While Kushina ate, Mikoto surveyed the training ground and spotted a wooden figure resembling an arhat.
Kushina was stunned. "Kushina, you learned First Hokage-sama's Wood Style?"
Holding a piece of sushi, Kushina replied as she ate, "Yeah. Grandfather Tobirama said that the Uzumaki Clan can inherit Grandfather Hashirama's Wood Style more easily."
"My Chakra has powerful vitality, so cultivating Wood Style came easily."
Kushina spoke as if it were nothing, but Mikoto's heart churned like a stormy sea.
Wood Style was not exclusive to the Senju Clan; it was the First Hokage's personal secret art. Even the Senju Clan themselves had failed to inherit it.
Yet Kushina had mastered Wood Style simply through training.
It seemed that once Kushina had been pushed from being a housewife into the spotlight, there had been no stopping her.
Perhaps the Nine-Tails had been limiting Kushina's Ninja Talent from the very beginning.
Her Ninja Talent was stronger than anyone's. Though she had no blood relation to the First Hokage, Kushina possessed the same talent as him.
Just by virtue of being able to suppress a Tailed Beast's Chakra.
If that power had not been used to suppress the Tailed Beast, but instead to cultivate ninjutsu, she would have become stronger than anyone else.
After reconciling with the Nine-Tails, that talent had been fully unleashed.
Mikoto was deeply envious. If she possessed Kushina's power, Liao Wu would not have been forced out of Leaf Village and pursued by the Anbu.
Mikoto looked at the Rinnegan in Kushina's left eye, and a trace of greed rose in her heart.
If I could obtain it, I could protect my Older Brother.
Mikoto immediately extinguished that greed in her heart.
Forget it. Kushina is my best friend.
Mikoto could only let go of her longing for Liao Wu.