Kushina Uzumaki was the Nine-Tails Jinchuriki.
Even Jiraiya didn't know.
Not to mention Jiraiya, Tsunade and Orochimaru knew even less.
The Konoha High Command had kept it hidden from almost everyone...
It was worth mentioning that—
Jiraiya, who was traveling outside the village, hadn't had time to hurry back to Konoha. As a result, he couldn't attend this meeting.
Kakashi was still being left on the Flying Fortress. He wasn't allowed down until he learned how to open and close his Sharingan.
"Don't you wonder why other countries have Tailed Beasts, but Konoha is the only one that doesn't?"
"Don't you find it strange? Ninjas from other countries say that the Nine-Tails belongs to Konoha, yet you've never seen it?"
"Don't you wonder... about the truth behind the Nine-Tails' Rampage?"
Hyuga Sho threw out several questions in succession.
He started by dropping the bombshell that Kushina was the Nine-Tails Jinchuriki.
It left everyone's mind buzzing.
While they were still stunned, he fired off question after question, catching them completely off guard.
"But..."
Shikaku Nara's voice was somewhat strained.
"Wasn't the Nine-Tails a natural disaster that had existed since ancient times?"
According to the myths fabricated by the Konoha High Command—
There was evil in the human heart.
The human world wasn't worth it.
Whenever that happened, the Nine-Tails Fox, which absorbed the resentment in people's hearts, would be born.
And it was impossible for humans not to have a dark side.
So...
The existence of the Nine-Tails was a fact everyone accepted.
But if the Nine-Tails had been inside Kushina's stomach from the beginning, wasn't that a little too... well, something?
"Elder En, Lord Hokage."
Hyuga Sho moved aside, making room for Hiruzen Sarutobi and Mitokado Homura to face everyone.
"What Hyuga Sho said is indeed the truth..."
Hiruzen Sarutobi