Chapter Forty-Three: Hokage - The Benefits of Status and Dealing with Minato
However, because ninjas all have the ability to walk on water, only a few ninjas were killed by the initial fierce influx, and the rest quickly reached the top of the tunnel.
After the water calmed down, they prepared to follow the flow of seawater to find the tunnel's exit.
They discovered lightning chakra in the water, and one person was electrocuted.
Just as they were about to find the person who had released the lightning, a voice came from all directions.
"Do you know what happens when water is electrolyzed?"
"It releases hydrogen and oxygen!"
Someone heard the voice near them.
"Humph! Playing tricks!"
The man was wearing a Fūma Village forehead protector, his hands forming seals.
"Fire Release: Great Fireball!"
The next moment, he spat a fireball the size of a head towards the source of the voice.
But in the next instant...
"BOOM!"
The fireball appeared, igniting the hydrogen gas around it. With ample oxygen, the fire burned more intensely.
Thus, a huge explosion occurred in the entire tunnel.
The oxygen and hydrogen gas produced by the electrolysis of water in the tunnel, along with flour, smoke, and other residual particles, combined to cause a terrifying explosion.
(In the ninja world, anything is possible.)
This massive explosion caused the majority of the tunnel to collapse, killing eight out of ten ninjas who had entered.
Although the surviving ninjas wanted to continue the pursuit, who knew what traps lay ahead?
Therefore, most of them chose to retreat, while a small group decided to continue the pursuit.
However, in the future, those who retreated never saw the ninjas who had continued the pursuit again.
In an extremely deep, straight tunnel with no curves, Huang Ke Yin sat in a self-made rolling cart, hugging his sister with a complex expression and offering comfort.
Across from him, his two mothers in the ninja world were also weeping with their faces covered.
Outside the rolling cart, a pig-like ninja beast was pulling the cart forward at high speed.
Later, Huang Ke Yin entered Konohagakure using his mother's status as a Fire Country princess.
Upon arriving at Konoha, Huang Ke Yin's first act was to seek out the current strongest person in Konoha, his great-grandmother, Uzumaki Mito, and plead his case.
With Huang Ke Yin's 'vivid and expressive' plea, Uzumaki Mito realized that Konohagakure seemed to have changed.
Because she had always stayed home, all information seemed to have been blocked by Hiruzen Sarutobi.
Later, with the support of Uzumaki Mito, Huang Ke Yin became the youngest member of the Elder Council.
After returning to Konohagakure, under his mother's suggestion, he brought Kushina's mother back to the Fire Country capital to develop, while he began to gradually recall the Uzumaki clan members scattered across the lands.
Under Huang Ke Yin's management, the Uzumaki clan began to flourish within Konohagakure.
In the days that followed, Uzumaki Mito still chose Kushina as the next jinchūriki of the Nine-Tailed Fox after her death.
Under Mito's arrangements, Kushina entered the Ninja Academy.
After Huang Ke Yin finished dealing with the Uzumaki clan's affairs, he discovered with resentment that his sister had already started to become acquainted with this little blonde, Namikaze Minato, known as "the Yellow Flash"!!!
Therefore, to prevent his sister from being stolen away by this little blonde, he set up numerous defensive and offensive sealing techniques around his house.
As expected by Huang Ke Yin, in an incident where the Kumogakure came to Konoha to submit surrender supplies, they attacked Kushina.
However, under Huang Ke Yin's protection, Kushina was not captured.
Seeing that they couldn't take Kushina, they set their sights on another Uzumaki clan girl in the small courtyard nearby.
Hearing the commotion and rushing to the scene, Namikaze Minato, upon seeing flames erupting from Uzumaki Kushina's house, didn't hesitate to follow the ninjas who had left in pursuit.
However, after he left, Huang Ke Yin brought Kushina out from the underground shelter he had built.
Finally, during the clash between the ninjas and the Kumogakure, Namikaze Minato rescued the red-haired girl.
At that moment, Namikaze Minato became a beacon of light in that Uzumaki clan member's heart.
Later, Namikaze Minato also discovered that the one who had been kidnapped was not Kushina.
But as a shining sun, he didn't regret his actions this time.
In the days that followed, that Uzumaki clan member started to cautiously follow Namikaze Minato.
Although she felt that she was very powerful, her clumsy tracking was only because Namikaze Minato hadn't exposed her.
Seeing this, Huang Ke Yin directly summoned that Uzumaki clan member for a private meeting and talked to her alone.
After leaving, the Uzumaki clan member had a look of determination to die for a cause, and a hopeful gaze towards the future.
After that, Huang Ke Yin went to speak with Uzumaki Mito for a day.
The next day, Huang Ke Yin gathered Namikaze Minato, Uzumaki Naruto, and the great toad sage's successor, Jiraiya, who was also their teacher, together.
Upon seeing everyone present, Huang Ke Yin directly revealed his reason for summoning them, explaining Uzumaki Naruto's feelings for Namikaze Minato.
Therefore, he wanted Namikaze Minato to marry into the Uzumaki clan.
Of course, Jiraiya disagreed. He felt that Minato had great potential. Even without marrying in, he would have the qualifications to marry Uzumaki Naruto in the future.
Facing the heated discussion between the two, Uzumaki Naruto blushed shyly, while Namikaze Minato felt a little awkward.
Looking at Uzumaki Naruto, who avoided his gaze but couldn't help stealing glances at him, Namikaze Minato's mind involuntarily imagined a future where he married her, and the two lived a life like his parents when he was a child, and his own face also involuntarily turned slightly red.
In the end, Huang Ke Yin made a bet with Jiraiya.
If Namikaze Minato could become a strong person in the future, then Uzumaki Naruto would marry him. If he couldn't, then he would marry into the Uzumaki clan.
Although Huang Ke Yin knew that he would lose, it didn't matter. The important thing was to keep this little blonde away from his sister!
More than a year passed in a flash.
One day, Uzumaki Mito realized that she was nearing the end of her life.
Thus, the Third Hokage and others began the Tailed Beast transfer ceremony.
While it was unknown in the original story whether Kushina had already become a jinchūriki when she was captured, here, due to Huang Ke Yin, Uzumaki Mito had persisted until now.
Under Huang Ke Yin's manipulation, an Uzumaki clan member, whose wife had died, son had died, father had died in battle, and who had lost half of his arm, had no meaning left to live for. Under Huang Ke Yin's persuasion, he decided to use a forbidden technique to contribute his final value to the Uzumaki clan.
"Shiki Fujin!"
In the next instant, the shadow of the Death God's soul appeared behind him.
With one grasp, everything was taken.