The Attack!

The night was still bright as the full moon hung brightly on the sky.

The three Uchiha siblings sat on the floor at the back of their house. Sasuke was wrapped with cloths as Itachi carried him.

As for Ken, he just leaned on the wall with a relaxed expression, but suddenly, a strong wind flew around them. It carried an ominous feeling that he never felt ever since he was reborn in this world.

'What's going on?' Ken immediately stood up and tried to observe the surrounding, but he could not find anything wrong. But even then, the dangerous gut feeling never disappeared. Even though he already went rusty with the nearly two years without a fight, his instincts were never wrong.

Even the young Itachi looked up and turned serious as he murmured, "What is this sensation?"

Even the baby Sasuke made a scared expression and released a loud cry.

"There, there... Don't cry, Sasuke. No matter what happens, your big brother will definitely protect you..." Itachi tried to calm down the crying Sasuke.

As Ken waited, the dangerous feeling grew stronger and stronger. He could feel his heart beat faster and faster.

'Shit, am I scared?!' Ken thought furiously. 'Am I really scared?!'

He clenched his chest and tried to calm down, but before he could, he heard deafening roar not far from their house followed by horrifying blood lust. A blood lust so strong that his own killing intent could not even match.

It carried malicious and crazed air that could send terror on one's heart.

The ground trembled, and before the siblings could even react, debris flew over their house, destroying the neighborhood. They could hear the intense scream of a wild beast, but in that scream, it carried indignance, hate, and pride.

The horrified screams of the people kept echoing added to the constant explosion caused by flying debris. The scene reminded Ken of a volcanic eruption. It was like hell entered the village itself.

The smell of death seems to spread around the entire village and the reapers seem to fly around with pleasure as they enjoyed the show.

"Hurry, Big Brother! Let's get out of here!" Ken screamed furiously and pulled Itachi's clothes.

"It's okay. There, there..." Itachi was still calm and collected as he still tried his best to calm the crying Sasuke. The room kept trembling as if a strong earthquake attacked the village.

Finally, they exited the house and the cries of the people went louder.

"It's the Nine-Tails! The Demon Fox is on the loose!"

"What's going on?!"

"Just run, you idiot!"

The panicked residents kept running, trying to find a safe place. Thankfully, it was a full moon, otherwise, hell would have really broken loose.

Just as Ken looked up, he saw a large rock flying over their direction, and without hesitation, he pushed Itachi to the other side as he also rolled on the ground. Itachi also used his body and ducked to protect Sasuke.

"BANG!" The rock made contact sending a small shock wave of small rocks. Thankfully, the three were not hit. And without a pause, the immediately moved.

'Shit! What's going on?! Is a beast running wild?' Ken looked at the direction of the eyes of the disaster, but due to the buildings, his vision was blocked.

"Ken! Come, I'll carry you!" Itachi bent down and pulled Ken towards his back. "Hold on!" Itachi greeted his teeth and calmly walked fast, evading the debris that fell from the sky.

Ken held on tightly cause he knew that even if he walked on his own, he would get tired fast and slow their pace. He was not even two yet, how could he possibly run? Thankfully, over the course of months, Ken visibly slimmed down and his weight was reduced a lot.

They could hear the shouts of the Shinobi's trying to evacuate all the people to the evacuation area.

"This is an announcement from the Leaf Police! All civilians are to evacuate to the Southeast Shelter!"

The three siblings traveled and even Sasuke stopped crying, so they traveled as silent as they could. But before they could reach the safe zone, they heard a cry on an alley. And judging from the voice, the one crying should be a little girl.

Still, even with his burden, Itachi still hurriedly went to the direction.

"Dad! Mom!" The siblings saw a little girl in an alley using the wall as a guide as she walked while crying. She sounded very scared.

"Come here!" Itachi shouted.

"Ahh!" The little girl looked back and showed her face, full of tears.

"Itachi!..~kun?"

"Hurry!" Itachi grimaced and extended his left arm, while the other supported Ken. As for Sasuke, he was supported by the cloths, so he would not fall.

"Mhm." The little girl wiped her tears and run towards Itachi.

"Bang!" The walls the little girl originally held on to, suddenly exploded and the shock waves sent rocks and wood particles flying towards them.

Fortunately, the little girl was able to reach out her hand to Itachi and Itachi yanked her to the side, and hid behind the wall, dodging the flying debris.

Ken, who was trying to hold on the back of Itachi felt like his arms were about to burst. His arms were as tired as they could get. He looked at the pretty little girl and his eyes lit up as an idea popped on his head.

He tapped on Itachi's cheek and said, "Let this Big Sister carry me. I know you are tired."

"No, I can still carry you..." Itachi hesitated and looked at the little girl's eyes. His face was drenched with sweat and his breathing was uneven.

"I'll carry him!" The little girl said resolutely.

"Then, okay." Itachi bent down and let Ken down.

"Hoo~"

"Haa~" The two siblings sighed in relief at the same time, as if they finally let go of a huge burden.

"You two..." Speechless, the little girl could only pretend that she did not hear them and bent down as Ken climbed on her back.

"Let's go to the shelter." Although the words were long, the scene actually happened quickly.

"Okay." Ken sighed, thankfully, the little girl knew Itachi, or else, she would have hesitated and she would have gotten injured or even died.

The group of kids with age ranging from 5 years old to a baby that was not even 3 months old traveled as fast as they could. Before long, the number of people ahead of them increased.

Just as they were running, Ken saw a figure jumping over the roofs. He waved his hand and shouted with his loudest voice,

"Dad!"

"Itachi, Ken! It's good that you're alright." The anxious Fugaku finally calmed down when he saw that all of his sons were safe.

"Father!" Itachi stopped and greeted.

"It's good that you're alright. Go to the shelter quickly!" Fugaku said and his expression turned serious.

"Alright!"

...

The sky trembled with every scream the beast produced. Its humongous size that towered just like a mountain made the earth quake with its every step. It's nine tails that would slap around destroying everything upon contact. Its eyes flickered red in the dark.

Every detail of the Nine-Tailed Fox made it look invincible! Nothing could rival it! Not even the heavens!

It walked, stepping on the buildings like they were just ants and the stomped on the people below like they were just dust. But what was strange was, its eyes did not look like its own at all. In fact, it was not it's own.

If someone who knew this beast very well would observe very closely, they would notice that the infamous Nine-Tailed Demon Fox was actually under control of someone with the Sharingan.

...

Somewhere not far but outside Konoha, two men stood apart and stared at each other. If you remembered, the other man was actually the masked man that appeared inside the village, standing on the rooftop and was swallowed by the contracted spiral space.

While the other man had yellow hair. His white robe flickered with the wind and showed the back of it written with the words 'Fourth Hokage'.

That's right, this was the man who was recently made as the Fourth Hokage, Namikaze Minato, the Yellow Flash!

Minato looked at the black-robed man seriously as his thoughts spun.

'He took out the ANBU under the Third's direct command, slipped past the top-secret barrier, and knew that the Kyuubi's seal would weaken during childbirth. He also removed the seal and tamed it. Not to mention that he moved in and out of Konoha's barrier without being seen. There is only one shinobi I know who can do all that.'

Minato relaxed his expression and asked the black-robed man, "Are you Uchiha Madara?"

The black-robed man removed his hood when he heard the question, but he did not speak.

"No, that's not possible. He's dead." Minato added with almost certainty.

"Are you sure about that?" The black-robed man, tilted his head as if wanting to provoke Minato.

"Regardless, it doesn't matter who you are. Why are you targeting Konoha?" Minato frowned and answered back.

"You could say I did it on a whim, or that I planned it, or that I seek a war, or that I seek peace." The black-robed man answered casually and raised his left hand as a long chain dropped from the cover of the loose robe. He locked both ends of the chain on each of his hands and flicked the chain towards his back.

Minato frowned as resoluteness filled his eyes.

'If I don't take care of him here, he'll cause even more

destruction than the Kyuubi. If I teleport back to Konoha, he'll just follow me and make the battlefield even more chaotic.'

'Just like Madara, his summoning technique should not be able to sustain the Kyuubi for too long. I'll leave the village in the Third's hands. It's my job to bring him down here!' With that, resoluteness filled his eyes and he raised his special kind of kunai that was marked.

"Now that I released the Kyuubi, you people are already doomed!" The black-robed man dashed towards Minato just as he finished. That's right, this is the man who released the seal and is currently controlling the Demon Fox rampaging on the village.

Minato did not back down and also charged with his kunai pointed upfront.

Just as the supposed to be expected 'ramming into each other', Minato's kunai passed through the black-robed man's body. No, even Minato passed through the man's body with no resistance at all. But because the man had the chains on following from his back, Minato was going to get trapped.

"Shua!" But the chain was only able to touch Minato when his body flickered and he teleported to another special kunai he set just nearby.

'My physical attacks may not be able to penetrate his body. But he has to materialize in order to attack me. In other words, my only choice is to strike at the same time he strikes me. Still, he takes risk when he attacks. With the Kyuubi's summoning time limit on his mind, he does not want a lengthy fight. Whoever's attack is a split second faster will win.' Minato analyzed as fast as he could and stood up and charged again to that black-robed man.

He flicked his left hand and the special kunai went speeding towards the black-robed man's masked face. But as expected it only passed through. Everything seems to be going in slow motion, but at that instant when they are about to ram into each other, the air surrounding Minato's right hand stirred up in circulation forming a blue-colored sphere of chakra on his hand.

'I win.' The black-robed man thought, but in the instant that his hand was about to touch Minato's body, Minato suddenly flickered, and before the man could react, he was suddenly rammed into the ground, breaking it, sending shock waves to the surroundings and making a small crater. The dust flew about the air making the surrounding blur.

But before Minato flickered, his palm barely touched the exposed skin on the black-robed man's back and black mark appeared.

'Damn it! He jumped to the kunai he threw!' Thought the black-robed man in surprise, but it was a little too late.

He only heard Minato say,

"That was my Level Two Hiraishin." before he was completely rammed on the ground.

Still, it was not over. The black-robed man was still able to jump as he somersaulted in the air landing on a standing earth left behind by the earlier technique.

The black-robed man panted heavily as he held his left arm, but strangely enough, his hand was severed apart but no blood came out. Instead, a white glue-like substance fell together with the hand.

"You got me. I see now why they call you a phantom. I let my guard down for just a-" before the man could even finish talking, Minato who was 20 meters away suddenly flickered in front of him and instantly delivered a stab to the black-robed man's guts.

'Hiraishin no Jutsu?! I see. he must have marked me.' Although he realized, it was already too late.

"A contract seal?!" He could only watch helplessly as a spiderweb-like seal appeared the moment Minato's palm touched his chest.

"Are you trying to sever my connection with the Kyuubi?!" The black-robed man shouted at Minato furiously. This time, everything really caught him by surprise.

"The Kyuubi is no longer under your command," Minato said calmly.

...

Back at the shelter, the three siblings and the little girl sat in one group. They stayed silent as they listened to the mournful voice of the people. The people had expressions of despair, and the feeling only grew as the Nine-Tails screams echoed in their ears.

But Ken who was also seated silently on the floor trembled. He felt throbbing coming from his stomach, but no matter what he did, the throbbing would not stop. But if he could look inside his stomach, he would be shocked to see a black sphere inside his stomach.

He would be even more surprised as the black sphere looked exactly like the one that entered his glabella and possibly the thing that transmigrated him to this new world.

But if you looked closely, even though it was in Ken's stomach, it did not seem to bother the organs. It looked like it was in another space of its own, but it moves with Ken, to be more precise, it looked like the Black Ball was hiding inside Ken's body.

Suddenly, the Black Ball trembled and slowly, like an egg that was about to hatch, the Black ball suddenly cracked in a zig-zag pattern. But the crack stopped half-way through and it opened wider and wider, like the mouth of a devil, but contrary to the outside appearance, inside the Black Ball shone brightly.

But oddly enough, the light did not escape outside the Black Ball. Suddenly, an invisible suction force

appeared the moment the mouth like crack reached its maximum.

And... To be continued...