Minato's gaze turned toward Obito Uchiha.
A student who he had already thought to be dead.
"Well then Obito, whilst I can keep Kazuo's kekke genkai a secret, everything that you are about to tell me will be reported to the Hokage as well as Fugaku, your clan leader," Minato said as he motioned with his head for Obito to start.
Obito gave a slight nod in understanding before he released a long-winded sigh.
"I don't mind Minato sensei." Obito first said before taking another deep breath and continuing.
"When I was crushed by the boulder, I lost consciousness and when I woke up, I was inside of a completely sealed cave," Obito said, it was as he tried to say the next words that his chest thumped with unimaginable pain.
It was as if his heart was being torn apart as if someone had directly clutched his blood-pumping organ and was squeezing it.
Obito almost fell down however Kakashi quickly grabbed him by the shoulders and held him in place.
"What's wrong?" Minato questioned immediately however before he could get up to help, Obito raised a hand, his condition already stabilizing.
Once he straightened himself back up, Obito had a twitching smile on his face, though it resembled a smile, it was clear that it was a sarcastic one at best.
"Seems like the man who saved me has placed some precautions to stop me from saying anything Minato sensei."
For a moment, Minato didn't reply, only giving a nod of his head a brief moment later.
"I guess you will have to go through a yamanaka examination then. If that doesn't work then I'll try to find a way to remove whatever has been done to you." Minato replied before a thought went through his head.
"What did you feel just now?"
Obito pointed to the left side of his chest.
"It felt like my heart was being squeezed."
'Heart being squeezed? That doesn't seem like genjutsu, it feels more like a seal.' Minato thought quickly before getting up from his seating position and walking to Obito.
"Lay down and remove your jacket." Minato practically ordered.
Obito followed the order without a second thought as he quickly laid down on the couch and removed the jacket, revealing his chest which was clearly different from a normal person's.
The main difference is the strange two-colored skin.
"It's quite miraculous how they were able to heal you up and even regenerate your lost limbs. What did the medical ninja say about it?" Minato questioned, even though he was not privy to everything about his students.
"Nothing, the part that has been replaced looked completely normal, the medical ninja didn't even notice any difference and so they didn't do any extensive checks on it," Obito replied causing Minato to release a hum in thought.
Minato placed his left hand on Obito's chest before releasing a small wave of chakra that went through Obito's entire body.
A moment later, he said.
"There's a seal placed on your heart."
"A seal on my heart?" Obito immediately raised his eyebrows in surprise.
"Isn't that dangerous? No should we even send him to the Yamanaka sensei? They could trigger the seal and cause Obito's death." Kazuo interjected at this moment.
Rin, Kakashi, and Kushina who heard Kazuo's words that voiced out their own thoughts immediately changed their expression to a grimacing one.
They knew that Obito had to go through a Yamanaka examination, whether they liked it or not. It would have been possible to not do it if Minato were the Hokage however he wasn't yet.
"Can you remove it Minato?" Kushina asked, her voice low.
Minato shook his head.
"Maybe you could Kushina however even then we would need to have an expert medical ninja on hand so that we could safely open up his chest, and the only one capable enough would be Lady Tsunade however she has already left the village" Minato replied before handing Obito his jacked back.
"All right, at this moment all that we can hope for is that the Yamanaka examination doesn't trigger the seal however I'll also try and see if Lord Hokage can make an exception," Minato said before sitting back down onto the couch opposite of Obito.
His eyes turned toward Rin, the last person who he was planning to talk to.
"I'll give you the same option as I did to Obito, Rin. You can choose to not have the others around when we talk about the changes that are occurring to you." Minato asked as he looked at Rin.
"I don't mind sensei," Rin answered.
"It's not like it's a secret either way," Kazuo said, barely holding back a scoff.
"Not a secret?" Kushina turned at his words.
"I mean with all due respect Minato sensei, Kushina-san, I've fought a jinchuriki before and he showed quite a lot of similarities with what Rin is going through right now as well as the fact that I already saw the large seal on Rin's body when we rescued her. However considering that she doesn't have a seal on her body right now, I'd guess that either the previous tailed beast was removed from her body which would lead to certain death, or that the seal has been further repaired by you two." Kazuo said before taking a moment to gather his breath.
"If it is the first option, then she entered a state of pseudo-death and was then revived with medical ninjutsu and was implanted with the chakra of another tailed beast, which leaves only the nine tails. The nine tails can only be sealed into Uzumaki and Kushina-san is an Uzumaki. This would also explain the physical changes that she has gone through which normal jinchuriki don't go through without releasing the tailed beast's chakra." Kazuo said before stopping for a moment and raising his eyebrow as he looked at the group before him.
A slight smile had unknowingly appeared on his expression.
Kushina, Kakashi, Obito, and Rin looked flabbergasted as they practically had their mouths hanging whilst Minato's eyes were clearly widened as he looked at Kazuo.
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