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Third Person POV
Mental Landscape Inside Kushina, Year 42.
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Still in Kushina's mind, a silence had settled inside Kurama's cage. While Minato stood beside Kushina, the ground stared at Kurama, who had stood up again.
No one said anything else. The place was completely silent.
Kurama looked at Minato, but not with all the hatred from before. There was only curiosity and even caution after the conversation they had.
Meanwhile, Kushina, although still watching Kurama cautiously, was impressed with what Minato had discussed with the fox, since she never imagined such things existed in this world. The story Minato told was unlike anything she had ever heard. At the same time, it seemed so real, as if there were a great lie surrounding the entire past of this world, while Minato and the fox herself spoke of it with a certain calmness.
Minato answered Kurama's questions as best he could, acknowledging that he didn't know everything, but he did know a large part of the future. At the same time, he also acknowledged Kurama, her siblings, and the one who created them, as Kyuubi wanted to test him.
Kushina herself wanted to ask many questions, but she didn't want to interrupt the conversation Minato was having with the fox.
"Then, what do you say?" Minato then broke the silence, as his voice echoed through the empty space.
Kurama took a few seconds before turning her gaze to Kushina, who became a little more cautious.
"Do you think she'll really be able to control my chakra?" Kurama asked.
"I believe so. I'll be helping her with that, and she won't have to go through that thing you made her go through anymore." He spoke, still with disgust.
"And you need my power to save the Uzumaki clan?" Kurama asked again, though grumpy, without that hatred anymore.
"Yes. She will need your strength and your help. I want you two to fight together. If we all want to survive, your powers are even greater with a jinchuuriki. I want you to lend your strength to Kushina. And in the future, fight together." Minato said.
Kurama fell silent again. She clicked her tongue.
"Alright. I'll give her my power." She said at last.
Minato seemed to have shaken her quite a bit to make her agree to such a thing, when just a day ago she was filled with deadly hatred and ready to kill Kushina to escape her body. He hadn't expected things to end like this.
Anyway, Minato looked at Kushina.
"Go ahead." He asked, while she seemed quite cautious. But she nodded in the end, taking a step forward with Kurama being watched carefully.
The fox stared at her.
"I don't know what the future holds for us, girl, but I'll believe in your boyfriend's words. We'll be working together. But if you betray me, I won't hesitate to kill you. Do we understand each other?" the fox said with a threatening tone.
Kushina almost faltered, but remembered why she was there and didn't even want to look at Minato so as not to disappoint him, while nodding with a firm gaze toward the fox.
"Alright. Let's work together, Kurama." She murmured, calling her by name for the first time after hearing Minato say it so many times during their conversation.
"So be it." The fox clicked her tongue as she began to raise her fist toward Kushina, placing it right in front of the girl.
"Touch my fist and you'll be able to take my chakra. Don't make me regret this." Kurama murmured.
Kushina nodded, placing her fist against the fox's, looking like just a flea in front of her.
In the next moment, she began to feel a large amount of chakra flowing directly into her, surprised, as if it were Kurama's own manifestation starting to grow inside her, made of pure red chakra.
"Kushina, you need to store the chakra somewhere else in your mind so you can access it later." Minato said, while Kushina nodded and quickly directed the chakra being transferred to a place where it could be easily used later.
Minato stayed silent there and she watched until finally Kurama finished transferring almost all the chakra to her.
"I think we're done here. I'm going to sleep." Kurama simply said, pulling her hand back as she tried to move away.
"This isn't the end. We'll still find a way to break the seal that keeps you here. That would be good for you too, don't you think?" Minato said, while Kurama looked at him and just nodded, starting to move away again.
Kushina approached Minato, a little lost.
"Minato..." she murmured, looking at her own hands. "Did I do it?"
"Yes. You did well. Now you'll be able to access the fox's chakra when we're outside." He said, while Kushina nodded, still feeling the energy inside her.
"One more thing..." Minato said, looking around the dark space. "Can't you improve this place? It feels kind of sad here." He said, since if this was Kushina's mental space, it could at least be better than a dark cave with no end in sight.
"Alright. I'll try to improve it." She replied, as they began to leave.
Kurama moved away from the two and crouched down, placing her two paws under her chin and was about to sleep, when suddenly everything began to change. She lifted her head as the cave started to transform into a vast sea of flowers, like an extension of the outside where Kushina had been before.
The entire place filled with flowers, with small hills and the space above turned into a sunny and beautiful day, with the sun shining brightly, sending strong rays onto the fox as Kurama looked on in surprise.
But at the same time, she found all those plants and colorful flowers spread everywhere a bit over the top. She quickly made a face.
"They could've chosen a forest, not something so ridiculous..." Kurama muttered before finally falling asleep. After giving so much chakra to the girl, she needed rest to recover.
Minato was already outside and shortly after, Kushina opened her eyes at that moment inside the barrier, outside, blinking several times with her blue eyes before looking at Minato, almost not believing what had happened.
"Minato... we did it. I now have the fox's chakra." She murmured, still in disbelief.
"Yes, you can finally use that power and we'll start training it a bit before going back to the village." Minato said as he looked at several attentive clones. He also saw Fukasaku waiting outside with considerable concern as he stared at them.
Minato looked at the clones and nodded, signaling that everything was fine. After the clones deactivated the barrier and disappeared, the Chief Toad moved toward Minato.
"What was that? I thought the nine-tailed fox was going to show up here." He said in an urgent tone.
"Well, we had a few setbacks with her. It wasn't easy, but everything's fine now." Minato said to the toad, while the latter still looked at him suspiciously.
"Are you ready, Kushina?" Minato turned to Kushina and asked, while she nodded.
"I just have to manifest the chakra, right?" She was quite determined as Minato nodded, while she closed her eyes and quickly accessed a part of her mind.
A massive amount of chakra began to rise. She raised her hand and the chakra started to connect to her with a thin thread.
In the next moment, Kushina began to glow. Even Fukasaku was surprised by it, jumping back with stunned eyes, while Minato smiled as he saw her turning completely golden — a characteristic of the Nine-Tails' jinchuuriki.
When accessing the chakra, it causes a transformation quite different from the usual.
"This is the power of the Nine-Tailed Fox...?" Kushina murmured, as she saw herself completely golden, as if she were on fire, with small amounts of chakra coming off her and disappearing into the air.
The ground beneath her began to sprout small plants and flowers, the amount of life energy was so great in a chakra filled with so much hatred, which was ironic.
"What is this? She... she's controlling the chakra of the Nine-Tailed Fox..." Fukasaku murmured, stammering, not quite knowing what that meant. As he felt the power around her, he understood this was the fox's chakra, but in a different form. This could only mean one thing.
"Congratulations. You've become an almost perfect jinchuuriki, Kushina. We need to develop this power." Minato said, as she looked at him and nodded.
"Yes. To save the Uzumaki clan, I will master this power, Minato." She said confidently.
Minato nodded. Fukasaku didn't know what to think, as he began to see Minato teaching things to Kushina.
Which was quite strange, since he wasn't the Nine-Tails' jinchuuriki, but he seemed to know exactly how the fox's chakra and Kushina's powers worked. Meanwhile, Kushina began to create giant hands as extensions of her body, moving them in all directions as she imagined.
She moved toward a rock, clenched her golden fist and threw it forward, manifesting chakra in the giant fist and breaking the rock with ease.
"Incredible..." She murmured.
"Not just that, but it's time we test your speed, Kushina." Minato said, while she looked at him curiously.
One of the potentials of having the Nine-Tails' chakra was its extreme speed — so fast it could even rival the Hiraishin, without using any seals. It was incredible.
If Kushina mastered that, she herself would be a monster in the ninja world. And few people could oppose her.
Minato might be about to face four entire villages against the Uzumaki, but he would have a Uchiha companion with the Eternal Mangekyou Sharingan, a Senju with Sage Mode, and an Uzumaki and Nine-Tails jinchuuriki, controlling her chakra.
The weakest in the group would be Hanabi, who would need to at least develop her Tenseigan to reach the others' power level. But Minato didn't know how to help her with that. If he had the chance, he would.
Now he had to prepare. After all, with Kushina able to master the chakra and undergoing training to control it as much as possible, they were confident they could handle anything together, be it kages or other jinchuuriki, with their girls.
Kushina trained her speed while Minato observed and helped her. She really struggled — she wasn't very strong when it came to being fast — but she also trained other abilities and significantly increased everything she already had. She could now perform hand seals much faster and even expand her Adamantine Sealing Chains without limit. She could create over a thousand chains now and form a barrier around the entire Mount Myōboku.
When she tested this new jutsu, the chains quickly surrounded entire kilometers, creating a shield that surprised all the toads. Fukasaku was left speechless, unable to believe what he was seeing as just a golden girl was doing all of this.
"I think we better go. We've stayed too long already." Minato said in the end, as Kushina nodded, undoing her transformation and returning to normal. She was visibly happy after seeing the entire area destroyed and the barrier dissolving across Mount Myōboku.
In the end, they said goodbye to a frozen Fukasaku, still in shock.
"Send my regards to Mother Toad." Minato didn't forget to say, and in the next moment, he disappeared with Kushina after recovering his Senju Mode chakra to use his Hiraishin jutsu and send them straight back to the village, while two clones of Minato and Kushina appeared in their place before exploding moments later.
Now, the political war was about to begin in Konoha.
-------------Nexts Chapters ----------------
Chapter 265 - Konoha Under the Threat of Civil War.
Chapter 270 - Konoha surrounded by manipulations.
Chapter 280 - Konoha Civil War 04.
Chapter 289 - Visiting the Uzumaki Clan Once Again.
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