"Mom, Dad, I know you're anxious, but please don't panic." Naruto raised his hands in a soothing gesture. "I called you out because I need you to do me a favor."
"Wait."
At this moment, Minato raised his hand to interrupt Naruto, "Naruto, before talking about the favor, I have a more important question to ask you first."
He took a step forward and leaned down slightly to bring himself level with Naruto's line of sight.
"My existence and your mother's are embedded in the deep structure of the Fuinjutsu. Logically, we would only have a chance to be passively activated if the seal were heavily damaged or if you were near death."
"But you just said you found us actively. This level of consciousness control and Chakra interference capability, I'm afraid, cannot be explained by just the words 'good talent'."
"So, Naruto, can you tell me how exactly you managed to separate and summon mine and your mother's Chakra from the deep structure of the seal?"
Naruto scratched the back of his head. Naturally, he couldn't tell the truth. He couldn't say he was a transmigrator, couldn't say he knew the plot by heart, and couldn't say he had an ability called Absolute Control.
It wasn't that he didn't trust Minato and Kushina. They were already dead, and these memories couldn't be read by the living after the Chakra form dissipated.
But he had developed a habit: his biggest trump cards were always kept in the deepest box in his heart, and he gave the key to no one.
He had to make up a reasonable explanation that could hold up under the settings of this Ninja World, one that could convince a genius ninja without exposing himself.
A moment later, Naruto spoke, "The story starts from a previous mission. When we were executing a protection mission in the Land of Waves, we clashed with the Kirigakure rogue ninja Momochi Zabuza and his subordinate Haku."
"During the battle, I was hit by Haku's senbon in multiple acupoints. My Chakra flow completely stalled for a while, and my body was in a near-death state."
Minato and Kushina frowned at the same time, but they didn't interrupt him.
Naruto continued, "At that moment of near-death, something seemed to be activated in my body."
"It wasn't Nine-Tails, but a completely different power. It allowed me to perceive the existence of everything in my body, including Chakra, nerves, organs, and even the structural texture of the seal."
"After I regained consciousness, I found that I could control this power at will, letting it help me see any corner inside my body."
"After having this ability, I tried to explore my own Chakra during recovery, and as a result, I detected the presence of your Chakra in the deep structure of the seal."
"Two powers that are homologous to my Chakra but have subtle differences. They were hidden very deep but couldn't escape my perception."
"I used this ability to separate you from the seal structure and temporarily materialized you independently into this mental space."
"That is the whole process of how I summoned you."
"Kekkei Genkai?"
Minato and Kushina asked the same question almost in unison.
Minato turned to look at Kushina, the meaning in his eyes was: Does your Uzumaki clan have this kind of Kekkei Genkai? You are the expert in this area, you explain it.
Kushina received his gaze and froze for a moment, then the expression on her face went through four stages at a very fast speed: confusion → thinking → realization → rage.
"You bastard, Minato!" Kushina grabbed Minato's ear and twisted it.
"What is the meaning of that look? Are you suspecting that Naruto is not your son?"
Minato: ?
He had no idea how he had stepped into a minefield. He subconsciously raised his hands to explain.
"That's not it, Kushina, you misunderstood!"
Minato endured the pain and used the rapid-speaking ability he had cultivated while handling urgent official business in the Hokage Office to explain quickly.
"The Namikaze family has no Kekkei Genkai, I know this better than anyone."
"But Naruto has half of the Uzumaki bloodline in him. So what I want to ask is, does your Uzumaki clan have any Kekkei Genkai similar to one that awakens when near death? I don't mean anything else by it, I swear!"
Kushina's hand stopped, but she kept twisting Minato's ear, lost in thought while maintaining the pose. A few seconds later, she let go, turned her head away, and lifted her chin slightly.
"Hmph. Although your explanation is barely reasonable, I'm still very annoyed."
Minato rubbed his bright red ear and gave Naruto a wry smile that said, "Your mother is just like this, I'm used to it."
Naruto stood there, watching the couple—one rubbing his ear, the other turning away—his lips twitching, with numerous complaints bottled up in his throat.
"You two, the most important issue right now isn't what Kekkei Genkai I have, that's just an explanation I made up on the spot. Don't get so hung up on this kind of thing.'
Of course, he didn't say it out loud.
After that, Minato spent several minutes coaxing Kushina.
Kushina turned back around, stood side-by-side with Minato in front of Naruto, and the two finally returned to the main topic.
"Alright, Naruto. Back to the topic from before, what exactly is this ability you say you possess?"
"This ability of mine?"
Naruto raised his right hand, his five fingers slightly spread.
"It allows my consciousness to act like a hand, to touch, perceive, and control everything inside my body. Every strand of Chakra, every muscle, can be directly controlled."
"Dad, try moving for a second?"
Minato subconsciously tried to lift his right hand and his expression changed. His right hand didn't budge an inch. It wasn't as simple as not being able to lift it, even the signal to "lift" hadn't been transmitted. He couldn't feel the existence of his limbs, it was as if he were frozen.
He attempted to circulate his Chakra to break the restraint. The Chakra did indeed move, surging toward his right hand, but that power lost its shape halfway there.
Minato smiled wryly and gave up the attempt, his eyes filled with both shock and admiration. "I can't move at all. This level of control has probably already reached the essential level of Chakra. It's not a physical restraint, nor is it a confrontation of conventional Chakra, but rather fundamentally taking over the connection between my existence and this mass of Chakra."
"Exactly."
Naruto nodded. "Right now, you exist inside my body. Although it's in the form of Chakra, this form still relies on my body to be maintained. And my ability happens to be able to control all the energy and matter within my body, so naturally, you are under my control as well."
"As for why I awakened this ability..."
Naruto calmly stated the explanation he had prepared in advance, "I guess it's probably because Mom is from the Uzumaki clan, naturally possessing the powerful vitality and control to suppress Tailed Beast Chakra, and Dad is a genius at the pinnacle of the Ninja World, with top-tier Chakra talent."
"With two such strong bloodlines combined, plus the fact that I am also the Nine-Tails Jinchuriki, living under the mixed pressure of three forces for a long time, maybe at the moment of near-death, it triggered some kind of critical point, awakening a talent that has never appeared in the history of the clan."
Naruto was speaking half-truths. But in a worldview like the Ninja World, where genetic mutations aren't exactly common but not impossible, this explanation sounded surprisingly reasonable.