Paying Rent in Advance! Four-Year-Old Naruto's Nine-Tails Chakra

"Sasuke, strike while he's down! Beat the living daylights out of him!"

Yoru's shout still echoed across the training ground.

But inside the sealing space, the atmosphere had already frozen solid.

"A big orange cat? A tsundere old fox?!"

The Nine-Tails lowered its head to look at the jerky on the ground, then raised it to look at Naruto's innocent, guileless smile.

The red fur all over its body instantly bristled, every strand standing on end.

This was practically grinding the dignity of the Nine-Tailed Demon Fox into the dirt!

"You little brat, you're asking for death!"

The Nine-Tails roared as its enormous claw slammed toward the iron bars.

Its violent killing intent became tangible blades, seeking to tear Naruto's spiritual body apart directly.

Boom!

But before that killing intent could reach Naruto, a dazzling golden light suddenly erupted between them.

Within the golden light, the figure of a young man in black slowly emerged.

One hand was tucked into his pocket while the other casually pushed forward.

What seemed like an effortless gesture instantly shattered the Nine-Tails' world-destroying killing intent as easily as popping a soap bubble.

"Making such a racket in someone else's territory, Kurama? Your temper is as rotten as ever."

Uchiha Yoru raised his head, and his black eyes instantly transformed into perfect cross-shaped Sage Eyes!

Bzzzz—!

A force of natural energy greater, purer, and more domineering than even the Nine-Tails descended with a roar!

Mixed within it was even a trace of Six Paths Yang Release that made the Nine-Tails tremble from the depths of its soul.

"You... how are you here?!"

The Nine-Tails' movements abruptly froze, its enormous fox face filled with shock.

This Uchiha brat had not only forcibly entered the Eight Trigrams Seal, but he even carried the scent of that old man—the Sage of Six Paths!

"Not only can I come in, I can make you shut up too."

Yoru snorted as the Mangekyō Sharingan patterns in his eyes spun rapidly.

Sage Art: Gate of the Great God!

He formed no hand seals.

With a mere thought from Yoru, dozens of massive red wooden torii gates instantly crashed down from the sky of the sealing space!

Bang! Bang! Bang!

Like Mount Tai bearing down from above, the gates locked precisely around the Nine-Tails' neck and nine tails.

They nailed it firmly to the ground.

"Roar! Let me go, Uchiha bastard!"

The Nine-Tails struggled desperately, only to discover that the harder it struggled, the stronger the suppressive force of the Gates of the Great God became. It could not even mobilize a trace of chakra.

"Mister, don't bully it. It's just hungry and a little bad-tempered."

Naruto poked his little head out from behind Yoru, actually pleading for the Nine-Tails.

"You dumb kid. You'd help someone count the money after they sold you."

Yoru irritably ruffled Naruto's blond hair and pushed him aside.

Then Yoru walked over to the iron bars and looked down through them at the Nine-Tails pinned to the ground.

"Kurama, let's speak plainly."

Yoru withdrew his sage pressure, pulled over a chair, and sat down with one leg crossed over the other.

"You've been locked up here for decades. Every day, you either sleep or stare at the sewer. Aren't you bored?"

The Nine-Tails stopped struggling and glared at him coldly.

"Human, don't play tricks with me. What do you want?"

"A deal."

Yoru snapped his fingers.

The walls of the previously empty sealing space suddenly twisted.

An enormous high-definition LCD television, along with a top-tier futuristic game console, appeared out of thin air before the Nine-Tails!

"This brat's body is your house. You've lived here for so long, so you should at least pay some rent, right?"

Yoru pointed at the game console.

"As long as you provide pure chakra without malicious intent on schedule and help this kid grow stronger."

"I'll regularly bring you the latest game cartridges, movie discs, and even all kinds of snack deliveries."

Yoru coaxed it patiently, his voice carrying a devilish temptation.

"Just think about it. No more staring at that stinking sewer ditch."

"Every day, you can lie in an air-conditioned room, eat fried chicken, drink cola, play games, and watch blockbuster movies."

"Isn't that ten thousand times better than sleeping rough outside and getting captured as a pet by a freak like Madara Uchiha?"

The Nine-Tails was stunned.

It had lived for over a thousand years. What hadn't it seen?

The Sage of Six Paths, Hashirama Senju, Madara Uchiha—which of them had not treated it as a weapon for destroying the world?

But...

Buying off a tailed beast with game consoles and takeout?

What the hell kind of generation-spanning thought process was that?!

The Nine-Tails lowered its head to look at the game console glowing in all sorts of colors, then looked at Yoru's punchable face.

Its pride told it that it should sternly refuse such a degenerate temptation!

But...

The game footage of Ninja World War: Battle Royale playing on that television screen looked genuinely fun!

"Hmph! I have no interest in your human junk!"

The Nine-Tails haughtily turned its head away and snorted.

Yet from the corner of its eye, it could not help stealing glances at the screen.

"Not interested? Then forget it."

Yoru shrugged and pretended he was about to snap his fingers and take the game console away.

"You're pinned down by me anyway. At worst, I'll use my Mangekyō Sharingan to forcibly draw out your chakra. The result will be the same."

"Wait!"

The Nine-Tails blurted out in panic.

It had no desire to relive the humiliation of being forcibly controlled by an Uchiha's Sharingan.

Besides... that game really did look tempting!

"Ahem."

The Nine-Tails coughed twice, trying to salvage a bit of its dignity as a tailed beast.

"I merely think this blond brat is somewhat pleasing to the eye."

"Lending him a little chakra is no trouble."

The Nine-Tails stared fixedly at the game console and added,

"But let's make this clear. I want the newest fighting games! And the best barbecue delivery from your Hidden Stone Village!"

"Deal!"

Yoru snapped his fingers with satisfaction and removed the Gates of the Great God pressing down on the Nine-Tails.

He turned around and winked at the still-dazed Naruto.

"Dumb kid, what are you standing around for? Why aren't you thanking your new 'cash machine'?"

Back in the real world, at the combat training field.

Holding a kunai, Sasuke slowly approached Naruto, who was kneeling on the ground and gasping for breath.

"It's over, dead last."

Sasuke's gaze turned cold as he prepared to deliver the final blow.

However, just as he took a step forward—

Boom—!!!

A power greater, purer, and more sacred than the dark red chakra from before erupted from Naruto's body like a sleeping sun awakening!

There was no violent malice, no suffocating pressure.

Only an incomparably warm aura of life!

A radiant golden light instantly enveloped Naruto's small body.

Within that golden radiance, mysterious black magatama patterns slowly emerged around his collarbones and collar.

"W-What is this?!"

Sasuke was blasted back more than ten steps by that pure power, nearly losing his grip on the kunai in his hand.

His three-tomoe Sharingan stared fixedly at the blond brat before him, his face full of disbelief.

The quality of that chakra was more terrifying than all the jonin he had ever seen combined!

At the edge of the field, Minato Namikaze had originally assumed Naruto had exhausted his chakra and was preparing to step in and save him.

Now, his entire body had frozen in place, his jaw nearly dropping to his feet.

"Nine-Tails Chakra Mode?!"

Minato cried out in shock, his voice cracking.

That was the ultimate form only a perfect jinchuriki could master!

Even he, the Fourth Hokage, had only barely learned it after enduring so many years inside the Death God's stomach.

His son was only four and a half years old!

"Yoru, what exactly did you do to him in the sealing space?!"

Minato turned around and stared in shock at Yoru, who was leaning against a tree and watching the show.

Yoru smiled faintly, quietly hiding his accomplishment.

"Nothing much. I just signed a long-term lease with a tsundere tenant."

Yoru straightened up and shouted toward Naruto, who was glowing like a little sun in the middle of the field.

"Naruto! Can you feel it? This is the beginner trial experience of a max-level account!"

"Now, slam that stuck-up Uchiha into the ground and grind him into the dirt!"