Board Thread:Versus Debates/@comment-5085906-20180325121423/@comment-734582-20180326092634

LoneNinja wrote: Minato easily dodged them. If he dodged them, he did not almost die. More than that. I think it's clear Minato waited till the last second to dodge Ay, since it would put the most distance between him and the place he wanted to strike. Minato seems completely unconcerned with Ay's attack.

He also straight up announced his next target. Ay didn't catch his drift, but Bee did, and so placed a counter. After all, the whole point of Bee and Naruto vs Ay and Tsunade was that Ay had come to think of Bee as a weapon, not a brother. Minato warned him of this, which is pretty much the point of the flashback in the first place. Minato never stopped thinking of Kushina as his wife. Ay stopped thinking of Bee as his brother. It's not when he regains this idea that he realizes his mistake and allows them to fight.