Because of the Eight-Tails' words, he had wanted to break the prophecy the Eight-Tails had left behind through his own strength when he met the Nine-Tails Jinchuriki.
Hearing the Raikage's account, Minato recalled the night of the Nine-Tails' Attack. After Obito extracted and released the Nine-Tails from Kushina's body, even her Uzumaki Clan constitution had not stopped her life from draining away in an instant...
"What happened after that? Why is the Eight-Tails' consciousness now Killer B's?"
"B brought the Eight-Tails back to his senses, but his own body had already lost all signs of life. Even after the village exhausted every option, we couldn't save him."
"And Kumogakure isn't skilled in medical ninjutsu..." At this point, A sounded both resentful and helpless. "Relations between Kumogakure and Konoha were tense at the time. The village initially opposed letting Konoha know something had happened to the Eight-Tails Jinchuriki, but I still sent a request to Konoha, hoping Princess Tsunade could come examine him. But... your Konoha never responded!"
"Your Konoha may keep saying you want peace, but you still..."
"Lord Raikage, if I remember correctly, that same year, your Kumogakure sent a delegation to Konoha, only to secretly attempt to abduct Hinata Hyuga of the Hyuga Clan. After being discovered, you even turned the accusations back on us, forcing Hizashi of Konoha's Hyuga Clan to pay with his life. Is that not true?"
"After doing something like that, you still expected Konoha to send a master healer to Kumogakure? Did you honestly think that was possible?"
Minato interrupted the Raikage's complaints about Konoha, bluntly exposing Kumogakure's past disgraceful actions.
"Lord A, I was also Hokage once. We both understand the darkness the ninja villages once harbored, so we naturally know that relations between villages cannot be explained away with a single