Naruto: Starting from the time when the Six Paths of Pain was Kira Yoshikage

Chapter 97 Yin Nine-Tailed Fox! Get Da☆ze!

"Minato...this enemy...seems to be quite difficult to deal with."

Gamabunta looked at Kurama, whom he had pinned down and whose mouth was beginning to form a Tailed Beast Ball, and a large bead of sweat slid down his forehead.

As the current head of the Myoboku clan, Gamabunta has experienced countless battles and is already a powerful summoning beast known throughout the ninja world. However, he still struggles too much against a monster of the Nine-Tails' level, even with the Fourth Hokage's help.

I could play around with other tailed beasts, but I really can't beat this one. If I get hit by that thing in Kurama's mouth, I'll most likely have to start over.

"Time...is enough!"

Minato didn't have time for idle chatter. He mentally calculated Kushina's remaining time, and after confirming that he had enough to reseal the Nine-Tails, he immediately turned to the Third Hokage and said, "Third Hokage, leave this one to me!"

"Minato, what are you doing?"

The Third Hokage's heart skipped a beat, a strong sense of foreboding gripping him. He was about to step forward and ask what was wrong when Minato moved. Minato formed hand seals, and the next second, he and the Nine-Tails, which was being pinned down by Gamabunta, vanished from their spot.

Not long after, a huge mushroom cloud suddenly rose into the distance, its blinding white light illuminating half the night sky like daytime. It was the aftershock of the Nine-Tails' Tailed Beast Ball explosion. Even though Minato had moved it to the outskirts of the village in time, the terrifying energy fluctuations still made the Konoha ninja present feel their hearts pound.

Too much chakra was used up...

When Minato reappeared, he was with Kushina and Naruto, but he was not in good condition. Compared to the beginning, his eye sockets were slightly sunken, his originally rosy lips had become pale and cracked, and his steps were somewhat unsteady.

The moment he transferred himself and the Nine-Tails, he rushed off to pick up his wife and children.

The consumption of the Flying Thunder God Technique is related to the size and distance of the teleportation. Teleporting a monster as large as the Nine-Tails would definitely consume a lot of energy. In addition, Minato had been through a series of battles, and his chakra was almost depleted.

But he can't fall now; he still has his beloved wife...and his children and Konoha.

"Let me do my part too." Kushina leaned against Minato's chest, her voice weak but unwavering. As soon as she finished speaking, countless golden chains suddenly shot out from her back. These chains gleamed with a faint golden light and seemed to have their own consciousness as they rapidly coiled around Kurama.

As Kurama realized something was wrong and tried to escape, golden chains descended, binding its limbs and tail tightly. Despite their thinness, these chains contained the unique chakra of the Uzumaki clan, perfectly suppressing Kurama's raging chakra. No matter how Kurama roared or struggled, the chains remained unmoved.

"Done!" Kushina breathed a sigh of relief, slightly out of breath.

Thanks to the large amount of chakra that Nagato had previously transferred, Kushina's condition was much better than in the original story.

It's important to know that tailed beasts are naturally composed of chakra, and the only effective way to restrain them, besides the Sharingan of the Uchiha clan, is the Adamantine Sealing Technique of the Uzumaki clan.

Kushina's Adamantine Lock was like a solid cage, trapping the Nine-Tails in place and creating excellent sealing conditions for Minato.

"Leave the rest to me."

Minato Namikaze flashed forward, blocking Kushina Uzumaki's path like a gust of wind. His Hokage robe, embroidered with the words "Fourth Hokage," fluttered in the night wind, making his figure appear even more upright and handsome.

If everything had gone smoothly, perhaps Kushina wouldn't have died, and perhaps the Fourth Hokage wouldn't have died either. The couple could have watched Naruto grow up, and the three of them could have enjoyed family life together.

pity...

The gears of fate always seem to deliver a fatal blow the moment hope is ignited.

Just as Minato was forming hand seals and using the Eight Trigrams Sealing Technique to reseal the rampaging Nine-Tails back into Kushina's body, everyone's attention was focused on the Nine-Tails and the sealing technique. No one noticed that the space behind Kushina was experiencing a subtle distortion.

Immediately afterwards, a hand slowly emerged from the void.

"Pfft!!!"

Warm, crimson blood gushed out instantly, splashing onto the cold ground and blooming into alluring blood flowers. The hand transformed into the sharpest blade, piercing Kushina's chest without warning.

This unexpected turn of events froze Minato, who was forming hand seals. He stared wide-eyed in disbelief, his hand seals coming to an abrupt halt. Kushina was struck dumb, looking down at the hand protruding from her chest, her eyes filled with shock and resentment. Even the Nine-Tails, which had been struggling frantically, seemed to have been paused, its movements halted, as if it too was startled by this sudden turn of events.

Only Naruto, still in his swaddling clothes, seemed to sense his parents' crisis and burst into loud sobs, his cries sounding particularly mournful in the quiet night.

"Fourth Hokage, as the fastest ninja in the world, you've finally fallen behind again."

A cold, emotionless voice rang out, and the owner of the arm slowly materialized from the void—it was none other than Uchiha Obito, who had previously fought fiercely against Minato. His face was mostly obscured by a mask, revealing only one eye filled with mockery as he spoke mercilessly to his former teacher.

"You bastard, how dare you..."

Minato was burning with rage, his heart felt like it was being gripped tightly by an invisible hand, the pain almost suffocating him. At this moment, his mind was completely focused on the severely injured Kushina, and he had no time to ponder the hidden meaning in Obito's words, let alone notice the meaningful word "again".

Just a second before Minato flashed and rushed to Kushina's side, Obito once again used his Hollowfication ability, and his figure disappeared from the spot like a bubble.

Obito's injuries from his battle with Minato were not minor, and his sneak attack just now was the last straw he could muster.

It's clear that it was a success.

Having successfully launched a sneak attack, he naturally wanted to make a quick getaway; he had no intention of staying here to bear the wrath of the Fourth Hokage.

Minato held the barely breathing Kushina, his heart filled with self-blame and regret.

If only my senses were a little stronger, if only my speed were a little faster.

"Minato... don't blame yourself." Kushina struggled to hold her husband's face, trying to speak in a gentle voice, but blood kept spilling from the corner of her mouth.

She could feel her life force draining away at an alarming rate; she could only hold on for a minute or two at most. But she didn't want to die, not out of fear of death, but because she couldn't bear to leave her loving husband and newborn child.

"Thank you for everything you've done for me all this time. Now it's my turn to do something in return..."

As her husband, Minato knew Kushina too well; the moment she opened her mouth, he knew what she was going to do.

The Jinchuriki and the Tailed Beast have a symbiotic relationship. Even though the Nine-Tails has been extracted from Kushina's body, Kushina can still take the Nine-Tails with her when she dies. Although the Tailed Beast will not truly die, doing so will allow her husband and child to get through this crisis.

"Minato...don't make that face..."

"...I'm so happy...because you love me..."

Kushina said with difficulty, gazing lovingly at Minato. She truly felt happy because she had met him.

The latter's eyes were already filled with tears.

"I only have one last wish..."

Kushina glanced regretfully at the sleeping Naruto and said, "I really want to see Naruto when he's all grown up."

Upon hearing this, Minato paused, as if making a decision, and looked at Kushina seriously, saying, "Kushina, I will seal your remaining chakra into Naruto's body and combine it with the Eight Trigrams Seal."

"The Nine-Tails... I'll take care of it!"

Given Minato's current state, there is only one way to deal with the Nine-Tails, which has suffered almost no losses: use the Uzumaki clan's sealing technique, a top-tier sealing technique that can even seal the soul—the Reaper Death Seal.

Minato's hands formed hand seals so fast that they were just afterimages, and in an instant he completed what was known as the strongest sealing technique of the Uzumaki clan.

As the last seal fell, a huge, pale phantom slowly emerged behind him. It was the outline of Death, with a hideous face like a demon, and a gleaming kitchen knife in its mouth.

Almost at the same moment, a blue phantom that looked exactly like him appeared behind Minato. It was the materialized form of his chakra and a projection of his soul.

In order to allow his wife to see their child when he grew up, Minato chose the most extreme method, sacrificing his own life to seal Kushina's chakra inside Naruto.

This practice can also be called—suicide pact.

This perfectly illustrates the saying, "Parents are true love, children are just an accident."

"Kushina, the Nine-Tails' power is simply too great. Even using this technique, I'm afraid it won't be able to completely suppress it..." Minato took a deep breath, his gaze sweeping over the Nine-Tails' massive body. "Therefore, I will seal half of the Nine-Tails into my body, and the other half..."

As he spoke, his gaze turned to Naruto Uzumaki, who was fast asleep in his swaddling clothes not far away.

"Minato, Naruto is still so young!" Kushina strained to speak, almost screaming as she said this. As the former Nine-Tails Jinchuriki, she knew better than anyone what the fate of a Jinchuriki meant.

Isolated, feared, seen as an omen of misfortune, and regarded as a monster from a young age, her life might have already sunk into darkness if she hadn't been lucky enough to meet Minato. She couldn't imagine that her newborn child would have to bear such a heavy fate.

"Kushina, believe in him, believe in our child..."

Minato chuckled softly, his warm, sun-like smile blooming once more: "Perhaps it's because I've read too many of Jiraiya-sensei's books, but I always feel that Naruto will become the protagonist of those books, the prophesied child who will change the ninja world, and he will forge a completely new future."

Although Minato wanted to look at Kushina a little longer and say a few more words to her, Kushina's body was already about to give out, and the phantom of the Grim Reaper behind Minato began to move.

The Grim Reaper's arm suddenly extended like a spring, whistling through the air, and grabbed at the Nine-Tails, which was bound by the Adamantine Lock. The Nine-Tails let out a painful roar, its massive body struggling violently, but it could not break free from the Grim Reaper's grasp.

Soon, a ball of fox-shaped chakra was extracted from Kurama's body by the Shinigami. It was half of Kurama's chakra, belonging to the Yin attribute.

Only this ultimate forbidden technique, which comes at the cost of life, could separate the Nine-Tails' chakra so easily.

Just as the fox-shaped chakra rushed toward Minato's abdomen, about to be sealed by him using himself as a vessel, a slightly familiar voice suddenly rang in the ears of the couple.

"Fourth Hokage, it's such a pity that such a massive amount of chakra was taken away by the Grim Reaper along with your soul."

Suddenly, a bright red figure appeared before the Minato couple like a ghost.

"Why don't you give it to me... give it to us?"

It was Nagato, whom the Minato couple had met not long ago.

However, Nagato did not use his own body to receive half of the Nine-Tails' chakra. He had no intention of making his own body the Nine-Tails' jinchūriki. Instead, just a second before the chakra was about to hit him, he quickly formed hand seals and performed a summoning jutsu.

As a cloud of smoke billowed out, a handsome man with long, flowing silver hair appeared before Nagato.

Human Path * Hua Shi Dou Lang.

The phantom of the Nine-Tails crashed into Hua Shidoulang's abdomen without any hindrance. The Yin-attribute chakra of the Nine-Tails surged into his body like a tide, and a strange vortex-shaped pattern quickly appeared on his abdomen.

The turn of events was so sudden that even Minato Namikaze, known for his lightning-fast reflexes, couldn't react in time. This was mainly because he had exhausted too much chakra from the battles against the masked man and the Nine-Tails, which greatly reduced his reaction time.

Before Minato could do anything, Hua Shi Toro dispelled the summoning jutsu and returned to his original Hunter world.

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Nagato was very satisfied with this result. He himself did not intend to accept the Nine-Tails' chakra or become the Nine-Tails' jinchūriki, but he did not say that the Six Paths clones were not acceptable.

Aside from the Heavenly Path Yamcha clone, both the Animal Path and Human Path bodies are somewhat weaker; strengthening them is equivalent to becoming stronger and enhancing oneself.

The main reason is that the Nine-Tails is different from other tailed beasts. Even with only half its power, its strength far surpasses that of other tailed beasts. Take the Seven-Tails of Takigakure for example. Let alone one Seven-Tails, even if ten Seven-Tails attacked together, they might not be able to defeat the Nine-Tails with only half its power.

The gap between tailed beasts can sometimes be greater than the gap between humans and tailed beasts.

Although this person doesn't seem to have any ill intentions towards me or Kushina for the time being, his strange behavior makes him an extremely dangerous individual... Judging from his previous tone... he might be detrimental to Konoha in the future, so perhaps...

Minato's body trembled slightly, and a dangerous thought quietly rose in his mind.

However, just as Minato had this thought, Nagato, as if reading his mind, turned his back and said, "Fourth Hokage, I've said I'm not your enemy, so I advise you to abandon that dangerous idea..."

"Otherwise, I will make Konoha a thing of the past today..."

As Nagato spoke, he slowly turned around. The moment Minato met his gaze, his blood seemed to freeze instantly, and he stood there, his breath catching in his throat.

What came into view was a pair of eyes with six pale purple circles. Those circles were like deep black holes, carrying a strange power that seemed to suck in his very soul.

Such iconic double pupils have only been possessed by one person throughout history—the legendary Sage of Six Paths.