Kazu-kun999
Not all Heroes are Famous
Prologue: A Hero Sleeps
AN: hey guys sorry I stopped posting I had so much to do to keep my life on track but hopefully my current free time will be a running trend. I have been thinking of stories in my downtime though so I have not been totally idle. This story is going to be mainly about my OC and Anko as well as Naruto and Ino. There will be some liberties taken with the plot and such but it should all be relatively dead on. I'll get on with the story now. As always I don't own any of the characters but my OC.
It's a cold night in the dead of winter, the wind is blowing and the snow is beginning to fall. The fourth Hokage of Konoha, Minato Namikaze is standing silently on the roof of his tower observing the beauty of his city in the moonlit snowy night. The wind whips his coat around behind him as the intensity of the cold begins to hurt his face. He sighs knowing that soon he is going to have to do one of the hardest things he has ever had to do in his relatively short life. That's saying a lot considering everything he has been through to be considered the most powerful ninja in an entire village.
'I don't think I can do this,' he thinks doubting his resolve, 'but we agreed… I don't have a choice,'
He sighs again. Suddenly he is broken from his silent musings by the soft and shaky voice of his loving wife, Kushina Uzumaki.
"Minato-kun, it's time." she states, small tears rolling down her cheeks stinging her face in the cold air.
"I know, Kushi-chan, I will be in shortly, is he fully prepared?" asks Minato still unsure of himself.
"Yes, to be honest he seems more ready than either of us," she replies smiling in spite of herself.
Sighing for the final time Minato turns around takes his wife's hand in his own and walks into the building with her trying to be strong for the both of them. Both young adults walked into the hokage's office and through a door, more of a rectangular hole in the wall, to where a young man of equal age to the hokage was sitting silently on a stone slab. He was half naked, covered in seals and scars, dressed in a comfortable pair of black shorts and nothing else.
"I'm ready," he states in a soft monotone turning to face Minato and Kushina.
It is a little difficult for them to see his expression in the poorly lit room but somehow Minato and Kushina manage to see the man's blood red slitted eyes past his long shaggy black hair. And in that instant they both see something they've never seen before. Sadness and uncertainty. They could hardly believe what they were seeing, they had never seen him like this and it was making their task all the more difficult.
Minato walks forward and places his forehead against his friend's and places a hand on his shoulder. They do not say anything, they do not need to. They know each other's pain, they feel it, and give each other strength. Kushina stands still and begins to cry. The two men hug each other and separate.
"Kushina, come give me a hug," says the man in his monotone voice, trying to sound less sad.
With barely human speed Kushina rushes over and practically tackles the man and begins bawling on his shoulder. He wraps her in his arms, careful not to ruin any of the seals he so carefully laid out on himself, and tells her everything will be okay. After what seems like an eternity the two separate, give each other a kiss on the cheek, and Kushina latches onto Minato and continues crying.
"In case we never see each other again I want you two to know that I love you both," says the man as he lies down on the stone slab. "I'm ready," he says again.
Minato and Kushina stand on either side of the man and before performing a quick set of seals let him know that they love him as well. They both place on of their hands over his heart and whisper in shaky and inaudible voices the name of a jutsu and all the lights in the room go out. Kushina instantly starts crying again while Minato shakes the man's body trying to see if he jutsu was fully effective. After his very rudimentary test he concludes that the effect of the jutsu has indeed taken hold and that their friend would not be waking up any time soon.
Minato walks over to his wife, embraces her with all the strength he can muster, and walks her to the couch in his office. He leaves Kushina on the couch and returns to the door to the room containing his friend's body. He takes one last glance at his friend's motionless body, slides a book case over the entrance to the room and seals it with a powerful seal that should prevent the book case from moving no matter who tries to move it.
"Goodbye, Hyakkimaru." says Minato resting his head on the now immovable book case.
Minato moves back to Kushina and the two walk home in each other's arms. The hardest part is over but that's not to say the rest will be easy.
AN Glad to finally be uploading something again. I know it's not terribly long but it's important. The overall story will hopefully be a pretty decent length