[Fire Temple]
Having stirred up some trouble in Konoha and earned some Nine-Tails chakra, Kazuma returned here.
His current identity was that of a wandering monk, and he would come to the Fire Temple to lodge from time to time.
The other monks were already familiar with him, so they let him in without questioning.
Kazuma was walking toward the lodging area when someone appeared behind him.
It was none other than Chiriku, who had recently become the abbot of the Fire Temple, "This time, why did it take you so long to return?"
Kazuma turned around and replied casually, "I went to take a look at Konoha."
Chiriku snorted, "Still haven't given up? Konoha Village isn't something you can shake."
Kazuma wore a mocking smile on his face, "Who says I can't? This time even the Mizukage of Kirigakure personally attacked Konoha."
"That shows Konoha has already declined."
"What?", Chiriku's face was full of surprise.
The Fire Temple was quite a distance from Konoha. After parting with Fuen, Kazuma had rushed here non-stop.
News from Konoha hadn't reached this place at all.
Chiriku still didn't know what had happened recently in Konoha.
"How could that be? What happened?"
Kazuma sneered, "Internal conflict in Konoha. Danzo planned to wipe out the Uchiha, but was countered by the Uchiha…"
Then Kazuma briefly described what had happened in Konoha.
"I said it before, the existence of the Hokage is itself a mistake."
"There's always internal strife and elimination of dissidents. Konoha Village should be controlled by the Daimyo."
After hearing this, Chiriku shook his head, "You better give up on that thought. 'Kazuma' is already dead."
"Kitane, Seito, Nouma, Tou, all of them are gone. You alone can't accomplish anything."
Kazuma had his own plans in mind, but still had to pretend to be gloomy on the surface.
Chiriku saw his former companion like this and said nothing more, "It's time again for Sora's sealing. I don't want something like last time to happen again."
Kazuma nodded, "Understood."
Sora was Kazuma's son. During the Nine-Tails rampage, Kazuma collected a large amount of Nine-Tails chakra and used it to create an artificial Nine-Tails Jinchuriki.
One year ago, due to Kazuma's failure to return in time to reseal him, Sora's Nine-Tails power went berserk and destroyed the Fire Temple's main gate, the so-called "impenetrable" Sealed Iron Wall.
It almost destroyed the Fire Temple and the surrounding villages. Many monks of the Fire Temple were killed or injured.
Although Chiriku ordered a lockdown on the matter, all the monks looked at Sora with fear and resentment in their eyes.
During the Nine-Tails' rampage, Sora had no consciousness, but after waking up, he found himself rejected by everyone.
Chiriku didn't mind Sora being rejected, he was only worried that Sora might go berserk again.
After finishing his instructions, Chiriku left. The rest was up to Kazuma.
Kazuma frowned as he watched Chiriku leave.
Years ago, he had failed in staging a coup, and Kitane, Seito, Nauma, Tou, and others had died one after another.
Kazuma himself had also been gravely injured by Asuma and was on the verge of death, but surprisingly, Chiriku, also a former companion of Asuma, actually saved him.
Because Chiriku also believed the existence of the Hokage posed a threat to the Fire Daimyo's safety.
But unlike the ambitious Kazuma, he only wanted to strengthen the Daimyo's side, so that both sides could have equal dialogue and prevent Konoha from turning against them in the future.
The imitation Nine-Tails Jinchuriki Sora was created with Chiriku's help.
Although he had never been able to persuade Chiriku, Kazuma wasn't in a hurry.
After all, the imitation Nine-Tails Jinchuriki would need at least ten years to mature.
And his own Earth Release secret techniques also needed time to develop.
As long as the imitation Nine-Tails Jinchuriki matured, he believed Chiriku could be easily persuaded.
This time, he brought quite a bit of Nine-Tails chakra and believed that it could accelerate the maturation of the imitation Jinchuriki.
By now, it was already late. The seven-year-old Sora was fast asleep in his room.
Because of Sora's special nature, he lived alone in a single room.
Which just so happened to make it convenient for Kazuma to act.
Kazuma tapped Sora's forehead with his monk staff, sending him into deeper sleep, unaware of everything around him.
When the Nine-Tails went on a rampage years ago, it leaked a massive amount of chakra, but that chakra wasn't solidified.
Kazuma planned to keep compressing the Nine-Tails chakra with sealing techniques and, when finally lifting the seal, the erupting Nine-Tails chakra could directly synchronize with and engulf Sora's body.
Only then would the imitation Nine-Tails Jinchuriki be truly successful.
And now, continuously injecting more Nine-Tails chakra into Sora's body would help hatch the result sooner.
The sealing technique Kazuma used was the Eight Trigrams Sealing.
However, the total amount of chakra in the imitation Nine-Tails Jinchuriki was relatively small, so this was sufficient.
Kazuma lifted Sora's clothes. Chakra lit up one by one on his hands, and then he pressed them onto Sora's stomach, beginning to rotate.
With the other hand, he opened the scroll containing the sealed Nine-Tails chakra.
The red Nine-Tails chakra flowed in like a trickle, continuously drilling into the unconscious Sora's body.
This process lasted an hour, before he finally applied a sealing mark on Sora.
There was a faint excitement on his face.
According to his estimation, the maturation time of the imitation Nine-Tails Jinchuriki could be shortened by two years.
That brought him one step closer to his plan.
———
At the same time Kazuma was extracting chakra from the scroll and injecting it into Sora's body—
[Konoha Village, Naruto's Home]
Naruto was snoring soundly on his bed, but the television in the farthest corner of the wall was playing a movie.
Earlier that day, Naruto had made a big fuss to get it.
Although Naruto liked it a lot, he had fallen asleep while the TV was still playing, so it clearly wasn't playing for him.
In his consciousness, Kurama was watching with great interest.
You had to understand, when he was sealed decades ago, it was the Warring States period, and there were no entertainment facilities back then.
Inside a Jinchuriki's body was extremely boring, and these "jail time" days lasted for decades.
Any fox would go crazy.
After Rengoku told Kurama what had happened since then, their relationship had eased.
Rengoku also didn't mind giving the Nine-Tails a bit more welfare.
At the very least, Kurama wouldn't be so bored anymore.
"Applying the seal at this point increases chakra consumption, but it also strengthens the sealing power," Kushina was seriously explaining the Uzumaki clan's sealing techniques to Rengoku.
She had never seen anyone as strange as Rengoku. His execution was incomplete, yet he was extremely familiar with the Eight Trigrams Sealing.
Moreover, Rengoku could also use the Fire Prison Sealing Technique, a technique the Uzumaki clan once used specifically to imprison criminals. Kushina herself barely knew it.
She had no idea where Rengoku had learned it from.
But because Rengoku's fundamentals were extremely solid, he learned the Uzumaki clan's sealing techniques very quickly.
It even made Kushina feel for a moment that even the Four Symbols Seal seemed simple.
The Nine-Tails, who had been watching the movie, suddenly raised his head, "Hm?"
Hearing the Nine-Tails stir, Rengoku made a pause gesture.
"Kurama, what's wrong?"
Kurama looked toward the northwest, "I sensed the chakra that was stolen a few days ago."
"In the northwest direction. At your pace, it'll take about two days to reach it."
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