"Kazan went to the Hyuga Clan a while ago and took a kid as his student."
"Really?"
"I think his name was Neji Hyuga. The Hyuga Clan even made an exception and added an elder's seat for Kazan."
"Mm."
"Is that all you have to say? Haven't you seen Fugaku and Mikoto's child? He's only five, and he can already beat a chunin."
Kushina suddenly felt annoyed. Why couldn't this blockhead understand what she was getting at?
Minato Namikaze understood perfectly well, of course. "Kazan's path might not suit Naruto. Besides, training as a taijutsu ninja is many times harder than training as an ordinary ninja."
"That's still better than following that old pervert Jiraiya." Kushina had only just become a mother, and she was already worrying about Naruto's future.
A parent's worries lasted a lifetime.
And hers had already begun.
The Hokage's work kept him so busy that Minato had needed to leave for the front line the very day after his child was born.
In the years ahead, the task of teaching Naruto would still have to fall to someone else.
She hoped that someone would be Kazan.
She didn't need Naruto to become terribly powerful. She only hoped he could live as freely as Kazan did.
"Kushina, becoming Kazan's student is dangerous."
He had too much Kage blood on his hands.
He was the person the Four Great Shinobi Villages hated most.
The Cloud Shinobi's Third Raikage, the Rock Shinobi's two jinchūriki, the Sand Shinobi's Grandma Chiyo and the Fourth Kazekage he had just crippled, the Mist Ninja's Third Mizukage and seven Ninja Blades...
There were far too many.
The other shinobi villages might be unable to do anything to Kazan, but what about the people around him?
They would surely become targets of that hatred. Any