"I have more chakra to spare than I expected."
In a forest somewhere in the Land of Lightning, Minato Namikaze checked his condition after watching the Second vanish using Flying Thunder God. "I thought this body would be running low on chakra after all that... I didn't expect to have so much left."
Minato had left the Flying Thunder God Kunai here during a raid in the Fourth Shinobi World War.
It made a convenient waypoint for helping the Second reach Kumogakure.
During the process, however, Minato discovered that this body's chakra consumption when performing ninjutsu was far lower than he had expected.
The chakra felt like part of his own body. Not only could he use it without the slightest resistance, it flowed even more smoothly than it had when he was alive.
"What kind of state am I in, exactly?"
Minato Namikaze looked at his hands with some curiosity. According to the Nine-Tails' explanation when it taught him this jutsu, it was something akin to a Body Clone.
His true, original chakra was still inside Naruto, but this clone could use chakra and house his consciousness.
The only drawback was that if this body was destroyed, he would be unable to form a new one for a while.
Although he vaguely suspected that the Jutsu the Nine-Tails had created was more than a simple clone technique, he set his curiosity aside for now.
At this point, his primary objective in the original plan had been achieved.
He had ensured that Orochimaru, who had stolen the remains of the First and Second, summoned them with the Impure World Reincarnation Jutsu, then freed them both, bringing Konoha's fighting strength to its theoretical limit.
As the two Hokage who had ended the chaos of the Warring States era and ushered in