Preparing to Close the Net

By the time Naruto and Sasuke returned home,

Shamu had already used the Flying Thunder God to bring Mikoto over from the Land of Radiance.

When Mikoto learned that her best friend had been resurrected, she was both shocked and overjoyed.

After all, Shamu had decided on this at the last minute and had not informed her beforehand.

So this was an enormous surprise.

Even Kushina did not know why such a precious resurrection slot had fallen to her.

Shamu sat at the head of the table while Minato sat beside him, chatting with him.

Minato had originally been cooking, but when Mikoto arrived, Kushina chased him out of the kitchen.

Naruto had dragged Sasuke off to watch television.

"Under Orochimaru's instructions, all of Kushina's properties have already been transferred from the various clans into the hands of the Sarutobi Clan."

"Kushina has been resurrected, and plenty of people remember that red hair of hers."

"It's time to close the net." Shamu had not come here merely for dinner. He was also here to discuss getting rid of the Sarutobi Clan.

Minato agreed as well. "Lately, the complaint letters about the Sarutobi Clan have filled more drawers than I can count."

"Now that Kushina has been resurrected, I'm also ready to rightfully reclaim what belongs to me."

Back when Kushina and Minato had died in battle, that old bastard, the Third Hokage, had not only seized several streets' worth of Kushina's properties.

He had also swallowed every last bit of Minato's mission rewards and death benefits.

Before his death, Minato had completed a total of thirty-nine S-Rank Missions and 323 A-rank missions, not to mention the B-rank, C-rank, and D-rank ones.

Counting only the S-rank and A-rank missions, Minato's estate amounted to more than five hundred million.

And that five