Konoha: This Uchiha is extremely sneaky

Chapter 262 Nine Tails

While Minato Namikaze and the Third Hokage were discussing Rin Nohara, at Minato Namikaze's residence in the heart of Konoha...

Kushina Uzumaki is warmly welcoming Rin Nohara!

"Lin! Try this... I specially prepared this salt-baked saury for you!"

"Thank you, Kushina-neechan!"

Faced with the unusually enthusiastic Kushina Uzumaki, Rin Nohara played the role of a good junior and a good best friend very well.

"Mmm! Kushina-neechan's cooking is amazing! The heat is just right, especially the soy sauce, which is added to perfection."

Holding Kushina in her arms and feeling her warmth, Nohara Rin, who had been sleepless all night, began to relax her tense nerves.

"Haha! It's not as amazing as you say!"

After being praised by Nohara Rin, she scratched her hair a little shyly, but the smile on her face was impossible to hide.

"but……"

Constantly praising someone might make them happy, but that's all they'll do; they won't really take it to heart.

A little criticism, coupled with appropriate suggestions, can earn the other party's respect and make it easier to build a good relationship.

"I think adding a little lemon juice would make it taste even better?"

"Is that so? No wonder I always felt like something was missing~"

"I never expected Lin to be so talented in cooking. The more I look at her, the more I like her."

Holding the poor girl in her arms, Kushina was overwhelmed with pity for her, thinking of what the girl had gone through, and kissed her hard on the cheek.

They completely forgot about their own similar experience.

While Kushina and Rin Nohara were being intimate, a long-awaited conversation began, facilitated by their chakra.

"Long time no see, Kurama!"

Beside a dark cage, a white turtle, no bigger than a washbasin, appeared and beckoned to the huge red figure that was imprisoned.

"Isobu, what brings you to Konoha?"

Seeing his little brother, Kurama, who always considered himself the boss, was somewhat surprised.

"……have no idea!"

"I just took a nap and ended up here. After sensing your chakra, I came to check on you."

It was genuinely confused as to why it was here. How did it suddenly end up in Konoha?

"idiot!"

Nine-Tails didn't have anything nice to say about this either.

"If you keep going like this, sleeping all day, one day you won't even know how you died!"

"Well……"

After finally meeting them, they were still so cold. Kurama, that arrogant guy, hasn't changed a bit!

Isobu, speechless after being silenced by Kurama's few words, looked at Kurama imprisoned in a cage and, considering Kurama's personality, couldn't help but feel sorry for it.

For him, being sealed inside a Jinchūriki's body was just like changing his sleeping place; there wasn't much difference.

Even when they are occasionally lucid, observing the joys and sorrows of humans outside through the eyes of the Jinchūriki is a good pastime.

But the Nine-Tails doesn't have my good temper. Being locked in a cage like this must be quite uncomfortable for it!

"You have a familiar scent about you. Looks like you've run into something serious!"

Despite its sharp tongue, Kurama used all the chakra it could muster to carefully assess Isobu's condition.

However, the aura emanating from the other party seemed very familiar to him... but too much time had passed and the aura had become too faint for him to discern.

"Eh! So the Nine-Tails has a name? Kurama... that name doesn't quite fit!"

There was abnormal chakra entering her body through Rin Nohara's body. How could Kushina Uzumaki not know that?

They only pretended not to know because they saw that the other party meant no harm. Similarly, some necessary attention is also essential.

This way, we can know in advance whether the stranger inside Lin's body is easy to get along with.

"Hmph~"

That idiot Isobu so easily revealed his name, which made Kurama very unhappy.

It didn't want to bother with someone like Kushina Uzumaki who didn't even know her own name. As for the old man's descendants, they were all people it couldn't explain.

It's truly an incredibly unlucky thing for the Nine-Tails to encounter a descendant of the Sage of Six Paths.

One of them called it a beast and manipulated it at will; he was simply inhuman.

One person kept saying he was too strong, and almost slapped himself to death. He wanted to ask, "Who's really stronger?"

And the Uzumaki clan, with whom they had little contact before, whether it was Mito or Kushina, both suppressed their tempers to the point of being completely subdued.

What did its nine tails do to deserve this?

"Are you the new guest inside Lin's body?"

"Hello! My name is Kushina Uzumaki, and yours is Isobu, right? May I call you that?"

Isobu had never encountered such a carefree Jinchūriki before, and for a moment he was speechless.

"I hope you and Lin can get along well. I won't disturb your chatter any longer!"

Seeing that the other party didn't seem to want to talk to her, Kushina wasn't angry. This attitude was already quite good. Kurama's attitude towards her became even worse.

"Nine-Tails! You seem like a very easy person to get along with~"

After Kushina left, Isobu looked curiously in the direction she disappeared and spoke to Kurama, who was silent with her eyes closed.

"Easy to get along with?"

Nine-Tails was genuinely amused by his little brother.

I thought to myself, you haven't seen what this woman looks like when she's angry, otherwise you wouldn't think that way.

Thinking of the golden chains the other party was wearing, and her own miserable state at the time, Nine-Tails swallowed back the words of complaint she was about to say.

There's really no need to tell the other person about this ugly truth.

"Isobu, you should worry about yourself! The aura emanating from you gives me a very bad feeling!"

That chilling aura seemed to be the eye power of the Uchiha, but it was also ambiguous, leaving it unable to understand it.

But Isobu is not a very good idiot; he still knows that.

"Me?...It doesn't matter, at worst I'll just be asleep for a while!"

Isobu didn't take the Nine-Tails' warning to heart. For a sleepy creature like Isobu, being killed wouldn't be a big deal.

These tailed beasts are impossible to truly kill. Even if they temporarily lose consciousness, their chakra will slowly gather.

Give them back to life

"Whatever!"

(End of this chapter)