Naruto: Starting with Tsunade

Chapter 225 Guiding Boil Release

a few days later.

During his training, Aokiji used Fire Release chakra in one hand and Water Release chakra in the other. After failing to fuse them into "Boiling Release," he was panting heavily and covered in sweat.

"It still doesn't work."

With a sigh of helplessness, Aokiji lay sprawled on the ground, gazing at the floating blue sky and white clouds, and secretly made a decision.

He originally wanted to properly synthesize Boil Release, but now he realizes that was too naive. If he wanted to start from scratch, it would probably take him seven or eight years to figure it out on his own.

Dissatisfied with his slow pace of effort, he decided to use a cheat device.

Aokiji lay on the grass for a while, then got up. The location chosen by the Konoha leaders was quite good. He took a few steps and there was a stream nearby.

The blue pheasant was a little thirsty, so it scooped up a handful of water and drank a few mouthfuls. Then it washed its face with the stream water and immediately felt refreshed and revitalized.

Aokiji touched his forehead; the spot where he had been hit with a stone this morning had healed completely without leaving any scars.

After becoming a Jinchūriki, the most noticeable improvement in Aokiji's regenerative abilities was the visible enhancement. He could easily heal himself by making a few cuts on his hand with a knife.

Thinking of this, Aokiji's eyes gleamed with cunning, and he casually chatted with the Five-Tails inside him: "Judging from Kurama's tone just now, you tailed beasts actually know each other, right?"

"More or less."

Wuwei made a perfunctory sentence, as if he didn't want to talk too much about this issue.

Seeing that it was unwilling to talk more, Aokiji crossed one arm across its chest, raised the other arm, rested its chin on its fist, and said to itself, "I thought it was an illusion last time, but it seems that everything is real."

These words successfully attracted the attention of the Five-Tails, who turned their head to look.

Aokiji suddenly said, "You and Kurama are actually one, aren't you?"

Wuwei paused, then spoke with a deeper tone: "What are you trying to say?"

"Actually, it's not just you; the other seven tailed beasts are all one entity. You all split off from a single tailed beast, am I right?"

The light, airy voice dissipated in the air, but Wuwei's heart remained unsettled for a long time. For a moment, his pupils suddenly dilated to their maximum size.

Even though it took it a long time to recover, it didn't directly admit it, but instead asked, "Where did you hear these things from?"

"Where did you hear that from...?"

Aokiji responded casually, his upturned lips conveying an enigmatic tone.

Answer me!

The tone of Wuwei's questioning was obviously emotional.

Aokiji's voice held a hint of amusement: "Oh dear, is this how you ask for a favor?"

The five-tailed beast stared intently at Aokiji: "Stop pretending to be profound, answer me now."

"Seriously, what's the rush?" Aokiji dropped the act, shrugging his shoulders with a helpless expression. "This is a rare opportunity, can't you just let me show off a little?"

Although Go-Tails didn't say it out loud, he definitely put on an act when Aokiji said those words.

Aokiji stopped being mysterious and directly stated, "You know what? I've actually seen you before."

"Have you seen him before?"

Gouwei lowered her head, trying hard to recall her memories of Aokiji.

"Don't bother thinking about it, you won't remember."

A look of confusion appeared in the eyes of the Five-Tails. What does it mean to have seen it before but not remember it?

It was wondering how Aokiji would respond when Aokiji suddenly dropped a bombshell that completely shut down the Five-Tails' brain.

"Because the place where we meet is in the future."

The five tails' dilated pupils revealed an expression of disbelief.

"Hey, what's with that look on your face like you've seen a ghost?"

Aokiji spoke and laughed as if he were casually discussing the weather.

Are you making fun of me again?

Wuwei clearly didn't believe in this kind of boasting without any preparation.

Aokiji didn't bother arguing with him. He simply recited a series of tailed beast names and even explained the origins of the tailed beasts, leaving the Five-Tails completely bewildered.

It was hard to believe that Aokiji had actually traveled to the future, but apart from that, the Five-Tails really couldn't find any other way for him to tell so many ancient secrets.

These are secrets that cannot be obtained simply through books.

After saying that, Aokiji silently raised his head, meeting the Five-Tails' shocked gaze, without saying a word, his eyes revealing an expression that said, "Now you should believe me."

After processing what she had just heard, Gouwei replied with a reluctant sigh, "Originally, I didn't want to admit these things, but I really can't find any other reason to refute them."

"To be honest, I didn't believe these things at first either. I thought it was just a dream. But when I saw how familiar you and Kurama looked, I realized that what I saw back then might be part of the future."

At this point, Aokiji paused, then adopted an extremely serious expression: "So, Xiao Wu, please lend me your power now."

"Lend me your power?" Five-Tails chuckled. "Is this your way of admitting defeat? This doesn't sound like the person I know who would say 'Don't underestimate a young man's potential'."

Aokiji did not answer the question directly: "As far as I know, I don't think I will be the Jinchuriki of the Five-Tails in the future. Once the Tailed Beast is extracted, it means that the Jinchuriki will die. In other words, I may already be dead by then."

"..."

"I don't want to die, so I can't just sit here and wait to die."

Wuwei said in a deep voice, "If what you say is true, perhaps this is your destined end."

"Destined?" Aokiji laughed as if he had heard a hilarious joke. His eyes turned from black to red as he activated his three-tomoe Sharingan and sneered, "What bullshit destiny? My fate is in my own hands, not in the heavens."

This is actually quite a chuunibyou (a Japanese term for someone with delusions of grandeur), but the Five-Tails doesn't have this concept of "chuunibyou," so it sounds like a completely different scene. They just feel that Aokiji is quite domineering when he says this.

Aokiji stood with his hands on his hips, head tilted back, gazing at the sky at a four or five-degree angle, his eyes filled with arrogance: "Some people are destined by fate, but I will decide my own destiny."

Perhaps due to using too much force, the Five-Tails paused for a moment, looking at the other party with suspicion: "Did you copy these from somewhere?"

Aokiji, feeling somewhat guilty after being exposed, feigned a cough: In short, "I only meant one thing: I will not sit idly by and wait to die, and I want to do something about it."

"Hmph, I can take that as a signal that you are surrendering to me, right?" The Five-Tails' body completely enveloped Aokiji, its gaze looking down at him.

Aokiji waved his hand and declared confidently, "A true man knows when to yield and when to stand firm."

The Five-Tails was speechless at Aokiji's flexible bottom line, and said with a laugh, "I've discovered that you little brat are quite the smooth talker."

"Little Five, you don't want to be stuffed into that Six Paths Statue and become part of the Ten-Tails, do you?"

When Aokiji was deceiving the Five-Tails, he deliberately left the changes unresolved, aiming to instill panic in the Five-Tails and force it to join his side.

however.

I don't know what's wrong with that five-tailed fox; it's incredibly stubborn and still refuses to agree.

"These are two different things. If you really want to gain my power, then defeat me honorably. Then I will naturally acknowledge you and help you without reservation."

Aokiji hadn't expected the Five-Tails to be so stubborn, so he compromised: "In that case, could you use your power to help me guide my bloodline limit a little?"

(End of this chapter)