Senju Chen took a deep breath, suppressed the urge in his heart to turn over the table, and forced a smile on his face that was uglier than crying.
"Sister Kushina, don't rush to reunite with Elder Brother Minato."
He pointed at Naruto in Kushina's arms, and his voice suddenly became heavy. "Look at him. Do you want him to become an orphan without a father and a mother as soon as he is born? Don't you want to see with your own eyes what he will look like when he grows up one day in the future?"
"Don't you want to wake up later and hear him call you mom? Don't you want to see him marry, have children, and build his own family?"
Senju Chen's voice is more bewitching every sentence, like the devil's whisper, accurately hitting the softest place in Jiushin Nai's heart.
"If you are determined to die now, you will really never see all this."
Kushina looked at the child in her arms, her body trembled violently, and tears Minazuki slipped from the corners of her eyes, dripping on Naruto's young cheeks.
Of course she does.
She dreamed of it.
But...
"But Minato he..."
"Sister Kushina, didn't you see, I have preserved the body of Brother Minato in this way." Senju Chen interrupted her again.
"Do you think my confrontation with that ghost just now was just a waste of effort?"
He moved closer, his voice was extremely low, but full of unquestionable confidence.
"I tell you, Sister Kushina. Not only did I save Brother Minato's body, but I also know how to get his soul back from that ghost's belly!"
"I lost today just because I wasn't strong enough or prepared enough! But it doesn't mean I can't do it in the future!"
"Just wait! When I get Brother Minato's soul back, I will let your family of three sit neatly in this home and have dinner together again!"
Get back... the soul?
She stared blankly at Senju Chen, looking at his eyes burning with crazy flames. That was not comfort, not a lie, it was a declaration of war to the entire world, risking everything!
From the hands of that monster that makes people despair even just looking at it?
Is this... possible?
Reason told her that this was impossible.
But when she looked at Senju Chen's determined eyes, and at the sleeping Naruto in her arms, a flickering flame of hope was injected into her dead heart uncontrollably.
Maybe... what if...
Maybe this "younger brother" who can always create miracles... can really do it in the future?
"Well, Little Chen, sister believes in you..."
Senju Chen knows that his words have worked.
That's enough.
He stood up and stopped talking. He just stood aside quietly, leaving his last time to the mother and son who were about to separate.
Kushina stopped talking. She used her last strength to hold Naruto tighter. She gently rubbed her son's soft hair with her cheek, moved her lips, and silently told a mother's last words of love and instructions.
Her breathing became weaker and weaker, and her body temperature became colder.
The light in those purple eyes gradually faded, but this time, there was no despair in them, only attachment to the future and a weak hope that was forcibly ignited.
Finally, at the moment before her life breath was about to disappear completely.
Senju Chen moved.
"Spirit Transformation Technique."
His soul left his body again and turned into a soft but tough energy, accurately wrapping Kushina's soul that was about to leave the body and dissipate. There was no confrontation, no wrestling, just gentle guidance and sealing.
He carefully pressed her soul back into the depths of the already cold body, and then used his huge mental power to build invisible shackles, locking her tightly inside.
After doing all this, Senju Chen's face turned a little pale again, and fine cold sweat broke out on his forehead.
He took out another mouthful of the same "Sealing Coffin" again, and put the body of Kushina in again gently.
"Click."
As the coffin lid closed, the last breath of the mistress in this room was completely sealed.
Senju Chen once again sealed "Sealing Coffin", which also contained Kushina Uzumaki, back into the scroll.
Looking at the scrolls containing the remains of Minato Namikaze and Kushina in his hands, Senju Chen fell into inexplicable contemplation.
Judging from tonight's outcome, his previous arrangements have not changed at all.
Minato Namikaze died, and Kushina Uzumaki died. Just like the original anime, this infant child was left alone, which is the protagonist in our original work--Naruto.
But in the previous deductions and plans, Senju Chen had already prepared for the worst.
But he didn't expect it to be so bad.
In his deduction, the worst case scenario is that Kushina is extracted from Nine-Tails, and then sealed back by himself and Minato Namikaze.
Even after Nine-Tails is finally sealed back, Kushina will still die. He can also use "Sealing Coffin" to ban Kushina and Nine-Tails together.
Until the day Kushina was "rescued" back to life by himself.
But later, Minato Namikaze's crazy operation completely disrupted Senju Chen's plan and forced the plot back to the original storyline.
This made Senju Chen begin to have strong self-doubt about himself and the world.
Could it be that all the things I have done after being in this world for so many years have been in vain?
No matter what you do, the plot will still return to its original track?
Will the world itself really correct itself?
If the world and the plot will be modified, then what does your own appearance mean?
Is this the real world, or am I just a part of a Hokage novel?
These questions keep swirling in Senju Chen's mind.
suddenly.
"Whoa--! Whoaaah--!"
The baby's cry broke the dead silence and brought Senju Chen's thoughts back to reality.
Senju Chen turned around and looked at Naruto Uzumaki who was lying on the bed, crying loudly after waking up because he lost his mother's arms.
He walked over and awkwardly picked up the small, soft baby.
Looking at the infant in his arms who had already shouldered the entire village's calamity, Senju Chen's eyes, which were slightly hollow due to the trauma to his soul, finally regained some energy.
But it was not warmth, but a deeper and colder determination.
He held this small, soft body, but his movements were a little stiff.
He planned everything except the scene of holding the child in his arms.
"Kakashi, come in."
Senju Chen's voice is very flat, and there is no hint of emotion or anger.
"..."
Kakashi opened the door and opened his mouth. His throat seemed to be filled with sand and he couldn't spit out a single word.
Senju Chen didn't give him time to immerse himself in sadness, and walked straight over, stuffing the baby in his arms into Kakashi's arms without any explanation.
"You take care of this child first."
"I still have some things to do."
Kakashi, who had a child forcibly stuffed into him, hurriedly hugged him, and the soft and fragile touch made him freeze. He looked at Senju Chen's frighteningly cold face, and the looming veins on his forehead, which made him feel chilled in his heart.
"You... what are you going to do?" Kakashi's voice was hoarse.
He has known Senju Chen for so many years. Even on the most dangerous battlefields, this guy always has that infuriating calm smile on his face that shows he has everything under control.
But now, there is only deathly silence and cold determination left on that face.
"Go and settle some accounts."