"You want to try?"
The chains paused, and Uzumaki Mito looked at him with a strange expression: "You are only 7 years old. Even if you awakened the Sharingan and your Chakra reserves exceed a Chunin's, sealing the Nine-Tailed is still not something you can interfere with."
Hyuga Arima, however, remained silent, quickly forming hand seals.
"These seals are… Adamantine Sealing Chains?!" Uzumaki Mito and Kushina were stunned.
"Click, click, click…"
Under their astonished gazes, a half-meter-long Chakra chain extended from his back.
"…"
Uzumaki Mito and Kushina exchanged glances, then simultaneously raised their hands and rubbed their eyes… Does this guy have Whirlpool Clan bloodline? A combination of Uchiha, Hyuga, and Uzumaki bloodlines?
But Arima was a bit flushed at this moment; this half-meter was really… short.
He gritted his teeth and closed his eyes.
Outside, he opened his eyes, a pair of blood-red pupils rotating faintly.
"Swish!"
A kunai appeared in his hand, attracting the gazes of five people.
"What is he going to do?" Hiruzen asked curiously.
"Pfft!"
The next moment, blood splattered!
"Arima!" Uzumaki Mito exclaimed.
Hyuga Arima had plunged the kunai into his own chest, then released his hands and began forming hand seals, ignoring everything else.
"He avoided vital points," Danzo said indifferently.
Homura Mitokado and Utatane Koharu frowned, remaining silent.
But Uzumaki Mito was astonished to find that Arima's Chakra reserves, which she sensed, were rapidly surging, almost a hundredfold in an instant!
"Injury level 10%, cell division accelerated 100 times, consuming 20 seconds of life."
"Body continuously injured, unable to repair, cell division accelerated, life force consumption accelerated!"
This was Hyuga Arima's special physique.
"Exchanging life force for a burst of physical energy, I am the Life-Draining Immortal…"
He chuckled self-deprecatingly, ignoring the strange gazes of Hiruzen and Danzo, and quickly completed the hand seals.
"Adamantine Sealing Chains!"
Three Chakra chains extended, clicking and clicking as they merged into the black orb in Kushina's abdomen.
Then, he closed his eyes again.
Behind him, Hiruzen, Danzo, and the other two had their eyes wide open.
"The unique secret technique of the Whirlpool Clan!"
Danzo's eyes narrowed, a dangerous glint flashing in his gaze: "Hiruzen, what exactly is going on with him?"
Hiruzen's face twitched: "I don't know."
"Judging by your reaction just now, you've known this child for a long time. Now you say you don't know?" Danzo narrowed his eyes, "We are the Advisor Council. This concerns the Nine-Tailed Jinchuriki, and we have the right to know the truth."
"I really don't know."
Hiruzen was expressionless, but in his heart, he silently raised Hyuga Arima's status by several levels… Besides Hyuga and Uchiha bloodlines, does this child also have Whirlpool bloodline?
Fusing the talents of multiple clans, yet not belonging to any single one, what kind of variable will this existence bring to Konoha?
He fell into deep thought.
Danzo, Utatane Koharu, and Homura Mitokado exchanged glances, all frowning… In the decade or so since Hiruzen became Hokage, they, as Advisors and Elders, had never been kept in the dark by him.
What exactly is going on with this child?
Ignoring the different thoughts of the four outside, within Kushina's sealing space, Hyuga Arima opened his eyes, and three 20-meter-long Chakra chains extended.
"Click, click, click!"
Instantly connecting with Kushina's Chakra, their chains wrapped around the Nine-Tailed's neck several times, then flew down, easily settling into the precise sealing positions.
"Good!"
Uzumaki Mito's spirits lifted, and she slammed her hands down.
Behind her, the chains flowed like water, rapidly connecting the entire sealing space into one.
"Bastard! Scoundrel! Damn it! You two brats!"
Watching the seal gradually take shape, the Nine-Tailed let out one shrill roar after another, filled with utter grief and indignation.
"Bang! Bang! Bang!"
Orange-red wooden gates closed one after another before his eyes, isolating the Nine-Tailed.
"Click, click, click…"
The center of the last gate rotated like a lock, finally closing completely.
"Whoosh! Whoosh!"
Two Chakra chains extended from the keyhole, connecting to Kushina's and Hyuga Arima's palms.
"Om!"
The chains disappeared, and a golden Uzumaki mark appeared on Arima's right palm and Kushina's left palm respectively.
Then, they slowly vanished.
"This… is very good…"
Uzumaki Mito smiled with relief, her figure gradually disappearing from the sealing space.
At this moment, Hyuga Arima felt as if his mental energy had been completely drained, his head throbbing with pain.
"Kushina, I'm leaving too. You should wake up soon."
He murmured softly, about to disappear.
"Arima…"
But Kushina held his hand, her gaze fixed on his palm.
The mark there had already disappeared, but she pursed her lips and smiled, her smile pure and content: "This… is truly good…"
"Click, click, click."
Outside, the Adamantine Sealing Chains completely vanished.
Hiruzen and the others exchanged glances and immediately shunshined inside.
"Lady Mito, how is the situation?" Hiruzen asked urgently.
Uzumaki Mito slowly opened her cloudy eyes, a smile appearing on her lips: "It's done… perfectly…"
"Phew."
They all breathed a sigh of relief.
Regardless of their differing political views, their hearts for Konoha were the same. Even Danzo, at this moment, had no other intentions.
"Cough… cough, cough…"
Just then, a coughing sound came.
They looked down to see Hyuga Arima clutching his chest and coughing violently, then his eyes went black, and he collapsed.
Fortunately, before he collapsed, he remembered to pull out the kunai from his chest, to avoid further consumption of life force.
"Arima!"
As soon as Kushina opened her eyes, she saw him collapse. She flashed and caught him, asking anxiously: "What's wrong with you?!"
"Grandma Mito, he… what's wrong with him?"
Seeing Kushina completely focused on Hyuga Arima, Danzo and the others had varied expressions.
"Help him lie down. He only fainted due to mental energy exhaustion, and for the wound on his chest, help him bandage it," Uzumaki Mito said slowly.
"Yes!"
Kushina felt relieved and quickly took out a simple bandage from her Ninja tool pouch.
But when she moved to tear open Arima's clothes, she suddenly paused.
Her small eyes rolled around, and she covered it with her hands, not exposing Arima's wound, but directly wrapping it with the bandage, not letting others see the specific situation.
Thus, they were unable to discover Hyuga Arima's miraculous recovery ability… Who would have thought that a 7-year-old girl could be so cunning?
"This Hyuga Arima knows about Jinchuriki, has a Sharingan, and can also learn the secret techniques of the Whirlpool Clan," Danzo said in a low voice, "How should we deal with him?"
Kushina's little ears instantly perked up.
Hiruzen glanced at Danzo: "I have an agreement with this child. He won't expose his Sharingan, and after graduation, he will directly join the Anbu."
"Join the Hokage's direct subordinates or Root?" Danzo immediately asked.
"Of course, the Hokage's direct subordinates," Hiruzen said as a matter of course.
Danzo swept a glance at Hyuga Arima and slowly said: "Hiruzen, your direct Anbu still handles some overt affairs and interacts too much with other Ninja. Root, on the other hand, can better conceal him…"