Chapter 71 - Chapter 73

The two gates that were connected by the powerful seal slowly started to open. The seal didn't get ripped apart, more like slowly separated into two different parts.

The big fox with 9 very long and fluffy tails behind him stood up inside the cage and glared at Naruto, with excitement in the eyes. You could see that this was a moment that the nine tails had waited for. A chance to ones again step outside the prison it had been kept in for years and years.

Without much forewarning, the nine tails rushed forward to attack Naruto. The ground shook at each step he took and Naruto could finally see how huge he was when he was actually running straight at him.

'Focus!' Naruto said to himself and turned around and jumped away from the fox. The nine-tailed fox was both fast and massive. Which turns into a deadly combo in combat.

But Naruto luckily had great mobility and his speed was nothing to scoff at so he could create a pretty big distance between the two in just a few seconds.

Naruto was zigzagging between the trees in the forest. He had to act quick because otherwise the giant chakra beast behind him would squash him completely.

Naruto had trained in the art of chakra enhancing. He could on a very basic level, manipulate chakra around his body to strengthen a specific body part.

Every step Naruto took left a pretty decently deep mark on the ground. And thanks to his enormous stamina and chakra capacity he could keep running like this for a very long time.

'Think Naruto! Think!' His eyes darted around and searched for a way to get on the nine tails without getting caught by his tails or claws.

"THERE!" Naruto accidentally yelled out when he saw a big boulder in the distance. He re coated his fist in haki and did a proper dash towards it. His body flew out like a rocket and crashed straight through the entire boulder.

*boom*

The boulder exploded and gave rise to a decently sized smoke screen. The nine tails lost sight of Naruto when he smashed through the boulder.

His senses could still pick up Naruto's general direction but the problem was that Naruto's scent was coming from all around him. Above, below, Naruto was all around him and nine tails couldn't tell which one was the real one.

Out from the smoke screen ran 100 Naruto clones one after another. They were running in lines of 4 and they all jumped at the nine tails at the same time with both fists covered in haki.

"TAKE THIS!" The Naruto clones fell like rain and bombarded the giant fox with haki infused punches.

The nine tails swung his claws in front of his face and halved the amount of clones in one go. And at the same time he roared and pushed the rest of the Naruto's away with just the wind pressure from that roar.

As the clones were killed they disappeared into a cloud of white smoke. And this smoke screen blinded the nine tails. And the rest of the Naruto's gave up the attack and spread out around the nine tails.

"Big mistake, brat!" Nine tails sneered and all of his tails came down and smashed all the clones that took up a spot behind the fox.

'My punch did nothing to him.. How can haki not work..' Naruto still stood where the boulder had been. And he was watching the nine tails swiping his claws and taking out more clones.

"Let's just go with the straight forward approach." One of Naruto's clones that stood beside him said and fist-bumped the air in excitement.

"We'll die!" Naruto refuted angerly.

"No. We'll die! We always die while you, the original stays alive." The clone said and smiled while pushing Naruto forward with his hand.

"Okay then! let's go!" Naruto gave himself away to the hype and readied himself to rush the big beast.

Naruto did a familiar hand sign and 200 hundred shadow clones appeared in a line beside him. This was Naruto's famous Jutsu but he rarely used it because haki was enough for now. In the beginning the clone couldn't use haki and it took Naruto a few months to figure that problem out.

"THIS IS THE CHARGE OF ALL CHARGES! ARE YOU READY?" One of the many Naruto's yelled to the rest of them in an excited tone.

"AYE!!" 200 Naruto's yelled at the same time and shook the ground around them.

"GOOOOOOO!" Another Naruto yelled and all of them charged the nine tails with their fists covered in haki.

The Naruto's ran at full speed at the giant fox while yelling and shaking the entire area with their chakra infused steps.

One after the other they jumped up in the air and flew towards the nine tails. The fox started to swipe at the mass of shadow clones and they seemed never-ending because they kept coming. The clones that saw the claws coming towards them banded together and using haki they all raised their hands to try and stop the claw from crushing them.

But because they were in the air they didn't have any solid footing to stand on to help withstand the mighty strength of the nine-tailed fox.

But by using haki and their numbers advantage they were able to stop the claw for just a moment. And that moment was all a few clones needed to pass the barrier of the claws and reach the nine tails body.

11 clones managed to reach the nine tails and 4 were caught in the mouth of the fox. But the rest made it onto the body of the massive fox.

Now with 7 Naruto clones on his body, the nine tails tried to squash them with his tails. But when he tried he noticed that all his tails were being held down by a bunch of clones. Each tail had 15 Naruto's holding it down with armament haki on full blast.

'More clones? When did they get there?' Nine tails looked at the clones and felt the impressive force they managed to put up. He couldn't move his tails.

'Clever boy.' Dragon that stood up in the air said to himself and praised Naruto inwardly.

20 Naruto clones on the ground were running towards the nine-tailed fox. Their speed was a lot faster because they were on the ground. So while the fox were killing clones and dealing with the ones that were on his body already. They approached quietly.

"We need to speed up, hurry." One of the said quietly to the rest and they sped up even more.

The 20 Naruto's quickly came upon the giant fox and one of the clones standing on the fox's head saw them and nodded towards them in acknowledgment. It was their job to draw attention away from the small squad.

"Okay, spread out!" One of them said and they spit into 4 groups. All the groups ran towards the nine tails hind legs

"Okay, NOW!" The group of Naruto's saw their opening and they all made their move without a second delay.

They used armament haki to punch the hind legs of the nine tails to try and destabilize the beast. But clearly, Naruto had underestimated the nine tails.

"So that's what your plan was. I see it was worth it to let you play around." The nine tails felt the 20 Naruto's combined punch hit it's leg and it hurt it quite a bit. But the strength Naruto possessed now was not enough to overpower the nine tails.

"There are better ways to cripple me in a fight, but you are only 9 years old so I'll let it pass. But it's time to show you my power."

*ROOAAR* The nine tails roared and it's chakra exploded out of it's body and it blew all the Naruto's away immediately.

"AAAAAH" The Naruto's were thrown across the ground and they all disappeared into a big cloud of white smoke.

"Your power isn't bad. But it's not even close to your father. Keep training Naruto." The nine tails looked at the only Naruto left standing in the distance. He looked dirty and damaged from that roar. He had been one of the Naruto's that stood on the nine tails body.

"I'm not done yet." Naruto swayed for a second but slowly started to run towards the nine tails.

"Stop this or you will get hurt badly." The nine tails said and looked at Dragon.

'Let's show Naruto what the top in this world looks like.' Dragon nodded towards the nine tails and continued to watch.

"I apologize for this Naruto. If you survive this, I'll even tell you my name. You have earned that." The nine tails raised it's claw.

The claw started to descend and as Naruto came in range of the nine tails, the claw swiped passed and blew him away hard. Naruto's body bounced across the ground and crashed straight into a tree that exploded from the collision with the boys body.

"Are you sure that's okay? I could have killed him with that." The nine tails said to Dragon that was descending towards him.

"You really think i would allow that? I made sure that Naruto didn't feel that last one." Dragon surprisingly walked in the air, and he walked over to the nine tails and sat down on his head.

"I am not the perfect father. Far from it actually. But this is the best way that i could show Naruto how far the climb to the top is. I won't always be here to protect him so i can't allow him to think that he's immortal." Dragon said while petting Nine tails fur.

"The boys got heart and plenty of talent. In a few years, I'm pretty sure immortal will be the proper term to describe him." The nine tails were laying down with his eyes closed now that the fight was over.

"That all depends on what your decision is, Kurama." The nine tails opened his eyes when he heard his name spoken out loud after so many years.

"So you knew it, huh. Should have figured. It's you after all. By the way, are you ever gonna tell me your origin? I have lived here for a thousand years and not even i know it. You are more of a mystery then the old man is." Kurama didn't seem to mind Dragon petting him.

"Probably never. Now about that decision. Even if he beats you someday. If you desire freedom, just ask. You have more than deserved it and I am sure Naruto wouldn't mind letting you go." Dragon was sitting in the lotus position.

"I wouldn't mind freedom. But going to another world. That takes some time to decide." Kurama said in a serious tone.

"Whatever decision you decide to go with. Let me know and i will make it happen." Dragon said and stood up.

"Now i should take care of Naruto. His true body fell unconscious, go figure. I need to go be a dad." Dragon laughed and started to faint away from this inner space.

'Freedom, huh. What's that like?' Kurama asked himself before he fell asleep again. The normal seal around Kurama had been returned to normal and he was back in the cage again, credit for that goes to Dragon.

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