Gritting his teeth, Asuma turned his back to Enma as he announced. His goal was to defeat Reko and for that he would keep training.
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It took Reko some time, but he managed to locate Jiraya and Naruto.
They had not moved around much and were still around that place. Though, a little farther.
They were in a vacant valley, probably for training as Reko was able to sense Naruto trying to control the immense chakra from the nine tails.
Honestly, it was a humbling scenario for Reko. The chakra he possessed after all those activities was still nowhere close to the amount that he was able to feel from Naruto.
'Probably more than ten times, or twelve.'
Naruto was in the chakra cloak mode, a tail made of violent orange reddish chakra swayed behind him, threatening any creature from coming nearby it.
As he moved closer, Jiraya spotted him and waved.
"Ohh? I didn't expect you to come back so soon. How did the treatment go?"
He seemed surprised, not having expected Reko to come this soon.
Luckily, they did not move around much after finding the valley. It was a good place to train Naruto and his tailed beast powers.
"She was not there, still training Sakura. So, I decided to get back here."
Reko smiled, he did not meet Tsunade. It was a failed endeavour. Although, he never believed that she would have its cure. He was still kind of disappointed to have not got it checked.
"Fortunately, the elders from Mount Myoboku were able to get some clues about the curse."
Looking at the disappointment in the young shinobi's eyes. Jiraya patted him on the shoulders as he revealed the good news.
Back at Mount Myoboku, the elders were able to get some reference to the curse and believed that they would soon be able to find out about it.
It was only a reference, but still that is far better than searching aimlessly.
"I see. It's good news."
Reko nodded, satisfied that there was some good news finally. The sacred lands really had rich inheritance to be able to find something so quickly.
He kept glancing at Naruto. When the second tail appeared, the aura on Naruto increased as if he was using the eight gates technique.
There were no signs of injury on Naruto's body as of yet from the violent chakra but there were signs.
His body was all red, veins visible close to the surface of skin.
"What about him? When did you resume his training?"
Reko asked, unable to take his eyes off of Naruto.
This was real power! The intense chakra!
That chakra display alone could defeat and paralyse the weaker enemies.
"Just three days ago, I felt that it was time and he has improved a lot since last time."
Jiraya replied. He had found that Reko had motivated Naruto leading to an increase in the training progress.
So, he decided that they will resume the training for chakra control once again.
"Improved huh, how many tails can he control as of yet?"
Reko seemed curious. He wanted to know what the next tail would feel like. If it was him training Naruto then he would have asked the kid to let loose.
What could improve the kid more than a real time battle?
"Three. He does not dare to move past that."
Jiraya sighed as he showed three fingers to Reko.
After what had happened last time, Naruto did not even consider getting to the fourth tail. He was hesitant.
"He should not, to be honest. If he manages to fully unleash the power of three tails then that alone would be very powerful."
Reko agreed with Naruto's theory. As long as Naruto managed to master the lighter version, he could save time in the next step.
"He can just keep improving slowly."
He added. If he were in Naruto's place then he would have done the same, trained alone with one tail and waited until he had full control over it to get to Second-tail.
"You are right. But he has a big group of rogue shinobi coming after him. He needs to do whatever he can to improve."
Jiraya did not seem to agree with Reko's opinion.
If it was any other time then he would have agreed but Naruto was being hunted. There was no time for him to perfect his control over a tailed beast.
It was fine as long as he could wield greater power.
"The best possible path is for him to increase the number of tails. That way, he keeps himself from losing control in case he is cornered."
Jiraya put forth his proposal on what he thought would be the best route for Naruto's development.
Both of them watched as Naruto went from one tails to two and then finally reached three tails.
The intensity of chakra was so bad that the ground was beginning to get impacted.
The grass on the ground was completely crushed, even the soil was caving in.
"How's this Pervy Sage? Want to battle again?"
Naruto grinned as his eyes had a foxy grin. His physical strength had gotten a big boost along with enormous chakra to compliment it
"Why not step it up with another tail? I have also come back and it would be nice to spar with you in this form."
Reko appeared a meter away from Naruto by dashing. Naruto kept track of his movements and did not panic.
Naruto listened to Reko's request to bring out another tail to battle.
He glanced at Reko once before taking a look at Jiraya. Jiraya nodded in reassurance.
He was all healed now, the nine tails won't be able to land an attack on him this time.
"Alright then! Since you asked for it."
Closing his eyes, Naruto went inside his mindscape. He was already pulling a great amount of chakra from the nine tails. So, it was not difficult getting another big chunk.
His face turned into a feral one as his chakra output increased like crazy, more than double of three tails.
And his fourth tail appeared!
His face could not be even seen anymore. Only an outline of a fox made by chakra was present.
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