During the time waiting for night to fall.
Rengoku shifted his consciousness back into his main body.
After sorting through his memories, nothing special had happened at home.
However, when he was sending Sasuke to school, Fugaku sent someone to bring over half a year's worth of salary.
Although it was less than what Rengoku expected, it was still six million.
Enough to relieve his family's financial pressure.
And now, after having a good meal, Rengoku was standing in Kaori's courtyard, watching her practice swordsmanship.
Judging by how Kaori was sweating profusely, she clearly wasn't just warming up or moving around casually.
She was really training seriously.
'Looks like Kaori still wants to become a ninja.'
Now that it's confirmed the family has enough money, and they can hire someone to take care of Ryuri in the future, and also Rengoku won't be going on missions for now.
Kaori had also picked up the swordsmanship she had neglected over the years.
Currently, she was slowly recovering her skills.
After all, when she was taking care of Ryuri, she could still refine chakra.
In fact, her chakra wasn't falling behind much.
But as for taijutsu, ninjutsu, genjutsu, in terms of applications, there was basically no improvement.
Now that Ryuri was disabled, Kaori didn't feel right about training in front of Rengoku.
So she trained in their own home, separated by a wall.
"Did you tell Ryuri?", Rengoku asked.
He was referring to Kaori having to leave Ryuri and hire someone to take care of her in the future.
Kaori looked troubled, "I haven't told Ryuri yet, I don't know how to say it."
"I…", Kaori's expression was struggling.
As if it were some unforgivable crime.
Seeing the sweat dripping continuously from Kaori, Rengoku picked up a towel and helped wipe her sweat.
This kind of intimate gesture was a habit of Rengoku, or more accurately, a habit from his predecessor's body.
Although Rengoku was no longer the same person, he didn't reject such behavior.
After all, raising a childhood friend into a wife at home didn't seem like a bad development.
But what puzzled Rengoku was that Kaori's face showed awkwardness and avoidance.
So Rengoku handed her the towel instead, letting her wipe herself.
'Seems like that dumba*s misunderstood, Kaori doesn't like me.'
But he didn't insist, nor did he mind.
Feelings are just a seasoning, having them is nice, not having them is also fine.
Just as Rengoku was helping Kaori wipe her sweat, Ryuri's face appeared at the edge of the corridor.
She was pushing her wheelchair, slowly coming over.
Hearing the sound of the wheelchair rolling, Rengoku quickly came over and pushed Ryuri.
"Not feeding 'Little Kun' today?", Rengoku asked Ryuri.
Little Kun was a koi in the courtyard pond. Ryuri often fed it, so she gave it a name.
Ryuri shook her head, "Little Kun is eating less and less recently, not sure if the fish food doesn't suit its taste."
"Hmm…", Rengoku pondered a moment, "Is it possible... it ate too much? Its size doesn't look like a koi anymore."
Ryuri stuck out her tongue, "Aiya, eating more, chubby is cute!"
Rengoku said helplessly, "Okay, okay, if you think that torpedo shape is cute too."
Ryuri asked, a little confused, "What's a torpedo?"
"Nothing, nothing," Rengoku laughed it off, he had forgotten that this world didn't have such things.
———
Rengoku stayed at home chatting with Ryuri, telling her stories.
Occasionally, he would switch his consciousness over to Naruto's side for a look. Naruto's house seemed uneventful as well.
Lying in bed, just staring at the ceiling with a face full of sorrow, occasionally shedding tears.
With Rengoku's thoughts on Naruto, he also didn't tell Ryuri about Kaori wanting to become a ninja.
When night fell, both Kaori and Ryuri went to sleep.
Rengoku felt it was about time. He projected his consciousness again into the shadow clone attached to Naruto.
He noticed that there were still ANBU guards stationed outside the window.
But there was no chakra fluctuation from Naruto that would be detected, and the Third Hokage's crystal ball probably wasn't monitoring.
The ANBU outside couldn't see through the room, and didn't know Naruto's situation inside.
It was already late, and Naruto had fallen asleep.
Rengoku's clone stretched a hand out from the shadow, placing it on Naruto's head.
Buzz!
His consciousness instantly entered Naruto's inner world.
———
Rengoku stepped in and observed, the entire corridor was dark and damp, water pooled on the ground, with many side paths on both sides.
This environment was Naruto's subconscious projection, 'Seems like Naruto really suffered a lot of abuse.'
Without hesitation, Rengoku lifted his leg and walked forward.
That massive and oppressive chakra was up ahead.
Inside an enormous cage in the distance, a pair of giant pupils suddenly opened.
"Hm…?", The path before Rengoku shifted rapidly, he arrived right in front of the cage.
BOOM!
A massive claw slammed onto the door, letting out a deep thud.
"Uchiha!", The Nine-Tails' voice carried anger and hatred, Rengoku was wearing the clan's uniform.
The giant fan symbol on his clothes signified his identity.
Rengoku glanced coldly at the Nine-Tails, his three-tomoe Sharingan changed into Mangekyo Sharingan.
A tremendous visual force burst forth, the Nine-Tails felt a wave of intense fear.
"Mangekyo Sharingan? Who are you? What do you want?"
The Nine-Tails backed away from the cage door in dread, the Mangekyo Sharingan was his nemesis.
Last time he was forcefully enslaved and pulled out of the jinchūriki's body, it was done by an Uchiha's Mangekyo Sharingan.
Rengoku said coolly, "Nine-Tails, I'm not here for you this time. You'd better behave."
While speaking, he looked around. Sure enough, he couldn't find Minato or Kushina's chakra.
'Looks like the two has been sealed away all along.'
Just as Rengoku was searching, the Nine-Tails was carefully observing him.
The two Uchiha he remembered most were Madara and Obito.
Both had the typical Uchiha traits. Mentally unstable, paranoid, and extremely hostile toward the Nine-Tails.
But the Uchiha in front of him wasn't, he was very rational after entering here.
Even the Nine-Tails couldn't sense any hostility from him.
'Interesting, this is the first time I have seen this type of Uchiha.'
The Nine-Tails slowly laid down, curious to see what this Uchiha wanted to do.
Then, to the Nine-Tails' shock, Rengoku flew up directly and tore open the sealing tag with the character "Seal" written on it.
The Nine-Tails' eyes widened, he lifted his head in excitement, filled with disbelief and joy.
Just as he was about to roar with excitement—
DONG!
A huge visual force struck the Nine-Tails' head like a giant hammer.
The Nine-Tails' body froze instantly, unable to move.
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