The ninja forces in the distance had no idea what was happening here, until the news slowly reached their ears...
"What?! The last Uchiha and the Hyūga clan's eldest daughter both confessed to Uzumaki Naruto at the same time?!"
"Naruto is pretty handsome though, and this battle was thanks to him!"
"Yeah, otherwise we would've died several times over by now."
"But the Hyūga eldest daughter is one thing... isn't that Uchiha survivor a guy?"
The Allied Shinobi Forces fell into awkward silence...
However, if we're talking about who got the biggest shock!
That title absolutely goes to Uzumaki Naruto's father, Fourth Hokage Minato Namikaze!!
"No, Sasuke, Naruto he..." Minato was already completely incoherent!
When the Ten-Tails charged at them, he wasn't even scared, but right now he was terrified! Genuinely terrified! He was afraid his son was about to walk down an incredibly difficult path! He was afraid of not being able to face Kushina when he reached the Pure Land! There was literally no way to explain this to her!!!
"Ku...Kushina... I think I'm facing the biggest crisis of my life..."
My son just got confessed to by a boy!! What do I do?! This is urgent!! Someone answer me!!
And besides Sasuke, that little Hyūga clan girl also likes Naruto?
Plus, didn't he ask that pink-haired girl earlier if she was his girlfriend, and Naruto clearly answered 'something like that,' didn't he?!!
Neither he nor Kushina were the type to play around with multiple people's hearts!!!!
How did this happen?!
Without his mother's presence, things really went wrong... It's all my fault, I'm such a useless father...
The Fourth Hokage spiraled into depression while the Third Hokage broke out in a cold sweat.
The First Hokage looked toward his younger brother Tobirama. "Young people's relationships these days are so complicated. I thought they were just friends like me and Madara."
At the mention of his elder brother and Madara Uchiha's relationship, Tobirama Senju felt inexplicably irritated.
He angrily rebuked both Sasuke Uchiha and Madara Uchiha in the same direction: "What the hell is wrong with you Uchiha?!! Every single one of you! Can't you people just be NORMAL for once?!!"
Madara Uchiha, having been yelled at, looked thoroughly displeased. What does this have to do with me?!
Sasuke also belatedly realized his words had been misunderstood by everyone—and that they thought he'd just publicly confessed to Naruto. He immediately bristled like a black cat that had been dunked in water!
"You idiot! Didn't YOU ask me what was written up there?!!" Sasuke lost his usual composure. "I was READING what it said: 'Naruto, I love you'! I wasn't saying I love you!! You dead-last!!!"
Naruto: "What?! It's clearly YOUR problem! And stop calling me dead-last, damn it!!"
"You're the one who kept rushing me! Otherwise, would I have just blurted it out like that?!!"
Watching the two argue, everyone finally understood it was a misunderstanding and breathed a collective sigh of relief.
Minato's poor heart felt like it was bungee jumping—it nearly flew right out of his chest!
But ever since having that thought, listening to Naruto and Sasuke argue...
"Idiot Sasuke! Stop saying 'I love you, I love you' over and over! It's weird, damn it!!"
"Weren't YOU the one who asked me to say it?! That's enough! I don't want to argue with you right now!"
"I don't want to argue with you either!! Stupid Sasuke!"
Thump thump thump—Minato's heart trembled repeatedly. If it weren't so inappropriate, he really wanted to ask the First Hokage if this was what it was like when he and Madara Uchiha were friends.
Naruto: "Wait, why did Hinata-chan pass out? Does that thing really have an offensive genjutsu on it?!"
Kiba, who caught Hinata, explained: "She probably realized what she'd just said to you and got so embarrassed she fainted..."
"Huh? I thought her courage had finally gotten a bit better!" Naruto said obliviously. "Turns out she's still this timid." I mean, Sasuke's fine, and I'm not that bothered by it either.
Only the Second Hokage remained the most rational person present. He asked Sasuke Uchiha: "What else is written on it?" With so much flowing text, he refused to believe there was only that one confession to the blonde kid.
"..." Sasuke looked thoroughly unhappy, but this time he'd learned his lesson—he wasn't saying a single word.
The Second's crimson eyes stared him down, but Sasuke stubbornly remained silent.
Right at that moment, Obito Uchiha, inside the Kamui dimension, felt something strange!
The next instant, both he and Kakashi were forcibly kicked out of their Kamui private chat!!
THUD!
Kakashi landed beside Naruto. Seeing the Hokage and Sasuke, he was only briefly surprised before quickly regaining his composure and analyzing the current situation.
On the other side, after being ejected from the Kamui dimension, Obito tumbled several times before landing near Madara Uchiha.
Seeing that figure, Minato was momentarily transported back to memories of that not-too-bright but passionate and kind student. He could almost hear his youthful voice: "I'm definitely going to be the first Uchiha Hokage! I'll carve both the Sharingan and my goggles onto the Hokage Rock!"
"O...Obito...?!"
"Sensei..." Kakashi approached Minato's side. Having just battled Obito, he was physically and emotionally exhausted from learning the truth. "Obito's alive. He saw Rin get killed by my—"
"That's enough, Kakashi! Our priority right now is understanding what that thing crushing the Ten-Tails is."
Unable to bear watching his student, who'd been depressed since that incident years ago, continue blaming himself, Minato cut him off. At the same time, Minato finally understood—the masked man who'd appeared during Kushina's labor was Obito!
Killing intent flashed through Minato Namikaze's eyes, but now wasn't the right time to settle that score.
The sharp-eyed Second Hokage noticed, when Kakashi emerged from the Kamui dimension, that his Sharingan displayed a special pattern.
Tobirama Senju: "While you don't look like an Uchiha, you also possess the Uchiha clan's Sharingan." He ordered: "Use your Mangekyō to read what's written on that thing."
To prevent Kakashi from reacting like Sasuke and the Hyūga clan members, the Second commanded: "Read it aloud directly. Whatever you see, say it."
"Yes, sir." Kakashi Hatake, ever loyal to Konoha, immediately accepted the Second Hokage's mission.
However, after clearly reading the contents...
Kakashi suddenly felt a sense of embarrassment similar to 'reading Master Jiraiya's works aloud.' "This..." He glanced at his three students over there, seeming to steel himself with the resolve of a warrior about to sacrifice his arm.
Naruto tilted his head in confusion. Sasuke raised his eyelids slightly—clearly relieved someone else had been assigned this task.
Sakura and the other Allied Shinobi Forces looked puzzled.
What the heck is written up there? Why does everyone who sees it react like this?!
Could it be some kind of indescribably terrifying genjutsu?!!
"N-Naruto, I love you."
As if confirming everyone's suspicions.
The moment Kakashi opened his mouth, it was the beginning of an absolute massacre...
"I love Naruto the most."
"Naruto is my wifey."
"The Fourth Hokage is my father-in-law."
"Ah, Naruto, you're like my angel. You're Konoha's sun, the light in my heart, my ninja way, the direction I move forward in..."
CRACK——
That was the sound of everyone's brains shattering into pieces.
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