Chapter 84.3- One Thousand Hands

“Really man?” I asked him, looking up at the massive fox. It had taken me a while to get used to his size. Because saying he was massive, was understating things. The whales were massive. Even the Boss Whales and the Great Whale Sage were only a tiny bit bigger than hew was. And they were sea creatures. Being a creature of the sea meant they didn’t have to deal with things like gravity in the same way that would have limited their growth. It also meant that since I only saw them underwater, I never had the full scale of their size made so apparent to me as it presently was with Kurama.

“Yes. Really. I have seen your memories. What happens when you turn unfettered destructive power on a city of people. I have only seen representations of it from your memories and I have no desire for my power to be used to bring that kind of pain to this world”

“What are you talking about?” I asked, not quite certain of what he was referring to. Was he talking about the ten tails tailed beast bomb and what it did to Frost? Those places had been abandoned.

“Hiroshima and Nagasaki” He said with a growl.

“Oh, you meant nukes. It’s not the same thing is it? That was science and this is our power?”

“Is it not the same? You meant to destroy Suna with my power. You meant to show the world that you were one to be feared, a being whose ill will they would not want to garner by any means. Tell me how it is different”

“The nuclear bomb caused an arms race. It led to a different era of war. What I do to Suna could end war as far as Konoha is concerned. No one would want to fuck with a village whose Kage can level a whole city with a single attack .The Capital cities would fear us. The shinobi villages would fear us. Peace in our time.” I said.

“What did the Soviet Union of your world do the second they saw the Americans release their bomb?” He asked with a growl.

“They tried to make their own” I said. But that wasn’t possible here—

“And why isn’t it?”

“You need a perfect jinchuriki to do it. I doubt they’re just going to stumble into one”

“No, but they will search and search. They will seal my brothers and sisters over and over again with the hopes of replicating the power you want to so carelessly display. And one day they will succeed. And one day after that, you will see the power you seek to show the world brought down on your own village. On your own people”

“You are the most powerful of the tailed beasts. Together, we’d beat back anything they bring” I said. Nothing he was saying made any sense. What did it matter if they tried? We are stronger. Konoha still had Kushina with the eight tails, and Isane with the Four tails.