The Everlasting Flame of Kazama Naruto
Ch. 1 - The Toad saves the Storm's Tree
Konohagakure no Sato, western-side hospital, maternity ward
One, Kazama Arashi was looking lovingly at his wife and son, his son having just been born. His wife was holding their son lovingly, and looked up at Arashi. "Well lover boy, what's the name gonna be?" Kazama Arashi would forever wonder exactly how he had fallen in love with Hoshigaki Umi, now Kazama Umi, in the first place. All he knew was that he had a run-in with the seven swordsmen of the mist, her and her older brother both having been assigned by the Mizukage to prevent Arashi from doing to mist what he had done to Iwa. And before he knew it, they at the wedding altar, the Sandaime Hokage Sarutobi, his predecessor, performing the ceremony.
"Why not Naruto?" Arashi suggested, Umi looking at him slightly incredulously.
"Only if you agree to have his name mean 'Maelstrom' and not 'fish paste' after your favorite ramen." Umi said, Arashi agreeing saying that's what he meant originally. He thought he was a good liar, and as a result, his wife knew everything he didn't want her to know before he told her what he did want her to know. He still didn't know that she knew he was planning on sealing the recently assaulting Kyuubi no Kitsune into their son at the cost of his life. So, as soon as she handed Naruto over to Arashi, she hit him over the head with the flat side of her sword, Same Soshaku (Shark Bite), effectively knocking Arashi unconcious. She created a few Mizu Bunshins to carry herself, Arashi, and Naruto, out of the hospital and to the meeting point arranged by the person who was actually going to perform the sealing. Umi would draw the seal, and Jiraiya would sacrifice himself for Konoha.
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Konohagakure no Sato, Hokage monument, 10 minutes later
"HEY! WHERE ARE YOU PERVERT?!" Umi had just arrived at the arranged meeting spot and couldn't find the person who had arranged it. A relatively tall man with white hair and an aged face, maybe a man of 40 or 50 years old.
"Sorry, I had to finish researching the seal to make sure I didn't screw up. Unfortunately, this is probably the last time I'll be able to help the kid out, and the only time I'll do any practical research. Sigh oh well, better me than him." the man, apparently Jiraiya, said, looking a bit down-trodden.
"Are you sure there's no other way Jiraiya?" Umi asked, Naruto sleeping peacefully in her arms. The older man simply nodded, a frown plastered upon his face. He took Naruto and headed off towards the battle, summoning a gigantic toad.
"Jiraiya, what do you think you're doing, what going on here?"The giant toad said, his pipe not falling from his mouth. The toad was asking Jiraiya this because he was looking at the raging Kitsune that was destroying the forest and lives of the ninja attacking it.
"When you get summoned next, tell Arashi that he'll have to get you a drink, 'cause I won't be able to once I'm done here." Jiraiya said sadly, the large toad sensing his intentions.
"well, if you're going to be trying that technique, then I guess I'll have to get you to the battle!" the giant toad said before bounding off towards the giant fox in the distance. It took two hops of the massive toad before he reached the large fox. Jiraiya put his hands together as if he was praying, and he said 2 words that made very sealing artist there freeze, as their fears of one of Jiraiya's possible fates had just come to pass.
"SHIKI FUUJIN!" now, it was no big secret in Konoha that the Yondaime had created a sealing technique of great power in case they were attacked by a demon at one point. However, they also knew that the sealing technique had the cost of the soul and life of the person who performed it. One of Konoha's greatest fears was the loss of the three Sannin, whom had been said to rival the power of every previous Kage at this point, and Jiraiya just happened to be one of the Sannin.
As those words escaped Jiraiya's lips, Konoha prepared grieving the loss of not only all the ninja who had died fighting against the Kyuubi, but the loss of another Sannin. Orochimaru, the snake Sannin, had betrayed Konoha when he was not chosen as the Yondaime Hokage, and had been a missing Nin ever since. The slug Sannin Tsunade had warned the council of Konoha that her allegiance with them was currently being held by a thin thread. undoubtedly, Jiraiya's sacrifice would be taken as Konoha taking another of her precious people from her, and she would sever all ties with the village, and due to the fact that the Sannin were welcome to come and go from Konoha as they pleased, as well as choose to not send their whereabouts to the Hokage, she would not be marked as a missing nin, in fact, the only reason Orochimaru was marked as a missing nin was the fact that he had straight up to the council's faces said, "If you won't let me be Hokage, then I'm done with being your ninja!" and had deftly leaped out the window before the arrogant council could overrule the Hokage and name Orochimaru the Yondaime instead.
As it was, Konoha would be mourning the death of Jiraiya, and the loss of all the Sannin. It figures though, Konoha would mourn the loss of their strong ninja, rather than the loss of their loyal ninja. At this point, the Kyuubi's body had turned to dust, and Naruto had been sealed with the Kyuubi. Jiraiya standing on a house, holding the boy. He put him on the roof of the house and went through a series of 372 hand seals over the course of five minutes, his life almost completely gone. "My gift to you, Naruto, the cough protection of the will of fire, powered by the chakra of the Kyuubi no Kitsune himself, be safe, and, happy birthday." and with that, Jiraiya of the Sannin fell to the ground, missing the roof, dead.
When one of the remaining ninja had assumed that a simple sealing process could not kill Jiraiya of the Sannin, he jumped to the roof and saw only a child with a seal on his stomach, crying all the while. The man assumed that the child had something to do with the Kyuubi, and assumed that since it had to do with the demon and Jiraiya fell dead off of this roof, that the child had killed him.
However, when he reached out to take care of the child, fire shot out of the air and somehow gripped the man, burning him quite effectively. He screamed, causing more ninja to appear on the roof, and when they got close to the child to stop him, flames gripped them as well, keeping them away from the boy. The first man managed to run off to the hospital. How? Simple. Part of his arm had been incinerated from the protective flames.
The other ninja soon suffered the same fate. Soon, Umi arrived being carried by some Mizu Bunshins, looked astonished. There was her newborn son, surrounded by pieces of human arms, obviously having been fiercely burned off. There was fire circling around him, as if it was protecting him.
Umi tossed a kunai at such an angle that it would not hit Naruto, but it would look like it was going to. The fire shot out and melted the kunai, causing the molten steel to fall harmlessly to the ground. She stepped closer and reached towards Naruto, and the flames moved out of the way. She picked him up, the flames apparently accepting that she would not hurt him. Naruto stopped crying and began to nod off at seeing his mothers face.
He was happy now, safe, even if he did not know that that was why he could sleep now or even that he felt any different than when he had been crying. Umi just waited, before she fell to the ground from all the exertion that her weakened legs had taken. More of her Mizu Bunshins appeared carrying Arashi who was still knocked out. Her current Mizu Bunshins were about to feel the effects of using a weakened body and be dispelled. She ordered them to put Arashi on the ground and she created more Mizu Bunshins as the ones that she had already turned back to water. She ordered these Mizu Bunshins to take her and her family home, as she still needed to get some rest. Especially since you're not supposed to move immediately after giving birth. Her husband would have a bit of a fit when he woke up.