Chapter 5: A Sudden Shift in Tone

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"Big foxy, I'm back!" As soon as he arrived, Naruto greeted Kurama (the Nine-Tails), but Kurama ignored him, not even opening an eyelid. It seemed he was still sulking from yesterday.

Naruto didn't mind; he was used to playing alone anyway.

Yesterday, after seeing this space of nearly 180 mu [1], and realizing he could also take items out of his storage, Naruto's mind had been filled with all sorts of "portable space" novels from Qidian [2]. He considered this his own portable space with many acres of land, didn't he?

As for the various pets in those farming-genre novels, he had one too. A tsundere [3] husky-type wasn't unacceptable, and his was even bigger than theirs. Where else would you find a farming-genre pet that was over ten stories tall? There was simply no comparison. These days, a man's romance was all about size; bigger was better.

Naruto walked to the edge of the space and took out a dirt ball. He placed it on the ground and infused a bit of magic into it. As the magic flowed in, the dirt ball began to expand, finally becoming a cube with sides of one meter each.

In the game, dirt was represented by dirt balls, which would turn into blocks of soil when placed. But in the world of Naruto, it required magic to be infused. The same went for stone. Items that would expand after being placed in the game all required magic here, as he'd discovered through experiments with furniture.

Naruto stood on the dirt block and sighed with relief. Finally, he wouldn't have to soak his feet in water anymore. He wondered how Kurama could lie down in this place, which was entirely filled with water, without getting rheumatism or arthritis.

He took out an iron pickaxe, dug a hole, and placed a few wheat grains inside, then covered them with soil.

Digging the hole, sowing the seeds, burying the soil – he did it all in one smooth motion, like a true farming hero.

As soon as the wheat was planted, it began to absorb the magic in the soil and grow. In a short time, it stopped growing at about ten centimeters tall, looking incredibly tender, as if you could squeeze water out of it.

The game's settings required water for wheat to grow, but in this place, the "downspout" was constantly dripping water, so he didn't even need to water them.

He dug two more holes and took out two potted palm trees. He threw the pots back into his little world's junkyard and buried the palm trees at the base of the wall.

Naruto planned to plant a circle of palm trees along the wall. In other places, he would plant a light every so often, and most of the area would be planted with wheat. If it didn't look good later, he could switch to potted flowers. The potted flowers were white. The game also had flowerbeds, and the flowers in those were blue, like dandelions, very pretty. However, they were in the advanced crafting category, so he had to wait for them to appear before he could buy them. Even if he bought them, it wouldn't be enough to plant. Perhaps he could try artificial pollination?

Before the sixth plot of land, Naruto took out a small hanging lamp and some iron wire. He used the wire to tie the lamp to the palm tree. The lamp illuminated a radius of five meters. By tying up more of them, he could make the space near the gate brightly lit.

Possibly due to a conflict between the rules of the two worlds, the hanging lamps outside would use up their oil and go out. But in this space, they remained constantly lit. As long as they weren't manually extinguished, they would keep shining, completely using a crowbar to pry open the coffin lids of every physicist.

He continued digging holes, planting crops, and tying up lamps. He stopped at the 20th plot. Naruto was out of magic. Four-year-old Naruto only had 21 points of magic, and there was no way to replenish it. He could only wait for his magic to recover bit by bit.

On the sofa, little Naruto closed his eyes and rested, afraid that he would fall asleep. Every few minutes, he would recover some magic and continue farming.

"Good night, big foxy," At ten o'clock sharp, Naruto returned to the dragon bed he had placed earlier and went to sleep.

Time flew by, and another year passed. Naruto had stayed home for another year. Starting from the age of three, he had already set the record for the longest time spent indoors in Konoha: two years.

His closet now contained Lexington, Helena, Kong Xiang, Saratoga, Kiana, Mei, Saiyan Goku, Monkey King Goku, and a certain invincible bald guy [4].

He had already gone through two batches of Naruto headbands; the previous ones had gathered too much dust and been melted down by Naruto.

And at this moment, Naruto was standing in front of Kurama's gate, hesitating whether or not to make a move.

A month after he started his farming endeavor, Naruto could freely enter the sealed space. After that, his farming speed greatly increased. Every hour, he recovered 20 magic points, and Naruto would go farming. According to the previous pace of two hours a day, it would have taken eight or nine years to complete. Now, one year was enough.

Saying goodnight to Kurama before bed had become a habit, but Kurama had completely ignored Naruto, always in an unstable state between sleeping and not sleeping. If it were at all possible, Naruto would have considered giving Kurama to Schrödinger, asking him to switch out that cat.

But now, Kurama was squinting, staring at the little brat in front of him.

A year's time had already turned the inside and outside of the gate into two different worlds.

Outside the gate, it was brightly lit. The palm trees had grown much taller, three or four meters high, with oil lamps hanging from them, casting patches of light. The 180 mu of golden wheat fields, under the yellowish light of the oil lamps, seemed to shimmer with golden light.

Inside the gate, it was dim and gloomy. A fox the size of a building lay quietly, the terrifying aura emanating from its body enough to make children cry at night, and then scare them into holding back their tears.

Naruto stood at the boundary between light and darkness, having stood there for a long time.

Through his observations of Naruto over the past year, Kurama had discovered that this Jinchuriki [5] was very different from the previous ones. The first, Mito Uzumaki, believed that his power would attract hatred and bound him for her entire life. The second, Kushina Uzumaki, said that he could suppress the world, but she could suppress him. Even though they were all humans with fundamentally little power, they still insisted on their twisted logic, unilaterally binding him.

This one, with his previous self-introduction, asking how to get out, and this year's goodnights, even though he had always ignored him, he persisted in saying them. He was very different from the previous Jinchuriki. As for whether he feared his power...

Kurama was waiting, to see if he dared to take that step.

Both sides knew what it meant for that step to be taken.

Half an hour later, Kurama was about to close his eyes and sleep. Humans, it seemed, were all the same creatures, even this little brat.

Just as he was about to close his eyes, Kurama saw the little brat step inside the gate and place down the first block of soil.

"Naruto Uzumaki, huh? An interesting little brat," Kurama's mouth, on the side hidden from Naruto's sight, curved into an arc.

"Death it is, then," Naruto gritted his teeth and placed the first block of soil. The soil block connected with the one outside, wrapping around the gatepost, like the earth that embraces all things, drawing the two worlds inside and outside the gate closer.

Naruto stared at Kurama, cautiously moving forward, placing the second block of soil, the third, the fourth, the fifth.

Kurama squinted and gently shook his tail.

Seeing Kurama's tail move, Naruto instantly took off, rushing outside the gate.

After a while, seeing Kurama's tail lower, he cautiously walked back inside the gate and started placing soil. After placing the fifth block, Kurama's tail moved again, and Naruto ran again.

That day, the two of them tacitly agreed to five blocks of soil, one movement, one run, without breaking the pattern.

That day, Naruto spent over ten hours building a straight line inside the gate. The line connected the inside and outside of the gate, the bottom meter of the entire gate was wrapped in soil, like a bridge connecting the two worlds.

That day, Naruto said to Kurama inside the gate, "Good night, big foxy."

That day, Kurama replied, "Good night, little brat."

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