Chapter 307 The Truth
Chapter 307 The Truth
"!!!"
The instant their fists collided, an indescribable torrent of information, accompanied by a vast amount of chakra, surged into Naruto's consciousness like a river bursting its banks!
He clearly sensed it—it was everything that the Nine-Tails had experienced across a thousand years! In its suffocatingly long life, it may have initially held a tiny glimmer of hope for humanity.
But what followed was one cruel exploitation and one heartless betrayal after another... Over the past thousand years, what remains are almost entirely dark memories steeped in pain and despair.
The Nine-Tails' consciousness, following the chakra connection, sank into the depths of Naruto's memories. Scenes began to flash through its mind like a revolving lantern, initially things it had personally experienced or witnessed: intense scenes of fighting alongside Naruto, and the ordinary yet warm moments of their daily interactions.
I know all of this myself.
Except for one scene where Naruto uses his Shadow Clone Jutsu to create a mysterious figure wearing a fox mask and a black robe...
This looks kind of familiar...
It seems that during the mission in the Land of Waves, this guy in that outfit suddenly appeared and took those two enemies away... Kurama suddenly realized, so it was this kid in disguise back then?!
It never paid attention to human conflicts outside the seal. As for the image of the "leader of a mysterious organization" played by Naruto and later speculated about by various forces, Kurama couldn't help but make a mental remark.
This kid is quite good at making things mysterious.
Then, the memories shifted to Naruto's childhood. Although he already knew the general outline from Satsuki's accusations, Kurama still felt a pang of heartache when those scenes of exclusion, discrimination, and isolation were vividly presented from a first-person perspective.
I...once again witnessed the pain I indirectly caused him...
Then, the memory returned to that night it could never forget—the night Naruto was born. The perspective shifted to that of an infant, blurry and hazy.
But the primal memories etched deep within his soul, forgotten by his consciousness, were displayed with unparalleled clarity. The images overlapped with scenes from Kurama's memories... and then...?
Wait a minute? Kurama was dumbfounded. This all goes back to the day Naruto was born, but it still hasn't seen any clues or related memories about the "Sage of Six Paths' dream"?
Just as it was wondering what was going on, the scene didn't stop, but continued forward—back to the time before Naruto's birth! The scene before its eyes suddenly changed, switching to a dimension that was completely unfamiliar to it!
"What...what is this?!" The Nine-Tails' consciousness exclaimed in disbelief.
The scene before it had completely changed! It was a completely different world! Skyscrapers stood tall, and traffic flowed like a river—a cityscape it had never seen before.
Humans lived there, but they lacked chakra fluctuations, wore strange clothing, and used tools it couldn't understand… Everything was so unfamiliar. Then, a series of uneventful life events unfolded before its eyes, without any battles, in a first-person perspective, as a glowing screen appeared. The Nine-Tails, filled with immense confusion, subconsciously read aloud 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 period of time; the amount of information it received was far greater and more astonishing than Nine-Tails had imagined...
One of the truths it most wanted to know was that the mysterious person who manipulated it and caused the Nine-Tails' rampage on the eve of its sealing was just a guy named Uchiha Obito? Not the legendary Uchiha Madara at all?
And this is just one of many truths.
Kaguya Otsutsuki… Black Zetsu… the Eye of the Moon Plan… Madara Uchiha, whom she hated and considered her mortal enemy, was actually just a pawn manipulated by the mastermind behind the scenes in the entire story?!
Although the gender of Uchiha Sasuke next to Naruto is a bit off...
And then there's the Naruto from the "original story" in my memory; his personality seems much more unconventional and reckless than the one I'm familiar with...
Could this be... the truth of everything? A soul and memories from another world? The Nine-Tails' consciousness was plunged into immense chaos and shock, momentarily at a loss for how to react. The impact was a thousand times stronger than it had anticipated...
As Kurama struggled to process this earth-shattering information and fell into deep thought, the memories from this other world finally came to an end—arriving at the moment of Naruto Uzumaki's birth...
It seems... that's all...
Kurama was preparing to organize its thoughts, thinking about how to express the overwhelming emotions it felt to Naruto after the connection ended.
However, just as it thought the information flow had ended—
The image started appearing again!
"...?!"
What came into its "eyes" was an unknown, alternate dimension filled with distorted light. It saw Naruto again, but this Naruto looked older, around thirty years old, with a more resolute and mature face, and his body was shrouded in the familiar golden Nine-Tails chakra.
Beside Naruto stood a mature woman of similar age, with exquisite features and a cool, sophisticated aura. But what shocked Kurama was the pattern in the woman's eyes—the Rinnegan, a power only the Sage of Six Paths possessed! And… a complex and powerful Sharingan form it had never seen before!!
The two stood ready, facing a mysterious figure whose face was covered with strange black runes and who exuded an ominous aura.
The mysterious man spoke in a hoarse, murderous voice.
"You two are really annoying, Uchiha Satsuki. You actually used space-time ninjutsu to chase me here? Perfect timing, I'll just finish you off right here."
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