Chapter 4 Mutation Knock knock knock… Early the next morning, Naruto was awakened by a series of rapid knocks on the door. Naruto got up yawning, ruffling his messy hair with one hand and scratching his belly with the other, then reluctantly got up and opened the door. "Oh~hi~yo! That~ru~do!" Outside the door, Ino had a warm smile on her face. She was wearing a thick cotton coat and holding a large bento box in her arms. Naruto rubbed his sleepy eyes and asked, "How did you find me?" Over the past few months, they had always met in the forest, and Naruto had never told Ino the exact location of his home. "I asked Shikamaru." Shikamaru shouldn't know this... Naruto glanced at Ino, who chuckled, stuffed the lunch box into Naruto's arms, and went back into the house.
Naruto didn't stop her. He opened the bento and took a look. The first layer was sushi, the second layer was Japanese grilled meat, and the third layer was two fried fish and steaming white rice. Ino rushed in, her eyes roaming around the room. There was only a bed, a wardrobe, a dining table, a refrigerator, a bathroom and a small kitchen in the room. The overall look was a bit simple, but it was very clean. Ino's eyes flickered slightly, and then she seemed to realize something. She gently opened the closet and her eyes fell on the few scattered pieces of clothing. In a trance, she seemed to be overwhelmed by an endless feeling of loneliness, which seemed to swallow her up. Turning to look in Naruto's direction, Ino forced a smile and said, "Naruto, do you want to go shopping after dinner?" "Don't go." Hearing Naruto's firm refusal, Ino's face fell. "So what do you usually do?" "Lie down." Naruto grabbed a piece of sushi and popped it into his mouth, "It tastes good." Ino was not happy with Naruto's praise. She suddenly realized that after leaving the forest, she had no idea how to contact Naruto. Come to think of it, when the two of them were interacting before, he was just talking to himself around Naruto. She didn't know anything about Naruto... Realizing this, Ino instantly lost her appetite, and her original desire to share the food with Naruto also faded a lot. Only after Naruto wolfed down the lunch box did Ino leave with a disappointed look on her face, holding the lunch box. "You're quite popular, kid." In the sealed space, Kyuubi said with a teasing expression: "This girl is much gentler than your mother. It's hard to tell whether Kushina is angry or the tailed beast's chakra is going berserk." Naruto glanced at the Nine-Tails and said, "You were actually captured and sealed because you spoke rudely, right?"
Kyuubi glared and said, "It's obvious that you humans are coveting my power!" "We... humans..." In the sealed space, Naruto's body was surrounded by chakra, a pair of furry fox ears appeared on his head, nine orange-red tails swayed gently behind him, his pupils turned into red vertical pupils, and a black eye shadow appeared on his eyelids. "It's hard to tell whether it's a human or a tailed beast, right?" Naruto gently stroked the tail that was swinging unconsciously behind him, with curiosity in his eyes: "It's just like the real thing..." He had long felt that there seemed to be some power hidden in his body, but out of caution, he had never activated it. Now that we have reached a cooperation with the Nine-Tailed Fox, there is no need to hide in the spiritual space. "That's true." The Nine-Tails narrowed its eyes and looked at Naruto's fox ears and tail, and actually found them surprisingly pleasing to the eye. "Or in other words, it's an organ made of chakra. Kid, do you know how the tailed beasts came about?" "How did they come about?" "The tailed beasts are the chakra that gained life." The Nine-Tails shook his ears and recalled: "The Six Paths Sage used Yin-Yang escape to shape our form and give us life. This is the origin of the tailed beasts." "So the Sage of Six Paths is actually your mother?" "Well... it should be considered dad, the old man is a male - what weird things are you focusing on!!" "Haha, sorry, sorry." Naruto scratched his hair: "So... I became a tailed beast?" "No, you are still human." The Nine-Tails snorted and pointed at Naruto's ears and tail: "But these extended parts are exactly the same as our tailed beast bodies. They are a manifestation of life forms. You can think of them as flesh and blood composed of chakra. Once injured, they will feel pain." Naruto blinked his eyes: "So, humans who accept the power of the tailed beast will become like this?" I have little education, so don't lie to me! The tailed beast coat in the original work doesn't look like this! "You're the exception, kid." The Nine-Tails shook his head: "The other Chuuriki can only be said to be borrowing the chakra of the tailed beasts. Although they will manifest the characteristics of the tailed beasts, the essence of these characteristics is still chakra." "And you have truly replicated my power! Unlike those guys who temporarily borrowed the power of the tailed beasts, you have truly become the master of this chakra." "But the chakra of tailed beasts is also different from that of humans. Human flesh and blood are too weak, and the chakra extracted is also very mild. The chakra of tailed beasts is of higher quality, more violent, more aggressive, and of course more powerful." "The reason for these differences lies in their different life forms. Just as I said just now, the tailed beasts themselves are chakra life forms, and have a strong physique far beyond that of humans, but you are a human and do not have the conditions to refine the chakra of the tailed beasts..." Naruto understood what the Nine-Tails meant: "So if I need to refine this chakra, I must become a chakra life form like the tailed beasts?" "That's right! But not entirely. Your body is still flesh and blood, but it has a few more chakra organs."
Kyuubi nodded and snorted. "It shouldn't be like this. There were two annoying guys who got my power before. They just showed facial patterns like you did before." "However, the power you stole was too much, so much that it was no less than that of the real Nine-Tails. Unfortunately, your body was too weak, so the excess chakra eventually evolved into chakra organs like the tailed beasts." "Looking at it this way, although you are still a human at heart, you can be considered half a tailed beast." Kyuubi said, snorting coldly: "You stole my chakra and manifested my characteristics. You little brat... are really annoying." Naruto looked at the Nine-Tails, then looked at the tail behind him: "Emmm... parent-child outfit?" "Who is your biological son? You little brat!" The Nine-Tailed Fox was furious and started howling while grabbing the door. "So...brother?" "Ow-!!" The Nine-Tails started destroying the house again, and Naruto fell into deep thought. He has now inherited Ashura's Sage Body and Wood Release Ninjutsu, the Fourth Generation couple's sealing techniques, Rasengan, and Flying Thunder God, as well as some basic or commonly used ninjutsu such as the Three Bodies, Instant Body, and Shadow Clone. But he has no combat experience at all, and can't even climb a tree or walk on water... "It's time to practice." Naruto looked out the window and saw snow. "Forget it, let's talk about it in the spring..." Second update today! Please read on! Thank you everyone! (End of this chapter)