Bab 109: The Dark Training Ground
Her hand still felt warm in his own, but he decided not to focus on that at the moment. Instead, he pulled her to what he assumed was the ground. "Good, now sit here with me. Cross your legs. One palm on top of the other. Inhale, then exhale. Word of warning, it hurts. A lot," Naruto told her.
Though it was so dark Ryuzetsu couldn't tell if her eyes were open or closed, she still did what the redhead told her. Once she was centered and focused, she inhaled.
"AUGH!" Ryuzetsu groaned before she violently coughed.
Pain.
Deep searing pain rushed through her body. This was worse than any kick, punch, or stab that had ever been inflicted upon her body. It felt like her entire body was being crushed, broken, and buried under the heat of a great fire. Sweat poured down her face and, if she could see inside this unending darkness, she would have been sure that she was bleeding somewhere.
Once the pain lessened, she took a few calming breaths, but none as deep as the one Naruto had told her to do.
"Told ya it hurts," He said to her.
"What...was...that?" she asked.
"That was you taking your first step into chakra cultivation that I've been researching. It doesn't help that your first time performing this method is in an environment like this. What you're doing is making your body receptive to the chakra and other energies within the Box of Ultimate Bliss. It's pain for me too, but try and gather this chakra into your abdomen and then spread it out over your body. The pills will help to stabilize both your body and your chakra, but the best benefit is without them. Now, as you've always done, prove you're worthy to inherit the power here," Naruto instructed.
Ryuzetsu spoke no further words. Neither did Naruto. Amongst the wails and cries of the people within the box, both sat and trained. The former was sure that there was no pain that she would ever feel that was worse than this.
The same could be said for Naruto. He could feel his chakra coils burning and his blood vessels surging and rushing through every fiber of his body. If there was light within the box then one would have seen the veins popping along his forehead, neck, arms, and legs. Truly, what an unholy artifact he had finally discovered after taking over the various members of the Grass Fruit and Flower groups.
With the confines of his mind, the darkness crept closer and closer.
Closer.
And closer.
And closer.
…
Soon, there was no sound to be heard. There was no wailing from the innumerable people that had been taken by the box. There were no grunts or pained coughs from Ryuzetsu. There was...nothing. There wasn't even any pain on his end. He was just...here.
Naruto opened his eyes. Around him laid numerous corridors and steel pipes along a ceiling. Below him was enough water to submerge him up to his knees. No matter where he turned, there was darkness within each corridor. Each hall called out to him as if asking him to venture into their depths so that they could consume him, but there was one that seemed to call the loudest.
Kicking up his knees through the rising waters beneath him, Naruto began his trek through one particular sewer corridor that beckoned for him. He wasn't sure how much time passed from when he stepped into the shadows until he arrived at the exit, but when he stepped forward he was not prepared for what greeted his gaze.
A wave of malicious chakra and killing intent was thrown into his face all at once. A feel of disgust ran through his body when he felt his legs tremble and a shred of fear expel on his face. The fight or flight response of his body ran haywire. When was the last time he felt like this? Perhaps it was back in Konoha? He couldn't be sure, but...this sense of disturbed fear made him chuckle.
That chuckle did not last long because he heard a deep growl whose sound reverberated through the very bones with him and through the hall he had been residing in. Once the darkness was cleared away, he realized he had been standing in front of a massive set of long, thin iron bars. Between these bars was a set of doors whose lock was a flimsy, unassuming piece of paper.
"...Seal," Naruto said to himself, reading what had been upon the paper. He quickly began to connect the dots within his head. It all seemed to start making sense if only a bit. The malicious chakra, the immense killing intent that could even make him feel fear despite the numerous times he had seen death in the memories of others, the gates, the seal, it could all mean one thing, and that...made Naruto's smile widen.
The growling got deeper. Naruto picked up his feet and began walking to the iron bars in front of him. "...It's funny. I had always planned to meet you when I was more adverse in fūinjutsu, but I suppose we all can't have what we want in life. You're proof of that concept enough, ain't ya...Kyuubi no Yōko?" the redhead asked.
No sooner than those words expelling from the boy's lips did a pair of claws attempt to slash at his face. One was just close enough to nick his cheek and draw the blood from its side. The Uzumaki stuck out his tongue and licked it off.
Then, Uzumaki Naruto was greeted with the sight of a giant fox with a magnificent orange coat of fur. Its red, slitted eyes conveyed the malice within its heart for him while its nine tails swayed menacingly. Its teeth were white like ivory and sharper than any samurai blade were born menacingly.
"How nice it would feel without this cage to rip you to pieces in my teeth. How fortunate for you this cage prevents me from obtaining such a sweet memory for myself. Even now, as I look upon you, upon that once blonde hair turned red, upon those blue eyes, and upon that disgusting stench of a now-deceased clan, I only find myself wishing to subject every horror to you that I have thought of for all this time," the monster who had been the destruction of Konoha said.
"Is that a fact? Well, I'm glad I'm worth the contempt of a monster whose mere footsteps spell natural disasters. But I can't say the feeling isn't mutual. Tell me, when I was getting shit thrown me, stabbed, burned, and all the other stuff, how much of that did you actually feel?" Naruto asked. For his response, a dark grin in the form of sharp teeth filled his eyes.
"Not. A. Thing," it spoke.
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