Chapter 44

"Huh!"

"Forget it. Don't make the Uchiha clan act."

"...."

Seeing the signal from Uchiha Fugaku, most of the Uchiha ninjas present fell silent.

However... a few still made disdainful noises.

Shimura Danzo, as always, ignored them.

He kept the Root ninjas stationed at the entrance to the Uchiha clan's district.

At this moment,

Danzo suddenly realized—the mysterious man in the vortex mask actually wanted to cooperate with him!

So that was the plan: to use this chaos to deal with the Uchiha clan.

But there was still something puzzling him—the mysterious figure wearing a white-bearded mask. Who was he?

"Hehe, so that's how it is?"

Standing a short distance behind Fugaku, Uchiha Liunian lazily stretched his arms.

In fact,

when he left the Uchiha compound earlier,

Liunian had left behind a shadow clone.

No one noticed that he had secretly gone to suppress the Nine-Tails and already returned.

"No wonder..."

Liunian thought to himself.

"In the original story, neither the Uchiha clan nor Danzo's Root showed up during the Nine-Tails attack."

Looking at Shimura Danzo from afar,

Liunian felt a surge of disgust.

In truth, the Nine-Tails were indeed powerful.

But what disgusted him more was how Konoha's high command, for their own political gain,

stood by and watched the Nine-Tails ravage the village,

wasting precious manpower just to monitor the Uchiha.

"That old fox Sarutobi Hiruzen is really sinister..."

The next moment, Liunian frowned slightly, a look of disdain on his lips.

He remembered—in the original, it was the Third Hokage, Sarutobi, who first confronted the Nine-Tails.

Later, he used the ape demon to push the Nine-Tails out of Konoha.

Now, because of the appearance of the "white-bearded" masked man he played,

the Nine-Tails was even more furious than in the original story.

Thus, even if the Uchiha had withdrawn from the battlefield,

it wasn't hard to imagine that at a critical moment,

Sarutobi would retreat and leave the Fourth Hokage, Minato Namikaze, to handle the raging Nine-Tails alone.

And why?

Because of the Hokage position, of course.

The destruction caused by the Nine-Tails would be blamed on Minato.

Then Sarutobi could use that as an excuse to return to power.

As expected—

After Minato successfully lured the raging Nine-Tails to an empty field outside the village using Flying Thunder God,

he began preparations to seal it.

Meanwhile,

Kushina Uzumaki, the jinchuriki, was already on the verge of death.

"Watergate... I can't hold on anymore..."

The Nine-Tails had been forcibly extracted from her, and even with her Uzumaki vitality, Kushina's life was rapidly fading.

"Waaahhh..."

Sensing something was wrong, the newborn Naruto in her arms began to cry.

"I'm sorry..."

Minato looked at his wife and son with deep guilt.

"As Hokage, I must..."

"I've got your back!!"

Kushina cut him off, her voice weak but firm.

"My little sun... I'm only worried about Naruto now..."

"Don't worry."

Minato nodded seriously.

"The Third Hokage will take good care of him."

"Hmm!"

Hearing this, Kushina slowly stood up,

releasing the Uzumaki Clan's secret technique—the Adamantine Sealing Chains.

Golden chakra chains burst from her back, tightly binding the Nine-Tails, stopping it from gathering more chakra.

"ROAR!!"

The Nine-Tails struggled violently, but the golden chains rendered it powerless.

The beast's heart filled with helplessness.

It thought it had finally tasted freedom...

only to be sealed once again.

It was truly tragic.

The rest followed the original storyline closely—

Minato used the Dead Demon Consuming Seal to trap the Yin half of the Nine-Tails' chakra inside the Shinigami.

Then he sealed the Yang half into the newborn Naruto using the Eight Trigrams Seal.

He also sealed a fragment of his and Kushina's chakra into Naruto.

After leaving their final words for their son,

both Minato Namikaze and Kushina Uzumaki died.

Ironically,

Almost immediately after their deaths,

the Third Hokage, Sarutobi Hiruzen, arrived with Konoha's forces.

"Third Hokage-sama,"

A masked Anbu knelt before Sarutobi, reporting in a somber tone:

"The Fourth Hokage and Kushina-sama... have no signs of life."

"Only a baby remains, likely their son..."

"Oh..."

Sarutobi sighed heavily.

"Take care of the Fourth and Kushina's bodies properly."

Then, Sarutobi picked up the crying Naruto.

When he noticed the Eight Trigrams Seal on Naruto's belly,

he frowned slightly.

"Am I wrong?"

But soon his expression eased.

"No... I'm doing this for the good of Konoha. There's nothing wrong with that."

Muttering to himself,

Sarutobi added with a strange calmness:

"To protect your growth, I'll look after you well. But as a jinchuriki... you'll also have to endure hardships and ridicule that ordinary people can't even imagine."

"From now on, Naruto Uzumaki... you're an orphan."

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