"...Is that true?"
Minato was stunned after hearing what the Raikage had said.
"Why would I need to lie to you?" the Raikage scoffed. "Back when your Second Hokage Tobirama Senju attacked Kumogakure, do you think we would have swallowed such a huge loss if I hadn't read your letter? If I didn't fight Konoha to the bitter end over that, I wouldn't deserve to be Raikage!
"It was only because what you mentioned in your letter almost matched what the Eight-Tails had told us, aside from a few details, that I placed any trust in what you, Minato Namikaze, said afterward."
"The prophecy the Eight-Tails left behind mentioned the Hokages' resurrection... But Naruto Uzumaki is the Nine-Tails Jinchuriki. I couldn't tell him anything about it, or the Nine-Tails would find out too. So when I received word that Konoha would be holding the Shinobi World Conference, after you came back to life, I kept waiting for you, Minato Namikaze!"
"What exactly happened?"
Of course, Minato hadn't only just learned that something was amiss with the Nine-Tails. The Second Hokage Tobirama Senju alone had raised numerous suspicious points about him more than once.
But all those doubts pointed more toward the Nine-Tails hiding secrets than toward him being their enemy.
In Minato's eyes, the debt they owed the Nine-Tails was so great that neither his family nor Konoha could betray it. Even if the Nine-Tails had plans and goals of his own, that was no reason to consider him a threat.
So in most cases, Minato himself had stepped in to stop the Second Hokage from taking action.
Even when the Second Hokage wanted to establish a Special Unit to monitor the tailed beasts, Minato had interfered, turning it into an organization like Shin, whose central purpose was to protect