The final deal was struck, and Naruto pushed the prepared food directly into the iron cage.
The Nine-Tailed grabbed the iron pot as if it were a teacup, dumping all the food into its mouth in one go.
Naruto’s mouth twitched at the sight.
He had used three whole geese for that meal, and it was gone in one bite!
If it went on like this, how much would he have to cook every day to satisfy this fox?
Thinking of this, Naruto felt a bit of regret, but it was already too late.
The Nine-Tailed chewed the food in its mouth, its eyes shining like two giant lightbulbs, almost blinding Naruto.
Fortunately, he had left himself an out in what he said.
It should, probably, possibly, work… right?
“Kid, hurry, make me more.
This isn’t even enough to fill the gaps between my teeth.” The fox devoured all three dishes in a few gulps, along with the pot of rice.
“Seriously, can’t you shrink down to eat?” Naruto looked at the Nine-Tailed, speechless.
With a build that large, it would be a miracle if it could ever be full.
“Do you even hear yourself?
I’m sealed, you know?
If I could use my power, I would have escaped already, wouldn’t I!” The Nine-Tailed looked at Naruto with an expression that said it was looking at an idiot.
“That’s not right.
I can often feel something overflowing from my body.” Naruto looked at the Nine-Tailed, unconvinced.
“Nonsense.
I can only use your body as a medium to exert power.
Here, I can only use Chakra, but using Chakra doesn’t mean I can transform.
Do you think this seal is just for show?” The Nine-Tailed said, curling its lip in disdain.
“Uh… I really didn’t know that.” Naruto scratched his head in embarrassment, then spoke up again.
“But at your current size, even if I cooked from morning till night, I couldn’t make enough food.
I can’t just spend my whole day doing nothing but cooking for you, right?”
“That’s not my problem.
You were the one who said you’d cover my three meals.”
“I said I’d provide three meals, but I didn’t say I’d provide until you were full, did I?” Naruto said, looking at the fox cautiously.
“Kid, are you playing word games with me?” The Nine-Tailed narrowed its eyes, and a faint killing intent leaked from its body.
“If you teach me how to cultivate, I’ll let you eat until you’re full.” Seeing that the Nine-Tailed was about to lose its temper, Naruto hurriedly said.
“…” The Nine-Tailed was instantly silenced.
It really couldn’t do that.
While it could just teach randomly, Lord Kurama disdained doing such a thing.
Seeing the Nine-Tailed fall into a struggle, Naruto breathed a sigh of relief and spoke again.
“How about you wait until I refine Chakra, go find the old Third Hokage to learn Shadow Clone or something, and then I’ll let you eat your fill?”
The Shadow Clone technique was something the Third had used in front of him, so he wasn’t afraid of the fox being suspicious, although it already was.
“…That works.
But until then, I need ten pots of food per meal.” The fox thought for a moment, nodded, and said.
“No way, that’s too much.
Five pots at most.”
“It must be ten pots.
These three pots were only enough for me to get a taste; ten is already very little.”
“Fine, but you have to help prepare the ingredients.
Preparing ingredients takes a lot of time, after all.” The ingredients from the system only had the simplest preparation; the rest had to be done by hand.
After all, as a Master Chef, if he couldn’t even chop vegetables, would that be acceptable?
“Huh?
How am I supposed to prepare them?” The Nine-Tailed looked at its claws, then at the kitchen knife and ingredients on the table, feeling completely bewildered.
“Are you stupid?
Use Chakra to assist!
Don’t tell me you can’t use Chakra to create a smaller claw.
If you can’t do that, you’re too useless.” This time, it was Naruto’s turn to look at the Nine-Tailed with disdain, which infuriated the Nine-Tailed.
But there was no choice.
Now that it had tasted delicacies, it would rather die than go back to its old life.
Helplessly, it tried to follow Naruto’s instructions and used Chakra to create two mini Chakra claws.
Under Naruto’s guidance, it began to cautiously learn how to chop vegetables and prepare ingredients.
Afterward, the Nine-Tailed also fulfilled its promise, beginning to teach Naruto how to read and supervising his physical training.
He first tried the training method of the Bald Demon King, only to find it had no pressure at all.
After eating his own cooking for a year, his physical strength had far surpassed that of the original Naruto.
He tripled the training volume, and only then did he feel like he was reaching his limit.
Every time he was exhausted and about to collapse, the Nine-Tailed would add, “Get up and continue,” and then finish by mocking him, “Kid, you are truly too weak.”
This infuriated Naruto to the point of death.
He even considered putting some medicine in the fox’s food, but thinking about the fox’s build, if he really drugged it, he probably wouldn’t be able to stay in this Sealing Space anymore.
He decided against it.
The Third watched Naruto start training through his crystal ball.
Initially, he was quite gratified, but after a month passed and the child was still only doing physical training, he couldn’t take it anymore.
What is this?
Are you planning to become a Taijutsu specialist or what?
You are an Uzumaki, you have a lot of Chakra!
You are a Jinchuriki, you have even more Chakra!
Why are you practicing physical training instead of learning Ninjutsu?
Thinking of this, the Third suddenly slapped his forehead, remembering that he hadn’t given him a method for Chakra cultivation.
He hurriedly went to the warehouse, rummaged through boxes and cabinets, and finally found the Chakra cultivation method specific to the Uzumaki Clan.
Just as he was about to leave, he stopped.
Then he thought, and found the scroll recording the Shadow Clone technique.
Holding both that and the cultivation method, he headed toward the woods where Naruto was training.
The Third found Naruto, handed him the scrolls, gave him some instructions, and turned to leave.
He was afraid that if he didn’t leave, he’d have a heart attack.
Looking at Naruto’s body, which was beginning to look slightly robust, the Third only felt a headache.
Naruto, meanwhile, looked at the Third’s retreating back with an expression that said he was looking at an idiot.
Was this old man suffering from dementia?
He hadn’t even taught him how to read!
He just threw the scrolls down and ran off.
What, was he in a rush to get back and peek at the women’s bathhouse?
Naruto spat at the Third in his heart, cursed him for being an elder without dignity, and then opened the scrolls to read.
Fortunately, he had learned quite a few characters from the Nine-Tailed during this time, so he could understand a bit.
If he didn’t know a word, he would just call out to the Nine-Tailed in his heart.
With the Nine-Tailed reading aloud, Naruto memorized the contents of the scrolls and began to refine Chakra according to the methods described, though his posture left the Nine-Tailed completely confused.
Naruto sat cross-legged, with his thumbs and middle fingers pinched together, the backs of his hands resting on his knees, his body sitting perfectly straight.
The Nine-Tailed looked at Naruto, speechless.
What kind of madness was this kid up to now?
Sitting cross-legged was fine, but don’t press your hands on your legs!
If you’re going to put them on your legs, do it properly.
Can’t you feel that you’re pressing on your acupoints?
If your blood circulation is blocked, how are you going to refine Chakra?
Naruto sat like that for the whole afternoon; his legs had gone numb before he finally felt a warm current coming from his lower abdomen.
“Kurama, I did it!” Naruto was so excited he wanted to jump up, but as soon as he moved, the tingling numbness and weakness in his thighs made him lie back down.
The Nine-Tailed silently covered its eyes with its claws, unable to bear watching; it was just too embarrassing.
It wasn’t just the Nine-Tailed who felt embarrassed; the Third felt embarrassed too.
Could this child have been swapped by someone?
Minato and Kushina were both geniuses, and Minato was a genius among geniuses.
How could their child have a brain that seemed to be missing something?
The Third turned off the crystal ball, took a bottle of blood pressure medication from his drawer, poured out two pills, and swallowed them, rubbing his temples and sighing continuously.
Naruto himself was quite happy.
After all, he could finally use Chakra, and he could be considered to have some self-preservation ability.
The days that followed consisted of ordinary training, cooking, and feeding the fox.
The old Third, who knows what he was thinking, just gave him Shadow Clone and never came back.
His monthly living expenses were always delivered by Anbu.
This meant that even if Naruto wanted to find the old man to learn some Ninjutsu, he couldn’t.
He could only exercise every day, punch trees, and occasionally take out a kitchen knife to perform a wild, nonsensical sword technique.
This caused the Third’s consumption of blood pressure medication to increase from one bottle a month to one bottle a week, making him the biggest customer for blood pressure medication in Konoha.
Later, the Third really couldn’t stand it anymore and sent someone to teach Naruto basic Taijutsu and basic swordsmanship.
He just never thought to teach him a few Ninjutsu, and kept complaining in his heart that the child was wasting his talent.
During his training, while chatting with a Ninja who wasn’t in the best health and coughed frequently, named Gekkō Hayate, Naruto learned about the Third’s constant complaints and was so angry he wanted to point at the Third’s nose and curse him out.
I want to use Ninjutsu, but the prerequisite is that you actually have to teach me!
If you don’t teach me, how am I supposed to use it?
Do you really take me for Minato Namikaze, capable of creating my own Ninjutsu?
Thinking of creating his own Ninjutsu, Naruto remembered a bug-level basic Ninjutsu.
He planned to study it carefully and give the old Third a surprise later on.
After all, with the experience from his past life, he could definitely come up with something even more explosive.
As for whether Gekkō Hayate would be punished by the Third for revealing his complaints?
Heh, this was something the entire Ninja circle knew about.
Besides, the Third wouldn’t be idle enough to go and cause him trouble; he might even thank him for telling Naruto about it.
If Naruto had a change of heart and started practicing Ninjutsu, the Third would probably even reward him.
This training continued until Naruto was six.
A month ago, he finally graduated from Gekkō Hayate’s instruction.
If it were just basic Taijutsu and basic swordsmanship, it wouldn’t have taken this long.
It was just that Gekkō Hayate saw that Naruto truly had a talent for swordsmanship and developed a bit of appreciation for his talent, so he taught him quite a few advanced things, even teaching him his trump card, the Dance of the Crescent Moon, though Naruto hadn’t mastered it yet.
Naruto was still very grateful to Gekkō Hayate.
Although the other person was only eleven or twelve years older than him and was only a Chunin, he had been very diligent when teaching him and didn’t seem to be just going through the motions.
Naruto decided that during the future Chunin Exams, he would give this mentor of his a helping hand.
In the Shippuden, he shouldn’t die; it would be better if he just had a little Gekko for him to play with later.
As for Hinata, Naruto hadn’t forgotten.
At the age of five, he successfully staked out the spot, saved Hinata for the second time, and completely captured the heart of his future wife.
But after that, they never met again, until the Ninja Academy started.
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