"Wuye, this is the barrier protecting the most important secret chamber of our Uzumaki clan. Only those with Uzumaki blood can open it..."
Kushina watched the barrier slowly open before her. She took Wuye's hand and helped wipe the blood from his palm.
"Now that the barrier has remembered your blood, you'll be able to open it yourself even when I'm not around."
She tilted up her little face, her smile beautiful and content.
Hyuga Wuye silently looked at her, feeling as though a huge stone was weighing on his heart, crushing the breath from him.
"Kushina, why do you trust me so much?" he asked quietly.
"Who else would I trust if not you?" Kushina tilted her head at him, her expression strangely puzzled. "You're the person closest to me!"
Hyuga Wuye helplessly stroked her hair. "Dummy..."
"Come with me!"
Kushina grabbed his hand and led him down the staircase that had appeared within the barrier, entering a spacious underground chamber.
Once they lit the candles, the entire underground chamber brightened.
The most striking sight was an entire wall of masks. Wuye knew that one of them was the Reaper Mask, but he had no idea which one.
Nor did he want to know... He had no desire to learn a technique like the Reaper Death Seal, one that took both sides down together. Besides, in theory, he couldn't analyze it anyway.
After all, he could only learn ninjutsu that Kushina had fully performed, but he would never give Kushina the chance to use that technique.
"Wuye, these are the sealing techniques of our Uzumaki clan. Take a look and see what you want to learn." Kushina pointed at the scrolls hanging on the wall.
Hyuga Wuye walked over and opened them one by one. Several familiar names came