Nine-Tails Defibrillator (1/2)

Naruto had been poor for so long that her eyes instantly turned into symbols of money.

"The Uchiha Clan is so filthy rich. They definitely won't care about losing a little money! I'll gladly take it, then!" Naruto moved like lightning and tucked the scroll into her clothes.

An hour later, Konohagakure ninja arrived here under the Third Hokage's orders.

That evening, Itachi Uchiha came here to search for the scroll Fugaku Uchiha had lost.

"Could it be... that Konohagakure took it?"

Unable to find anything, Itachi Uchiha left.

Inside the cave, Naruto sat before a campfire, roasting the former cave owner's bear paw while sitting on the former cave owner's fur. She sneakily opened the scroll and violently broke the seal.

"Damn it!!! Fugaku Uchiha, come collect your wife's corpse already!!!"

Naruto staggered back several steps in fright, only for the dead bear's unclosed fangs to stab her in the butt.

"Ah!"

Naruto got up and turned around, only to find that the bear's teeth had pierced her butt. After breathing a sigh of relief, she looked troubledly at Mikoto Uchiha's corpse.

"Hm?"

Under the firelight, though it was barely noticeable, Naruto seemed to see a faint rise and fall in Mikoto Uchiha's abdomen!

"Could she still be alive?"

Naruto pressed her ear against Mikoto Uchiha's chest and carefully listened for her heartbeat.

Mm, so soft...

Naruto could not help having a tiny wicked thought.

Mikoto Uchiha's body was ice-cold. If Naruto had not listened carefully, she would never have heard that extremely faint heartbeat.

That soft feeling made her linger a little longer. By accident, she pressed down on the wound that had stopped bleeding, causing it to bleed again. Smelling blood, Naruto hurriedly raised her head.

Seeing blood flowing from the wound, Naruto urgently called out to the drowsy Nine-Tails within her.

"Nine-Tails, Nine-Tails! Hurry and help!"

"What?! Is there an enemy?!"

The Nine-Tails immediately sent Chakra into Naruto's body. A violent gale swept through the cave, and broken stones fell from the ceiling, striking Naruto on the head. The cloak formed from Nine-Tails Chakra bounced the rocks away.

"I called you to save someone..."

Naruto tugged at the Chakra fox ears atop her head, utterly speechless. The Chakra unleashed by her Nine-Tails Transformation had nearly collapsed the cave.

"Ah! My roasted bear paw!"

Naruto stared at the bear paw that had fallen into the campfire, heartbroken.

"This was my first time eating bear paw! Nine-Tails, how are you going to compensate me?!"

"Naruto! If you don't do something about that woman, she's going to die!"

The Nine-Tails reminded Naruto as it looked at the woman who was barely breathing, with one foot already in the underworld. Of course, if Naruto were in her inner world, she would have seen the guilty expression on the Nine-Tails' face.

Chapter 21: Nine-Tails Defibrillator (1/2)

♂ Naruto placed both hands on Mikoto Uchiha's chest. Nine-Tails Chakra flowed into Mikoto's body, gradually repairing the wounds across her body.

Even after her wounds healed, Mikoto Uchiha's breathing remained weak, and her icy body showed no signs of warming up.

Her wounds had healed, so why had her condition not improved? Naruto touched Mikoto Uchiha's cold face and frowned. Seeing Mikoto on the verge of death, she thought of Kushina, the mother who had left her forever the moment she was born.

Suddenly! Mikoto Uchiha's heart stopped beating, and her weak breathing vanished along with it.

Naruto's trembling fingers hovered before Mikoto Uchiha's nose. Her pupils abruptly contracted, and the hand before Mikoto's nose slowly fell.

"Her breathing... is gone..."

"This woman can't be saved anymore. Find somewhere to bury her!" Seeing Naruto's devastated, absent-minded expression, the Nine-Tails tried to comfort her, heart aching for her.

"No, she isn't completely dead yet! Maybe by this world's medical standards, she's already dead, but I can still save her." Naruto took a kunai from Yakushi Nonō's ninja tool pouch, drew a deep breath, and undid Mikoto Uchiha's clothes. Looking at her snowy skin and rosy peaks, Naruto's heart was utterly calm.

"Nine-Tails, lend me your Chakra!"

Naruto entered Nine-Tails Transformation, a tail swaying behind her. She swiftly cut open Mikoto Uchiha's chest, and a hand formed from Nine-Tails Chakra gripped Mikoto's motionless heart, rhythmically squeezing it while continuously injecting a mixture of the Nine-Tails' Chakra and her own into her body.

"I see, she lost too much blood!" Without hesitation, Naruto cut open Mikoto Uchiha's wrist, then cut open her own. She pressed the wounds together and used Chakra to guide her own blood into Mikoto Uchiha's body.

At a time like this, she had no time to think so much. She could only take a gamble! She was gambling that Mikoto Uchiha would not reject her blood. If a rejection occurred, Mikoto Uchiha would truly die!

"Naruto, why? Why are you going this far for this woman?" the Nine-Tails asked in confusion. Seeing Naruto's little face gradually turn pale, it clenched its claws tightly, suppressing the urge to stop her.

"Obviously, so I can extort the Uchiha Clan's assets after saving her! This is preparation for a life without worries over food and clothes! She's Itachi Uchiha and Uchiha Sasuke's mother! Unless they cough up tens of millions, they can forget about taking her back!"

The more Naruto thought about it, the more excited she became. Even the blood flowing from her wound increased, changing from a slow trickle into a spray.

Fortunately, the Nine-Tails promptly healed Naruto's wrist wound. Otherwise, Naruto would have become the Jinchuriki with the dumbest death imaginable.

Dying from spraying blood because she got too excited!

Could an ordinary Jinchuriki do that?

(Jinchuriki from One-Tail to Eight-Tails: Can't do it, can't do it... Boss, you're amazing!)

"Uh... I got a little excited thinking about becoming rich in the future, hehe~!" Naruto sensed the Nine-Tails' unspoken complaints and scratched her head with an embarrassed smile.

Perhaps because Naruto's Uzumaki Clan bloodline possessed such powerful vitality, Mikoto Uchiha did not experience any rejection.

Thump, thump—!

Naruto felt Mikoto Uchiha's heart begin to beat. She withdrew the hand formed from Nine-Tails Chakra and healed the wound on Mikoto's chest. Repeating look not at what is improper in her heart, she quickly dressed Mikoto again.

Naruto was truly afraid that if she kept looking, she would lose control of the beast in her heart and pounce on Mikoto. (Nine-Tails: Hm? What does whatever you want to do have to do with me?)

Food and sex were human nature, and Naruto was no exception. Otherwise, she would not have overdosed on Viagra and died before coming to this world.

"Whew!"

Naruto let out a relieved breath. Perhaps because she had given Mikoto Uchiha blood, her mouth felt dry. There was no water nearby, so helplessly, Naruto could only drink the blood from the chest cavity of the bear she had killed.

The icy, salty, fishy blood mixed with the bear's organs, shredded by Wind Release Chakra. It nearly made Naruto spit it out the moment it entered her mouth. Fighting back the urge to vomit, she forced down several mouthfuls before finally collapsing to the ground and dry-heaving.