Cold Minato

Kushina's Sealing Space.

Anju hadn't spoken to Minato for three or four days.

While Minato felt somewhat that he shouldn't have attacked Anju, he was also strongly against Anju causing the Uchiha to start a war.

So, he had no intention of reconciling with Anju.

The entire small wooden house was filled with an awkward atmosphere.

If Minato didn't speak, Anju wouldn't initiate communication with him. Therefore, Anju spent most of her time resting directly in the Yin Nine-Tails Chakra. Even when she needed to move around, Anju would go to Kurama's side instead of lingering near Minato.

It was like two children sulking at each other, neither speaking.

These past few days had made their original slight trust even more ambiguous.

In fact, Minato himself hadn't realized his dependent relationship with Anju.

Anju was the maintainer of his Chakra body. Attacking Anju would cause his Chakra body to slowly dissipate. Even being sealed by Kushina wouldn't increase his Chakra. As long as his Chakra was depleted, he would disappear.

Anju was different. Even if Minato sealed Anju again in the Sealing Space, once his Chakra body couldn't be maintained, his seal would slowly disappear, unless Minato could get a Chakra replenishment again.

But how many people in the Ninja World could transfer Chakra to other ninjas now?

Nagato Uzumaki?

The Sage of Six Paths?

Alright, it was almost impossible for anyone to transfer Chakra to Minato, let alone the fact that Minato was currently just a Chakra body. Once he acquired Chakra from others, it would cause chaos in his internal Chakra, and he would be the first to be finished!

Only the Nine-Tails' non-attribute Chakra could save Minato's life.

Minato was already dead. His Chakra body didn't realize that his existence depended on Anju. It was only after Anju disappeared that he had a faint realization.

After the Minato Chakra body, which had no survival instinct, realized this, Minato only felt some regret and unwillingness about losing Anju's maintenance.

Regret that he couldn't see Naruto grow up, and unwillingness that he couldn't see Konoha prosper.

Anju had also realized Minato's current subtle state. This was a non-human existence, merely a dead person maintained by her Chakra.

His emotions wouldn't change over time, and his view of Anju was just a Nine-Tails consciousness body different from the real Nine-Tails.

One could also say that the current Minato was a completely rational robot. He would make some judgments and reactions based on his factory settings, but all his decisions followed the original Minato's thoughts and wouldn't develop new emotional changes.

Just like Minato's feelings for Kushina, the Minato Namikaze in the Sealing Space wouldn't have his feelings for Kushina change, neither increasing nor decreasing.

His feelings for Naruto wouldn't increase or decrease either.

So, after Naruto was kidnapped, Minato wouldn't prioritize Naruto over the village to pressure Sarutobi Hiruzen.

Therefore, Anju didn't want to communicate with Minato much anymore. Sometimes, communicating directly with Kushina was more efficient than with Minato.

Even making Minato act as the Masked Man, if Kushina hadn't spoken, Minato wouldn't have done it.

From beginning to end, the decisions made by Minato's Chakra body itself were very few: helping Kushina complete the mission (village's interest), asking the Third Hokage to find Naruto (father-son responsibility), and attacking and sealing Anju (preventing war in the village).

See? He didn't make any decisions of his own; they were all emotions that had been decided before Minato was sealed.

At this moment, in an ordinary town in the Land of the Moon.

A group of burly men chased after two women and a pet pig.

The leading woman wore a green outfit with a large "Gamble" character on her back, her two golden twin ponytails swaying behind her.

The younger woman wore a black outfit and had short black hair, holding a pink pet pig in her arms.

This was clearly Tsunade and Shizune, who had run up a debt at the casino and were planning to make a run for it.

"Lady Tsunade, where are we going?"

While running, Shizune was still asking Tsunade about their next plan.

"Of course, we're going to find a big sucker to pay off all our debts."

Soon, Tsunade saw the Formidable Man on the other side of the street, clearly a head taller than the average passerby.

And the Formidable Man had already noticed the commotion on this side.

With a Body Flicker Technique, he directly intercepted Tsunade and Shizune.

"Haha! Good! Brother, stop those two women, we'll reward you handsomely!"

The group of casino thugs chasing behind, panting, saw hope in their pursuit and immediately quickened their pace, intending to surround Tsunade.

At this moment, several Kumogakure Ninja appeared on the street with a Body Flicker Technique, and the entire street fell silent.

"Kumo, Kumogakure?" The leading casino thug saw the Kumogakure Ninja's attire and immediately knelt down without hesitation.

He couldn't help but kneel. Chasing Tsunade and the others had exhausted them like dogs. They had finally seen Tsunade and the others being stopped, and after seeing hope, they had sped up again. Now, turning around to escape was very difficult. If the Kumogakure Ninja were to make a move, he didn't dare to imagine...

The appearance of Kumogakure Ninja in such numbers also made the ordinary civilians of the Land of the Moon very worried about being caught up in trouble, so none of them spoke.

"Are you Konoha's Tsunade-hime?"

"Are you Raikage A?"

"Heal my brother."

"Alright!"

Tsunade's straightforwardness caused Raikage A, who had intended to threaten her, to have his brain momentarily freeze.

Meanwhile, Shizune whispered to Tsunade, "Lady Tsunade, they are from Kumogakure Village."

Raikage A also said, "You cannot deceive me, otherwise you will all..."

Before Raikage A could finish, Tsunade spread her hands, "As you can see, I owe a small amount of money over there. If you want me to heal your person, you have to pay off my debt."

After hearing this, Raikage A, without waiting for his female secretary who was about to remind him, waved his hand, "No problem, come with me."

After walking a distance, Raikage A's small secretary quietly whispered in his ear what kind of "small amount of money" Tsunade had actually owed.

Raikage A's expression changed, and it was clear he felt a great deal of pain.

Diagonally across this street, a white-haired ninja with an "Oil" character on his forehead watched the Raikage and his group take Tsunade away. There was truly nothing he could do.

The money Tsunade owed was a bit, no, slightly, no, seriously exceeded his budget.

He couldn't pay it back, but the Raikage and his group should have no problem. After the Raikage and his group finished healing the person, he could find an opportunity to rescue Tsunade. In that case...

Would Tsunade offer herself to him, the hero who saved the beauty?

Jiraiya's smile, with his perverted expression, grew increasingly twisted.

?hookvhook? Heh heh

He took Tsunade to the inn where they were staying, and Tsunade also saw the dying Killer B.

Killer B had no external injuries, but his Chakra was in chaos. Tsunade didn't delay and immediately began treatment.

With the cooperation of the Eight-Tails Gyūki and Tsunade's medical skills, Killer B's recovery speed began to accelerate.

Tsunade skillfully forced out some of the green Chakra that had invaded Killer B's body. As the green Chakra decreased, Gyūki's Chakra also began to help expel the green Chakra faster.

"Alright, he's basically healed. He just needs three months of rest to fully recover."

"What? Three months?"

Raikage A was a bit suspicious that Tsunade hadn't put in her full effort.

"He can move now, but he did suffer such a severe injury, and a large number of cells in his body died. If they don't grow back, there might be after-effects."

"Hmph, it's really expensive to ask for your help."

After saying that, Raikage A left with the Kumogakure Ninja, supporting Killer B.

Shizune quietly asked, "What do we do now, Lady Tsunade?"

"Go ask the owner how many days are left on this room. We'll sleep here tonight."

Shizune: (●—●)