirmed that cracks had appeared in the seal, he extended his fist toward Kurama. No words were needed. Kurama immediately clenched a claw and touched Naruto's fist with it. In an instant, he understood what Naruto intended to do.

After golden, flame-like Chakra immediately wrapped around Naruto's body, he withdrew his fist and took two steps through the iron gate.

The moment Naruto stepped outside the iron gate, he frowned. The golden Chakra around his body was once again rapidly disappearing, flickering erratically like flames in a bonfire ravaged by a violent wind.

Just as Naruto prepared himself to fall into weakness again tonight, the Chakra on his body stopped draining away.

But its color began to change.

After a few breaths, the remaining Chakra had completely turned crimson. It soon enveloped Naruto's entire body once more in a translucent layer, and a pair of things resembling Kurama's fox ears appeared atop his head.

"Hm? This Chakra seems to be influencing my emotions."

Naruto turned toward the iron gate in confusion. Two tail-like appendages had appeared behind him and were swaying unconsciously.

"Yes! That's it! It's exactly like when Kushina used it back then. I knew my seal couldn't possibly have a problem!" Minato Namikaze's focus was completely different from Naruto's.

After carefully examining Naruto's form, surprise flashed through Kurama's eyes. Then his voice sank. "Fourth Hokage, aren't you celebrating too early? Haven't you noticed Naruto's body has already begun turning into a Tailed Beast?"

Minato Namikaze immediately came to his senses upon hearing Kurama.

That was right. Naruto obtaining Kurama's Chakra outside the sealed gate was normal according to the seal's function. He could seize and borrow the Tailed Beast's Chakra that way. But while using Tailed Beast Chakra, the body would inevitably manifest the Tailed Beast's Chakra as well, forming a Tailed Beast Cloak. Kushina had once displayed this form before him.

"Heh, finally came to your senses?" Kurama sneered before continuing, "Too late! Two of the ninja monitoring Naruto outside his house have already run off. They must be reporting to the Hokage."

The Fourth Hokage's face darkened. The Third Hokage would definitely come inspect the seal soon. At that thought, he immediately shouted to Naruto outside the iron gate, "Naruto, get back in here quickly. Have Kurama take back the Chakra first, then I'll reinforce and restore the seal."

At the mention of reinforcing the seal, Kurama's already crimson eyes immediately became as red as if they would drip blood. After deeply looking at Naruto once, he closed his eyes and lay down.

Naruto was still feeling the changes brought by the Chakra on his body. Hearing his father's voice, he shook his head.

"Father, even if the Third Hokage is the Professor of Ninjutsu, at most he'll discover the cracks in my seal. He won't do anything to me. Don't worry, I can handle him myself when he comes."

"Ah..." Minato Namikaze sighed. "I'm just a little worried. But the Third Hokage should not be a bad person, so you don't need to be too afraid."

Naruto's gaze turned cold upon hearing that, and he Responded without the slightest emotion, "Father, even if I'm a three-year-old child, you should understand that true villains aren't scary in this world."

"What's truly scary are fake good people."

"And I said from the beginning that I wanted to break the seal. Why would we reinforce and restore it?"

Kurama's ears twitched slightly at those words, but he did not open his eyes.

Minato Namikaze's expression became extremely unpleasant after hearing Naruto say that. He was still hesitant, because he was worried that the Third Hokage would inspect the seal closely. If he discovered Minato Namikaze's existence...

Naruto sensed that the Chakra fluctuations of the two Anbu still monitoring him outside were unstable. The Third Hokage had also set out for his home with many others.

After pondering for a while, Naruto said, "Kurama, can you keep my father from being discovered?"

"Hmph!" Kurama did not even raise his eyelids. He directly spread open one claw and said, "Come here, Fourth Hokage. You bastard, if you ever mention reinforcing the seal again, don't even think about receiving any more Chakra."

Minato Namikaze immediately felt extremely awkward. Watching his son wave goodbye to him, he braced himself and walked into Kurama's claw.

With a shift of thought, Naruto left the Mental World. Once he regained control of his body, he discovered that just like inside the seal, his entire body was now wrapped in Tailed Beast Chakra.

He had only taken two steps after getting up when the two tails behind him smashed a stool in the room's passageway to pieces.

The Third Hokage had already arrived downstairs with a group of people.