Born in Sunagakure, dedicated to antagonizing Konoha for decades

So although they were more stubborn than the Seven-Tails, they couldn't hold out for long under Shinto's massive fists. It was probably because the Five-Tails had one more tail than the Four-Tails, and it could only withstand a few more punches than the Four-Tails. After half a day, the excruciating pain in its head kept stimulating its nerves. Although it still couldn't understand why this golden-haired brat's fist hurt more than being hit by Onoki's cannon, its sixth sense as a tailed beast told it that if it didn't call him "Dad," it would become the first tailed beast in history to be beaten into a madman.

"Hey! I'm a civilized person, why do you have to force me to use violence?"

Sitting atop the Five-Tails' massive head, Masato looked at the Five-Tails, who was pouting and acting like a subservient grandson, and sighed irritably, "That old man Sage Rokudo gave birth to them but didn't teach them..."

To be honest, these tailed beasts are purely natural and pollution-free products, so their quality is guaranteed. If anyone else had been beaten up like that for so long, they'd be an idiot by now. And while these guys are a bit ugly, they're not only durable, but they also feel pretty good to handle. ヾ(^?^)?

".....╥﹏╥"

The five-tailed beast, lying on the ground exhausted and powerless, felt extremely aggrieved, but dared not talk back, fearing that it would be swung at by this brat's big fist again.

Your mouth stinks so badly, who wouldn't want to fuck you after hearing it...?

.......

Bang bang bang...!

"Damn bastard! ?╬?д?╬?"

Masato has already finished his training, but the current and next Raikage and Onoki are still continuing.

However, Onoki was in a rather unfortunate situation at this moment. He was led into a cave, where his advantage of being able to fly was completely useless. He couldn't use his method of flying and firing cannons at the same time. This was deep inside the cave, and if they dared to fire cannons and cause the cave to collapse, he wouldn't be able to escape either. He wasn't sure about the background of the two opponents because they were only using physical skills, but they were definitely not as valuable as him. If he were buried alive with these two, he would suffer a huge loss.

So, having no other choice, Onoki was forced to float half a meter in the air and engage in close combat with the two men. One of them, a muscular man with a face resembling a young heartthrob, possessed incredibly strong hand-to-hand combat abilities. His explosive muscles gave him formidable power, which even the Iwa ninja's ancestral taijutsu couldn't withstand.

If it were a one-on-one fight, he wasn't confident he could hold his own against Gang in this way. This bastard's hand-to-hand combat ability was simply too strong. There was another older, weaker but still muscular man around, constantly harassing him and kicking him in the kidneys every now and then. Although the older muscular man's muscles weren't as exaggerated as the young man's, and his strength was nowhere near as great, this thing was incredibly fast. Several times, he couldn't react in time and his kidneys were kicked several times. If it weren't for the few Liuwei Dihuang pills he took every day for years, he wouldn't have been able to withstand it, let alone his kidneys.

Onoki was furious, but there was nothing he could do. Under the combined defense of the two Raikage father and son, and unable to use his innate skill, the map attack, even flying would cause him to bump his head against the cave ceiling. He didn't even have a chance to escape, so he could only grit his teeth and engage in hand-to-hand combat with the two of them.

But my mind was racing, constantly trying to figure out who this incredibly strong young, muscular man was.

Without a doubt, this youthful face is definitely fake. Strong hand-to-hand combat ability requires strength, skill, and experience—all three are indispensable. This young face looks like it belongs to only ten years old. Even if someone has great talent and can learn quickly, or is born with superhuman strength, there are no shortcuts to experience. It's something that's accumulated through countless battles. Even if this guy started fighting in the womb, he couldn't possibly have such rich experience. Therefore, Onoki can basically conclude that both of these guys' faces are fake.

But he really couldn't guess who these two bastards were.

In his mind, people with such strong hand-to-hand combat skills were extremely rare in the entire ninja world. The only ones he knew well were those two bastards, Shiki and Raikage. But it didn't seem to be them. If the incident of the mysterious man from the Land of Water fighting Shiki hadn't happened, he would never have believed that there was anyone in the ninja world with such formidable taijutsu besides Shiki and Raikage. But ever since the appearance of the mysterious man from the Land of Water, he couldn't help but have doubts.

After all, that mysterious person from the Land of Water was someone who could go toe-to-toe with the Golden Lion; just how tough must he be...?

556. In the end, he couldn't escape the fate of being sold.

"Hahaha, what a sorry sight! Go, pluck all the hair off this bald guy! (▼へ▼メ)"

Looking at Onoki, who was dressed in tattered clothes and had bruises all over his face, the Raikage was in a very good mood. The only thing that bothered him was that Onoki still had a tuft of hair left on his head. He meant what he said he would do, and when he said he would pluck out all the hair from Onoki's head, he left him not a single hair.

After giving his son a look, the Raikage continued to press forward. Although he was not known for his speed and did not activate his Lightning Release Chakra Mode, his speed was not very fast. However, this was in comparison to agile heroes like his son, Minato Namikaze, and Sakumo Hatake. Due to long-term electromagnetic therapy, his thigh and calf muscles were also explosive, and the speed he could unleash was invisible to the naked eye for ordinary people.

In a mere instant, he rushed in front of Onoki. This time, instead of throwing a punch, he opened his palm and grabbed at Onoki's forehead. With his strength, if he managed to grab that tuft of hair, Onoki would be practically bald.

"Damn it! Rock Fist Technique...!?╬?д?╬?"

"..drink!"

"boom!!!"

However, although Onoki was a flying mage who rarely engaged in hand-to-hand combat, his physical skills were still quite good, otherwise he would have been shot dead long ago. He was short and not very heavy, and with the enhancement of the Super Light-Heavy Rock Technique, his speed was also quite fast. The key was that he was even more agile when floating in the air. When he learned that this bastard who was hiding his true form was targeting his most precious hair, he became even more furious. He dodged left and right in the air, performing various difficult moves to desperately protect the little hair he had left.

While dodging, taking advantage of the Raikage's wide-open defenses and their own small stature, they unleashed a giant rock fist at the Raikage's chest. However, they were too focused on the front to cover the back, and before the fist could reach the Raikage's chest, a figure appeared behind him and kicked him away.

"Hahaha! I'm back again! ヾ(^?^)?"

Watching Onoki being kicked away by his son, the Raikage was almost furious. There's an old saying that you should only use three-tenths of your strength when you attack, and save seven-tenths for defense. But now the father and son were working together so well, and the Raikage was going all out, not holding back at all. He continued to pursue Onoki, his eyes fixed on the fur on Onoki's head, revealing a determined light.

".....-_-||"

The future Fourth Raikage, who had just kicked Onoki again, felt a good kick, but seeing his father's actions filled him with helplessness. His usually meticulous and serious father seemed like a completely different person. He deeply suspected he'd been infected by that Golden Lion. His father wasn't like this before; even if he wanted to beat Onoki, he wouldn't have used such a chaotic fighting style...

For some reason, he looked at Onoki with a hint of sympathy. You, you not only offended Konoha, but also my father and Shiki. Aren't you just asking for trouble?

Although their plan was just to beat Onoki up, he could imagine how a powerful Tsuchikage would ever face anyone again after having his hair ripped off...

........

"Hiss...! This is... the Five-Tails?"

In a cave quite far from Iwagakure in the Land of Earth, Shinto led the Five-Tails on a mad dash, arriving here in just two days. It has to be said that the Five-Tails, with its half-horse blood, is incredibly fast. What would normally be a five-day journey was completed in two days, and Shinto experienced the feeling of high-speed running for the first time in his life. It was absolutely amazing!

As he stepped out of the cave and looked up, he couldn't help but gasp in shock.

awful!

That's terrible!

That's absolutely fucking awful!

If it weren't for the fact that the tailed beast is so large, far exceeding the size of other creatures, he really wouldn't have been able to tell that the mount his good brother was riding on, covered in all sorts of bags, was the Five-Tails. It looked so different from the Five-Tails illustration in the information!

Despite their ugly appearance, the tailed beasts have the most perfect body proportions among all species, and in this respect, the Six Paths Sage has something to offer.

But look at this Five-Tailed Beast now! Its head is a huge bump, clearly smashed by its buddy. Its head is so swollen it's bigger than its body; there's no sense of proportion left. If it weren't for its distinctive dolphin-like face, he wouldn't recognize this monster as the Five-Tailed Beast...

He wondered if it was damaged. If it was, he didn't know how to negotiate with the Iwa ninja. Looking sympathetically at the giant monster his good brother was sitting on, Kakuzu sighed inwardly. He had no idea what sins these things had committed before they were attacked—had they offended his good brother in his past life? Now the retribution was coming...

╥﹏╥...

Sensing the pity in Kakuzu's green eyes, Go-o'-the-Tails' two large, bell-like eyes welled up with tears. Although it was embarrassing to be pitied, it really wanted to cry right now and wished it could slap its dolphin face a few times with its hooves. Why did it have to act so arrogantly?

Now look what happened, he got beaten so badly he doesn't even recognize anyone anymore....╥﹏╥

"Ah, I was having too much fun beating it up, and I couldn't stop myself from hitting it a few more times. But it's alright, this thing is tough and heals quickly, so it shouldn't affect the price, right? I don't need the cash, just exchange my share for supplies and send them to the village for me."

Shinto "gently" patted the Five-Tails' big head to prove that it was recovering quickly, and then said.

╥﹏╥...

Lying on the ground, the five-tailed fox remained silent, but upon hearing this, it already knew what awaited it next.

Although he was beaten badly, he thought he had met a good person who could give him back his freedom after running wildly and breathing in the air of freedom. He never expected that he would still be unable to escape the fate of being sold.

This brat is just as much of a jerk as Hashirama Senju! ╥﹏╥

"It won't affect the price... Never mind, let's seal it away for now."

Looking at the Five-Tails with tears glistening in its eyes, Kakuzu probably felt that tailed beasts also had dignity. It didn't seem right to discuss how much a tailed beast could fetch in front of it. He was a big shot now, and he needed to have some principles to maintain his prestige.

He simply took out a pot-shaped sealing tool, found an open space on the ground, placed it on it, and then looked at Masato.

Two minutes later.

"...Wasn't it supposed to be sealed?"

Feeling quite uncomfortable being stared at by a pair of bright green eyes, and seeing that Kakuzu had said he would seal it but nothing had happened, Shinto looked completely puzzled.

"I'll wait for you. I don't know how to do that."

Kakuzu shook his head naturally. Sealing techniques were too advanced; aside from the Five Great Shinobi Villages, almost no other shinobi villages possessed them. Before he defected, Hashirama Senju was still alive, and the Uzumaki clan was still around. Where was he supposed to learn that kind of thing...?

557. Is Conqueror's Haki particularly effective against Tailed Beasts?

Kakuzu's good brother is both literate and martial, born in a great ninja village, and was the biggest contributor to the battle to annihilate the Uzumaki clan. It was his good brother who cut the Uzumaki clan in two, so a small sealing technique should be no problem for him.

He was quite thoughtful; he knew his good brother wouldn't consider sealing the Five-Tails and then trading it, and he couldn't possibly take such a massive tailed beast to Iwagakure for negotiations—what if the Five-Tails turned on him? Although he was a king, and a king with five lives at that, dealing with tailed beasts was completely out of his league as a great mage...

"Sealing techniques? Why would I learn that? I don't need it... (⊙_⊙)?"

Shinto looked at Kakuzu with a blank expression. "I recognize that thing, but it doesn't recognize me!"

Although sealing techniques, like ninjutsu, involve hand seals and channeling chakra, they are completely different concepts. He has mostly used hand seals to show off, mainly for slashing people with his sword. He has hardly learned any proper ninjutsu. Sealing techniques, both in terms of hand seals and theory, are far more complex than ninjutsu. He has no idea how to do that.

Moreover, the sealing techniques of Sunagakure are incredibly weak, and he doesn't even look down on them. As for the two sealing techniques he "traded" from Tsunade's father back then, one of them was a deadly sealing technique that Chiyo hid very well, and no one had ever seen it. As for the Tailed Beast Sealing Technique... why would he learn that stuff?

"...I can't exactly lead it to negotiate with Iwagakure, can I? -_-||"

Well, looking at Masato's bewildered expression, the well-informed Kakuzu had already found the answer in his expression.

"Damn it, the top leader of Sunagakure doesn't even know how to use sealing techniques," he said helplessly, pointing at the Five-Tails who was still teary-eyed.

"...That's true! That's definitely a problem. These things are wild and untamed. They're docile now, but they'll probably forget the pain once the wound heals. It wouldn't be good if they turned on you when you tried to bargain..."

It was clear to everyone that, although he didn't say it outright, Kakuzu was indeed no match for the Five-Tails. Don't be fooled by how docile the tailed beasts were in front of him; it was because his fists, imbued with Armament Haki, carried an unknown characteristic that could cause his targets immense pain. He could even catch the elemental transformations of Logia-type users, so hurting the tailed beasts was no big deal for him.

Before he really hurt them, these tailed beasts were all incredibly arrogant, and they certainly had the right to be. Each tailed beast possessed almost limitless chakra. Even the weakest one-tailed beast had more chakra than all the ninjas in the entire Sand Village combined. As the saying goes, even a pig can become an immortal after living for hundreds or thousands of years. While these tailed beasts might... perhaps... probably not even be as strong as that pig, their strength was undeniable. There were only a handful of people in the ninja world who could truly fight a tailed beast one-on-one, and a powerful sorcerer like Kakuzu, who couldn't fly, was clearly not among them. If it really came down to it, Kakuzu would likely be utterly humiliated by the tailed beasts...

"Snapped!"

"Ugly monster, can you change size? Even your big brother, Fat Cat, can change size, don't tell me you can't?"

Shinto suddenly remembered something and slapped the big bump on the head of the Five-Tails, making it wince in pain. Although he had never seen that fat cat, he remembered that the fat cat seemed to be able to grow bigger and smaller, and there was no reason why the Five-Tails, which was born of the same mother, would not be able to do the same.

The ability to change size is just basic functionality. Their size was the same when the Six Paths gave birth to them, but that doesn't mean their chakra content is measured by their size. The Six Paths, being a math teacher, died young, so after giving birth to the first eight, he found a huge amount of chakra left undistributed and simply stuffed it all into the Nine-Tails' body. However, the Nine-Tails' size after birth was the same as the tail that received the least chakra. Therefore, theoretically, they should be able to freely change size. The reason they usually appear at such a massive size is simply for show...

"...╥﹏╥"

Although he desperately wanted to tell this brat that it was Fat Cat, not its older brother, but its younger brother, the excruciating pain in his head prevented him from arguing with this golden-haired devil. He could only stubbornly nod...

"Then there's no problem. You shrink down and crawl into this chamber pot... cough, the pot, and let Kakuzu take you to the trade. Remember, don't try any tricks. Just obediently follow Kakuzu to the trade. It's a win-win situation for everyone. If you run away halfway through, I'll chase you to the ends of the earth and make you understand why flowers are so red..."

"Click click click..."

"boom!"

He wondered how things were going with the Raikage, and how badly Onoki had been beaten. He needed to rush over to take photos of Onoki, but time was tight and the task was heavy, so he couldn't go bargaining with Kakuzu, lest people think he didn't believe in this financial tycoon. That would be so embarrassing. So he raised his big, dark fist and waved it in front of the Five-Tails, while unleashing a burst of Conqueror's Haki to show that he was absolutely not joking.

"I...I understand. ╥﹏╥"

Suddenly, a wave of power hit it, and for some reason, Wuwei felt as if a huge rock was pressing on its chest. Miraculously, it felt weak in the knees and had a feeling of facing its father. It looked at the golden-haired demon in front of it in fear and nodded repeatedly.

I never expected this blond devil to have such a fierce aura.

You unleashed such a domineering aura the moment we met, so I just tried to talk to you nicely. Why did we have to fight? (T_T)

At this moment, the Five-Tails deeply suspected that the golden-haired demon had only gone to find it because it wanted to fight. Otherwise, who would be so bored and arrogant as to not use their power to show off but instead try to beat it up with their fists...?

Actually, the Five-Tails was wrong. Shinto himself was a little surprised by the Five-Tails' reaction under his Conqueror's Haki. Of the three types of Haki, Conqueror's Haki was the one he valued the least. After all, he didn't get Shanks' template. Even if he didn't get Shanks' template, or even if he got Whitebeard's or Roger's template, Conqueror's Haki was only used to show off and clear out enemy lines. It didn't seem to have any other use. So after Sasori's father accidentally awakened and unleashed a burst of power when Sasori's father was stabbed, he didn't have the mind to study it.

Moreover, according to the official explanation, this thing is innate; it won't become stronger through training or weaker due to laziness. In short, it's quite mysterious, but its practicality is somewhat lacking for him. It's useless except for showing off. He's already done all the showing off he could over the years, and the time for not showing off has come yet, so he's too lazy to study it. He didn't expect that he just wanted to show off and scare the Five-Tails, but judging from the Five-Tails' huge reaction, could Conqueror's Haki have a miraculous effect on tailed beasts? (⊙_⊙)?

558. Does Onoki still have hair on his head?

"Snap! Snap...!"

"Are you kidding me? Are those two Raikage really that useless? They haven't even finished plucking Onoki's hair yet...(⊙_⊙)"