"Sensei Minato, don't look so disappointed. It's just the Shinigami," Sakura said calmly. "Since their souls are inside him, things actually get easier! If he can swallow them, naturally he can spit them out. We just need to make him release them willingly!"
"I remember there might be a way to break the Dead Demon Consuming Seal, but that was all recorded in history books. As for how to break the seal, I've never studied it myself—I only heard bits and pieces here and there."
Kushina frowned unconsciously. The Dead Demon Consuming Seal was originally a last-resort technique meant for mutual destruction. Konoha only had the method to perform it, but no known way existed to break the seal. Even she had only seen fragments of information about it as a child, from an old historical text passed down through her clan. However, the book mentioned the possibility of breaking such seals, but didn't go into detail.
"I never intended to break the seal at all!" A slight smirk appeared on Sakura's lips, giving Kakashi and the others chills down their spines. "If he dares to swallow people, we'll just beat him up until he spits them back out!"
"Beat him up? That's the Shinigami we're talking about! How could anyone possibly fight him?" Both Kushina and Minato blinked in shock. Beat up the Shinigami? That idea sounded utterly insane!
"There's always a way to make things happen!" Sakura shrugged off their concerns easily. "And truthfully, this Shinigami is nothing more than a powerful undead being. Undead creatures have no choice but to obey me!"
The Soul Stone controlled all undead beings. Although the Shinigami of the Naruto world was extremely strong, he still possessed the fundamental nature of an undead creature. As long as Sakura wished, the Shinigami would have absolutely no resistance within her Inner Space.
"How is that even possible?" Kushina's first reaction was disbelief. The Shinigami was a god—how could any human possibly oppose him?
"You'll understand soon enough, Auntie Kushina!"
Sakura didn't bother with further explanations. After all, the concept of Infinity Stones simply couldn't be explained fully.
As she spoke, Sakura linked the Sealing Space with her Inner Space. By now, everyone who had been informed beforehand was already waiting patiently inside her Inner Space.
"Kushina!"
The moment they met, Mikoto Uchiha rushed forward uncontrollably, grabbing Kushina and dragging her aside to chat. Seeing this, Fugaku Uchiha could only sigh helplessly. Having left Konoha and been free from pressure, Mikoto had become increasingly unrestrained. Her personality was gradually becoming more like Kushina's. Perhaps, this was simply Mikoto's true character all along; otherwise, how could she have become besties since forever with Kushina in the first place?
"Dad? Mom? Brother Shisui, Haruka Onee-san? What's going on here?!"
Sasuke looked completely stunned. Why were these people who should have died appearing again? Was he hallucinating?
"We're really sorry for deceiving you for so long!"
Itachi Uchiha's voice rang out behind Sasuke.
"Brother? No... Itachi Uchiha, why did you kill Father and Mother?"
Sasuke rushed forward, filled with rage. In his panic, he even forgot to use chakra.
"Forgive me, Sasuke. This will be the last time."
Itachi Uchiha smiled as he extended his finger and poked Sasuke on the forehead. In an instant, Sasuke froze, then knelt down sobbing sadly.
"Why did you kill everyone? Why?!"
Chapter 108: A Pufferfish-Mad Sasuke [Part 2]
"Uh... Sasuke, hold off on the tears for a sec. Your parents are still alive, and the Uchiha clan wasn't really wiped out either — it was all staged!"
Sakura awkwardly said. Sasuke clearly felt deeply hurt right now, so she needed to give him some good news to shock him back into composure.
"Staged? What do you mean?"
Sasuke instantly held back his tears. Confusion filled his eyes along with a glimmer of hope—if his parents were alive, that would mean his brother wasn't really a rogue ninja!
"Actually, it was all that evil bastard Danzo's fault. We had no choice but to stage this whole scene just to escape with our lives."
Without hesitation, Sakura didn't hesitate before dumping all the blame on Danzo. After all, he already bore plenty of guilt. The fault for this incident genuinely belonged to him too. Sakura didn't feel the slightest bit of remorse over transferring Sasuke's hatred onto Danzo.
"Danzo?! What exactly happened all these years?" Minato Namikaze frowned. Although Danzo often claimed he acted in Konoha's best interest, his actions frequently ended up harming the village instead. Minato never liked him much — he was too selfish and shady.
"How should I explain it... Ever since Uncle Minato died sealing the Nine-Tails, that group of old bastards led by Danzo began suspecting the Uchiha clan. To stop Danzo's schemes, we devised this fake death plan to help the Uchiha escape," Sakura quickly summed up what happened after Minato's death — and once again pinned everything on Danzo.
"Also during the Nine-Tails incident years ago, Danzo was the one who blocked the Uchiha from reaching the battlefield. If Fugaku-san had been there with his Mangekyo Sharingan, you wouldn't have died and Naruto wouldn't have grown up alone without his parents either."
"That bastard Danzo! I'll personally kill him!" Kushina's eyes blazed with murderous intent. Sakura's words instantly reminded her of how Naruto had grown up alone without his parents.
"Wait, my father died sealing the Nine-Tails?" Naruto suddenly scratched his head, looking deeply puzzled. "But books say the Fourth Hokage sealed the Nine-Tails Demon Fox. Did the Fourth steal my Dad's credit?!"
"Naruto, maybe you didn't notice what was written on the back of Uncle Minato's Hokage Cloak?" Question marks floated above Sakura's head. The writing was right there on Dad's back for everyone to see — how could you not know?!
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