Sakura directly asked about the doubts she had been having during this period.
"Oh! What did I think it was? It's you who worries too much and thinks too much, Sakura," Naruto responded with an innocent smile.
Sakura quickly realized something was wrong, and then asked: "But Naruto?…"
"Remember what I said when I came back? I am no longer a child, and it is enough to know some things in my heart." Naruto's words directly touched Sakura.
Sakura looked at Naruto for five seconds before saying, "Naruto, what you said makes sense. It seems that I am the one who has not grown up."
"Thank you. I will not be as naive as I was yesterday. Some things cannot be forced."
Sakura's eyes began to change to some extent, and Naruto also noticed it.
Finally, Naruto and Sakura separated and went home. But Naruto had already had a great influence on Sakura.
At night, the Fire Temple in the Land of Fire was brightly lit.
After the Nine-Tailed Naruto and Naruto separated, they secretly lurked in the Fire Temple.
However, the Nine-Tailed Naruto did not take action immediately, instead moving to observe the positions of the Fire Temple personnel. Only after fully understanding the situation would he act.
A group of ninja monks was ringing the bell.
The leader was Jilu, also the most powerful person in the Fire Temple.
At this time, the trainee ninja monk Kong, sitting behind Jilu, felt discomfort all over his body.
A hot energy seemed to be bursting out of him.
There was no problem with the seal, but he didn't understand why this was happening.
Chiriku announced that they were disbanded, and Sora quickly ran back to his place, as the feeling was becoming harder and harder to control.
Sora was one of the ninja monks of the Fire Temple because he was similar to Naruto.
He had the evil chakra of the Nine-Tailed Demon Fox sealed in his body and was despised by the other monks.
Sora had become a pseudo-Jinchūriki because the Nine-Tailed Fox had attacked Konoha.
Part of its leaked chakra had been collected, cultivated, and sealed into Sora.
This was also the purpose of Nine-Tailed Naruto's action: to reclaim the Nine-Tails' chakra from Sora.
More than an hour passed slowly. Alone in his room, the heat in Sora's body never subsided.
It seemed as if he was about to be inspired by some unknown force.
Suddenly, Sora's eyes turned into bright red fox eyes, and the evil Nine-Tails chakra began to erupt.
At this moment, Nine-Tailed Naruto appeared behind Sora, pushing him to the ground. He grabbed Sora and broke through the window.
The higher-ups at the Fire Temple rushed over as soon as the Nine-Tails chakra appeared in the sky.
But by the time they arrived at Sora's residence, it was too late. Sora was gone.
When Kong was taken to a very remote place by Nine-Tailed Naruto, he stopped.
"Why… the feeling you give me is the same as the power in my body?" Kong didn't ask why he had been captured. What truly mattered was that the aura of the man before him was almost identical to the chakra sealed in his own body.
"Leave this question for you to think about slowly!" Nine-Tailed Naruto stretched out the five fingers of his left hand, golden chakra emerging.
He stabbed Sora in the stomach.
"Ahhhh!" Sora screamed in pain, almost fainting as the Nine-Tails Chakra coat began to manifest on his body.
However, the energy was rapidly flowing into Nine-Tailed Naruto.
Nine-Tailed Naruto said, slightly surprised, "The Nine-Tails chakra contained within… there's still a lot of it! It seems the person who sealed it had a big plan."
"It's just a pity there are no original chakra seeds. But it can be considered to have complete yin and yang attributes."
In less than ten seconds, all the Nine-Tails chakra in Sora's body was absorbed by Nine-Tailed Naruto.
Sora rolled his eyes and lost consciousness, his vitality rapidly draining.
As expected, Sora's fate was death, no different from being pulled away from a tailed beast.
The Nine-Tails chakra in Naruto's body increased by about one percent.
The chakra originally stored in Sora's body was at least one-tenth of the Nine-Tails', but because Kyuubi Naruto already had a complete half-body of Yang chakra, the convertible strength was small.
Now, Kyuubi Naruto's chakra was no longer purely Yang—it carried a trace of Yin.
After observing the dying Sora, Nine-Tailed Naruto departed.
The people of the Fire Temple searched for Sora all night, unaware of the true meaning of his existence.
Finally, at dawn, they found Kong, but he had already lost his breath of life.
In the Fire Temple, Jilu looked at Sora's dead body and fell into deep thought.
At that moment, a panicked ninja monk ran in. "Master Jilu, it's not good! Two people wearing black windbreakers with flame patterns were asking for you!"
"I think… 80% of the time, those who come here are evil!"
Jilu slowly stood and walked outside. "Our Fire Temple has truly been eventful in the past few days."
Kakuzu and Hidan had arrived in the Land of Fire at the Fire Temple.
Hidan said, "Kakuzu, you asked me to come here. If you don't give it to me soon, I won't be polite."
"Don't worry! This time, the target is worth thirty million. That's no small sum." Kakuzu's eyes glowed with a golden light.
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