Naruto: Menma Exiting Infinite Tsukuyomi

Chapter 161: The Tsundere Genderswapped Nine-Tails

Early morning. The pale white moon hanging high in the sky was still faintly visible.

In the Land of Grass, during this early morning period, most people were still immersed in dreamland.

Only a gentle breeze blew through the forest, the leaves on the branches rustling with a faint "swish."

A figure flickered through the forest, moving with Body Flicker.

This figure was Menma, who had traveled from the Land of Snow to the Land of Grass.

His first objective this time in the Land of Grass was naturally the "Box of Ultimate Bliss."

But besides that, he also planned to bring the Uzumaki survivors of Kusagakure back to the Land of Snow along the way.

Just then,

A voice suddenly entered Menma's ear.

"Is this the [Real World]'s Land of Grass? Also playing both sides between the major ninja villages?"

One could tell that although she tried her best to remain calm, the curiosity and excitement in her tone were hard to hide.

"Although its diplomatic methods are also like a fence-sitter maneuvering between the major ninja villages, it's still a bit different from the [Tsukuyomi World]."

Menma recalled the intelligence on the Land of Grass and explained: "The rulers of this world's Land of Grass are corrupt and incompetent, so it didn't become a neutral country. It remains a buffer zone for the great nations, just like the Land of Rain."

The Kusagakure of the [Tsukuyomi World] was a model of a grassroots success story, good at imitating and learning the ninjutsu of other ninja villages. Its ninja force was not considered too weak among the various countries in the ninja world.

But this world's Kusagakure was purely a trashy little ninja village.

The scale of Kusagakure wasn't actually small; it was said to have had a short period of prosperity.

But due to the Shinobi World Wars, it quickly fell into a slump, reduced to an inconspicuous small ninja village.

"Speaking of which, Sumi, you..."

Menma was about to say something.

But before he could finish, a flustered and exasperated shout came from his ear.

"Damn it! I told you not to call me Sumi! Call me Kuramako!"

Menma fell silent for a moment, then said teasingly: "Okay Sumi. Got it, Sumi."

"You!!"

Even just by hearing Kuramako's voice now, Menma could imagine that small, flushed face, flustered with anger.

When he first entered the [Tsukuyomi World] back then, he was also startled to find that the Nine-Tails was female.

Clearly, everyone else's personalities had changed, but the Nine-Tails had directly changed gender.

And her name also changed from "Kurama" to "Kuramako," just like the change between "Menma" and "Naruto."

However, this Kuramako's tsundere personality was certainly a match for Kurama's.

But as the saying goes, "natural innocence counters black-bellied, black-bellied counters tsundere, tsundere counters natural innocence."

The slightly black-bellied Menma spent over ten years with Kuramako, and in that time, he slowly got used to her personality.

He even came to find teasing her a kind of fun.

"I really don't understand what you're so shy about. Clearly, for the past ten-plus years, it's always been like this..."

"Ahhh! None of your business!"

Before Menma could finish, Kuramako shouted angrily: "If I had known, I wouldn't have helped you suppress your dark side! I should have just let you be swallowed by it alone!"

"Yes, yes, it's all thanks to you."

Menma just smiled nonchalantly, then said softly as if coaxing a child: "I'll find a body with even greater potential and plasticity now, guaranteed to satisfy Lord Kuramako."

This kind of angry remark from a tsundere was just for show.

If Kuramako really wanted to leave, she wouldn't have waited for Menma to proactively bring it up now.

However, Menma didn't plan to continue provoking her.

In most cases, a tsundere needs to be soothed by stroking their fur in the right direction.

"Hmph, as long as you know."

Kuramako indeed forgot her previous annoyance, her tone still unable to hide her tsundere nature.

In a flash, she asked with some curiosity: "But that Box of Ultimate Bliss you mentioned, what exactly is it?"

The [Tsukuyomi World] didn't have these kinds of strange things.

The nine Tailed Beasts there all appeared naturally in the world, completely considered nine natural creations born of heaven and earth.

"I only have a partial understanding of the Box of Ultimate Bliss myself. It's rumored to be the ultimate weapon from the era of the Sage of Six Paths. As long as you open that thing, you can realize your wishes."

"It can even realize wishes?"

Kuramako's tone was surprised: "Is the so-called Box of Ultimate Bliss really that powerful?"

"How could such a good thing exist?"

Menma couldn't help but chuckle: "Although it's said that in the era of the Sage of Six Paths, Kusagakure almost dominated the ninja world through it, since it can be called a weapon, it means it's just a tool."

"Even if it can realize the opener's wish, it's realized through a tricky, misinterpreted way."

One could simply imagine it like this.

It's like a human facing a pile of ants.

If a human saw an ant spell out his name with trash, and then the ant used human language to say it wanted a piece of candy, or help killing another ant,

Then, what would the human do?

Of course, they would feel curious, puzzled, and amused, and then satisfy their wish, which is not difficult at all.

But if that ant said: "I've fallen in love with another ant, but it doesn't care about me at all. Oh, great Box of Ultimate Bliss, please make me unique to it."

The human would feel this request is too difficult.

Then, in order not to damage their own majesty, they would just step on all the ants except for those two.

Now, isn't that ant's wish fulfilled?

This was also why Menma was unwilling to become a "god."

Once one loses their humanity, they become like this.

Just as Menma was pondering in his heart,

"Speaking of which..."

Kuramako hesitated for a moment before saying somewhat coyly: "If I leave your spiritual space, can you still suppress your dark side by yourself?"

With that, she didn't forget to add:

"Don't get me wrong! I just don't want to be dragged down by you!"

Hearing this standard tsundere line, Menma curled his lip: "Sumi, who do you think I am?"

He was Uzumaki Menma.

He never did things he wasn't sure of.

"Ah, right, right. And who was it that used to mumble about wanting to go home every day."

Kuramako clicked her tongue: "Since you're so confident, that's fine. I've had enough of this broken place anyway."

The appearance of the spiritual space she was in now, that sea of blood and mountain of corpses, was the materialization of Menma's dark side.

Even if Kuramako possessed the same attribute of being a collection of hatred as Kurama, she usually had to use all her concentration to suppress Menma's dark side.

This was also why she rarely communicated with Menma before.

However, she could occasionally see some scenes of what Menma was doing outside.

For example, the matter of Menma hooking up with other foxes outside...

"Hmph! How many times have I said it, don't call me Sumi! Call me Kuramako!!"

Hearing Kuramako's inexplicable words, Menma couldn't help but have a question mark appear over his head.

What is this tsundere fox spirit getting mad about now?

(End of Chapter)

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