—The boy... Do you want to change everything?
A voice like the rumble of a landslide rang in his mind.
"Do you crave power?" Do you want to wipe this rotten, hypocritical Konoha off the face of the earth?
Naruto raised his head. The lifeless gaze rested on the Nine-Tails, but in the next instant, a fire of hatred flashed in the depths of the pupils. Recent events, fragments of the past, burned my mind...
A soundless, venomous laugh rumbled in his chest. Konoha. The Will of Fire... You keep talking about duty, about the village, about the notorious Will of Fire... You are the one who doesn't have a drop of it! The hypocrites.
Naruto realized what almost everyone actually understood. The blame for what happened was not on Uchiha Yue, but on Konoha herself. If it wasn't for Shimura Danzo, one of the pillars of the village who carried out the Uchiha clan massacre... If it weren't for Sarutobi Hiruzen, the so-called Hokage, who allowed this conflict to escalate into an all-consuming conflagration...
But even then, it was possible not to reach such an outcome. After all, Uchiha Yue was not a ninja! An ordinary civilian, about whom almost no one had heard until recently. Konoha is to blame for everything. And now, in order to get his eyes—not to correct the mistake, not to punish, but to get them—the village was ready to do anything.
Konoha, who once boasted of justice and camaraderie, threw her own into the fire. Worse, she turned the residents into guinea pigs.
They even grabbed him, Naruto, and, ignoring his condition, drained his strength. So that's what this village is like...
That's what it is, the vaunted Will of Fire!
He slowly got up, and his hand, obeying a primal instinct, placed itself on the massive bars of the seal.
— Heh... It looks like you've made your choice! Ha ha ha!
An overwhelming flood of power gushed out of him. At that moment, their minds merged together, their hearts began to beat in unison.
— Here it is, the real power! Ha ha ha!!!
Naruto's eyes snapped open. The pupils instantly narrowed to bestial vertical slits. The crimson chakra enveloped the body, violently dancing with flames. The flesh began to swell and distort under the pressure of the monstrous force, and from behind, tearing the skin, tails sprouted one after another.
Freedom!
An incomparable sense of power overwhelmed him, as if he had thrown off an invisible shackle.
— Such a Konoha... such a village... this is your Will of Fire... No place in this world!
Sasuke, wait... I'll send Grandma Tsunade and the others to you soon!
GRO-O-OAR!
Naruto's house could not withstand the monstrous pressure and shattered into splinters. The explosion and surge of sinister, all-consuming chakra instantly attracted the attention of all the ninjas in the village.
"This.".. The nine-tails!!!
— It's impossible! Print!.. Why is he here again?
"The Uchiha's doing?"
— It can't be, the clan is destroyed... Is it really Sasuke?..
The ninjas, who remembered the night of the Nine-Tails' attack, looked in superstitious horror at the beast that appeared. How could he escape now, when Konoha was so vulnerable? Is the village destined to fall?
Naruto ignored them. His sensory abilities, enhanced by Biju's power, had reached the limit. He easily sensed the presence of Tsunade, Jiraiya, and the others.
"Die!" The fifth Hokage!!! I'll blow you to pieces!!!
A ball of concentrated darkness — a Ball of a Tailed Beast— took off and rushed straight towards the Hokage's residence.
Meanwhile, in the office of the Hokage.
Jiraiya, Tsunade and the elders have just made a decision: to seek an alliance with the small villages in order to jointly find a way to stop or even destroy Uchiha Yue. In parallel, reports were sent to other great villages in the hope that they would finally realize the scale of the threat and recognize Konoha's failure.
The goal was an alliance, the exchange of research, and the development of an effective method to eliminate a common enemy.
Of course, Konoha was in no hurry to share her own achievements. The hope of getting his eyes was still smoldering. Although their previous research in the Field of Dead Silence did not bear fruit, they managed to improve Edo Tensei with the help of senjutsu. Now the resurrected dead could resist the absorbing power of this area and reach Yue.
Sarutobi Hiruzen's head was resting on the table. His immortal soul was tormented by an unquenchable, excruciating hunger. The memory of the devoured souls of Danzo and Itachi and the intoxicating feeling of satiety had a phantom taste in his mouth.
"Hungry... I'm so hungry..."
You have to be patient!
His mind told him that something was wrong with him. He had never experienced this before. Another soul... Just one... No, you can't. He's just a head, and he shouldn't give away his evil desires. But...
...The hunger was unbearable. Souls... He needed souls...
Crazy thoughts swirled in his mind. Thin cracks began to creep across the surface of his head, and the senjutsu chakra inside began to seethe, reacting in an unknown way with his starved soul.
Suddenly, Sarutobi Hiruzen's eyes flew open.
At the same moment, Tsunade jumped up from her seat.
"This."..
Jiraiya jerked his head towards the window. A wave of monstrous chakra swept over the village. This power... She's become painfully familiar lately. The power of the Nine-Tails!
A gigantic ball of concentrated energy, like a heavenly punishment, fell on the residence of the Hokage.
The explosion shook the ground, and the building was engulfed in clouds of smoke and dust.
"The nine—tails! Naruto! How is this possible?! — Jiraiya's figure appeared on the roof of the neighboring house.
He stared at the huge beast in the distance in disbelief, unable to understand what was going on.