Sasuke walked to the tree and said coldly, “Chakra is not a case of the more the better, you idiot.
Think of it as a thin film, just enough to stick to the soles of your feet, no more, no less.”
Before he finished speaking, he had already effortlessly walked up the tree trunk, then jumped down from the tree.
The entire process took no more than three seconds.
“Understand?” He glanced at Naruto, whose mouth was wide open beside him.
“Oh…
oh, I understand!” Naruto snapped back to reality and nodded heavily.
He imitated Sasuke, closed his eyes to concentrate, and then stomped his foot down fiercely.
“Bang!”
The result was no surprise: the tree bark shattered, and Naruto was once again sent flying.
Sasuke watched this scene, his brows furrowing even more.
He impatiently scolded, “idiot, I told you not to use brute force, but to adhere Chakra to your feet!”
“I know, but it won’t listen!”
Naruto was almost in tears, feeling his Chakra inside him was like a tangled mess.
“Won’t listen?” Sasuke frowned.
Chakra is a combination of a Ninja’s physical and spiritual energy.
How could there be such a thing as it not listening?
Unless his control was extremely poor, but this guy’s perseverance and physical constitution were clearly very strong…
In Sasuke’s eyes, the Three-Tomoe Sharingan reappeared.
He wanted to see if this idiot was truly incapable, or if there was some other reason.
As the Sharingan spun, the chaotic flow of Chakra within Naruto was laid bare.
“Something’s not right…” Sasuke’s brows furrowed even deeper, and he pushed his perception to the extreme.
Immediately, he saw the root cause, and his pupils suddenly constricted.
He saw that within Naruto’s body, surrounding his own blue Chakra, there was another completely different red Chakra.
It was filled with a tyrannical and ominous aura.
Whenever Naruto tried to gather his blue Chakra, that red Chakra would forcibly tear at it, interfering with his own Chakra.
“What is this?”
In this Chakra, imbued with malice and hatred, Sasuke felt a strange familiarity.
It was like the Hollows he had slain.
“So that’s it…” Sasuke instantly understood the root cause of Naruto’s failure.
This wasn’t merely a problem of control; something else was residing within this guy’s body.
“Hey, idiot.”
Sasuke’s expression became somewhat solemn.
“You, stick out your hand.”
He wanted to confirm what that red thing truly was.
Sasuke closed his eyes and transmitted his spiritual power through his hand.
As soon as his spiritual power made contact with Naruto,
his consciousness was suddenly pulled with great force, as if a deep pit had opened beneath him, causing him to fall weightlessly.
When he came to his senses,
he was already in a damp, dark underground sewer.
It was filled with an aura of decay and hatred.
Where is this?
Sasuke looked around, sensing a familiar power, the same power that interfered with Naruto when he tried to gather Chakra.
Then this was most likely Naruto’s inner world.
But…
what was the source?
Sasuke stood up and walked forward along the path, following the trail of the emitted aura.
He soon reached the end.
A towering, giant red barred gate blocked his way.
Behind the gate was a dim area, seemingly harboring something.
Heavy breathing and unconcealed malice continuously emanated from the cracks in the gate.
It seemed this was the source of the energy.
“Hey, brat.” From behind the gate, the massive crimson creature sensed movement and called out.
Sasuke walked forward in the direction of the voice.
With a whoosh, a massive claw shot out with a gust of wind.
With a clang, it slammed heavily against the gate, its long, sharp tip piercing through the gap, stopping just inches from Sasuke’s throat in the nick of time.
“You’ve got guts, brat, to not even dodge.”
“Hmph.”
Uchiha Sasuke snorted coldly, raised his head, and his Sharingan stared at the Nine-Tailed.
“It’s just a bit of energy seeping out.
In the end, it’s nothing more than a beast locked in a cage.”
“What did you say?!” The Nine-Tailed instantly flew into a rage, its massive body slamming against the bars.
A heavy, dark shadow pressed down, and a giant face pressed close to the gate.
It was a fox with slanted eyes.
When it saw Sasuke’s eyes, the hatred in its eyes almost materialized.
It bared its teeth, revealing a mouth full of ferocious fangs: “It’s that damned Sharingan again!
What else can you Uchiha Clan do besides manipulate others with those eyes?!”
“Manipulate?” Sasuke frowned, slightly puzzled.
The Nine-Tailed snorted coldly and pulled back its head.
It didn’t explain, nor did it want to continue mentioning that Mangekyo Sharingan.
As the strongest Tailed Beast, even if it was now Sealed within someone else’s body, it still had its dignity.
Being controlled by someone would be too humiliating to speak of…
Looking at the giant beast before him, Sasuke seemed to recall something: “Since I was young, I’ve heard a rumor that the Fourth Hokage saved the Village from the Demon Fox.”
His tone was very certain, “From the looks of it, you are that Demon Fox.”
The Nine-Tailed bared its teeth, unashamed: “So what?
You humans only refer to me that way.”
Sasuke’s heart suddenly sank.
He instantly understood why Naruto was looked at with such eyes by the people of the Village, why he was hated by everyone.
Because this Demon Fox was Sealed within his body.
But in the Village’s rumors, he had become the Incarnation of the disaster that destroyed the Village, which was interesting.
Sasuke’s thoughts raced, and he suddenly remembered what the Nine-Tailed had blurted out just now—
“Besides manipulating others with those eyes.”
Manipulate?
A terrible thought formed in his mind.
Sasuke raised his head, his Sharingan locked onto the Nine-Tailed: “The Demon Fox attack seven years ago, you were controlled by the Sharingan then, weren’t you?”
“Nonsense!”
The Nine-Tailed bristled like a cat whose tail had been stepped on, instantly flaring up, “I am the strongest Tailed Beast in heaven and earth, how could I possibly be controlled by a mere human’s ocular jutsu!”
The more agitated he was in his denial, the more certain Sasuke became of his guess.
The Demon Fox attack was not a natural disaster, but a man-made one.
It was someone with a Sharingan who manipulated everything behind the scenes.
Who could it be?
“Who was that person?” Sasuke’s voice became incredibly chilling.
Among the Uchiha Clan, someone with such powerful ocular power who could control this Demon Fox…
The first image that appeared in his mind was that man’s figure.
But this thought was quickly dismissed by him.
No, the timing doesn’t match.
The Demon Fox attack happened seven years ago.
At that time, Itachi was only five or six years old.
Even if he was a Genius, it was absolutely impossible for him to possess the power to control the Demon Fox.
So, besides Itachi, who else?
In the Village, there was another outsider with a Sharingan, Kakashi Hatake?
No, that’s even more impossible.
Kakashi’s eye was transplanted; he couldn’t unleash the true power of the Uchiha Bloodline at all.
So, who exactly was it…