Chapter 8 The Nine-Tailed Demon Fox Attack 04 (Limited Tsukuyomi Ed.)
Special author's note: Since I can't imagine Sakura father's fighting style, so this chapter won't have too much descriptions of the battle
As soon as Minato used Flying Thunder God technique to transport Kyuubi and the others to the outskirts of Konoha Village, Fugaku broke the Sharingan control on the demon fox.
"Sorry! I've reached my limit. As I expected, in order to take complete control over Nine-tails, I at least need the Mangekyo Sharingan!" Panting and half-closed one eye, Uchiha Fugaku said bitterly with an apologetic tone. "Can I entrust it to you guys, I will rejoin the battle immediately after I recover my visual prowess."
"Leave it to us for now, have a good rest." After carefully examining the surroundings, Haruno Kizashi pressed his knuckles with a confident smile on face. "Minato, take a breath too, the rest follow me!"
"...I'm really sorry!" Used to be partners on several occasions, so Minato and Kizashi are very familiar with each other's battle tactics and abilities. Since Minato's best strategy always will be a surprise attack—looking for any opportunities to finish the target before being noticed. As a result, the easiest way to achieve this goal is to have someone else with a strong presence to attracts enemy's attention. Beside, Kizashi always hated using others as bait, so this time shall be no exceptions. Also due to the frequent use of Flying Thunder God up-till now, Minato's own chakra reserves has reached a record low. As perceptive as Kizashi, he said that deliberately after noticing the problem, even though this is not the best timing to take a break.
On the other hand, since the start of Kyuubi's rampage, Minato has an uneasy feeling...as if...something horrible is going to happen. Carefully remembering everything happened tonight, the origin of this nightmare was already suspicious enough to make a logic man asking all kinds of questions. But because the policy of Konoha Council, almost nobody knows the identity of Nine-tails's Jinchuriki. Kushina once mentioned to Minato that she was selected to be one of the candidates, but in the end it didn't matter since apparently they chose someone else. So among this group of people, Kizashi probably is the only one knows who's the current Jinchuriki of the demon fox.
Watching as his fellow shinobi still dealing with the colossal beast, Minato's mind was filled with varies thoughts: like how everything started, and how it will end...
For some unknown reasons, the yellow flash of Konoha has a disturbing feeling that everything would go down badly (like really bad), and he wasn't sure if he is ready for it.
'No...now it's not the time to be discouraged, Nine-Tails must be subdued here. I promised Kushina that I would go back to them alive, and this is the promise I intend to keep. '
Looking into the earth-shattering battle in the distance mountain edge, hearing the Nine-Tails' roar of wrath, Sarutobi Hiruzen's face turned pale. As the time goes by, he was constantly re-considering about whether he should go to help them, those worrying thoughts has been accumulated in his chest for a while now.
As if can read his mind, the old man with half of his body wrapped in bandages stand behind the retired Hokage decided to open his mouth.
"Go, Saru*. You can leave the evacuation to me."
"Danzo... Sorry, I'm glad I can always count on you." After exchanging few seconds of glances, Hiruzen nodded. As he reached out hand and hold the Jingu Bang tightly, the Third Hokage disappeared in a flash. Silently watching his oldest friend rushing towards the monster fox, the bandaged old man - Shimura Danzo quickly turned around and announced to the villagers who were moving in an orderly manner: "Everyone, please to stay calm, the shinobi of Konoha will protect you with our lives!"
*：In this fanfiction, Danzo will be calling Hiruzen like their sensei Tobirama.
"Danzo-sama! Where's Hiruzen-sama!?" While he was busy with helping the Uchiha police force, another familiar voice appeared behind the man. Danzo didn't need to look back to recognize that voice was belonging to one of the council member—Utatane Koharu.
"He went to aid the Forth Hokage, if you have any question just ask me."
"In that case...It's actually about the next Jinchuriki... We want to know both of your opinions."
"..." Hearing this, Danzo narrowed his eyes and turned around. "Then, who is your best choice for the next Jinchuriki?"
With two Anbus following behind, another council member Mitokato Homura showed himself as well. He and Utatane Koharu exchanged gaze for a short while, then slowly replied.
"We just received a report from Konoha Hospital... Namikaze Kushina, who was also a candidate for the second Jinchuriki, just gave birth to a boy tonight...so...it is safe to assume that baby should also inherited the Uzumaki clan's power and strong life-force."
As if self-consciously understood he's hinting something extremely unethical, Mitokado's voice was quiet and slow. But even so he didn't stop talking, despite witnessing the disgust expression appeared on Danzo's face.
"Speak no more, both of you. We are NOT the one who can decide this issue, but the parents of that newborn life. I can't tolerate such atrocious act. Never mention anything like that in front of me anymore!"
In the corner of shelter, only darkness resides
Surrounded by villagers' sobs and prayers, the elder sibling—Uchiha Itachi held his younger brother Sasuke tightly with left arm. In his right arm, there is a baby girl wrapped in a pink blanket also sleep soundly like nothing would bother her.
Closing his eyes while humming a soft lullaby, Itachi's tender smile bloomed.
"It's okay, Sasuke, Sakura-chan. It's going to be okay...remember, we are being protected by such amazing people...so...it will be okay."
Author's notes: So there's the elephant in the room, I need to talk about this new setting of my fanfic, it's very important.
Danzo is a good guy in Limited Tsukuyomi! Repeat, this is not a disguise or anything, he is not pretending to be good, he is just good good.
-That's it.
Okay, okay, I'm joking, of course it's not just about Danzo.
The actual setting for this fanfic is: Even though Danzo is on the good side here it doesn't mean there are no other evil higher-ups in village, however, this "other evil higher-ups" is not an OC and I'm not going to mention his name at all. He is like the second Jinchuriki (not Kushina) that seal got broke off by Kurama and possibly died in the process, they do exists, but that's it.
I guess we can call them the Schrödinger's 'Danzo'(?) and Schrödinger's 'second Jinchuriki' (W.T.H?). The thing is they are like this all because the world of Limited Tsukuyomi is that box, as author, I'm not going to open the lid, and their identity will always remain as a mystery. Everyone just need to understand they existed before and served the purpose of building the foundation of Limited Tsukuyomi since without them, there will be problems with the continuity.
PS: at last, there's another Schrödinger's XXX I'd like to mention, but it will be in the later chapters...so just you guys wait!
PPS: Another little background detail I need to address since there's no place to mention in the story. The reason Kushina never became the second Jinchuriki of Kurama in Limited Tsukuyomi because Uzumaki Mito started to treat her like another grandchild, and she didn't want Kushina to shoulder the same burden as her, so she used her status as the first hokage's wife and changed the decision by force (which ultimately saved Kushina's life).
A lot of things happened in limited tsukuyomi all because the characters approaching the same event with a different mindset, and their choices also has a butterfly effect on surroundings, so...follow my story and find out more!