Chapter 474: Freedom
Ino closed her eyes slightly and contacted her old friend, the Shinigami.
They had already negotiated the terms, and the transaction went off without a hitch.
With a ferocious roar, the Yin-Nine-Tails awakened!
"An Uzumaki!" Seeing the red-haired woman, the Yin-Nine-Tails felt an overwhelming rage. With nowhere to vent its fury, it swiped a claw at Karin without a second thought.
Smack! Ino's Ice Release formed a thick ice wall, blocking its claw. Karin scurried back like a frightened rabbit.
The Yin-Nine-Tails turned its gaze to Ino as she rapidly formed hand seals.
"Ninja Art: Mind Body Disturbance Technique!" She was becoming more and more proficient with this third-stage secret technique of the Yamanaka clan. Her hand seals were lightning-fast, and her Yin Release chakra carried a strong suggestive power.
"...Who are you?" The Yin-Nine-Tails' hostility quickly faded, its eyes filled with confusion, and the rampage of its chakra began to calm.
"I'll control him. You activate the sealing jutsu to suppress him," Ino said softly.
Karin nodded quickly.
She could be a bit spacey at times, but as an executor, she could always do the tasks given to her well.
Karin first cut her wrist, letting her blood flow into the sealing array.
The blood of the Uzumaki clan naturally contained dense life energy, and the constitutions of Karin and her mother were particularly special. The Yin-Nine-Tails, which was in a standoff with Ino, couldn't help but look down.
Karin then bit her finger to enhance the power of the sealing array.
With her own abilities, she couldn't possibly seal a behemoth like the Yin-Nine-Tails alone, but with her blood and the sealing array, she still managed to exert a considerable restraining force.
"We're friends, right? Even though we just met today, we really hit it off, don't you think?" Ino slowly chipped away at the Yin-Nine-Tails' hostility.
The Yin-Nine-Tails swayed its large head as if it were drunk. Ino wasn't in a hurry; she used the Mind Body Disturbance Technique over and over again.
The Yang and Yin-Nine-Tails were originally one being. Even though they were now split in two, there was still a connection between them.
Ino had a good relationship with the Yang-Nine-Tails, and this relationship could be partially inherited by the Yin-Nine-Tails.
Seeing the Yin-Nine-Tails reveal a tsundere expression, she knew the time was right.
With most of its hostility gone, she could proceed to the final step.
Sharingan!
The immense ocular power carried by the three-tomoe Sharingan completely shattered the last of the Yin-Nine-Tails' enmity.
Tailed Beasts were different from summoning animals; they couldn't be bound by a traditional summoning contract. But as seen with Madara and Obito, the Nine-Tails could be summoned.
In Ino's mental world, the Yin-Nine-Tails found a control formula that looked very out of place. It must have been set by Madara.
Minato had split the Nine-Tails in two partly to invalidate this control formula.
Considering the Nine-Tails' relationship with the Sage of Six Paths, using a slavery formula was too much. Ino crushed that half of the control formula in its spiritual world, added a formula of friendship, and then withdrew.
Ino scratched the Yin-Nine-Tails' neck. The creature closed its eyes in contentment like a large dog and even involuntarily wagged its tails.
Madara Uchiha wasn't a Nine-Tails jinchuriki, but he could forcibly combine it with his Susanoo to form the Majestic Attire: Susanoo. At his peak, Sasuke could use his Susanoo as a vessel to forcibly absorb the chakra of all nine Tailed Beasts, achieving the ultimate form of the Susanoo.
From this perspective, the Yin Release-based Susanoo had its merits.
So, could the Yang Release-based Wood Golem replace the Susanoo to some extent?
The moment she created the Wood Golem, the Yin-Nine-Tails' fur stood on end!
What are you doing? What are you doing?! Aren't we friends? Is this how you treat a friend?
"A misunderstanding, a misunderstanding. I formed the wrong hand seals," Ino said with a broad smile.
The Yin-Nine-Tails glared at her indignantly.
Ino found it amusing. This dog really was a tsundere.
In that case, this would be easy.
She didn't say anything, just walked in circles around the big dog.
"Childish. Are you a child?" The Yin-Nine-Tails closed its eyes and ignored her to show its displeasure.
A few seconds later, the Yin-Nine-Tails' nose twitched involuntarily.
What is that? Adhering to the law of "true fragrance," he opened his eyes to see.
He saw Ino holding something like a fishing rod, and dangling from the hook was a ball of earthy-yellow chakra.
The Yin-Nine-Tails felt that this chakra was a bit familiar and couldn't help but take a closer look. Having just been unsealed, his intelligence wasn't quite online yet. The Shinigami's stomach was really not a good place; his brain felt like it had been frozen solid.
He thought for a long while.
"Old Nine, can you absorb this chakra?" Ino asked.
The Yin-Nine-Tails sniffed it, made a disgusted face, and laid its head back down. "That stinking tanuki's chakra. Hmph, I'll beat him up every time I see him!"
"Can you eat this ball of chakra?"
"I won't eat it."
"Just for me?"
"I really can't stomach it..."
Through Ino's test, she confirmed that the Nine-Tails couldn't absorb the One-Tail's chakra.
To absorb the chakra of all nine Tailed Beasts, one method was the Ten-Tails' husk, and the other was likely a Susanoo infused with Six Paths power.
Ino thought of a solution. If the adult Nine-Tails couldn't absorb the chakra of the other Tailed Beasts, could a younger Nine-Tails? Could a newborn Nine-Tails?
"Old Nine, give me a little of your chakra. Just a little."
The Yin-Nine-Tails didn't know what she was up to, but as long as she wasn't trying to enslave him, he didn't mind playing with his new friend for a bit.
He separated a clump of chakra the size of his fingernail, which was actually taller than Ino herself.
"Just a little, I only need a little. Why give me so much? Are you testing me?" Ino rolled her eyes.
Feeling that he had misunderstood his new friend's intentions, the Yin-Nine-Tails gave a tsundere "hmph" and finally squeezed out a small ball of chakra for Ino, like squeezing toothpaste.
Ino was satisfied. She sealed the ball of chakra and then waved her hand, signaling that the Yin-Nine-Tails could leave.
"Go find a place to play! You're free!" she said.
The Yin-Nine-Tails' eyes widened as he looked at her, then glanced at the barely-noticeable Karin.
The Yin-Nine-Tails was greatly surprised. "You really don't care about my power? You're just letting me go?"
"Yeah, I don't really have a use for you. Even though I'm a ninja, we're actually family. You're free. Go out and play!"
The Yin-Nine-Tails lifted its head. "I'm not a child. What do you mean, 'play'? Hmph! It's called 'traveling'!"
He looked left and right, wondering where he should "travel" to.
Ino lowered her voice. "How about you come with me to see Teacher Hagoromo later?"
The excited expression was still on the Yin-Nine-Tails' face, but upon hearing this, his neck instantly stiffened. He wanted to turn his head but ultimately didn't, looking like a student who had just been told their parents were being called to school. After a long pause, he finally managed to choke out a sentence: "...Is the old man's health okay?"
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