Chapter 629: Heavenly Will Takes Action
What should he do?
Dark Naruto could not accept the fact that, despite possessing the power of the Nine-Tails, he was going to be violated first and then violated again.
Yet he was unwilling to give up control of his body.
Back then, he had deceived his original self, and the original Naruto had been watching for so long from within the mental world that he must have already noticed something was wrong.
At the time, Dark Naruto had been extremely confident. With the Nine-Tails' power, he had no need for the original Naruto's pitiful amount of chakra, so there was no reason to give his original self any chance to regain control of the body.
But he had never expected something unexpected to happen after all.
Did that mean he now had to ask his original self for help?
Just then, a voice appeared in his mind.
It was Naruto himself.
Because Dark Naruto's resolve had begun to waver, just like Obito had wavered while holding the Amanuma Spear, a crack had appeared in the mental world.
Naruto had finally seized this opportunity to speak with his dark side.
"Are you all right? Calm down first."
"Original me? Shut up! I absolutely will not ask you for help!"
Dark Naruto's expression changed drastically when he heard Naruto's voice.
"I'm not helping you. I'm helping myself. You're using my body and my reputation, after all."
Naruto earnestly tried to persuade him.
The spectators outside were completely speechless when they saw this scene.
Naruto really could forgive anyone.
Dark Naruto was already thinking about taking over his body, and Naruto was still trying to use Talk no Jutsu to persuade him?
As for whether Naruto might simply be pretending to deceive Dark Naruto, planning to reclaim control of his body first...
There was no need to even consider that possibility.
If Naruto were capable of thinking that way, he would never have been sent into the Engraved Tsukuyomi world in the first place.
"What do you mean, your body? This is mine! Mine!"
Dark Naruto excitedly pounded his chest, declaring his ownership.
"With my Nine-Tails chakra, I'm invincible in the shinobi world. What does that have to do with you? Shut up! I don't want to hear from you anymore!"
"But can you still use the Nine-Tails chakra now? I've seen everything you've been through. Here, take this. This is some Sage Chakra I condensed while you and Obito were inside the Kamui space."
Naruto generously tossed a mass of energy wrapped in his chakra and natural energy toward Dark Naruto.
Seeing Naruto's actions, some of the spectators outside were practically furious enough to faint.
What Naruto said actually made some sense to Dark Naruto. After all, the two of them really did share one body.
But the spectators outside understood the situation perfectly. Naruto had absolutely no reason to worry about what happened to the body.
The body in the Engraved Tsukuyomi world had nothing to do with the real world.
And with Naruto sealed inside the mental world, he would not feel anything happening to the body.
In other words, no matter what horrible things Dark Naruto experienced outside, Naruto inside the mental world would suffer absolutely no loss.
Naruto could simply wait until Dark Naruto was tortured until his consciousness was exhausted and his chakra drained, then take control of the body himself. It would make no difference.
The only downside was that Naruto would no longer have the Nine-Tails chakra by then.
But that was still better than giving up the hard-earned opportunity to turn the tables and actually going out of his way to help Dark Naruto now.
Everyone outside was getting goosebumps from watching this.
Even Shiromo, who was responsible for managing the situation afterward, was starting to lose his composure. He wanted to transform into the blue-faced Dou Erdun and shout, "NTR your mother!"
Was Naruto really this impossible to reason with?
"You…"
Dark Naruto caught the Sage Chakra and stared at his original self in astonishment.
"Don't thank me. Hurry up and escape. I don't want to be eaten by these two crazy women either. By the way, could you bring a few manga and novels in next time? There's nothing in here. I'm bored to death."
Naruto waved his hand.
"What I want to know is, how exactly did you condense Sage Chakra? You're only a consciousness here. You can't control the body outside, so how did you manage to do it?"
Dark Naruto frowned deeply.
What he was worried about was whether Naruto had secretly regained control of the body while he wasn't paying attention.
For example, while he was sleeping?
In theory, that should have been impossible.
Before today, his will had been completely firm. Even while sleeping, there should not have been any cracks.
"Uh…"
Naruto's expression became awkward.
So he had misunderstood.
He had thought his actions had already touched the heart of his dark side.
Apparently, he had been thinking too much.
Even so, Naruto thoughtfully explained it to his dark side.
"It's true that a mere consciousness can't condense Sage Chakra, and it's also true that you've taken control of my body. But you've overlooked one thing. There's actually one part of the body you haven't taken control of."
"That's because when you took over my body at the Waterfall of Truth, that part wasn't there!"
Naruto proudly raised his chin and held up one finger.
That's right!
Only then did Dark Naruto realize it.
Naruto was right. There really was one part of the body that had been permanently sealed inside the Kamui space from the very beginning. And since Dark Naruto was the dark side, the golden demon-fox femboy, he had never thought about this possibility.
"So you took advantage of the time when Obito and I were inside the Kamui space to secretly condense this Sage Chakra?"
"Exactly!"
"...So you're actually the second Sage of Six Paths."
Dark Naruto remembered that there was also a relic of the Sage of Six Paths in Kusagakure. The similarity to what his original self had done was simply too strong.
Dark Naruto felt an inexplicable sense of defeat.
He had racked his brains, yet he still couldn't match the sudden flash of inspiration from his original self.
Perhaps this was what they called talent.
Suddenly, Dark Naruto's body outside trembled.
If Naruto himself could see it... he would not have noticed anything unusual.
The other spectators who saw this scene did not notice anything either.
Only those watching alongside Shiromo knew what it meant.
It meant that Dark Naruto had already begun to suffer from "Heavenly Will Corrosion."
As the "Heavenly Will" who could allow Uchiha Hikari to modify anything in the Engraved Tsukuyomi world at any time, Shiromo had decided to teach Naruto a lesson he would never forget.
Sasuke had repeatedly experienced his entire family dying in the Tsukuyomi world, but Naruto did not feel much about losing his family.
So another method had to be used to make him wake up.
Otherwise, he would only become more and more ridiculous every single time.
Lectures were useless. Broken bones made for a much better textbook.
Although, for Naruto, even broken bones might not necessarily be enough to teach him a lesson.
"All right, I've explained everything. Hurry up and take the Sage Chakra outside and escape. Stop standing there spacing out."
Naruto urged his dark side to leave.
"Heh heh."
"Hehehe."
"Hahahaha!"
Dark Naruto suddenly covered his face and burst into wild laughter.
Under Naruto's bewildered gaze, Dark Naruto finished laughing and pointed at him.
"Why should I listen to everything you say? As your dark side, the thing I'm best at is telling an overconfident original self like you—No!"
(End of this chapter)