Chapter 46: Maybe Anyway. 

Of course, the joke about the Great Fireball have 100% miss chance is just a joke. The technique is quite powerful. A fireball over three meters in diameter shot from Kurama's mouth, hitting Shukaku's big face directly.

Though not very strong, for tailed beasts, Ninjutsu filled with natural energy is more damaging than physical attacks.

Shukaku cried out in pain, and his resistance weakened significantly.

Seeing this, Naruto and Sasuke's eyes lit up. Naruto increased his control over Shukaku, and Sasuke started releasing Ninjutsu like crazy.

"Fire Release: Great Fireball Jutsu!"

"Fire Release: Phoenix Sage Fire Jutsu!"

"Fire Release: Dragon Fire Jutsu!"

One Fire Release Ninjutsu after another was unleashed recklessly. Although most of them were C-rank and D-rank Ninjutsu, the sheer number of them, each carrying natural energy, caused Shukaku's entire face to change color from the flames.

Kurama glanced at the seal on the cell door, which was half torn open: "Naruto, channel my chakra into Shukaku."

"Okay!" Naruto didn't doubt Kurama. Taking advantage of the moment when Shukaku was suppressed by Sasuke, he controlled Kurama's nine huge tails like sharp blades, directly stabbing Shukaku. As the nine tails landed on Shukaku, the red chakra slowly began to cover Shukaku's body through the black patterns on the tails.

You could see Shukaku's originally angry eyes suddenly shrink, and then he completely lost the ability to resist, or rather, he stopped resisting.

"It's working!" Seeing this, Naruto increased his efforts, pouring all the chakra he could muster into Shukaku's body.

...

"Shukaku, enough. Do you want to kill my Jinchuriki?" In Gaara's sealed space, which was pitch black and covered with water droplets, two giant monsters stood facing each other. Kurama looked at Shukaku with cold eyes.

Unlike Naruto's sealed space, this space had no cells, no underground passages, and no seals. Shukaku stood alone in the center, his expression uncertain: "Kurama, I don't trust humans."

Kurama squatted on the water, looking at Shukaku with helpless eyes: "Neither do I, but Naruto is different. This is the one thing I can be sure of."

Whether it was in the original story or from what Kurama saw now, Naruto was indeed different from others. 

Maybe it was influenced by those Earth memories, but Kurama didn't have much resentment towards humans now.

Of course, it was just a lack of resentment, far from liking them. Perhaps it was like that saying from the Earth memories: the more you understand humans, the more you dislike them. It's an unsolvable problem.

Kurama naturally understood humans quite well, but combining those Earth memories with his own thousands of years of memories, he only felt the complexity of humans.

Good people could be kinder than anyone, like the old man of the Six Paths. Evil people could be more evil than anyone, like the humans recorded on Earth, who could kill for their own selfish desires and abandon the lives of many for the so-called future.

Similarly, there were those who would sacrifice themselves for others.

Seemingly thinking of something, Kurama chuckled and slowly said to Shukaku: "Shukaku, you don't need to trust humans, just trust Naruto."

"Why? Kurama, why do you trust that kid named Naruto Uzumaki so much?" Shukaku looked at Kurama in confusion.

Kurama raised his head, smiling proudly: "Because he called my name."

Shukaku was instantly stunned.

Names... In the ninja world, the names of the tailed beasts weren't important. From One-Tail to Nine-Tails, they were tailed beasts, not humans, so the ninja world didn't care about their names. Ninjas only knew that tailed beasts were powerful and that controlling them could grant great power.

But Naruto was different. Naruto was the first and only one since the old man of the Six Paths to seriously call them by their names, not referring to them as "tailed beasts," but by their names first, and then as tailed beasts.

One-Tail Shukaku, Two-Tails Matatabi, Three-Tails Isobu, Four-Tails Son Goku, Five-Tails Kokuo, Six-Tails Saiken, Seven-Tails Chomei, Eight-Tails Gyuki, Nine-Tails Kurama... these are not their titles, but their names. (Note: Some translations refer to the Two-Tails as Nibi, and there are other names for the others as well. This translation follows the encyclopedia. Also, some sources say the full name of the Four-Tails is very long, starting from the Water Curtain Cave of Flower and Fruit Mountain and ending with the name given by the Sage of Six Paths, Son Goku. But it's too long to write here.)

Shukaku ...

fell silent. For tailed beasts, being recognized and called by their names had a completely different meaning, just like the old Sage of Six Paths. Naruto always called Kurama by his name, not 'Nine-Tails' or 'monster'.

Even though he was called a demon fox and a monster since he was young, he never blamed anyone for it. Kurama was also an innocent tailed beast sealed away.

Naruto actually had it rough. As the son of the Fourth Hokage, he should have enjoyed the treatment of a Hokage's child, but because of Kurama, his identity had to be hidden. And because Kurama was sealed inside him, he was discriminated against by everyone since he was young.

It wasn't like he wanted to be a Jinchuriki, or that he wanted to be a hero. It's just that... no one paid attention to him. Instead of living like a resentful person, he chose to become a hero so everyone would look up to him.

Gaining everyone's recognition, that was Naruto's wish.

Anyway, Shukaku probably understood what made that kid different. Maybe to ordinary people, he seemed a bit foolish, but to the tailed beasts, Naruto was like the Sage of Six Paths.

Naively foolish, but also reliably foolish.

Shukaku sighed. "I get it, you stinky fox. Take the chakra you need."

As he spoke, blue chakra threads extended from Shukaku's body under the water, slowly gathering on Kurama. Seeing this, Kurama grinned and extended his fist. "When transferring chakra, you need to do it like this for it to feel right."

Shukaku rolled his eyes but didn't refuse. He extended his fist and bumped it against Kurama's with a look of annoyance. "Hmph, tell that kid my name is Shukaku. If he calls me wrong next time, I'll kill him."

"Don't worry, that guy may be foolish, but his memory is pretty good," Kurama said with a smile.

Probably.

After receiving Shukaku's chakra, Kurama also passed some of his own chakra to Shukaku. Mainly because Shukaku didn't have much chakra to begin with, taking so much at once would leave him weak for a while.

Now there's nothing to worry about. Kurama's chakra was like a universal battery, ensuring Shukaku wouldn't run out of power when using tailed beast balls in the future.

Well...

Probably.

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