How could this be? There had been so many twists and turns!
As he listened to Chiba's account, after suddenly coming back to his senses, Minato Namikaze's expression slowly shifted from gentle severity to solemnity, then from solemnity to shock, and finally from shock to barely restrained astonishment.
At Minato Namikaze's request, Chiba told him everything—from the Kannabi Bridge mission, to encountering the Third Raikage, to the Third Raikage's chaotic battle against tens of thousands of Iwa ninja, then supporting Kakashi's group of three, all the way to encountering the five thousand Iwa ninja. He only omitted Yu Ze's group. After all, teaching ninjutsu was not something he, unlike the Sannin, had any special privilege to do. He trusted this Hokage, who would sacrifice himself for the village, from the bottom of his heart, but some things still had to remain hidden.
Still, though he was concealing things, his reasons were different.
If it had been the Third Hokage, Chiba would have been less certain. He would have concealed it to avoid trouble. But with Minato Namikaze, he simply did not want to make things difficult for the newly appointed Hokage.
In his previous life, Minato Namikaze had been one of Chiba's favorite Hokage characters. After crossing into the Naruto World, Minato Namikaze's impression on him had also matched his image of the man. It could be said that this Minato Namikaze was the perfect Fourth Hokage in his eyes.
Moreover, Minato Namikaze's teachings on Chakra nature and Shape Transformation had profoundly influenced him. They had even directly changed his combat structure of taijutsu as the main focus and ninjutsu as support. Now, whether he used taijutsu as his main focus and ninjutsu as support, or ninjutsu as his main focus and taijutsu as support, he could switch between them