Chapter 122 - 122 (1/2)

Brought to Konoha to become the Kyubi's Jinchuriki, Kushina was very afraid of inheriting this power.

That lasted until she heard her predecessor, Uzumaki Mito, say to her: ”We came here to be the vessels of the Kyubi … But before that, we must find love and fill the vessel with it. Then, even if we had to live as the Kyubi's Jinchuriki, we could still be happy.”

And with Minato's support, Kushina was able to put down her fears of the Kyubi and to overcome it.

Then, Ryo came along, and his words: ”Biju can coexist with humans in peace!” changed her attitude towards Kurama drastically.

His sentence gave her courage to try and reach out to the Kyubi.

With time, she got to know it, only to realize that this so called demon was no more than a big angry fox.

With that, she had no more fears of Kurama, and often talked to him about what happened in her life.

For Kurama, Kushina also was special. Besides the Rikudo Sennin, she was the first human he ever felt good about.

At the beginning, he could feel all her fears and worries. With time, he felt her attitude changing slowly. After Hearing ryo's words, she started observing him from time to time.

Being sealed into her body, the Kyubi could do nothing about that. He could only pretend to be asleep all the time.

What he didn't expect was that after a while, she was no longer satisfied with just observing him. she began talking to him directly about the boring things in her life. Along with that, the Kyubi also started sensing her goodwill towards him.

Feeling Kushina's goodwill, was no longer that stubborn, and occasionally started answering her with a few words.

Getting along like that made the Kyubi a lot less wary against Kushina, until she asked him, one day, if he wanted to see the world outside.

With that, they reached a consensus: Kurama doesn't try to take over Kushina's body, and she removes her seals that she put upon him.

As soon as she did that, the powerful hatred within the Kyubi took over, causing her to go rampant. However, when she came out of it, not only did she not blame him for that, but she also said she believed in him. With that, the last brick in the wall between them was taken away.

He started helping Kushina control his power, and Kushina started being able to use his powers reliably.

Originally, Kurama thought that he could stay with Kushina until she grows old, but Ryo's behavior made his suspicious, and his answer made him knew that things weren't going to be that easy.

Then, recently, there was the Roran incident, and he saw the young teenager that actually had his powers.

With that, Kurama knew for sure: One day, he will be extracted and even manipulated to kill Kushina.

Since that day, Kurama had been forcing Kushina to practice, and pushing her towards the mastery of his powers. He knew, that whenever she's able to become a perfect Jinchuriki, he should be afraid of no Genjutsu.

Under his special training, Kushina became able to control the Seven Tailed Cloak mode. He was very satisfied with her progress.

Therefore, when she wanted, just like the Nibi and Hachibi Jinchurikis, to turn into a full Biju form, Kurama ended up agreeing in the end after some reluctance, as a reward to her efforts in training.

On the battlefield, the 3rd Raikage ordered the Ninjas to retreat and leave the battlefield to his two Junchuriki.

Han and Onoki's faces were heavy as they came out of their troops. Han knew that he couldn't cope with either of the two, as he wasn't a perfect Jinchuriki. And even with Onoki's help, they shouldn't be able to win.