Chapter 90: The Price of Resurrection! Granny, That Is My Yang Energy
Gaara lay quietly on the grass, his eyes, which always had dark circles, tightly shut, and his chest no longer rising or falling.
For a Jinchuriki whose Tailed Beast had been extracted, the only outcome was death. This was common knowledge in the Ninja World.
"There is no… breathing left."
Sakura's hand left Gaara's chest, trembling, tears welling up in her eyes. Even though she had learned powerful medical Ninjutsu, there was no way to pull a departed life back.
Beside her, Temari suddenly covered her mouth, her iron fan slipping from her hand to the ground with a dull thud.
"Sigh…"
A heavy, aged sigh rang out.
Grandmother Chiyo walked over with a staggering gait. She looked at the child she had once viewed as a monster, and a trace of relief appeared on her wrinkled face.
"Do not cry, little girl. If it were the old me, I would probably have been indifferent to this. But…"
Grandmother Chiyo slowly knelt beside Gaara, her hands folded, and a ball of pale blue Chakra light full of life energy gradually lit up in her palms. "Seeing a fool like Naruto, I also feel I should do something an old woman ought to do."
"Granny, surely you don't mean…"
Sakura's eyes widened. She had read in ancient texts about a forbidden Ninjutsu of the Hidden Sand Village that had long been lost—the One's Own Life Reincarnation. Using the caster's entire life force to exchange for the resurrection of the dead.
A life for a life.
The light grew brighter, and Grandmother Chiyo's flame of life flickered and dimmed visibly. Her breathing became rapid, and her already withered arms began to lose their final trace of color.
Just at this tragic moment of farewell.
"Wait a second! What are you doing? Competing to see who can die faster?"
A healthy, powerful hand reached out without warning and covered the back of Grandmother Chiyo's tree-bark-like hand.
Uzumaki Naruto crouched down, his brows furrowed, his expression practically saying, "Are you guys stupid?"
"The principle of this Ninjutsu is just converting Chakra into life force to transfer it, right? Granny, what is that little bit of Chakra of yours going to do? Your tank is almost empty, and you still want to refuel someone else?"
Naruto's inner voice followed, blasting into the minds of the two women who knew the truth.
[Seriously, at a time like this, I have to be the one to rely on. Grandmother Chiyo is so old, don't save Gaara only to die yourself. Although this old lady was annoying at first, she is doing this for the Village after all.]
[Since you are lacking life force, come to me! I don't have much else, but I have plenty of this stuff to spare!]
Sakura and Temari were in the middle of an emotional atmosphere, suddenly interrupted by this, and didn't have time to complain.
The thoughts in Naruto's mind took a sharp turn.
[Come to think of it, this counts as doing a good deed, right? Anyway, with my Uzumaki Clanconstitution, plus that Nine-Tailed inside my stomach… that excess energy is running rampant in my body every day, making me uncomfortable, and sometimes I really feel like it's about to overflow.]
[This must be what they call an excess of Yang energy, right? As the saying goes, Yin and Yang must be in harmony. Grandmother Chiyo's withered state is exactly what needs my… hot, vibrant, white, and dense life essence!]
[Come on! Granny! Don't be polite! Let me… shoot it all… no, that's wrong, let me pour it all into your body!]
"…"
The atmosphere at the scene instantly swerved from a tragic sacrifice to some indescribable late-night soap opera.
Sakura, who had been crying, forcibly held back her tears, her cheeks instantly flushing red.
Temari had her mouth wide open, looking at the Kazekage lying on the ground, then at the Blonde Youth next to him who was shamelessly talking about pouring in life essence. She wanted to stop him, but couldn't find a reason, because… did this really sound like saving someone?
"Even though I know you are saving someone, why are the adjectives in your head so lewd!" Sakuraroared in her heart.
Inside the sealing space.
The huge Nine-Tailed lay in the cage, rolled its eyes with a look of disdain, and covered its ears with its massive claws: "That is Chakra! It is the Tailed Beast Chakra that I am proud of! Who the hell called it white liquid and essence?! I'm going to throw up! Kid, hurry up and send this Chakra out, it's disgusting me to death!"
Outside.
Grandmother Chiyo did not have the heavenly curtain, so she could not hear those terrible inner thoughts.
She only felt that the moment that large hand covered hers, a power so vast it was uncontrollable surged violently through her meridians and into her body.
What scorching power that was!
"This… this is…" Grandmother Chiyo's cloudy old eyes widened sharply.
Unlike her own dying, thread-like Chakra, the power Naruto transmitted was violent, scorching, and carried an aggressiveness that made one blush and their heart race.
This power instantly overwhelmed her dried-up meridians.
Not only filling the void needed to resurrect Gaara, but because the volume was so large, this power began to overflow, conversely nourishing Grandmother Chiyo's long-withered cells.
Hum! Hum! Hum!
A blinding light suddenly erupted from Gaara's chest. His originally pale complexion began to turn rosy at a visible speed.
"Ugh…"
Grandmother Chiyo couldn't help but let out a slightly strange gasp. She felt her body, which had long lost its vitality, as if it had been inflated. Her originally hunched back straightened up involuntarily, and the wrinkles on her face seemed to smooth out a little under the nourishment of this essence.
Is this the life force of the Uzumaki Clan? No… it seems mixed with the kind of impulse unique to young people?
[Give it more! A little more! Fill me up!]
Naruto was still shouting wildly in his heart, [It must be filled! This amount is just a drizzle for me! Don't stop! I can still keep outputting!]
Pfft!
Sakura finally couldn't take it anymore. To prevent herself from thinking in the wrong direction, she forcibly turned around to check the perimeter. She was afraid that if she kept listening, she would never be able to look at the medical Ninjutsu of Chakra transfer seriously again.
Don't know how much time passed.
Just when Grandmother Chiyo felt she was about to be burst.
The red-haired youth lying on the ground, his eyelashes trembled slightly, then he suddenly opened his eyes and took a deep breath of the dry air in the desert.
"Ha…"
Gaara, resurrected!
"Success!"
Naruto chuckled, pulled his hand back, and took the opportunity to wipe off non-existent sweat on his clothes, [Done and dusted! That feeling of emptiness in my body has finally disappeared, releasing a little bit really is refreshing.]
Grandmother Chiyo beside him did not die. Although extremely exhausted, her complexion was even better than before the technique, and her originally death-grey face even revealed a strange red glow.
She sat slumped on the ground, staring blankly at Naruto with an expression as if she had seen a monster, or perhaps a rare treasure.
"Monster… this kid, not only has the power of a monster, but also has… the vitality that can even wear out an old woman," Grandmother Chiyomuttered to herself.
"Gaara!" Temari rushed over, tears streaming down her face.
The girls from Konoha had a brand new, dangerous definition of the three words "life force" at this moment.
Cheers erupted at the scene.
The Sunagakure Ninjas who rushed to support looked at the resurrected Kazekage and let out deafening cheers. And at the center of all this, that Blonde Youth was putting his hands behind his head, showing a brilliant smile.
But after Gaara got up, the look in his eyes when he looked at Naruto was somewhat complicated. Although he had just woken up, he still remembered that feeling. That power that dragged him back from the road to the afterlife, warm, domineering, and even a little… it even burned him, who played with sand.
"Naruto…" Gaara reached out his hand, "Thank you."
Naruto grabbed his hand and even pulled him over to pat his shoulder.
[What's with the thanks? Can't you treat those dark circles? If you hang up next time, I'll have to pour this and that into you again, it's very tiring, you know. I still need to save this essence for… hehe, for Granny Tsunade to use during a physical examination!]
Thinking that after returning to the Village, with such a great contribution, could he get some special reward from that Fifth Hokage with the rule-breaking figure? Like… using that to suffocate him once?
Far away in Konoha, Tsunade, who was handling official business, suddenly sneezed, and the seal in her hand was crushed at a corner.
"This chill…" Tsunade gritted her teeth, but the corners of her mouth rose uncontrollably, "That kid… did he really bring him back? If so… humph, giving him a little sweetness is not impossible."