If one kick couldn't kill them, then two would!

Kagami Uchiha walked slowly out of the Senju Clan courtyard, the setting sun stretching his shadow as he made his way along Konoha's quiet flagstone paths.

He pondered the matter of the Land of Whirlpools Delegation, his thoughts inevitably drifting to the girl who would one day inherit the Nine-Tails—Kushina Uzumaki.

It was now Konoha Year 26, and Kushina probably had not been born yet. Only years later, when Mito grew old, would she select Kushina and bring her to Konoha to succeed her as the Nine-Tails Jinchuriki.

At the thought, Kagami's heart grew heavier. The path of a jinchūriki was thorny from the very beginning. Not only did they have to endure the tailed beast rampaging inside them, but they also had to bear the strange looks of their fellow villagers, and even their cold treatment.

Fortunately, she would have Minato, that little ray of sunshine, to love and care for her in the future.

These two young people must never suffer like that again. Whatever happens in other parallel worlds, it absolutely won't happen in the Konoha under my rule!

As he walked and thought, he rounded a street corner and suddenly heard heavy panting, accompanied by shouted counts.

"Nine hundred ninety-nine! One thousand! One thousand and one!"

Kagami looked up.

The young Might Duy was training hard in an open space, throwing punches. Sweat soaked his simple, coarse clothes, and his skin was dark from the sun. Each punch made a faint swishing sound as it cut through the air.

Duy was around sixteen or seventeen, roughly the same age as Hatake Sakumo.

Unlike in the original story, where he had trained alone, quietly gritting his teeth, Kagami Uchiha had noticed this boy early on—a boy with unremarkable talent but astonishing perseverance. He had privately given him