As for many saying minato essentially killed Kushina, there's a bit of leeway here, Kushina could have survived but we need to take minatos own sealing power into account, he wasn't the one who put kurama into Kushina after mito. Minatos own skill as well, the reaper did have a limit to the chakra it could take but there was also the aspect of the village being under attack, the end result in most cases would be minato dying either way, as for Kushina well, she did just go through both childbirth and extraction, it's a very confusing situation right now kinda like hacking Madara but we can really infer it was the situation in need for the village over the sole priority like it is for naruto. In another part, I also thought there was a moment when Kushina rather did want to die based on not being able to imagine a life without both of them, or was that minato? Well either way, minato did say there were something's only the mother could do but unlike madaras situation where he just hacked sussano, this one we can say it was a difference of priority and nessessary, so Kushina could have lived but sacrificed herself for the need of the village and naruto.
@ chatte, yep I knew you would be exploding with happiness over Karin.
Edited by Inferno180, 05 February 2014 - 10:02 AM.