When Kushina Uzumaki saw that it was Minato Namikaze, she immediately threw herself into his arms in excitement.
But a few seconds later, Kushina Uzumaki noticed something was wrong with Minato Namikaze. She pulled away from his embrace and looked at him with some concern as she asked:
"What's wrong? Did something happen?"
Minato Namikaze said nothing. His expression merely began to twist in pain, and tears began to glimmer in his eyes.
Seeing this, Kushina Uzumaki grew even more alarmed. In her memory, Minato Namikaze had always been cheerful and strong, as though nothing could ever knock him down.
Yet now she saw his tears. This could only mean that Minato Namikaze was in terrible pain, more pain than ever before.
At that thought, Kushina Uzumaki felt her own chest tighten, but she could not let it show.
So she pretended nothing was wrong, gave him a radiant smile, and led him back inside.
Minato Namikaze was like a walking corpse at that moment, sitting on the living room sofa without a word, staring ahead with a somewhat vacant expression.
Kushina Uzumaki said nothing either. She simply nestled in his arms, quietly soothing his heart.
The two sat quietly like that for a long time before Minato Namikaze finally spoke his first words:
"Ye Feng is dead!"
Startled by his words, Kushina Uzumaki immediately sat up and asked in disbelief:
"What did you say?"
Minato Namikaze gradually came back to his senses and said painfully:
"Ye Feng died on this mission!"
Kushina Uzumaki was also too shocked by the news to speak. He had never expected that astonishingly gifted kid to die like this.
He knew the bond between Minato Namikaze and Ye Feng, who were both mentor and friend to each other. Minato Namikaze had received a great