Satsuki's Gift

With this, Little Naruto can use the Kurama ' power. Big Naruto silently calculated in his mind, thinking that now that the Kurama of this world has seen the memories of another version of himself, it should choose to believe Naruto.

"I've reconciled with Kurama. We're friends now. He's a powerful ally, someone I can trust with my back."

"I hope you can understand the Kurama and dissolve the hatred in its heart."

Although Little Naruto will certainly be able to achieve this in the future, Big Naruto has chosen to accelerate the process.

Little Naruto listened, bewildered. It was the first time he'd ever heard of such things. The Kurama could be reconciled with? The Kurama that had ruined his childhood and made him ostracized by everyone could be a friend?

His mind was a mess, but since it was another version of himself who said it... that version of himself from the future, so much older than him... it must be right, right?

As Little Naruto thought about it, he slowly remembered that he had always hated the Kurama Kurama it was sealed inside him, and he blamed all his grievances, loneliness, and misfortune on that fox.

But he truly hadn't considered what the Kurama was before it was sealed into a human body. What was it? Where did it come from? What had it experienced? Why was it sealed away? What was it thinking?

He had never thought about these issues.

The Yin Kurama ' chakra slowly flowed into Little Naruto's body. Little Naruto felt as if something was missing from his body, something he had always thought was complete and had never realized he was lacking—that was now complete.

The feeling was strange; it was hard to describe whether it was comfortable or uncomfortable. It was like wearing the same clothes for many years, and suddenly someone put a coat on you that you never knew you needed, and then you realized that you had been feeling a bit cold all along.

"Alright, let's go then."

Big Naruto clapped his hands, then turned around. Suddenly, Satsuki spoke up.

"Naruto is a bit biased."

There was no accusation in her tone, nothing that made anyone uncomfortable. It carried a hint of coquettishness.

"Huh? Favoritism?"

Faced with these words that carried no reprimand, Big Naruto's mind raced. Little Sasuke himself had given him the Eternal Mangekyo and the Rinnegan, while this other version of himself, the Naruto of this world, had only been given the Yin Kurama ' chakra, and even then, the Little Naruto had to cultivate a good relationship with the Kurama himself. It seemed a bit... biased?

"Then..."

Big Naruto felt that something was indeed wrong and prepared to do something to make up for this favoritism.

But Satsuki began to take action.

"Come here, another Naruto. Look me in the eyes."

Satsuki spoke to Little Naruto in a gentle, comforting voice, as if she were soothing a child, "Now that we've met, I'll give it a try too."

After speaking, Satsuki opened her powerful eyes to Little Naruto. Little Naruto listened to Satsuki's friendly and gentle words, to a tone he had never heard from any girl before, a tone used when speaking to someone very important—but his attention was completely drawn to something else rather than what Satsuki was about to do.

His face flushed again, and his eyes widened, but what was reflected in his pupils was not those powerful, terrifying eyes, but a face, a face entirely conforming to his own aesthetic standards.

... He began to understand why so many girls were swarming around Sasuke.

Although Little Sasuke felt a little uncomfortable seeing Naruto swooning over his female counterpart, he didn't show it.

Until black flames ignited on Little Naruto's body.

Little Sasuke was instantly terrified; the disgust on his face turned to fear in an instant. He pushed off the ground with his foot and rushed towards Little Naruto.

However, before he could even extend his hand or take a few steps forward, he was stopped by Big Naruto.

His body had absolutely no chance of resisting against Big Naruto.

"Don't worry."

Big Naruto reassured her, "That's no ordinary Amaterasu. Satsuki's Dojutsu is far more powerful than you imagine."

Meanwhile, under Satsuki 'Amaterasu Ling control, Satsuki's consciousness had entered a realm that only she could access.

She discovered something that could be modified at will—the chakra of the Yin Kurama. Before her Dojutsu, it was like a rough piece of jade that had not yet been carved, which could be shaped, modified, and given new forms and meanings at will.

Satsuki felt that Little Naruto still had to consider the Kurama -Kurama ' attitude when using its power, wait for the fox to cooperate, and spend time building trust and resolving hatred.

This process was too long, Satsuki Satsuki didn't like waiting. She remembered the power of her Naruto and decided that she would do it this way.

The next moment, behind Little Naruto, Little Naruto sensed that something was about to emerge.

Something was gestating, growing, and hatching from within his own body, from the newly replenished and still slowly flowing chakra.

Nine illusory shadows appeared behind Little Naruto.

The shadows were faint at first, then they began to solidify, taking on various shapes—some were people, some were beasts, some were standing, and some were crouching.

Every shadow has its own posture and its own character.

"... Satsuki has quite a vivid imagination."

Big Naruto recognized it. It was [Nine-Headed Sobek].

However, that's not all.

Satsuki infused some of her Dojutsu into it. Following her will, that Dojutsu passed through the solidifying shadows and seeped into their bodies, bones, and every fiber formed by chakra.

Behind, on the gradually solidifying Nine-Headed Beasts, new eyes opened behind the masks on each of the masked faces, beneath the beast's eyes.

Those were pairs of eerily red eyes.

Mangekyō Sharingan

Beneath each of the Nine-Headed Beasts ' eyes lay another pair. Those eyes slowly rotated through the gaps in the masks, Mangekyo patterns swirling within their pupils, emanating a chilling and powerful aura that everyone present could feel.