Minato Namikaze turned his head.
Uchiha Fugaku was watching him with a complicated expression. Fugaku had been among those who threw Kunai from the stands just now. Minato had seen him clearly.
"Fugaku..."
Minato removed his mask. "I never imagined that after we last parted in the village, we'd meet again like this."
"..."
Uchiha Fugaku froze.
He still remembered their last meeting.
The two of them had accompanied the pregnant Kushina and Mikoto into town...
But when they met again, one was alive and the other dead.
So what about the time between?
Where had Uchiha Fugaku been when Minato died?
"Minato, I'm sorry. But there was nothing I could do. You were the Fourth Hokage, and I was the head of the Uchiha Clan."
Fugaku shook his head. "You know what Sarutobi and Danzo were like... Given what happened that day, my hands were tied. Even you, when you saw an Uchiha on the battlefield, wouldn't have thought of helping him first..."
"I'm not blaming you. I understand the position you were in. After all... he was an Uchiha too." Minato shook his head and sighed.
"He" meant Obito Uchiha.
Minato Namikaze had never imagined that the person who got him and Kushina killed all those years ago was his own student.
And that student happened to be the child Kushina had liked most...
Hah—
A student got his teacher and his teacher's wife killed, and the orphaned son of the Fourth Hokage, who had sealed the Nine-Tails to save the village, was reviled by its people as the Fox Demon?
"This world really has gone mad."
Minato Namikaze suddenly let out a laugh.
Fugaku looked at him, unable to find a word of comfort.
"I really am sorry... Mikoto once wanted to take Naruto in. She said