Chapter 178: Nine-Tails Chakra Mode
Time flew by, and in the blink of an eye, the New Year arrived. Kinoshita Genichi temporarily put aside his training and brought gifts to the Uchiha clan to visit Uchiha Namiichi's mother, Misen.
Misen warmly welcomed him, cooking the dishes that her son and Genichi had once loved. Watching him eat with gusto, her eyes curved into a smile. "You're already 14, Genichi."
"I am," he nodded. He had turned 13 last November, so it was fair to say he was 14 now. In another four years, on November 17 of Konoha Year 53, he would be 18.
"By the way, is there a girl you like?" Misen asked with concern.
"Well, of course," Genichi smiled. "I'm very charming. Sigh, I like too many girls. It's a bit of a problem."
Misen couldn't help but cover her mouth and giggle. "Then you must not hurt them, Genichi."
"Definitely, definitely!" he nodded quickly.
After leaving the Uchiha compound, he visited his teacher, Sakumo Hatake, and then went to Tsunade's house for dinner with her, Shizune, and Ina.
On the fourth day of the New Year, he and Ina went to Minato and Kushina's house. After chatting for a while, Kushina smiled. "Genichi, I can do it now."
"So quickly?" Genichi's eyes lit up. "As expected of the woman who will be Hokage in the future."
"Of course. I've been working very hard," she said, clearly enjoying the praise. "And Minato helped." Without him, it would have been very difficult for her to control the malicious chakra.
Genichi looked at Minato. "Minato-san, how about we try it today?"
Minato looked at his wife, and they both nodded. "Let's give it a try."
"Ina," Genichi said to the girl beside him, "use your Adamantine Sealing Chains to create a barrier, just in case."
"Understood," she nodded. Thick chains shot out from her back, constructing a barrier that enveloped the entire living room. After so many years, her control over the technique was excellent, though still not on Kushina's level.
With the barrier complete, the three of them moved to the center of the room and sat cross-legged on the floor.
Genichi clapped his hands together. The next moment, his Primordial Spirit rose from the space of his Yin Seal, stepped out, and emerged from between his eyebrows.
"This is…" Kushina and Minato were both taken aback.
"The Spirit Transformation Technique?" Minato recognized it.
Genichi didn't deny it, just smiled. "This way is a little more convenient." In truth, it was his Primordial Spirit Technique. His Primordial Spirit leaving his body did not affect his main body's basic actions.
His Primordial Spirit entered Kushina's body and went straight to the sealed space. Immediately after, Kushina's and Minato's consciousnesses also appeared. This place was different from Naruto's sealed space. It was not an Eight Trigrams Seal, but a Four Symbols Seal. The current Nine-Tails was pinned in mid-air, a much more imposing sight than being locked in a cage.
"Humans…" The Nine-Tails opened its eyes, looking down fiercely at the three of them.
"As expected of the Nine-Tails." This was the first time Genichi had seen the complete beast. Its chakra… was more than five times that of the Eight-Tails. In other words, even half of the Nine-Tails had 2.5 times the chakra of the complete Eight-Tails. And that was just the difference in quantity. There was also the difference in quality.
Having the chakra of the One, Two, Four, Five, Six, Seven, and Eight-Tails, Genichi could clearly feel the difference in their quality. And now, seeing the Nine-Tails, feeling its power, its quality was in a league of its own, much stronger than the Eight-Tails. As expected of the existence closest in power to the Ten-Tails. No wonder the Nine-Tails Chakra Mode was so special. No wonder it was like Sage Mode, providing an all-around boost to ninjutsu, taijutsu, and genjutsu.
Hiss~ I'm getting a little greedy.
At this moment, the Nine-Tails also noticed him. This guy… is a little different. Kushina hated it, and had once feared it. Minato was grave, serious, and vigilant. But Genichi? There was no fear, no vigilance, but rather… a fervent desire?
The Nine-Tails sensed his emotions, first a little baffled, then very unhappy. "Damn you, daring to covet my power!"
Just then, Kushina said solemnly, "Genichi, Minato, are you ready?"
Minato nodded. Genichi smiled. "The Nine-Tails is indeed very strong. Its chakra is about four times more than mine."
Kushina and Minato both turned to look at him.
Cold sweat dripped down Minato's forehead, his smile hiding his shock. "Only four times more? That's… that's amazing!" He wasn't talking about the Nine-Tails, but… Genichi.
After her shock, a smile appeared on Kushina's face. "In that case, I'm relieved. Well then, I'm releasing the seal!"
Genichi and Minato both nodded.
Kushina immediately formed a hand seal. Seal Release!
In the air, the seal on the Nine-Tails began to dissolve, and its chakra began to fall from the sky like magma.
Genichi then turned to the serious-faced Minato. "Minato-san, when you reseal it later, how about using the Eight Trigrams Seal? It will be beneficial for Sister Kushina."
"Alright," Minato nodded. "But it will take some time to prepare. Can you two handle it?"
"No problem," Genichi said, his eyes crinkling in a smile.
"I can handle it too," Kushina quickly added.
"Good. Then I'll leave the sealing to you," Minato said. He couldn't suppress the Nine-Tails; he could only rely on Genichi.
"Here it comes!" Kushina shouted. The seal was released, and the Nine-Tails fell from the sky. The next moment, a storm swept through the space.
His robes fluttering, Genichi chuckled. "So fierce."
Swoosh! Swoosh! Swoosh!
One tail after another shot toward them like great spears.
He clapped his hands together. The three incoming tails suddenly stopped, entangled by vines.
"Wood Release…" The Nine-Tails was shocked, and immediately sent its other tails out.
Minato and Kushina were also surprised. This was the first time they knew he had mastered the Wood Release.
Thick logs shot out, wrapping around the Nine-Tails' tails.
"ROAR!" The Nine-Tails roared, and a terrifying burst of chakra destroyed all the wood.
Genichi formed hand seals again. With the Art of Zai active, he clapped his hands.
Wood Release: Hotei Technique!
Giant wooden hands rose from the ground, grabbing the Nine-Tails' tails and limbs. The wood then began to absorb its chakra, converting it into life energy to power the jutsu. More vines grew, wrapping around its body and neck.
"Damn it…" The Nine-Tails struggled.
But Genichi cast another Wood Release jutsu.
Wood Release: Wood Human Technique!
The vines twisted together, and before Minato and Kushina's eyes, they condensed into a Wood Golem with a wood dragon coiled around it. It was no smaller than the Nine-Tails.
"So amazing!" Kushina exclaimed.
Minato looked up at the golem, also in awe. "As expected of the Kekkei Genkai the First Hokage used to pacify the ninja world."
Standing on the head of the wood dragon, Genichi controlled the golem. It strode forward, arriving before the Nine-Tails. The dragon coiled around the beast's body, further restraining it.
Sage Art Wood Release: True Several Thousand Hands… Kakuan Entering the Village with Bliss-Bringing Hands!
Genichi raised his hand. The kanji for "sit" (座) appeared on his palm. At the same time, the same character appeared on the Wood Golem's right palm, which then pressed down on the Nine-Tails' forehead.
RUMBLE!
The giant golem leaped back, pulling a stream of chakra from the Nine-Tails' body. At the same time, around the Nine-Tails, giant square wooden pillars rose up, forming a unique formation that completely suppressed its immense chakra.
"Damn you, Hashirama…" The Nine-Tails was powerless. This scene completely stunned Kushina and Minato. He had suppressed the Nine-Tails all by himself.
"Let's see how powerful this Nine-Tails chakra is." Genichi leaped from the golem's head to its right hand and pulled a strand of the extracted chakra into his own body.
"Such powerful chakra," he couldn't help but praise. Not vast, but powerful. The quality was too high.
"Insolent!" the Nine-Tails glared fiercely. The next moment, a rolling wave of malice invaded him. The originally blue chakra was instantly tainted, turning crimson.
"Genichi, be careful of its malice!" Kushina shouted.
"I know." He nodded, closed his eyes, formed a hand seal, and performed the Art of Tō. Courageous and resolute, encountering difficulties only increases one's fighting spirit, the power to overcome all obstacles!
The next moment, the Nine-Tails' violent malice rushed into his body. The so-called malice was actually just super-high negative emotions and consciousness. But…
He quickly opened his eyes and chuckled lightly. "Is that all?"
The Nine-Tails was stunned.
Kushina was also stunned, then her face darkened. "That guy Genichi is… a monster, isn't he?" She had been adapting to the Nine-Tails' chakra since last year. At first, she couldn't withstand it. It was only because of the support of the love in her heart that she hadn't rampaged. Later, with her husband's support, their chakras combined, and she had gradually adapted to the chakra full of negative emotions. But now, Genichi had done it so casually.
Minato, however, smiled. Now he was completely at ease.
Genichi turned to them. "Minato-san, you can begin. Use the Wind Release: Rasenshuriken."
"I understand," Minato nodded. He lowered his eyelids, and a second later, when he opened them, there was orange pigment around his eyes. Sage Mode.
"I'm not very good at Sage Mode. I can only use one Rasenshuriken. If it's not enough, I'll have to rely on you, Genichi," he said apologetically.
Genichi nodded. But this was the first time he realized Minato also liked to show off. Not good at it and you can activate it instantly? Jiraiya would probably be pissed to death if he heard that. Of course, the duration was a bit short, much less than Naruto's five minutes. As expected, showing off was a human instinct.
Kushina and Minato leaped onto a wooden pillar next to the Nine-Tails. The latter raised his hand, and a Rasengan quickly formed, into which he then infused wind chakra. With a piercing hum, the Rasenshuriken took shape.
"Kushina, get ready!" Minato shouted.
She nodded solemnly.
The next moment, he threw the Rasenshuriken. It slammed into the Nine-Tails' back.
"Bastard!" it roared. But it couldn't change the fact that its back had been cut open.
With its defenses breached, its chakra leaked out. Kushina immediately leaped down, came to its back, grabbed its chakra, pulled it out, and then leaped back to Minato's side. Minato's Sage Mode had already automatically dispelled. He also reached out and grabbed the chakra.
The tug-of-war began. Suppressed by Genichi, the Nine-Tails had very little strength to resist. Its chakra was continuously pulled out by the two of them. So it could only resort to its old trick: invading with its malice. However, Kushina had long since adapted, and she had Minato's help. The malice was useless.
The Nine-Tails' chakra was finally pulled out. It felt incomparably humiliated. These bastards were treating it like a pushover. One after another, they were stealing its chakra.
"I'll remember you," it said, giving up its resistance.
"Nine-Tails, it's a pleasure to meet you," Genichi smiled. "I am Kinoshita Genichi. I believe we will be dealing with each other again in the future. Don't worry, I'm a very easy person to get along with."
The Nine-Tails closed its eyes, not bothering to reply. Genichi didn't mind. He wasn't the one who was unhappy.
"Minato-san, prepare the seal," he said.
Minato nodded and vanished.
Kushina leaped to his side and smiled. "You really kept your mouth shut. If I had known you had mastered Wood Release, I wouldn't have been so worried. Speaking of which, is your strength about the same as the First Hokage's?"
"I'm still far off," he shook his head. Putting other things aside, just in terms of chakra volume, he was probably far behind. After all, Hashirama's chakra reserves were very likely to exceed the Nine-Tails'.
He vaguely remembered that in the original timeline, during the Fourth Great Ninja War, Naruto and Minato had used the chakra of the other half of the Nine-Tails. It was almost like a complete Nine-Tails, and they had distributed its chakra to the Allied Shinobi Forces. And then Hashirama had said, "This amount of chakra is comparable to mine." And then he had added, "Oh, and there's the Nine-Tails' chakra in there too."
What did that mean? Hashirama ≈ Naruto + a complete Nine-Tails? Genichi wasn't sure, but he was greatly shocked. He would call Hashirama the number one show-off in the ninja world. He now estimated that his own chakra reserves were at least four times less than the First's. At least.
As they chatted, they continued to extract the Nine-Tails' chakra. A moment later, Minato reappeared. "Kushina, Genichi, it's ready."
"Sister Kushina," Genichi nodded, "use your Adamantine Sealing Chains later."
Kushina nodded, and the chains shot out from her back.
Genichi immediately released his suppression jutsu. The pressure on the Nine-Tails was greatly reduced, and it opened its eyes again. However, he was still maintaining the Hotei Technique. And Kushina had also immediately gone forward, wrapping the Nine-Tails in her chains.
Outside.
Kushina opened her eyes and nodded to Minato. "It's ready."
Minato immediately formed hand seals and then pressed them onto her abdomen.
Eight Trigrams Seal!
Inside the sealed space.
Around the Nine-Tails, pillars of steel rose from the ground, quickly forming an iron cage. A vortex-shaped seal core formed on the cage's gate, and then Minato's chakra formed a sealing tag that was placed on it.
The sealing was complete.
Seeing this, Genichi immediately dispelled his Wood Release, and the Wood Golem beneath his feet also vanished in a puff of smoke. Kushina also retracted her chains. The Nine-Tails stood up in its cage and roared, a powerful burst of chakra erupting from it. But the seal did not move. It then raised its claws, trying to break the seal, but the moment it touched the bars, it was zapped by electricity and immediately recoiled.
Damn you, Minato Namikaze… The Nine-Tails was both angry and helpless. This seal was even more intricate than the last. And so, it had to give up. Its giant body lay down, and its eyes slowly closed. Humans, I will get out sooner or later. At that time…
"As long as I'm here, you can forget about it, you beast!" Kushina said, her hands on her hips.
Genichi was silent. Under normal circumstances, a human could not compare their lifespan to a Tailed Beast's.
His Primordial Spirit returned to his body, and Ina's barrier was also dispelled. However, his Primordial Spirit did not immediately return to the Yin Seal, but instead went to the Eight Trigrams Seal in his abdomen to arrange the Nine-Tails chakra he had just extracted. This amount of chakra was about a quarter of the Nine-Tails' total, roughly equal to his own chakra reserves.
His Primordial Spirit returned. Opening his eyes, he saw a golden-robed Kushina. So cool. For a moment, he thought he was seeing Naruto. It was the same vibe.
However, Kushina was now looking at him, her eyes filled with confusion.
"Kushina, what's wrong?" Minato asked.
For a moment, she didn't know what to say.
But Genichi smiled. "Sister Kushina, it seems you've felt it. The Nine-Tails' negative emotion sensing is really amazing."
"So, what I'm feeling is not wrong?" she asked, confused.
Minato and Ina were completely lost, having no idea what was going on.
"By controlling the Nine-Tails' power," Genichi explained, pointing at her, "you've gained a unique sensory ability. You can sense a person's malice towards you. In fact, this is the ability to directly perceive the emotions hidden deep within a person's chakra. After all, chakra carries a person's spiritual consciousness, so it will also carry their emotions."
"You're right," she nodded. "So, Genichi, is there something else inside your body? I can feel it. That's not your power or your heart."
"It should be the work of Madara Uchiha," Genichi nodded.
"What?" Ina stood up, her face full of worry.
Kushina and Minato's expressions turned grave.
"Don't worry too much," he smiled. "I knew about this before. And to be precise, it's the ability of the artificial humans created by Madara. Hmm, it's the power of the First's cells, Wood Release."
White Zetsu.
Although he hadn't been able to sense it before, he could guess with his eyes closed that he had White Zetsu's spores on him.
The three of them sighed in relief. Since he knew, it meant the problem wasn't big.
"Then what do you plan to do, Genichi?" Minato asked. "You also have Wood Release. Can you deal with it?"
(End of Chapter)
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