Plucking the Nine-Tailed Fox's Fur

Time flowed like water, slipping away in silence.

Before he knew it, Chentian had already spent two months with Minato and Kushina.

Because of Minato and Kushina's care, Chentian's heart gradually settled down, and he was no longer as panicked as before.

As a result, he slowly began to reveal his original personality.

Throughout those two months, Chentian had never neglected his training. Instead, he worked even harder.

Therefore, even though he had not picked up a single card, his strength had still improved somewhat.

[Host: Chentian]

[Strength: 6]

[Speed: 5]

[Constitution: 5]

[Spirit: 22]

[Chakra: 5]

[Talent: Space Talent LV3.]

[Skills: Shuriken Basics LV2, Basic Taijutsu LV1, Chakra Extraction Technique LV1.]

Seeing that his strength, speed, and constitution had each increased by one point, Chentian felt quite satisfied, and a cute smile appeared at the corner of his lips.

Minato Namikaze had taught him Basic Taijutsu, and he had only just gotten started.

As for the Chakra Extraction Technique, it was something Chentian's father had left him. It was because he had learned the Chakra Extraction Technique that he possessed chakra.

During this time, he had also figured out that the chakra shown in the system referred to his capacity, not his current amount of chakra.

Five chakra was like a cup. Whether or not there was water inside, it was still a size five cup.

When the chakra in the system increased, it meant expanding the cup and increasing its capacity!

"Little Chen, it's time to eat!"

Just then, Kushina's voice rang out from inside the house, accompanied by the tempting aroma of food.

"Got it, I'm coming." Before the words had even faded, Chentian was already scampering toward the room on his short little legs.

There was no need to look or ask. The scent alone told him this was Minato's handiwork.

Kushina's cooking was pretty good too, but she lacked talent for it and had always remained merely pretty good.

"Thanks for the meal!"

After quickly washing his hands, Chentian began stuffing himself with food.

Minato and Kushina exchanged smiles and began eating as well.

It was worth mentioning that although Chentian had been adopted, he was not Minato and Kushina's son, but their younger brother.

This was a result Chentian had only obtained after arguing his case with reason.

Clatter!

The sound of a bowl and chopsticks hitting the floor rang out abruptly. Chentian looked up and saw a layer of red mist appear around Kushina's body.

Kushina closed her eyes, her fingers moving rapidly.

Minato appeared before Kushina at once and placed his right hand on her lower abdomen. An extremely complex seal appeared there.

Nine-Tails chakra!

Those words immediately surfaced in Chentian's mind.

However, after seeing Minato and Kushina's reactions, he stopped worrying.

The Nine-Tails was powerful, but it could not possibly break free from Kushina's control, especially with Minato helping her.

But as he continued watching, Chentian realized something was off.

He seemed to sense a space, and there were no barriers blocking it.

It was as though he could enter that space with a single gentle step.

Thinking so, Chentian did exactly that.

The instant he stepped forward, he felt as though he had passed through a layer of water, making it difficult to open his eyes.

Thus, he did not see the purple-glowing card beneath his feet, ruthlessly stepped on by him.

When he opened his eyes, he saw three dumbfounded faces—Minato's, Kushina's, and the Nine-Tails'.

"How did you get in here?"

In an instant, Minato appeared before Chentian and shielded him behind his back.

Only then did Kushina and the Nine-Tails come back to their senses.

Kushina also hurried to Chentian's side, while the Nine-Tails let out a haughty "Hmph" from inside its cage, though it likewise pricked up its ears to listen.

"I-I don't know either. I suddenly sensed a space, then I came in."

Chentian was equally bewildered, having no idea how he had entered the space inside Kushina's body.

Minato's eyes flashed. "Little Chen, are you saying that you sensed a space, and then you could enter it whenever you wanted?"

"Yes!" Chentian nodded without concealing anything.

At those words, the light in Minato's eyes grew even brighter. He said to Kushina, "We're done here. Let's go back and talk!"

Kushina was briefly stunned, then nodded as her figure gradually faded away.

Minato also took Chentian's hand and headed toward the black passage.

Before leaving, Chentian curiously glanced at the Nine-Tails. But after that one look, he could no longer look away.

Beside the Nine-Tails were more than a hundred cards of various colors—white, blue, and purple among them!

But the next moment, his and Minato's figures began to dissipate.

When he came back to himself, Chentian found that he was still sitting where he had been and had not moved at all.

At once, a few guesses arose in his mind.

Since such an enormous creature as the Nine-Tails could be sealed inside a body, the place imprisoning it was clearly a space.

And the reason he could enter it was obviously his LV3 Space Talent.

After discussing it for a while, Minato confirmed that Chentian's talent in space was no weaker than his own, which made him extremely happy.

He even resolved that once Chentian possessed jonin-level strength, he would teach him the Flying Thunder God Technique.

However, Chentian himself knew nothing of this.

While confirming his talent, he also received some not-so-great news.

Although he possessed Space Talent, he could not enter the space imprisoning the Nine-Tails whenever he pleased.

He could only enter after the Nine-Tails went berserk.

That completely extinguished his thoughts of getting the vast number of cards beside the Nine-Tails.

After eating, Chentian returned to his room alone.

During this time, he had also paid close attention to the state of the ninja world. The Third Great Ninja War had now completely ended.

What followed would be the major hidden villages secretly licking their wounds and steadily growing stronger.

Everything that was supposed to happen had already happened. Uchiha Obito was already dead, Minato's reputation was steadily rising, and so on.

This gave Chentian a sense of pressure. Others did not know, but he knew the future.

The big boss, Uchiha Obito, was already in place. Orochimaru was about to defect. The Night of the Nine-Tails was only a few years away, and the Uchiha clan massacre was not far off.

Not to mention the chaos after the story began, where even Kage-level fighters became weaklings!

None of these events were trivial, and with his current strength, he had no way to interfere.

Originally, it would have been fine to just lie low, survive, and slowly grow stronger. But now that he had Minato and Kushina, Chentian wanted to save them!

And that required immense power.

"Minato is twenty-one now. He'll become Hokage at twenty-two and die in the Nine-Tails attack at twenty-four."

"That means I must reach Kage-level strength within three years!"

At that thought, Chentian's head started to ache!

Kage level was not so easy to reach. Otherwise, why would Hiruzen Sarutobi have become the Third Hokage?

After setting his goal, Chentian began making plans.

He was only five years old. Physical ability and chakra were his greatest weaknesses, and these two could only be made up for through the system.

In Konoha, there was only one person most likely to drop physical attribute cards: Might Guy!

Next came chakra. The tailed beasts definitely had the most of it, and the Nine-Tails had even more.

Thus, Chentian once again set his sights on the Nine-Tails, though the specific plan would need to be carried out slowly.

As for ninjutsu, that was much simpler. Too many people knew it, so he could casually pick up quite a few!

Besides that, he could learn on his own as well, tackling both at once!

"Might Guy should be at the training ground, right?"

With that guess, Chentian stopped waiting. After greeting Kushina, he ran toward the training ground.