Sixteen Years Old, The Fourth Generation of Mizukage

"Woo... ah ah ah ah..."

"Jiushina, relax, relax, try to keep your breathing regular and even, don't mess up the rhythm..."

In the temporary delivery room outside Konoha Village, Uzumaki Kushina's painful wailing continued.

Although Namikaze Minato has rushed back to guard her side, holding her hand and using his own body temperature to provide peace of mind for his wife, Sarutobi Lake Biwa has also used his rich experience to try to help her finish as soon as possible. The last step of giving birth, but the constant riots in her abdomen, a nine-tailed seal that was about to tear open her skin, made all efforts less effective.

"Biwako-sama, is it still okay?"

Looking at Kushina's still pale face, and her long red hair and blouse that were almost completely wet with sweat, Namikaze Minato asked uneasy while holding Uzumaki Kushina's palm in distress.

"No, if you don't let Kyuubi calm down, Kushina won't be able to use any strength at all." Sarutobi Biwako wiped the sweat from his forehead, and looked at Kushina whose voice was rapidly becoming hoarse with a sad face, "She Now it is equivalent to suffering the pain of Kyuubi's backlash and childbirth at the same time, if it were an ordinary woman, she would have fainted from the pain..."

"No, can't... use... a more radical method?" Uzumaki Kushina panted heavily, and asked in a hoarse voice: "For example... use a knife to cut open my stomach, let Naruto People first..."

"No, that kind of pain will make the nine tails in your body break through the seal in an instant," Sarutobi Biwako decisively denied Kushina's idea, I don't know whether it should be said to be too bold or distressing, "And Tsunade If you are not here, none of us can help you heal such a big wound...Unless, Kushina, you can borrow the power of Nine Tails to restore the wound under this situation, which is impossible at all."

"Then... let me and Kyuubi... die together."

Uzumaki Kushina trembled in pain, and then intermittently said the speech that made everyone in the delivery room stunned:

"The reason Minato has to stay here, and not go out to meet the enemy as Hokage... is because I'm worried that the Kyuubi in my body will run amok and get out of control?"

"Then, as long as I pull Kyuubi to die together, isn't that all right, free him... If I die as a premise, it's okay, it's easier to protect Naruto. ?”

"Hey, are you crazy, Kushina!?" Sarutobi Biwako looked at Biwako who was so weak that he couldn't even move his fingers, but his eyes were still as firm as a mountain that had stood for thousands of years. Uzumaki Kushina, "If you die together with Kyuubi, the tail beast deterrence between us and the major ninja villages will no longer be maintained!"

"But if this continues, it will only provide the enemy with more opportunities to destroy Konoha and take away Kyuubi, right?"

Kushina Uzumaki slightly turned her blue eyes, looked at Minakaze Minato, whose fists were clenched and bleeding because of her speech, and said with guilt and relief in her eyes:

"Konoha... is the place where I was raised... and I want to protect it, my hometown... I don't want to, because of my own powerlessness, Minato has to make such, ahem, painful choices."

"Kushina..." Namikaze Minato held his wife's slightly chilly fingers, tears mixed with all the pain in the world were flashing in his eyes, "The incompetent person, it's obviously me... If I can control Kyuubi, or if I can single-handedly defeat all incoming enemies like that Kaguya Rei..."

"Nothing like that, Minato."

Uzumaki Kushina raised her hand with difficulty, stroked Namikaze Minato's cheek that could no longer hold back tears, and forced a weak smile.

"You are the Hokage of the village, and I am Hokage's wife... In order to protect our common hometown, we should be the ones who have the most courage to make sacrifices for the village..."

"But you haven't even met Naruto!" Namikaze Minato tremblingly held Uzumaki Kushina's hand, his eyes were full of pain and regret, "How could I, how could I do such a thing?" Decided... If I make such a decision, what qualifications do I have to be Konoha's Hokage?"

"Stupid... melon... now, why, when you are so hesitant..."

While Uzumaki Kushina was speaking, the shock wave caused by Nanao's fall from a distance to the ground happened to be transmitted to the place where several people were, watching the lights above the delivery room shaken by the shock and vibration, and the feeling that he was almost blown away , Uzumaki Kushina frowned, and shouted at Namikaze Minato vigorously:

"Stop hesitating, Minato! Come on, make a decision—"

boom.

Compared with the shock from far away before, a more violent shock came from a place not far from the temporary delivery room, almost shaking Kushina Uzumaki on the bed and falling out of bed, Namikaze Minato, who was unable to know the outside information for the time being Supporting the sobbing wife, his expression showed unprecedented struggle.

Suddenly, an item bag the size of a ninja bag broke the glass of the temporary delivery room without warning, and flew precisely towards the place where Minato Namikaze was. Protecting Uzumaki Kushina behind his back, he yelled in the direction of the item bag and asked:

"who is it!?"

No one answered.

But Uzumaki Kushina saw a scrawled note on the item bag, with several words that were almost unrecognizable written on it:

Emergency healing secret medicine, Nagato.

"Naga...mon?" Kushina struggled to decipher the words on it, and then looked suspiciously at Namikaze Minato, whose expression suddenly changed, "This...who is it?"

"The leader of 'Akatsuki', I can stay with you now, Kushina, all because he helped catch the tailed beast jade that the three Jinchuriki fired at Konoha."

Looking at Nagato's name, Namakaze Minato opened the item bag thrown in by an unknown person without much hesitation, and then took out a piece of what looked like...a biscuit from inside.

"This is?"

"I don't know, but... Maybe it's another option we have."

Namikaze Minato looked at the biscuit in front of him, and somehow recalled the scene when he and Rei Kaguya fought for the first time in his mind. The deepest one is the secret medicine that Kaguya pity would take out from her bosom and stuff it into her mouth from time to time, and then immediately recover a bit of momentum.

"But... we don't even know who sent it, do we?" Kushina said hesitantly, looking at Namikaze Minato who was lost in memory.

"I don't want to choose to kill my wife, so I want to... trust this man named Nagato a little bit."

Namikaze Minato, who was already in a hurry to go to the doctor, was silent for a moment, and finally said so.

Seeing that Minakame Minato had made a choice, Uzumaki Kushina didn't say much, just opened his mouth quietly, chewed the biscuit of unknown origin with some difficulty, and swallowed it.

On the cliff not far from the temporary delivery room, Uchiha Shisui watched what happened inside, heaved a long sigh of relief, then turned around and took off Konoha Anbe who had been knocked down by his Sharingan illusion He put on his mask and uniform, and took the place of the opponent to guard the position where he could monitor all the areas below.

As for the body of Kaguya Ren who was far away in Kirigakure, because of the trigger of the [Windtalker's Blessing] rune, he tore off the bandage that covered his eyes, and slowly opened his eyes.

A pair of pure white eyes.

Hopefully tomorrow the symptoms will be reduced to just a cough