Elsewhere.
The ninja of the Four Great Ninja Villages' allied forces were watching with equally strange expressions.
It was simply...
This scene left them utterly speechless.
Not even during the Warring States Period had they ever encountered anything like this!
During the Warring States Period, fathers and sons might often have killed each other, but putting a sack over your own father's head?
That was some truly filial behavior.
Of course~
Minato had not taken that sack for nothing!
For Minato, this was perhaps merely a rare and unexpected training session with the son he had not seen in a long time.
Although, as the Hokage, he might have harbored some intention of stalling for time to complete the mission, he had never truly intended to fight to the death.
On top of that, he possessed an Impure World Reincarnation body, so he had probably only treated this as training and had not taken it too seriously.
However.
For that kid...
His desire to beat up his own father was serious!
He was doing everything he could to beat up his own father!
But... so what if Minato had been bagged?
For Minato, who possessed Space-Time Ninjutsu—the Flying Thunder God Technique—such a jutsu could never restrain him.
As long as he used the Flying Thunder God Technique to leave, the advantage Naruto had desperately created would naturally vanish.
Though they had to admit that the Fourth Hokage's child was indeed outstanding, unless he could find a way to counter the Flying Thunder God Technique, it would be impossible for him to defeat the Fourth Hokage.
Sure enough.
The moment the ninja had that thought.
"You brat..." Minato, having escaped with the Flying Thunder God Technique, looked at Naruto before him with a mixture of amusement and exasperation.
He had not