Why did it look no different from the Shinobi World?
Kushina Uzumaki slowly looked around.
The next moment,
her eyes flew wide open.
"Y-you... you're?!"
"Naruto?"
Kushina Uzumaki stared at the man sitting quietly beside the fire and cried out.
"We meet again."
Naruto Uzumaki smiled at Kushina Uzumaki.
"Where are we?"
"Who are you, really?"
"Did you have something to do with Mikoto's disappearance?"
"And... didn't I die?"
A faint smile appeared on Naruto Uzumaki's face as Kushina Uzumaki fired off question after question.
She really was impatient.
"Kushina, if you ask so many questions at once, which one am I supposed to answer first?"
Naruto Uzumaki sounded a little helpless.
"Fair point."
"Where are we?"
Kushina Uzumaki looked at Naruto Uzumaki and asked the question that mattered most to her.
"The Shinobi World."
"In a dense forest in the Land of Hot Water."
"So... I'm not dead?"
"What happened?"
Kushina Uzumaki felt her body. She was completely unharmed.
Her heart beat strongly, and her body was warm. She couldn't make sense of it.
She could even feel that her vitality had grown stronger.
But...
The enemy had forcibly extracted the Nine-Tails from her while she was giving birth.
Then the Nine-Tails' claw had pierced her chest.
How could she possibly be alive?!
"You did die, but I saved you."
After a moment's thought, Naruto Uzumaki added, "I have a technique that can bring the dead back to life."
"After your funerals, I stole your bodies."
"Our bodies?"
Kushina Uzumaki caught that detail at once.
"Yeah."
"Don't worry. Minato's alive too. He just hasn't woken up yet."
Naruto Uzumaki spoke calmly.
"I see..."
"That must have cost you a lot, didn't it?"
Kushina Uzumaki didn't doubt Naruto Uzumaki's words.
After all,
the fact that she was alive and well