Naruto carried on tirelessly on his journey to collect books and absorb their content with the help of the purple orbs.
"This is taking too long. I need to speed up the process." Naruto murmured, drawing hand signs. In an instant, ten shadow clones appeared around him. "Alright, guys. Each of you takes a purple orb and picks a book to learn."
"Right!" The shadow clones replied in unison, making the room vibrate with sound.
Naruto distributed the purple orbs among the shadow clones and was preparing to pick a new book for himself when a call from outside the house interrupted him. Three quick knocks echoed on the door.
"I'm coming!" Naruto replied, raising his voice.
Exiting the room, he closed the door behind him, allowing the shadow clones to continue the reading task.
Upon reaching the door and opening it, he found Shizune waiting.
"Naruto-kun." She began, "Tsunade-sama asked me to deliver this to you."
She held out a package wrapped in a dark blue floral-patterned cloth.
"Thank you, Shizune." Naruto thanked her with a smile, accepting the package.
"You're welcome," Shizune replied, looking a bit restless. She alternated her gaze between the ground and Naruto.
Naruto frowned, noticing the strange shift in her demeanor. Before he could ask what was going on, she spoke up.
"See you later, Naruto-kun, good night~" Shizune bid him farewell with a sweeter voice than usual, quickly backing away. However, when she got close to the stairs, she turned to cast one last look at Naruto. "Y-you have become very handsome, Naruto-kun... See you!" And with that, she took off running across the rooftops.
"What a strange situation..." Naruto scratched the back of his head with his free hand before touching his own face.
"Have I become so handsome?" He murmured to himself.
Returning to his house, Naruto locked the door and headed to the table. There, he unwrapped the object that Shizune had given him to reveal a wooden box. Inside it, a sort of black metal tube.
With his eyes closed, Naruto used a red orb to enter Sage Mode. He then extended his hand and picked up the object. Subtly, he could sense a trace of Nagato's chakra.
Without hesitation, Naruto pierced his own hand with the object, and thus, he was able to expand his perception, searching for Nagato's location.
Seconds later, Naruto opened his eyes!
"I found you!" Naruto exclaimed.
At that moment, Nagato was on his way to Konoha, being carried by one of the Pains inside a large coffin.
"That's right, keep coming, when you're close enough, that'll be the moment..." Naruto left the sentence hanging, but his eyes became extremely cold and sharp, like the blade of the Hiramekarei sword.
"The Rinnegan can bring the dead back to life..." Naruto knew this from the memories of his past life.
If it were truly possible, Jiraiya and his parents...
But how would he get those eyes?
In fact, Naruto had thought about sealing Nagato and taking him to the Hunting Dimension and killing him there.
Reflecting on the orbs of divine arts, Naruto wondered if it was possible that, if someone brought into that world died in that dimension, would they transform into orbs? If so... Would they drop something related to them, like a lineage?
It was a reasonable doubt in his opinion.
Even if it was not possible, even if he killed Nagato in the Hunting Dimension and he simply dropped dead, Naruto could still take the eyes from the corpse.
However, he would prefer to obtain them through an orb, if possible.
As for Madara's intentions and plans, Naruto preferred not to think about it now. There was still time to act against them, and it would be best for him to acquire new power resources for this.
The real reason Naruto wanted to use the Rinnegan to try to resurrect someone was that he had virtually unlimited energy thanks to the red orbs.
If he used the red orbs, sacrificing several of them, he might be able to revive his parents and Jiraiya.
However, this would only be possible if he could obtain the Rinnegan. Otherwise, all of this would just be a wish, a dream.
Why feel guilty about wanting to defeat Nagato, who was being manipulated? It made no sense.
He was not the same anymore. These ideas were naive and flawed. Why should he give up the chance to revive his parents and his sensei because of someone he despised?
It made no sense at all.
Of course, he understood that possessing the Rinnegan did not automatically grant the ability to resurrect someone. But he wondered: if Nagato died in the Hunting Dimension, would all his knowledge be trapped in an orb? If so, would he be able to absorb this knowledge as he did with the orbs of the wind god's divine arts?
Naruto did not dismiss this possibility. He was precisely counting on it.
If it was not possible, too bad. He could only regret that things did not turn out as he imagined.
Setting these thoughts aside for now, he knew it would take about two and a half days until Nagato's arrival. So, he put the object back in the box and stored it in his pocket. Then, he returned to the room where his clones were studying the books.
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