I'm Very Calm

Naruto did not live as the Hero's Son who had saved the village, as the Fourth Hokage had imagined.

Instead, he became the incarnation of the Demon Fox that people claimed had destroyed the village and caused immense damage, a target of universal hatred.

Sarutobi Hiruzen, the Third Hokage, could have revealed Naruto's identity and put an end to those rumors.

Yet he did not. In order to keep the Jinchuriki firmly under his control, he chose to let things run their course.

Kurama watched all of this from within Naruto's body. Although everything had happened because of his existence, he felt no guilt whatsoever. Instead, he found it amusing.

The Jinchuriki's hatred would draw out his Chakra and continuously erode the seal. Sooner or later, he would break free from it.

Once he got out of this seal, that brat Jinchuriki who had bound him, along with all the other humans, would have to die!

That mindset lasted until Naruto was four years old.

Within the Sealing Space, man and fox met for the first time.

Kurama had thought he could easily deceive the still-young Jinchuriki, Naruto.

Yet he had not expected the brat to be far more mature and resilient than he had imagined. Not only had Naruto refused to be tempted into corruption, but he had also relied on his own rationality to completely resist the negative effects of Kurama's Chakra.

It was also on that day that Kurama was treated as an equal by a human for the first time, rather than as some inferior beast.

From that day onward, they met every day.

They watched television together, chatted together, and discussed the plots they had watched that day.

Although that brat Naruto was infuriating, only showing him two episodes a day to leave him hanging, man and fox gradually became familiar with one another throughout the process.

Kurama's wariness toward Naruto slowly faded as well. He no longer fought against Naruto and restrained the Chakra he had used to interfere with Naruto's Chakra circulation and erode the seal.

Though he still hated all humans, he had begun to genuinely like Naruto.

Just as he had once said, Naruto's father, the Fourth Hokage, had died by his hand.

Although even if he had not acted, Naruto's parents would still have died.

Although they had been enemies at the time, and any choice he made would have been understandable.

But now, he and Naruto had become close friends. Deep down, Kurama truly cared about what Naruto thought of him.

So he told Naruto the truth about everything, hoping to erase that barrier between them.

After severing his Chakra link with Kurama, Naruto fell silent.

At that moment, his emotions were exceedingly complicated.

Ignoring Kurama, who was watching him worriedly from nearby, Naruto compared the memories he had received from Kurama with the manga in his hands.

Just as he had thought, he truly was the child of Minato Namikaze, the Fourth Hokage—the child of the hero who had sacrificed himself to protect the village.

Even Naruto himself was a hero who had sealed the Nine-Tailed Demon Fox and made an enormous contribution to protecting the village.

And what kind of treatment had he received all these years?

"Heh... hehehe..." An incomparably furious, gloomy smile appeared on Naruto's face.

"A village like this might as well be destroyed. Father and Mother actually gave their lives to protect this village. Their sacrifice truly wasn't worth it."

At that moment, he thought of everything he had endured since childhood: the murderous intent and hatred the villagers held for him, and the indifference born from their utter denial of his existence.

Those incompetent adults, driven by the fear in their hearts, had constantly taken out their anger on him, even though he had done nothing wrong.

And Sarutobi Hiruzen, the Third Hokage, who had promised Naruto's mother, Kushina Uzumaki, that he would take good care of him and raise him properly, was the most direct culprit behind all of this.

All of it caused the killing intent in Naruto's heart to grow without end.

At that moment, Naruto unconsciously began drawing on Kurama's power like mad. A Red Nine-Tailed Chakra Cloak began to appear around him—one tail, three tails, five tails...

The tails continued to increase, and the madness contained within Kurama's Chakra surged along with them.

Yet Naruto seemed not to notice at all.

Even when the number of tails rose to seven, his expression remained as cold and unchanged as ever.

"Are you all right, Naruto?"

At this point, Kurama could no longer sit still. Naruto in this state felt utterly unfamiliar to him, and merely looking at him made Kurama's heart tremble.

It was as if all the darkness Naruto had accumulated over the years was being released at this very moment.

Kurama had once looked forward to Naruto changing like this, but now he was worried—worried that Naruto would lose his reason and do something he would regret in the future.

"I'm fine. Of course I'm fine. I've never been better." With a swish, the number of tails rose to eight.

The gloom on Naruto's face temporarily vanished. He smiled at Kurama beside him, as if to reassure him.

But that did not reassure Kurama. Instead, it made him feel even more uneasy.

Naruto vanished briefly and made a trip to the Learning Space. When he returned, he held an extra box in his hands—the box containing all the Naruto manga and Anime.

And by then, the tails on his body were about to increase to nine.

The gate representing Kurama's seal had already begun to crack apart under the combined force of Kurama's wildly pouring Chakra and Naruto's own Chakra.

Shadow Clone Jutsu.

A dense mass of clones appeared, each holding a volume of Naruto and rapidly flipping through it.

The remaining clones went into the Learning Space and brought back several hundred playback devices. They then turned on the Naruto Anime and began watching all 720 episodes at once.

"Kurama, I'm really fine. Come on, watch with me."

At that moment, Naruto seemed to have regained his usual calmness and rationality.

A gentle smile hung on his face. If not for the Red Nine-Tailed Chakra Cloak around him, which had already begun transforming into a Golden Body, he would have looked no different from usual.

"Naruto, what are you doing? Calm down and stop!"

An anxious voice rang out. The next moment, a figure appeared before Naruto.

The instant he appeared, he reached out and pressed a hand toward Naruto's lower abdomen, intending to reinforce the seal.

Naruto raised his hand and grabbed the hand that was about to press against his lower abdomen.

Naruto looked into the eyes of the blond-haired man who looked just like him. A trace of excitement appeared on his face as he answered gently, "I'm very calm, Father. I want to let Kurama out. He's my friend. He won't hurt me."