... It may not necessarily be entirely my story to tell, Minato-kun. But...

[ ... He has told her a bit. So, she will tell him a bit as well. From her pocket, she removes a dirty old rabbit; it's hand-sewn and looks quite old. ]

I made this charm for my father, when I was young. Because he would always go away and report on wars, he was never back home...

[ She looks at it for a moment, before looking back to Minato. ] He took me to the shrine in our city the day I gave this to him, before he left. She was all I got back. The Araya shrine... it became so important to me--to everyone, for so many different reasons...