Naruto led everyone to a tower deep within Amegakure.
Candlelight illuminated the ten altars surrounding the chamber, each bearing a Chakra Fruit.
Ryūshiki had removed Taitō's will from the Divine Grade Chakra Fruit harvested in the Samsara Grotto a year earlier, copied it with Ōmononushi, and squeezed out Takamimusubi's power to produce nine copies. Together with the original, there were ten Chakra Fruits in all.
Naruto picked up the "original." With his present insight, he too could see what made a divine-grade fruit extraordinary.
"Chakra Fruits are known as masses of astonishing chakra and genetic material. The higher the quality of the fruit, the more pronounced the transformation it brings to whoever eats it..."
"Grandmother Kaguya ate only an inferior-grade fruit that didn't even qualify as common-grade, yet her divine rank leaped from Low God, past Lower God, to Middle God. That alone says plenty... If giving birth to the Sage of Six Paths and his brother hadn't dropped her back to Lower God, we could never have sealed her back then."
"I truly wonder just how tremendous an increase in power this first-ever Divine-Grade Fruit will bring."
"A person can eat only one Chakra Fruit, so we must choose carefully to maximize our fighting strength."
Naruto turned to look behind him.
The Heaven Shinobi were all assembled.
Apart from Naruto himself, they were Obito, Madara, Hashirama, Sasuke, Hinata, Neji, Tobirama, Minato, and Kakashi. (During the Grand Martial Arts Tournament, the extraordinarily lucky Suigetsu had taken Kakashi's position as a Heaven Shinobi. But fun was fun, and joking was joking; Suigetsu never tried to force his way into a circle he didn't belong to. Though Kakashi had lost the title, everyone still regarded him as one of the Heaven Shinobi.)
In theory, giving each of the ten people present a