Chapter 115: What is a Naturally Born Holy Body?!
"AAHHH—!!!"
Near midnight, a piercing scream shattered the peaceful silence of the Uchiha clan compound.
Uchiha Fugaku, deeply immersed in a beautiful dream, had been fantasizing about becoming the Fourth Hokage, restoring the legendary glory of the Uchiha clan, crushing the leaders of the four great shinobi villages in decisive combat, and leading Konohagakure to unprecedented heights. In his dream, the villagers cheered his name with wild enthusiasm, even proclaiming him the greatest Hokage in the village's entire history.
Just at the most triumphant moment of his fantasy, Fugaku suddenly felt a sharp kick to his side.
THUMP!
He rolled directly off the bed, his head slamming hard against the floor.
"Ugh, what happened?" Still half-asleep and completely disoriented, Fugaku was utterly confused, looking around with a dazed expression.
Mikoto clutched her swollen belly desperately, excruciating pain causing a fine sheen of cold sweat to form across her smooth forehead. Her face had turned deathly pale. Seeing that Fugaku still looked like he hadn't fully woken up yet, she felt instant fury surge through her. She glared at him with barely contained hostility and ground out through clenched teeth: "Didn't you hear me screaming?! I was calling out to you just now!"
"Uh..."
Now it was Fugaku's turn to break out in cold sweat. It was entirely because his dream had been so wonderfully vivid that he hadn't registered anything happening in reality.
"You—" Mikoto was about to curse him properly when a sudden, stabbing pain lanced through her abdomen—so intense that she couldn't even finish speaking. Her slender fingers gripped the bedsheets with white-knuckled intensity, her face ghastly pale and drenched in cold sweat. She clenched her teeth and forced out her remaining strength: "Can't you see?! I... I'm going into labor!"
After managing to gasp out those words, Mikoto could no longer maintain her composure. The bone-deep, excruciating agony instantly caused her to release a bloodcurdling scream.
"What?! She's going into labor?!"
Fugaku finally grasped what was happening, terror and complete bewilderment flooding his features. "But there are still three months until her due date! How is this possible?!"
"AAAAAHHH!!!"
Mikoto curled up in agonizing pain on the bed, her face contorted grotesquely with dark veins bulging across her skin. She screamed desperately: "Stop standing there! Get help! NOW!"
"Hold on, Mikoto! Just hold on!"
Seeing Mikoto suffering in such terrible pain, Fugaku was consumed with panic. Without thinking clearly, he bolted straight out of the room in his nightclothes.
"Someone! ANYONE! I need a medical ninja immediately! Mikoto's going into labor!"
"What?! Lady Mikoto is in labor?"
"That's impossible! She's only seven months pregnant—how can she be delivering already?!"
"Stop wasting time arguing! Can't you see how frantic Lord Fugaku is?! Someone go fetch a medical ninja right now!"
Amidst the chaotic commotion of voices, several Uchiha clan members vaulted over the compound walls and sprinted at full speed toward Konoha Hospital.
Fortunately, shinobi possess extraordinary speed. The medical ninja arrived in just a few short minutes.
"Quickly! Hurry inside! Mikoto's in the bedroom!" Fugaku completely abandoned any semblance of his usual clan leader dignity. He seized the medical ninja's arm and practically dragged her toward the room.
"All unrelated personnel must leave immediately!"
The medical ninja stated coldly and professionally, clearing the area.
Fugaku clenched his fists nervously, palms slick with anxious sweat. His eyes constantly darted toward the room as he muttered repeatedly like a desperate mantra: "She has to be okay. She has to be okay. She has to be okay..."
Soon, Mikoto's increasingly agonized screams echoed from within the bedroom.
Each successive scream grew louder and more tormented—so horrifying that it sent chills down the spines of everyone listening outside.
"Is childbirth really that terrible?"
Some of the younger female Uchiha clan members had already grown visibly frightened by the sounds.
"How can this be happening? What's going wrong?!" Fugaku had completely lost his composure—he hadn't expected childbirth to cause Mikoto such extreme suffering.
Some of the older, more experienced Uchiha women, sensing their clan leader's mounting distress, offered quiet words of comfort: "It's alright, Fugaku-sama. This is probably Mikoto's first child, so her body isn't accustomed to it yet. It shouldn't normally be quite this difficult."
However, Fugaku didn't register a single word of their reassurance. His eyes remained locked intently on the closed bedroom door.
As the screams gradually grew fainter and weaker, everyone's hearts leaped into their throats, fearing something catastrophic might be happening inside.
Just then, the medical ninja released a terrified scream of her own.
"AHHH—!!!"
"Something's wrong!"
Fugaku's pupils constricted sharply. He instantly burst into motion, smashing straight through the bedroom door.
"No! Don't come in—!"
The medical ninja desperately tried to stop him, but it was far too late.
"What the hell is happening in here?! WHAT—?!" When Fugaku burst into the room and witnessed the scene before him, even as the composed clan head renowned for his calm demeanor, he nearly lost all self-control and screamed in horror.
"Clan Head!"
"What happened?! What's wrong, Clan Head?!"
The Uchiha gathered outside immediately tried to rush in to see what had caused such a reaction.
But before they could even cross the threshold, Fugaku whirled around. His eyes filled with an extremely complex mixture of primal fear and twisted horror as he roared commandingly: "Everyone stay back! Leave this area immediately! That's a direct order from your clan head—do you understand me?!"
Everyone stood completely bewildered by this unprecedented command.
But seeing the clan head's deadly serious tone and expression, although consumed with burning curiosity, they could only exchange confused glances and slowly retreat from the courtyard, waiting at a safe distance.
Once absolutely certain no one would break in, Fugaku turned back around. His eyes filled with profound fear as he stared at the bed and whispered hoarsely: "What kind of... what kind of monster is this?!"
Uchiha Mikoto, lying motionless on the blood-soaked bed, had already lost consciousness from the overwhelming pain.
Normally, Fugaku would have felt heartbroken seeing his wife in such condition. But now he had absolutely no such thoughts. In fact, if it weren't for the fact that Mikoto was his beloved wife, he might have killed whatever was on that bed without a moment's hesitation!
The thing still inside Mikoto's distended belly was simply too terrifying—too fundamentally wrong and horrifying!
Her abdomen was grotesquely swollen, the skin stretched far beyond its natural limits, creating an exaggerated, unnatural bulge that had become almost translucent. They could clearly see two tiny hand-shaped appendages inside Mikoto's belly, desperately clawing and tearing at her skin from within, struggling violently to break free.
There was also a disturbing protrusion resembling a twisted human face pressed tightly against the interior of her belly. Its contorted, nightmarish features were enough to make anyone's blood run cold.
"Fugaku-sama... what should we do?"
The medical ninja swallowed hard, desperately suppressing her rising terror.
She had personally delivered at least five hundred births—possibly over a thousand—throughout her career, and had never witnessed anything remotely this horrifying.
Could this thing even legitimately be considered a 'child'?
Fugaku's face remained grim, his Sharingan flickering unconsciously with uncertain light. He clenched his jaw, clearly engaged in an intense internal struggle.
It was terrifying, absolutely terrifying... but this was his firstborn child!
After a brief moment of agonized hesitation, Fugaku seemed to reach a decision. "If we don't... if we don't deliver this child, can we still save Mikoto's life?"
The medical ninja hesitated momentarily, then responded with professional caution: "No. The fetus is already fully developed. Attempting to terminate now would be extremely dangerous for the mother. I strongly recommend proceeding with the delivery, and then afterward..."
She deliberately left her sentence unfinished, but she was confident Fugaku understood her implication perfectly.
"Then deliver it!"
Fugaku stated without further hesitation. "No matter what happens—no matter what that thing is—you absolutely must save Mikoto's life!"
The medical ninja nodded gravely. "Don't worry. I will do everything in my power to preserve her life."
With that solemn promise, she gathered her courage once more and approached Mikoto's unconscious form on the bed.
The delivery itself proceeded surprisingly smoothly—or perhaps more accurately, the method was brutally simple. The infant emerged almost instantly the moment the medical ninja surgically opened the abdominal cavity.
The medical ninja worked with swift, practiced efficiency, quickly stitching the traumatic wound and stopping the severe bleeding before finally turning her attention to the bizarrely neglected newborn.
Strangely enough, the infant neither cried nor made any sound whatsoever after birth.
"This child is..."
The medical ninja's face went deathly pale with shock upon actually seeing the baby clearly for the first time.
Seeing Mikoto's severely weakened, nearly lifeless condition, Fugaku's protective rage flared white-hot. He strode forward determinedly, kunai gripped tightly in his hand, fully prepared to eliminate this cursed, ominous child.
"Damned monster! How could Mikoto and I—proud members of the Uchiha clan—possibly have produced such an abomination?!"
However, just as the razor-sharp kunai was about to pierce through, the infant—who had kept its eyes firmly closed until this moment—seemed to somehow sense the mortal danger. Its eyes slowly opened.
A single, dark tomoe floated ominously within blood-red irises!
Whoosh!
The descending kunai stopped abruptly, frozen half an inch from the infant's exposed throat.
Fugaku's eyes widened to their absolute limits. He couldn't help but gasp in complete astonishment: "The Sharingan! It awakened immediately at birth! A natural-born Sharingan!"
Facing the lethal kunai positioned at its throat, the infant showed absolutely no fear whatsoever. Instead, it stretched out one chubby little finger to curiously touch the blade's edge. A distinctly unsettling smile spread across its tiny face: "Hehehehehehe..."
Watching this deeply disturbing scene unfold, Fugaku remained completely silent for a prolonged moment.
Finally, he released a heavy, conflicted sigh. He slowly withdrew the kunai and gazed down at the infant with an extraordinarily complex expression, murmuring quietly: "I don't know whether your birth represents a blessing or a terrible curse for our clan. From this day forward, I'll call you Itachi. Uchiha Itachi. Born naturally with the Sharingan awakened... I can only hope you'll bring glory to our clan rather than destruction."
[End of Chapter 115]
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