How should he put it? The facts proved that Uchiha, men and women alike, really were not suited to this sort of thing. This novel of Uchiha Hikari's... well.
"It's well written. You lost."
Uchiha Gen set down the book and spoke to Uchiha Hikari, who had been waiting for his assessment. Then he looked at the screen, where the character Tsunade controlled was already lying on the ground.
Beside him, Tsunade stared blankly at Uchiha Gen's foot resting on the game controller.
Humiliation!!
"Uh..."
Minato Namikaze, who had been looking anxious beside them, also struggled to keep a straight face at the sight.
"This is so annoying. What kind of lousy game did Orochimaru design? Why is it so hard? Forget it, let's go. Let's go see Kushina. Yellow-haired brat, come on."
Finally snapping out of it, Tsunade tossed aside her controller, stood up, and turned to Minato Namikaze.
"Oh! Gen, would you and Senior Hikari like to come too?"
Minato Namikaze's eyes immediately lit up, and he raised his hands to form hand seals.
"Let's go take a look together."
Uchiha Gen nodded, stood up, and put on his shoes. Naruto's birth was an event he simply had to witness. He just wondered... whether anything entertaining would happen during Naruto's birth this time.
Konoha Hospital.
Just before she entered the delivery room with a nurse supporting her, Kushina Uzumaki, who normally feared nothing, clutched her best friend Uchiha Mikoto's hand so tightly that her knuckles turned slightly white.
Her usually bright, lively features were now tinged with unease, and even her voice carried a barely perceptible tremor.
"Mikoto... giving birth really hurts, doesn't it?"
Kushina Uzumaki lowered her eyes, revealing a rare vulnerability and unease.
Uchiha Mikoto leaned down and gently brushed the wisps of hair stuck