"I am already old," Uzumaki Mito sighed and said. "But sealed within my body is..."
"Ah! It is not accepted by the world. Everyone fears it, is afraid of it, but how is it any different?"
Uzumaki Mito looked at Uzumaki Jun with a smile on her face.
"It is actually very lonely. No one embraces it or understands it!"
"Now, I need to find a new place for it to reside, a place where it can be embraced and understood."
"So..."
Mito did not finish her words. Instead, she looked at him with a smile. Everything about Uzushiogakure and the Uzumaki Clan was no longer within her control...
"..."
After listening to Uzumaki Mito's words, Uzumaki Jun fell silent. What he really wanted to say was...
Although the Uzumaki Clan was willing to accept Kurama, could he take the jinchūriki back to his country?
Uzumaki Jun knew that if he dared to speak up, Sarutobi Hiruzen would not hesitate to act. However, the idea of the Uzumaki Clan becoming jinchūriki for others was something Uzumaki Jun refused. The best solution now was to completely separate the concept of jinchūriki from the Uzumaki Clan. Otherwise...
The Uzumaki Clan would never know peace!
This was also why he had the clan elders modify the sealing techniques—to give the other villages hope. To make them understand that becoming a jinchūriki did not necessarily require an Uzumaki. Other clans, even ordinary people, could do it. They had just been using the wrong methods.
So...
"Sorry," Uzumaki Jun said after a moment of silence. "The Uzumaki Clan will absolutely never become jinchūriki."
At present, there was still no successful example of an ordinary person becoming a jinchūriki. If the Uzumaki Clan helped Konoha at this time, the other four great villages and the smaller villages would be furious, believing that the Uzumaki Clan was deceiving them.
The result would likely be the five villages uniting to destroy Uzushiogakure. And then...
Would Konoha intervene?
So, expecting Uzushiogakure to provide a free jinchūriki for Konoha?
Don't even joke about it!
"Ah..." Hearing Uzumaki Jun's refusal, Uzumaki Mito sighed. She had expected this, but...
She hadn't thought he would reject it so directly.
Uzumaki Mito fell silent for a moment before helplessly asking, "What if Konoha and Uzushiogakure renew their alliance?"
"..."
Let's not even talk about that. Renew the alliance?
As long as the four Konoha higher-ups remained unchanged, Uzumaki Jun didn't dare to get too close to them. These people were either shameless or ruthless, striking at their own without hesitation.
Let alone outsiders like Uzushiogakure.
Who knew if they would end up being sold out without even realizing it?
So...
Uzumaki Jun remained silent and did not speak.
Seeing his expression, Uzumaki Mito smiled bitterly and shook her head. It seemed he no longer trusted Konoha. But there was nothing to be done. Who could blame him when Konoha had ignored even Hashirama's agreements?
If Uzushiogakure had...
Perhaps Konoha could have used their alliance to take everything from Uzushiogakure. But now that Uzushiogakure was unharmed, Konoha could not openly move against them.
However...
If both Konoha and Uzushiogakure...
Uzumaki Mito felt a headache coming on, but she had no solution. Ever since Sarutobi Hiruzen became Hokage, she had remained here, no longer interfering in Konoha's policies. So...
She had long been sidelined. Probably only the Senju Clan still remembered her.
"Ah..."
How could the Nine-Tails issue be resolved?
Uzumaki Mito was also troubled. She knew that if this wasn't resolved, Sarutobi Hiruzen—especially Tobirama's other student, Danzō—would definitely...
"There is actually a way to solve this," Uzumaki Jun spoke up just as Uzumaki Mito was feeling distressed.
"It doesn't have to be an Uzumaki's physique to become a jinchūriki. Ordinary people can do it too!"
Then, he formed a hand seal and used a summoning technique to retrieve the modified sealing technique the elders had casually developed from his system. "This is a newly developed sealing technique by the elders that allows even ordinary people to become jinchūriki."
The only issue was the low success rate. But that didn't matter. Konoha had plenty of people, and with Danzō around to take the blame, if anything went wrong, Sarutobi Hiruzen could just pin it on him. It wouldn't affect the village's safety.
Hearing Uzumaki Jun's words, Uzumaki Mito was stunned. Had the Uzumaki Clan's sealing techniques advanced so much in just a few years?
Had they really solved the problem of ordinary people becoming jinchūriki?
Shocked, she took the sealing technique scroll from Uzumaki Jun and opened it carefully to see what it was about. But then...
Uzumaki Mito looked at Uzumaki Jun with a wry smile. As a master of sealing techniques, she could immediately tell what this technique was about.
It strengthened the sealing effect and weakened the overflow of tailed beast chakra, allowing ordinary people to withstand the massive chakra of a tailed beast. However...
This sealing technique had major limitations. For example, if the person couldn't endure the initial process of implanting the tailed beast into their body, they would...
"You..." Uzumaki Mito pointed at Uzumaki Jun with a mix of amusement and exasperation. "Who came up with this?"
"The elders!" Uzumaki Jun quickly replied. "The four great villages and Takigakure already have this sealing technique."
"..."
Uzumaki Mito fell silent upon hearing this. She understood what Uzumaki Jun meant. He intended to use this sealing technique to distance the Uzumaki Clan from the tailed beasts, diverting attention away from them. But...
This sealing technique relied too much on luck. Ordinary people didn't have the Uzumaki Clan's immense vitality or chakra. What would they use to suppress the tailed beast?
Willpower?
Don't even joke about that!
They probably wouldn't even survive the first step.
But...
"The Uzumaki Clan doesn't have many members left," Uzumaki Jun said, seeing the hesitation in Uzumaki Mito's eyes. He sighed.
"For Konoha's wars, most of the Uzumaki Clan's strong fighters died on the battlefield. Now, within the country..."
"There are very few shinobi left."
"And Konoha..."
Uzumaki Jun looked at Uzumaki Mito with an expression that said, "Only you have wronged Uzushiogakure, the Uzumaki Clan has never wronged you," and firmly declared, "No matter what..."
"The Uzumaki Clan will never become jinchūriki again!"
"Ah..." Uzumaki Mito sighed guiltily and said helplessly, "I understand. I will speak to the Hokage. As for this sealing technique..." She smiled at Uzumaki Jun. "What does Konoha need to pay for it?"
"..."
Hearing this, Uzumaki Jun's eyes lit up. It seemed Uzumaki Mito intended to help him sell this lie. After all, something given for free and something bought at a high price carried completely different meanings.
If Konoha, like the other villages, spent a fortune to obtain this sealing technique...
It would gain legitimacy.
The acknowledgment of a sealing master—Uzumaki Mito herself!