Temari: “Sacrificing Herself” for Sunagakure!

The Nine-Tails endured the pain and crouched low. "Aogetsu Hyuga, I... I'll do as you say."

Aogetsu Hyuga tilted his ear toward him. "What did you call me?"

The Nine-Tails hesitated, then lowered his head. "L-Lord Cangyue..."

Never in his life had he bowed so low.

He had called even the Sage of Six Paths, who created him, "Old man." Calling a human "lord" was something he had never imagined!

Aogetsu Hyuga finally smiled in satisfaction and snapped his fingers.

The next instant, the black spikes and the Black Coffin vanished like smoke.

The moment Minato, Kushina, and Naruto saw the Black Coffin disappear, they looked over.

One glance was enough to make all three stare wide-eyed.

The Nine-Tails lay trembling on the ground, his body riddled with bloody holes.

Kushina Uzumaki murmured, "I've never seen him like this before..."

Aogetsu Hyuga beckoned to the Nine-Tails. "Come here."

The Nine-Tails slowly rose and walked toward him.

Defiance still lingered in his eyes, but everyone could see the deep fear beneath it.

"Greet him," Aogetsu Hyuga told the Nine-Tails, pointing at Naruto.

Minato, Kushina, and Naruto froze. Greet whom? How?

The Nine-Tails lowered his head to the ground. "Lord Naruto."

After several awkward seconds, Naruto and Kushina both sprang up and cried out in unison:

"What?!!"

Temari: Sacrificing Herself for Sunagakure!

Minato Namikaze had seen plenty in his life.

But when he saw the Nine-Tails obediently call his son "lord,"

even he was stunned.

The three of them stared at the Nine-Tails in curiosity,

never having imagined this would happen.

Feeling their eyes on him,

the Nine-Tails buried his head against the ground,

not daring to open his eyes.

How humiliating!

In thousands of years, he had never been so humiliated!!!!

Aogetsu Hyuga patted Naruto on the shoulder.

"There. You've gotten