Naruto had been successfully born. As Minato Namikaze tried to reinforce the seal on Uzumaki Miyuki's abdomen, Biwako Sarutobi and Anbu member Taro screamed before collapsing lifelessly onto the ground.
Minato's eyes widened as he stared at Biwako and Taro's corpses.
"Priestess Biwako! Taro!"
Behind the bodies of Biwako and Taro, Obito Uchiha stood wearing a mask and cloak. He cradled the crying Naruto in his right arm while holding his left hand above the child.
Using Madara Uchiha's voice, Obito threatened, "Fourth Hokage Minato Namikaze! Step away from the jinchuriki! Otherwise, this child only has one minute left to live!"
Minato fixed Obito with a sharp, wary stare.
The sounds of battle continued outside while the barrier remained undamaged. How had he managed to get through it?
The Nine-Tails' chakra leaking from Uzumaki Miyuki's body due to her concern for Naruto further loosened the seal.
The Nine-Tails inside Miyuki had it just as hard—it hadn't actively resisted at all, constantly trying to control its own chakra to minimize harm to Miyuki.
But the escaping chakra was something even the Nine-Tails couldn't stop.
After all, it was simply a mass of chakra itself; when the seal weakened, inevitably large amounts of chakra leaked out.
Minato looked uneasily at the loosened seal on Miyuki's abdomen.
Obito produced a kunai in his left hand and threatened again, "Step away from the jinchuriki now! Don't you care what happens to your child?"
Minato hurried to stop him, "Wait—you need to calm down!"
"That advice should go to yourself, Minato Namikaze. I've never felt more composed than right now!"
Obito tossed Naruto into the air.
Miyuki's heart clenched in terror as she cried out, "Naruto!"
Obito hurled the kunai toward Naruto.
Minato's eyes sharpened instantly. Using the Body Flicker Technique, he rescued Naruto mid-fall.
Obito sneered coldly, "No wonder they call you the Yellow Flash. Even the most basic body flicker technique is this fast. But now, let's see what happens next."
Obito formed a Tiger seal.
Minato heard crackling flames and noticed three explosive tags stuck to Naruto's swaddling clothes.
Miyuki screamed frantically, "Minato! Naruto!"
Remaining calm, Minato simultaneously removed Naruto's swaddling clothes while using the Flying Thunder God Technique to teleport into an abandoned house, preventing any injury to Miyuki from the explosive tags.
After removing the swaddling clothes, Minato sprinted out of the house with Naruto in his arms.
The explosion destroyed the wooden house.
Protecting Naruto, Minato slid along the ground for a distance.
Holding the sobbing baby in his arms, Minato let out a breath of relief and smiled. "Thank goodness... Naruto's safe."
A sharp pain suddenly shot through Minato's ankle.
A splinter of wood was lodged in his ankle.
Pulling it out, Minato's expression darkened. It was obvious—the masked man's real target was Uzumaki Miyuki. He had been deliberately lured away from her.
Minato Namikaze used the Flying Thunder God Technique once again, returning home and gently placing Naruto, who had cried himself to sleep, onto the bed.
"It's safe here. Naruto, hang tight for a second. I've gotta go rescue your mom."
Elsewhere,
Obito Uchiha used Kamui to pull the weakened Uzumaki Miyuki from her bed into another dimension, reappearing in a stone forest.
Obito released Miyuki from Kamui's space and used a sealing technique to bind her in place.
Uzumaki Miyuki gasped, staring at Obito. "Wh-what do you want from me?"
"I'm going to drag the Nine-Tails out of you and destroy Konoha!"
Her eyes widened in shock. "What did you say?"
"He can teleport between spaces marked by his seal formulas — that's Minato's Body Flicker Technique. That marking also appears on your own seal. Normally, Minato would be here to protect you, but now he's been lured away.
And because of childbirth, the Nine-Tails' seal has weakened. A once-in-a-lifetime chance — and I've been waiting for it forever!"
Inside Miyuki, the Nine-Tails recalled what Chinya had said before—that perhaps in two or three years, the current jinchuriki would face a crisis.
The Nine-Tails instantly realized this was exactly the crisis Chinya had spoken of.
This man in front of her belonged to the Uchiha Clan—he must want to control it!
The fox immediately tried to leave some of its chakra inside Miyuki's body but was too slow.
Obito had already taken control of the Nine-Tails using the Sharingan's genjutsu.
Obito formed hand seals.
[Sealing: Disconnecting Seal!] (This is a specific sealing technique used to remove tailed beasts.)
The chains holding back the Nine-Tails inside Miyuki started to dissolve.
The stakes piercing the beast were removed one by one.
The seal mark on Miyuki's abdomen had turned into a black hole—the Eight Trigrams Sealing Style was no longer effective.
"Alright, come out now! Nine-Tails!"
A surge of red chakra burst from the black hole on Miyuki's stomach, shaping itself into the outline of the Nine-Tails.
The Nine-Tails' chakra separated from Miyuki's body, solidified, and landed on the ground.
Controlled by Obito, the Nine-Tails let out a loud roar toward the sky.
Miyuki slumped lifelessly against a rock.
As the Nine-Tails fully emerged, Obito's eyes lit up with cold, murderous intent. "Good. Now march straight toward Konoha!"
As Obito turned to leave, Miyuki struggled to lift herself up. Her voice was weak. "St... stand still..."
"You Uzumaki Clan really are tough. Even after having the tailed beast ripped from you, you don't die right away. But I'll finish you off personally. After all..."
[Fire Release: Great Fireball!]
Obito unleashed a massive fireball at Miyuki.
At that moment, her left eye changed—it became Chinya's Mangekyo Sharingan (the evolved form of the Sharingan eye technique).
Right before the fireball struck, it vanished instantly.
Obito's gaze sharpened. "The Transcribed Seal, huh... But his dojutsu can't block physical attacks. So then, leave the jinchuriki to the Nine-Tails."
Nine-Tails swung its claw toward Uzumaki Miyuki.
At the critical moment, Minato Namikaze arrived in time. Using the Flying Thunder God marking on Uzumaki Miyuki's abdomen, he teleported beside her and rescued her.
Obito Uchiha sneered, "The Yellow Flash has finally arrived, though, as usual, still too late."
Miyuki's breath was weak, her expression exhausted. "Naruto... is Naruto alright?"
Minato nodded. "Yes, Naruto is safe now. He's in a secure location."
Miyuki sighed with relief. "That's good... Minato, you must stop that man and Nine-Tails immediately—they're preparing to lay waste to Konoha..."
Minato's gaze pierced into Obito Uchiha, yet instead of attacking him, he held Miyuki tightly and used the [Flying Thunder God Technique] once again to disappear.
Obito snorted coldly, "Gone again... No matter. Let's head for Konoha."
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