After enjoying the lunch carefully prepared by her mother, which included classic bento-style home cooking, fried pork chops, vegetable salad, and mixed mashed potatoes and eggs, Kushina naturally put away the dishes, hummed a brisk tune, and turned around to start washing at the sink.
Naruto stared at his mother's busy but contented back, and couldn't help but feel a burst of sadness in his heart. Because Impure World Reincarnation's body did not need to eat, so the sumptuous table of dishes just now was only enjoyed by him and little Zacian from beginning to end.
Looking back on the development of the original work... why did almost all the dead who were summoned back by Impure World Reincarnation show a sense of relief and relief when they finally returned to Pure Land? Even though they had the opportunity to stay in this world in this form, why didn't they show a strong desire to use this body to continue "living"?
As Naruto studied the forbidden technique Impure World Reincarnation, he gradually understood its key characteristics, because the soul that was summoned back was imprisoned in a "dead thing" composed of dust and sacrifices.
In addition to being unable to be killed by conventional means and only restricted by removing spells or seals, this body has been deprived of many basic human experiences. It cannot taste food, cannot feel fatigue, cannot feel any form of warmth, and even the sense of pain has become blurred, and the sense of existence of the five senses is extremely thin.
If the soul stays in this cold, numb, and lacking real perception body for a long time... According to common sense, it will definitely feel extremely uncomfortable, even a kind of torture, right? Naruto Thinking of this, I feel uncomfortable in my heart.
However, from the time Kushina appeared until now, all she has shown is liveliness, cheerfulness and infinite love for Naruto. Naruto can hardly feel that she has shown any negative emotions caused by her body...
These discomforts and pains were carefully hidden by Kushina, just to prevent Naruto from worrying.
Naruto cannot accept that his mother "lives" in this world in such a twisted and incomplete state. No matter how slim the hope is, he must try and find a way to improve.
"Mom..." he called softly.
"Huh? What's wrong Naruto?" Kushina immediately turned his head, with gentle concern on his face, "Are you not full? It doesn't matter. Mom has made a lot of them. They are packed and stored in the refrigerator. You can just heat them up when you want to eat them. But of course, the freshly made ones taste the best! What else do you want to eat? As long as it is a non-alcoholic dish, mom will cook it for you..."
Why do so many things to fill the entire refrigerator? The answer is simple, because Kushina doesn't know how long she can accompany her son like this. She wants to prepare everything for him in advance as much as possible...
"No, mom, I'm already very full..." Naruto shook his head quickly. He took a deep breath and expressed his thoughts, "Well... actually, I really want to... cook a meal for mom to express my gratitude."
Hearing his son's thoughtful words, Kushina felt a huge warmth surge in his heart, but what followed was a deeper sense of loss. Cook for me? But in this state... let alone eating, I can't even smell the aroma of the food...
"No need~" Kushina immediately changed to a relaxed tone, trying to hide the sadness in his heart, "It is only natural for parents to cook for their children, so there is no need to thank me specifically."
"... It's because of Impure World Reincarnation's physical condition, right?" Naruto directly pointed out the mother's unspoken concerns, "But... I might... have a way to let mommy taste things."
"Huh? There's really no need!" Kushina waved his hands subconsciously and said with a doting tone unique to a mother, "How can you, a child, know this..."
However, her words stopped abruptly.
Child...?Kushina was stunned. Deep in her consciousness, the Naruto that stayed in the last scene of her memory still looked like a newborn baby in swaddling clothes.
Not realizing it for more than ten years, she subconsciously regarded the upright young man in front of her as a "little child" who needed her meticulous care.
Now Naruto is already a Konoha hero who can perfectly control the power of Kurama and save the village in danger... Maybe he shouldn't be looked at in that way anymore...
This realization made it impossible for her to say the words she originally wanted to refuse.
"Actually, the principle is very simple," Naruto tried to explain in a relaxed tone, "This is a special ninjutsu I created myself, which can transfer a special 'Life Energy' to other objects. I was thinking, maybe..."
"What?! Transfer Life Energy to me?! Absolutely not! I will never agree to it!"
Before Naruto could finish speaking, Kushina almost yelled and interrupted him, his voice rising with extreme shock and resistance! When she heard that her son's method actually involved "transferring Life Energy," her first reaction was that Naruto would sacrifice his own vitality in exchange for the restoration of her senses!
If the price is this, she would rather return to Pure Land right now than allow this to happen!
"No! Mom, you misunderstood!" Naruto quickly waved his hands and clarified eagerly, "It's not the Life Energy you think! Nor is it using my own Life Energy! This energy is specially converted from... my chakra! It is essentially more like an active substance that simulates the origin of life. If it is directly input into a living person, not only will it not heal, but it will cause mental violence!"
This is what Naruto came up with - using the ability of [Golden Experience].
This special Life Energy driven and embodied by his Spiritual Energy, in addition to the known ability to cause mental rage and accelerate the growth cycle of animals and plants, its most miraculous ability is naturally to transform inorganic matter into living organic matter!
Since Impure World Reincarnation's body is made up of "dead things" such as dust and sacrifice cells... Then, in theory, wouldn't it be enough as long as these "dead things" components that make up the body are gradually transformed into the organic tissues of "living things"?
Naruto recalled some of the things he had done in the past. He had injected this Life Energy into the Shadow Clone composed of chakra. As a result, apart from the fact that the Shadow Clone had no independent soul, the texture, temperature, and even microstructure of its body were almost the same as those of a real living human body!
"You see, that's it," Naruto said as he decided to demonstrate it directly to his mother to dispel her doubts.
Naruto picked up an idle spoon on the dining table and gently covered the spoon with his palm under Kushina's confused gaze.
The next moment, something happened that stunned Kushina!
That lifeless metal spoon, in the light emanating from the palm of Naruto, began to slowly deform and soften as if it were alive! Its color gradually changed from metallic silver-gray to a vibrant color, and its shape was constantly distorted and reorganized...
"Quack."
A crisp Frog Song sounded.
When the transformation was completely completed, what appeared in Naruto's palm was no longer the spoon, but a lively little frog with moist skin and lively eyes! It even lightly pushed Naruto's fingers with its hind legs, showing its vigorous vitality.
Kushina was completely stunned, his green eyes widened, and he looked in disbelief at the living creature in his son's palm that seemed to be created out of thin air. His brain could hardly process this scene that completely subverted common sense.