16

"Yo Kurama. Pay up!!" It was the last day of the semester, as Naruto was sitting in class, excited at the prospect of holidays with his friends, as Hiroki was dancing in front of Kurama mockingly.

"Stop dancing like an idiot brat." Kurama roared in annoyance seeing the horrible dancing figure of the human in front of him.

"If you want me to stop dancing, I will. Just pay up. You remember the bet, don't you?" Hiroki chuckled.

"Of course, I remember. Who do you think you are talking to? Would I, the Great Nine Tails cheap out and not keep his promise?" Kurama snarled.

"Is that so? I was waiting from yesterday for you to remember the bet, but you didn't say anything about it. Were you secretly hoping a clan heir would come along and insult naruto to his face and reveal their hatred for him?" Hiroki wiggled his eyebrows.

"W-what. No way. I, the Great Kurama will never resort to such cheap tricks. Here, now shut up." Stunned and angry at having his thoughts brought out to the open, Kurama huffed and puffed like a baby.

Instantly, a phantom of a small red fox with a fluffy tail split from Kurama's body, before hopping towards Hiroki, who placed his palm out. Carefully approaching the outstretched palm, the fox sniffed and cooed, before suddenly dissolving into a gas of chakra, and rushing into his hand.

SIZZLE

Like a juicy steak hitting a red-hot grill, Hiroki's hand burned with a sizzling sound, before a geometric fox tattoo seared itself on his wrist.

"Damnnnnnnnnn, that was really hot and painful. Injecting chakra directly into a soul is hella painful." Hitting a high note, Hiroki sang out, trying to drown out the pain.

"Hm, that's what you get for trying to insult me," Kurama whispered with a victorious smile on his face.

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"Hey, Hiroki ni-san. What are we going to be doing during the holidays?" as soon as Naruto got home, he rushed into his mindscape, and began hounding his elder brother.

"Well, I think it's time for you to unlock your chakra. You would have usually done this on the first day of the next semester, but most of the clan kids are doing it now anyway, so let's get on with it, shall we?" Hiroki replied with a smile.

"Unlocking my chakra. Is it really time? Yes, let's do this. I can't wait to use all different types of jutsus and do cool tricks. Let's goooo?" with literal stars in his eyes, Naruto jumped in joy as Hiroki just waited for the boy to calm down on his own.

"Before that, draw the chakra pathways of the human body on here." By saying so, Hiroki passed Naruto a 3D hologram of a human body.

"Again" naruto whined but got to it as he accurately traced his finger through the human body made of light as a dense structure began to take shape inside the body.

A few minutes passed as Naruto put his whole concentration on drawing the pathways with precision, rarely blinking.

"..and done." After 7 minutes, the boy stepped back to admire his creation as Hiroki nodded approvingly.

"well done. Only 4 mistakes this time. Though you went back to correct them.

Now that this is done with, lets get to unlocking your chakra.

Throughout the years, Kurama has been flooding your system with his chakra without control due to this seal. Because of that, your pathways are a bit more developed and sturdier than that of normal people.

This is a good thing and a bad thing at the same time.

Good thing is that you can harness a lot more chakra at a time and store a lot more than the average person. This is due to Kurama, and also because you are an Uzumaki.

The bad thing, however, is that you will need to dedicate a shit ton of hours to carefully control the chakra in your body. But don't worry, I'm here to help with that.

So, when you go out of here, follow my voice, as I will try to guide the chakra with you along the pathways. Though I can't possess your body, I can slightly influence it since we both share the same mindscape. Now, go out and follow my voice." With that, Naruto exited the mindscape and found himself sitting on his bed with the blinds closed.

"Look for a feeling in your tummy. Feel the different nodes of the chakra on your body. There will be a slightly warm feeling, right beside your blood vessels.

Yeah, that's it. Now, try to pull on it, guide it as you would a child, through the pathways from memory. Let the chakra flow on its own, all you have to do is guide it in the right direction."

As Hiroki spoke, Naruto felt the warm sensation in his body, which he tried to guide slowly around his body. At first, the feeling was extremely faint, but the more he tried to move it, the heavier and more significant the feeling became.

Suddenly, as he moved the chakra through the pathways, he felt some resistance, halting his movement.

"Don't worry. Let me take care of that." That was all Naruto heard before a foreign feeling bubbled in his stomach, as a dense, red chakra flowed calmly through the pathways, before mixing with Naruto's chakra.

BOOM

Like a bomb going off, Naruto felt an explosion coming from his body, before feeling the previous blockade disappearing.

"Try to guide the chakra a bit more. I'll just help when we have to break through the blockades, alright." With that, for the next four hours, Naruto struggled to guide his chakra through his body, before Hiroki charged with his own chakra and blew up his tenketsu points.

Every point he blew up, chakra started to leak, but as soon as that happened, the red chakra of Hiroki covered it up, and the point started to heal, but not before adapting itself with the ability to open and close whenever needed.

Slowly, but steadily, Naruto guided the chakra throughout his body, enduring the 361 explosions occurring his chakra pathways, before laying on the bed in exhaustion.

"Phew. Never doing that again." Naruto muttered as he fell asleep.

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"So you came after all, huh, Ashura?"

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