Nine-Tails Space, Teasing Kushina, Minato's Face Went Black

A figure suddenly appeared, startling Naruto Uzumaki. "Who are you?"

"Don't be afraid, Naruto. I used to be good friends with your father." Uchiha Shadian's voice rang out.

"My father's friend? You knew my father?" Naruto Uzumaki's face lit up with surprise as he looked expectantly at the figure before him. "Big brother, do you know who my father was?"

His lonely life had made Naruto Uzumaki desperately want to know who his father was.

Uchiha Shadian said calmly, "Naruto, you are the descendant of a hero. Your father was a hero—the Fourth Hokage you have always admired."

"What? My father was the Fourth Hokage?" Naruto Uzumaki's eyes widened in disbelief.

Uchiha Shadian nodded. "Yes, that's right. You are the descendant of a hero. You should have enjoyed honor in Konoha, but some people, because of a certain thing, erased everything you should have had. They even made you suffer every kind of grievance."

Uchiha Shadian slowly approached Naruto Uzumaki. "Today, I came to help you—to remove the trouble inside your body."

Naruto Uzumaki asked in confusion, "Big brother, are you saying there's something inside me?"

Uchiha Shadian nodded. "There is a violent fellow constantly interfering with the flow of your chakra. That is why, no matter how hard you try, you cannot properly release ninjutsu."

"Now, as long as that violent fellow is removed from your body, you'll be able to use ninjutsu normally and become the center of attention in the whole class."

"Really, big brother?" Naruto Uzumaki's eyes lit up. He wanted more than anything to shed the title of dead last.

"Of course it's true." Uchiha Shadian nodded.

Naruto Uzumaki said excitedly, "Help me, big brother. I want to earn the recognition of my teacher and all my classmates. Please remove the thing inside me that interferes with my ninjutsu."

"Don't worry. I'll remove it right away."

"Big brother, what do I need to do?"

"You only need to sleep for a while." Uchiha Shadian struck the back of Naruto Uzumaki's neck with his palm. Naruto's vision went dark, and he immediately passed out.

To prevent any accidents from alerting the absent-minded Anbu ninja in the distance, Uchiha Shadian wasted quite a few words calming down Naruto Uzumaki, the fellow most likely to do something unexpected.

After knocking Naruto Uzumaki unconscious, Uchiha Shadian picked him up and activated his technique. In the next moment, he vanished from Naruto's home.

When he appeared again, he was inside the Uchiha Clan shrine.

"Minato, considering you gave me ninjutsu, I specially developed a safe unsealing technique for your son."

Under normal circumstances, if a tailed beast was forcibly extracted, the jinchuriki would quickly lose their life force and die.

To keep Naruto Uzumaki from dying, Uchiha Shadian had specially developed a ninjutsu to safely undo the Nine-Tails' seal, ensuring Naruto would not lose his life after losing the Nine-Tails.

"Boundless Heaven and Earth, Yin-Yang Unsealing, release!"

A yin-yang Eight Trigrams symbol appeared on Uchiha Shadian's right palm, and he slammed it down onto Naruto Uzumaki's stomach.

The instant Uchiha Shadian's palm touched Naruto Uzumaki, his consciousness entered the Nine-Tails' sealed space. Under Uchiha Shadian's technique, the Nine-Tails' seal was opening at an incredible speed.

"Sharingan... evil chakra. This evil power is even more wicked than that fellow Madara Uchiha's." Within the space, the Nine-Tails' startled voice rang out, tinged with fear.

Uchiha Shadian remained indifferent and ignored the astonished Nine-Tails. In his eyes, the Nine-Tails was nothing more than a pet.

He looked at the seal tags that were coming undone. Just as he expected, a blue light flared up the next moment, stopping the seal from being further released.

"Shadian, the Nine-Tails' seal cannot be undone." After seven years, Uchiha Shadian heard that familiar voice once more.

Uchiha Shadian said coolly, "Minato, you are too selfish. Have you ever considered Naruto's feelings? As a jinchuriki, do you know how miserable his childhood has been? Do you know how the villagers you desperately saved at the cost of your life treated your son? Cold stares, mocking words, calling him a demon fox and an ominous thing. They threw stones to drive him away whenever they saw him. No one would be his friend. They would only sell him expired food. All these unfair treatments—are these what an orphaned Hokage's child should suffer?"

"You sacrificed yourself for others, so why did you force that same will upon Naruto when he had only just been born?"

"Minato, your selfishness ruined him."

"Today, I am giving him back his freedom. You cannot stop me."

Minato Namikaze said, "If you extract the Nine-Tails from Naruto, he will die."

Uchiha Shadian said, "Don't worry. For this moment, I specially researched and developed a safe technique that can preserve Naruto's life."

Minato Namikaze fell silent upon hearing this. After a long while, he sighed. "So be it. I have already fulfilled my duty to Konoha. I cannot stop you. Rather than waste this last bit of chakra, I might as well give it to Naruto."

"Shadian, it's been a long time." Suddenly, Kushina Uzumaki's figure also appeared in the sealed space.

"It has been a long time." Uchiha Shadian was not surprised by Kushina Uzumaki's appearance. Before fully sealing the Nine-Tails, she had also left behind a portion of chakra within Naruto Uzumaki's body.

"Shadian, can I entrust Naruto to you?" Kushina Uzumaki asked pleadingly.

"For your sake, I can reluctantly consider taking him as my disciple!" Uchiha Shadian said.

"Thank you, Shadian." Kushina Uzumaki's eyes reddened, and tears streamed down her face. "Minato and I have failed Naruto. Please, Shadian, tell him that his mother will always love him."

"Perhaps you can tell him yourself someday," Uchiha Shadian said.

Kushina Uzumaki did not understand what Uchiha Shadian meant. "I've decided. I'll give this last bit of chakra to Naruto as well, to protect him. I won't have another chance to see him."

Uchiha Shadian suddenly said with interest, "Kushina, if you remarry me, I might have a way for you to see Naruto again someday."

Minato Namikaze's face instantly went black. Uchiha Shadian had pursued Kushina before, and it seemed he still had not given up. "Shadian, I'm still here! You're poaching my wife right in front of me—do you think I don't exist?"

Uchiha Shadian laughed. "You're already dead, so what the hell is there left of you? Kushina has the right to remarry and seek new happiness."

"You..." Minato Namikaze had no retort.

Uchiha Shadian continued teasing him. "Look, if Kushina remarries me, Naruto becomes my son. Would I ever mistreat my own son? Right? So if Kushina remarries me, you'll come out way ahead, Minato. Not only will Naruto have a new father to love him, but Kushina can also find new happiness. Don't you want Kushina to be happy? If Kushina remarries me, you'll really be getting a huge bargain, Minato."

Minato Namikaze: A huge bargain, my ass!