"Really? I don't believe it!"
In his previous life, quite a few guests had been left speechless by that retort.
However, Minato truly deserved Jiraiya's praise as the model ninja.
His expression did not ripple in the slightest, and his voice remained steady. "It seems the Third Hokage truly never mentioned anything to you."
"Heh!"
Hearing Minato bring it up, Naruto's raised lips still could not help but fall.
Minato keenly caught the change in his son's emotions and patiently explained, "Lord Third Hokage may have done this in order to seal off information regarding the Nine-Tails as thoroughly as possible. And..."
He paused, his tone carrying a father's particular worry. "If people learned that you were the son of Minato Namikaze, it would invite even more unforeseeable danger."
After all, during the war, on his path to becoming Hokage, he had offended quite a few ninja villages!
More importantly, he did not want his son to develop a grudge against the Third Hokage because of this.
Naruto's response was: Heh heh.
Because no one had uttered a word about his origins, he had always believed as a child that his enemies were all around him, that every villager who hated him was an enemy.
As a result, he had lived in constant fear every day. At first, he had not even dared to go home.
It was only later, after exchanging for Revival Coins and Flying Thunder God through the system and gaining enough confidence to protect himself, that he dared to straighten his back beneath the sunlight and walk through the village streets.
If he had known from the very beginning that he was the son of the heroic Fourth Hokage, would he have needed to live so pathetically?
Hmm.
Thinking of the experiences of the other Jinchuriki,