Naruto closed his eyes tightly and turned his head to one side. He clenched his fists and his body trembled slightly.
Minato looked at Naruto kneeling in the water and was silent for a long time.
"Naruto, I am your father."
Naruto's body froze.
He slowly raised his head and looked at Minato blankly, as if he didn't understand what he just said.
Minato met his gaze and spoke again.
"You are my son."
Naruto The lips moved, but no sound came out.
Fourth Hokage.
The person who sealed Nine-Tails into his body back then.
It turned out to be his father.
Naruto's eyes slowly fell on the seal on the cage, and then looked at the scarlet Chakra wrapped around his arm.
"Why..."
He paused for a long time before finally asking the question.
"Why should you seal that thing into my body?"
"Do you know how much I suffered because of it?!"
He raised his head suddenly, and his voice, which had been lowered, rose again.
"When I was a child, everyone in the village avoided me. They wouldn't let me get close, and they wouldn't let their children play with me. They looked at me as if I would turn into a monster at any time and kill them all!"
"But I didn't know what I had done wrong at that time!"
Naruto's speaking speed became faster and faster, and his hands on the water continued to tremble.
"I can only keep making trouble and scribbling on Hokage Rock, because only in this way will they look at me and remember that there is another Naruto Uzumaki in the village!"
"Later, I finally got Iruka-sensei, Kakashi-sensei, and my own companions. Later, and later, I met Pervy Sage..."
Speaking of this, Naruto's voice suddenly choked.
The scene of Jiraiya lying in a pool of blood appeared before his eyes again.
"I have been practicing with him for so long. I desperately want to become stronger, but I just don't want to lose anyone else."
Naruto lowered his head and looked at the ruined city in the water, with only a blank look on his face.
"And those people..."
"They also died because of me."
Naruto's shoulders slowly slumped.
Minato always squatted in front of him and listened quietly to what he said.
After a long time, he raised his hand and pressed Naruto's shoulder.
"I'm sorry, Naruto."
"It's my fault for letting you endure so much alone."
Naruto murmured in pain.
"Why is it me..."
Minato was silent for a while, then turned to look deep into the cage.
"Naruto, many years ago, Nine-Tails attacked Konoha, not because it broke free of the seal."
Naruto was stunned.
"What do you mean?"
"There's someone behind it."
Minato's eyes fell on Nine-Tails in the darkness.
"That person wears a mask and has the power to control Nine-Tails. He knows Konoha's situation very well and can see through my fighting style."
"Although I defeated him, I know that the incident will not end there. One day, he will appear again."
Naruto looked at him blankly.
"So you just put Nine-Tails..."
"I separated the power of Nine-Tails and sealed half of it into your body."
Minato looked at Naruto again.
"Because when that person appears again, you will need enough strength to fight against him."
"I also believe that you will be able to control Nine-Tails one day."
Naruto raised his head and looked at Minato.
"Why would you believe me?"
Minato looked into his eyes.
"Because you are my son."
Naruto looked at him blankly.
After a while, he lowered his head and looked at the ruined city in the water.
"But..."
"I didn't have it under control."
"I destroyed the place."
Minato followed his gaze and looked towards the water.
"Yes, it was indeed destroyed by your power."
"Whether you mean it or not, the outcome will not change."
"So, Naruto, if you die here, no one will survive."
Minato looked at Naruto again.
"You want me to kill you, and you want to put yourself in a cage, just because you dare not wake up and face what you have done."
Naruto did not refute.
His head lowered lower and lower, and tears fell into the water.
"When Naruto, Nine-Tails lose control, this power will only bring destruction."
"What you should do now is not seek death."
"You have to survive and completely control it."
"Let it never use your body to hurt others again, and don't let innocent people pay the price for your loss of control."
"More importantly, we need to catch that person back then to prevent him from attacking the village again."
Naruto slowly raised his head.
Minato looked back at the water.
When Tailed Beast Bomb fell, the entire city didn't even have a chance to resist.
"Remember everything that happened today."
"Power never comes without a price."
"The more power you have, the more people will bear the consequences if you lose control."
Minato paused for a while before continuing:
"Today, you lost the most important person to you."
"You also caused others to suffer the same pain as you."
"People hate because of loss, and use their hatred to hurt more people. After new pain appears, new people will take up arms."
"This is why the war never stops."
Minato looked at Naruto again.
"This is a question that teachers have been asking their whole lives. We want to know how to make this stop."
"He has traveled to many countries, seen wars, and also seen people who survived the wars."
"He has always believed that people will one day truly understand each other, and has been looking for ways to end hatred."
Having said this, Naruto's eyes moved, and they were no longer ashen.
"It's a pity that he couldn't find the answer."
Minato lowered his head and looked at the child who had stopped talking.
"Me neither."
He reached out his hand and rubbed Naruto's head.
"Naruto, now, my incompetent father entrusts all these problems to you."
"I believe you will be able to find your own answer and solve this problem."
Naruto raised his head and looked at him blankly.
Minato had a smile on his face.
"Because you are my son."
Naruto His lips were slightly opened, but no sound came out.
Minato stood up and turned to look at the cage.
"Now, it's time to take back my body."
Naruto followed his gaze and looked at the seal.
Nine-Tails was lying in the darkness, scarlet eyes staring at him.
This time, Naruto did not move forward.
Minato walked to the cage and pressed his palm on the seal.
The seal that had been loosened lit up again, and black runes spread rapidly along the iron door.
Nine-Tails suddenly stood up from the darkness.
"Stop!"
It crashed into the cage.
The iron door shook violently, and scarlet Chakra crazily poured out from the gap. As the seal gradually recovered, it was dragged back to the depths of the cage.
Naruto always kneels in the water.
He lowered his head and looked at his hands, never touching the seal again.
Minato's body begins to become transparent.
Naruto seemed to notice it and slowly raised his head.
Minato smiled at him.
Then, the figure dissipated little by little in the sealed space.
outside world.
Eight-Tails Naruto's body suddenly stopped.
The blue steam on Kai's body was still surging violently. Just as he was about to rush forward again, he found that the scarlet Chakra on Naruto's body began to shrink rapidly.
The white skeleton covering the body gradually dissipates.
The huge body also began to become smaller.
The eight tails collapsed one after another, turning into a large amount of Chakra and flooding back into Naruto's body.
Finally, Naruto returned to its original appearance and fell from mid-air.
Kai put away Eight Gates, rushed over and caught him.
When he landed on the ground, Kai's legs went weak and he knelt heavily on one knee into the dirt.
Naruto's eyelids moved slightly.
After a while, he slowly opened his eyes.
My vision was a little blurry at first.
He saw Tsunade kneeling in the distance, and also saw the white-haired figure lying in front of Tsunade.
Tsunade's hand was still pressed on Jiraiya's chest.
The green Chakra in her palm had gone out, but she stared at the wound for a while, and suddenly Chakra condensed again.
The green light lights up again.
Tsunade poured more Chakra into Jiraiya's body, trying to reawaken his heart. But no matter how she treated him, the person lying on the ground showed no reaction.
Fukasaku opened his mouth, but finally said nothing.
After a long time, the light in Tsunade's hand dimmed again.
She lowered her head, grabbed the tattered clothes on Jiraiya's chest, and tightened her fingers little by little.
"You bastard..."
Tears slipped from her face and fell on Jiraiya's blood-stained white hair.
At this moment, the sound of large footsteps suddenly came from deep in the forest.
There were a lot of people coming, and there was no cover during their movements. The branches swayed one after another, and soon, figures appeared all around, completely surrounding the battlefield...