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Chapter 244: Signing the Contract
The Tailed Beast Bomb incident subsided. Naruto extended his hand again, settling his mind to focus on condensing the most ordinary Rasengan under Nine-Tails chakra mode.
This time, he carefully guided his own blue chakra as the core, using only the golden Nine-Tails chakra as auxiliary, wrapping and integrating it like threads to increase the form's stability and duration.
Under precise control, a Rasengan finally successfully appeared in his palm—emitting soft blue light with faint golden threads flowing through its core. It looked more solid and stable than an ordinary Rasengan.
"Rasengan!"
Naruto called out, pressing the Rasengan in his hand against the earth wall before him.
However, the instant the Rasengan made contact with the wall—"Boom!"—the thick earth wall didn't get a circular hole carved into it. Instead, it was as if internally disintegrated by invisible force, instantly shattering into sky-filling powder!
The violent shockwave even caused spider-web cracks to form across the surrounding ground.
Watching the destruction he'd caused again—far exceeding expectations—and the slightly altered terrain, Naruto couldn't help but feel troubled.
He realized his current situation was like a normal child holding the launch button to a nuclear bomb. Though he could use this power, he couldn't precisely control its output.
But he absolutely didn't think training in control was unnecessary. He clearly remembered that this special Nine-Tails chakra mode seemingly possessed a sharing characteristic, able to drape chakra cloak over allies.
If he couldn't precisely control his own power, and accidentally let that violent energy surge into a teammate's body when sharing chakra... it could directly rupture their meridian system.
"It's fine, take your time. Form muscle memory," Jiraiya's voice came from beside him. Perhaps being more conscientious than in the "original work," he didn't slip away to drink or conduct his "research" like usual. Instead, he remained on site.
Every time Naruto completed an attempt, Jiraiya would immediately form seals, raising a fresh new earth wall for testing power.
Under Jiraiya's continuous guidance and encouragement, Naruto began extremely tedious yet necessary micro-operation training. He attempted gradually compressing and restraining the volume and energy output of the Rasengan in his palm. As his concentration heightened and he finely adjusted chakra flow, the fist-sized Rasengan began visibly shrinking at an observable pace...
From fist-sized, to egg-sized, then walnut-sized... Finally, the Rasengan in Naruto's palm became merely bean-sized, radiating faint yet extremely refined blue light.
Correspondingly, the destructive effect the Rasengan had on the earth wall underwent significant changes—from instantly pulverizing the entire wall into powder at first, to later just blasting a huge gap and shattering it. Control was gradually improving.
Naruto felt that achieving the precise control Jiraiya demonstrated—leaving only a neat circular hole without affecting surrounding areas—would require just a bit more focused practice.
After approximately two hours of uninterrupted focused practice, Naruto gradually felt that mobilizing that vast Nine-Tails chakra became increasingly smooth and natural.
Now, even with simple punches, he no longer uncontrollably lost power or casually altered terrain.
With a minuscule yet extremely refined Rasengan materializing in his palm, he precisely pressed it against the earth wall before him—this time, the wall only had a smooth-edged, uniformly-deep perfect circular hole, with surrounding wall completely intact.
Naruto nodded in satisfaction. This phase of power control training seemed to have achieved preliminary success.
"Excellent work!" Jiraiya walked forward, approvingly patting his shoulder. "Looks like you've grasped the basics of controlling this power. So now, can you freely exit this state?"
Following his instruction, Naruto only needed a thought shift before the brilliant golden chakra surrounding him gradually receded like compliant tides, rapidly retracting into the seal within his abdomen, revealing his original appearance.
"Then, Jiraiya-san," Naruto looked up, his eyes carrying anticipation, "is the next step learning the new jutsu you mentioned before?"
Jiraiya paused momentarily, then smiled. "Oh? The 'more skills don't weigh you down' type, huh? Excellent!"
This suited him perfectly—it saved him extra effort convincing Naruto to sign the contract, and he could smoothly bring him to Mount Myoboku for sage mode training later.
"You certainly have enthusiasm for learning! Alright then, let me demonstrate first!" Jiraiya said smugly, skillfully biting his thumb and pressing the flowing blood to the ground.
"Summoning Jutsu!"
Bang!
Accompanied by thick white smoke, his steadfast workhorse, Gamatatsu, appeared with his large, stable figure.
Naruto had already mastered the Summoning Jutsu itself—he even knew a more special variant that summoned the Nine-Faced Beast's unique toad, with names like Blue, White, Vermillion, Black, Empty, South, and North.
Gamatatsu, as always cooperating with Jiraiya, kindly extended his long tongue, coiling up a massive scroll and presenting it before Naruto. This was the precious scroll representing a contract with Mount Myoboku's toad clan.
"Open that scroll and take a look," Jiraiya said, crouching on Gamatatsu's broad head as he carefully explained the steps. "This is proof of establishing a contract with Mount Myoboku's toad clan. You need to write your name in the blank space using your own blood, then place fingerprints from all five fingers in blood..."
Following instructions, Naruto carefully unrolled the scroll. His gaze then fixed on one particular name.
[Namikaze Minato]
Seeing this familiar name, Naruto first paused slightly, then a gentle smile appeared at his lips.
He said nothing, simply silently writing his own name in blood below, stroke by stroke:
[Uzumaki Naruto]
As a detail, while other people's summoning targets are relatively fixed, when Naruto uses the Summoning Jutsu, it's more like whichever toad is free comes to help.
After all, it's a contract with the entire Mount Myoboku clan. Even with insufficient chakra, it won't cause summoning failure—at most just summoning some toads without combat ability.
This is also reflected in Jiraiya's summoning—for instance, after being drugged once, he could only summon inferior ones.
"Alright, that's all!" Jiraiya looked at the fresh blood-written name on the scroll, nodding. "Try it! The Summoning Jutsu seal sequence is: Boar-Dog-Rooster-Monkey-Goat."
Naruto's hands rapidly and smoothly formed seals, channeling chakra into his palms before slamming them forcefully to the ground.
"Ninja Art: Summoning Jutsu!"
The black summoning formula spread across the ground like coming alive! Jiraiya eagerly watched the rising thick white smoke, curious about who would appear.
With Naruto's chakra and potential, he should be able to summon Gamabunta, right?
The smoke gradually dispersed...
Naruto stared in slight confusion at the massive figure appearing before him—a large toad with orange skin wearing a scholar's hat, looking quite aged with drooping eyelids, seeming just awakened from deep sleep and somewhat dazed.
"Hm...?" The old toad slowly lowered his head, examining the tiny blonde youth at his feet. "You... who were you again...?"
The instant Jiraiya saw who was summoned, his face's anticipation instantly froze, then transformed to shock and dread.
"G-Great Elder?!"
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