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The instant their fists met, an indescribably vast torrent of information, accompanied by immense Chakra, surged into Naruto's consciousness like a bursting dam!
He clearly felt it—it was everything the Nine-Tailed had experienced over a thousand years! In a life so long it was suffocating, perhaps it had once held a tiny flicker of hope for humans.
But what followed was one cruel exploitation and ruthless betrayal after another... These thousand years had left behind almost entirely dark memories steeped in pain and disappointment.
The Nine-Tailed's consciousness, following the Chakra connection, sank into the depths of Naruto's memory. The scenes in his mind began to flash by like a revolving lantern. At first, they were all things it had personally experienced or witnessed: intense battles fighting alongside Naruto, and the mundane yet warm little moments of their daily interactions.
These were all things it already knew.
Except for one segment—Naruto using a Shadow Clone to transform into a mysterious figure wearing a fox mask and a black robe... This appearance looked a bit familiar... It seemed that during the mission in the Land of Waves, it was this very guy, dressed like that, who suddenly appeared and took those two enemies away... The Nine-Tailed suddenly realized, was that kid pretending to be him back then?!
It had never paid attention to human conflicts outside of the Seal. For this 'mysterious organization leader' persona, acted out by Naruto and later speculated upon by various forces, the Nine-Tailed merely grumbled inwardly.
This kid is quite good at creating a sense of mystery.
Subsequently, the memory flowed to Naruto's childhood. Although it had already learned the general outline from Satsuki's accusations, when the scenes of exclusion, discrimination, and isolation were vividly presented from a first-person perspective, the Nine-Tailed still felt a pang of discomfort in its heart.
It... once again personally saw the pain it had indirectly caused him... Then, the memory arrived at the night it could never forget—the night Naruto was born. The perspective became that of an infant, blurry and indistinct.
But the primal memories, etched deep in the Soul and forgotten by consciousness, were displayed with incredible clarity. The scene overlapped with the Nine-Tailed's own memories... And then...?
Wait a minute? The Nine-Tailed was bewildered. It had traced back to the day Naruto was born, but it still hadn't seen any clues or related memories about that 'Six Paths Sage dream'?
Just as it was wondering, the scene didn't stop, but continued forward—reversing time to 'before Naruto's birth'! The sight before its eyes suddenly changed, switching to a dimension completely unknown to it!
"This is... what is this?!" The Nine-Tailed's consciousness let out an incredulous gasp.
The scene before it had completely transformed! It was an entirely different world! Skyscrapers stood tall, traffic flowed endlessly, a cityscape it had never seen before.
Humans lived there, but they had no Chakra fluctuations, wore strange clothes, and used tools it couldn't comprehend... Everything was so unfamiliar. Then, there was a mundane life trajectory without any battles, and from a first-person perspective, a glowing screen unfolded before its eyes. With immense confusion, the Nine-Tailed subconsciously read out the prominent title at the top of the screen.
"Naruto?"
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Its consciousness had been immersed in the torrent of information for an unknown duration. The amount of information it received was far greater and more astonishing than the Nine-Tailed had imagined... One of the truths it most wanted to know, the identity of the mysterious person who controlled it on the eve of its Seal and caused the Nine-Tails Attack, turned out to be just a guy named Uchiha Obito? Not the legendary Uchiha Madara at all?
And this, surprisingly, was just one of many truths.
Ōtsutsuki Kaguya... Black Zetsu... the Eye of the Moon Plan... Uchiha Madara, whom it hated and considered a mortal enemy, was, in the entire story's narrative, merely a pawn manipulated by the mastermind behind the scenes?!
Although the gender of Uchiha Satsuki, who was by Naruto's side, was a bit off... and the 'original' Naruto in the memories seemed much more impulsive and reckless than the one it was familiar with... Could it be... this was the whole truth? A Soul and memories from another world? The Nine-Tailed's consciousness fell into immense confusion and shock, unable to react for a moment. This impact was a thousand times stronger than it had anticipated...
As the Nine-Tailed struggled to digest this astonishing information and fell into contemplation, this memory from another world finally reached its end—arriving at the moment 'Uzumaki Naruto' was born... It seemed... this was everything... The Nine-Tailed was about to organize its thoughts, considering how to express the tumultuous emotions in its heart to Naruto once the connection ended.
However, just as it thought the information flow had ended—
The scene, surprisingly, began to appear once again!
...?!
What met its 'eyes' was an unknown, distorted space. It saw Naruto again, but this Naruto looked older, around thirty years old, with a more resolute and mature face, enveloped by the familiar golden Nine-Tails Chakra.
And by Naruto's side stood a black-haired woman, also mature in age, with a refined appearance and a cold, elegant demeanor. But what shocked the Nine-Tailed was the pattern in that woman's eyes—it was the Rinnegan, which only the Six Paths Sage had possessed! And... a complex and powerful Sharingan form it had never even witnessed!!
The two stood ready, facing a mysterious person whose face was covered in strange black runes and who exuded an ominous aura.
The mysterious person spoke in a hoarse, murderous voice.
"How persistent, Uchiha Satsuki. You even used space-time Ninjutsu to pursue me here? Good, I'll just finish you both off right here."
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