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Chapter 131: This White Deer, Nara Has Already Marked It!
🕑 Added 2025-08-15 14:05:40 +0000 UTCChapter 131: This White Deer, Nara Has Already Marked It!
"You want to sign a summoning contract with me?"
The Five-Tails, Kokuō, stared deeply at Nara Keisuke, seemingly wanting to see through to the ninja's heart. "Truly a rather strange ninja."
As a Tailed Beast, Kokuō had a very long life experience. The time it had been sealed within a Jinchuriki was only a few decades. It remembered when it was still a cheerful and free Tailed Beast, until a certain man who had mastered the power of Wood Release came looking for it. That person directly transformed into a giant, towering wooden golem, grabbed its body, and said, "Sorry, your power is too dangerous..."
Later, that long-haired man captured all eight of them and distributed them like food to the ninja villages in different places...
Whose power is more dangerous, really!
Ahem. Back to the point.
In its very long life, it wasn't as if Kokuō had never encountered ninja. But those ninja, perhaps fearing its power, or perhaps terrified of its form and intelligence, very rarely faced it with a positive attitude. Nara Keisuke was the first ninja in history to want to sign a summoning contract with it.
Regarding summoning contracts, Kokuō didn't have much information. It had heard that Kurama seemed to have signed one with a man called Madara back in the day...
"What's so strange about it," Keisuke said, spreading his hands and speaking earnestly. "It's a very common thing in the ninja world for a ninja and a ninja beast to sign a contract, allowing them to summon each other and be partners in battle."
"Ninja," Kokuō said, lowering its head slightly to observe this very unfamiliar human up close, its sea-blue pupils reflecting his features. "What is your name?"
"Nara Keisuke." While giving his name, he didn't forget to press, "After asking for the other's name, it is also a form of politeness to proactively state your own. Don't you think so? Five-Tails."
"My name..." Kokuō's head gently bumped against Keisuke's body, and its deep, magnetic voice sounded in the depths of his heart. "Kokuō. Do not forget it, ninja—no, Nara Keisuke."
Keisuke felt as if his spiritual consciousness had been struck by some unknown force, and he was immediately expelled from Han's body. Fortunately, this force was very gentle and did not harm his spirit in the slightest.
On the back of the [Shadow Creature], which was maintaining a low-altitude flight, Keisuke suddenly came back to his senses. The exchange in the spiritual space, which had seemed long, had in fact only taken a moment.
"What does this mean?" Keisuke looked at the Five-Tails Jinchuriki in the midst of the dust and mist. "She told me her name, but didn't sign a contract with me... Or does this count as having reached a preliminary agreement for a summoning contract?"
A Tailed Beast's name was a secret of no small significance. Generally speaking, only those ninja who had mutually understood and acknowledged a Tailed Beast could know its true name.
"This should be considered good news, right?" Keisuke's spirits were high.
But just then, the situation on the battlefield suddenly changed. The consciousness of the Jinchuriki, Han, had been interfered with by the [Shadow Manipulation Technique] and had fallen into a deep coma. The spiritual consciousness of the Five-Tails, Kokuō, was thus freed from the Iwagakure's seal and successfully took control of Han's body.
Masses of pale white chakra gushed out from the Jinchuriki's body, enveloping him and forming a constantly expanding white creature. At the same time, the power being transmitted back from Keisuke's [Shadow Grasping Technique] was also skyrocketing.
Orochimaru, who had just dispelled the Triple Rashōmon, also noticed this change. His pupils contracted slightly, his expression unable to hide his shock. "This is... a Jinchuriki's full Tailed Beast transformation?"
As one of Konoha's few top-tier ninja, Orochimaru's understanding of Jinchuriki was decent. But it was precisely because of this that he knew what kind of power a fully transformed Jinchuriki symbolized. If it weren't for the fact that there was still some distance between here and Konoha's main camp, he would have wanted to abandon the defensive line and order a full retreat.
A real Tailed Beast was not an existence an ordinary ninja could contend with!
Orochimaru was about to open his mouth to warn Keisuke, but he suddenly remembered that he possessed the ability to fly. I should think more about how to escape from the Five-Tails' attack myself...
While Orochimaru was considering a tactical retreat, Kokuō's chakra had already completely enveloped Han, and this dense, vast chakra had directly formed its body in the outside world. The Five-Tails, whom Keisuke had just briefly met in the spiritual space, had officially descended upon the material world!
The moment its form was fully solidified, Keisuke felt the chakra consumption of his [Shadow Grasping Technique] suddenly skyrocket. Considering that Orochimaru at his side was not a very reliable teammate, after a moment's thought, Keisuke decided to first release the jutsu.
"The current Five-Tails, is it Kokuō's consciousness, or Han's?"
Keisuke controlled the [Shadow Creature], flew high into the sky, and cautiously created distance. At the same time, Kokuō seemed to have sensed his chakra. It raised its head, looked towards the sky, and saw him. It opened its mouth, and a powerful chakra gathered in front of it, forming a large-scale Tailed Beast Ball, much larger than the one before.
"Is it the Jinchuriki?" Keisuke's brow furrowed slightly.
But just then, Kokuō violently shook its head, and the Tailed Beast Ball it had gathered shot towards Orochimaru.
"..."
Orochimaru just wanted to curse. But with the Tailed Beast Ball right in front of him, if he didn't block it, then the main camp behind him would have to. After only a moment's hesitation, Orochimaru once again formed hand signs and summoned. "Triple Rashōmon!"
BOOM!
The collision of the large Tailed Beast Ball and the Triple Rashōmon erupted with a world-shaking sound. And taking advantage of this explosive shockwave, Kokuō glanced from afar in Keisuke's direction, then moved its light and slender limbs, and galloped directly into the distance.
Keisuke couldn't be sure of its state. But considering that his plan was only half-complete, he still controlled the [Shadow Creature] and quickly caught up with the galloping Tailed Beast.
Kokuō's speed was extremely fast, even faster than Han's at full burst. In addition, the Land of Grass was mostly flat, endless grassland. Its movement was basically not hindered by any terrain.
Keisuke and Kokuō quickly left the vicinity of the Konoha camp and went deep into the Land of Grass. Orochimaru, left behind, after taking another large Tailed Beast Ball, was finally blasted upside down. By the time he scrambled up from the ground in a sorry state, Keisuke and Kokuō had already disappeared from his sight.
Seeing that he was alone, Orochimaru let out a sigh of relief and gave up the idea of continuing to summon. If Kokuō had continued to fight, he would have had to summon his own large summoning beast—Manda—to continue to entangle it.
"However, Nara Keisuke actually took the initiative to chase after it..." A few thoughts flashed through Orochimaru's mind. "He couldn't really be interested in the power of the Tailed Beast, could he?"
On the other side.
Kokuō ran at high speed to a deserted plain. Keisuke, in the sky, recalled the map of the Land of Grass he had seen before, and after checking it again, found that this place was neither close to Konoha nor to Iwagakure, but rather somewhat close to Kusagakure.
Only then did Kokuō's speed slow down.
Keisuke controlled the [Shadow Creature], accelerated to fly in front of Kokuō, and looked down at the white deer below. "Who are you now?"
"It's me," Kokuō's deep voice sounded. It raised its head and looked at Keisuke in the sky. "Why did you follow me?"
"Because I still have things I haven't done." The [Shadow Creature] circled in the sky. "Do you mind if I come down? Kokuō."
The Tailed Beast did not answer, but just took a few small steps back.
Keisuke, bold due to his high skill, controlled the [Shadow Creature] to land and observed Kokuō from a close distance. He didn't want to beat around the bush with a Tailed Beast and got straight to the point. "Kokuō, do you want to sign a summoning contract with me?"
"I can't," Kokuō replied softly. "I am currently sealed in Han's body. I cannot sign a contract with you."
There's a chance!
Keisuke's eyes lit up. "Then if one day, I free you from the Jinchuriki's body, are you willing to sign a summoning contract with me and become my summoning animal?"
Kokuō looked at him for a while, its sea-blue eyes seeming as if they could see through a person's heart. "I do not feel any malice from you, nor do I dislike you," it said softly. "But, if you wish to sign a contract with me... your strength must first gain my recognition."
Excellent!
Keisuke clenched his fists, his expression joyful. "Kokuō, remember your words tonight."
He proactively took a few steps closer to the Tailed Beast. "For this agreement to proceed smoothly, I need to set up some safeguards. You shouldn't mind, right?"
Kokuō looked at him curiously, without a single thought of resistance. "What do you want to do?"
"A technique that will allow me to come to your side anytime, anywhere."
Keisuke raised his right hand and pressed it on Kokuō's right hoof. A strangely shaped black mark symbol subsequently appeared among the snow-white fur.
[Flying Thunder God Technique]!
(End of Chapter)
