Chapter 42: The Third life experience game Begins
"Kurama, you better control your main body, or I'll definitely make your life miserable today!"
While Uchiha Itachi was teaching Uchiha Sasukeelsewhere, Naruto returned home, dragging his slightly exhausted body.
Naturally, he was carrying a bento box that Hyuga Hinata's mother had prepared for him.
"I was annoyed to death while practicing the Three Basic Jutsu today. Not only is your main body's Chakra violent, but its interference is way too strong!"
Naruto opened the bento box and sat cross-legged. Without wasting a moment, he began stuffing food into his mouth while complaining to the "Little Nine-Tails" created by the Nine-Tailed's secret technique.
"Hmph, it's because you're pathetic. What does that have to do with my main body?"
The Little Nine-Tails toyed with its long tails, its words showing no mercy. "With such low Chakracontrol, don't blame my Chakra for being too violent. Is it my fault you can't handle it?"
"Also, Minato Namikaze must have had a lapse in judgment back then. To think he'd use a newborn with a half-baked Uzumaki Physique as a vessel to Seal me... I really don't know what he was thinking!"
"Even if only half of my Chakra was sealed inside you, it's not something a brat like you can control. If this is happening, you should burn some more incense and go question your dim-witted father!"
The Little Nine-Tails rambled on, doing nothing but trying to mess with Naruto's head and venting its frustration toward Minato Namikaze.
Clearly, for the peerless Nine-Tails to be sealed inside a newborn was the second greatest pain in its thousands of years of life, second only to being manipulated.
Naruto wasn't about to indulge the Little Nine-Tails. He instantly snapped the chopsticks in his hand into four pieces and threw them using a technique he'd learned from Uchiha Sasuke, pinning the creature to the floor without actually harming it.
"A brain is a good thing to have!" Naruto looked at the struggling Little Nine-Tails on the floor with a cold smile. "If you speak without using your brain again, believe it or not, I'll stew you and make you the first Tailed Beast to be killed and eaten by a human!"
"Brat! How dare you humiliate me like this! I will never let you get away with this!"
Ignoring the Little Nine-Tails' shouting, Narutoturned to get a new pair of chopsticks from the kitchen. He calmly stuffed the last few bites of food into his mouth before speaking again.
"I can feel that your main body's Chakra has an unusual boosting effect on my body. I can tell from how fast I recover."
Naruto had been puzzled at first by the fact that the life experience game hadn't started for three consecutive years, but he eventually came to terms with it. After all, his experiences from two previous lives needed time to be digested.
However, Naruto constantly kept an eye on his Five-Dimensional Attribute Panel.
Among them, he noticed his recovery attribute was increasing at a very unusual rate, having now reached an incredible 30 points!
What did 30 points of recovery mean?
It meant that at Naruto's current age of six, his Recovery Power was already comparable to the sum of three healthy adults. Naruto didn't believe for a second that there wasn't something fishy going on.
"Heh, so now you know to appreciate me?" The Nine-Tails had long since given up struggling. It wasn't the first or second time its Clone had been humiliated by Naruto; it was slowly getting used to it...
"I have to admit, that Minato Namikaze kid actually had something going on in his head. When he split me in two, it was my yang-attribute chakra that he sealed inside you."
"I know that, but I've asked you many times how to control your yang-attribute chakra, and you old fox just won't tell me." Naruto was very frustrated by this. "Are you afraid of what I'll do to you, or are you afraid I'll grow too fast and you won't be able to handle it when I take my revenge?"
"Heh..." The Little Nine-Tails let out a disdainful laugh. "I'm really not afraid. Unlike you humans, I can only live for about a hundred years at most."
"Even if my body is dispersed and my consciousness falls into a slumber, I'll return again after a dozen years or so. With that trait, what could I possibly be afraid of from you?!"
"Then why won't you tell me the method to control your Chakra?"
"You only need to know that I'm not afraid of you. Do I need a reason not to tell you the specific method? Not at all!" The expression on the Little Nine-Tails' fox face was extremely punchable. "I simply don't want to say it. What can you do about it?!"
Indeed, it was an undeniable fact that Naruto could do nothing about things the Nine-Tails didn't want to say.
But that didn't mean Naruto had no other options!
Based on reading Hiruzen Sarutobi's handwritten notes, Naruto had long ago figured out the basic nature of Chakra. Simply put, the application of Chakra was inextricably linked to one's own Mental Energy.
Control corresponds to Mental Energy; the stronger the Mental Energy, the stronger the control over Chakra. It is also the key to causing Nature Transformations and shape transformations in Chakra.
However, normal growth of Mental Energyhappens step-by-step over time. To achieve explosive growth in Mental Energy, aside from possessing the Sharingan, Naruto could only rely on the System.
But the System had been silent for three years. If it weren't for the fact that Naruto could check his Five-Dimensional Attribute Panel at any time, he might have thought the System had left him for good.
What Naruto craved most right now was strength. After all, if he wanted to completely control his own destiny and do as he pleased, strength was one of the most critical factors.
Naruto had not forgotten that the culprit behind his parents' deaths, as well as Danzo Shimura—who always wanted to use him as a weapon—were still watching him from the shadows.
But as of now, while the Nine-Tails' Chakra was a boost, it was also a shackle. Power that could not be controlled could not truly be called his own.
Proceeding with the third life experience game had become urgent!
If his Mental Energy continued to grow slowly at its current rate, even the most basic Three Basic Jutsu would remain a problem, let alone other more Advanced Ninjutsu.
"Just take it slow. When you're a bit older, I'm sure the backup plan Minato Namikaze arranged will take effect. That kid wasn't a simple character, after all!"
The Little Nine-Tails might have been tired of being pinned to the floor, as it timely revealed a bit of information, hoping to trade it for its release.
Things went just as the Little Nine-Tails expected. After it gave Naruto a little incentive, Narutoindeed removed the chopsticks pinning it to the floor.
The moment it gained its freedom, the Little Nine-Tails dashed out of Naruto's room in a few leaps, shouting provocations as it ran, clearly having learned nothing.
"Even if Minato Namikaze's backup plan works, I won't let you have your way! Just you wait for my revenge, you brat!"
Naruto, who was about to chase after it to catch the Nine-Tails, suddenly froze, followed by a smile of relief.
He had received a notification from the System: the third life experience game was about to begin!
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