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Chapter 26 - 26. Beginning of All Troubles

The Beginning of All Troubles and the Birth of a New Hero.

Kushina, walking into the bunker, saw Minato, Aunt Kaname, and the five medics being led by Biwako. It began quietly and peacefully.

Minato was giving signs of support and giving orders to his Anbu, Kaname was getting everything ready for the resealing ritual, and Biwako was preparing the honey supplies. Looking at it, Kushina was confident that everything would go right.

The first contractions started and everyone got into their seats. Screams would be audible, but the barrier handled it. A seal began to form on Kushina's stomach. Kaname shouted to Biwako.

"Biwako, hurry up, or if both the baby and Kyuubi come out of Kushina, she'll die."

"It's not up to me, Kushina, push harder. Well done, the head's out, now you've got to work harder."

The baby was coming out with difficulty. But towards the end, when he came out, Kaname pulled out Kyubey, who was chained with chakra chains in a stone sphere. At this point, Anbu from Root with the call sign Rat killed several Anbu and beckoned to Toby.

The baby was handed to Kushina to imprint, and the medics and Biwako stepped back to the edge so as not to interfere with the sealing.

Minato placed the child on the altar and heard a woman's screams, and when he looked around he saw a man at the top of the wall wearing a spiral mask with black tongues of flame. He was holding Biwako with a kunai at her throat. And he raised his voice.

"Everyone step away from the orb, or I don't think the Third's going to give you a hard time if I kill her."

Minato thought about how he had gotten through the barrier and killed almost all of the Anbu. Wait, why didn't he kill the last one?

This was the question he wondered about what to do in this situation. So he decided to stall for time for a while.

"Calm down, what do you want?" And all he heard in response was:

"I'm not the only one who needs it, Minato!" With those words, he slit her throat and threw her off the wall. Minato, hoping to save her, moved with lightning to her and back to his family.

But then the masked man pointed his finger at the sphere, and everyone saw a loaded bomb of tails there. He had already realized that it was too late and they hadn't had time to seal Kyubey when he was in the sphere. And Biwako was beyond saving.

Not thinking long about how this technique would rip, he picked up his family and moved to the house on the outskirts of Konoha that they had in reserve in case of emergencies.

When the four of them showed up at the house, Minato put Kushina in the bedroom with the baby and asked Kaname to be on standby.

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Meanwhile in Konoha

Fugaku, feeling a strange heaviness in the air, immediately realized what was wrong and gave his men the order to evacuate.

The people were bewildered and started snapping at each other, saying, "How dare they without a warrant, we won't go!"

Fugaku walked toward where the bunker was. But a few jumps later, he spotted a cloaked shinobi folding his summoning seals, and as this stranger lowered his hand to the ground, there was a pop, raising a tall column of smoke. Out of it came Kyuubi in all his glory, and he began to rampage. But when Fugaku saw the sharingans in his eyes, he told everyone to leave this sector.

Itachi, seeing the destruction, took Miroku in his arms and Sasuke went on to the others who were running towards the evacuation mountain. On the way, seeing his acquaintance Izumi frozen with fear, he told her to take Miroku in her arms and run after him.

His longtime rival, Danzo, walked into the Hokage residence where the Third was sitting.

"Hiruzen, we have to do something about it."

"I know! We need to call the Uchiha to help us get the demon out of the village."

"Or they will take control of this beast themselves and use it for their own needs. Kyubey had a sharingan visible in his eyes, so the Uchiha are the last people I'd turn to." Hiruzen, sighing heavily, agreed and went to restrain the monster. Danzo, meanwhile, went to Fugaku to give his orders:

"Fugaku, I order you and your men to evacuate the civilians."

"Danzo, I don't take orders from you, and besides, Minato asked me to evacuate if anything went wrong, and he asked me to restrain Kyuubi until he was sealed. Here's the order form."

As soon as Fugaku poked him with that form, Danzo tore it up in a burst of anger at his plan cracking at the seams. With a little of his anger subsiding, he turned to him.

"If you do not follow my orders, it will be considered treason, and you will be executed!"

"Danzo, you're the one who'll be executed for defying orders!"

"You'll regret this, Fugaku, mark my words."

"Danzo-san, don't interfere with my duty to protect the village!"

Danzo, gritting his teeth, walked out of there and ordered his men to give as much notice as possible. And Fugaku jumped onto a tree branch and turned on the MSH.

He spent a long time trying to defeat the other's control until he realized that it was much harder to subdue summoned beasts than normal ones, and rushed to Minato's side.

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