Nine-Tails! Nine-Tails!

"Konoha 17, evacuate non-combatants!"

"Quickly report to the Third Hokage!"

"Fifth Squad, follow me to contain the Nine-Tails!"

"Reinforcements! Reinforcements!"

After the chaos, ninja arrived in waves, spontaneously dispatching personnel to prevent greater losses... They diligently carried out the tasks within their capabilities...

The only mistake, perhaps, was underestimating the Nine-Tails...

If a few Chunin or even Jonin could hold the Nine-Tails' attention, tailed beasts wouldn't be considered ultimate weapons.

"Careful!"

"Don't get too close!"

"Use shuriken with explosive tags..."

"Roar!"

After sharp claws tore through the air, the smell of blood filled the area. The ninja who volunteered to contain the Nine-Tails died by a single claw before they could even draw its attention...

What followed was collapse... An evacuation team snaked along like an earthworm, revealing itself in the tailed beast's scarlet eyes... They were mere steps away from the Nine-Tails!

Uchiha Mikoto was classified as a non-combatant and was being jostled along with the evacuees towards the shelter; she couldn't break free.

"Beiyuan... go... check on Itachi... check on Sasuke..." As a mother, all she could do now was trust the crow.

"Caw!"

What a joke... Uchiha Mikoto's situation is far more dangerous than home! It doesn't know how Itachi managed to get Sasuke through this natural disaster...

But it can recognize one thing: if the situation continues like this, Mikoto won't be able to escape the Nine-Tails' attack! What it can do is trust Itachi and find a way to get Uchiha Mikoto to escape!

The crow bitterly regretted its laziness; it had never left behind a single Flying Thunder God Technique tag! The Nine-Tails' fierce gaze had already turned its way...

On the other side, several ninja responsible for the evacuation exchanged glances. There were no other combat personnel in this area, so they could only nod to each other and say, "We're going in!"

"...Be careful!"

Several white claws, as slender as bamboo poles, pierced through the chests and abdomens of all the ninja... A gust of wind swept through, and everyone in the area was killed or injured...

Children who had been pressed down by their parents and elders crawled out. Their clothes were soaked with blood, their faces stained crimson, and the fear in their eyes had not yet faded.

"Dad... Mom..."

With the first child's soft murmur, the crying in the entire open space erupted instantly, and sorrow began to spread...

"Grandma..."

"Brother... Brother..."

"Child... my child..."

Under the Nine-Tails' rampage, hundreds of people survived, only a few dozen, less than one in ten.

Beiyuan let out a sigh of relief. Fortunately, Uchiha Mikoto was unharmed. Crow feathers fluttered down as she got up; those were its shattered shadow clones.

It dared not imagine what would happen if Uchiha Mikoto were harmed. It didn't know how it would face Fugaku's family and its own conscience...

"Beiyuan... I'll take them to the shelter first!" A girl was now by Uchiha Mikoto's side, her expression dazed as she let herself be led; many had this same look.

Even an aftershock was more than this broken team could handle!

The massive chakra reaction instantly caught Beiyuan's attention. The Nine-Tails' fangs and maw slowly opened, and a sphere of mixed colors gradually took shape...

"It's a Tailed Beast Bomb!" Uchiha Mikoto sighed, her hope extinguished. "...Let's run... run quickly... Beiyuan!"

Uchiha Mikoto knew quite a lot; ordinary people wouldn't be able to say that. Her current desperation wasn't like that of an ordinary housewife.

The Tailed Beast Bomb's trajectory should be aimed at the Hokage Building. However, the Fourth Hokage's home was not far from the Hokage Building... With the power of the Tailed Beast Bomb, this area was almost certainly doomed...

Beiyuan could only be thankful that the Uchiha clan's records mentioned the Tailed Beast Bomb technique, and Mikoto had seen it and recognized it...

"Caw!"

I can't even create a Rasengan with any flavor! But a Tailed Beast Bomb, I can manage to fire one!

A small black orb instantly condensed in the crow's sharp beak and shot towards the unformed Tailed Beast Bomb in the air!

BOOM!

The enormous explosion sound strained people's eardrums with all its might...

In the air, the black and purple sphere vanished. The giant fox's fangs were badly damaged, and its nine massive tails hung limply on the ground, clearly having suffered heavy damage.

The Nine-Tails' eyes were closed, as if dead. Reinforcing ninja swarmed towards the Nine-Tails' direction...

The crow's soul was terrified. Even though it wasn't a ninja, it could sense the vast chakra within the Nine-Tails had not dissipated. It should have been obvious that the Nine-Tails couldn't be killed by a single Tailed Beast Bomb; how could ninja be so stupid!

"Caw!"

What Beiyuan hadn't expected was that it had seen the original work and understood the power of the Tailed Beast Bomb more thoroughly than ordinary ninja. However, these ninja probably thought it was enough, or at least believed the Nine-Tails had lost its combat effectiveness.

It could no longer care about the outcome. It let out a cry towards Uchiha Mikoto, startling the stunned matriarch. One person and one crow, with a group of stragglers behind them, fled at full speed.

The Hokage Building was no longer safe, and the nearby shelters could also be ruled out. As for the Uchiha clan's shelter, it was too far from the Hokage Building... Wherever it was far from the Nine-Tails, that's where they would go...

"Roar!"

"Run!"

"Don't run! Lure the Nine-Tails outside!"

"Hold on! Lord Third Hokage is almost here!"

The ensuing screams echoed through Konoha. Even without looking back, Beiyuan could guess what was happening...

The afterimage of two claws tore apart everything in front of it. Under the scarlet Sharingan eyes of the Nine-Tails, even blood seemed pale.

The firelight that followed illuminated the path ahead for a brief moment. It was a black energy blast, and this was just the beginning...

Explosions continued without end, the firelight flickering like expensive fireworks on New Year's Eve... It seemed they had learned their lesson... that bastard who summoned the Nine-Tails...

"Caw!"

Beiyuan formed a shadow clone and met an incoming energy blast. The clone was blown to smithereens, and the others were sent flying and knocked to the ground by the shockwave.

Crude, hastily made sandals caught people's eyes...

"Quickly get them to the shelter!"

"Second squad, continue searching for survivors!"

"The rest of you, follow me!"

A small figure appeared before them. The old man's deep voice was incredibly reassuring at this moment. The Third Hokage, the former Hokage Hiruzen Sarutobi, had finally appeared.

Ever since the Nine-Tails' surprise attack, Hiruzen Sarutobi had been gathering the direct Anbu members to enter the fray. Unfortunately, the Nine-Tails was a summoned beast, and all the ninja who tried to lure it outside became sacrifices.

This Nine-Tails brat was like a destructive husky, single-mindedly tearing down Konoha's houses and destroying everything in its path...

The Anbu had to focus on rescue first... Uchiha Mikoto and her group were the only survivors near the Nine-Tails.

"...Third Hokage, the wife of the Uchiha clan head... is also among these people!"

Soon, someone among the Anbu members recognized Uchiha Mikoto and Beiyuan... They had almost complete knowledge of the Uchiha clan.

Hiruzen Sarutobi frowned. "Take them to the nearest shelter first! Also, send someone to notify the Police Force and order them to rescue and evacuate non-combatants on the spot!"

"It's best... not to show up here!"

Completely unaware of the conversation happening outside, Beiyuan, after confirming the shelter was safe, silently left a crow-shaped Flying Thunder God Technique mark on Mikoto...

He had to confirm the safety of those two brats, and then... In fact, from the moment he saw the Nine-Tails, he could be sure that Uzumaki Kushina was certainly dead...

Namikaze Minato would also surely not survive alone... But, when facing someone like that, one must at least send them off properly, right?

Perhaps, he could help somehow...

The first update feels a bit lacking. I'll add another update this afternoon or evening.