Chapter 605: The Twisted Night of the Nine-Tails
After Naruto and the Daimyo finished their secret meeting in the toilet, Naruto left the Daimyo's residence carrying the Edict of Rebellion, while the Daimyo also walked out of the toilet looking thoroughly refreshed.
However, just when both of them thought everything had gone perfectly, a small toad suddenly emerged from the toilet.
The toad croaked deeply twice before opening its mouth. A hand reached out from inside, followed by an entire person crawling out of the small toad's mouth.
Using the same method Jiraiya had used when infiltrating Amegakure in the original story, Namikaze Minato appeared here!
With a complicated expression, Namikaze Minato looked through the toilet window at Naruto's departing figure, his heart filled with mixed emotions.
He never expected Naruto to be so easily led astray. He had actually betrayed Kushina that easily.
Such a righteous person hardly seemed like the child of the Nine-Tails. He was more like someone born into the naturally kind Uchiha clan.
Namikaze Minato's appearance here was purely coincidental. Kushina had not sent him.
Namikaze Minato in the real shinobi world was a genius. Although the Minato of the Engraved Tsukuyomi world was a little different, he was still a genius.
Naruto had noticed that shit could counter space-time ninjutsu, and Namikaze Minato had noticed it too.
If this were the Minato of the real shinobi world, he might still have some sense of decency and refuse to use something like this. But the Minato of the Engraved Tsukuyomi world would absolutely use it.
Thus, in order to collect materials, Minato traveled from place to place, using Flying Thunder God to constantly transform himself into a poop extractor and transport the materials to Mount Myōboku.
That way, whenever he needed them next time, he could simply summon them over.
In most parts of the Land of Fire, however, these things were strictly regulated and had to be collected for use as fertilizer.
Although Kushina was domineering, she still had not abolished the Daimyo system or launched the reforms that had taken place in the real shinobi world. So, overall, the Land of Fire remained that same country with its backward means of production.
In such an environment, only the homes of high-ranking officials and wealthy merchants could afford to disregard such filth.
But even the homes of ordinary high-ranking officials and wealthy merchants simply did not produce enough.
Only the Daimyo's residence had enough servants to naturally produce large quantities.
And the Daimyo obviously did not care whether those quantities needed to be taken away for use as fertilizer.
Thus, Namikaze Minato infiltrated the Daimyo's residence, preparing to become the Great Poop Phantom Thief.
As luck would have it, while infiltrating the residence, he happened to overhear Naruto and the Daimyo plotting together.
It was hard to say whether the pair's secret meeting had just set a new record for the character being eavesdropped on.
Namikaze Minato had originally planned to leave after stealing what he needed, but since he had encountered something like this, he had no choice but to come out and leave a Flying Thunder God mark here.
After completing all this, Namikaze Minato used Flying Thunder God to return to Konoha and ruthlessly sold Naruto out, telling Kushina the entire story from beginning to end.
All that could be said was that this family was finished.
The father was showing kindness to the son, the son was showing filial piety to the father, and everyone treated each other with the utmost respect.
"I understand. Get lost."
Kushina impatiently chased Minato away.
After leaving the Hokage's office, Minato revealed a smug, delighted smile.
Just as mentioned before, Minato was a genius, and he had also discovered the mechanism Naruto had found.
Naruto had discovered that shit could counter space-time ninjutsu, and Minato had discovered it too.
Naruto had discovered that shit could counter the Will of Bullying, and Minato had discovered it too.
So, when he transformed into the Great Poop Phantom Thief, he had another little ulterior motive.
As long as he smelled like shit, Kushina would not beat him at home.
Just like what had happened earlier, under normal circumstances, once Kushina learned that he had acted on his own, she would beat him even if he had ultimately achieved a good result, just to make an example of him.
But what happened this time?
She simply let him leave.
Kushina was deeply heartbroken when she learned that Naruto had actually joined the group rebelling against her.
As for why Namikaze Minato had gone around stealing shit and why he was specifically targeting space-time ninjutsu, she also knew the reason.
It was not recorded in the confidential files in the archives, so Naruto, who had gone through the records, had never learned about it either.
That was the Night of the Nine-Tails in this world.
Kushina formed a hand seal and slammed her palm onto the desk, unsealing a scroll from the Hokage's desk.
Inside was the true intelligence concerning the Night of the Nine-Tails.
It also contained dynamic intelligence regarding the movements of the mastermind behind the scenes over the years.
Because the person who gave birth in this world was not Kushina but Namikaze Minato, and because, strictly speaking, the child actually belonged to the Nine-Tails, with Namikaze Minato merely serving as the one carrying it, the whole-family-ascending spectacle from the real shinobi world never happened.
However, the appearance of the mysterious masked man still had a serious impact.
The Nine-Tails launched an attack on the village, and during that battle, Namikaze Minato had his precious treasure blown off by a Heating Pad-brand Explosive Tag stuck onto him by the mysterious masked man.
Apparently, the masked man had originally intended to stick it onto the newborn Naruto, but he had misjudged the position and put it in the wrong place.
And originally, the masked man really had intended to use a heating pad. He had simply pulled out the wrong thing.
(At the same time, elsewhere, Konan, who had just met Shiromo for the first time, threw out a pile of heating pads and stuck them all over Shiromo's body.)
Namikaze Minato, who had just finished giving birth, fought the masked man.
Because his body was weak and he had also suffered serious injuries, the Namikaze Minato of this world still defeated the masked man, but failed to leave a Flying Thunder God mark on him.
This also laid the groundwork for Namikaze Minato's later obsession with getting revenge.
If he had left a Flying Thunder God mark, then as long as Namikaze Minato survived, he could recover and then go stab the masked man every few days.
Unfortunately, there were no ifs.
In order to counter the masked man, who possessed space-time ninjutsu, Namikaze Minato began his career as the Great Poop Phantom Thief.
However, Kushina had not told Namikaze Minato that she already knew who the masked man was.
The masked man was none other than Minato's former student and subordinate, Uchiha Obito.
But Minato had not recognized him, and Kushina thought that was quite normal.
After all, this subordinate of Minato's was nothing like the Uchiha clan.
The other Uchiha were all naturally kind-hearted beings. Only Uchiha Obito would go around kicking old ladies crossing the street, and he would even take cats and dogs he encountered and put them on utility poles.
No one knew what happened afterward.
According to the intelligence that was passed back, Obito had apparently received guidance from Uchiha Madara, successfully turned over a new leaf, and become a kind-hearted Uchiha.
When he transformed into the masked man and attacked Konoha, he was not trying to kill anyone either.
Apparently, during the Night of the Nine-Tails, the masked man released the Nine-Tails from Minato's body. He then used the Sharingan to control the Nine-Tails and distribute its chakra among the villagers of Konoha, using the Nine-Tails' chakra to heal everyone's injuries and illnesses.
However, Kushina suppressed this matter.
Everyone's injuries and illnesses had been caused by her long-term exploitation of their labor and the missions she had forced them to carry out.
The masked man was clearly trying to overthrow her rule!
Afterward, the masked man went to Amegakure, where an organization called the Akatsuki soon appeared.
(End of this chapter)