Free

The location to free Kurama was something Araki had long thought of. It was the very same location where Danzo had died, and his subordinates' life force was used to grow trees

Kurama was growing excited. This was the moment he was waiting for all this time. Although he didn't feel that bad while staying within Kushina's seal, he still wanted to experience freedom.

It had been decades since he was sealed. It was natural for him to desire to be free.

After reaching the location, Araki stared at Kushina with a gentle gaze, and he said to her, "Alright, let's start now."

Kushina gave him a nod before she placed her hand on her own stomach and strongly thought 'Eight Trigram Seal… Open!'

With that, the world around Kurama started to change. He felt a strong suction power pulling him out of the body.

Kushina started to feel pain in her stomach region. It was like this was going to tear apart her whole body.

Araki controlled the 300 or so trees and started to transfer the life-force into Kushina's body. This life-force reduced her pain to a rather low level.

And slowly, reddish chakra started to release from her body.

Araki used his other half of chakra to control this reddish chakra and give it form at some distance away from them. It would be rather embarrassing if Kurama condensed right on top of them and they died to its weight.

Kurama could feel Araki's chakra, guiding it to some location. And Kurama felt it at that moment. Araki's chakra was seemingly guided by some mysterious energy that seemed to suppress Kurama completely.

In fact, Kurama felt that he wouldn't be surprised if Araki could somehow control Kurama's movements just by controlling the flow of chakra.

This utterly shocked him. It was worth noting that even Senju Hashirama's chakra was unable to control the movement of Tailed Beast Chakra. If he was capable of that feat, he could have broken the Kyuubi-Susanoo union from inside.

Kurama could feel it, although Araki hadn't surpassed Senju Hashirama in terms of the quantity of his chakra, the denseness of his chakra did surpass him

He shivered a little thinking of that terrifying move—the move which had strongly suppressed the union of both Susanoo and Kyuubi. If Senju Araki was also capable of that move then who in this world could stop him?!

As Kurama started to take form, his wild and corrosive chakra started to spread all around. Perhaps even a sensor far away from their current location would have been able to sense Kurama.

To counter this, Araki released more of the life-essence from the trees nearby. Although his chakra was quite strong, it wasn't that vast that he could completely suppress Kurama for a long time, so he utilised the life-essence to hide Kurama's chakra.

After nearby a few minutes, Kurama's massive chakra was completely condensed. His form as a Nine-Tailed Fox was complete, and he gave a large grin to Araki.

"It was worth trusting your promise." He said with that grin on his face.

Araki didn't turn to him. He was walking towards Kushina and used his chakra to heal her of her injuries.

After that, Araki turned towards Kurama, "You are free now. I have completed my first part of my promise. The second part of my promise to you was that no human would be able to capture you in the future. I will accomplish that after this war…"

"After the war? What are you planning to do?" Kurama was curious about what Araki was planning to do. How was he going to accomplish that part of his promise?

Araki didn't give him an answer, he took Kushina away from that place.

While they were returning, Araki said to Kushina, "Kushina… Act completely normal after what I am going to tell you. I have brought back an Uzumaki from Amegakure."

Kushina's eyes widened a great deal. She didn't think that Araki brought back an Uzumaki. It was quite rare for an Uzumaki to leave the village.

But she still continued to listen patiently, "His name is Nagato Uzumaki. It seems that his parents left the Uzushio for some reason that he isn't aware of. And… he seems to possess Rinnegan eyes!"

"What? Rinnegan eyes?! Isn't that the same as Sage of the Six Paths? I have never heard of an Uzumaki awakening Rinnegan eyes, dattebane!" Kushina started speaking immediately as Araki informed her of this fact.

"Yeah… I know of that. However, it is a fact that Nagato's eyes are the very same Rinnegan as the Sage of the Six Paths that Kurama told us of." Araki thought for some moments and continued soon enough, "Kurama told us that the Sage of the Six Path's power was split into his two sons. The younger received his body while the older received his ocular powers."

As he said that, Araki's eyes were slowly growing colder, "Uchiha Bloodline which has the Sharingan… Senju Bloodline which has the superior chakra and physique… Their combination should be the Rinnegan. The powers of the Sage of the Six Paths. For Nagato to have activated his Rinnegan, it means that he has the Uchiha as well as the Senju Blood within himself."

"I can still think of the Senju Blood considering that Uzumaki Clan is known as the sister clan to the Senju Clan. But… it's a low probability that he is related to the Uchiha Clan in any manner. If he indeed was related to the Uchiha Clan, he would have awakened his Sharingan first. From his description, it was as if he suddenly came to possess the Rinnegan." Araki explained it to Kushina as his voice started to grow colder.

Kushina was a little confused about why Araki's voice was getting colder.

"What do you want to say, Araki?" She asked him rather curiously.

"Now comes the important part." Araki took a deep breath before continuing, "This could all be the schemes of that old man known as the Sage of the Six Paths. Honestly, considering that Kurama and other Tailed Beasts were formed by splitting the Ten-Tails into 9 Parts… Why did the Sage of the Six Paths split them into 9 parts only? Moreover, although these 9 Tailed Beasts are somewhat difficult to capture, my grandfather was able to capture almost all of them with relatively little trouble. He could freaking give away the tailed beasts as if they were nothing."

"I don't think Madara would be far off that state. Even if not capture them all, he could still manipulate them at the same time. And if he could control the Gedo Statue during his peak state, he could just revive the Juubi." Araki's explanation only served to confuse Kushina.

But Araki wasn't done, "The Sage of the Six Paths… if my guess is right, he wanted someone to capture all the tailed beasts and acquire the power of ten tails… I don't know for what reason the Sage of the Six Paths would want that. If he didn't want that, he could have split the power of Ten-Tails into thousands… no, millions of parts. No one in the world would have been able to gather them all even if they were immortal."

"Another possibility is that… This Rinnegan is somehow related to Madara. I remember that during the time when we killed him, he didn't have his eyes. If Madara is indeed the true possessor of the Rinnegan, it would explain how he could summon the Gedo Statue from the moon and even control it." Araki's voice was a little grave as he said that.

He was well aware that this could be troublesome if Madara was indeed the true possessor of Rinnegan. Although he was quite confident about his own strength, against that man though… He couldn't be sure.

"What should we do then?" Kushina asked Araki with a bit of worried tone.

"For now, I want to gather more information. And the best place where we can find more information is the Uchiha Clan. Alright, you should return to the Senju Clan for now. I will go to the Uchiha Clan. Uchiha Kazuma or Keshiro might be willing to tell it to me." Araki said to her.

Although a little reluctant, Kushina understood that this wasn't a matter in which she should interfere. She nodded her head and replied with a smile, "Alright, I will meet up with Nagato. Don't worry, I won't say anything about the thing we have talked just now."

Araki nodded his head and said, "Got it. And remember to take some other members with you. Maybe they might know of Nagato or his parents."