"Huh?"
Minato Namikaze's embarrassed, rapid, pleading voice swept past his ears. Chiba's eyes widened slightly, and he let out a startled cry.
Convince... Kushina?
Get her to come home?
Almost instinctively, amid that cry of surprise, Chiba abruptly looked up with an expression that said, Did I hear that right? He looked at the clearly somewhat stiff back before him. Minato Namikaze and Kushina?
Minato Namikaze and Kushina had fallen out? And Kushina had run away from home? How could something this serious possibly happen between them?
Honestly, the astonishment on Chiba's face at that moment was almost outright horror, perfectly reflecting what he felt inside. His thoughts had already been turned upside down. He simply could not imagine how these two pure-hearted people, who had practically been model spouses even before getting married, could have ended up with Kushina running away from home.
Moreover, judging from Minato Namikaze's appearance, he seemed to be at the end of his rope. No matter what he did, he could not persuade Kushina to come home, to the point that he was asking Chiba for help.
Uh...
If even Minato Namikaze couldn't convince her, how could I, a student, possibly do it? At the end of the day...
I still can't believe Kushina and Minato Namikaze would get to the point where Kushina ran away from home. And from the looks of it, things are really bad between them. I can't even imagine such a scene!
Was Minato Namikaze joking?
As that thought arose, Chiba recalled the image of Kushina from back when she had still been training the three of them. On the rare occasions when the three of them had run into her with Minato Namikaze, she had looked tenderly at him, shy and gentle in a way completely unlike their