Chapter 253 Nameless Blessing
"Sister Haruko!!!"
Kushina's face was filled with fear, and her wide eyes couldn't stop looking up and down at Haruko, full of panic.
The blood had almost soaked Haruko's entire body, and even the black ANBU costume could not cover up the bloodiness.
Sticky blood even flowed out from her tightly closed mouth, and her hands, which were wrapped around the circles of white thread, sank into her palms' flesh due to excessive force, oozing bright red.
The sharp claws just stopped less than half a meter away from Kushina and Namikaze Minato, and the wet and thick smell of blood hit them more directly.
Kushina's body trembled slightly, and as she looked at the scene in front of her, two lines of tears slid down her cheeks.
Minato Namikaze, who was standing next to him, had an empty head and his mouth opened and closed, but he couldn't utter a single word.
As if awakened by Kushina's tragic scream, the baby who was originally sleeping in the altar began to cry, and the mellow and loud cry was deafening.
Even Haruko, who only heard the buzzing sound in her ears, subconsciously looked at him.
Seeing his cute and healthy crying appearance, Haruko couldn't help but tremble and curl up the corners of her blood-red lips.
She protected it.
Excessive blood loss made her consciousness begin to blur. While she was still conscious, Haruko endured the pain and screamed to Minato Namikaze: "Hurry up!"
Her voice was like a blunt force blow to Minato Namikaze, who was afraid to accept the reality. He came to his senses, took a deep breath and put his hand on the child.
But his hands were still shaking, and his originally dry eyes became moist after he closed and opened them quickly again and again. The mist blurred his vision, and at this moment, he was so confused that he couldn't even mobilize his chakra completely.
No, he had to stay calm, he had to stay calm!
Minato Namikaze immediately stretched out his right hand and tightly grasped his left wrist, which temporarily stopped its trembling.
"Gossip seal!"
As the seal unfolded, the Nine-Tailed Fox, with an unwilling look on its face, was drawn into the seal.
At the same time, the chakra chains behind Haruko broke and shattered, and she fell forward like a butterfly with broken wings, losing her strength.
Kushina quickly reached out to catch her, but her body had not yet recovered, and she was almost knocked down by the force of Haruko's fall.
Without the nine-tailed claws blocking it, the big hole in Haruko's stomach was even more bloody, and the grass underneath was dyed dark red.
The horrific wound was too much for Kushina to look at. She bit her lips tightly, but sobs still leaked out from her mouth. Big tears fell and wet Haruko's pretty face.
Feeling the heat on her face, Haruko's slightly lifeless black eyes slowly turned upwards, and Kushina's crying face came into view.
Haruko chuckled and slowly comforted her, "If you cry again...Kushina won't be beautiful anymore..."
Her lips moved and blood flowed out from the corners of her mouth.
Hearing her usual gentle voice, Kushina couldn't hold back any longer and burst into tears, wrapping her arms around her shoulders, crying so hard that she could barely breathe.
"Haru... Haruko-sister! Haruko-sister!"
The moment the seal was complete, Minato Namikaze hurried to the other side of Haruko to check on her condition.
The more he looked, the colder Minato Namikaze's expression became.
Her injuries were too severe. There was a big hole in her stomach and all her internal organs were gone. It could be said that even the medical expert among the three ninjas could not save her.
This meant that they could only watch her life fade away.
"Damn it!"
Minato Namikaze raised his fist and pounded the ground hard, his bent back trembling slightly.
The resentment and anger towards himself completely overwhelmed Minato Namikaze. If only he could be a little more alert, if only he could be a little more calm, if only he could react a little faster...
"Watergate……"
Haruko turned her head and fixed her gaze on him, "That masked man... is the missing Uchiha clan member..."
"What..." Namikaze Minato looked up at her in disbelief.
There were complex emotions in her eyes, including worry about unfinished business, fear that Uchiha would be misunderstood, but more importantly, her eyes were filled with trust in Minato Namikaze.
After analyzing what she wanted to say, Minato Namikaze nodded, "I know, I will find out!"
His words were tinged with urgency. A man who had become a father was like an impetuous teenager in front of his former sister, without a trace of maturity and stability.
The only thing that Minato Namikaze could do was to not let his tears fall.
But his expression of smiling yet unable to hide his sadness was really ugly. Haruko looked at him vaguely, hoping that he could give up his stubbornness and cry like Kushina, so that she would feel better.
Looking at the two of them, Haruko didn't know what to say so that they wouldn't feel regretful in the face of death.
The chaotic thinking caused by weakness makes time seem to be stretched out frame by frame.
In the end, Haruko couldn't figure it out. She always felt that no matter what she said, there would always be some regret, so she could only read out her expectations for the two of them.
"I'm looking forward to... the day when the Uchiha completely trusts Konoha..."
As the words fell, Haruko's body glowed white, and as they looked panicked, it slowly turned into dust and dissipated into the air.
"no, do not want!"
Kushina stretched out her hand to grab the dissipating fragments, but she couldn't grab anything. The reality of her powerlessness made her burst out loud.
"Me! It should be me! I should be the one who is sacrificed!"
Haruko, who was leaning on her arms, was breathing hard and using her last bit of strength to refute her, "You are Naruto's parents... You must live..."
Without waiting for them to speak, Haruko turned her head slightly and looked at the crying baby waving his arms and legs on the altar.
"Let me die as Huanchen..."
"Don't... tell anyone..."
Gradually, her voice became silent, and even her weak breathing stopped.
As they both held their breath, Haruko's body completely turned into drifting white light, dancing in the air, and the butterfly chasing death disappeared from this world forever.
The child's crying became louder and louder, as if trying to keep her, and the loud crying reached the sky.
The last look towards Uzumaki Naruto was filled with nameless blessings—
Naruto must grow up healthy.
Naruto must be surrounded by happiness.
Naruto must be the happiest person in the world.
……
When the Fourth Hokage's wife Kushina was giving birth, a masked man broke in and took the child hostage. He then took Kushina away and released half of the Nine-Tails' chakra, trying to use the Nine-Tails to destroy Konoha.
With the desperate obstruction of the Fourth Hokage Minato Namikaze and the Anbu, the Nine-Tails was successfully contained outside the village and sealed a second time, thus avoiding a major blow to Konoha.
The masked man is suspected to be a member of the Uchiha clan who disappeared a few months ago. He fled the scene when the Nine-Tails was sealed. Currently, the Hokage is dispatching people to hunt him down.
In this Nine-Tails incident, Anbu member Huanchen was sacrificed.
The day after the incident, the above news spread throughout Konoha.
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