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Chapter 282: The Demon Fox Who Wants to Protect Himself
🕑 Added 2025-09-20 11:53:18 +0000 UTCChapter 282: The Demon Fox Who Wants to Protect Himself
The Nine-Tails had been under a lot of psychological pressure recently.
In the Tailed Beasts' private chat space, it had learned from the Eight-Tails about the successive captures of the One-Tail, Shukaku; the Two-Tails, Matatabi; the Three-Tails, Isobu; the Four-Tails, Son Goku; and the Five-Tails, Kokuo.
Afterward, those five Tailed Beasts had vanished without a trace, proving the Eight-Tails' and Nine-Tails' guess: someone was capturing the Tailed Beasts in an attempt to revive the Ten-Tails…
Life as a Tailed Beast was truly difficult!
And as a result, the Nine-Tails had just learned from this little Uchiha brat about Hashirama Senju. What did this guy mean by that? Was he afraid it would escape?
But that would require it to be able to escape in the first place!
Itachi Uchiha ignored the snarling demon fox and looked at Minato Namikaze. "Fourth Hokage-sama, it's been a long time…"
The chakra soul of Minato Namikaze stood up. Seeing that his son wouldn't speak to him, he could only look at his own little junior apprentice with a wry smile. "Itachi, I heard you've already become the village's Hokage candidate. I don't have a way to formally congratulate you…"
"That doesn't matter. Naruto said the Nine-Tails' condition is unstable…"
The Hokage candidate looked at the Tailed Beast in the cage, which seemed calm enough, and raised his head in confusion. "It looks like there hasn't been any change from last time…"
"No. It mentioned it inadvertently once."
When it came to serious business, the chakra soul shook its head with a solemn expression. "Someone is capturing the jinchuriki in the ninja world, extracting the Tailed Beasts to revive a weapon of war capable of destroying the ninja world—the Ten-Tails!"
"Hmph, hmph, hmph…"
The Nine-Tails sneered with contempt. It was the one who had leaked this information.
After all, it couldn't just sit in this kid's stomach and wait for death. If someone came to capture the jinchuriki in the future, and given Naruto's strength, it wouldn't even be able to pass its chakra to him, so wouldn't they just be waiting to die?
The Nine-Tails had been looking forward to the little Uchiha brat looking at it with a shocked and nervous expression, asking if the news was true, begging it for a solution to this crisis…
At that time, it would make up a suitable reason, trick them into opening the seal, and it would be best if they worshiped it as some kind of savior…
After all, with its current strength, it couldn't beat that crow no matter what. And the Nine-Tails even had a feeling that even if its other half of chakra, which had been cut away by Minato, were to return, it still couldn't defeat Kitahara.
Under the playful gaze of the demon fox, Itachi Uchiha revealed an awkward expression. "We already knew about this, and we've already traced it to the masterminds. It's highly likely to be Madara Uchiha and Orochimaru…"
The Nine-Tails' eyes froze. "…"
A moment later, the demon fox put its two front paws on the bars of the cage, suppressing its voice into a roar, "Kid, let me out! I'll help you kill that bastard Madara Uchiha!"
"…There's no need for that, is there!"
Itachi Uchiha scratched his head and said in a small voice, "He's just a dead man revived by Edo Tensei, and he just escaped not long ago…"
The strongest Tailed Beast in history was stunned once again. "…"
Its mental state had collapsed!
What the hell was this!
Since when was Madara Uchiha so easy to deal with!
That was the god of death who could control a Tailed Beast with a single glance!
The demon fox's eyeballs darted back and forth. It seemed to recall the battle situation back then when it and Madara Uchiha were both pressed to the ground and rubbed into the dirt by Hashirama Senju…
It seemed…
It was possible…
The Nine-Tails looked at Itachi, who had started chatting with Minato Namikaze again. Neither of them seemed to be taking the matter of the Ten-Tails to heart. It said angrily, "Hmph, you group of naive brats. Do you think the Ten-Tails is an ordinary Tailed Beast? That is the strongest aggregate of chakra in the world…"
"Even if it is the Ten-Tails, it can't escape the identity of being a jinchuriki, can it…"
The young Jonin suddenly looked up, looked at the Nine-Tails' ferocious head, and said in a low voice, "I heard a secret rumor from Kitahara. The jinchuriki of the Ten-Tails in the previous generation was the Sage of Six Paths…"
"Back then, he completely split the Ten-Tails' chakra and its flesh, dividing the Ten-Tails' chakra into nine parts. One part for the One-Tail, one part for the Three-Tails… two parts for the Two-Tails, and two parts for the Nine-Tails…"
"…Because of the Sage of Six Paths' favoritism, you, as the Nine-Tails, received the most chakra, and thus became the strongest Tailed Beast in the ninja world!"
Nine-Tails: "…"
Where did you hear that back-alley news!
This must have been fabricated by someone to slander me!
The old man Hagoromo back then clearly divided us into Tailed Beasts with different powers based on our chakra characteristics!
Wait…
That's not the point here!
Why am I focusing on how this kid said the Tailed Beasts were divided!
What on earth is wrong with this little brat Itachi Uchiha? Why is he always messing with my head? Shouldn't the focus be on where he learned this secret that has been passed down in the ninja world for a thousand years?
"How do you know about this?"
The orange beast snorted, too lazy to argue with Itachi. It opened its mouth, "I don't think that little brat Indra knew about this…"
The unfamiliar name that came from the Nine-Tails' mouth instantly put Itachi Uchiha on high alert. A name that even a Tailed Beast like the Nine-Tails would remember was definitely no simple figure!
The young Jonin's eyes gradually drifted away. "This matter? It was indeed him who told me…"
According to the teachings of the Second Hokage and Lord Jiraiya, in any situation, one must first stabilize the enemy and extract intelligence from their mouth.
However, this time, Itachi had clearly blundered.
Both the crow on the cage bars and the Nine-Tails in the cage couldn't help but cast looks of pity at the young Jonin. "…"
"Hey, Kitahara…"
Itachi Uchiha subconsciously shrank his head and looked at the crow, whispering, "Was there something wrong with what I said?"
Oho, this guy is a little liar!
A cross-shaped vein throbbed on the Nine-Tails' forehead. It glanced at the crow on the bars, and realization dawned in its heart. It spat out a sentence from between its teeth, word by word, "Indra… that is your Uchiha clan's ancestor… and the old man's eldest son… he has already been dead for over a thousand years…"
"Caw…"
Kitahara nodded along with the fox's words. This fox was right. Sometimes, even if you lie, you have to be plausible!
This was a seven-parts-false, three-parts-true situation!
To try and fool a fox just by talking nonsense was a bit difficult!
The Nine-Tails' gaze rested on the crow on the bars. It said in a low voice, "This crow you're raising seems to know a lot of things… Some things are not what ordinary ninja animals should know. Even that idiot, the One-Tail, doesn't know!"
"Kitahara can easily defeat and suppress your chakra. No matter how you look at it, it can't be an ordinary ninja beast, can it? It is the fourth Great Sage of the ninja world!"
A pair of pitch-black wings slowly grew from Itachi Uchiha's back. He flew into the air and looked directly into the Nine-Tails' eyes. "Speak, Nine-Tails. You've gone to all this trouble. What is it you really want?"
"You guessed, didn't you…"
The Nine-Tails' fierce eyes instantly retracted. It extended its claw and pointed at Naruto on the ground. "Although your strength is great, I can't believe that you can protect this kid forever…"
"Little Uchiha brat, let's make a deal!"
"I don't feel safe placing my hopes in your hands. I want you to release my seal, at least enough so that this little blond kid has the power to protect himself!"
"Don't worry! Before I have the strength to defeat that crow, I won't act recklessly for the time being! Besides, you ninjas don't care about the Tailed Beasts' power anyway…"
