Naruto: Traveling Through Time Starting with Seizing the Dragon Vein

Sarutobi Biwako held the tiny baby, covered in amniotic fluid but brimming with life, a relieved smile on her face. "Minato, Kushina, congratulations!"

"Naruto..."

Kushina weakly raised her head, looked at the child who was crying loudly, and tears of happiness slid down her cheeks.

Minato was so excited that his hands were trembling slightly as he reached out to hug his son.

However, at the very moment when this joy reached its peak—

Tragedy struck.

"Pfft!"

Two very faint muffled thuds.

Sarutobi Biwako and the other medical ninja didn't even have time to scream before their bodies went limp and collapsed.

"Lord Biwako?!"

Minato's smile froze instantly, and his azure pupils contracted sharply.

A man in a black robe wearing a tiger-striped mask had somehow appeared in the shadows of the delivery room.

He was holding the still-crying baby Naruto in one hand, while the kunai in his other hand was pressed coldly against the neck of the newborn.

"The Fourth Hokage, Minato Namikaze."

The masked man's voice was hoarse and cold, revealing an extreme disregard for life.

"Stay away from the Jinchūriki, otherwise, this brat's life... will be over."

The crimson Sharingan stared intently at Minato through the hole in the mask, as if admiring the look of utter despair on the "Yellow Flash's" face, a look of utter despair as he plummeted from heaven to hell.

……

"here we go."

On the treetop, Uchiha Yue watched the terrifying killing intent that suddenly erupted inside the cave, and the chakra fluctuations of the Nine-Tails seal that were on the verge of collapse.

He took out the three specially made black scrolls from his pocket, handed one to Guang, and kept two for himself.

"Light, in this battle, we will neither be heroes nor villains."

Yue put on her mask, leaned forward slightly, and prepared to dive.

"We are the yellow sparrows that only want to eat meat."

"When Minato is lured away from his mountain stronghold, and when the Nine-Tails breaks free from its seal... that will be the signal for us to make our move."

Guang took the scroll and carefully tucked it behind his waist.

She looked down at the cave below, which was filled with the aura of death, and then looked up at the cold, full moon in the sky.

The red cotton-padded jacket fluttered in the night wind.

"receive."

"boom-!!!"

The next second, a deafening explosion erupted from the direction of the cave!

In order to save Naruto, who had been covered in explosive tags, Minato Namikaze was forced to use the Flying Thunder God Technique to leave the cave.

With her restraints gone, Kushina was completely exposed to the masked man.

The Nine-Tails' dark red chakra, filled with hatred and destruction, began to frantically erode the real world like a flood bursting its banks.

In that distorted air, a gigantic phantom of a nine-tailed fox demon was rapidly taking shape.

Its roar instantly shattered the tranquility of Konoha's night.

"roar-!!!"

The Nine Lamas have officially appeared.

Chapter 42 Stealing

With the deafening roar of the summoning jutsu, the central area of ​​Konoha Village was instantly reduced to ruins.

"Roar!!!"

The furious roar transformed into tangible sound waves, forcefully sending the Konoha ninjas who tried to approach flying.

"It's the Nine-Tails! Why is the Nine-Tails in the village?!"

"Quickly! Protect the civilians and evacuate! Earth Release Team, establish a defensive line immediately!"

The entire Hidden Leaf Village was plunged into unprecedented panic and despair.

Faced with this natural disaster that only exists in legends, the kunai and explosive tags of ordinary ninjas hitting it are like raindrops hitting a red-hot iron plate, instantly vaporized without a trace.

"The Ruyi Jingu Bang!"

In the critical moment, the Third Hokage, Hiruzen Sarutobi, dressed in full armor and wielding an extended giant staff, forcefully pushed the Nine-Tails back half a step, buying precious breathing room for the civilians to evacuate.

Meanwhile, in front of the Konoha Police Force headquarters building.

The firelight illuminated half the night sky, and the terrifying roar of the Nine-Tailed Fox made everyone's eardrums ache.

"Quickly! First squad, follow me to the front lines to support the Third Hokage! Second squad, take charge of the barrier..."

Fugaku Uchiha had already changed into his battle suit, his three-tomoe Sharingan eyes spinning wildly as he anxiously issued battle orders.

However, before he could finish speaking, a row of "Anbu" ninjas wearing animal masks and exuding a chilling murderous aura silently blocked the gate of the guard post, completely sealing off their path to the center of the village.

"The Third Hokage has given the order."

The leading ninja coldly raised a warrant stamped with the Hokage's seal, his voice completely flat: "By order of the Third Hokage, the Nine-Tails' attack is of paramount importance. The Uchiha clan, as the security force, is tasked tonight with immediately proceeding to the edge of the village to evacuate civilians and maintain order at the shelter. No Uchiha clan member is permitted to set foot on the Nine-Tails' battlefield!"

"What did you say?!"

A hot-tempered Uchiha squad leader immediately flew into a rage, "We are the Konoha Police Force! Instead of going to the front lines to protect the village at a time like this, we're going to the rear to evacuate civilians? Besides, our Sharingan is clearly effective against tailed beasts; we could have been at the front lines to make the most of it!"

"This is a top directive, and it's also to prevent any 'unnecessary' troubles."

Just then, Shimura Danzo, whose right eye was bandaged, slowly emerged from the shadows with the help of these "Anbu" members, leaning on his cane. He stared intently at Uchiha Fugaku in front of him. "What, Uchiha Fugaku, are you going to disobey the Hokage's orders?"

"Unnecessary trouble..."

Upon hearing these words, Fugaku was struck dumb, his face turning deathly pale.

His mind exploded in an instant, and he seemed to hear again the words spoken to him by that masked S-rank rogue ninja a month ago in the tatami room:

'They will immediately order the Uchiha Police Force to evacuate civilians and will not allow you to get even a step near the Nine-Tails. Because they are afraid—afraid that you will control the Nine-Tails, and even more afraid that this is a coup you have planned…'

All correct!

Everything was exactly as Uchiha Yue had predicted, down to the last detail!

At this critical moment concerning the village's survival, the Konoha leadership's first thought wasn't to rely on the Uchiha's power, but rather to be wary of them! To suspect them!

"Chief! We can't just watch our village be destroyed! Let's charge in!"

The young Uchiha clan members, their eyes bloodshot, gripped their katanas and kunai with intense emotion. They were ready to cut down the Root forces in front of them and charge into battle at Fugaku's command.

They didn't like the way the old man looked at them.

Looking at Danzo and Root, who were watching him intently and were on guard, and then at the Nine-Tails wreaking havoc in the village in the distance, Fugaku took a deep breath and clutched the cold metal plaque with the Loulan mark in his hand.

That rogue ninja was right, this water is too deep, and the Uchiha have been forced to the edge of a cliff.

If they disobey this order and forcibly participate in the war, Danzo and the higher-ups will inevitably launch a series of impeachments on the grounds of "disobedience" and "dereliction of duty".

At that time, not only will the smears against those who control the Nine-Tails be completely smeared on them, but the Uchiha, who are already outside the center of power, will also face even more severe suppression or even a purge.

But what if they obediently followed orders and retreated to the rear?

While the village was devastated and other ninja clans were stained with blood on the battlefield, the Uchiha, the strongest clan in Konoha and possessing the power to subdue tailed beasts, remained unharmed in a refuge.

Afterwards, the Uchiha clan's prestige among the villagers of Konoha and other ninja clans will plummet, and they will be completely despised as cowards and suspects by everyone!

Caught between a rock and a hard place, with abysses on either side.

Loulan... the honor of the Uchiha... the village... rogue ninja... that's all.

The lesser of two evils.

"All Uchiha, listen to my command..."

Fugaku closed his bloodshot eyes, swallowed all his resentment and pride, and with all his might, squeezed out the humiliating order through gritted teeth: "Follow the Hokage's orders... Evacuate civilians from the rear, maintain order, and no one... shall approach the Nine-Tails even half a step."

"Chieftain!!!"

Amidst cries of despair and grief, the Uchiha clan, the strongest force in Konoha capable of resisting the Nine-Tails, was completely isolated from the heart of this blood-red night by the power core of Konoha.

……

On a towering water tower a few kilometers away from the main battlefield, Moon and Light hurriedly sensed something.

They stood side by side, gazing at this scene that resembled a living hell.

"Moon, Obito wasn't with Kurama."

Guang's eyes, shining brightly in the darkness, swept across the battlefield, keenly sensing the anomaly.

"The Sharingan's reflection is in the Nine-Tails' eye, but the user's true form is not nearby."

"Of course he's not here."

As Yue sensed the two extremely subtle yet violently colliding spatial chakra fluctuations emanating from the distant forest, a slight smile curved the corners of her lips beneath her mask.

"He's currently busy with his fateful duel with his 'teacher,' and he simply doesn't have the energy to finely control the Nine-Tails in the short term. Now is the time for us to make our move."

Yue slowly took out the three black sealing scrolls, specially made of metal and using dragon vein energy and chakra to conduct energy, from her bosom and lined them up in a row.

"Guang, do you remember what I told you in Loulan?"

"In this world, there is an invisible rule called 'world correction force,' which is like a pre-set script that forcibly drives the gears of history."

"In the original 'destiny,' tonight, the Fourth Hokage will use the 'Reaper Death Seal' to seal the Nine-Tails, dying here with Kushina, thus sealing half of the Nine-Tails' chakra within Naruto, and beginning the next era of the Naruto Uzumaki legend."

The moon handed a scroll to the light, and the "Eight Meanings" in the left eye was already throbbing with pain.

"If we rush down now and forcibly obliterate the Nine-Tails with the Kaleidoscope, or kill Obito, the script will completely fall apart. At that time, the 'correction force' may descend in an extremely unreasonable way, such as a meteorite falling from the sky and causing us to die suddenly."

"Therefore, we must slice the sausage, testing the limits of this 'world' step by step, until we are powerful enough to defy it."