"Naruto: Ice God"Chapter 188: A Friendly Exchange with the Nine-Tails
"It looks like little Naruto really likes you, Feng Bai."
Returning to the living room, Kushina watched her son and Feng Bai having their "friendly and affectionate" interaction, revealing a pleased smile.
"How exactly are you seeing that?"
Feng Bai, his hair now tangled from Naruto's pulling, asked Kushina with a pained expression.
"Ahaha, from all sorts of things. By the way, did you finally finish your mission?"
Kushina laughed it off and reached out to take Naruto.
"Alright, Naruto, be good and let go of Uncle Feng Bai."
Gently prying Naruto's hands away, Kushina softly coaxed him as she took the reluctant child from Feng Bai's arms.
"Yeah, we ran into some clueless enemies on the road. I kept one alive and sent him to the Interrogation Division."
Feng Bai spoke casually—in his view, enemies of this caliber weren't even as threatening as the Seven Ninja Swordsmen of the Mist.
"It seems other countries already know about Konoha being attacked. I just wonder if they've learned that you're the Three-Tails jinchūriki."
Minato, the ultimate strategic mind, immediately analyzed the current situation from Feng Bai's words, speaking with some concern.
"Right, the Three-Tails is Hidden Mist Village's tailed beast after all. Speaking of which, little Feng Bai, you never told me you became a jinchūriki—that's really not fair."
Kushina was equally worried about Feng Bai, while also feeling somewhat hurt that he'd kept it secret even from her.
"Sorry about that, Kushina-nee. There was too much going on during that period, and not many people knew about it, so I just didn't mention it."
Feng Bai laughed it off, brushing the matter aside.
"I am the Nine-Tails jinchūriki myself, so I do have some experience I can share with you."
After placing Naruto in his stroller, Kushina gestured for Minato to tend to their son while she sat down beside Feng Bai.
"Uh, experience..."
Recalling the sight of the Nine-Tails bound hand and foot in Kushina's consciousness space, Feng Bai seriously doubted her so-called "experience."
He didn't have Uzumaki clan bloodline, so he couldn't use powerful sealing techniques like the Adamantine Sealing Chains.
"Oh right, last time in the consciousness space, you said the Nine-Tails' name was Kurama. Where did you hear that?"
Kushina dropped the previous topic and became interested in the Nine-Tails' name.
"That? Uh, it's a bit too complicated to explain. Anyway, Kushina-nee, you could try chatting with Kurama and helping him open up a bit. Oh, actually, how about I go and try to persuade him again?"
Feng Bai changed the subject—he certainly couldn't tell Kushina that he'd heard the tailed beasts' names from the Sage of Six Paths. Tailed beasts were easy to fool, but Kushina definitely wasn't.
"Persuade him? That's fine, though this guy hasn't spoken up on his own since last time."
Kushina said this while extending her hand.
As their two chakras connected, Feng Bai once again entered Kushina's consciousness space.
To avoid looking weak in front of the Nine-Tails, Feng Bai predictably called upon Isobu, who was sleeping.
Just as he entered the consciousness space, Feng Bai saw the Nine-Tails with its four limbs and nine tails pinned by chains, bound in a spread-eagle position and suspended from a floating boulder in midair.
"Damn you, Three-Tails!"
Upon seeing Isobu, the Nine-Tails, who had been in self-imposed silence for so long, finally roared again.
"Tsk, it's been a while, Kurama, but your attitude is as overbearing as ever."
Feng Bai dug at his ear, trying to relieve the discomfort from being assaulted by the Nine-Tails' booming voice.
"Brat, you have no place to speak here! Shut your—"
"The one who should shut up is you, Kurama!"
Feng Bai's bold statement directly stunned the Nine-Tails. Apart from Hashirama, Madara, Mito, and Kushina, this was the most daring person it had ever encountered, making the Nine-Tails wonder if he also had some Senju, Uzumaki, or Uchiha bloodline.
But when it carefully sensed the brat before it, it found that aside from having more chakra, there was nothing particularly special about him. Its fierce expression immediately returned.
"Brat, I'm going to devour you!"
"Kurama, I want to solemnly tell you that Isobu never revealed your name to me, nor did he tell me about the prophecy. All of this is the Sage of Six Paths' arrangement."
Completely ignoring the Nine-Tails' intimidation, with Kushina backing him up, Feng Bai's courage grew exceptionally bold.
With age, Kushina was no longer like her younger self, easily swayed by the Nine-Tails into losing control and leaking tailed beast chakra.
Now, her ability to suppress the Nine-Tails was only slightly inferior to Mito's.
If she wanted to, she could completely wrestle with the Nine-Tails and extract its chakra for her own use.
"Hmph, Three-Tails, you really did find yourself a good jinchūriki."
The Nine-Tails completely disbelieved Feng Bai's words, and was even more infuriated that he casually mentioned the Sage of Six Paths.
However, the Nine-Tails' anger was quickly dispersed by Kushina's chains. Sensing the Nine-Tails' rage, she immediately summoned her chains and gave it several solid lashes.
"Kurama, Feng Bai is right. He's known all of this from the beginning, including about the Ten-Tails."
Seeing the Nine-Tails being whipped into submission like a grandson, Isobu felt somewhat frightened, grateful that his jinchūriki wasn't this red-haired woman, while also speaking up in a muffled voice to defend Feng Bai.
"Hmph..."
The Nine-Tails snorted coldly without speaking, though its struggling decreased considerably.
Seeing the Nine-Tails finally settle down, Feng Bai stepped out from behind Kushina, and with her help, used the chains to reach the Nine-Tails.
"Kurama, although for certain reasons that child didn't become your jinchūriki, the time of prophecy has indeed arrived. The one who once controlled you is secretly plotting to revive the Ten-Tails."
When Feng Bai approached, the Nine-Tails had already turned its head away, planning not to listen to his nonsense.
But when it heard the final sentence, its ears still twitched involuntarily.
There had only ever been one person who controlled it: Uchiha Madara.
He was the culprit who shattered the Nine-Tails' peaceful life.
If not for Uchiha Madara, the Nine-Tails would still be living the good life of eating and sleeping, with the occasional fight against Shukaku for entertainment.
Everything ended the day it encountered Uchiha Madara.
The Nine-Tails was beginning to believe Feng Bai's words, but its nature meant it wouldn't actively respond.
"Anyway, I don't expect a few simple words to resolve the resentment in your heart, but I hope you can ease your relationship with Kushina-nee. Use your eyes to observe and see whether what I'm saying is true."
After saying this, Feng Bai returned to Isobu's head and signaled to Kushina that they could leave the consciousness space.
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