"For what." The blonde sighed deeply as he once again faced forward, this time looking out, over the temple and into the surrounding forests.
"It's been almost three months and I haven't found anything to help you yet; I haven't kept my promise to you." Sora blinked for a moment before a sad smile slipped onto his features as he too looked out over the temple, in vaguely the same direction as his friend was.
"I never asked you to make that silly promise, what you're trying to do should be impossible anyway." Naruto scoffed at that but some of the cold edge disappeared, his eyes narrowing in a challenging way.
"Like the sage creating the moon?" Naruto laughed at his own comment but was surprised when Sora suddenly lay back on the roof, staring up at the far away disk.
"Hey, what if he did it? I mean really did it?" Naruto blinked before falling back next to his friend.
"Then he'd be way more powerful than even the legends make him out to be." Sora smirked slightly at that, pulling his hands up to rest underneath his head.
"I'm going to be like that one day." He heard Naruto scoff next to him and was immediately up on his elbows, tick mark quickly forming on his temple. "What's so funny?" Naruto just grinned as he continued to stare at the moon, completely uncaring of the looming fist of his friend.
"Please, if you ever get that powerful then I'll be able to move the moon around with a flick of my wrist." This time it was Sora's turn to scoff as the anger leaked out of him, turning into amusement as he flopped back down onto his back.
"Right, moving the moon." He chuckled at himself "What was I thinking?" Naruto finally looked around, the challenge clearly sparkling in his eyes as his earlier sadness seemed a thing of the past.
"You're on." Sora blinked in surprise, an incredulous expression developing on his face as he just stared at his blonde friend in shock.
"That wasn't a challenge Naruto!" Naruto snorted, crossing his arms and looking away haughtily in an exaggerated impersonation of the blue-haired boy.
"Just because you know you'll lose." Sora was immediately on his feet, his fist raised and other finger pointed accusingly at the blonde.
"I'll never lose to you!" He blinked in surprise when Naruto just burst out laughing, the anger ebbing out of him as he realised it had been a joke. A few minutes later and they were once again on their backs, just staring up at the sky.
So how would you do it?" Sora just looked around in confusion at the blonde who had an unusually thoughtful expression. "How would you move the moon?" Sora blinked slowly before shrugging.
"I don't know, but you know what master Chukaku says, if there is a problem we can't solve, as long as we have friends they'll be there to lighten the burden." Naruto smiled fondly at that, a small chuckled gracing his lips.
"Yeah I guess you're ri..." He trailed off, blinking once, then twice, then a few more times as he suddenly shot up into a sitting position. Sora could swear he saw the cogs turning in the boy's head before Naruto suddenly shot to his feet, his eyes wide with excitement. "That's it!" before sora could even ask he found both his hands grabbed, pulling him into a standing position as Naruto began to bounce around the rooftop with him. "Sora you're a genius!" the bue haired boy blinked before a small blush settled over his nose and a rather haughty smile fell on his features.
"Well I don't know..." when he looked up though Naruto was gone; the pseudo-Jinchuuriki looked around but his blonde friend had vanished.
"Ahem!" Sora froze suddenly, his head slowly swivelling to look at a very irate Chigasu holding his almost infamous wooden spoon in one hand as he taped it irritably against his forearm. "Well what do we have here?" Sora began to stutter as he backed away from the clearly angry caretaker before stopping as he reached the edge of the roof.
"Well you see Chigasu-sempai, it's uhh... Well you see it's like...DAMMIT NARUTO!"
Naruto laughed fondly at the memory as he began to climb up another large dune, neither the steep climb nor loose footing seemingly giving him any trouble. He had replaced his hood, the shadows once again falling over his face, as well as pulling up a scarf to cover his mouth and whisker marks. It was beginning to grow cold as sun vanished; the heat in the ground quickly dispersing and rising up into the air. He absently rubbed a phantom wound on his side as he thought about another life-changing event from the past four years.
"Jeez Naruto, calm down would you? You'd think you were the one who was finally getting rid of their inner demon." Even though Sora tried to sound nonchalant about the whole business he couldn't keep his own excitement out of his voice. It was finally happening, after Naruto had run off and left him on the roof to deal with a certain angry caretaker Sora had gone out to find him. Apparently something about their conversation had given Naruto an idea on how to finally free Sora of the Kyuubi's Chakra.
He didn't understand the technical version of the blonde's plan but simplified it pretty much involved him using many shadow clones to siphon off the Kyuubi's chakra. The main problem with removing a Bijuu from the host was that such a large amount of such potent and corrosive chakra being channelled through a specific spot on the Jinchuuriki, namely the seal, caused an overload of the Chakra network in that area, creating a chain reaction which killed the host. Only those with incredibly potent chakra of their own or a durable body would be able to survive such a thing.
Unfortunately most unsealing methods did exactly that; unseal the binding on the Bijuu. This meant the chakra would be freed all at once, in one place. Using Naruto's Preta Path they had a unique opportunity to draw out the Chakra directly, from as many different places as Naruto could make clones. Of course it would still hurt but with the extraction being spread out it wouldn't be fatal, or even all that damaging. Of course it was only speculation so any complications that might arie were completely unknown.
Chukaku had at first seemed hesitant when Naruto brought this before him but ultimately he believed it was Sora's choice. Overjoyed at the chance to finally be rid of what he firmly saw as a curse and burden the blue-haired boy practically jumped at the chance. Of course just to be safe Naruto had spent a few weeks practising with his Preta path to make sure everything was ready; it would do no good to draw out Sora's Chakra with the Kyuubi's.
"Come on, what's taking so long?" One of the four clones Naruto had created looked up in irritation, the others following suit from afar in a way Sora found slightly creepy. The shared vision may have been useful in a fight but the Pseudo-Jinchuuriki always found it strange when the multiple blondes would do things in unison. Then again that was only to be expected when they were all essentially the same person with the same sight.
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