I Have a Bunch of Relatives Who Want to Be Hokage Chapter 45

Back when he played around with Edo Tensei, he always nested them like Russian dolls. Usually, it was Edo within Edo—one reanimation meant an entire family, neat and tidy. Otherwise, he would not have been ganged up on by so many people. After all, he had drawn way too much hatred.

Huh? You were asking why he did not admit to knowing Edo Tensei?

What did the Edo Tensei used by him in his first playthrough have to do with him in his second playthrough? He had not dug up any graves in his second playthrough.

Just like when the Tailed Beast Ball had struck the Great Demon before, this smaller Tailed Beast Ball merely carved out a hollow amid the densely packed swarm of a thousand flood dragons. Before it could even explode, it was transferred away.

The thousand flood dragons gradually converged, forming a gigantic dragon's head that slammed into the Nine-Tails.

After all, it was merely a transformation of a ninjutsu. Even if flood dragons became dragons, they still could not pluck stars and seize the moon, move mountains and fill seas.

But shaking mountains and rattling the earth was more than enough.

From high above, it looked as though a towering giant had swept everything on this patch of land—including the Nine-Tails—with a colossal broom suited to his size.

Even the topsoil had been deeply scraped away.

The Yangtze River had become the Yellow River.

It was like an innocent young man entering a mysterious little shop; after going in at night and coming out in daylight, his youth was gone forever.

Do not ask. If you had to ask, then all you could say was that big sister had been really nice.

And Uchiha Shingen's ninjutsu might have been a big sister with a bold and hearty style.

Mud, sand, earth, rocks, and other debris mixed into the waves, replenishing themselves even faster than they could be eroded away.

All of it relentlessly crashed down onto the Nine-Tails.

Back and forth, again and again.

Wave after wave smashed to pieces against its nearly limitless chakra body, yet each new wave came on with undiminished force, tirelessly and eagerly.

It was quite a spectacle.

Towering waves surged forth, pouring onward for a thousand miles as all things raced without end.

In the darkness, it was impossible to tell where the sky ended and the water began. Everything was a murky blur.

The strongest tailed beast acknowledged by the ninja world was swept along by that murkiness. Amid earth-shaking roars, it was flung into flatland crashes one moment and overtaking on curves the next.

It looked rather painful, but tailed beasts did not feel pain.

In the end, its body slammed into a cliff face.

Layer upon layer of waves followed, crashing heavily against the mountain. Yet the mountain remained unmoving, quietly awaiting the endless impacts as it watched the waves shatter against its body, breaking into fine white foam that fell back, scattered, and finally vanished.

Above and below the mountain, tides rose and fell; waves surged and subsided.

In the end, only deep, crisscrossing scars remained on the cliff face.

As well as the Nine-Tails that had been washed there.

High in the sky, an incomparably abstract eagle that looked as though it had been painted in ink clearly saw everything and relayed it to its creator.

Then, through the secret technique of the Yamanaka Clan, that sight was transmitted to the others.

The Yamanaka Clan ninja withdrew his hand from his companion's head and remained silent for a long while.

No one in this search team said a word.

Though the Nine-Tails did not seem to have suffered much, it was a tailed beast. If that ninjutsu had been unleashed against a group of people on a battlefield...

That would have been terrifying.

Were the Uchiha Clan's chakra reserves really that abundant?

As a ninja clan that had joined the Leaf Village alongside the Sarutobi Clan back then, the Yamanaka Clan possessed common knowledge. They knew that Uchiha Clan ninja were also born with comparatively large chakra reserves.

But in everyone's minds, when it came to having lots of chakra, they still thought of clans like the Senju and the Uzumaki.

Yet after seeing Uchiha Shingen's Water Release, everyone felt that he was like a jinchuriki.

That ice giant from before had already been absurd enough.

Still, surprise was surprise. This squad promptly sent the information out.

At this moment, the Leaf Village ninja forces were searching the forest like mad.

Earlier, they had gone mad because the Nine-Tails was about to enter the Leaf Village and do calisthenics.

Now, they had gone mad because they were afraid the Nine-Tails would escape.

They absolutely could not let this thing get away.

Among them, Namikaze Minato moved the fastest.

He was more anxious than anyone.

Driving off the mysterious masked man meant nothing. He had driven off plenty of people before; one more made no difference.

But he only had one wife.

As soon as a search party relayed the information back, he immediately used Flying Raijin to teleport there.

In the end, he appeared atop the cliff.

Before him lay a devastated expanse of land, and at the foot of the mountain, the Nine-Tails was shaking its head about.

He immediately dropped down.

His opening move was a summoning. A huge, plump toad appeared in midair and, using gravity, planted its butt right back onto the Nine-Tails, which had only just broken free.

The Nine-Tails was still a little dazed from being blasted by the water. At first, it thought something had fallen from the mountain, but when the toad started wriggling its butt as soon as it sat down, it understood.

After having its head patted all night, the Nine-Tails finally snapped.

With its first shove, it nearly knocked the toad aside.

In that instant, Namikaze Minato landed on its head, his hand making contact with the Nine-Tails' body.

He and the Nine-Tails vanished at the same time.

After several flashes, accompanied by the sound of something heavy smashing into the ground, the Nine-Tails appeared before a building.

This was where Namikaze Minato had settled his wife, still outside the village.

The moment the Nine-Tails was free of the weight on its body and was about to leap up, several massive chains shot out around it. They crossed in the air, then came crashing down.

The Nine-Tails' terrifyingly enormous body was slammed flat against the ground the instant it touched the chains.

All of those chains came from a woman with fiery red hair.

Uzumaki Kushina.

The Leaf Village's current jinchuriki was now at death's door, the flame of her life about to go out.

"Kushina!" Namikaze Minato flashed to his wife's side and supported her. "Don't force yourself like this."

"It's all right, Minato. I still have chakra. Help me restrain the Nine-Tails." Uzumaki Kushina looked terrible—not because of her mood, but because of her physical condition.

Uchiha Shingen felt that she might kick the bucket at any moment.

Oh, right. When Namikaze Minato teleported, he had also used Flying Raijin to move onto the Nine-Tails' head.

He had come over together with the Nine-Tails.

But Namikaze Minato seemed not to have noticed him at all...

"Cough, cough..." Uzumaki Kushina suddenly broke into a violent coughing fit. "Hurry, Minato. I'm going to seal the Nine-Tails back into my body and die with it!"

Hearing that, Uchiha Shingen quickly jumped down from the Nine-Tails' head.

Changed Fate

Generally speaking, Uchiha Shingen did not much care for protagonists burdened by suffering and hatred, so during his first playthrough, he never watched this kind of drama.

When something bad happened, just find a way to solve it.

Putting on an act like you were especially unique really hurt the viewing experience.

Namikaze Minato and his wife did not fit that description, though. After all, Namikaze Minato was always quite decisive in his actions.

No matter what it was.

The reason he was always working overtime after becoming Hokage was simply because he was bad at the job, not because he slacked off at work.

It was just that whenever his wife was involved, his whole style became a little hard to stomach.

Uchiha Shingen stood there for quite a while and realized that the two of them simply did not look his way.

As for Uzumaki Naruto, the reincarnation of Ashura's chakra, Namikaze Minato carried him out. But the kid was sleeping incredibly soundly...

Sure, you're having a family reunion right now, so you have no time to look at me. Fine. But shouldn't you at least keep an eye on the Nine-Tails? You're that confident?

Fine, if you won't watch it, I will!

Uchiha Shingen raised his head and looked at the Nine-Tails.

The big fox had completely lost it. It struggled with all its might—its expression, its killing intent, its strength, all of it was spot-on.

Kurama, the top dog among the tailed beasts, could not be swayed by poverty or cowed by force.

If it had not been trapped by the Uzumaki Clan's Adamantine Sealing Chains, it would have already fired off a Tailed Beast Ball.

On the road to freedom, humanity was never alone.

The tailed beasts were right there with them.

"Kurama, stop struggling," Uchiha Shingen said. "Your time has not yet come."

You might not like it now, but you would think it was all right in the future.

"Damn it! Damn Uchiha!"

"Hey, hey, be reasonable. I'm not the one who used Adamantine Sealing Chains on you." Uchiha Shingen frowned. "Believe it or not, I can add another layer of sealing to you?"

Come on, talk back to me. A fox like you would definitely talk back.

He, Uchiha Shingen, was the Nine-Tails' personal tank top—he could call it every time.

Even more accurate than the Great Toad Sage's prophecies.

"Bring it on! I will never submit!" the Nine-Tails roared furiously. "You bastard Uchiha!"

"Sure thing!" Uchiha Shingen went along with it and immediately created three Shadow Clones.

The original remained where he was, while the other three Shadow Clones ran to different positions and took their places, forming hand seals at the same time.

What looked like a barrier was actually the Four Red Yang Formation, a sealing technique that rose from the ground.

Of course, its strength was nowhere near the version four reanimated Hokage would use together in the future.

That one could even bounce back a Tailed Beast Bomb fired by the fully charged Ten-Tails.

This technique was one of the crown jewels in the Senju clan's ninjutsu arsenal. It operated as a barrier, weakening the power of any enemy trapped within it.

The ninjutsu was rated A-rank. As long as one's strength reached a certain level, they could basically learn it.

It could be used as a barrier to trap people or to weaken them. It was incredibly useful.

Its drawback was that it did not distinguish between friend and foe. Anyone inside would be weakened. But the Senju of the Forest, with their monstrous strength, did not care about that at all.

After all, once things came down to a mass brawl of taijutsu, the Senju clan had the advantage.

Like other ninjutsu, this technique's power depended entirely on the caster's ability. With Uchiha Shingen's current strength—and with a Shadow Clone involved—it could only be said that its power was passable.

He had set this up to prevent the Nine-Tails from truly breaking free of the Adamantine Sealing Chains.

Though the Adamantine Sealing Chains were weakened as well, that weakening was proportional. If the Nine-Tails could break free, it would do so whether this technique was present or not. With it, at least it could hold the Nine-Tails back a little longer.

When he turned around, Leaf Village's number-one couple was staring at him.

That was more like it. If they still had not looked at him, they would obviously have been doing it on purpose.

"You are..." Uzumaki Kushina forced herself to endure her body's weakness, her voice hoarse. "Shingen?"

"Big Sis Kushina." Uchiha Shingen walked over to her. "Do you still have the strength?"

"It doesn't matter now." Uzumaki Kushina glanced at the Nine-Tails, which had been further suppressed by the Four Red Yang Formation. "You came at the right time. Help me. I want to..."

Oh, enough with the 'I want to.' I heard your entire conversation. You two are getting more and more intense.

One of you had just said that your only regret was not being able to watch your son grow up, and the other immediately said, 'Save your chakra. Let me do it!'

What else could it be? The Reaper Death Seal!