Kushina, entering the bunker, saw Minato, Aunt Kaname, and five medics, led by Bivako. It all started quietly and peacefully. Minato gave signs of support and issued orders to his Anbu, Kaname prepared everything for the resealing ritual, while Bivako prepared medical supplies. Watching this, Kushina was sure that everything would go smoothly.
The first contractions began, and everyone took their places. The screams would have been audible, but the barrier handled that. A seal began to form on Kushina's stomach. Kaname yelled to Bivako.
"Bivako, hurry up, if both the child and the Nine-Tails come out of Kushina, she will die."
"It doesn't only depend on me, Kushina, try harder. Well done, the head is out, now you need to push a little harder."
The baby was struggling to come out. But towards the end, when he finally emerged, Kaname extracted the Nine-Tails, which was bound by chakra chains in a stone sphere. At that moment, an Anbu from the Root with the codename Rat killed several Anbu and signaled to Tobi.
The baby was handed over to Kushina for imprinting, while the medics and Bivako stepped aside to not interfere with the sealing. Placing the baby on the altar, Minato heard female screams, and when he looked back, he saw a masked figure on the wall above with spiraling flames and black tongues, holding Bivako with a kunai to her throat. And he spoke.
Everyone step away from the sphere, or the Third is unlikely to forgive you if I kill her.
Minato was pondering how he breached the barrier and killed almost all Anbu. Stop, why didn't he kill the last one? He pondered this question and what to do in this situation. And he decided to buy some time.
"Calm down, what do you need?"
But all he heard in response was:
"It's not just me who needs this, Minato! -"
With these words, he slit her throat and threw her off the wall. Minato, hoping to save her, teleported to her with lightning speed and then back to his family. But then the masked figure pointed to the sphere, and everyone saw a charged bomb inside it. He realized it was too late, they hadn't sealed the Nine-Tails when it was in the sphere. And Bivako was beyond saving.
Without much thought about the blast radius, he grabbed his family and teleported to the house on the outskirts of Konoha, which they had as a backup in case of emergencies. When the four of them appeared in the house, Minato laid Kushina in the bedroom with the baby and asked Kaname to be ready.
***
Meanwhile, in Konoha.
Fugaku, sensing a strange heaviness in the air, immediately understood what was happening and ordered his people to evacuate. People started to grumble in confusion, saying they wouldn't go without orders!
Fugaku headed towards the bunker. But after a few jumps, he noticed a shinobi in a cloak, performing summoning seals, and when this stranger put his hand on the ground, there was a bang, raising a tall column of smoke, from which emerged the Nine-Tails in all its glory, wreaking havoc. But when Fugaku saw the Sharingan in the eyes, he told everyone to leave the sector.
Itachi, seeing the destruction, took Miroku and Sasuke in his arms and went further towards the others who were running to the evacuation mountain. On the way, seeing his acquaintance Izumi frozen in fear, he told her to take Miroku and run after him.
In the Hokage residence, where the Third was sitting, his longtime rival, Danzo, entered.
Hiruzen, something needs to be done about this.
"I know! We need to call the Uchiha to help us expel the demon from the village."
"Or they might take control of this beast themselves and use it for their own purposes. The Nine-Tails had the Sharingan in its eyes, so the Uchiha are the last ones I'd turn to."
Hiruzen, sighing heavily, agreed and went to restrain the monster. Meanwhile, Danzo went to Fugaku to give an order:
"Fugaku, I order you and your men to evacuate the civilians."
"Danzo, I don't obey your orders, and besides, Minato himself asked me to evacuate if something went wrong, and he asked me to contain the Nine-Tails until they seal it. Here's the order form."
As soon as Fugaku thrust the blank at him, Danzo tore it apart in a fit of anger, his plan falling apart at the seams. Calming his rage a bit, he addressed him.
"If you don't carry out my orders, it will be considered treason, and you will be executed!"
"Danzo, you'll be executed for challenging the order!"
"You'll regret this, Fugaku, mark my words."
"Danzo-san, don't interfere with my duty to protect the village!"
With clenched teeth, Danzo walked away and ordered his men to inform everyone about what was happening. Meanwhile, Fugaku leaped onto a tree branch and activated the MS. He struggled for a long time to resist the foreign control until he realized that subduing summoning creatures was much more difficult than usual and hurried to Minato.
***
Outskirts House.
In this house, Kushina lay on the bed, embracing her newborn son. Aunt Kaname was beside her, treating her for postpartum weakness. Kushina was the first to break the silence.
"He's so small and defenseless, do Minato and I really have to burden him like this, dattebane..."
"Kushina, we've already discussed this. If we don't seal the Nine-Tails into him now, the whole village will be destroyed."
"Aunt Kaname, I..."
"Quiet, you need to gather your strength."
"Forgive me, Naruto..."
Naruto immediately cried after another rampage, and Kushina began to soothe him right away. But remembering the rattle they used to calm Miroku, she asked her aunt to get it from the closet. When he calmed down, Kaname said, "He looks so much like Minato..." With these words, they continued to sit in silence and gather strength.
Meanwhile, Minato, the Fourth Hokage, landed on the ground and surveyed the area: numerous ruins, hundreds dead. Fugaku landed nearby.
"Minato, I couldn't make it. We need to break the summoning seal, and only then can I detain him with my MS."
"This is bad... What about evacuation?"
"My men have almost evacuated everyone."
"At least that's something to be relieved about. Here's the plan: take a few guys and try to detain the Nine-Tails along with the Third, while I deal with whoever attacked us. He'll surely interfere with me when I seal the Nine-Tails."
"Alright..."
"And don't try to be a hero. Mikoto won't forgive me if she becomes a widow." Fugaku just waved it off weakly. But then the Nine-Tails turned its head towards them and began gathering concentrated bijudama, aiming at them. Minato continued immediately, "Go to the Third, I'll handle this..."
"Good luck, Minato!" After he left, Minato folded a seal, creating a spatial barrier that swallowed the bijudama flying towards him, and moved further away from Konoha. As soon as the explosion sounded, he felt a presence behind him and immediately directed his kunai towards him, which passed right through him.
The enemy immediately grabbed him, saying, "You won't escape, Fourth," and immediately began to suck Minato into a space vortex. Meanwhile, Minato simply flew away using Flying Thunder God. At the same time, he moved behind the masked man.