"Who is she?"
The Nine-Tails took a glance first. Seeing the red hair, he instinctively said to Minato, "A member of the Uzumaki Clan, all the way out here in the Land of Wind? They certainly fled a long way."
"The Uzumaki Clan?"
By now, Minato was quite used to connecting to the Nine-Tails' chakra. He looked at the red-haired woman and her daughter, searched his memory carefully, and came up with one question—
"Who is she?"
Father doesn't know her either? She said she was the Queen of Roran, and she even knew my name.
Naruto froze for a moment. Just then, the woman took a Chakra Blade out of the bag she carried.
She gazed at the blade, which was somewhat chipped but still polished clean. Her eyes shifted between tenderness and reminiscence, and she paid little attention to the looks from those around her.
"That blade is standard Konoha issue."
Hinata, who had been paying particular attention to Queen Sara, spotted the Konoha emblem in the center of the ninja tool and spoke softly.
"Yes. An old friend gave it to me."
Sara nodded.
"Was your old friend from Konoha too?"
"...They were all Konoha Ninja."
They?
Sasuke keenly picked up on her choice of words, though he was still more concerned about the little girl, Rōran, who kept stealing glances at him.
"I'm sorry. This must seem rather strange to you, coming out of nowhere like this. I was too abrupt."
"I was in poor health for a while, and my mind was a little hazy. Perhaps I really did mistake you for someone else."
Sara then smiled, as though she had casually found an excuse. Yet she still looked at Naruto, seemingly trying to find a trace of her "old friend" in him.
As they