Uchiha Kage, who was comforting Mikoto, and the red-haired kunoichi who was gently watching him while pulling him back to her side again.
'How did I... become a baby?'
Naruto stretched out his hand and finally realized his situation.
But as a newborn, he couldn't even see clearly, let alone speak.
Other than crying out loud, there was nothing else he could do.
"The child really looks like you, dear...", In a daze, Naruto heard such a voice.
'I... I became this woman's son?'
'What's going on? Wasn't I in a dungeon instance?'
Looking at the gentle eyes of the kunoichi, Naruto couldn't help but feel a kind of blood-related intimacy.
"His personality is more like you."
If not for the whisker marks on his face, Naruto could indeed be considered a third as handsome as himself.
Uchiha Kage was also observing the tiny Naruto.
"He hasn't grown up yet, how can you tell he... Really now, teasing me again, aren't you, dear?"
Kushina, now looking weak after giving birth, wasn't as energetic as before.
Only now did she finally seem a bit more like a wife.
"Kushina, actually I...", Just as Uchiha Kage intended to say something, he heard Namikaze Minato shouting from outside.
"So Naruto has been born after all, no wonder," Minato, who walked in and saw the baby in the arms of the medical staff, finally let out a breath of relief.
As expected, things turned out just like he had guessed.
"Naruto also disappeared, right?", Uchiha Kage took the baby Naruto and placed him beside Kushina.
At this moment, the one with the most complicated feelings was still him, the one who had become a father again.
"Yes," Seeing Uchiha Kage and Kushina as a happy family of three, a soft smile also appeared on Minato's face.
"Then he should be here now," Looking at Naruto who had fainted from crying too much, Uchiha Kage understood that the other's soul was most likely residing in the baby's body.
"What a lively child," The crying of the baby made Kushina feel the presence of life.
Thus, she became more deeply aware that she truly was a mother now.
But, very soon, someone broke this beautiful moment.
"The Nine Tails... So it's really here!"
A whirlpool-like ripple in space suddenly appeared in front of everyone.
At the same time, a man wearing a tiger-striped mask slowly emerged from the space.
"The Nine Tails? Who are you?", Minato never expected that someone else could appear just as mysteriously as his teacher.
And he completely ignored the defensive barrier outside.
"The Fourth Hokage, huh? What a pity, just you alone cannot stop me, Uchiha Madara."
The masked man glanced a bit more at Minato in the distance, then focused intently on the weak-faced Kushina.
"I'm only here to take back what belongs to me, the Nine Tails. It is my summoned beast," As he spoke, the masked man placed his hand on the ground.
Summoning Technique!
"Uchiha Madara?", Hearing this, Minato's gaze turned sharp.
Then he looked to Uchiha Kage with questioning and puzzled eyes.
"Teacher, he's..."
"Dear, the seal on the Nine Tails is about to lose control, he's really summoning the Nine Tails," Kushina clutched her stomach with a pained expression, but from there, chakra as dark as pitch-black ink was pouring out madly.
'Did Uchiha Madara previously form a summoning contract with the Nine Tails using the Sharingan, and now it's transferred to him?'
Judging by the chakra seen through the Byakugan, the person's identity was undoubtedly Uchiha Obito.
'But, how to interrupt the Summoning Technique?'
However, Obito came this close before starting the summoning, perhaps he wasn't sure the Nine Tails could break the seal either.
"Sigh...", Because Kushina had been too mischievous earlier, Uchiha Kage almost forgot that Obito was an incoming enemy.
But now, the most urgent issue was how to stop the Nine Tails from coming out.
'Perhaps...'
'Give up the mission and come back tomorrow?'
'But giving up the mission means watching Kushina die...'
'That's absolutely unacceptable.'
She's even called him "dear", how could Uchiha Kage possibly stand idly by?
'Besides, Naruto and Sasuke... They definitely wouldn't agree to do this dungeon instance again.'
'The only option is to find the best way to end this dungeon.'
"Kushina, can you still use Adamantine Sealing Chains?", Looking at the Nine Tails about to burst out from Kushina's belly, Uchiha Kage could only go for broke.
"I... might need some rest first...", Kushina couldn't move her body at all right now. Having just given birth, she had no strength left.
"Minato, use the Contract Seal. His intangibility ability is the same as mine. Just find a way to catch him during his attack gap."
No choice, since Kushina couldn't use the sealing chains right now, then...
While instructing Minato, Uchiha Kage brought out Karin's fragment ability.
"I'll seal the Nine Tails myself then!"
Adamantine Sealing Chains!
Clang! Clang! Clang!
Countless golden chakra-formed chains shot out from Uchiha Kage's body, then thrust straight into Kushina's belly.
The chaotic dark chakra that was about to emerge was bound up like being stuffed into a sack.
"He even knows Kushina's technique..."
'No wonder he's Kushina's teacher.'
'But, he already learned it this early?'
Mikoto looked worriedly at the situation while watching Uchiha Kage with curiosity and admiration.
"Where did you pop out from, member of the Uzumaki Clan?", Uchiha Obito, wearing the tiger-striped mask, looked on in shock and anger as the Nine Tails, which he had worked so hard to summon, was suppressed again.
"But, your desperate struggle is futile. I've already planted thousands of explosive tags around you. You will never..."
'Hm?'
While using intangibility to evade Minato's attacks, Obito was surprised to find that, after he mentioned the explosive tags, everyone in front of him suddenly vanished from the cave, as if by teleportation.
'Flying... Flying Thunder God? He actually teleported that many people at once?', Staring at the now-empty cave, Obito couldn't help but murmur in his heart.
He also cursed himself, 'Why did I tell them about the explosive tags ahead of time?'
"Of course I can. As long as there's enough chakra, and there's physical and chakra contact, it can be done," At some point, Minato reappeared beside Obito again using Flying Thunder God.
"Fourth Hokage, I admit I underestimated you, but...", Although Obito was already feeling nervous inside, he still forced himself to continue pretending to be Uchiha Madara on the surface.
"You didn't underestimate me, you underestimated my husb... underestimated Konoha," As Minato spoke, he threw his Flying Thunder God kunai at the masked man before him. [T/N: 🤮]
"Useless. In front of my Mangekyo ability, your proud Flying Thunder God is completely ineffec—"
"Spiralling Flash Super Round Dance Howl Style Three!"
"..."
The word "ineffective" hadn't even left his mouth when Obito saw yellow flashes streak before his eyes.
Minato, the Fourth Hokage, was teleporting repeatedly in front of him using the Flying Thunder God kunai.
And each time he jumped, he would use the kunai's blade to deliver a cold slash.
In the gaps between slashes, he would substitute with Rasengan, creating a continuous assault...
'Minato-sensei actually has this kind of cheap move?'
Obito was instantly dazzled.
He didn't dare move, he couldn't move at all. He could only maintain intangibility, hoping that Minato would get tired eventually so he could escape the onslaught.
But one minute, two minutes, three minutes passed, the yellow flashes still continued, and the Rasengan slashes were still bursting everywhere...
'Damn it, at this rate, the five-minute intangibility limit will run out!'
Obito felt cold sweat on his forehead.
'No, it's rain. It must be raining!'
He had already graduated from Uchiha Madara, how could he possibly lose to someone like Namikaze Minato?
"Four minutes in, Fourth Hokage, you really are brainless," Left with no choice, Obito had originally planned to take down Minato first and then resume summoning the Nine Tails, but now he could only reverse the order and go find the Nine Tails first.
'Fortunately, Minato's Flying Thunder God can't follow me into the Kamui space...'
'Otherwise, that would've been trouble.'
Finally, after using Kamui to gradually make his body vanish in front of Minato, Obito let out a long breath of relief while hiding in the Kamui dimension.
"It's fine. Since the summoning technique works, I can summon it anywhere," His figure once again flickered into the air.
After putting some distance between himself and Minato, Obito quickly sensed the Nine Tails' berserk chakra again.
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