Chapter 39 – Shukaku Released Early, Konoha's Worst Day Begins
The tailed-beast chakra inside Naruto had long been tamed.
Years of building bridges with Kurama had paid off; they were practically buddies now.
"The fate of a jinchuriki, huh…"
Naruto glanced at Gaara with genuine pity.
"Consider this your advance payment."
"After this mess is over, I'll set you free."
His eyes sharpened.
He switched to full aggression, planning to force Shukaku out faster.
Gaara was already in agony, barely conscious.
Against Naruto's relentless taijutsu barrage, he could only turtle up.
Sand poured over his body, forming the Sand Armor + Shield combo.
Even then, every impact leaked through.
Pain stacked on pain.
Shukaku's influence and his own fractured psyche finally snapped.
"DIE!"
"ALL OF YOU DIE!!"
"Sand Coffin!!!"
The sudden killing intent made every jonin tense.
That move had nearly killed Rock Lee in the preliminaries.
They all glanced at Kakashi.
Kakashi just yawned.
The proctor, Genma, however, panicked.
"Crap!"
"Too close, no time!"
He was about to intervene when the next scene froze him in place.
The sand that had wrapped around Naruto exploded outward.
An even more monstrous wave of tailed-beast chakra detonated from the boy.
The sheer pressure cracked the arena floor in spiderwebs.
This wasn't from a jutsu.
Pure chakra pressure.
The entire stadium lost its collective mind.
"What the hell?!"
"That amount of chakra is fake, right?!"
"He's just a genin!"
Jonin were screaming.
Even the instructors like Asuma and Kurenai twitched.
Kakashi's student had officially broken the scale.
And he hadn't even used a single ninjutsu yet.
Hiruzen's pipe nearly fell out of his mouth.
"Thank the Sage I brainwashed him with the Will of Fire from childhood…"
Orochimaru, meanwhile, remained calm.
Expected from a jinchuriki.
He was far more interested in what other secrets the boy was hiding behind that fake smile.
In the spectator stands.
"He's grown terrifyingly fast."
Izumi's Sharingan was locked on Naruto.
In that brief burst, his chakra had already surpassed Kage level.
"Are all jinchuriki this insane?"
"Special case. I did put a little extra work into his seal," Aike answered casually.
Nami and Carina, still gaping, finally spoke.
"Are all kids in your world this ridiculous?"
"I feel like they're already stronger than that smoke colonel back in Loguetown!"
Izumi shook her head.
"Only these two are special."
Normal genin couldn't dream of comparing to jinchuriki.
While they chatted, the fight reached its climax.
"Looks like it's over."
Aike sounded almost disappointed.
After Naruto's onslaught, Gaara's seal was hanging by a thread.
The final pulse of Nine-Tails chakra was the killing blow.
"AAAAAARGH!!!"
Gaara threw his head back and screamed.
The seal shattered.
Tailed-beast chakra flooded out like a dam burst.
Sand swallowed him whole.
In
seconds, a child-sized boy ballooned into a fifty-meter tanuki made entirely of sand.
Shukaku, the One-Tail, was fully unleashed.
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