By the time Uzumaki Kuming led his squad back to join Minato Namikaze and the others, dusk had begun to fall. After several hours of rest, Minato and his team were in much better shape.
When Uzumaki Kuming returned, Minato stepped forward and asked about the enemy they had just fought.
"Kuming, who were the Iwa Ninja who ambushed us? They were incredibly strong."
"Did your squad catch up with them?"
At Minato's question, Uzumaki Kuming didn't hide anything. "The ones who fought you were the leaders of two units Iwagakure had stationed at the border. One's named Kitsuchi, a student of the Third Hokage, Ōnoki. He's that tall, muscular man."
"The other, an old man, is named Roshi. He's Iwagakure's Four-Tails Jinchuriki, and he also possesses the Kekkei Genkai known as Lava Style. He's already gained a certain degree of control over the Tailed Beast Chakra. He's a formidable enemy."
"You managed to hold out until we arrived while looking after those three deadweights. You're pretty impressive, Minato."
"I did catch up with them, but the enemy left more than twenty people behind to hold us off. In the end, we still couldn't catch them."
As he spoke, Uzumaki Kuming glanced at Obito and the others, gaining a better understanding of Minato's abilities. Obito, standing nearby, didn't understand what Kuming meant by "Jinchuriki" and had no idea what a Tailed Beast was, so he asked curiously:
"Minato-sensei, what's a Tailed Beast? And what's a Jinchuriki? Are they really strong?"
Rin Nohara was just as confused. She and Obito were unlike Kakashi, who had grown up learning from his father and knew many of Konoha's and the Shinobi World's secrets. Rin was a civilian-born ninja, and no one had ever told her about such things. Obito had been raised by