A little while earlier, as Uchiha Hiyaku, Uchiha Kenta, and Uchiha Shota were discussing in the courtyard, a woman was giving birth in the room that was being used as a delivery room. At this moment, Uchiha Tsuki's labor had reached its final stage.
In the spacious room, the woman who was giving birth lay on the tatami mat in the center of the room, with midwives and medical ninjas bustling around her. Two women, whose identities were clearly not simple, were constantly encouraging the pregnant woman.
These two women were Uchiha Kenta's wife, Uchiha Aya, and Uchiha Shota's wife, Uchiha Koto. They were also the mother-in-law and mother of Uchiha Tsuki, who was currently in labor.
Everything was in order, everything was going smoothly.
Although a short time ago, because of her husband's death, the pregnant woman had been so sad that she had moved her fetus, she eventually overcame it with the comfort of her family, and also for the sake of the child in her belly.
The same was true during the delivery process. Under the care of experienced midwives and highly skilled medical ninjas, everything went smoothly until this moment.
“Something’s wrong, ladies.”
As everyone was waiting for the baby to be safely born, one of the medical ninjas attending to Uchiha Tsuki noticed something unusual: “I don’t know why, but Ms. Tsuki’s chakra is suddenly flowing uncontrollably towards the baby, and it’s very fast. If this continues…”
Several female medical ninjas looked very anxious. This was a situation they had never encountered before, and they were completely unable to cope with it.
Uchiha Tsuki was also a ninja, possessing the ability to refine chakra, and she was also an upper-level ninja with a three-tomoe Sharingan.
Although she was giving birth, it seemed like she didn’t need to refine chakra, but to strengthen her physique and reduce the pain, and to have a smooth delivery, Uchiha Tsuki had refined chakra.
In fact, this was a common method used by female ninjas during childbirth. It was precisely because of the power of chakra that, in this world of ninjas, female ninjas rarely had difficult births.
This was also the reason why Uchiha Hiyaku, Uchiha Kenta, and Uchiha Shota, in the courtyard, were not worried at all about Uchiha Tsuki’s childbirth. They were even discussing business.
But now, it was clear that something beyond the norm was happening.
“Ah——”
Suddenly, as the medical ninjas were anxiously trying to do something, the woman lying on the bed let out a shrill cry of pain. Her originally black eyes were suddenly covered in crimson, and the three tomoe in her pupils spun. It was her Sharingan, activated without her control.
“What, what happened?”
“What’s going on?”
Uchiha Aya and Uchiha Koto, the two women, opened their Sharingan one after the other. Although it was only a single-tomoe and a two-tomoe, they clearly saw the torrent of chakra in their daughter (daughter-in-law’s) body rushing towards the baby in her abdomen.
But, although they saw it, they couldn’t understand at all why this was happening.
And as for Uchiha Tsuki, the person involved, she had a clearer feeling than them.
“It’s not just chakra, even the Sharingan’s eye power is…”
Everything happened too fast. The sudden situation caught everyone by surprise, and by the time everyone reacted and wanted to do something.
“Waah——”
With a loud cry, everything seemed to be over.
“Ladies, it’s a boy!”
As the several medical ninjas and Uchiha Aya and Uchiha Koto were at a loss, the midwife, although she was also a little flustered by the sudden accident, finally managed to deliver the baby with her rich experience.
After some handling, a tiny baby, wrapped in cotton cloth, was brought before Uchiha Aya and Uchiha Koto.
And with the sound of the baby’s cry, and the midwife’s voice, the several medical ninjas, who had been at a loss for a moment, suddenly came to their senses. They hurriedly checked on Uchiha Tsuki, who had just given birth, and the baby who was now in Uchiha Aya’s arms.
After examining the baby, a female medical ninja, while handing the baby to Uchiha Aya, gave an answer that made everyone breathe a sigh of relief.
“Aya-sama, the baby is fine, very healthy!”
“Mmm.”
Uchiha Aya took the baby, who was no longer crying and was now quiet, and the expression on her face was complex. Although the baby was healthy, the baby’s mother’s condition was not good.
Pale face, dull eyes, the skin that had been full of vitality had now lost its luster and elasticity…
Even though the other medical ninja’s check-up results for Uchiha Tsuki had not come out yet, seeing her daughter-in-law like this, Uchiha Aya suddenly felt a strong sense of uneasiness in her heart.
On the other hand, the medical ninjas seemed to be in disbelief at the situation in front of them. But after several checks, they finally accepted the reality and, looking dejected, told the two mothers waiting for an answer, “I-I’m sorry, Koto-sama, Aya-sama. Ms. Tsuki, Ms. Tsuki’s chakra is exhausted…”
“What? How, how is that possible?!”
Uchiha Koto and Uchiha Aya were in disbelief. As ninjas, how could they not know what chakra exhaustion meant?
For a ninja, chakra exhaustion meant death!
It was only giving birth, how could chakra exhaustion happen?
“Could it be the baby?”
The two women suddenly remembered the scene they had seen before through their Sharingan – the image of Uchiha Tsuki’s chakra rushing wildly towards the baby in her belly.
What happened?
“Mother, mother-in-law…”
As the two women were still shocked, a voice suddenly came from their daughter (daughter-in-law), “Baby, let me hold the baby!”
Although she was already extremely weak, the woman on the bed still struggled to sit up, wanting to hold her newborn baby, because if she didn’t hold her now, she would never hold her again.
Seeing this, the medical ninja next to her quickly helped Uchiha Tsuki sit up, supporting her from behind, and Uchiha Aya, seeing this, quickly brought the baby to her.
“Baby, my baby!”
The weak woman looked down at the baby in her arms, gently touching the baby’s wrinkled skin. Her dull eyes were filled with love and tenderness, and a warm smile appeared on her tired face.
Although she could almost be certain that the person who caused her current situation was probably the baby in her arms, she didn’t care.
“This is my child, this is the child of辰哥哥 and me!”
Feeling her increasingly weak body and knowing that her time was running out, Uchiha Tsuki looked up at her mother and mother-in-law, who were already full of tears, and gave a weak smile. “Mother, mother-in-law, I’ve given the child a name –辰月, 辰 from Uchiha辰, and 月 from Uchiha Tsuki. When the child grows up, if he asks why he doesn’t have a father or mother, tell him that his father and mother have always been with him, and that his father and mother will always… always love him!”
After she finished speaking, Uchiha Koto and Uchiha Aya were already sobbing uncontrollably, because the light in Uchiha Tsuki’s eyes had completely faded.
“What happened?”
Suddenly, the door to the delivery room was pushed open. Uchiha Hiyaku, Uchiha Kenta, and Uchiha Shota, who had been waiting outside because of the birth of the child, rushed in after hearing a woman crying from inside the room.
Perhaps the sound of the three of them pushing the door open was a little loud, or maybe the baby sensed that his most important person had passed away, but the quiet baby started crying loudly again.
This cry attracted the attention of Uchiha Hiyaku and the other three who had just burst in. The three followed the sound of the cry and looked towards it.
Immediately, a sight that the three of them would never forget appeared in their minds.
A newborn baby who was crying loudly, his eyes, which shouldn’t have been open at this time, had two crimson three-tomoe Sharingan spinning violently.
“He has a three-tomoe Sharingan as soon as he was born!”
Uchiha Kenta and Uchiha Shota, two middle-aged men, looked at the three-tomoe Sharingan in the baby’s eyes with expressions of disbelief. They exclaimed in unison, “How is that possible?!”
However, the ironclad fact was right in front of them. In fact, the two even felt that this Sharingan’s eye power was even stronger than theirs.
“This is the next generation?”
Uchiha Hiyaku was also in disbelief at the scene in front of him. But then, a wave of uncontrollable joy, excitement… surged through his heart.
And at this moment, in front of the baby, Uchiha Koto and Uchiha Aya looked at the pair of crimson eyes in the baby’s eyes, met each other’s gaze, and thought to themselves, “The Sharingan, is it really a cursed eye?”