If you don't want to unify the ninja world, why are you crying about the ninja village system?

"Every day at Mingren's parents' house, whenever I sit quietly on the sofa, I always feel mixed emotions in my heart..."

"Although they are very caring and considerate to me, for some reason, whenever I face the love and care they give me, an indescribable feeling of uneasiness always surges in my heart."

"It was as if this warmth and kindness did not belong to me by right, and I could not accept it all calmly."

"They don't owe me anything..."

Kushina pursed her lips slightly, gazed at Naruto tenderly, and said softly:

"Naruto, you really don't have to think so much. In the eyes of my husband and I, both you and Akito are as precious as our own children. We will never treat you differently because of your closeness, and we will not show any favoritism."

Hearing this, Naruto slowly shook his head, with crystal tears still sliding down his cheeks.

However, he tried hard to force a smile, trying to hide his true emotional fluctuations.

"Mom, you're worrying too much! I'm just... worried that I won't be able to repay this deep friendship in the future..."

At this point, Naruto's voice choked a little, "After all, at the moment, I am also a heavy burden myself."

Kushina looked at the heartbreakingly sensible child in front of her with heartache, and without hesitation, she opened her arms and hugged Naruto tightly, and gently wiped away the remaining tears from the corners of his eyes with her hands.

She comforted him softly, "Please don't say that again, child! There is no such thing as a burden or not. It is only natural for parents to love their children and willingly give for them silently."

However, Naruto stubbornly shook his head again, looking at Kushina and his silent father standing beside him with firm and determined eyes.

"No, Dad and Mom, please believe me! Although I may still be very weak and incompetent now, one day, I will become strong enough to repay all your efforts for me today with a thousand times the love!"

Naruto stared at the two of them with a determined gaze, his resolute face looking particularly solemn under the light.

He slowly raised his right hand, clenched it into a fist, and solemnly swore: "I, Uzumaki Naruto, hereby swear that I will use my life to protect you. No matter what difficulties and obstacles I encounter, I will never back down!"

At this moment, Naruto's heart was filled with deep love and responsibility for Kushina and Minato.

What was supposed to be a vow to protect the village has now become a vow to protect the two old people...

Minato Namikaze, who was standing aside, watched the scene quietly. His eyes revealed a hint of complex emotions, but more of relief and pride.

He did not feel jealous because Naruto turned his attention to others. Instead, he felt that his child had grown into a truly responsible and loving man.

Minato couldn't help but think of the good times he had spent with his wife Kushina, and their hopes for their future children.

At this moment, seeing Naruto's outstanding performance, he said silently in his heart: "Kushina...Look, our son has really grown up. Even without our personal education, he is still so outstanding. I believe that if you can see this scene with your own eyes, you will feel extremely proud like me!"

Minato saw that Naruto had already expressed his feelings, so he also hurriedly expressed his feelings.

Of course, there was still a hint of unnaturalness on his face.

"I won't talk about the village anymore. Although I am the Fourth Hokage, but..."

"I also want to, and am willing to be willful for Naruto once."

"From now on, I am willing to stay safely in the Empire, with Naruto... to repay your kindness!!"

Minato could already feel that his body had been completely consolidated.

Even though he was wearing someone else's body and a body of filth.

But he no longer cares about that.

Now I live my life for my son!

"Okay, let's not talk about these things anymore. Let's talk about what happened before."

"You can say this now, which means Naruto still has importance in your heart. Why did you let him become a Jinchūriki? Don't you know that in your world, a Jinchūriki will be isolated?"

Kushina's slightly relaxed expression disappeared in an instant, and was replaced by that aggressive look again.

She crossed her arms over her chest and stared at Minato sharply, as if she wanted to see through him.

And Minato could only smile helplessly and shook his head.

"If I say that everything I imagined at the beginning is completely opposite to the current situation, would you believe it?"

Minato spoke slowly, with an indescribable bitterness in his tone.

"No one knows better than me what kind of treatment a Jinchūriki has to endure. After all... my wife, Kushina, is the previous Jinchūriki of the Nine-Tails!"

Minato's words hit everyone present like a heavy hammer, causing the entire room to fall into dead silence.

Everyone looked at Minato in astonishment, obviously shocked by this sudden news.

Especially Kushina herself, she widened her eyes and looked at Minato in disbelief.

She never thought that Minato knew so much about the Jinchūriki, and even made her a Jinchūriki in her transformed form.

For a moment, all kinds of complicated emotions surged into her heart, making her a little overwhelmed.

Of course, neither Kushina nor Minato had actually experienced firsthand the harsh realities faced by a Jinchūriki.

Although the parallel universe is open and certain intelligence has been transmitted from Ninja World No. 64, it only remains at the information level.

As for the Empire, because there was the Emperor, during World War II, before Kushina could become a Jinchūriki, the Nine-Tails was already taken away by Uchiha Senju through a contract summoning with the Sharingan.

"Mom... is she also a Jinchūriki?"

Naruto's eyes widened and he stood there in disbelief.

Recalling the moment when I met Kushina, I was so happy at that time that I was immersed in listening to her romantic story of how she met and fell in love with her father Minato Namikaze, but I didn't notice any clues about this important information.

At this moment, when this shocking fact was suddenly placed before his eyes, Naruto's heart was like a raging storm and it took a long time for him to calm down.

Since coming to the empire, he has regarded the evil and powerful Nine-Tailed Fox in his body as his nemesis, and is filled with endless fear and hatred towards it.

However, at this moment, after learning that his mother was also a Jinchūriki, an inexplicable emotion quietly welled up in his heart.

"So... Mom has also experienced this kind of pain and struggle..."

Naruto muttered to himself, and the hostility he had towards the Nine-Tails unconsciously diminished a lot.

It was as if at this moment, an invisible bond was established between him and his mother because of their common destiny, allowing him to begin to look at the behemoth that was once sealed in his body from a completely new perspective.