Chapter 523

Naruto stared at the figure in astonishment.

The blond-haired Konoha Ninja in front of me looks exactly like the one on the Hokage Rock!

"I left a contingency plan within the Eight Trigrams Seal. When the eight tails are freed from the seal, I will appear in your consciousness. But I don't want that to happen, Nine-Tails..."

Minato Namikaze looked at Nine-Tails).

I don't want to see you again.

Naruto: "..."

Minato Namikaze calmly looked at Naruto again. "I'm also looking forward to seeing my son when he's all grown up, so that balances things out."

Minato Namikaze's appearance ignited the Nine-Tails' fury. "Whoa whoa whoa!! Fourth Hokage! Come here, I'm going to tear you to pieces!!"

"Ha, it says it'll tear everything to pieces, but it can't get close."

Minato Namikaze, with his back to the iron gate, glanced back.

"Naruto, I was right, wasn't I?"

Naruto Uzumaki: "Naruto, my name is..."

"Yes, because I named you." Minato Namikaze nodded. "And...you are my son."

"Son?! Then I am..."

Naruto Uzumaki's eyes widened in disbelief.

A hint of joy lingered in his eyes.

"Yes, as I just said, you are my son." Minato Namikaze reaffirmed Naruto's fear.

"Hahaha..."

Naruto Uzumaki couldn't help but laugh, and tears welled up in his eyes with joy.

Nine-Tails: "Whoa whoa whoa!! Minato Namikaze!!!"

"The guys behind us are too noisy, let's go somewhere else."

Minato Namikaze snapped his fingers, and his mental world shifted, placing him in a white space.

"Whee..."

Naruto raised his sleeve and lowered his head to wipe away his tears.

"The Lord Third didn't tell you anything because it would be dangerous if others found out you were my son... I'm sorry, Naruto."

Minato Namikaze apologized.

"Dad..." Naruto Uzumaki said, punching Minato Namikaze in the stomach.

Minato Namikaze: "!"

"Why did you seal the Nine-Tailed Demon Fox inside my son?! You've made my life so miserable!"

Naruto Uzumaki shed tears, venting the pent-up frustration in his heart.

"I have no idea whether I should be happy or furious! Waaah..."

Once Naruto Uzumaki calmed down...

Minato Namikaze nodded. "I'm sorry, I've made you suffer a lot as your son. It feels a little strange for me to apologize to you now as your father..."

"Forget it, I'm the son of the Fourth Hokage, so I'll be patient," Naruto muttered, looking away.

"I will seal the Nine-Tails within you, leaving only half of its Chakra, because I believe you can control this power. Because you are my son."

Minato Namikaze said solemnly.

"I had my reasons for doing this... 17 years ago..."

Minato Namikaze recounted events from 17 years ago.

The mastermind behind the scenes invaded Konoha with the Nine-Tails.

"He'll probably come again!"

"Konoha... is destroyed..." Naruto said, bowing his head.

"Yes, I saw it inside my body."

Inside Naruto Uzumaki.

Minato Namikaze knows everything.

Minato Namikaze has been aware of everything that has happened over the past 17 years.

"You saw it?!" Naruto exclaimed in surprise.

"Yes, I know about Jiraiya- sensei."

Minato Namikaze sighed.

What Naruto saw was what Minato Namikaze saw.

Then, Minato Namikaze revealed the story of "Madara" and "Akito".

"That guy from Amegakure hates Konoha! He said his village suffered the same fate before!" Naruto shouted immediately.

"That's right, but that's only one aspect."

Minato Namikaze shook his head, his eyes dimming slightly.

"As long as the ninja system exists in the world, true peace may never come. Amakawa Akito asked you about peace... It won't be easy for you to get an answer. But he... already has his answer."

That is, to unify the ninja world!

"Although Jiraiya- sensei was killed by Amakawa Akito, upon closer examination, Jiraiya could also say that Jiraiya-sensei was killed by the very world that gave birth to ninjas..."

Minato Namikaze and Naruto Uzumaki pondered their next move.

"A ninja is someone who fights against hatred; every ninja must contend with hatred. Master Jiraiya entrusts you with the task of finding the answer to ending this hatred..."

"But I think what that guy from Amegakure said makes a lot of sense, and I... can't refute him."

Naruto was frustrated by this.

"Fourth Hokage, tell me, what should I do...?"

As Hokage, not as a father.

Because this is the legacy of the Will of Fire.

Next, Minato Namikaze gave Naruto Uzumaki an unexpected reply, "You have to find the answer yourself. Even I don't know the answer..."

"How could I possibly know things that neither you nor the lecherous immortal know? You two are far too willful!"

Naruto exclaimed, puzzled.

"I'm an idiot, not a good ninja, and—"

Snap!

Minato Namikaze stroked Naruto's head. "You will definitely find the answer. I believe in you. No matter what, parents will always believe in their children. So..."

Minato Namikaze began to help Naruto complete the seal.

"How am I supposed to defeat that guy like this?!" Naruto panicked.

"It's okay."

Minato Namikaze shook his head.

"Amakawa Akito won't kill you, because... it seems he also wants to find some kind of answer through you."

Minato Namikaze, who had been watching everything, knew that the emperor had many opportunities to kill his own child.

However, he did not kill either Sasuke or his own son.

"Perhaps the answer he's looking for is the path you, Naruto, should explore."

Minato Namikaze holds this view.

As the Chakra slowly disappeared.

Minato Namikaze left behind these words: "Naruto, your mother... might not be dead yet... Find her, and she will help you control the Nine-Tails..."

"My mother?!"

Naruto's eyes widened suddenly.

"Dad... wait!!"

In a white light, Naruto regained consciousness and returned to the world of the living...

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Somewhere in the ninja world.

A wriggling shadow.

A shadowy figure, obscuring the sky, lurks in mountains, underground, plains, and acidic swamps...

Hiss~~~~.

Acid gas erupted and entered the air, forming a dense fog.

This is a dwelling filled with bones.

It is also the end of all things in the world.

But...

In this extreme environment, a powerful life form is tenaciously surviving.

It awakens, it devours, it evolves, it... waits.

"!"

Naruto Uzumaki returned to reality and immediately realized that he had entered Sage Mode.

"Hmm? It's because I transformed into the Nine-Tails that my Chakra became chaotic... so the Shadow Clone dissipated automatically..."

As the final Shadow Clone dissipated, the accumulated Senjutsu Chakra naturally flowed back to the original body.

He clenched his fist.

Naruto Uzumaki opened his Sage Mode eyelids wide.

He... had something to say to Amakawa Akito.

Hundreds of meters apart, the two looked at each other.

"I..."

Just as Naruto Uzumaki was about to say something...

A shadow fell over the area.

"Um?"

Naruto Uzumaki was slightly taken aback, and then he saw the towering figure that appeared before him.

"This is..."

His expression froze for a moment.

"It's a success!"

Tsunade and Sakura spoke at the same time.

At this point, both of them had already unlocked the "Strength of a Hundred Technique".

They also conducted a joint Summoning.

Having exhausted almost all of his Chakra, he summoned one-tenth of the slug's true form from Shikkotsu Forest, one of the "Three Great Sacred Sites"!

A shadow that blots out the sky.

It's even more exaggerated than Hashirama Senju's "True Several Senju"!