Disclaimer: I dont own naruto or any other anime(or manga) for that matter. if i did i wouldn't be writing here, i'd be writing for money.=P
Prologue: A stray tear
Inside a dark room lit only by candles. There sites a man hard at work. His tattered form hunched over a desk while he writes down something furiously. The man lays down his brush and sighs whipping the perspiration from his forehead.
"Man this seal is taking way to long" Minato thought with a frown. Giggling is heard as Minato jumps slightly in surprise. Even he sometimes forgot that the object he was writing this seal on was no paper or scroll as per usual, but instead his very own son.
His eyes clouded as he glanced out his window. 'you know… it would have been a beautiful day if not for the kyuubi.' thought the fourth with frown. 'a perfect day to have celebrated our son's birth .. Kushina'.
The clouds in his eyes coalesced into drops as they started to pour down his cheeks. 'Why Kushina. Why did you have to die. We were supposed to get married in a month. We were going to buy that house with the great view overlooking the hokage mountain. Now… now you left our son alone…and… ' the fourth's tears stopped flowing as his eye's hardened slightly. 'and now I'm about to do the same,… forgive me Naruto.'
Minato quickly dipped his brush in the ink again as he finished up the last of the seal. Stretching a bit one last time the fourth was about to re-look over his work when the door suddenly slammed open.
"Hokage-sama hurry the kyuubi's broken through the front lines, he's only minutes from our front gates," shouted the desperate young ninja in the door.
Minato's hardened eyes grew even harder at this statement as he immediately turned downward to stare at his son's face, the giggling boy knowing nothing of the burden about to be bestowed upon him.
He looked up again, "Gather the men and pull them away from the kyuubi, the moment has come." Minato turned picked up the child and ran out the door praying he would make it in time. Unfortunately he forgot the number one rule of sealing. Always check your work before you activate it, because if he had he would have noticed one of his tears, flicked away in his moment of distraction had managed to fall down on Naruto. It fell on the one spot it shouldn't have, the seal. One of the many fresh lines which composed the seal warped an ultimately smeared downward as the fourth unknowingly started the hand seals that would seal his fate and change the world forever.
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A/N : This is my first fan fiction so please bear with my grammar errors and so on. Hope you enjoy.