Naruto: I, Naruto, don't want to try anymore.

Chapter 6 The Monkey Steals Peaches

"What a loser, kid..."

Inside the sealed space, the Nine-Tails laughed heartily: "You gave up after only one punch? Turns out all you're good for are empty words?"

Naruto pursed his lips, feeling a bit embarrassed, but the punch he landed on the tree trunk really hurt!

"I'm only four years old!"

"During the Warring States period, even little brats your age were going to the battlefield!"

"This is no longer the Warring States period."

"You're no ordinary kid either!"

Kurama showed no mercy to Naruto, relentlessly mocking him: "A brat is a brat. No matter how much you know, you can't change your cowardly nature. Listening to your eloquent talk before, I thought you were the reincarnation of the Sage of Six Paths! Now it seems you still don't understand what kind of world you live in..."

"Hatred, betrayal, war... Every second, life is lost in this world. The blood of the dead every day can stain riverbeds red. People fight and kill each other with boundless ambition and greed..."

As Kurama spoke, he sat up and stared intently at Naruto.

"Find a quiet place to escape the world and live a peaceful life? Interesting idea, but too naive! As long as you live in this world, you can never avoid conflict, and those ambitious people will always find a reason to drag you into it."

"If you are rich, they will plunder you; if you are poor, they will enslave you. This world is a dog-eat-dog world. Only by becoming stronger than anyone else will people fear your power!"

"Naruto, your talent is indeed remarkable. In my thousand years of life, I've only ever seen one freak like you, but you clearly lack the corresponding awareness..."

"consciousness?"

Naruto didn't quite understand: "What kind of resolve?"

"The resolve to become stronger! Even someone as strong as Hashirama Senju was honed through countless life-or-death battles."

"Well... although I can't stand him, that guy is really strong. Madara Uchiha, Tobirama Senju, and even your father, Minato Namikaze..."

"Those guys, without exception, all possess a unique quality, which, in your human terms, might be called conviction."

"But you're different, kid..."

Kurama lowered its head and gazed intently at Naruto.

"From the very beginning, you gave me a very strange feeling. I could not sense your anger and hatred. No, it's not that I couldn't sense it, but that it simply didn't exist. Your chakra was calm and gentle, just like a stream in the forest."

"While I don't understand why a brat like you would have such a detached mindset, I'm certain that this tranquility doesn't stem from tolerance or kindness towards the world, but rather more like..."

"arrogant."

Naruto added casually.

The Nine-Tailed Fox grinned, "Hmph, it seems you weren't completely oblivious after all..."

"Arrogant people usually have two characteristics: they know the truth or they have the truth. Sure enough, I am not immune to their influence."

Naruto sighed, "It seems that the power came too easily, making me lose sight of myself. Thank you for reminding me, Kurama."

"I simply can't stand your arrogant and conceited manner! After all, you are my jinchūriki, possessing such immense power yet dying because of your foolish arrogance. I would be implicated as well!"

Nine-Tails clung to the doorframe, roaring, "That's right! That's exactly it! Don't get too cocky, you brat!!"

"Oh, are you shy?"

"Aww!!!"

Ignoring the Nine-Tails, which had entered berserk mode, Naruto loosened the chains hanging from the tree branch and flipped onto the ground.

Then, a Russian backhand!

The child's small fist slammed heavily against the tree trunk, making a loud bang!

Naruto didn't care whether his strength was correct or not; he just punched however he felt comfortable. For two hours straight, the thumping sounds were incessant, and he didn't even notice when Ino left.

Left hand, right hand...

His fist went from faintly red to bleeding, then healed rapidly, and then the same process repeated itself.

The shadow clones practicing tree climbing not far away were dumbfounded, looking at each other in disbelief.

"Is the main body... this diligent?"

"That's really scary..."

Seeing that the shadow clones were all slacking off, Naruto released them without saying a word.

Having learned about tree-climbing techniques from his shadow clones, Naruto's face darkened.

These clones had clearly finished their cultivation long ago, but they kept pretending to be cultivating while slacking off!

Trying to distribute his chakra evenly under his feet, Naruto leaped up to the treetop in a flash.

The whole process was smooth and effortless, as silky as eating Dove chocolate.

Naruto flipped over and jumped down from the tree, forming hand seals once again.

"Shadow Clone Technique!"

Indeed, you have to shout it out to make the spell more powerful!

bang bang bang...

The smoke exploded, and this time Naruto created a total of thirty shadow clones, twice as many as before, and the chakra consumption was not as obvious as before.

"Ten of them will practice treading water, and the rest will practice hand-to-hand combat!"

Naruto waved his hand, and the shadow clones exchanged glances and formed a circle.

"It's like the palm and the back of your hand! Is it okay if you don't go splashing in the water a little?"

What if there are more than ten people?

"If there are more than ten people, we play rock-paper-scissors; only the winner gets to slack off!"

Naruto: "..."

Soon, the shadow clones began their vigorous cultivation.

Naruto returned to the tree and continued chopping wood to hone his physique.

About ten minutes passed like this. Suddenly, with a bang, one of the shadow clones that were fighting exploded. The moment his memories returned, Naruto's face turned pale and he fell to his knees with a thud.

"Who the hell used the 'Monkey Stealing Peaches' analogy?!"

The group of shadow clones looked at each other in bewilderment. Among them, one shadow clone silently dispelled himself.

Within the sealed space, the Nine-Tailed Fox flicked its tail, quite intrigued: "Fighting yourself, your brain, like your talent, is truly exceptional..."

Naruto ignored Kurama's taunts. He realized that the Shadow Clones couldn't even feed him the most basic moves.

This thing is too fragile. If you move too slowly, it won't be effective, and if you move too fast, it will be smashed in one hit.

After thinking for a moment, he released two wooden clones into the sealed space, allowing them to practice against each other within the sealed space.

Naruto hasn't mastered the Flying Thunder God Technique yet, so he doesn't plan to reveal his Wood Release abilities. As a transmigrator from China who possesses Wood Release, his innate nature has been suppressed for a long time...

But it doesn't matter, he'll be free soon.

Naruto was well aware of this, because in less than two hours, the surface of the stream in the forest was covered with his shadow clones.

The moment the shadow clones were removed, the rush of memories made Naruto's mind go blank for a second, but he didn't feel tired at all.

With the body of the Asura Sage and the Nine-Tails' chakra, Naruto is now a true beast!

Snap...

Naruto took a step forward and landed steadily on the water.

"Can you feel it, Kurama..."

"What?"

"The breath of freedom."

"Hey…"

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