Systematic Shinobi - Chapter 49.1

Despite the slight mocking tone he'd given about the state of Naruto's mindscape…soulscape? Whatever-it-was-scape-

Daiki was astounded by it. He had to shut off his ability to see chakra, simply because the sheer amount of it permeating even the outer halls away from the main area where the nine tailed bijuu was located, was almost blinding.

The wall, the pipes running along the walls, the air, the water he stood upon. The saturation of chakra dwarfed his own and then some, that was for sure.

'Not only that, but the sheer amount of yang chakra in comparison to yin is absurd,' Isobu commented, 'It's no wonder the boy's healing factor is so powerful and how he stands above his peers of his year beyond the Uchiha boy and yourself physically. I wonder if the Yondaime Hokage took this into account?'

'It does explain a few things.' Daiki mused inwardly as he traversed the seal halls. It was not like Naruto did not train, in fact, out of their graduating class, the only people that trained harder than the blonde were Sasuke and Daiki himself.

But, the quality of his training was abysmal. He was mostly self taught and he made his own training up as he went. And while it worked, it was inefficient compared to his own training or the likes Rock Lee went through.

Yet, canonically, by the time Naruto had returned from his trip to find Tsunade, he was physically superior to Sasuke who was at that point on par with Rock Lee speed wise. That did not make sense. Despite his hard efforts, Naruto was not geared towards being a speedster. He was geared to being a juggernaut.

'Yes, it seems this overabundance of yang chakra is helping his musculature develop and strengthen at a much greater rate than usual, offsetting his subpar training,' Isobu agreed, 'I hazard to guess that even if he did not train, as he aged towards adulthood he would still passively become stronger from it.'

That was kind of bullshit and that was coming from him.

'I agree, though I find it even more stupefying how such potential has been squandered,' Isobu hummed, 'If he had proper training from his younger years like much of his peers, I have no doubts that he would already be on the level of a kage.'

That thought almost made Daiki sneer in disgust. That was tantamount to heresy as far as he was concerned and why kindness could also be a weakness.

The old man was far too soft in this case. He could still have been kind while being strict with Naruto and in his place, Daiki would have installed the proper method of the grind in him from a young age and created a super shinobi that could have rivalled Hashirama without calling on his bijuu by time he was fifteen.

To be perfectly honest, he couldn't even say he wouldn't have pulled a Danzo with him. To be precise, if he only had the knowledge the old man had to go on currently and not his meta knowledge, he would have grabbed two Uchiha traitors who were close, there were plenty at the time and then kill one of them forcing the other to awaken the mangekyou and then killed him and taken them as well. Then implanted them within Naruto and had him trained to subdue Kurama with his eyes and force his compliance and make Naruto a pseudo perfect Jinchuuriki.

'…Ruthless pragmatism at its finest,' Isobu huffed, 'I do not condone that idea at all, but from the view of a Hokage that would be the most optimal choice and create a shinobi only the likes of Hashirama Senju and Madara Uchiha could defeat and that's generously assuming he had not yet reached his prime yet.'

Daiki wasn't able to ponder on that though any longer, because Naruto who had been uncharacteristically silent for the last little bit, finally regained at least a bit of his bearings.

"…What did you mean by what you said earlier," the blonde asked, frowning at him thoughtfully, "How you don't blame the stupid fox?"

"Just that," he shrugged, "Let me ask you something in return Naruto. Why do you think the Kyuubi attacked the Leaf? How do you think it even got in the vicinity of the Leaf Village?"

"…It walked…or ran?" Naruto replied with a shrug after a moment of thinking and apparently coming up blank.

"Haha, no," Daiki snorted, "Back then our village had the Yondaime and the old man. Jiraiya, Orochimaru, Danzo a guy you've likely never heard of and more. As powerful as the Kyuubi is, far stronger than any of them alone, power alone doesn't decide everything and if it just approached our village, it would have been spotted from miles away and all our strongest shinobi would have mobilized and attacked it long before it got to our village and sealed it. And that's not taking into account every other village coveting the Kyuubi's power and attacking it as well."

Naruto's face scrunched up and he could practically see the rusty gears inside his head turning, "…So how did it get to our village then?" he asked.

"Because it broke out of its last Jinchuuriki," Daiki revealed bluntly, "You didn't think you were the first Jinchuuriki of it, did you?"

Naruto stopped, sapphire blue eyes shooting wide open in absolute shock, "….What…?" he gaped, "There's….been more?"

"Yup, to be exact there were two before you, the first being the wife of the Shodaime Hokage," Daiki continued on, "Long ago, she sealed it inside herself after it was subdued by the Shodaime."

"…This is crazy…" Naruto shook his head, "So the Kyuubi attacked the village back then?"

"Haha, no," Daiki repeated with another snort, "See, this village was founded by the Shodaime and a guy called Madara Uchiha."

"Uchiha…like Sasuke?" Naruto tilted his head.

"Yeah," Daiki nodded, "Back then, they got into a big ass fight and Madara left the village and went on a rampage across the continent. The Shodaime Hokage went to stop him and they got into a big fight, during which Madara enslaved the Kyuubi that was just minding its own business and hypnotised it with his sharingan and used it to fight the Shodaime Hokage. Suffice to say, Madara lost the fight and the Shodaime decided that the Kyuubi was too strong to let just walk around, so he subdued it and had his wife seal it inside herself. He then went and hunted down the other eight bijuu, beat the crap out of them and sealed them away as well and then gifted them to the other villages for some hippy peace crap. Well except the Ichibi, the one in that Gaara kid, the sand had already subdued that one themselves."

"Huh…?" Naruto gaped at him, "…What? No…wait, what? I don't understand, why do that?"

"For peace apparently," Daiki shrugged, "Like I said before, Jinchuuriki like us are superior to normal ninja. We're basically, when trained right, super ninja. The Shodaime was so god damn strong everyone was afraid of him, so he thought gifting them all the bijuu to make their own super ninja to act as weapons would make them feel more secure…I think."

Honestly, why he gave the Bijuu out, was a mystery to him, even after seeing it with his own eyes. He understood he wanted peaceful coexistence, but he didn't understand why he gave the Bijuu out beyond him having them at the time. Did he hunt the other Bijuu because he thought they were too powerful to let roam or because he wanted to use them as a gift? That part wasn't expanded on at all.

'Personally, I'm not his biggest fan,' Isobu commented, 'I don't know what he was thinking. But, I was just relaxing in a nice big lake, sleeping actually when he came out of nowhere, dragged me out with that giant wood golem thing of his, beat me up, wrapped me up in giant wooden tendrils and had his wife seal me…in a jar of all things.'

…Yeah, that was the problem with hippies. They never saw anything beyond the vision in front of them. And they were always hypocrites in the end. He could appreciate Hashirama's vision and desires, but not his methods.

Quite frankly, the man had no idea what he was doing. If he wanted peace, Daiki had better ideas. In his place, he would have had Madara enslave the other Kage with his eyes like he did Yagura or how Obito did, either or. He would have had them preach friendly relations with Konoha and run the propaganda for them.

Which would have also placated Madara as well, at least partially.

And if he personally believed the Bijuu were too powerful to let roam, he wouldn't have sealed them in breakable objects or people. He would have created large sealed spaces, other dimensions, which he knew Mito should have been capable of from his own understanding of sealing and let them live out their lives there.

It would still be imprisoning them, but it would be better than the cramped ways inside a person and used as a weapon.

'We would have still resented you for subjecting us to your will, but again, a much better plan I do admit.' Isobu mused, 'Frankly, if things played out that way, this entire continent would most likely have become Konoha, unified under a single banner, even if it would not be perfect.'

Daiki shrugged inwardly, he never thought it would be. Perfection did not exist after all. If it did, he would already be it.

'Sure.' Isobu snorted.

"I…still don't get it, if what you say is right, then the reason you don't blame the Kyuubi is-?" Naruto rambled.

"Cuz I'd do the exact same thing if I was just enslaved, imprisoned and used as a god damn weapon just for existing," Daiki cut him off, then smirked, "In fact, the Kyuubi is kinder than me cuz in its place, I would have just aimed down with my strongest attack and blown up the entire village and I'll tell you this, the Kyuubi is well capable of creating an attack like that within ten or so seconds at most, if that."

Honestly, he was lowballing Kurama's ability there, he could probably do it in three.

'Two.' Isobu helpfully added.

Naruto's expression twisted into something…crushed. That was the only way he could describe it. He looked like Daiki had just stolen his crush and fucked her six ways to Sunday, then dropped her pleasure broken self at his feet covered and filled with cum.

'Pleasant.' Isobu helpfully added once more.

Daiki shrugged. It painted a vivid imagery at least.

"Of course…" Daiki continued, "This doesn't really help you all that much Naruto. The Kyuubi fucking hates us and if it ever does get out of you, it'll probably massacre most of Konoha in retribution, so good luck with that." he added.

Because that needed to be said. Naruto could sympathize with Kurama all he wanted, but he had to understand that Kurama hated them all for a very viable and understandable reason.

And unless Naruto punched him with the power of friendship and became buddy buddy with him, Kurama would sooner Bijuudama them than help them.

"…Then why are we going to meet the fox?" he asked, eyes lost.

"Cuz I wanna see what the big bad Kyuubi is like up close and personal and get a feel for its strength," Daiki lied with a shrug, "Even if it's only at half strength cuz of the Yondaime."

"…Wait, what?"

"Oh, did you not know that?" Daiki raised his eyebrows at the blonde, "Cuz you were just a baby, it seems the Yondaime wasn't sure you could contain the full power of the Kyuubi, so he used a forbidden jutsu called the Reaper Death Seal that sealed away half of the Kyuubi's strength inside his own body at the cost of his life."

"That was it at only half!?" Naruto's eyes flew wide open and he sputtered.