"Kushina..."
Minato Namikaze spoke, his voice hoarse and barely audible.
But Kushina heard him. She raised her head in surprise, and when she saw the exhaustion in Minato Namikaze's azure eyes, her own eyes reddened even more.
"Minato... sob... this is wonderful, you're finally awake..."
"I heard you crying..." Minato laboriously raised a hand and stroked Kushina's red hair. "I'm not dreaming, am I?"
"No, this isn't a dream, Minato. This is wonderful!!"
Kushina kept wiping away the tears on her face, but the more she wiped, the more flowed out.
Minato Namikaze showed a warm smile. "Then he succeeded."
He naturally meant Houka.
Once a Jinchuriki lost their Tailed Beast, they would die. It was an unsolvable death sentence. Even though Minato Namikaze was the Hokage of the strongest hidden village in the Ninja World, even though he was a powerful ninja renowned throughout the Ninja World, faced with this dead end, he could only choose to live and die alongside Kushina.
But now, he had awakened. Seeing Kushina lying in his arms, her face rosy and full of vitality despite her constant tears, he knew that their inevitable fate had been changed.
After Houka and Obito returned from the snowy mountains, they launched into a heated discussion over where to place the Explosive Tags.
Obito solemnly hoped Houka would find another auspicious location and move all the Explosive Tags out of his dimension. Otherwise, he would not even be able to sleep in peace, constantly afraid that the tags would accidentally detonate.
If that dimension exploded, who knew whether it would affect his Mangekyou as well?
Houka disagreed. He believed there was no place in the Ninja World that was absolutely safe. Even Mount Myōboku could potentially be ruined by those little Toads on the mountain. Only