In the end, the three of them headed to the Uchiha Clan Compound together.
At that moment, inside the Uchiha Clan Compound.
Tall stone walls encircled the entire compound, their surfaces engraved throughout with the clan's Gunbai crest. Wooden residences stood in staggered rows, corridors winding between them, while courtyards were filled with green bamboo and maple trees. Night slowly settled over the compound, where scattered lights cast the silhouettes of the eaves onto the stone paths.
The atmosphere in the clan leader's courtyard was particularly tense.
Because Uchiha Gen couldn't be bothered to move, Uchiha Fugaku and his family still lived in the clan leader's residence.
At that moment, a woman's muffled groans of pain kept coming from inside. The midwife hurried back and forth, and a faint scent of medicinal herbs drifted out whenever the wooden sliding door opened and closed.
Beneath the wooden veranda in the courtyard, Uchiha Fugaku stood with his hands behind his back. His face retained its usual dour expression, but his tightly clenched knuckles betrayed the anxiety within.
Uchiha Itachi stood beside the veranda, his hands clasped uneasily together. Clearly, the sounds from inside had him worried. He glanced at the tightly shut door from time to time, his eyes full of apprehension.
Behind Uchiha Itachi, however, Sasuke Uchiha was somewhat dazed. He knew who the child being born inside was. At this very moment, his feelings were particularly strange. Well... they were difficult to describe.
He himself was about to be born...
Yeah, truly absurd.
The night breeze passed through the courtyard's bamboo grove with a rustle.
After Uchiha Gen, Tsunade, and Uchiha Hikari arrived, they simply found somewhere to settle down and wait. During that time, the others arrived as well.
Among them was Kushina Uzumaki, whose belly was also swollen