Late at night.
Sasuke opened his eyes in his crib.
He turned his head slightly and confirmed that Itachi Uchiha was already fast asleep in the bed. Then he focused his thoughts.
Extract Yang Release and fuse it with the Uzumaki Bloodline!
Ding!
Fusion in progress!
As the notification sounded, Sasuke felt something mysterious stir within him. He realized that his genes were slowly being altered.
He felt no discomfort. On the contrary, he felt unusually warm, as though a current of warmth enveloped his body, leaving him refreshed and invigorated.
Ding!
Fusion complete!
As the notification sounded, the warmth faded. Sasuke could feel that his genes had been noticeably optimized, elevating his level of life!
As he sensed the changes in his body, he discovered a special energy inside him. Within that energy was a will that kept trying to invade his mental world, attempting to subtly alter his own will. Unfortunately for it, the Soul Space blocked it, and it couldn't advance a single step!
What is this?
Sasuke frowned instinctively.
Could it be the original body's undeveloped mind?
He thought it over, then quickly rejected the idea.
No!
The existence of the Soul Space had made him realize that he hadn't possessed someone else's body; he had been reincarnated.
It was only shortly before the Soul Space arrived that he regained the memories of his previous life.
Therefore, the original Sasuke's soul couldn't possibly be inside this body.
Suddenly,
a thought struck him, and his pupils contracted!
Indra!!
He realized that the special energy was Indra's reincarnation chakra!
And the will within it was the so-called Fate Mark, which could draw it toward the holder of Asura's reincarnation chakra and make the two clash!
This will has to be erased!
Although the Soul Space kept it out, this will couldn't invade his mental world or affect him.
But he still couldn't feel at ease with something like that inside his body.
As it happened, the Soul Space had the ability to erase this sort of will!
After all, as the Soul Space's host and sole master, he couldn't let the Soul Space allow any will of unknown origin to affect him.
Sasuke acted at once. With a thought, he focused the Soul Space's power on the will imprinted upon Indra's Chakra.
Erase it!
Ding!
Erasing... Erasure complete!
Excellent!
Sasuke felt as if a heavy burden had lifted from his shoulders, leaving him refreshed.
So this so-called fate has been influencing me all along, ever since before the Soul Space arrived...
The realization left him shaken, but also relieved!
He was relieved that he hadn't been overconfident and simply dismissed the will when he saw it couldn't penetrate the Soul Space. Instead, he had decisively erased it!
No, I need to look at something cheerful.
He focused his thoughts, and the scene inside the Soul Space immediately appeared in his mind.
Kushina seemed to have given up. Her eyes were vacant as she sat in the corner with her knees drawn to her chest, lost in thought.
Elsewhere, Minato Namikaze wore a deeply worried expression. His eyes stayed fixed on the scene without blinking, as though every smile, frown, and scowl from Kushina tugged at his heartstrings.
Heh, just as I thought. He's a hopeless romantic...
There are clearly plenty of ways to deal with the Nine-Tails, yet he insists on bringing up all that talk of duty to the village and the country. He must be planning to die with her, too...
Hm! A thought struck him, and he focused on the Cell No. 1. His figure appeared inside it.
Sensing something, Minato Namikaze tore his eyes away from the scene and looked toward the Warden, who had come to visit again. Confusion showed on his face.
Sasuke said meaningfully, "I'm very sorry to disturb you. I came this time just to tell you something."
"Something?" Minato asked, puzzled.
"Right." Sasuke nodded. "It's about Jinchuriki..."
Jinchuriki? Thinking of Kushina and Naruto, Minato said, "Please, Warden. Go on."
Sasuke gave him a strange smile. "You don't know this yet, do you? When a Tailed Beast is extracted from its Jinchuriki, the Jinchuriki won't die as long as the beast is sealed back inside before their life has completely ebbed away..."
Just seal it back inside...
And the Jinchuriki wouldn't die...
Minato's breath caught!
"If you don't believe me, you can ask the Nine-Tails inside your stomach."
After saying that, Sasuke glanced at his stomach, then vanished.
Only the Tailed Beasts themselves knew this information.
Jinchuriki had existed for only a little over forty years.
Konoha's first Jinchuriki, Mito Uzumaki, had reached the end of her life before the Tailed Beast was extracted and transferred to a new host. Naturally, there had been no need to seal it back into her.
Since no one had tested it, Konoha naturally had no way of learning this.
The claim that a Jinchuriki would die if a Tailed Beast were extracted from their body had spread from other villages.
Their Jinchuriki weren't members of the Uzumaki Clan and lacked its powerful vitality. They died the moment the Tailed Beast was completely extracted.
Even if one or two hadn't died on the spot, the previous cases made them worry that the Tailed Beast would die along with its Jinchuriki, weakening their village's deterrent power. The village elders naturally wouldn't risk losing a Tailed Beast to try sealing it back in.
To them, the Tailed Beasts were what mattered. Jinchuriki were merely replaceable tools.
With little experience of their own, Konoha could only apply what it had learned from others to its own Jinchuriki.
As a result, even Kushina had believed she was doomed.
Minato, who had also feared that losing the Tailed Beast would weaken the village's deterrent power, had unwittingly missed his only chance to save his wife's life.
"Damn it! Who are you, and how do you know that?!"
Hearing the Nine-Tails inside him blurt out those words...
Remembering how Kushina, intent on taking them both down, had asked him to seal the Nine-Tails back inside her, only for him to refuse...
Minato stared blankly at the lonely figure in the scene, his heart utterly dead...
Ding~!
Minato Namikaze's emotions have fluctuated intensely. Congratulations, host! You have obtained: Yin Nine-Tails!
!!!
It was the Yin Nine-Tails?
Sasuke was stunned, and his breathing grew rapid.
He had known that this information would hit Minato hard, provoking a powerful emotional reaction and making him drop a skill.
But he hadn't expected the drop to be the Yin Nine-Tails!
After all, the three things mentioned earlier were the most valuable things Minato possessed, and of those, the one Sasuke wanted most was this half of the Nine-Tails!
That wasn't all.
As mentioned earlier, the Soul Space didn't obtain abilities by stealing them, but by copying them.
Aside from ninjutsu, other things like bloodlines and Tailed Beasts underwent a certain degree of modification during the copying process, with harmful factors removed.
As the notification that he had obtained the Nine-Tails sounded, information about the differences between this modified Nine-Tails and the original flooded Sasuke's mind.
First of all, this Yin Nine-Tails was absolutely loyal to Sasuke.
Its chakra signature was also entirely different from the original Nine-Tails. Even a ninja familiar with the Nine-Tails wouldn't recognize the connection based on its chakra signature alone.
At the same time, this Nine-Tails didn't need to be sealed inside his body. He only needed to create a dedicated Tailed Beast Space within the Soul Space, which could take the place of a Jinchuriki's Sealing Space and let him draw on its chakra at will.
And since the Nine-Tails stayed in the Soul Space, any chance of its chakra leaking out or being detected by a powerful sensor ninja was fundamentally eliminated.
Of course, because its chakra signature was entirely different from that of the original Nine-Tails, there was no reason it couldn't go outside, either.
As long as it didn't show its nine tails and the Soul Space concealed it, even a ninja skilled in sensory techniques wouldn't be able to detect the vast chakra it contained.
So this Nine-Tails can be kept outside, just like an ordinary summoning beast!
After learning all the details about the Yin Nine-Tails, Sasuke couldn't help but be overjoyed!
He could hardly wait to meet the Nine-Tails that belonged to him alone!
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