"Dad, Mom..."
Under Kushina's intensely emotional gaze, Naruto could no longer hold back his feelings. Scalding tears poured down like a burst dam, and all the hurt and bitterness he had endured over the years came flooding out.
"This is... this is wonderful! So I'm not some Demon Fox nobody wants! I have a dad and mom too!"
"Why? Why did you go and die without asking me? And why did you turn me into some tailed beast's jinchūriki? Why did it have to be me?"
"Do you know what these years have been like for me? If Shinichi hadn't been there, I don't even know what I would have become..."
At that moment, Naruto seemed to have become a three-year-old child again. He haphazardly wiped the tears from his face, sobbing uncontrollably as he poured out his truest feelings.
Even Shinichi was moved by the sight. Naruto had never been as strong as he appeared.
It had all been a facade he put on to act tough!
Some might say Naruto was an incredibly strong child, capable of enduring pain that ordinary people could not-that was what made him a true protagonist.
But given a choice, who would want to force themselves to become that strong?
The Naruto before them was not the Naruto from the original story who had lived through so much. He was just a child barely over ten. It was only natural for him to yearn for his parents' love, and perfectly understandable for him to feel hurt and resentful over what he had suffered.
Shinichi could give him the warmth of a family, but not the love that only parents could provide.
That was precisely why Shinichi had been so determined to resurrect Minato and Kushina.
"Naruto, it was all my fault. I was