Kushina, you really came out.
Minato Namikaze looked at his former wife, his expression impossibly complicated.
But Kushina did not respond to his call at all.
She lowered her head. A tear fell from her cheek onto the ground of the mindscape, sending ripples spreading outward.
Chakra erupted violently from her body, and her hair scattered wildly in the blast, making her look like a demon crawling out of hell.
Minato Namikaze's pupils contracted sharply, and his heart skipped a beat.
This was bad!
Kushina vanished from where she stood. In the next second, she had rushed in front of him, swinging a fist straight at his face.
Bang!
With a dull thud, Minato's entire consciousness was sent flying, pain splitting through his mind as if it were about to crack apart.
Kushina's roar followed immediately. "Minato Namikaze! This was the son you said would live on to become a hero who saved the village?! This was the hero you said would save Konoha in the future?!"
"This is how heroes get treated?! He's only eight years old! Is this how your precious teacher's teacher treated our Naruto?!"
She cursed as she hit him, her fists raining down like a storm.
It turned out that when Black Zetsu had undone the first eight seals, Kushina's consciousness had already awakened. She had merely been locked inside the final sealing formula.
Only after the Nine-Tails' seal was completely opened could she appear within Naruto's mind and help him deal with the Nine-Tails.
So for the past eight years, she had seen every bit of Naruto's exclusion and suffering.
Just as she had said on the night of the Nine-Tails.
Her fists pounded into Minato's face again and again.
"**I told you! What I wanted was for you to stay with Naruto! To