Xuan Zhe was even beginning to wonder what that old fox Madara Uchiha was plotting. Could he never have saved Obito at all? Had that kid really died in the Battle of Kannabi Bridge?
"Unfortunately, I..."
Clatter!
Before he could finish, the sound of a plate shattering suddenly came from the kitchen, followed immediately by Kushina's scream.
"Kushina!"
Minato's expression changed drastically, and he rushed into the kitchen.
Xuan Zhe followed him and immediately saw Kushina kneeling on the floor, surrounded by three women, clutching her stomach with pain written all over her face.
A faint layer of red chakra was rising from her body.
"The Nine-Tails is trying to break through the seal again. Let me handle it!"
Sweat covered Minato's forehead with anxiety, and his hands had already begun forming the signs for a sealing jutsu.
"Hey."
Xuan Zhe suddenly called out.
Thinking Xuan Zhe was calling him, Minato instinctively looked back.
But he was not calling him at all.
Inside the mindscape.
Kushina was clutching her stomach in pain on one side of the sealed gate. On the other side, the Nine-Tails stared at her, baring his teeth.
Just then, a pair of enormous eyes suddenly opened in the void behind the Nine-Tails.
The Nine-Tails shuddered in fright.
Kneeling before the sealed gate with her arms around her stomach, Kushina suddenly realized that the burning pain of the Nine-Tails chakra had vanished.
She instinctively turned to look at the Nine-Tails on the other side of the sealed gate.
When those familiar, enormous eyes came into view, disbelief filled Kushina's face as well.
The next second.
Kushina felt the scene before her eyes spin wildly.
When she came to her senses, she was looking at her own kitchen ceiling.
"Kushina, are you all right now? Thank goodness!"
Seeing