Discussion: How the Nine-Tails led Naruto astray

"Heh." Kurama lay in the sealed space, watching the things outside like a play.

Of course, he deliberately didn't lend Naruto chakra. It's not okay to let Naruto rely on his own chakra. Look at the original work. Naruto took off after he didn't borrow Kurama's chakra. Before that, Naruto always called Kurama when he couldn't beat him. His own growth can almost be said to be negligible.

At the beginning of Shippuden, except for Sasuke, the other twelve little strong men were all above Chunin, and Neji had even become Jonin, while Naruto still didn't know anything except Shadow Clone and Rasengan. That Naruto probably couldn't beat anyone among the twelve little strong men.

It was not until the battle with Orochimaru that he realized that he should not "borrow" the power of the tailed beasts anymore, and began to learn to master the tailed beasts' chakra. From then on, Naruto's combat power was completely taken off.

Although it doesn't matter if he lends Naruto chakra now, Kurama can't wait until then. He needs to let Naruto know that he can't be truly strong just by relying on his power, and only by being strong can he be truly strong.

Look at Naruto after the Fourth World War. Although he still only knows how to use shadow clones and Rasengan, when he fought against Otsutsuki Toneri on the moon and faced Otsutsuki Toya in Boruto, Naruto's physical skills, tactics, and combat awareness, even without his Kurama's chakra, Naruto is still one of the two strongest people in the ninja world.

This is powerful.

Even if he can beat Neji with the power of Kurama now, what does it matter? The powerful Kurama is not Uzumaki Naruto. As long as Naruto doesn't understand this, he will never grow up.

Naruto doesn't understand this yet. For him, Kurama's strength is his strength. After all, he can borrow chakra from Kurama at any time, so he subconsciously thinks that Kurama's strength is his own strength.

In the original work, Kurama lent Naruto chakra in order to erode the seal when Naruto borrowed his chakra, until the chakra that could be borrowed exceeded Naruto's tolerance limit, so that Kurama could kill Naruto and escape from the seal.

But now Kurama doesn't have such an idea. In order to fight against the Otsutsuki clan in the future, Naruto's strength is indispensable, so Kurama will not do this, and he has to find a way to get out of the seal without hurting Naruto.

For this reason, he needs to make Naruto's strength reach the level that he can fight against the Akatsuki organization without him. Only in this way can Kurama do his own things with peace of mind.

Now the first step is to make Naruto realize that it is not enough to rely on his own chakra.

On the field, Neji has made up his mind not to let up again, and what Naruto can do now is to resist Neji's attack with all his strength, connect attacks through shadow clones, or find flaws in Neji's attacks to counterattack.

But how can the Byakugan be so easily restrained? Even if the shadow clone can interfere with the line of sight, it is useless. The 360-degree view of the Byakugan stares at all clones, and is it so easy to think of a joint attack?

Feeling the shadow clones being broken one by one, Naruto's main body also frowned. The feeling of the shadow clones being broken will be transmitted back to the main body. Even if he is generous, it is a bit uncomfortable to have so many shadow clones broken at once.

On the other side, Neji looked at the dozens of shadow clones that surrounded him, and his eyes were solemn: "Naruto, is your attack only a degree? You have such awareness but you don't have the strength to match it. Can you change your fate like this?"

"No way to fight!" Dozens of Naruto shouted at the same time, holding kunai and rushing up.

Watching this scene, Neji's eyes did not waver at all: "Eight Trigram Palms·Kaiten!"

Kaiten's power is indeed strong. Even if Neji's strength is not strong at this stage, Kaiten's all-round attack still puts him in an absolute advantage, and he can block any attack.

As dozens of shadow clones dissipated in an instant, Naruto, who flew backwards, was also hit hard. He fell to the ground, gritting his teeth, and took out a shuriken as big as his head from his ninja tool bag: "In this case, I can only use this trick!"

Ningji stopped Kaiten, his eyes condensed: "Windmill shuriken, it is true that this kind of shuriken has a strong attack power, but to control it, the user needs to have a certain degree of shuriken manipulation. As far as I know, shuriken is not your specialty, right?"

Windmill shuriken, a huge shuriken, its cutting force, penetration force, and striking surface are much higher than the usual palm-sized shuriken. There are even ninjas who specialize in shuriken manipulation who use this huge shuriken.

Sword.

But wait, how can that small ninja bag hold such a big windmill shuriken?

Ningci subconsciously felt something was wrong, but before he could think about it, he saw Naruto in the distance swinging a huge windmill shuriken directly, like a huge fan flying in Naruto's hand.

"You actually know how to use it." Ningci was a little surprised. Shurikenjutsu is easy to say, but this thing is not something you can learn just by wanting to learn. The Shurikenjutsu of the Uchiha clan is considered the strongest shurikenjutsu in the ninja world, and after the Uchiha clan was exterminated, this Shurikenjutsu also became the property of Konoha.

I didn't expect to see it in Naruto's hands now.

"Wait!" Ningci, who was originally ready to take the move, suddenly flashed his eyes, and an inexplicable smile appeared on his face, "So that's it, I said Shurikenjutsu is not so easy to learn, it's the shadow clone that changed it."

That's right, the huge shuriken in Naruto's hand was transformed by the shadow clone. He originally wanted to use this trick to trick Ningci, but he didn't expect it to be exposed in an instant.

Naruto's face looked a little ugly.

Ninci took a stance, and looked at Naruto with a pair of white eyes: "I want to remind you that the white eyes have the ability to see through chakra, so I can't tell your shadow clone from your real body, but in contrast, all transformations, clones, and substitutes can't work on me."

Transformation is an illusion ninjutsu that uses chakra to wrap oneself, which can be seen through by the white eyes at a glance, and clones are also illusion ninjutsu, because the clones separated by the clone technique have no chakra, and the white eyes can see the real body at a glance, and the substitutes are the same principle.

"Tsk." Naruto smacked his lips unhappily, but he still held up the windmill shuriken and shouted at Neji, "You should wash your eyes, you can see this wrong."

"Whether I saw it wrong or not, you and I know it." Neji responded.

Naruto felt that if he continued to talk like this, he would be exposed, so the moment Neji finished this sentence, he threw the windmill shuriken in his hand directly.

Although it was just a transformation technique that turned into a shuriken, the power of this shuriken was indeed quite scary. After all, the windmill shuriken was large in size and its power was not weak. It rushed towards Neji at a high speed with a sound like the whistling wind.