The Nine-Tails' Reputation Suffers

Naruto's Sealing Space.

Anju stared speechlessly at Kurama, who kept trying to fire Ultraman laser beams.

"Anju, how's this fireball? Doesn't it look like Tiga Ultraman's fireball?"

After seeing Anju appear, Kurama excitedly raised his paw high, and the blazing fireball above it only left Anju even more speechless.

Didn't you know? Aside from small fry, no ninja ever died to Fire Style.

What else could Anju even say?

"Good, but are you sure that fireball isn't just ordinary Fire Style?"

Kurama sheepishly drew his hand back, and the fireball from before vanished as well.

"I feel like this Ultraman transformation is a bit like those fat guys' ninjutsu—getting bigger. But I just can't figure out these Ultraman ninjutsu."

The Nine-Tails was starting to lose it. He had watched so much Ultraman and still could not figure out how these Ultraman techniques took shape.

"Kurama, when you fight, you basically only know the Tailed Beast Ball and almost nothing else. If you could use a ton of ninjutsu like a ninja, would you still have to worry about not beating others?"

"Future me, since you're future me, then teaching me a few moves should be fine, right?"

"Sorry, I'm the future you. I can't teach you the ninjutsu you'll know in the future, or spacetime will get messed up."

"You're already standing in front of me. Hasn't spacetime already been messed up?"

"That's different. Right now, I'm only the half sealed by Minato, so naturally I can appear."

Anju chuckled. As if you, Kurama, could guess how I got here.

"Damn it! How do these Giants of Light shoot out light like this, and even blow up monsters!" Kurama was already getting impatient.

"You're a tailed beast. Don't use Chakra like a human!" Anju reminded Kurama at that moment.

"What do you mean!?"

"Why don't you learn from those monsters?"

"I am the mighty Nine-Tails. How could I learn from those guys who get blown up!" Kurama said, extremely dissatisfied. "Besides, I'm going to learn Ultraman's ninjutsu very soon!"

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If you could freaking learn it, you wouldn't be this irritable.

Anju glanced at the ground of the Sealing Space over there, which Kurama had smashed full of black craters.

For his own convenience, Anju had also changed Kurama's Sealing Space into a grassland, with a television set in the middle.

A single television set stood there, looking incredibly out of place.

"Kurama, do you really not want to come visit my side? It's pretty interesting."

"No. Seeing those two humans pisses me off!"

"Kurama, that's a little prejudiced of you. The Sage of Six Paths wanted us to live peacefully with humans, you know."

"Then why don't you look at what they've done? I've even lost my freedom now!"

"That's because you lot don't know how to deal with people."

"You do?"

"A little."

Kurama clicked his tongue twice. "Keep bragging. I refuse to believe that tailed beasts in the future will live peacefully with humans."

"Have you ever thought about why humans want to seal you?"

"They're all just greedy and want my power!"

"If they want it, just give them some."

"What!? How could that be allowed!"

"How couldn't it? Just win over one group of people to oppose another." Anju shook his head. "Have you forgotten Asura and Indra?"

Kurama fell silent.

"Looks like you understood too. All right, I'm leaving."

Seeing Kurama go silent, Anju stopped speaking as well.

"Wait. Take me with you."

Kurama suddenly spoke at that moment.

"Okay." Anju smiled. It seemed Kurama still had some trust in him.

Kushina Uzumaki's Sealing Space.

Outside Minato and Kushina's Love Nest.

Two little foxes appeared at the door.

"Damn it! Anju! Why did you make me so small? I can't look mighty at all!"

Kurama looked at his own stubby little body, covered in fluffy orange fur.

"You need to be tall and mighty?" Anju looked at Kurama strangely.

"Of course. I want to be tall and mighty! I'm a Tailed Beast. What's with being this tiny?"

"Are you here to fight?" Anju said.

"No."

"Then stay like this. Next time you come, you can change however you want."

Anju raised a paw and patted the cabin door.

"Coming!"

Kushina appeared in the doorway with a beaming smile, then looked in surprise at the two foxes at the door, one orange and one grayish orange.

"Anju? Did you bring a wife home?" Minato Namikaze blurted out after glancing toward the door from inside the wooden cabin.

Kurama instantly flew into a rage. "I'm male!"

At the same time, a small black sphere appeared in his mouth.

Minato Namikaze froze for a moment, then immediately reacted when he saw the Tailed Beast Ball. This was also the Nine-Tails.

Kushina waved her hand, and several Adamantine Chains bound Kurama up tight.

"All right, Minato Namikaze, apologize!" Anju chuckled.

Minato Namikaze was also a little embarrassed.

"I'm sorry!"

Seeing that Kurama did not do anything too extreme, Kushina undid the Adamantine Chains as well.

Kurama was clearly very unhappy. "I'm leaving."

Anju did not force him to stay.

On his first visit, he had been tied up tight by the lady of the house. It was far too humiliating, so naturally he made himself scarce without hesitation.

After Kurama's Chakra shadow disappeared, Minato Namikaze still looked a little embarrassed.

"That just now was..."

"My main body, the one you cut in two with the Dead Demon Consuming Seal. I finally managed to persuade him to come visit me, and you went and humiliated him."

"Uh, how can he enter Kushina's Sealing Space?"

"Nonsense. He and I are one body, and we're so close to each other. Isn't visiting next door simple?"

"Then, can I go to Naruto's Sealing Space?"

"Dream on."

At this point, Kushina spoke.

"In other words, Anju, you can go over to Naruto's side, right?"

"Yes."

"Then tell him not to attack Naruto." Kushina said uneasily, "I was having a Stress Response too. I didn't mean to seal him off."

Anju curled his lips. "Don't worry. My main body wouldn't stoop that low."

Wait, he really might have to go counsel Kurama in a bit.

At that moment, Kurama was wildly spitting Tailed Beast Balls inside Naruto's Sealing Space.

He blasted the surrounding grassland to pieces.

After Anju appeared, he also took a Tailed Beast Ball to the face.

All the grayish-orange fur on his body was blasted pitch-black.

"All right, all right, Kurama, don't be mad."

"Damn Fourth Hokage. I'll eat him sooner or later!"

"Oh, there's no need for that. The Fourth Hokage, Minato Namikaze, has already been eaten by the god of death." Anju shook out his fur and turned grayish orange again.

"Hm???"

Kurama turned back to look at Anju in confusion.

"The Minato Namikaze you saw just now was only a part of Minato Namikaze's Chakra sealed by Kushina."

"Really?"

"Really. The god of death doesn't let anyone who makes a deal with him go."

"Then how can that little bit of Chakra move freely in the Sealing Space?"

"Because I topped him up," Anju said, then saw that Kurama did not quite understand. "I mean I used Chakra to maintain his Chakra body."

"So that Fourth Hokage is a dead man?"

"Right!"

"What about Kushina Uzumaki? Is she too?"

"She's still alive, so don't provoke her."

Kurama thought again of the days when he had been sealed inside Kushina, and could not help shuddering.