As Naruto scrubbed his pants, he regretted not trusting Makoto earlier.
To prove he only meant to fart, he pushed harder, aiming for a loud clear sound.
The result... was a fucking disaster.
If these hadn't been the new, high-quality pants Pervy Sage bought him, Naruto suspected the force would've blasted a hole right through the fabric.
The sheer kinetic power of the blast was immense!
Because the pants held up, the unholy torrent of shit erupted from the pant legs like twin rocket thrusters, launching Naruto straight into the air!
Fortunately, Makoto maintained a safe distance from the start and avoided the fallout.
Even now, he stood ten feet away.
As the saying goes: A mop dipped in shit becomes an invincible weapon.
Naruto's situation was a perfect storm of cursed factors.
First, before leaving Mount Myōboku, he gorged himself on rich, spicy food, irritating his digestive system.
Second, Kimimaro's bone drill attack had... widened the channel.
And finally—he consumed massive quantities of Mount Myōboku's insect cuisine and native plants.
These ingredients shared a peculiar biological property with escolar fish: they caused uncontrollable oil leakage from the ass.
A real delicacy for the brave.
Given the multiple factors at play, Naruto's blind faith in his own fart was hopelessly naive.
As he scrubbed, Naruto let out a curious "Huh?"
Makoto silently took three steps back.
Seeing Makoto retreat, Orochimaru, though unsure of the context, quickly followed suit.
While washing his pants in the river, Naruto discovered that... he was continuously leaking oil.
The substance felt exactly like the Toad Oil from Mount Myōboku!
Of course, it wasn't real Toad Oil.
Mount Myōboku's Toad Oil isn't produced by actual toads, it's a naturally occurring substance formed in the mountain's unique ecosystem.
Techniques like Jiraiya's Toad Oil Flame Bullet rely on summoning this oil or storing a supply in his stomach.
What Naruto was producing wasn't genuine Toad Oil, but it possessed the exact same properties.
After all, the naturally formed Toad Oil of Mount Myōboku is essentially a product of highly concentrated natural energy interacting with the environment.
And the things Naruto had been gorging on were the environment of Mount Myōboku.
Combined with his intense Sage Mode training these past few days, which kept his body saturated with natural energy, the quality of this "oil" was surprisingly high.
That's why Naruto recognized it.
This discovery was a game-changer and Naruto was ecstatic.
"TOAD OIL! I HEARD THE PERVY SAGE SAY IT CAN ENHANCE FIRE RELEASE TECHNIQUES!"
'Toad Oil... Wind Release... both are meant to boost Sasuke's Fire Release...'
The more Naruto thought about it, the more excited he got.
His gaze shifted to the retreating Orochimaru.
"OROCHIMARU! NO MATTER WHAT YOU DO, YOU'LL NEVER SEVER THE BOND BETWEEN ME AND SASUKE!"
"Errrr..."
Orochimaru desperately wanted to ask Naruto how exactly he planned to use his homemade "Toad Oil" to assist Sasuke.
Was he going to enter Sage Mode on the battlefield, launch himself into the air, and spray highly flammable oil from... his ass?
Had he truly lost all sense of shame?
But then Orochimaru reconsidered.
If Naruto could disregard worldly conventions, perhaps it wasn't a bad thing.
Just like himself.
So, Orochimaru decided to affirm Naruto's cursed idea, encouraging him to stay on this twisted path.
"Naruto, Jiraiya has a technique called Sage Art: Goemon. It involves him and the two Toad Sages simultaneously using Toad Oil, Wind Release, and Fire Release. The power of that jutsu is terrifying—theoretically, it can incinerate any physical substance, making it one of the ultimate Fire Release ninjutsu."
"Sage Art : Goemon?!"
Naruto's eyes lit up.
He remembered the two Sages mentioning that name before.
Though Naruto could now enter and exit Sage Mode, he didn't know a single truly powerful Sage Art.
'If only I could...'
The creepy snake and the blonde idiot stood there, each lost in their own unholy schemes, snickering to themselves.
Makoto stood aside, speechless, silently roasting them in his mind.
Sage Art: Goemon was indeed a powerful ninjutsu, even stronger than Kashin Koji's Five Fire God Flame Fan.
The official lore claimed its "power surpasses Amaterasu."
While Amaterasu was known as the "Benevolent Flame" that never actually killed anyone, it still ranked high among Fire Release techniques.
What Makoto was judging was the naming convention of the Goemon technique.
Kashin Koji's Five Fire God Flame Fan proved that the creator moved on from Journey to the West to Investiture of the Gods.
But naming it Goemon was just too dark!
Its origin was the historical thief Ishikawa Goemon, who was executed by being boiled alive in a giant cauldron.
Thus, his name was used for this "ultimate boiling oil" technique.
Following that logic, Makoto could name his own ninjutsu similarly: Fire Release: Nobunaga!
Fire Release: Nobutada!
Truly a dark humor for a jutsu name.
What were they thinking?
It was like how Uchiha Fugaku named Sasuke.
The name was actually a tribute to Hiruzen Sarutobi's father, Sarutobi Sasuke.
It was a genuine homage, not a taunt like, "Your father is my son."
And if Makoto hadn't intervened, the daimyo system would've remained a set of bizarre rules, forever looming over everyone's heads.
Naruto started a fire and held his pants over the flames to dry them.
While his pants dried, Naruto took off his shirt and used it to cover his lower half, listening intently as Makoto explained his plan.
"Naruto, since you trust me now and are ready to help Sasuke, I think you should follow his lead and 'study abroad' for a while," Makoto said.
"The Hidden Cloud Village... I've already contacted them. As the home of the only Perfect Jinchūriki, they have a systematic method for training hosts."
Makoto revealed the first, truthful part of his plan.
Although the Hidden Cloud Village and the Raikage were notorious for their shady kidnapping schemes from other villages, the Raikage still had principles during major crises.
After everything that happened, the Raikage understood the Ōtsutsuki Clan was a sword hanging over the entire Shinobi World.
Just like in the original timeline during the Fourth Shinobi World War, when everyone united against Madara.
If Naruto were sent there now, the Raikage wouldn't even consider seizing him to boost the Hidden Cloud's military.
Of course, this was a conclusion Makoto reached from his meta perspective.
Others wouldn't see it that way.
Take Tsunade, for example.
While she completely trusted Makoto now, that didn't mean she trusted the Raikage—especially given his track record of stealing kids.
This wasn't a bad thing.
In fact, because others wouldn't easily trust the Raikage, the plan would seem totally convincing.
...
Three days later.
Sasuke slowly regained consciousness, only to be met by Orochimaru, who delivered some grave news with a heavy expression.
"Naruto has been captured by the Hidden Cloud Village. They plan to use his body as breeding stock to revive the entire Uzumaki Clan, creating a new bloodline to inherit their Tailed Beasts!"
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