Naruto: Releasing Chakra Limits at the Start

Chapter 285 Encountering the Sealed Three-Tailed Beast

Tsunade smiled and said, "That depends on what Yoru thinks; after all, it's his business."

"However, I don't think Yoru will choose Temari. Given his personality, he won't."

Shizune thought for a moment, then nodded and said, "That's true. Yoru probably won't choose Temari."

Meanwhile, Ye Yu, whom the two were thinking about, was in the Land of Water.

In a large lake connected to the sea, Yoru sat cross-legged on the back of the Three-Tailed Beast.

Yoru said listlessly, "Hey, Isogai, aren't you bored wandering around this place all day?"

As the Three-Tails swam in the lake, it answered Yoru's question, "How could I be bored? I think you're the one who's bored."

"Are you really not going back to Konoha? You've been out for over a month already."

Ye Yu said calmly, "It's nothing. I've finally managed to get out of here, and I don't want to go back so soon."

The Three-Tails didn't say anything more.

Just as the three-tailed beast swam to the lakeside, Yoru looked up and gazed into the forest.

"Isobu, it seems someone's keeping an eye on you."

The Three-Tails paused for a moment, then asked, "Who?"

Yoru looked into the forest.

"You're heading this way. You're too conspicuous and you'll be easily spotted."

The Three-Tailed Fox's expression turned grave. "It seems to be the Akatsuki organization you were talking about."

The Three-Tails guessed that they were Akatsuki ninjas, but Yoru, sitting on the Three-Tails' back, shook his head. "It shouldn't be them, just a few ninjas with average strength."

Hearing this, the Three-Tails had no doubts whatsoever; it was astonishing that a few mediocre ninjas dared to target him.

The Three-Tails is very angry.

"It seems I'm perceived as weak, that a few mediocre ninjas dare to provoke me."

Ye Yu smiled and said, "Don't be so angry. Maybe they're just a few arrogant guys."

"However, I am quite interested in one of them."

The Three-Tails, who was initially very angry, paused for a moment after hearing Yoru's words. "Oh, there are actually guys who interest you. Then these people must be extraordinary."

Although it didn't know all of Yoru's strength, the Three-Tails had already made a rough assessment of Yoru's strength based on what it knew: that he was a Kage-level powerhouse, a master like Hashirama Senju and Madara Uchiha.

Looking into the forest, Ye Yu said calmly, "I'll slip away first. It'll be pointless if they find out I'm here."

Before the Three-Tails could even speak, it vanished.

Looking at the now empty back, the Three-Tails muttered to itself, "What's this guy up to now?"

Although it was quite absurd, the Three-Tailed Fox wasn't worried about Yoru, much less about itself.

It is precisely because it understands Ye Yu's strength that it has no worries.

The Three-Tails knew very well that, in the ninja world today, probably no one could rival Yoru.

In the forest, the group carefully made their way toward the lake.

They could vaguely see three tails swimming in the lake.

Ye Yu was very familiar with this group of people.

Leading the group was Kabuto Yakushi, and behind him walked Guren, the ninja proficient in Crystal Release, whom Yoru had mentioned as someone of interest.

Behind Guren is Yukimaru, the person Kabuto Yakushi found who can control the Three-Tails. Yukimaru contains chakra that can control tailed beasts.

However, this chakra was too little, requiring external stimulation to unleash it, and this required consuming Yukimaru's life force as a price.

However, Kabuto Yakushi clearly didn't care about those things. As long as he could control the Three-Tails, he didn't care about Yukimaru's life or death.

Walking behind Honglian was the key to their mission, Yukimaru, a boy with long, light golden hair and a very feminine face.

Then came a tall, burly man named Niu Tou.

These people are all Orochimaru's subordinates.

In fact, all of Orochimaru's subordinates were recruited by him, and he could even make those recruited willingly risk their lives for him.

It has to be said that Orochimaru is quite skilled in this area.

However, Orochimaru is selective in his targets; he only chooses those who desperately lack recognition from others, and he can't fool normal people at all.

Whether it's Kimimaro, Guren, or Kabuto Yakushi, they are all people like this.

He can't fool anyone who's even slightly normal, like Sasuke in the original story.

She spent three years by Orochimaru's side and was not fooled by him at all, nor did she believe a single word he said.

The group cautiously approached the lake.

Even from hundreds of meters away, the sight of the enormous creature swimming in the lake was awe-inspiring.

"Is that the Three-Tails? It's so powerful!"

Honglian sensed the immense chakra emanating from the Three-Tails, as well as the terrifying aura of a tailed beast.

Kabuto Yakushi also looked at the Three-Tails, pushed up his glasses, and sneered, "The Three-Tails, that guy's summoning beast. I wonder what kind of expression that guy will have when he finds out that his summoning beast is controlled by Lord Orochimaru, hahaha!"

Kabuto Yakushi is happy when he thinks about this.

The shadow cast by Yoru on him and Orochimaru three years ago was too great; even after three years, it was still vivid in his mind.

However, during those three years, his efforts to gather information about Ye Yu yielded little of value.

For the past three years, Yoru has seemed to have vanished from the ninja world, completely disappearing from public view.

However, Orochimaru's intelligence level was too poor, as evidenced by the fact that he didn't even know Naruto was the Nine-Tails Jinchuriki.

Orochimaru planted many spies in Konoha, but those spies seemed to be of no use at all, even ignoring the obvious information that Naruto was the Nine-Tails Jinchuriki.

Naturally, no information could be found about Yoru becoming a Hokage's bodyguard and having such an obvious title as "Medical Master" in Konoha.

Ultimately, Orochimaru was just a research-oriented ninja. Intelligence gathering was not his forte. Ironically, it's understandable that Orochimaru was bad at intelligence gathering because he wasn't a professional in the field.

However, the fact that Kabuto Yakushi, a former Root ninja, was actually quite weak made it difficult for him to lose his composure.

It seems like Konoha is a black hole; they can't gather any information about it. Even if they do, it's mostly common knowledge, and they don't even know much of what's already known.

Naturally, he hadn't been able to find any information about Yoru in the past three years, because he had no idea that Yoru had become Tsunade's bodyguard, nor that Yoru was a famous medical ninja in Konoha.

Yukimaru stood beside Guren, looking at the Three-Tails in the distance, feeling somewhat timid.

That's a Tailed Beast, a level higher than a Ninja Beast.

Even though he possessed the power to control the tailed beasts, he still instinctively felt terrified when he actually faced them.

Knowing that Yukimaru was afraid of the Three-Tails, Guren patted him on the shoulder and said, "It's alright, it hasn't noticed us."

"And we will protect you as you seal the Three-Tails."