I founded the "Bragging Cult" in Naruto.

Chapter 638 In a crowd, there will always be someone who attracts you and becomes your friend.

"Bang!"

"Splash~"

The iron gate was pounded on, and water splashed up and fell from the ground. A huge nine-tailed fox was imprisoned in a cage that seemed cramped in comparison.

"Kid! How dare you show your face in front of me?!"

Naruto looked up and met those fierce eyes and fangs dripping with saliva. Naruto instinctively stepped back, but bumped into a solid "wall". He looked back and saw that it was the Fourth Hokage who said he would take him to see his father.

"Fourth Boss, you...you're talking about my father, could it be...could it be..."

"You're overthinking it."

Seeing Naruto point at Kurama with a terrified expression, then at himself, Tatsuma couldn't help but chuckle. To be fair, Naruto's imagination was quite rich.

"Human! And who are you?"

"Bang!"

Nine-Tails slammed its claw against the iron gate again. It recognized Tatsuma; he was the guy who had dispelled the rampaging Nine-Tails chakra within Naruto's meridians a few hours earlier.

"It seems your eyesight has halved; if it were intact, you would recognize me at a glance."

Tatsuma gently waved his hand, pushing Naruto behind him, then strode towards the cage, his Tailed Beast power surging within him as he looked up.

"You, you."

Naruto had just stumbled backward and hit the wall, but now it was Kurama who was in trouble. Kurama's fur was standing on end, and it looked at Tatsuma with a fierce but weak expression, like a dog that had been stressed.

"Take a look at this one too."

As Tatsuma spoke, Yin-Yang Release chakra gathered in his hand, and the Nine-Tails' fur instantly drooped down. It looked at Tatsuma and said, "Are you his successor?"

"You could say that. So, there's no need to be hostile towards me. I'm just a traveler in this time and space, and I have no interest in doing anything to you. After all, even if you were in your complete form, I've defeated you more than once."

"Impossible! Mere humans."

Kurama instinctively wanted to refute, but... what was in front of her could no longer be considered human, could it? Possessing the power of all the tailed beasts and having Yin-Yang Release, she was practically a weakened version of the Sage of Six Paths.

Let's have a chat.

Tatsuma reached out and clenched his fist, then reached into the cage. The seal did not stop Tatsuma's actions, or rather, it did not detect them at all.

Kurama hesitated for a moment, but still exchanged punches with Tatsuma. This communication between the Jinchūriki and the Tailed Beast, or between the Tailed Beasts, allowed Kurama to see the information that Tatsuma wanted it to see in an instant.

Retracting its fist, Nine-Tails coiled up on the water's surface, closed its eyes, and went to sleep. In any case, it couldn't stop Tatsuma from doing whatever he wanted.

Seeing that Kurama was so sensible, Tatsuma smiled with satisfaction, turned around, beckoned to Naruto, and said, "Come here and meet your father."

Naruto first subconsciously looked around and found that in this strange space, there were only him, Tatsuma, and Kurama, and no one else appeared.

But he still instinctively walked towards Tatsuma, after all, seeing his father was just too tempting for him.

Tatsuma lightly stomped his foot, instantly raising the water level within the sealed space. Naruto instinctively gathered chakra beneath his feet, and in his haste, his body rose with Tatsuma to the center of the sealed gate.

At this moment, Tatsuma's hand had already landed on the seal of the iron gate. As he peeled off the sealing talisman little by little, Naruto's body outside was also covered with the Nine-Tails' chakra, and tails gathered behind him.

"Naruto!"

Jiraiya quickly dropped his popsicle and went to Tatsuma and Naruto's side. Seeing that the Nine-Tails' chakra was surging around Naruto, but it didn't seem to have harmed him, Jiraiya breathed a sigh of relief, but he still stayed by his side very nervously.

They even clasped their hands together, hesitating whether to gather natural energy first in preparation for any possible unexpected events.

"The Nine-Tailed Fox has gone berserk?!"

In a conference room in the Hokage Building, Konoha's high-ranking officials, including Hashirama Senju, Tobirama Senju, and Tsunade, were present. Upon sensing the Nine-Tails' chakra, many of them stood up, and even Hiruzen Sarutobi looked towards the Senju brothers.

Tobirama Senju turned his head and narrowed his eyes, while Hashirama Senju waved his hand and said, "It should be the Fourth Hokage communicating with Kurama. Don't worry."

"Don't worry?! First Hokage, do you know what the Nine-Tails means?! Do you know how much destruction the Nine-Tails can bring to the village?!"

Danzo stood up and said angrily, "And that so-called Fourth Hokage? I don't believe it! He might just be an accomplice of Orochimaru!"

"sit down!"

As soon as Tobirama Senju spoke, Homura Mitokado and Koharu Utatane, who had just gotten off their stools, immediately sat back down as if they had been struck by a strong magnet. Danzo hesitated for a few seconds, then angrily sat back down in his seat as well.

Tobirama Senju sat at the head of the meeting room, with the current Hokage, Hiruzen Sarutobi, and the First Hokage, Hashirama Senju, seated on either side of him. Tobirama spoke in a serious, authoritative tone:

"Sakamoto Tatsuma is the Fourth Hokage I acknowledge. Even if he wasn't from this timeline, everything he did was the work of a Hokage. Does anyone have any objections?"

With Hashirama Senju standing to the side, Tobirama Senju almost never referred to himself as an old man, and his appearance at this moment did not show any signs of aging. However, no one felt that this was incongruous, because Tobirama Senju, compared to Hashirama Senju or the aged Hiruzen Sarutobi, was more like a dignified elder.

Danzo was extremely frustrated at this moment. He had just said that he did not acknowledge Sakamoto Tatsuma as the Fourth Hokage, but his teacher had reversed his statement and said that he recognized this Fourth Hokage. Danzo did not dare to refute it.

He glared hatefully at the direction of the Nine-Tails' chakra outburst, thinking, "Just wait, I will definitely investigate everything and expose Sakamoto Tatsuma's conspiracy!"

"The meeting continues. Now, let's talk about what the Konoha Jonin who didn't participate in the fight against the epidemic and rescue operations have been doing?"

Seeing the meeting room quiet down again, Tobirama Senju spoke, his eyes fixed on Danzo. Danzo trembled, wanting to explain, but under the gaze of those eyes, he was speechless.

"Eight tails now, it seems only the Hokage can make a move, right?"

On the rooftop of the apartment building, Jiraiya looked at the eight tails behind Naruto, swallowed hard, and unconsciously glanced towards the Hokage Building.

Given all this, aren't the First Hokage, the Second Hokage, and even their own teacher taking any action? Or is it that they trust the Fourth Hokage so much?

Within Naruto's mental world, gazing at the half-opened sealing talisman, Naruto seemed to sense something and kept looking around. Tatsuma, who had been moving, also stopped and asked:

"Minato, aren't you going to come out and meet me?"

A golden flash flickered in the dimly lit sealed space. A figure held a kunai covered in sealing spells and thrust it towards the back of Tatsuma's head from behind his almost unavoidable footsteps.

Tatsuma smiled, sensing the chilling killing intent emanating from behind him. He raised his hand and placed it on Naruto's head. A silver light flashed, and the two returned to their original position.

Minato, whose attack had missed, reached out and reattached the sealing talisman that was about to fall off. He then flipped in mid-air and landed on the water's surface. Minato looked at Tatsuma with icy eyes and said, "Release Naruto."

Tatsuma raised his hand, and Minato said to Naruto, "Naruto, come here!"

"I...you...you're the Fourth Hokage?"

Naruto was a little confused. Why were these two Fourth Hokage so hostile? And why was the Fourth Hokage here?

"Go, this is your father."

Tatsuma patted Naruto on the back, the perfect push causing Naruto to stumble two steps toward Minato.

Minato had only taken two steps away from Tatsuma when he transformed into a golden flash, catching Naruto and instantly appearing in the distance. He crouched down to check on Naruto and involuntarily asked, "Naruto, are you alright?"

"Me? I'm fine. It was the Fourth Hokage who said he wanted to bring me to see my father. Could it be... could it be that you, Fourth Hokage..."

Naruto's words became incoherent, he couldn't even make up simple relationships between the characters, and he looked at Minato in disbelief. Minato, seeing that Naruto was unharmed, breathed a sigh of relief, nodded, and said:

"That's right, I am your father."

In an instant, Naruto's eyes welled up with tears, but he couldn't help but laugh. He wanted to raise his hand to hug Naruto, but he was afraid it would all be in vain, so he didn't dare to touch him.

Minato stood up and said, "I know you have a lot to say, and so do I, but now..."

Minato's gaze fixed on Tatsuma, and he asked, "Who are you?"

"I never imagined that I would be the one being hostile to you."

Tatsuma smiled and shook his head. Minato was somewhat dazed. The friendliness, relaxation, and lack of hostility shown by this stranger were hard for Minato to understand.

"My name is Sakamoto Tatsuma. About seventeen years ago, we became friends."

As he spoke, Tatsuma opened his right hand, and a Rasengan condensed in his palm. He continued, "However, I come from another dimension and was summoned here by Lord Orochimaru using a forbidden technique. Obviously, you in this dimension do not recognize me."

No, I don't know him.

Minato looked at Tatsuma, who was holding a Rasengan, his long, curly hair blowing in the wind but not much different except for the ends of his hair spinning like propellers, and said, "Konoha Welfare Home, I've seen you before."

Tatsuma raised an eyebrow and frowned as he stared at Minato. Minato said, "The boy who loves carrying a wooden sword... but some time after I left the orphanage, I heard you already..."

Minato stopped speaking there. Tatsuma nodded and said, "Indeed, after leaving the orphanage, I fell seriously ill the night I received my school admission notice, but I pulled through. It seems that I, in this timeline, lacked a bit of luck."

About a month before enrolling in the ninja world, Tatsuma arrived. It was around that time that he began training his body and also met Minato.

But it seems they had met once before, or perhaps more, back when they were in the orphanage, but they hadn't gotten to the point of knowing each other yet.

"It's good that you became the Fourth Hokage over there."

Minato put aside his hostility. He couldn't resist the relaxation emanating from Tatsuma, and the closeness that felt like that of a family member, just like Jiraiya or Kushina.

His congratulations were also incredibly sincere. Although his counterpart in this timeline never became friends with Sakamoto Tatsuma, his counterpart in another timeline must have been overjoyed and excited to see his friend become Hokage, right?

Even if that's his goal, he'll accept it if the village values ​​what others say more.

Tatsuma turned around, looking at the sealing talisman that Minato had reattached, and said, "Why don't you take this opportunity to have a proper family reunion? After the seal is completely removed, it should be Kushina's chakra, right?"

"Without the 'key,' the seal cannot be broken, and Naruto cannot withstand the Nine-Tails' chakra."

Minato's face showed longing, but a moment later it turned to worry. Tatsuma waved his hand and said, "If your sealing technique is not as good as yours and Kushina's, you may need a key, but I don't need one."

And I'll take good care of Naruto's health too.

"In that case, I'll trouble you."

Minato chose to trust Tatsuma, who nodded, and as he formed hand seals, a complex sealing technique condensed, and the sealing talisman instantly ignited.

"Minato! What are you doing?! Why did you let Naruto come into contact with such power at this time?!"

Out of nowhere, a voice that sounded more like angri or resentful rang out.

(End of this chapter)