Golden light tore through the dim sky, carrying newborn strength and blazing hope as it crashed into the Ten-Tails' body!
Wrapped in a golden Nine-Tails chakra cloak, Naruto slammed the power of Nine-Tails Mode's Rasengan into the Ten-Tails' towering form.
The dazzling brilliance briefly suppressed the Ten-Tails' vicious aura, reigniting flames of hope in the Allied Shinobi Forces' eyes.
Yet Naruto's heart trembled with indescribable emotion. His reconciliation with Kurama had come far more easily than he had imagined.
That massive beast, whose eyes had brimmed with resentment, remained proud even beneath the seal's suppression. Yet, moved by his words and belief, it had actually lowered its claws.
Even with his mother Kushina's help, that almost effortless reconciliation still left him feeling somewhat unreal.
Minato, seated high in the air on a stone throne, slowly straightened. His gaze beneath the fox mask pierced through the blazing light and gradually settled on Naruto's heart.
There, a faint golden ripple spread—something only his Rinnegan could see.
"Oh?" A voice neither amused nor amused at all sounded from behind the mask.
He remembered that radiant little Naruto, who had called him "Uncle Takaku" because he had trained alongside the Wave Village shinobi.
That pure warmth made him sigh. His fingertip quietly sank into Naruto's chest, using an almost imperceptible force to leave behind a reconciliation seal.
That gift had originally been meant as a reward for Naruto helping reform the Nine-Tails' jinchuriki. It was like carving a slight crack into a sealed heart.
But he knew that what truly opened that heart and soothed the tailed beast's millennia of resentment was not external force, but a will warm enough to move even the coldest heart—and the capacity to embrace pain.
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