Immortal Beast

Wu Yu had spent so long with Tsunade's Mysterious Clone over the past two days that he naturally recognized Tsunade's voice.

Back when Tsunade's Mysterious Clone had been dispelled, its memories had not returned to her; its experience had returned to Wu Yu instead. He had wondered then—could those memories and experiences from the clone have gone to Tsunade's original body?

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Now Tsunade herself had appeared behind him and called him by name in a single breath...

This was really something!

"You..."

With all the acupoints throughout her body sealed, Tsunade stood stiffly frozen in place. It was not as though she had never encountered ninja capable of absorbing Chakra before, but she had never seen an absorption speed this terrifying!

In just a brief moment, Tsunade discovered that the Chakra in her body had already been nearly drained.

An overwhelming wave of exhaustion washed over her...

Tsunade could feel that the hand pressed to her back, stealing her Chakra, had not stopped after draining the Chakra within her body. Instead, it continued to plunder the Chakra stored in the Yin Seal on her forehead!

"Am I going to die like this? How ridiculous... Dan... Nawaki..."

As Tsunade watched Nakamori Wu Yu turn to look at her, she slowly closed her eyes amid a stomach full of shock and questions.

And if anyone had more shock and questions than her, it was Sasuke Uchiha at this very moment.

He watched as a woman appeared behind Nakamori Wu Yu, seemingly there to cause trouble for Wu Yu. Yet the woman abruptly froze in place, and then another person suddenly materialized behind her out of thin air—a white-haired, horned woman with three eyes!

Mysterious Kaguya pressed her hand against Tsunade's back. After Tsunade fainted from exhaustion, the purple diamond-shaped mark on her forehead quickly faded as the immense Chakra she had accumulated over more than a decade was completely plundered.

The skin all over Tsunade's body loosened, wrinkles began to emerge, and she reverted to her true fifty-year-old appearance, which had been concealed with Medical Ninjutsu...

"Alright, alright, alright!" Seeing this, Wu Yu hurriedly stopped Mysterious Kaguya from continuing to drain Chakra. "Are you really trying to suck her dry? We have enough, right? Enough is enough, enough is enough!"

Mysterious Kaguya withdrew her hand. Though her expression remained blank, Wu Yu could tell that she had not had her fill.

As the drained and withered old Tsunade toppled over headfirst, Wu Yu stepped forward and caught her.

"Oh no! Oh no! This disaster is bigger than the sky!"

Wu Yu secretly sucked in a cold breath. Holding the feeble old Tsunade, his thoughts raced, and he suddenly whipped his head around to look at the utterly dumbfounded Sasuke Uchiha. "I told you not to bet with me. Well, look what happened now?"

Wait, what does this have to do with me?

Sasuke Uchiha shot Nakamori Wu Yu an incredulous look. Realizing that things were going badly, he was just about to slip away when an astonishing pressure descended upon him from above!

Sasuke's entire body instantly froze in place. He could not move even a single finger.

Out of the corner of his eye, he could see that it was that horned, three-eyed woman!

Those white eyes of hers had merely glanced at him once, and his entire body had become unable to move!

Sasuke was horrified. Such inconceivable power is practically from another world!

Wu Yu could actually command an expert like this?

"Good thing the forest to the northeast is close," Wu Yu said, signaling for Mysterious Kaguya to carry the unconscious old Tsunade. "Before anyone notices, move!"

Am I supposed to go with you?

You're not planning to defect on your first day as a ninja, are you?

Sasuke Uchiha still had a great vengeance to avenge and had no desire whatsoever to get dragged into this sort of trouble. But before leaving, Wu Yu shot him a fierce glare...

Sasuke did not think he would lose to Wu Yu, but he clearly had no ability whatsoever to escape from the hands of that horned, three-eyed woman.

Though he had no idea what lay ahead, he could only grit his teeth and follow.

Whoosh! Whoosh!

Wu Yu and Sasuke took an unpopulated route and dashed through the air, following closely behind Mysterious Kaguya.

They swiftly left Konoha's fan-shaped residential district and entered the forest to the northeast.

Mysterious Kaguya truly deserved her realm of complete unity with nature. Even while carrying someone, she moved as fast as lightning and as silently as a ghost. Before long, she led Wu Yu and Sasuke to a remote, deserted spot in the forest and stopped.

With a bang, Mysterious Kaguya casually tossed the unconscious old Tsunade onto the ground. Given her indifferent attitude, anyone unaware of the situation might have thought she had casually thrown away a plastic bread bag.

"Sasuke, I know you have a lot of questions right now, but let me deal with this first."

Wu Yu composed himself. He had already sorted through the situation during the journey here, so he first reassured the anxious and uncertain Sasuke Uchiha. "Don't worry. Unless things reach the point of no return, I don't want to defect either. Konoha's a pretty nice place to live. My parents' graves are here!"

"..." Sasuke Uchiha's gaze shifted between Wu Yu, Mysterious Kaguya, and the unconscious old Tsunade on the ground, but he said nothing.

Wu Yu looked at Mysterious Kaguya and asked, "Is this Chakra enough for you to make a 'Sage Art Tailed Beast'?"

"..." Mysterious Kaguya answered blandly, "Barely."

Wu Yu asked, "Is it enough to make two?"

"..." Mysterious Kaguya said, "Barely, barely enough."

Wu Yu decisively said, "Then hurry up! Give her one." Pointing at the unconscious, aged Tsunade on the ground, he sighed. "I can't just watch her die like this. I'm not some bandit—I can't be that unreasonable."

"..." Yet Mysterious Kaguya did not move.

Wu Yu frowned as he looked at Kaguya hovering there like a Female Ghost. Suddenly realizing something, he asked in surprise, "Y-you're not planning to take a cut, are you?"

Kaguya Otsutsuki's greed for Chakra had reached the point where even her own two sons could not stand it, personally sealing her away so she would stop wreaking havoc upon the world.

Who would have thought that even the Mysterious Clone version of Kaguya had inherited this greed...

Wu Yu had no choice but to compromise. "Fine, you can keep a little for yourself! Keep some! Keep—"

Seeing Mysterious Kaguya's expression shift from slight interest, to greater interest, to outright temptation, Wu Yu finally said speechlessly, "Enough, ancestor. As long as you make sure the two things you create can hop around and be useful, whatever's left—however much you can keep—is your own skill, all right?"

Damn it, what a greedy little rabbit!

She could barely walk when she saw Chakra. Now that she had absorbed a bellyful of it, it had stirred the deepest obsession rooted in her nature as Kaguya—an extreme unwillingness to spit it back out.

Fortunately, Wu Yu was still the original body of the Mysterious Clone. So long as he did not completely deny Kaguya's obsessive greed for Chakra, she would not resist the original body's orders.

Mysterious Kaguya's expression remained indifferent, but Wu Yu somehow felt that she was smiling faintly.

Look how happy she was after getting some Chakra...

Mysterious Kaguya paid no attention to her original body's inner grumbling. With a sweep of her wide sleeve, she folded her arms, releasing a portion of the Chakra she had plundered from Tsunade. The Chakra rapidly condensed into a visible mass within her embrace.

"Oh, right!" Wu Yu suddenly remembered something. "Don't inject your own will into them. What I want are new personalities and consciousnesses, like the nine Tailed Beasts your son made. If you make me two miniature Black Zetsus, I'm coming to you for a refund."

"..."

Mysterious Kaguya held the ball of Chakra as though practicing tai chi and asked calmly, "In other words, they are to be made into two separate consciousnesses?"

"..." Wu Yu pondered for a moment before carefully saying, "Normally, they should be two independent consciousnesses. But if I need them to, they can become one."

"Understood."

Mysterious Kaguya continued her tai chi movements. In an instant, the woods were filled with flying sand and rolling stones, while eerie winds howled... Well, actually, nothing happened at all. As an ordinary person who had never trained in Sage Mode, Wu Yu was completely incapable of sensing the flow of Nature Energy.

The Chakra between Mysterious Kaguya's palms gradually split into clearly distinct gray and white colors. Like two rabbits circling each other in a taiji symbol, they slowly took shape. Finally, Mysterious Kaguya gently pushed with both palms, and the gray-and-white rabbit was split cleanly in two. Almost simultaneously, they opened their red eyes.

The two pairs of red eyes belonging to the gray and white rabbits immediately turned toward Wu Yu.

The white one nodded at him, muttered something softly, then leaped forward and crashed into the abdomen of the aged, unconscious Tsunade on the ground, entering her body.

The remaining gray rabbit met Wu Yu's gaze. Its red eyes held nothing but pure innocence.

"My name is Nakamori Wu Yu. What's yours?" Wu Yu held out his hand, and the gray rabbit immediately hopped into his palm, speaking in a crisp little girl's voice. "I don't know~" She looked back at the silent Mysterious Kaguya, then looked up at Wu Yu again.

Wu Yu smiled. "In that case, you'll be called Jade Rabbit!"

"Okay, my name is Jade Rabbit. Hehe." The gray rabbit's long ears twitched. She clearly liked this rabbit-related name.

"Then come on." As Wu Yu placed his palm against his own abdomen, Jade Rabbit immediately understood. With a "Heh," she leaped up and melted into Wu Yu's body like snow.

Sasuke Uchiha, standing nearby, was nearly dumbstruck.

Creating life with independent consciousness out of thin air, rather than merely making clones—even if that life only took animal form—was utterly inconceivable!

Am I really not dreaming? Sasuke thought. Half a day ago, he had been taking the Clone Technique graduation exam at the Ninja Academy. Now, he was personally witnessing a miraculous technique that created life.

[Little Jade, all the Chakra in your body is Sage Chakra, right?]

After sensing it for a moment, Wu Yu instinctively asked within his mind.

[Yep! That's right, it's all Sage Chakra. Wu Yu, do you want to use me?]

[Use it directly? Isn't Sage Chakra difficult to control?]

[Not difficult, not difficult! My Chakra is a part of me. Don't worry, I won't let you lose control~ I'm very useful!]

[Then let's do it. I'll give it a try!]

Before Wu Yu had even finished speaking in his mind, he felt a strange stream of Chakra surge from his abdomen into his meridians.

Chakra had weight.

A high-density Chakra sphere like a Tailed Beast Bomb could be so heavy that even Naruto in his golden form had nearly been unable to lift it.

If Wu Yu's own Chakra was as light as air, then the Sage Chakra Little Jade sent him was like mercury. Though it was certainly harmless and non-toxic, the heavy sensation of it flowing through his meridians was impossible to ignore.

"His appearance, this is..."

Sasuke Uchiha watched in shock as the tips of Wu Yu's ears became long and pointed, dark crimson eyeshadow appeared around his eyes, and a dark crimson vertical line emerged between his brows, like an eye that could not open.

"..." Wu Yu looked at his hands and felt this unusual state of "Sage Mode." Then he looked toward Sasuke, who was nearly numb with shock, and crooked a finger with a smile. "Top student, want to spar?"