Perfect Nine-Tails Chakra! Kamizuki Yu: I Heard You're Huge? Are Nine Tails Enough?!

Inside the barrier, an infant's cry shattered the tension.

Kushina Uzumaki was drenched in sweat, yet a weak, blissful smile bloomed across her face.

"Naruto... our child..."

Minato Namikaze tightly held her hand, his eyes growing warm.

However, that tender moment was torn apart by a sudden change.

Outside the delivery barrier, several guarding ANBU lost all signs of life almost simultaneously, as though an invisible hand had strangled the life from them.

A figure passed through a weak point in the barrier that had not yet been fully repaired, descending like a ghost.

An orange one-eyed mask, with cold indifference behind its dark eyehole.

"Who are you?!"

Biwako and the medical ninja responsible for the delivery cried out, attempting to stop him.

Obito did not pause in the slightest. With a wave of his hand, several figures crumpled to the ground.

His targets were the Nine-Tails jinchuriki, whose seal was at its weakest just after giving birth.

And the newborn infant.

"Sharingan!"

Inside Kushina, the extremely unstable Nine-Tails chakra left behind after childbirth was forcibly stirred.

"Aaaagh—!"

A shrill scream replaced the joy of becoming a mother.

"Kushina!" Minato's eyes nearly split with rage.

Obito reached for the newborn Naruto with one hand, moving so fast that only an afterimage remained.

"Fourth Hokage," the voice beneath the mask said with mockery and cruelty, "stay away from the jinchuriki. Otherwise, this child will die before he's even a minute old."

Naruto was held in his grasp, crying loudly.

Minato's body stiffened. Beneath his golden hair, his face twisted with fury and anxiety.

Protect his wife, or protect his child?

The choice lasted only an instant, yet it weighed as heavily as ten thousand tons.

"Who exactly are you? What do you want?" Minato's voice was hoarse from restraint.

"I am the one who will end all of this." Obito spoke lightly. "Hand over the Nine-Tails, or watch your son die."

The kunai in his hand lightly pressed against Naruto's tender neck.

Flying Thunder God Technique!

In a flash, Minato vanished.

The next moment, he appeared on the other side of the room with Naruto in his arms.

But this was precisely the opening Obito had been waiting for.

"Got you, Nine-Tails jinchuriki."

His hand clamped around the weakened Kushina like an iron vice.

Kamui activated, and the distorted space swallowed Kushina along with it.

"Kushina!" Minato roared. Naruto, as if sensing his father's despair, cried even louder in his arms.

The peace of the Hidden Leaf Village was completely shattered at that moment.

Boom—!!!

A massive explosion rang out from the center of the village, flames shooting into the sky.

The enormous, savage form of the Nine-Tails appeared within the Hidden Leaf Village, its scarlet beast eyes filled with brutality and the desire for destruction.

Every sweep of its tail brought collapsed houses and the wails of countless civilians.

"Roar—!"

The Nine-Tails' roar shook the entire village.

Obito brought Kushina to a hidden clearing in the forest outside the village, where some sort of ritual had already been prepared.

"The Uzumaki Clan's life force truly is tenacious." Obito looked at Kushina, who was bound by chains and barely clinging to life. "But this is as far as you go."

He formed hand seals.

"Come out, Nine-Tails!"

Kushina's body convulsed violently. The sealing runes across her abdomen shattered inch by inch, and an even more agonized howl spilled from her throat.

An immense mass of red chakra was forcibly torn from her body.

It was the ultimate agony of life itself being ripped away.

For a jinchuriki who lost their tailed beast, there was only one path: death.

Kushina's red hair lost its luster, and her life force rapidly drained away.

Obito watched it all coldly, then casually tossed her weakened body aside as if she were worthless trash.

His gaze turned toward the Nine-Tails rampaging through the Hidden Leaf Village.

"Go. Destroy to your heart's content. Burn everything to the ground!"

Under the control of the Sharingan, the Nine-Tails attacked everything in sight with even greater madness.

Flames, thick smoke, screams, and despair blanketed the entire Hidden Leaf.

Minato Namikaze entrusted Naruto to an ANBU who had been knocked unconscious earlier but survived, then used the Flying Thunder God Technique to transfer Kushina to a relatively safe barrier.

Looking at his wife's paper-white face, his heart felt as though it were being cut apart.

But he could not stop.

He was the Hokage.

Minato put on the ceremonial cloak embroidered with the words "Fourth Hokage" and charged toward the Nine-Tails with resolute determination.

"Minato..." Kushina reached out, wanting to grasp something, but her hand fell limply.

Obito stood high above, looking down at the Hidden Leaf consumed by flames, a twisted smile of satisfaction appearing on his face.

Before the Nine-Tails, the ninja of the Hidden Leaf were like ants.

The Third Hokage, Hiruzen Sarutobi, had also arrived at the battlefield and was organizing the resistance.

Everything was proceeding according to his plan.

The Nine-Tails' destruction had drawn all of the Hidden Leaf's fighting forces.

Next, he could calmly carry out the next step and completely destroy the village he had once loved and hated so deeply.

Or he could fully summon and control the Nine-Tails, turning it into his most powerful weapon.

Everything was under his control.

Just as Obito immersed himself in the thrill of revenge,

Kamizuki Yu silently appeared in the forest clearing where Kushina had been abandoned.

This was the site of the temporary altar where Minato and Kushina had used the Dead Demon Consuming Seal to seal the Nine-Tails in the original story.

At that moment, Kushina lay there, the flame of her life about to go out.

"What a sorry sight, Senior Kushina."

Kamizuki Yu crouched down and lightly touched her cold cheek with his fingertips.

The dying Kushina struggled to open her eyes, her vision blurred.

"Who... are you...?"

"Someone passing by, who came to collect a little interest while I was at it."

Vast Sage Body chakra, mixed with pure Asura chakra, flowed into Kushina's body like a warm stream.

Her rapidly fading life force was forcibly stabilized.

A faint trace of color returned to her pale face.

"This power..." Kushina felt vitality returning to her body. She was still weak, but the shadow of death had temporarily retreated.

Kamizuki Yu said nothing more. He stood up and calmly looked toward the Hidden Leaf Village, where the flames still burned.

System, check in.

"Ding! Check-in successful at [Nine-Tails Attack · Temporary Sealing Altar]!"

"Congratulations, Host! You have obtained [Perfect Nine-Tails Chakra Mode (No Jinchuriki Required, Can Be Activated at Any Time)]!"

The moment the system notification ended,

Boom—!!!

A surge of golden chakra erupted from Kamizuki Yu's body—far more violent, pure, and terrifying than the rampaging Nine-Tails itself!

Golden chakra rose around him like flames, swiftly condensing into a nearly tangible chakra cloak over his body.

Complex black magatama patterns covered it, radiating an ancient and noble aura.

Behind him, nine enormous tails composed of pure golden chakra snapped outward, stirring the air and letting out deep, thunderous howls.

That overwhelming presence was utterly domineering, as though even heaven and earth had to submit before it.

Far away, the Nine-Tails rampaging through the center of the Hidden Leaf Village abruptly froze.

For the first time, confusion—and... an indescribable trace of alarm—appeared in its savage beast eyes.

It was as though it had sensed the presence of something on a higher level.

Kamizuki Yu slowly raised his hand, feeling the surging power within him.

This power merged perfectly with his Sage Body and Asura chakra, without the slightest rejection.

Its might was far beyond what an ordinary jinchuriki's Nine-Tails Chakra Mode could compare to.

It also came with the Nine-Tails' powerful malicious intent sensing and astonishing regenerative ability.

"Obito, your script is full of holes," he murmured.

The golden Nine-Tails chakra cloak fluttered around him.

"Now it's my turn."