"I said, get out of my way! The only person I want is that old man!"
Chaos reigned inside the Hokage Building. The Anbu and Konoha ninja stared in horror at the furious red-haired woman. She looked as though she had come to harm the Hokage—and in fact, that was exactly what she intended to do.
A young Anbu ninja reached into his ninja tool pouch, preparing to subdue the brazen troublemaker causing a scene inside the Hokage Building. But the Anbu captain beside him abruptly reached out and firmly stopped him.
"Stop! Do not attack!" the captain snapped under his breath. "Until Lord Hokage arrives, we only need to hold her back. We must not hurt her!"
"Huh? Captain? Why?" the young Anbu asked in confusion. During their exchange, two dull thuds sounded up ahead. Two Konoha ninja who had tried to block Kushina were sent flying by a pair of punches. They hit the floor and promptly began sleeping like babies.
"That woman... you might never have seen her... but! She's...?!" The Anbu captain could not hide the horror in his voice. He was seeing a ghost in broad daylight.
As a veteran who had served in the Anbu since the Fourth Hokage's time, he remembered that face clearly—the red-haired woman who had often entered the Hokage Office, sometimes smiling brightly and sometimes storming in, to see the Fourth Hokage, Minato Namikaze. She was the Fourth Hokage's wife, Kushina Uzumaki!
But... hadn't she died alongside the Fourth Hokage on that disastrous night over a decade ago?! How could someone whose death had long since been confirmed...
"Enough! Stop! No one is to attack her again! She is not an enemy!"
At last, the Third Hokage's steady voice came from the end of the corridor. Hiruzen Sarutobi strode toward