Minato explained to Kushina that he had been busy with the village's missions. The him of today was no ordinary blond Jonin, but a Hokage Candidate, so he was nowhere near as free as before.
Only then did Kushina forgive Minato. Then she asked in confusion, "Minato, wasn't that guy Ryobu killed by your own hand? Why can he still come back to life?"
Minato explained, "I'm afraid Madara Uchiha was there at the time. He placed Teacher Jiraiya and me under an Illusion Technique, making us mistakenly believe Ryobu had already blown himself up."
"This is my fault too. Back then, I should have stabbed him in the head."
Kushina clenched her fist like a hissing cat. "Next time, you have to stab him in the head."
Minato nodded, then suddenly went startled.
Hong chuckled softly. "Senior Kushina, Senior Liao Wu has already blown himself up. Hokage-sama has already confirmed it."
Kushina was somewhat disappointed. "What a shame, what a shame. A guy like that should've been captured and brought back so I could interrogate him myself."
Kushina then stopped caring about Ryobu and started worrying about Tsunade. "Minato, Tsunade-nee was captured by Madara Uchiha. What do we do now?"
Minato was somewhat puzzled. "You already know?"
Given the degree to which Kushina, as the Nine-Tails Jinchuriki, was sealed off from information, no one should have told her news about Madara Uchiha. On one hand, it was to prevent the Jinchuriki from becoming emotionally agitated.
Once a Jinchuriki lost control of their emotions, the seal on the Tailed Beast inside them would loosen along with it.
On the other hand, Madara Uchiha had once controlled the Nine-Tails, so they had to avoid letting Kushina and the Nine-Tails learn news about Madara Uchiha as much as possible.
Who had told