Is This the Blood of a Jinchuriki?

"What is going on here?" This scene left Yamanaka Daishan completely baffled.

Could he have misread the situation? He quickly shook off the thought; there was no time to dwell on it, the mission was what mattered.

Before he could overthink it, he instinctively used a bird's beak to catch the blood, but the small bird was instantly corroded away, and the blood dropped back to the ground.

Naruto was entirely focused, and Hinata had not noticed the movement behind them at all.

He helped Hinata sit down by a large tree and carefully lifted her hands.

The heartache in his eyes was nearly overflowing.

Her hands were covered in lacerations, caused by the coarse hair on the wild boar.

"Don't worry, Hinata, it will be better soon."

Seeing Naruto's expression, Hinata felt a bit shy, yet her heart was filled with joy.

"It's nothing, I'll blow on it for you." Naruto scratched his head, thought for a moment, and suddenly had a bright idea.

He leaned toward Hinata's wounds and blew on them gently.

Hinata felt a surge of delight, but she quickly realized that the wounds on her arms were beginning to heal slowly.

"Naruto-kun, you know medical ninjutsu?" Hinata blinked her large eyes, looking surprised.

"I don't. This is a special attribute of my own chakra," Naruto explained after a moment's thought.

In truth, this was the ability of the Six Thief Immortals.

Regarding the six internal organs and five viscera, Naruto had now reached the stage of the five viscera, where each organ contained a unique chakra. The liver belonged to the wood element, and the wood attribute was best suited for healing.

Thus, he could achieve what medical ninjutsu could.

"Cough, cough." Sasuke's voice drifted over from a distance.

Only then did Naruto remember that there was another teammate lying nearby.

Naruto hurried over to look at Sasuke, who was sprawled on the ground.

"How are you?" Naruto asked with concern.

"I'm not dead yet." Sasuke felt his chest ache even more.

"That's good. If you can move, get up yourself." Despite his words, he still channeled chakra into the other's body to help him heal.

"You know medical ninjutsu?" Sasuke felt his body recovering and found it incredible.

"Yeah." Naruto offered no further explanation.

The three gathered together and looked at the wild boar on the ground.

"Let's take it back." The two looked at Naruto, who shrugged and said helplessly.

Naruto walked to the boar Hinata had hunted, lifted it easily with one hand, thought for a moment, and then created several Shadow Clones.

"I can do it myself." Sasuke looked at Naruto's actions, feeling somewhat annoyed.

"Don't waste time here; use this time to go back and train properly." Naruto rolled his eyes, knowing the other's tsundere nature was acting up again.

Sasuke said nothing, signaling his agreement.

After the three had walked far away, two figures suddenly appeared on the scene.

"Daishan, are you sure you aren't lying? Where exactly is that blood?" Although he knew that given their personalities they wouldn't lie, he still found it hard to imagine what Yamanaka Daishan had described.

Yamanaka Daishan was too lazy to explain; if he hadn't sensed it himself, he wouldn't have believed it either.

Yamanaka Daishan quickly arrived at the spot where Naruto had been standing.

There was a small hole in the ground, barely noticeable if one didn't look closely. He took out a sealing scroll and retrieved a glass vial for blood. He didn't know if this thing could contain the other's blood, but he had to try.

The blood was collected; it remained as it had been when it first dripped—full and bewitching. Seeing it with his own eyes was different from just sensing it; both men could feel the chakra contained within the blood.

Torune was about to say something but was stopped by his companion. The two took the item and quickly retreated from the area.

"Are you sure this is the blood of the jinchuriki?" Torune still found it hard to believe this was human blood.

"There is no mistake." Yamanaka Daishan nodded. Both men felt heavy-hearted. In Root, they had seen all sorts of bizarre things; to them, Hashirama Cells were strange enough—once they entered another organism, they would devour the host and eventually turn into a giant tree. But what they had seen today shattered their worldview.

"Don't overthink it. Let's go back and let Lord Danzo handle it." They knew they had surely discovered some extraordinary secret.

Naruto did not yet know that he had been targeted by Danzo once again.

Since this was already the outskirts of the village, they soon returned to the Root base. When they went to report the mission, a flash of surprise crossed Danzo's single eye; he had not expected things to go so smoothly.

But when Danzo saw that drop of blood, the shock in his single eye almost made him blurt something out. Fortunately, as the leader of Root, he could not lose his composure in front of his subordinates.

He took a few deep, silent breaths to calm his emotions.

"Did you see with your own eyes that this flowed from the jinchuriki?" Danzo asked, sounding somewhat skeptical.

"Yes, my lord. It was when Naruto Uzumaki was injured unconsciously while seeing Hinata in danger." Yamanaka Daishan dared not conceal anything and recounted the situation in detail.

After hearing the circumstances, Danzo sat there, lost in thought.

"You two may leave." After Danzo spoke, he sat there and began to ponder.

The two retreated in silence.

The vast, dark hall was left with only Danzo sitting there in contemplation.

"The Senju Clan, the Uchiha Clan, the Uzumaki Clan—what secrets do they truly hold, or are there merely specific individuals among them who are this exceptional?" Danzo could not help but ponder. Naruto's situation had begun to make Danzo suspicious. The Senju Clan went without saying, with Hashirama being the most unique among them. As for the Uchiha Clan, although Danzo had never conducted research on Madara Uchiha, he had lost count of how many times he had reviewed Madara Uchiha's files, so he naturally knew of his uniqueness. Now, a Naruto Uzumaki had appeared within the Uzumaki Clan, which forced Danzo to start questioning these anomalies.

After an unknown amount of time spent thinking, Danzo stood up and headed toward the lower levels of Root.

The drop of Naruto's blood was held in Danzo's hand. In this dark underground, the extraordinary nature of the blood appeared even more eerie, for if one looked closely, one could clearly see the blood emitting a faint red glow.

Danzo could not help but stop in his tracks.

He slowly unwrapped the bandages over his right eye, revealing a Three-Tomoe Sharingan, and stared intently at the blood in his hand.

Aside from discerning the chakra contained within it, he could see nothing else.

The Three-Tomoe Sharingan began to rotate slowly, eventually connecting to form a four-pointed pinwheel pattern: the Mangekyo Sharingan of Shisui Uchiha.

Looking at the red blood in his hand once more, this time he saw not only the red chakra but also a miniature Nine-Tails, roaring at him.

"Is this the influence of the Nine-Tails?" A flicker of doubt crossed Danzo's eyes.

He had never studied the previous two jinchuriki, so he did not know if those two were the same as Naruto Uzumaki.

He continued walking toward the deeper levels of Root.

After walking for an unknown duration, he arrived before a stone door. Danzo walked inside, where a researcher was currently studying something.