Naruto Uzumaki, Help Me!

"From the bottom of my heart?" Yuuhi Kurenai curled her lip. "I never truly wanted him to die."

"But you truly wanted to be with Asuma, didn't you?" Sarutobi Kou chuckled softly, staring straight into Yuuhi Kurenai's eyes.

"Of course I truly wanted to be with Asuma..." Yuuhi Kurenai's voice suddenly sharpened, but she quickly understood and shouted, "You're twisting the meaning!"

"But that's the truth, isn't it?" Sarutobi Kou shrugged. "Wanting to be with Asuma and wanting the Third Hokage dead are obviously two completely different things."

"But now those two things are tightly bound together, inseparable..."

"Is there no other way?" Yuuhi Kurenai asked.

"Hey, think about how many times you've asked that lately. My ears are growing calluses from hearing it. The only answer I can give you hasn't changed at all, so just give it up." Sarutobi Kou looked rather helpless. She sighed and stopped looking at Yuuhi Kurenai's face.

No one wanted things to reach this point. Even the Third Hokage himself might have felt some regret in the dead of night.

But according to the theory of reciprocal revenge, if anyone from the Uchiha Clan could still take revenge, then not many from the Sarutobi Clan would survive either.

Although Uchiha Itachi and Uchiha Obito were the ones who had truly acted, no one would believe that those two idiots should bear the entire burden alone.

The Third Hokage had once told him that when facing good people, he should believe whatever they said. Teacher Iruka had taught him the same thing.

After becoming the Four-Tails' Jinchuriki, he naturally possessed an inexhaustible supply of chakra and could keep up with the consumption of those eyes.

It wanted to completely break the seal, but that did not mean it was willing to be dragged out