I wonder how Kushina is doing now...
Avoiding the offices of the various old pedants, Chiba slowly carried Yukina out of the hospital. After looking up at the sky, the image of a beautiful red-haired woman flashed through his mind.
From Minato Namikaze's account, he had sensed that his Teacher had probably not been doing well these past few days. She might even have been in a terrible state.
Although her identity was special and she was the Nine-Tails Jinchuriki, under Konoha's lenient Fire of Will policies, she would not only avoid the various forms of discriminatory treatment endured by Jinchuriki in other villages, but her material needs would also be well provided for.
However, the feelings Kushina had poured into the three of them ran far deeper than those between ordinary teachers and disciples.
It could be said that, throughout the entire original story, Chiba had never seen any teacher treat her disciples the way Kushina did.
And Chiba's feelings for Kushina were special as well. They had nothing to do with romance, but whenever he recalled that seemingly delicate woman spreading her arms before him and taking a fatal blow for his sake, he was always glad that his Teacher was Konoha's second Nine-Tails Jinchuriki.
It was precisely because of that bond, like family, through which she had been willing to give her life for him, that he had fully opened his heart. It made him understand that after coming to this world, what he would gain was not merely the miraculous power known as Chakra, but also something he pretended not to care about while desperately yearning for it deep down.
It could be said that everything he had now—the bond he shared with Hirohiko and Yukina, and the friendship he had with Kakashi and the others—was