Naruto: The Strongest Sage

The whole ninja world has made a huge mistake for many years. They regard the tailed beasts as a kind of beast or a weapon. They choose to capture and seal the other party as their own strategic weapon. But in Aoba's view, this approach is too simple and crude. And it puts the cart before the horse. Maybe the first generation of Hokage is too strong. In his hands, the tailed beasts are indeed some pets. They are divided out at will. But this fool has never considered a problem. His descendants did not inherit his power. The more time goes by, the more the power of the ninja world declines. Later ninjas did not have the strength of treating the tailed beasts as pets. They desire the power of the tailed beasts, but at the same time they are afraid of the power of the tailed beasts. Therefore, the process of getting along with the tailed beasts became extremely awkward. Especially in Sand Village and Konoha.

On the one hand, they wanted to treat the tailed beasts as a strategic-level force. On the other hand, they tortured the Jinchūriki to death. The whole operation made Aoba unable to complain.

But this is not the most critical. In Aoba's view, there is still a value in the tailed beasts that has not been discovered, that is, intelligence.

You know, the tailed beasts were created by the Six Paths Sage. They are one of the few existences in the world that have come into contact with the Six Paths Sage. Many of these guys' inconspicuous memories may be the secrets that have been lost in the ninja world now.

It's a pity that few people in the entire ninja world noticed this. Even Uchiha Madara only treated the tailed beasts as pets or weapons.

"Let it come out, I want to talk to him directly."

Aoba's words made Gaara silent again. Aoba knew that he was communicating with Shukaku. He didn't urge him, just waited quietly.

After about five minutes, a ball of sand appeared on Gaara's shoulder. Then the sand slowly deformed and turned into a mini version of Shukaku.

"What do you want to ask?" Shukaku asked.

Aoba first looked at Shukaku with a strange look. He made the other person feel uncomfortable. Then he spoke.

"Tell me first, Six Paths Sage, what memories do you have of him."

Shukaku showed an expression of "as expected." Then he spoke.

"It's been too long, and my impression is not deep. I didn't follow him for a long time, only a few years."

"Have you seen him fight?"

"Fight, no, there was no fight. At that time, no one in the world could threaten him, so there was no fight."

"Really? Then do you remember the process of him creating you?"

Shukaku showed an expression of "as expected."

"You are the first human to pursue this question in all these years."

"This is not my question, actually. For the current ninja world, the Six Paths Sage has become a semi-illusory legend. No one will pursue such an illusory thing."

"But you are different. I can see the fire in your eyes. Young man, you are terrible. But I also want to warn you that what you are pursuing is much more dangerous than you think."

"So where does the danger come from? You, the Six Paths Sage, the Ten Tails, or the one on the moon?"

In Gaara's surprised eyes, Shukaku's body exploded with a touch. It seems that the emotional fluctuations were too large, and the temporary body formed by chakra exploded.

"You...how do you know these things. No one in the current ninja world should know."

In fact, what Shukaku was really surprised about was that Aoba said more than it knew.

It knew the Six Paths Sage and the Ten Tails. After all, one created it, and the other was its predecessor. But it didn't actually understand the one on the moon.

Just as it said, it didn't follow the Six Paths Sage for long. It doesn't know much, maybe Kurama knows more. It's just that its relationship with Kurama is average, and even a little bit of backlash.

"Why do you know the Ten-Tails? There should be no record of the Ten-Tails in the Ninja World." Shukaku asked again.

"I know more than you think. It seems that I also know. Someone is secretly resurrecting the Ten-Tails."

"!!!" Shukaku was really shocked this time. Because in order to completely revive the Ten-Tails, it is necessary to gather the nine tailed beasts again. Or to be more direct, completely kill the nine tailed beasts and let the Ten-Tails' chakra gather again.

In other words, the resurrection of the Ten-Tails means the death of the nine tailed beasts.

"This is impossible.

"Shukaku was unwilling to believe the news.

"Nothing is impossible. I can say for sure that this is the fact."

Shukaku was silent. Gaara next to him was even more confused, not understanding what the two guys were talking about.

After a long time, Shukaku spoke again.

"Suppose what you said is true. If you want to revive the Ten Tails, you need to be an enemy of the entire Ninja World. But in fact, let alone against the five major ninja villages. I feel that there is no one in the entire Ninja World who can beat you, right?"

"No, I can tell you clearly. There are at least two people in the current Ninja World that I cannot really defeat. One of them has the absolute power to suppress me head-on."

"Impossible, the state you defeated me that day, you used natural energy. Although I don't understand this kind of power. But I heard the stinky fox mention it. Your Sage Mode is almost perfect, how could anyone beat you."

"That person has the Samsara Eye. "

Aoba's words silenced Shukaku. Of course, it knew what the Samsara Eye was. It was the eye of the Six Paths Sage.

After a long silence, Shukaku spoke with difficulty.

"With the current level of combat power in the ninja world, it is impossible to breed the Samsara Eye."

What Shukaku said was actually very correct. The current ninja world, according to the era of Hashirama and Madara, has indeed regressed more than a little bit.

And the fact is indeed so. The Samsara Eye was not bred in this era, it was Uchiha Madara in the previous era who did it.

Aoba did not tell everything. Instead, he used some fragmentary clues and let Shukaku fill in the blanks himself.

These high-value information, of course, cannot be thrown out all at once. Whether it is Shukaku or Gaara, they are all the targets he is going to recruit. But the value of the two of them is not enough for him to tell everything.

"The fact is that the Samsara Eye did appear. And more than one person in the ninja world has known this news."

"Okay, even if I believe everything you said. What about you? What role do you play in this?"

Shukaku asked in an inexplicable tone.

And Aoba's reply was also a bit strange.

"Haven't you guessed what I want? For me, this is a... competition. "