Why Does This Baby's Crying Sound Like He's Cursing

A crimson moon hung in the sky.

In the forest on the outskirts of Konoha, the massive form of the Nine-Tails was roaring at the top of its lungs.

We need to get the barrier up right now!

The fastest man in the Ninja World, Minato Namikaze, held his newborn son in one arm and cradled his wife, Kushina Uzumaki, in the other.

He had just rescued her from the clutches of his good disciple, Obito.

Glancing back at the giant beast behind him, Minato felt his entire body go limp.

After teleporting several Tailed Beast Bombs in a row and facing the Nine-Tails head-on, the little chakra he had left was completely drained.

Kushina glared at her man, squeezing a few words out of her throat with great effort.

I can still hold on a little longer... Minato...

The words barely left her lips.

A flurry of golden chains burst from Kushina's back, plunging straight into the earth.

The Nine-Tails, having just broken free of the Sharingan's control and still in a daze, was bound tight as a drum by the Adamantine Sealing Chains in the blink of an eye.

The terrifying magnitude of an Uzumaki Clan member's chakra and the sheer overbearing nature of their sealing techniques were on full display here.

Even after the Tailed Beast had been extracted from her body, she was still able to rely on that reckless, desperate vitality and chakra to forcefully pin the Nine-Tails down.

"Cough, cough, cough!"

Her body pushed to its absolute limit, Kushina broke into a violent fit of coughing.

Holding Naruto, Minato's voice cracked in sheer panic.

"Kushina!"

The Naruto in his arms suddenly snapped his eyes open at that moment.

Yet this little brat didn't wail and shriek like a normal newborn baby; instead, he looked around with a curious expression.

Could it be that I... time-traveled?

Naruto surveyed his surroundings with bewildered eyes, his vision not yet fully developed, so he could only see blurry shadows.

The heavens really did give me a second chance.

The excitement on his face was impossible to suppress, the corners of his mouth curving upward on their own.

In his past life, he had been a struggling webnovel author burning the midnight oil on Feilu, and in order to keep up with readers demanding rapid updates, he ultimately dropped dead right at his keyboard.

This time, no matter what, he was going to be a lazy, chapter-skipping slacker and make up for all those miserable days from his past life.

Wait, isn't this a delivery room? Why is there so much commotion?

As the roars of the Nine-Tails drifted into his ears, Naruto's head was full of question marks. What kind of hospital lets a newborn baby listen to this kind of racket after giving birth?

At that moment, a soft voice floated into Naruto's ears.

"Woke you up... I'm so sorry... Naruto..."

He had just been plotting how to easily make money using his memories from his past life, but upon hearing the two words "Naruto," his face instantly fell.

Naruto?!

No, my ears must be acting up, or I just happened to share a name with him. After all, that crappy anime world isn't real.

Naruto frantically tried to comfort himself in his mind.

Then, the very next second.

"Dragging the Nine-Tails down like this... I'll die along with it... That way, I can push back the time of the Nine-Tails' resurrection... by a few more years..."

Naruto:...!

Are you fucking kidding me?!

He really had transmigrated into that Naruto World where no one seemed to live past forty?

Hashirama Senju might have truly brought an end to the most chaotic period of the Warring States Period, but human life was still as worthless as dirt in this era.

What made his balls ache even more was that he had somehow become the next Jinchuriki, Naruto Uzumaki.

Don't let his later overpowered status in the plot fool you.

If you want to know how truly miserable Naruto's childhood was, just look at Gaara and you'll understand everything.

Having clearly heard Kushina's words just now, Naruto finally snapped to his senses and realized that it wasn't just Minato.

Even his own biological mother was willingly marching off to her death for that damn Will of Fire?!

To put it bluntly, the vitality of the Uzumaki Clan was ridiculously tenacious; merely having the Tailed Beast extracted from them wouldn't kill them.

At most, it would shave off a few years of their lifespan.

That time Chiyo used the Reincarnation Technique to revive Gaara, and the way Obito could still stubbornly hold onto his last breath even after the Ten-Tails was ripped out of him, were proof enough of this.

As long as Kushina stopped exerting chakra right now, relying on the Uzumaki Clan's freakishly extreme vitality, she wouldn't die at all.

The reason Naruto had lost his life back when the Nine-Tails was pulled out of him was because the Asura Chakra within his body hadn't awakened yet, coupled with the fact that he wasn't even a pure-blooded member of the Uzumaki Clan.

Watching the guarantor of his happiness risk her life for those ungrateful villagers who were like white-eyed wolves...

Naruto simply couldn't hold it in anymore, opening his throat to yell at the top of his lungs.

Damn it! Don't you die! What am I supposed to do if you die!

Yet he was just a newborn infant now, and the words at the tip of his tongue turned entirely into bawling wails no different from a crying baby.

Kushina Uzumaki smiled instead, a trace of a smile welling up on her face.

"Look, Naruto, you think so too, don't you? I'll use the very last bit of chakra in my body right now to help the two of you."

Naruto: "..." Like hell I think so!

Did she have any idea how deceitful that old fox the Third was, or that bastard Danzo, who was single-mindedly set on brainwashing him into a tool for Root?

Yet no matter how Naruto howled, Kushina Uzumaki only felt that all of this was for the stability of the village, and to fight for a future without war for her son.

Following that, she poured all the chakra in her body into the Adamantine Sealing Chains, mustering the strength to smile at Minato Namikaze.

"Thank you for everything you've done for me all these years."

Hearing this, Naruto raised his tiny hand to rub the corners of his eyes.

He wanted to wipe away tears that hadn't even flowed out.

Why couldn't he just open his mouth to speak.