Compared to the many factions operating within Konoha, signs had already begun to emerge beneath the undercurrents.
Kushina's delivery concerned the village's tailed beast, so the delivery room had not been set up in the hospital, but deep underground in an extremely secret location. Only ANBU personnel were allowed to enter.
Many ANBU ninja stood guard outside, with numerous sensory ninja stationed around the area, but there was a conspicuous lack of Uchiha Clan ninja!
"Don't worry, Minato. Nothing will go wrong with Kushina's delivery. Mother and child will both be safe."
As someone who had been through it herself, Biwako comforted Minato Namikaze.
Everything inside the room was normal, and medical ninja were waiting outside. If anything went wrong, they would enter the delivery room immediately.
"With all of you waiting outside the delivery room, of course I'm relieved. It's just that I have this faint bad—"
Minato did not finish his sentence. He saw a medical ninja walking inside, and a trace of danger and tension rose in his heart. He instantly seized the man, while the nearby ANBU ninja reacted and surrounded the medical ninja with their weapons drawn.
"What are you doing? I'm here to change the medicine for the woman in labor."
The moment the medical ninja finished speaking, he was slammed to the ground. His disguised body twisted, transforming into a strange white creature. Minato Namikaze recognized it at once—this was White Zetsu from the Akatsuki.
"Dawn Hidden Village! Everyone, stay alert! The enemy is here!"
White Zetsu's appearance outside the delivery room meant that enemies had infiltrated nearby and located them. Sure enough, in the next instant, a masked figure stepped directly out of the wall.
"We never should have entrusted something this important to White Zetsu. What a bunch of idiots! They