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At that moment—
Inside the seal.
Kurama, the Nine-Tails, glanced at Naruto and scoffed.
Day after day, he'd been watching the kid obsess over these so-called ninja tools.
"Tch... Foolish brat."
To Kurama, it was laughable.
No matter how intricate or advanced a ninja tool was...
How could it ever compare to the sheer destructive power of his Tailed Beast Bomb?
This kind of training—
Wasn't even on par with Naruto's old Wind Style: Rasenshuriken. Now that was real ninjutsu. Not this childish nonsense.
Ninja tools?
Just toys for genin playing at being shinobi.
Kurama snorted and turned his attention back to the book he was reading.
"In the end, who will become the supreme shinobi? He who sees the Nine-Tails will know only despair…"
He chuckled at the line.
But then—
A subtle shift in the seal's space drew his attention again.
In front of him, Naruto had already summoned an enormous number of ninja tools—
Blades, scrolls, kunai, fuma shuriken, all kinds.
Laid out in an intricate pattern, perfectly symmetrical,
With Naruto at its center.
He closed his eyes and focused.
Naruto began to draw upon every ounce of his knowledge—
Everything he had learned about ninja tools, from function to form, chakra flow to forging.
He began deducing the Divine Mechanism.
And then it happened.
A flash of insight—
Memories surged forward:
One of the Eight Great Techniques—Divine Hundred Refinements—
Merged with his unparalleled comprehension of ninja tools.
You've had an epiphany.
You've grasped the "Object Control" chapter of the Divine Mechanism!
Divine Hundred Refinements: Object Control
All tools obey the will of their master.
The direction of the heart is the direction of the blade.
In that instant, Naruto's eyes snapped open—sky blue and blazing with understanding.
For a brief moment,
It looked as though a glint of steel flashed across his gaze.
Invisible ripples pulsed outward from him—
Spreading like a tide through the air.
Each ninja tool caught in the wave shimmered faintly.
If someone had been able to peer inside them,
They would've seen something terrifying:
It was as though a soul had been awakened in each weapon.
The dormant will of steel stirred to life.
Kurama's fur bristled.
His beastly instincts screamed at him.
He turned from the novel and stared at Naruto, pupils narrowing.
"What… are you doing, brat?!"
But Naruto wasn't paying attention to him anymore.
With a single thought—
The countless weapons around him began to float.
Dozens… Hundreds… Thousands.
Rising silently like a black tide,
Suspended in the air around him.
Kurama was stunned.
"H-He's making them fly? On his own!?"
"How the hell is he doing this!?"
He watched, eyes wide, as Naruto—still completely calm—lifted his right hand.
Index and middle fingers pointed skyward.
No words. No hand seals.
Just will.
And then—
"WHOOOOOSH!!!"
Thousands of ninja tools soared into the sky like missiles launched from the ground.
BOOM! BOOM! BOOM!!
The roar echoed like thunder in the void of the seal.
A storm of steel.
An overwhelming torrent of death forged by hand and heart.
Kurama stared at the spectacle in the sky—
An army of weapons under a single will.
And for once, the mighty Nine-Tails was left speechless.
"Tch… Not bad, kid."
"That's… That's another S-rank technique."
At this moment—
Inside the sealed cage, the Nine-Tails once again looked down at the figure sitting cross-legged on the ground.
Expressionless.
Calm and composed.
It was hard to believe this quiet little brat—Naruto—actually possessed such terrifying potential.
The next moment, Naruto raised his hand. His index and middle fingers came together.
Then—
He sharply pointed downward.
In that instant, the swirling torrent of thousands of ninja tools in the air changed course, descending all at once with a roar that shook the very space.
A flood of weapons.
Like a plague of locusts blotting out the sky.
They dove straight toward Naruto himself—still seated on the ground.
He didn't flinch.
The Nine-Tails' heart skipped a beat. What the hell is this kid doing? Trying to get himself killed?!
Was Naruto actually betting his life… just to test a jutsu?
Impossible. Unbelievable.
How could this brat be so confident in something he just created?
And yet—
BOOM!
Countless ninja tools struck the ground where Naruto sat, burying him instantly in a wave of steel and chakra-forged alloy.
The entire ground quaked.
Inside the cage, the Nine-Tails watched in stunned silence. He stared at the spot where Naruto had vanished, submerged beneath a mountain of weaponry.
Shock. A strange sense of unease.
Is the brat… dead?
But before he could finish that thought—
From between the gaps in the pile, Naruto stood up.
Unscathed.
The sea of ninja tools suddenly stopped, as if obeying his will, and returned to their formation—hovering or standing upright in perfect symmetry, just as they were before.
Still.
Silent.
As if waiting for his next command.
The Nine-Tails stared, dumbfounded.
Under that intense gaze, Naruto finally stood up. He looked around at the still-floating or neatly arranged weapons.
A smile—genuine and bright—appeared on his face.
He had done it.
He had created another S-rank jutsu.
An ultimate technique that grew stronger the more weapons were present.
Even the enemy's weapons could be turned into his strength.
A terrifying jutsu for the battlefield—an absolute nightmare for his enemies.
And one that only Naruto could truly master.
"Hey, brat…" the Nine-Tails finally muttered, snapping out of his daze. "What's this technique called?"
Naruto looked over at the giant fox sealed behind the bars. With that same smile, he replied:
"I call it… Divine Mechanism: Hundredfold Refinement — Art of Imperial Control."
The Nine-Tails narrowed his eyes.
Imperial Control…?
So that overwhelming display earlier… that was just one application of the technique?
His heart trembled.
The fox who once scoffed at ninja tools—the one who saw them as toys for children—was now stunned speechless.
He no longer looked down on Naruto's strange obsession with ninja gear.
Not after this.
Naruto, of course, had no idea what the Nine-Tails was thinking.
Now that his practice was complete, he gave the giant beast a nod and exited the sealed space.
The Nine-Tails stared at the spot where Naruto had just been.
He remained silent for a long time…
Even forgetting the girls' anime he had just started bingeing earlier.
As for what exactly the Nine-Tails was thinking—
No one knew.
Naruto returned to his apartment.
The feeling of success lingered in his heart.
He treated himself to a delicious midnight snack, then fell asleep in high spirits.
But far away, in the darkness of the night—
While Naruto and the villagers of Konoha slept peacefully…
A different scene was unfolding.
Within the ancestral land of the Uchiha clan.
Naka Shrine.
Deep underground lay a hidden chamber—a place where the Uchiha once held their most secretive gatherings.
Within it stood a mysterious stone tablet, left behind by the Sage of Six Paths himself.
It recorded long-forgotten truths of the shinobi world.
Of course—
Even among the Uchiha, only the clan head and a select few elders were allowed to read it.
But tonight—
The current Uchiha patriarch, Uchiha Fugaku, had not summoned the clan to discuss ancient secrets.
No.
He had called them for something far more dangerous.
To conspire.
To rise.
To launch a coup d'état against the leadership of the Hidden Leaf—against the high-ranking elders led by the Third Hokage, Sarutobi Hiruzen!
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