Simultaneously traversing from the beginning of the rampage in Konoha

"A child of the Uchiha clan."

Minato Namikaze paused slightly, as if he had thought of something.

His gaze focused on Uchiha Owl's pupils, and sure enough, he saw those ominous eyes.

Although it was an ominous sign, Minato Namikaze felt not only nervousness but also regret and remorse.

As the Hokage, I have the right to read through the records and notebooks of past Hokage.

Having browsed through these records, even those containing obvious biases and conjectures, I can see that they contain some obvious biases and conjectures.

Minato's understanding of the Mangekyou Sharingan was naturally very clear, and perhaps even more objective.

After all, he didn't have the same deep vigilance and targeting towards the Uchiha as the Second Hokage did, or more accurately, the same worry.

After all, the Uchiha clan is a clan of love, a point that even the Second Hokage strongly agreed with.

But it is often this very love that gives rise to extreme evil.

When the deepest love in one's heart is lost, the Mangekyou Sharingan is born from the darkness born of despair.

The deeper the love, the deeper the hate.

This hatred and despair will be forever etched into the bodies, souls, and even consciousness of the Uchiha clan through the Mangekyou Sharingan.

What must this child, who looks no more than ten years old, have gone through to create this kaleidoscope?

"The Uchiha clan... how are they now?"

Although he had only been Hokage for less than a year before his death, he had thoroughly understood the personalities and styles of the Third Hokage and the other Hokage.

Now, a member of the Uchiha clan with the Mangekyou Sharingan is able to appear before the Nine-Tails.

Therefore, it is likely that the Uchiha clan could no longer tolerate the village's targeting and launched a coup.

The village and the Uchiha clan are most likely locked in a protracted and intractable conflict.

Otherwise, there wouldn't have been a need for Uchiha Owl to come here and unseal the Nine-Tails.

"The entire clan was wiped out."

However, Uchiha Owl's casual remark plunged Namikaze Minato into disbelief, even causing his mind to go blank.

"If we count them all, excluding the two who have already betrayed us, there should only be two Uchiha left now."

"Is this Elder Danzo's plan?"

Minato Namikaze, unable to suppress his surprise and doubt, tried to ask.

"Do you think he had the ability, the awareness, and the courage to do this without Hiruzen Sarutobi's tacit approval?"

"..."

Seeing Minato Namikaze fall silent, Owl Uchiha stopped mocking him and lost all interest in talking.

After all, no matter how much is said, what is in front of us is just a projection of consciousness formed by chakra, which doesn't represent anything or do anything.

"Don't worry, I'm not here to release the Nine-Tails. Naruto's life is not in danger."

"You agree, right, Kurama?"

As Uchiha Owl finished speaking, he glanced at the Nine-Tails.

The Nine-Tails' head also started bobbing up and down like it was pounding garlic.

He dared not provoke the slightest displeasure from Uchiha Owl.

After all, although tailed beasts are immortal, even if they die at this moment, they will be reborn somewhere in the ninja world.

But faced with the darkness before it, it lost that confidence.

Leaving aside whether this thick darkness could completely and utterly kill him.

Even with this power at its core, Kurama (the Nine-Tails) has no confidence that it can remain unaffected.

After being influenced, it no longer matters whether you are still yourself, but you can definitely be trained into a pet that absolutely obeys commands.

This is something that the Nine-Tails, capable of sensing the malice contained within the black mist, can undoubtedly confirm.

The only thing that puzzled him was how this embodiment of darkness managed to maintain such clarity and rationality.

Uchiha Owl walked past Namikaze Minato and, under Minato's helpless gaze as he raised and lowered his hand, gently tore off the large talisman.

The paper, imbued with the scent of time, spun through the air as it fell onto the water.

The seal inside was revealed to resemble a vortex mechanism pieced together from individual components.

Uchiha Owl frowned as he looked at the seal that Naruto should have broken himself.

But he had no time to persuade or deceive a love-starved little brat.

Although he didn't seem that old...

He then raised his hand and placed it on the seal. In an instant, wisps of black mist emerged from his hand and rapidly merged into it.

There were no clicking sounds of opening, nor the roaring sound of sealing off the riot.

The black mist gradually took over the "mechanism," the gate, and every bar that imprisoned the Nine-Tailed Fox.

Under the watchful gaze of Kurama, whose eyes gleamed with excitement and whose heart pounded with trepidation.

The pitch-black seal transformed into black mist, which was then controlled by Uchiha Owl and merged into Minato Namikaze's chakra projection.

Just as the Nine-Tails was about to howl excitedly after escaping its confinement, a pair of scarlet Mangekyou Sharingan eyes met his gaze.

"Hehe, this old man, cough cough, I mean me, I'm just having a little fun, I won't move around, I won't move around!"

Seeing that the usually proud Nine-Tails had not become arrogant or carried away, Uchiha Owl nodded in satisfaction.

Then, with a clenched fist, a shimmering obsidian bead appeared in his hand.

The seal on the power of darkness was clearly quite perfect.

Although Yang Jiuwei was attracted by the obsidian, it did not realize the existence of its own half.

However, Uchiha Owl had neither the interest nor the time to solve the riddle.

He casually crushed the obsidian right in front of the absent-minded Yang Kurama and the reborn Minato Namikaze.

A nine-tailed fox, identical in appearance to the one before them but darker in color, almost grayish-brown, stood outside the former prison.

Like the Yang Nine-Tails, the Yin Nine-Tails, which can sense good and evil in its surroundings, naturally wouldn't dare to act recklessly in front of Uchiha Owl.

Not to mention, it witnessed the terrifying power of Uchiha Owl while escaping from the belly of Death.

However, compared to the timidity of the Yang Nine-Tails, the Yin Nine-Tails performed slightly better.

No matter how uneasy he was inside, he sat up straight outwardly, looking like he was ready to be ordered around.

Even though the Yin and Yang half-bodies of the Nine-Tailed Fox dared not act rashly, they both felt a desire and impulse to unite when their eyes met.

"You two do whatever you want, just don't bother Naruto."

As soon as Uchiha Owl finished speaking, his figure vanished instantly from the sealed space.

The yang and yin halves of the Nine-Tails sized each other up with mutual disdain.

Dislike its gloomy atmosphere...

Dislike its clumsiness...

Even so, driven by instinct, the two foxes moved in perfect unison, their orange and brown giant paws clashing together.

……

"Is my dad really the Fourth Hokage?"

"Without a doubt."

Uchiha Owl looked at Naruto Uzumaki, whose eyes were filled with tears, and nodded indifferently.

Although he couldn't understand what it meant, Naruto could still tell that it meant agreement.

The tears that had been building up in her eyes finally slid down her cheeks.