Chapter 78: Nine-tails Transfer Seal
Choosing is painful.
Choosing is not between a good and a bad one, choosing the good, advantageous one.
But between a very bad and a particularly bad one, painfully selecting the outcome that is relatively less bad for oneself.
The Senju Clan now has two choices.
One is to hand over the guardianship of the Nine-Tails Jinchuriki to the village, losing their trump card.
The other is to barely complete the Nine-Tails Seal, but face the risk of the Nine-Tails Seal causing a Nine-Tails rampage.
Senju Rinki had seen the glory of the Senju Clan; even bearing the risk, he would never cede the trump card and influence.
After the Senju ninjas left the clan compound, Hiruzen Sarutobi led four Anbu Battalions to follow.
Yoru was a bit puzzled, not knowing where Danzo had gone; logically, how could Danzo miss such an occasion?
After thinking carefully, he hadn’t seen Danzo for a while; Danzo had not been in Anbu.
Walking inside Konoha Village, Yoru noticed many jonin standing on distant rooftops.
Uchiha Clan, Ino-Shika-Cho Clan, Inuzuka Clan, Hyuga Clan, and so on.
These ninja clans’ jonin sensed the abnormality of the Senju Clan and came out to see them off.
The Senju Clan’s procession had a faint tragic color.
At the Konoha Main Gate, the guard ninjas opened the gate in the middle of the night, not paying attention to the village exit permission; all Senju ninjas passed through the gate.
In a place far from the village, the Senju Clan chose a good location.
Valley of the End.
The statues of Hashirama Senju and Uchiha Madara stood on both sides of the waterfall.
The Valley of the End was the pride of the Senju Clan, the symbol of Hashirama Senju ending the Warring States.
Mito Uzumaki slowly descended from the carriage.
Her red hair had long turned snow-white.
She looked toward the distant waterfall, gazing up at the towering Hashirama Senju statue, a trace of nostalgia appearing on her face.
At this moment, she was no longer the jinchuriki who had sealed the Nine-Tails for decades for Konoha, no longer the highest-ranking ninja in the village, no longer the old ancestor grandmother of the Senju Clan.
She seemed to return to over sixty years ago, the day she first met Hashirama Senju, also gazing up at him.
In her memory, Hashirama Senju was in the form of a young boy, full of vigor, leading the young boys of the Senju Clan into the Uzumaki Clan Compound.
The entire Uzumaki Clan boiled because of the arrival of the Senju young clan head, as if the village was celebrating a festival.
The Uzumaki Clan held the Chunin Exam, and the Senju young clan head led his team to participate.
In that Chunin Exam, Hashirama Senju displayed ridiculously powerful strength and an unconventional way of thinking.
He stood in the center of the arena, proudly saying:
“The genin of the Senju Clan and the genin of the Uzumaki Clan, pair up one-to-one. You have half an hour to adapt to each other and formulate tactics.
Come at me together; I’m in a hurry, eager to deal with Uchiha Madara.”
Her father, the Uzumaki clan head, didn’t think Hashirama Senju was fooling around; he cheerfully ordered all Senju ninjas and Uzumaki ninjas to pair up.
Mito Uzumaki remembered that she was extremely angry at the time, teaming up with the Senju kunoichi Senju Momo, vowing to crush Hashirama Senju’s arrogant attitude.
However, she and Momo couldn’t last even five seconds.
Lasting three or four seconds was because both were kunoichi.
How could there be such a strong ninja?
After the Chunin Exam ended, Hashirama became the idol of the Uzumaki Clan’s youth.
And she, the defeated opponent, became Hashirama Senju’s fiancée at the final announcement ceremony of the exam.
At that time, she kept her head down, face red, not daring to look at Hashirama Senju.
Now seeing Hashirama’s statue again, Mito Uzumaki thought in her heart that spending a lifetime with Hashirama, she didn’t know why, but always felt she hadn’t entered Hashirama’s heart.
Before dying, she would contribute once more for Hashirama.
She held Kushina’s hand and said, “Kushina, I hope you meet a heroic ninja who stands tall and firm in the future; he will fill your heart, resolve all your confusion, and soothe all your anxieties.”
Kushina Uzumaki stubbornly said, “Great-aunt grandmother, I will become a heroic ninja who stands tall and firm myself; I don’t need another man.”
“Haha, good, Kushina, with the Nine-Tails’ help, you will surely become a ninja who stands tall and firm in the future.”
Mito Uzumaki held Kushina’s hand and walked toward the center of the Senju ninjas.
Over 900 Senju ninjas formed three circles inside and outside, with the ground covered by large sealed scrolls forming a circular sealing array.
Senju ninjas stood in front of the unrolled scrolls, which were covered in dense sealing runes.
The entire joint sealing array had a diameter of over three hundred meters.
In the very center were Senju Rinki and his wife; the two pressed their hands on two large scrolls, which were the Scroll of Seals of the Senju Clan and Uzumaki Clan.
Senju Rinki’s wife also came from the Uzumaki Clan; she murmured sadly, “Cousin aunt…”
Mito Uzumaki held Senju Rinki’s and his wife’s hands, saying, “From now on, the Senju Clan and Kushina are entrusted to you.”
Senju Rinki and his wife nodded repeatedly, saying they would take good care of the Senju Clan and Kushina.
Letting go of Kushina’s hand, Mito Uzumaki and Kushina stood three meters apart.
One old and one young, the two simultaneously formed hand seals.
The Nine-Tails transfer seal began.
Mito Uzumaki and Kushina Uzumaki were in the very center.
Senju Rinki and his wife were on the sides.
Outside were three circles of over 900 Senju ninjas.
Furthest outside were the four Anbu Battalions commanded by Hiruzen Sarutobi.
Anbu ninjas stood with hands behind their backs, awaiting the Hokage’s order.
Yoru saw Mito Uzumaki slowly forming hand seals, after which circles of illusory Adamantine Sealing Chains appeared around her body; these chains were tangled tightly like balls of yarn.
As the seal loosened, the Adamantine Sealing Chains spread outward. The yarn-ball-like chains had increasingly large gaps. Red Nine-Tails Chakra leaked from the gaps.
Until a certain instant, the demon fox’s pupils appeared in the gaps of the chains.
Yoru felt a chill all over his body, a bout of heart palpitations; even at such a distance, the demon fox’s pupils seemed to stare right at him.
The Nine-Tails’ Chakra was filled with resentment, directly affecting everyone’s minds.
Chakra surged around Mito Uzumaki, ripples appearing on the ground like stones thrown into water.
That was a massive amount of Chakra spreading outward.
That cold feeling made everyone’s faces stiffen.
Yoru lifted his mask slightly, letting air enter; he felt his face go numb.
Mito Uzumaki’s seal grew weaker and weaker until the Adamantine Sealing Chains fully released, blooming outward like a peacock’s tail feathers.
Mito Uzumaki’s back clothes tore, Nine-Tails Chakra erupted, condensing in the night sky into a massive demon fox head.
The demon fox immediately lowered its head, roaring at Mito Uzumaki on the ground:
“Mito Uzumaki! You sealed me for over thirty years! Over thirty years!”
Chakra erupted with the demon fox’s words, waves bombarding the ground.
Mito Uzumaki’s hair bun was blown apart, white hair flying.
In the gale, Mito Uzumaki said to Kushina:
“Kushina, next it will depend on you.
Restrain the Nine-Tails, protect Konoha, pass on the Uzumaki surname.
In my lifetime, everyone around me died for Konoha.
No one told me, but I guess Tsunade or Nawaki have already died?”
