Searching for Isshiki

Lily looked Naruto over. He was not even up to her knees, and she raised an eyebrow.

"Who's this little brat?"

Gigue smiled.

"You could say he was the vessel I used while I was sealed. I lived in his body for a while."

As he spoke, Gigue noticed the photo in Naruto's hand. He bent down, ruffled Naruto's spiky hair, and asked,

"Are you thinking about your parents?"

Naruto nodded silently. He tucked the photo into his clothes and said softly,

"Before this, I didn't even know what my mother looked like. She had long red hair..."

Mentioning his mother made Naruto's eyes grow moist. He murmured,

"Brother Gigue, my mother must have been very gentle, right...?"

Gigue blinked and said,

"Maybe. Anyway, she was definitely gentler than the... ahem, big sister beside us!"

Lily shot Gigue a glare, turned, and walked into the house on her own. Only after she left did Naruto dare to ask,

"Brother Gigue, is that big sister your girlfriend?"

"Yeah. Otherwise, why would I have gone all the way to the moon to free her?"

"Huh?? Brother Gigue, you really went to the moon?! What was it like there? Can you tell me?"

"What could it be like? It was deserted, but the gains were pretty decent."

Inside the sealing space, Kurama stared at Gigue's golden Tenseigan with eyes wide open and exclaimed,

"Th-that's the pair of eyes belonging to the old man's brother! No, this chakra is even stronger. He awakened those eyes on the moon!?"

Outside, Gigue merely smiled.

"Yeah. These eyes were my harvest from the moon."

Kurama was startled again. Only then did he realize that although Gigue was outside, his gaze seemed to pierce through the barrier of the sealing space and see him crouching inside it with