Yet Naruto did not answer directly. Instead, he said, "Hehe, Kurama, how about this? It's been ages since we last saw each other, and we've both got plenty of questions. Why don't we take turns asking one?"
The Nine-Tails glanced at the smiling Minato and the wary people beside him. The distrust in their eyes made him understand Naruto's intentions.
Although the Nine-Tails did not care in the slightest what these people thought of him, Naruto wanted to do this, so he nodded. "As you like."
Naruto smiled. "All right, I'll answer first. I went a little over a year ago. After you left my body, my memories returned. Those glimpses of the future showed me the dangerous places in the universe, where many wonderful worlds would be threatened by the Ōtsutsuki. Since I knew ahead of time and had gained the power to do something, there was no reason to sit back, right? So I set out alone and dealt with them in advance. I also took the chance to practice using the power my future self gave me."
The Nine-Tails understood. "So after I left, the you who stayed in the Shinobi World was a Shadow Clone all along?"
"Yeah. But that counts as a second question, doesn't it? Since I've answered it too, it's my turn to ask two, right?"
The Nine-Tails nodded noncommittally.
"Why do you look like that now? And why did you name yourself Menma?"
Tsunade froze at his words, then quietly muttered to Jiraiya beside her, "...Is that really important?"
Jiraiya sighed. "To Naruto, probably."
They were actually just as confused. Back at the camp, Might Guy had unleashed the Ninth Gate to fight the Nine-Tails' clone. Then the clone had vanished, and Naruto had appeared.
They had followed Naruto here, and according