The next day, Shiro hurried back to the Dragon Vein Workshop early, let Orochimaru know, grabbed a few things, and rushed back to the village. He could no longer take care of the upcoming experiments. The Nine-Tails plan was the top priority.
Originally, although the Nine-Tails plan was important, it had not held an especially heavy place in Shiro and the others' minds. After all, it was only to send out a portion of Tailed Beast Chakra, and there would be plenty of chances for that sort of thing later.
But ever since the Minamoto clan had contracted Fafnir of the Dragon Kind, things had changed. Even a ninja clan with barely any role in the original story had been arranged.
Shiro did not believe the two main characters would be let off. He could not take care of Sasuke, but with Naruto, given his relationship with Minato and the others, there was no way he could ignore him. Naruto's original personality was already quite good and did not need interference.
So Shiro estimated that he would be very busy that day.
But in that case, Kushina's safety became a problem. The original plan had been for him to use Replacement Magecraft to rush over the instant the Nine-Tails was extracted, then use Medea's Noble Phantasm to restore Kushina before she died.
Then he would cooperate with Minato to drive off the Akatsuki organization that had been lured over and tamper with them, and finally seal the complete Nine-Tails into Naruto as the final safeguard of the plan.
If Shiro and the others messed everything up in the future, this guy could rely on the Nine-Tails and Asura's Chakra to wrap things up together with Sasuke. Of course, that was the worst-case scenario.
It was an option they would only