"This... you... Kushina... how..."
Perhaps the scene was too shocking, completely beyond Chiba's expectations. Or perhaps it was because he was seeing Kushina so vividly alive again. A fierce emotion he could not express welled up within him. Looking at Kushina standing safely before him, devoid of any deathly aura and just as she had been in life, Chiba opened his mouth, wanting to say something, only to find himself unable to speak.
"What's wrong? It's not like you to be this surprised to see me."
Seeing Chiba rendered speechless at the sight of her, Kushina's lips curled up a little further, and a few traces of irrepressible joy appeared on her face.
Mm...
It's all right. There's no need to worry about any of the things I was worried about anymore.
Chiba...
He's truly grown beyond anything I could have imagined.
This thought flashed through her mind.
"No... it's just..."
Chiba instinctively tried to deny something, but as he looked at Kushina, who showed her delight at seeing him without the slightest concealment, he still could not speak smoothly.
I see...
Kushina had Minato Namikaze seal part of her Chakra within the Eight Trigrams Seal on the scroll. So after I opened the scroll and absorbed the Nine-Tails Chakra, that portion of Kushina's Chakra transferred into me as well.
And because the seal was opened, the spiritual energy belonging to Kushina within that Chakra resonated with, or formed some kind of connection to, my new Yin Seal Jutsu. That created this mental space—a mental space belonging solely to Kushina that can only be maintained for a very short time.
Just like when Kushina appeared after Naruto fell into a disadvantage while fighting the Nine-Tails to control its Chakra.
This is Kushina's message for me!
Unlike his stumbling words, Chiba