Kushina's eyes were filled with mockery, "So this is… Konoha. The Konoha full of lies!"
"They, just to find a suitable vessel for the Nine Tails, deceived me, and let my younger sister suffer so much hardship alone outside!"
"Obito, tell me, why would Konoha do this?"
Obito really didn't want to speak the truth, but because Kushina was such an important person in his life, he didn't want to lie to her.
In the end, he slowly said, "Mistress, actually, you already have the answer in your heart, don't you?"
"A jinchuriki, so that they can be controlled more easily, naturally cannot have too many bonds of family affection. If your relatives were still alive, or if they belonged to another country, how could they guarantee that your heart would belong only to Konoha?"
"Isn't it the same with Naruto?"
"Naruto was scolded by countless people, used as the object for the whole village to vent their anger. At the same time, there would be some people who appeared beside him to comfort and encourage him. Precisely because of that light, so rare for Naruto, of course he would cling to it tightly…"
Kushina gave a bitter smile, "So my light, is Minato?"
Obito said, "Mistress, Minato-sensei was definitely sincere to you, that much you wouldn't doubt."
"It's just that Konoha used an open conspiracy."
"You, with no one to rely on, came to Konoha alone. Even your personal freedom was restricted. In that situation, you actually had no choice."
"Whether your salvation came from Minato-sensei isn't important. What matters is that he was bound to be a villager whose heart leaned toward Konoha, someone who carried the Will of Fire."
Kushina suddenly deflated like a balloon and collapsed onto the ground.
She showed a firm expression, "When the Land of Whirlpools was destroyed, Konoha, who was supposed to be an ally, never sent aid. They just watched as my country was wiped out."
"If it had only been because they didn't make it in time, I had already accepted that. After all, Uzushio couldn't expect allies to take care of everything."
"But afterwards, they hid from me the fact that my relatives might still be alive, and used me, turned me into the village's weapon. Is that really what an ally should do?"
"They promised me they would help search for the scattered clansmen, but at the same time they told me they had searched for a long time but found nothing. With Konoha's intelligence network, doesn't that sound ridiculous?"
"I wasn't a fool. It was only because of Granny Mito, Sister Tsunade, and Minato's sake, that I didn't want to think too deeply, didn't want to pursue the matter."
"But today, I'm a little angry. I want to investigate clearly, what role did Konoha play in the destruction of Uzushio?"
"If Konoha's hands are dirty, then I will have my reason for revenge."
When Kushina said these things, her tone was always calm. Her hair wasn't flying, she hadn't entered the Red Hot-Blooded Habanero state.
It was precisely because of that, that it showed she wasn't joking—she was dead serious.
Obito suddenly felt a headache.
If he had known this would happen, he should have just lied to the Mistress for now, and let Minato-sensei coax her later, maybe that would have been better.
But then again, isn't lying just another form of cruelty?
In the end, he still chose to say what he believed to be the truth.
But since he was too used to being a schemer, his words inevitably carried some conspiracy overtones. That wasn't something he could change in a short time.
Especially when it came to Konoha. As long as you analyzed the overall situation and added in some reasonable speculation, things naturally leaned toward the dark side.
And now, Mistress Kushina was about to go sit at the same table as the Sasuke he once misled.
Obito could only cast a pleading look toward Naruto.
"Naruto, you go persuade your mom. On the matter of Konoha, I really can't say anything right. The more I talk, the more unstable Mistress's emotions will get."
"It has to be someone like you, someone close to Konoha, who can give her a reason she can accept."
Uzumaki Naruto gave a bitter smile. Having just heard such shocking news, his own thoughts were in chaos, and now he was supposed to persuade his mom?
Right now, his head was actually tangled up in one thing.
If all of this was true, then doesn't that mean Karin… is his cousin?
And Nagato… is his uncle?
He, who grew up with no relatives at all, suddenly had two?
He should be happy.
But his uncle Nagato, he had personally talked him to death.
Looking from a family perspective, didn't that mean his grandparents had died at the hands of Konoha ninja?
Then his uncle sought revenge on Konoha, but was stopped by him, the nephew, and in the end, was even talked to death by him, the nephew?
Even though there were many reasons behind it, in essence, didn't that make him the same as Itachi?
Though he admired Itachi, he absolutely didn't want to become Itachi.
It was precisely because he had gotten smarter that he had thought it all through. And precisely because he had thought it all through, sweat began pouring down his forehead.
And now, Obito was asking him to persuade his mom. What was he supposed to say?
Maybe people are only forced into it. At this moment, Naruto's brain suddenly flashed with inspiration.
After all, he had grown up in Konoha. All those years of feelings couldn't just be cut off. In the end, he would subconsciously think from Konoha's perspective.
He looked at Kushina and said, "Mom, maybe Obito's right. Konoha really did do many bad things for its own benefit."
"But Obito also said, they used an open conspiracy on you."
"Since it was an open conspiracy, in the end it had to be something done aboveboard. And since it was aboveboard, it usually follows a rule: if there's a loss, there must be compensation."
"Mom, you lost your country, got separated from your family, became the Nine-Tails' jinchuriki, had your freedom restricted, all of that was Konoha's loss to you."
"Konoha owed you too much. So… in the end, they could only package themselves entirely and pay it back to you."
Kushina was stunned. Actually, what she had wanted was for Naruto to say something to comfort her, she was just very angry and needed some emotional value.
She had imagined all sorts of comforting words her son might say. She had prepared herself, if her son's words sounded pleasing, she would just let it go.
Did she really want to take revenge on Konoha?
But she hadn't expected that Naruto would speak from a perspective she had never considered. She couldn't help but frown.
"Naruto, what do you mean? Do you mean your father becoming Hokage? But your father became Hokage because of his talent and hard work, right?"
Naruto laughed, "Mom, Dad was indeed a great ninja. Even Ero-Sennin said that compared to him, no one else looked outstanding."
"But Dad was able to become Hokage so young, are you saying that had nothing to do with you, with the Uzumaki, even the Senju behind you?"
"The same reasoning applies to me. Yes, I've gone through a lot of bad things, all because of being the Nine-Tails' jinchuriki."
"But at the same time, being the Nine-Tails' jinchuriki also gave me tremendous power. And as long as I could master that power, become strong, I would in turn become Konoha's support."
"At that point, wouldn't everything I had lost come back to me double?"
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