Journey of Desires

The next day, closer to twelve o'clock in the afternoon, Ban and Kilia finally woke up, Hikari got up as usual, and Naruko had been in a state of meditation for sixteen hours.

It is unclear what Naruko is doing in her mind, but the others decided not to touch her, since she does not come out of this state, it means that huge progress has been outlined.

The hotel that the ninja Kiri recommended yesterday has a very strange and frankly inconvenient layout.

There is only one room with four beds, but all that is in it is essentially one large room and four beds. There is no kitchen or bathroom, if in almost all the places where they had previously been there was the opportunity to use a private kitchen and bath, then the Kirigakure hotel is clearly losing out against the rest, it is unclear what yesterday's shinobi was thinking.

Although there is a possibility that this option is the best ... Well, then Kiri is obviously in incredibly bad shape.

The room looked like a huge room with four beds, somewhat reminiscent of a barracks, and in this room Naruko was sitting in the lotus position, while Hikari was improving her calligraphy, recently she decided to study fuinjutsu, and calligraphy is very important in this art.

Kilia was still sleeping, showing no signs of activity.

But Ban was sleeping on a bed by the window, and when the sun rose to its peak, its rays began to fall directly on Ban's face, which woke him up.

A dissatisfied grumbling was heard, and after ten seconds, Hikari's eyes were presented with a scene of Ban, clearly dissatisfied, slowly waking up and getting out of bed.

His first words were.

- Oh, wow, so she's still meditating?

His voice was quiet, almost a whisper, and in response he heard words in the same quiet-quiet voice.

- Yes, Ban, you have an appointment with the Mizukage in an hour.

- Huh? Is it that late already?

- Uh-huh.

- Okay, I'll go for a walk and then go to the Kage...

Then he extended his hand towards the table and food appeared on it, today for breakfast he took out the pastries he had completely forgotten about. He doesn't like croissants, but once in the world of the seven deadly sins he really wanted them for some reason, and as a result he spent more than a week trying to create them, in order to describe their taste and sensations in detail he needed quite a lot of effort. Since he didn't know how to cook them, he had to hire pastry chefs and give them the task of creating this dish based on his description and drawing.

Leaving portions for all the girls and a jug of milk from the Land of Iron on the table, he left the room standing with his back to Hikari and waving goodbye.

***

- NUISABLE GIRL! STOP IT!!

In the mental space of Naruko's mind, it is not clear how many hours in a row the screams of the evil Kyuubi were heard.

First, having got into her subconscious, Naruko decided to study it, however, except for the huge tower in the center of the city, she did not find anything interesting, the city is like a city, somewhat reminiscent of a strange mixture of Tokyo and Paris, it seems that everywhere there are high-rise buildings with a clearly Japanese style, but for some reason these streets and the atmosphere are reminiscent of France.

It took her about ten hours to study the entire city, and then she went to Kyuubi, unlike last time he did not throw her out, and apparently now he is not able to do this, six years inside the space in a state of sleep, not only increased her age making her much stronger than before, but also due to the improvement and maturation, the chakra which improved due to growth and constant absorption of energy from the symbols of Kilia, her mental strength increased and Kyuubi can no longer throw her out of here.

But in the first minutes, nothing that Naruko expected happened, when she entered the room with the cage, Kurama looked at her with interest.

For the last six years, Kurama could not connect to any of the sense organs of his Jinchuriki, and six years of silence affected him very much, for the first time he felt that he was forgotten.

In his entire life, there was no such thing that no one descended into his subconscious and did not try to get power.

The times when Naruko was a child do not count, after all, she was a weak human child and it was not a problem for Kyuubi to look after the surroundings, and most of the time he slept due to the poor condition after being divided into yin and yang by the god of death.

As a result, six years in absolute solitude affected Kurama, and when he met his Jinchuriki, he looked incredibly calm, looked at the girl and waited.

- And so ... Kyuubi, I came to get your power.

Hearing these words for the first time after a long time of silence, Kurama's mood was greatly spoiled, he clicked his teeth and said discontentedly.

- Answer first.

- M? For what?

Naruko was a little surprised, as she did not expect such calmness from the aggressive Biju.

- Why haven't you visited me for six years? I thought humans want to get powers as quickly and as much as possible.

- Well, I was sleeping.

- Sleeping?

Kurama's face showed confusion, he had heard a lot of things in his life, but for a person to sleep for years? Usually it's called a coma, but Naruko said exactly about sleep...

- Yes, in fact, in the world, these six years did not pass, I urgently needed to become stronger, and so I was artificially aged.

- What? What kind of nonsense are you talking about?

Kyuubi obviously did not believe it, or rather, he simply did not understand what she meant, how could she have been aged? And for him, these six years passed very clearly and distinctly.

- Hm! This is not nonsense... In short! It does not matter, give me your strength!

- No! A human like you is not worthy of having my strength!

- Well then, I will take it by force!

- Try it!

Kurama said the last word with a clear threat in his voice, clearly determined to crush her like a mosquito, he stood up on all fours and growled.

Naruko approached the gate of the huge cage, step by step she began to approach the biju, after ten steps in front of her feet began to appear small platforms rising from the floor, began to form steps leading directly to the seal in the ventra of the cage gate.

Since Naruko did not have the key to the seal, and it was now with Jiraiya, they had previously addressed this question first to Killer Bee, but since he did not understand fuinjutsu, they did not receive a useful answer, but Orochimaru was able to help.

A golden chain appeared from behind Naruko's shoulder, slowly reaching for the paper that holds the seal, she began to cut it little by little, turning the sheet of paper into something like a paper frame surrounding a round lock in the center.

Due to the fact that the seal was not broken in an aggressive way, and the Kyuubi chakra did not begin to emerge outward, Naruko did not turn into the form of a tailed beast, and Minato did not appear.

Kurama watched this with caution and when he saw that Naruko had finished and turned around and started to go down the steps, he was confused.

- Eee? Girl, have you given up already?

- M? Nope, the seal is broken, now I can pull your chakra little by little, so, ciao! Ha ha ha!

Starting to laugh, she headed for the exit of the room, and seeing this, Kurama went into a rage, first she left him in isolation for six years, then she came and began to steal his power, and... And left?

Screaming in rage, he stretched his paw through the bars of the cage and swung, hitting the place where the girl was standing.

*Rumble*

After a couple of seconds, Kyuubi removed his paw to look at the result, but belatedly he realized that his paw felt a lot of pain, and quickly removing it, he saw how Naruko was standing completely intact but surrounded by stakes that grew out of the floor, and also one gold chain was visible from her back.

A minute earlier, Kurama did not notice the chain because of the angle and concentration on the anticipation of the fight, and seeing it now he felt a little panic, every time he saw these Uzumaki chains before, something bad happened to him after that.

Bijuu consist of chakra and their body is a huge accumulation of energy, but they can still feel pain, and the feeling of your paw being pierced by stakes is not pleasant.

Screaming in rage, he delivered a horizontal blow, but he could not break the stakes and as a result, Naruko remained intact.

- Vile little man! You will pay for everything!

Using the maximum he can inside the mind of his jinchuriki, Kurama managed to squeeze out some of his chakra from the cage, blocking the exit from the room.

The game of whack-a-mole began.

Blow after blow was delivered to the place where Naruko is, but none could break through the protection created by her mind, this space is her mind, and she can do anything here, and since Kurama is locked, he is not able to interfere with her, in this state he is enough only for minor inconveniences.

Since these blows did not bring any effect, Kyuubi stopped doing this and looked at the Jinchuriki with anger in his eyes.

Naruko at that moment went into her thoughts because she saw what she really wanted.

Her system not only gives points for each level, but also every 100 levels allows you to get a skill or improve your body, for increasing the 100th level she opened the Kongo Fusa chain, yes, she only received one chain, but she is not a purebred Uzumaki, besides, these are not just sealing or attacking adamantine chains, but their strongest variation of the Kongo Fusa chain, in her situation, getting even one such chain is a huge bonus and a miracle.

She froze the notification she received.

"The user has performed a unique action: Enrage the Nine-Tailed Fox at will and survive its attacks, forcing it to stop, realizing its impotence"

"The user has increased the level: 199>200"

"The reward for increasing the second hundred has been offered, please select an option:

1- Key to the Nine-Tailed Seal.

2- Awakening to the talent of Fuinjutsu (Pureblood Uzumaki level)

3- Enhancement of Immortality (Your soul and body are linked)

4- Unlock the inventory (99 slots of 5 cubic meters, one item takes up one slot regardless of size)

5- Enhancement of the body's genetics (Uzumaki genes become dominant)"

"*ERROR* Due to the seal of immortality, body modification is unavailable, reward number 5 is locked"

After reading the message, Naruko thought about it. The first option is useless, it is enough to simply break the seal by force, of course this will lead to the transformation into Kyuubi in the outside world, but it can be done in the wilderness.

So the choice is between the second, third and fourth.

It took her only a minute to make a choice, the result of her decision was number two.

Number three is unimportant, since she already has an inventory on legs, there is no better storage than Ban.

Option number three is very tempting and logically important, but Naruko is sure that something similar can be done with the help of fuinjutsu, and therefore...

"Hehehe, I have the Uzumaki chain, and now I will get talent in fuin, well wait old macaque, I will still make you regret that you threw me into terrible conditions"

Having confirmed the reward, she returned her attention to the Biju, waving her hand at him, inside the cage, stakes from the ground began to appear that tried to pierce Kurama, but inside the cage he has power, and all attacks were useless, Biju simply canceled Naruko's attacks.

Naruko, seeing the futility of this action, strengthened the chain by making it larger, and directed it into the cage, nothing could be done against Kongo Fus, and as a result, Biju began to be beaten, because of which this fox began to scream at the top of his voice.

- NUISABLE GIRL! STOP IT!

But his voice was not heard, and a few minutes later Naruko left the building after receiving a notification from the system.

"The user has performed a unique action: Beat the nine-tailed bijuu using only one ability"

"Hehe, it seems that Uzumaki's chains are too imba against tailed beasts"