Chapter 3 Malice

The claws were retracted.

The shadows came heavily, and a huge face approached the gate.

Triangular face, golden pupils, and fluffy.

It was a fox.

The fox was taller than Naruto and had a magnificent body.

When it grinned, it was full of sharp teeth: "What did they say to you?"

"It made you have such an illusion."

Sarcasm, ridicule, and yin and yang.

Naruto frowned, slightly puzzled.

He didn't like this naked and undisguised malice, but the teacher said that perhaps the Zanpakuto souls expressed emotions in different ways, either friendly or fierce, but there was no doubt that these gestures were their external appearances to test whether the holder of the knife was really qualified to pick it up to fight.

What he had learned was like turning pages in his mind.

"You are the manifestation of my spiritual power." He answered, "You are the most important partner who will accompany me throughout my life."

The Nine-Tailed Fox couldn't help laughing: "Spiritual power. Partner"

"It's ridiculous."

"Have those guys in Konoha fallen to such a naive level?"

Naruto was stunned.

What did he hear?

Konoha?

How could it be "Konoha", how could this fox spit out such a word from his mouth.

"How could it be related to Konoha?" He subconsciously refuted.

The Nine-Tailed Fox smiled "Kuku" and refuted sarcastically: "How could it be related to Konoha?"

"I'm dead." Naruto interrupted him, "I'm not in Konoha anymore."

The Nine-Tailed Fox narrowed his eyes and was a little angry: "Dead?"

No

I didn't feel anything, and I died inexplicably?

Serious words, coming out of such a short mouth, instantly made people shudder.

Naruto sat cross-legged and told him what he had experienced in the past three years.

Soul Society, Death God, Shinou Spiritual Arts Institute, Gotei 13, these new words, one after another, broke into the ears of the Nine-Tails.

"Underworld". When it was just born and accompanied the old man "Six Paths Sage Otsutsuki Hagoromo", I heard about it. As for the Death God, I have seen it when it was in the belly of Konoha's first Jinchūriki "Uzumaki Mito".

It is completely different from what Naruto said.

A lie made up by Konoha?

Not like that.

This kind of lie has no meaning and can't deceive me.

And with my own knowledge and experience, these things sound perfect and don't seem to be fake.

This kid's mind is easy to understand, it doesn't seem to be telling a lie.

"That's it." Naruto said calmly, "Whether you were born in my heart in Konoha or came to Soul Society, we will be partners from now on."

"Will you tell me your name?"

Kyuubi grinned and exhaled a heavy breath: "You said it in a very convincing way, but I find it hard to believe you."

"How about this."

"Kid, let me feel what you said."

Naruto was puzzled: "Feel?"

"What do you want me to do?"

Kyuubi pondered, his eyes moved away from the curse seal on the fence: "Just think of it as your reward for pleasing me this time."

"Don't resist my chakra anymore, I will control it and use your senses to feel the world."

It wanted Naruto to remove the curse seal and release itself.

But. Although the things he said were different from the "underworld" in his cognition, they sounded true.

Half of his body was still sealed in the soul of the Fourth Hokage.

Compared with temporary release, replenishing the body was more important.

"If it wasn't Konoha, would you give your name?" Naruto was stubborn and still cared about this question.

Clang --

The claws slammed hard on the gate, and the Nine-Tailed Fox was impatient with the question: "I might consider this, kid!"

Its power swept and drove Naruto out.

His eyes went black.

He felt the feeling of weightlessness and falling again.

Before he opened his eyes.

There was an extremely strong odor outside his nose that kept prying his nose hair apart and rushing in.

Something was rotting.

Naruto opened his eyes and looked --

It was not that bright and spacious classroom. He was lying on a bed in a narrow and cramped room.

The room was familiar.

It was. His residence in Konoha.

He stood up and looked blankly along the smell.

The untied instant noodle bucket, the open milk, and some fish and mushrooms that could be regarded as side dishes that had not been eaten yet.

Memories flashed in his mind.

Instant noodles were almost the only staple food in the past few years. Not many people were willing to sell him things, so he could only stockpile this cheap fast food.

He went to the mountains to get the fish and mushrooms himself. It was not easy to get those things.

But.

Wasn't he dead?

How did he return to Konoha, to this residence that he almost forgot.

What were those not easy but happy days in Soul Society and Maou Spiritual Academy.

"This doesn't seem to be the Soul Society you said, kid." The slightly angry voice of the Nine-Tailed Fox sounded in Naruto's ears.

Naruto came back to his senses: "Can you see it?"

"No." The Nine-Tailed Fox was impatient, "But didn't I say that I could use your senses to feel this world."

"So."

"Where is the evidence of the Soul Society?"

Naruto didn't speak, he was also confused.

Was it a dream?

But such a long and real dream.

He frowned and was about to get up from the bed and push the door to take a look.

But there was a pain in the waist, and something hard poked it.

Naruto lowered his head.

It was a sheathed sword, with the hilt against his lower abdomen.

He was refreshed!

It was Asado.

He reached out, grasped the handle of the sword, and picked it up.

"Can you see this sword?" Naruto asked, his eyes burning.

The Nine-Tailed Fox was puzzled: "Sword, what is there."

Its voice was stuck: "Hey, strange, you actually have a weapon in your hand."

It has seen many styles of ninja weapons.

Whether it is an ordinary kunai, shuriken, or the seven blades with strange effects of the Kirigakure, or even the banana fan and seven-star sword in the hands of the Six Paths Sage, they are completely different from the sword he perceived.

No matter how special those weapons are, they all exist in this world.

But the one in Naruto's hand.

If he is not reminded, he will ignore it.

It exists in a state of nothingness, connected with Naruto's breath, and can almost be regarded as a part of his body.

"This is the Asauchi I told you about." Naruto's voice became excited. "Although I don't know why we returned to Konoha, Asauchi came back with me, which means that the things about Soul Society and Maou Spiritual Academy are not a dream!"

"They really exist!"

The Nine-Tails snorted in disbelief.

"Now you should tell me your name." Naruto said confidently.

The Nine-Tails grinned: "It's just a weapon, which doesn't mean anything."

It was also confused.

It's hard to say that this weapon was forged by a ninja. In its long life, it has indeed seen some ninjutsu related to the soul-such as "Spiritual Transformation Technique" and "Shiki Fuujin". But even the death god summoned by the latter, His weapon didn't feel this way.

Intuition told it that Naruto was not lying, and Soul Society should exist.

But it was hard to believe it without seeing it with its own eyes.

Naruto held back and didn't shout.

He held Asauchi and wondered why he suddenly returned to Konoha.

Because he entered his inner world?

He tried Blade Zen again and entered the "sewer" again. After being driven out by the Nine-Tails, he remained in his hut and did not return to the Shinō Academy.

Naruto also tried other strange methods one by one.

But none of them worked.

Can't go back?

Naruto looked at the Hokage Rock in the distance through the window and clenched the shallow hit in his hand.

No.

There is still a chance!

In the Gotei 13, there is a 13th Division that performs the "purification" duty and will send death gods to station in the world.

Konoha is of course no exception.

As long as he finds the death god, he can still return to the Soul Society.

As for now

First figure out what changes Konoha has made during the time he was away.

I just don't know how to explain to Konoha that he suddenly disappeared for three years and still looks like a child after returning.

However, the furnishings and arrangements in the house have not changed at all, and no one cares about the situation.

No one will care about him.

Naruto cleaned up the house and threw away the garbage.

He took out the only more than a thousand assets from the drawer and went out to the nearest convenience store.

Just arrived at the door.

In the house, the old man in an apron rushed out waving a broom in panic: "Get out, you plague god!"

"I told you not to approach my store!"

Naruto looked up at him with surprise.

He was not surprised by his attitude-

All Konoha people are like this, and they do not hide their malice towards him.

But he had spent more than three years in Soul Society, and the appearance of this old man in the convenience store had not changed at all.

He stood on tiptoe and looked at the electronic clock in the house. It was completely different from the mechanical alarm clock he used, showing the time and date.

It was not three years later.

It was still the first day he left Konoha and came to Soul Society.

It was as if time stopped when he left, and it would not flow again until he returned.

"You bastard, didn't you hear what I said?" The convenience store owner didn't care what Naruto was thinking. This behavior of not giving in and looking at his own store made him even more angry. He raised the broom high and hit Naruto.