Uchiha En had pondered a question while watching Naruto: Since the Nine Tailed Beasts were fragments of the Ten-Tails, resealing all Nine Tailed Beasts back into the Ten-Tails' shell—the Gedo Statue—would resurrect the Ten-Tails.
Did that mean that possessing a portion of the Ten-Tails' body and some Chakra from other Tailed Beasts would be enough to create a Lesser Ten-Tails?
After all, in the original work, the Ten-Tails was resurrected without the complete Chakra of the Eight-Tails and the Nine-Tailed.
The Eight-Tails only provided the Chakra from one of its horns, while the Nine-Tailed's portion came from the Chakra of the Gold and Silver Brothers, who had consumed some of the Nine-Tailed's flesh.
Therefore, theoretically speaking, as long as there was a suitable vessel, it would be possible to create a Lesser Ten-Tails.
And his future self would most likely use Naruto as this vessel.
However, judging by the new Tailed Beast born within Naruto, this experiment was likely a failure, as the Tailed Beast still looked like the Nine-Tailed overall, just the Nine-Tailed imbued with the Chakra of other Tailed Beasts.
So, using Naruto as a vessel seemed unfeasible. It would probably be easier to succeed using a part of the Gedo Statue's body as the vessel, right?
While Uchiha En was considering these matters, Minato Namikaze and the others discussed their next course of action. Naruto and Yamato definitely needed to return to the future, and to do so, they had to defeat Mukade.
Mukade's identity in Rōran was unknown to everyone except Uchiha En, but Uchiha En couldn't explain the source of his information and thus couldn't reveal it, so he had to let events unfold according to the original work.
Minato Namikaze suggested that Naruto protect the Queen of Rōran while the others searched for Mukade's whereabouts.
Afterward, just like in the original work, Naruto protected Sara from the puppet soldiers, and learned from Sara that Anrokuzan was Naruto's mission target—Mukade.
Sara also recognized Anrokuzan's true identity through the series of events and decided to help Naruto defeat Anrokuzan.
On Minato Namikaze's side, with the help of Aburame Shibi and Uchiha En, they quickly located Anrokuzan. By the time Minato Namikaze arrived, Naruto and Anrokuzan were already locked in battle.
Anrokuzan used the power of the Ryūmyaku to create a gigantic puppet that had a tail similar to a centipede's, with Anrokuzan's actual body hiding inside the puppet, controlling it.
Naruto's fighting style was no different from the original work; he relied on massive Chakra to overwhelm his opponents. The only difference was that Naruto was much more skilled in using Ninjutsu, no longer just relying on making Rasengan.
However, Naruto's attacks had little effect.
Because Anrokuzan had absorbed the power of the Ryūmyaku, the puppet could regenerate and was completely unafraid of Naruto's sustained attacks.
Seeing that Naruto's attacks were ineffective, Minato Namikaze joined the fight.
Aburame Shibi also wanted to help, but Uchiha En stopped him. "Teacher Shibi, this is a fight between a father and son. It's better if we two outsiders don't get involved!" Uchiha En said.
Aburame Shibi was stunned for a moment, then nodded. Instead of directly helping against the centipede, he and Uchiha En stayed on the side to restrict the centipede's movements.
With Minato Namikaze joining, Naruto's attacks became more unrestrained. Anrokuzan's puppet was too massive and lacked agility.
Naruto once again utilized the power of the Tailed Beast within him, transforming into the Tailed Beast Cloak with three tails.
In this state, every one of Naruto's punches carried immense destructive power. Anrokuzan's puppet was quickly smashed to pieces, exposing the location of his main body.
Naruto and Minato Namikaze used the Supreme Ultimate Rasengan that appeared in the original work.
Concurrently, Sara successfully shut down the Ryūmyaku, rendering Anrokuzan's Super Regeneration useless. Anrokuzan's body was then struck by the Supreme Ultimate Rasengan, jointly unleashed by Naruto and Minato Namikaze.
Just like that, Naruto successfully defeated Anrokuzan with the help of Minato Namikaze.
Anrokuzan was unwilling to accept defeat. Using his last breath, he controlled the puppet to jump into the Ryūmyaku.
Just like in the original work, the Ryūmyaku went berserk as a result, forcing Minato Namikaze to immediately seal it.
This meant the moment of separation had arrived, and Naruto's gaze involuntarily settled upon Minato Namikaze.
Minato Namikaze felt Naruto's gaze and gave him a faint smile. He then stuck a flying thunder god kunai into the pedestal used to sense the Ryūmyaku and sealed the Ryūmyaku using Sealing Jutsu.
As the Ryūmyaku was sealed, white light emanated from the bodies of Naruto and Yamato. The two individuals who did not belong to this spacetime were about to depart.
Yamato seized the opportunity to retaliate against Kakashi, who had bullied him, and firmly smacked Kakashi on the head.
"Why did you hit me?" Kakashi asked, raising his Dead-Fish Eyes to glare at Yamato.
"You always bullied me on a daily basis. Today, I finally got my revenge." Yamato looked like he had successfully avenged a great grievance.
On the other side, Minato Namikaze began preparing the Jutsu to seal everyone's memories. Uchiha En saw Minato Namikaze start and showed no reaction.
He had known long ago that Minato Namikaze would seal this memory. Uchiha En had preemptively recorded the incident using Genjutsu within his Sharingan.
As long as he activated his Sharingan, the events that had just transpired would immediately replay in his mind in the form of Genjutsu.
The white light on Naruto grew brighter and brighter. Just as he was about to leave, and couldn't help but say something to Minato Namikaze, Minato Namikaze interrupted him.
"Having a son like you is my pride. We will have a chance to talk properly in the future. Goodbye!" As Minato Namikaze activated his Jutsu formula, the figures of Naruto and Yamato vanished.
After Naruto and Yamato disappeared, the remaining people were all in a state of confusion. Minato Namikaze's Jutsu formula sealed all memories related to Rōran. His memory stopped at the moment when he, Uchiha En, Aburame Shibi, and Kakashi first entered Rōran. The same was true for Uchiha En and the other two.
The group looked around, feeling somewhat bewildered.
When Uchiha En looked around, he saw the seal created by Minato Namikaze's flying thunder god kunai and immediately understood what had happened.
Minato Namikaze, upon seeing his own seal, also understood that the mission must have been completed, but some special circumstances had occurred, leading to everyone's memories being sealed.
Minato Namikaze then explained the situation to everyone and apologized for sealing their memories.
Since the three of them had no recollection of the events, they naturally didn't mind.
Thus, the Rōran mission successfully concluded, and Minato Namikaze used the Flying Thunder God Technique to transport everyone away from Rōran.
What no one noticed was that Uchiha En had secretly left a Shadow Clone in Rōran.
Uchiha En left the Shadow Clone to investigate the power of the Ryūmyaku, which Minato Namikaze had sealed. However, because it had only recently been sealed, some of the external puppets still retained residual Ryūmyaku power.
Uchiha En did not want anyone else to know about this, which is why he secretly left the Shadow Clone behind.
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