Born in Sunagakure, dedicated to antagonizing Konoha for decades

"Hey! You bastard, you've been locked up in someone else's belly for too long, have you gone stupid? Don't you know I'm a famous tailed beast killer? I've beaten all your older brothers to tears, and you, the younger brother, are still so stubborn?"

He punched the Nine-Tails in the head again, knocking it down. Shinto sat on its head and said arrogantly.

This Nine-Tails is truly Nine-Tails. Whether it's under a genjutsu or awake, it's incredibly resilient. However, he couldn't understand what grudge this giant thing held against him. After waking up, it ignored the people of Konoha who had imprisoned it for decades and just charged at him relentlessly.

However, even he himself was a little confused by the deep hatred in Kurama's eyes when he looked at him.

He seems... probably... maybe, he didn't provoke the Nine-Tails, right?

Since Tsunade's grandmother, Mito Uzumaki, passed away, the only Jinchuriki he's hadn't interacted much with was his mother, Kushina Uzumaki, the savior. He'd only met her two or three times at most. If we're talking about provoking the Nine-Tails, it's probably because when it was still in Mito Uzumaki's belly, he was the only one who might have teased it, but that was decades ago.

Even he forgot, but I didn't expect this big guy to still remember. This guy is even more vengeful than Madara.

"You damned little monster, die!"

The Nine-Tails' eyes were almost awakened with the Mangekyou Sharingan. Enduring the excruciating pain in its head, it struggled to its feet, frantically shaking its head to fling Mato off. Then, fueled by raging fury, it charged forward once more. Just because this brat said those weaklings, the Four-Tails, were its brothers, it swore to tear this blond-haired brat to pieces!

787. This guy has a really sharp tongue.

"...Does the Nine-Tails and Shiki have a grudge against each other? (⊙_⊙)?"

"I don't know, but I guess so. Look at the Nine-Tails, I don't believe there's no grudge between them...(⊙_⊙)"

Watching Kurama relentlessly attack Shiki in the distance, looking as if it harbored deep hatred, everyone looked at each other with puzzled expressions, and finally all turned to look at Sakumo Hatake, who was holding the savior.

Some of the younger ones weren't very familiar with Golden Lion; they'd only grown up hearing stories about him and White Fang. This White Fang should know him quite well, after all, they debuted around the same time...

"Ahem... Golden Lion often says nonsensical things. He doesn't have much interaction with Kushina, but back when the First Generation Mito was still around, he interacted quite a bit with her. It's very possible... he offended Kushina in front of her when the Nine-Tails was still sealed inside her... I didn't expect Kushina to hold a grudge like this, even after all these years."

After giving a somewhat embarrassed explanation, Hatake Sakumo stroked his chin and muttered to himself.

He had heard his father say that Madara was a very vengeful person, but he didn't expect that the Nine-Tails was the same. Even after so many years, it still remembered who had offended it, no less than Madara who had held a grudge against their First Hokage for decades...

"..."

Kakashi wasn't surprised at all by this answer. He knew this blond-haired middle-aged man better than anyone; he was a loose cannon fodder who could say anything. If it weren't for the man's immense strength and toughness, he probably would have been ambushed in the bushes long ago...

.....

"boom!"

"Damn it! Kurama, how many years has it been since you brushed your teeth? Your mouth stinks. Learn from your older brother Shukaku. He's an intellectual now, and he has us Sunagakure underlings reading books and newspapers to him every day to broaden his horizons. Look at you, you've only grown older but not smarter. You're always fighting and killing. No wonder your father, the Six Paths, wanted to make you his younger brother!"

After delivering another beautiful fancy over-the-shoulder throw that sent the charging Nine-Tails flying, Shinto suppressed his nausea and urge to vomit, and continued his verbal sparring with the Nine-Tails. Every time the Nine-Tails charged at him, it would open its mouth, and the smell of its teeth, which hadn't been brushed for hundreds of years, was so damn strong that it almost made his soul leave his body.

"Damn brat... I'll kill you! ╬?д?╬?"

Nine-Tailed Fox was completely enraged. Why did this bastard have to compare himself to that fat cat who had been beaten the most by his mother and had a foul mouth? And he kept calling him "Big Brother". Didn't he know that the fat cat was the one he hated the most in his life?

Even Hashirama Senju and Madara Uchiha are ranked behind!

"boom!"

"Oh ho! You're going to do it again? I don't believe I can't beat you, you big fox, today."

"You brat, prepare to die!"

"boom!"

"Come on, show me the courage that Fish Leong gave you. Anyone who doesn't is a coward."

"You brat, prepare to die!"

"boom!"

"No way, your Tailed Beast Ball is even worse than that wind ball from that fat cat in our village, the damage is too weak!"

"You brat..."

"boom!"

"......"

"Now I understand why Kurama (the Nine-Tails) looks so hateful towards Shiki..."

"Uh-huh...."

Watching the Nine-Tails keep charging forward and getting thrown back repeatedly while being constantly blasted, the Konoha members looked at each other and suddenly realized, "Damn, this is the strongest tailed beast, it's lived for hundreds of years and it's already getting beaten up, but it's also being mentally stimulated. This Golden Lion's mouth is really venomous, almost every word he says can drive the Nine-Tails crazy."

For some reason, even though Kurama was the culprit who destroyed Konoha, they now find Kurama quite pitiful. It has such a formidable opponent with such strong defense that even a Tailed Beast Ball can't break it, and it has to keep nagging at them. If it were them, with their weaker mental fortitude, they would have collapsed long ago.

At the same time, they all looked at their Lord White Fang with admiration. This Lord had probably been fighting against the Golden Lion with such a sharp tongue for decades. He was truly remarkable!

Even Kakashi looked at his father with curiosity, wanting to ask how he had managed to survive for decades against such a foul-mouthed opponent...

"Cough... He rarely does this when he's fighting me. Maybe I've just gotten used to his way of speaking, so it doesn't really work on me."

Hatake Sakumo felt the gazes of everyone around him once again, and coughed to explain.

What he didn't know was that the reason Shinto didn't engage in verbal sparring when fighting him was because Shinto always had a deadpan expression, unlike Kurama, who was impulsive and easily angered. It was impossible to read anything from his facial micro-expressions. For someone skilled in psychological warfare, it was pointless to engage in psychological warfare if he couldn't read anything from the other person's micro-expressions. Moreover, verbal battles were meaningless against rational people like Hatake Sakumo, so he was too lazy to waste his breath on them.

"boom!"

"Hey! Have you guys seen enough? If you have, hurry up and seal this giant! I don't know any sealing techniques! Minato Namikaze, if you keep waiting, your girl is really going to be in big trouble."

After sending Kurama flying with another punch, Shinto looked impatiently at Hiruzen Sarutobi and the others who were just watching like spectators, especially Minato Namikaze, who was suspected to be his son. "Damn it," he thought, "his wife is practically dead, and this guy still has the nerve to watch me beat Kurama. What a thick skin..."

The main reason was that he had already witnessed the stubbornness of the Nine-Tails. Just as he had thought, it was impossible to subdue it. His hands were starting to go numb from fighting it, and the Nine-Tails' head was already full of new bumps. But this thing was just stubborn and charged at him again and again. The Nine-Tails and the One-Tail were like eggs; they could only be successfully subdued when they met their true love.

"call out!"

"Your Excellency Golden Lion, you've done a great job. Leave the rest to us."

Reminded by him, Minato Namikaze finally realized what was happening and, carrying Kushina Uzumaki, came to Masato's side to express his heartfelt gratitude.

Although the two sides were enemies during the previous three battles, if it weren't for Shiki helping Konoha fight the Nine-Tails tonight, countless people in Konoha would have died. While many have already perished, given the Nine-Tails' power, the number is now relatively small...

Even the Savior's mother, who had a deep-seated hatred for Shiki, looked at him with a calmer gaze. Although this guy had broken through their Uzumaki clan's barrier back then, leading to their extermination, his help in fighting the Nine-Tails and reducing the village's casualties had lessened her guilt somewhat.

788. Suspecting he's a son, he's ultimately not a son; the defenses weren't high enough.

"I'm just doing this on a paycheck. We're living in peacetime, and everyone's working towards world peace. I can't just stand by and watch Konoha get destroyed and the balance of the ninja world be disrupted..."

"You come here..."

After giving a nonchalant laugh, Shinto handed over his seat to Minato and his wife before the Nine-Tails could rush up, and then retreated to Sakumo Hatake's side to discuss the price with Hiruzen Sarutobi.

Just as Shinto left the scene, the enraged Nine-Tails charged forward again, but was restrained by several chakra chains extending from behind it, thanks to the ancestral sealing technique of the Savior's mother, the Adamantine Sealing Technique.

It must be said that although the Uzumaki clan's combat strength is not that great, their sealing techniques are truly powerful. Shinto fought with Kurama all night, throwing Kurama around, but he couldn't control Kurama at all. Meanwhile, the Savior's mother only needed a few chakra chains to lock Kurama up tightly, and it couldn't break through at all.

With the Nine-Tails under control, Minato Namikaze was preparing a sealing technique, but at that very moment, as if by fate, an accident still occurred.

Because of the loss of too much life force, the Savior's mother was extremely weak, and the strength of the Adamantine Sealing Technique was insufficient. Coupled with the Nine-Tails' great struggle, a chakra chain that was locking the Nine-Tails' front claws was broken by the Nine-Tails. The claws, like dozens of meters long, stabbed towards the Savior's mother. The accident happened so fast that no one present could react. Only Minato Namikaze, who was preparing to forcibly seal the Nine-Tails, reacted first. He flashed in front of the Savior's mother, turned around, and hugged his wife, trying to use his strong back muscles to help his wife withstand the damage.

However, he was only suspected to be the son of Shiki, not his biological son. Without Shiki's rock-solid defense, his strong back muscles were pierced through by the Nine-Tails' dozens of meters long claws, and the savior's mother was also pierced through, completing a double kill.

However, Minato Namikaze was incredibly resilient. Despite the loss of his life force, he used the Uzumaki clan's ultimate summoning technique to summon the Shinigami, intending to seal the Nine-Tails. This ultimate sealing technique, summoning the Shinigami, is a hard seal. Although the Nine-Tails pierced through Minato and his wife, it was still controlled by the savior's mother's sealing technique, the Adamantine Sealing Technique. It couldn't withstand the pull of the Shinigami. In the end, Minato decided to seal the Nine-Tails in his newborn son, since his son was currently the only one in Konoha with the Uzumaki clan's physique.

However, the savior was just a newborn baby, and his bloodline was not pure at all. Just by looking at his hair, you could tell that the Uzumaki clan's genes had been diluted a lot by Kishimoto's powerful genes. The Nine-Tails' huge body could only fit half of it, and the other half simply couldn't fit in. In the end, Minato Namikaze had a flash of inspiration and, in a moment of lucidity, controlled the Shinigami he summoned to slash the exposed half of the Nine-Tails, splitting it in two and sealing it inside his own body.

Finally, there was another heart-wrenching scene of parents and son parting ways, moving not only the Konoha ninja around them, but even Shinto, an outsider, to tears. Taking advantage of Kakashi's momentary grief, Shinto grabbed his mask and began wiping away his tears...

"Waaaaah... This is just too damn touching! Parents' hearts are always full of love and worry... Waaaaah..."

"puff!"

Seeing the deceased Minato and Namikaze after filming their emotional scene, Masato wiped away his tears and snot with Kakashi's handkerchief. He immediately felt the pain of a parent outliving their child, and cried even more sadly than the people of Konoha.

However, at this time, no one in Konoha cared and only regarded it as a genuine outpouring of emotion. Even Kakashi, who was unaware that his face mask had been stolen, was silently shedding tears.

The Fourth Hokage, Minato Namikaze, had only reached the pinnacle of his life for less than two years when he passed away. Hiruzen Sarutobi, standing to the side, looked at his perfect grand-disciple with tears streaming down his face. Such a perfect successor was gone just like that. Heaven knows how much hope he had placed in his perfect grand-disciple, and yet he was gone just like that.

At this moment, he thought of many more things. Orochimaru and Tsunade had left, Jiraiya was no longer up to the task, Sakumo did not want to be the leader, and his eldest son was still too young. He realized that Konoha, which was once full of talented people, no longer had even one best candidate for Hokage.

Minato and Namikaze are dead, the Nine-Tails is sealed away, and Tearful Eyes has passed away. Apart from negotiating with Hiruzen Sarutobi, there's nothing left for them to fight.

However, just when everyone thought the matter was over, no one knew that a new storm was brewing in the dilapidated Hokage Building that very night. Danzo, the half of Konoha's leader who had not shown his face for a long time and whose whereabouts were unknown even when the Nine-Tails attacked the village, suddenly arrived with his henchmen and demanded that Hiruzen Sarutobi hand over Minato Namikaze's son to him.

This is the Nine-Tails Jinchuriki! He saw how powerful the Nine-Tails was from the corner. If it weren't for Shiki, Konoha would probably have been crippled by the Nine-Tails.

Actually, he had some regrets when the Nine-Tails first appeared. He regretted telling the masked man the time and place of the Nine-Tails Jinchuriki's childbirth. His ultimate goal was to weaken Hiruzen Sarutobi's power and become Hokage, not to weaken the village. The Nine-Tails was so powerful; if it crippled the village and drastically reduced its strength, causing it to fall from its pedestal as the overlord of the ninja world, it would be meaningless for him to become Hokage. How could Konoha, with its crippled forces, possibly unify the ninja world and reach the moon?

Fortunately, his good teammates appeared and held off the Nine-Tails, preventing the village from suffering too much damage. What made him happiest was that the Fourth Hokage was also killed by the Nine-Tails. He felt that he was one step closer to becoming Hokage. As long as he controlled the Nine-Tails Jinchuriki, he wouldn't panic at all, even if his good buddy had Sakumo Hatake by his side.

He had already witnessed the power of the Nine-Tails. Even though it was only half of the Nine-Tails now, it was still far superior to any other tailed beast. As long as he could control the Nine-Tails' jinchūriki, his chances of becoming Hokage would be much more secure.

However, his best friend, Hiruzen Sarutobi, once again let him down, firmly shaking his head and saying NO!

Even though he was caught peeping at the bathhouse when he was a kid, and his friends often took the blame for him, Hiruzen Sarutobi still resolutely shattered his best friend's fantasy.

joke!

This is the son of a perfect grand-disciple. His perfect grand-disciple just sacrificed himself for the village, and he handed his son over to Danzo, that treacherous man. What will his underlings think of him? What will his current beloved disciple think of him?

What's more, his best friend has a dark and radical mindset. Who knows what kind of person he'll turn the Nine-Tails Jinchuriki into? He'll be too ashamed to face his perfect grand-disciple and Kushina after this.

That night, right after the Nine-Tails incident ended and everyone was exhausted, Hiruzen Sarutobi and Danzo Shimura, these two best buddies, engaged in a heated debate over the ownership of the Nine-Tails Jinchuriki.

789. Onoki: Who else died?

"Lord Tsuchikage! Breaking news: Last night, the Nine-Tails went berserk in Konoha, causing heavy casualties among the Konoha ninja. The Fourth Hokage, Minato Namikaze, and his wife were killed. The Sand Village's Golden Lion and the Nine-Tails fought a great battle in Konoha, turning the village into ruins!"

News travels fast in the ninja world, especially in Konoha, the largest village in the ninja world. Every day, countless eyes are watching, and countless spies from various ninja villages are on the move. The morning after the Nine-Tails went berserk in Konoha, Onoki arrived at the Tsuchikage Building with his newborn grandson in his arms. An ANBU member rushed in to report.

"What?! Great!! Minato Namikaze is dead! Is Shiki dead? What about Hiruzen Sarutobi??"

Upon hearing the news, Onoki was so excited that he almost slammed his beloved granddaughter onto the table. Fortunately, he realized that the object in his arms was his granddaughter and pulled her back in time. However, his first thought was that Namikaze and the others were all dead. Hiruzen Sarutobi, that old guy, probably wasn't doing much better, let alone Shiki, who fought against the Nine-Tails. Although he didn't know why Shiki was in Konoha fighting the Nine-Tails, he was furious when he thought about how that bastard had given him the Thousand Year Kill, leaving him bedridden for two months.

Logically speaking, Minato Namikaze, who could use the Flying Thunder God Technique, was already dead, so Hiruzen Sarutobi, that old guy, couldn't be much better off. Not to mention that bastard Shiki who fought the Nine-Tails. He didn't know how powerful the Nine-Tails was, but nine tails were the sum of the four and five tails of their village, one more than the eight-tailed tail. Even the Third Raikage, who could fight the eight-tailed tail one-on-one, might not be able to defeat the nine-tailed tail. Shiki's defense should be about the same as the Third Raikage's, so he should have been killed by the Nine-Tails' Tailed Beast Ball, right?

The Nine-Tails was something only Hashirama Senju and the Uchiha clan could subdue. Although this Golden Lion was tough, he probably couldn't compare to those two. He and his teacher at their peak had been beaten by Madara Uchiha, so he knew very well how terrifying Madara Uchiha at his peak was. In his memory, that bastard Golden Lion was just tough and had some weird swordsmanship. He couldn't compare to Madara Uchiha at his peak, who could dominate everything.

Golden Lion's bizarre abilities are nowhere near comparable to traditional ninjutsu. Although he'd been beaten up by that bastard Golden Lion a few times before, he always suspected the scoundrel of sneak attacks. He'd also fought the Third Raikage, and with his flight and Dust Release, he was evenly matched with the Third Raikage. Golden Lion's toughness should be about the same as the Third Raikage's, so he definitely couldn't withstand his Dust Release. Therefore, it should be a 50/50 situation for everyone...

"Uh... the report says that the Nine-Tails went berserk and fought a great battle with Shiki, and was eventually forcibly sealed by Minato Namikaze. Minato Namikaze also died because of forcibly sealing the Nine-Tails. As for Hiruzen Sarutobi and Shiki, they should be alive, right..."

"This is what the underling from the secret service said cautiously."

He was so excited that he completely forgot that Shiki and Hiruzen Sarutobi were taboo subjects for their Tsuchikage. Every time he heard Shiki and Hiruzen Sarutobi, their Tsuchikage's nose would immediately turn black. He was really afraid that his boss would give him a piece of his mind if he was unhappy, and then he would be in big trouble.

"If those two bastards are still alive, then what about White Fang? Is he dead or not?"