The group stood atop Gold Fang's head as he turned and swam into the sea, moving far faster than any ship.
As Gold Fang drew closer to the islands of the Land of Whirlpools, the atmosphere within the group suddenly changed.
Kushina, who had been cheerful moments ago, gradually lost her smile as sorrow enveloped the little girl.
Noticing Kushina's disappointment and grief, Mikoto Uchiha and Mie Hyuga could only put their arms around her shoulders and comfort her in silence.
Over the past few years, Kushina had kept telling herself that when the day came for her to return to her homeland, she absolutely could not be sad or cry.
But when that day truly arrived, Kushina could not hold it in.
As she gazed at the distant islands of the Land of Whirlpools, tears began to fall.
Jingyi had no particularly good solution for this. Perhaps crying could solve quite a few problems.
"Jingyi, why do you think the Land of Whirlpools was attacked? The Uzumaki Clan never intended to start any wars. We only wanted to live peacefully in the Land of Whirlpools."
Kushina suddenly asked this question.
She had asked Mito Uzumaki the same question before, only to receive a sigh in return.
"Bloodline, talent, and all kinds of inheritances, I suppose."
After lowering his head in thought for a while, Jingyi gave the likely reasons why the Uzumaki Clan had been attacked.
"The most important reason was that the Uzumaki Clan's bloodline could perfectly suppress Tailed Beasts. Every village needed that sort of bloodline power, along with powerful Sealing Jutsu to seal Tailed Beasts. That was the root cause."
"Even Konoha wanted members of the Uzumaki Clan to seal the Nine-Tails. Other villages would have had the same idea."
"So the villages were all involved