"Shiki Fūjin!"

Those words haunted Minato.

"Why?"

He remembered questioning his predecessor.

"…" silence and a bittersweet smile was his answer.


"No!"

Kushina remembered a lot of questions through her mind.

"Why? And… How?"

Shiki Fūjin, the Dead Demon Consuming Seal, is a jutsu developed by the Uzumaki clan, she was the only one and Minato to have known of its existence.

Yet…

Another bittersweet smile appeared on his face, "I am old, Minato, Kushina, I would not let yourselves be sacrificed, you are the only ones to save the village and… from–"

From what? The masked man immediately comes to mind.

"Hakke no Fūin Shiki!"

Yet from what Minato can tell…

It was something else entirely.

Village and what exactly?

The Kyuubi now sealed onto the newborn Naruto, and her Adamantine Sealing Chains now gone, Kushina collapses.

"Kushina!" Minato quickly catches her.

"Minato…" she said coming out only as a soft whisper accompanied by a weak smile, "Minato I'm dying."

He refused to accept it.

"Yondaime-sama!" An ANBU squad he recognized as the only highly skilled medic squad Konoha had to offer appeared.

He glances at her weak form laid on the makeshift hospital bed the ANBU made.

How he managed to get pass Kushina's barrier, and knew the Hakke no Fūin Shiki and Shiki Fūjin remains a mystery.

Kushina broke up from her sleep to loud crying.

"There, there, Kaa-chan's here Naruto, don't worry about it." Kushina said to comfort him.

As Kushina her attempts at stopping their newborn son cry, Minato decides that their questions can wait later.

What matters now, is that he gets to be a father now, and Kushina gets to be a mother now.

He promises himself that he will be the best one to Naruto.

Being a father comes first than the village.

He swears and promises on that.

"Welcome to the world, Naruto." He smiles at the small infant now held by his wife.

"Even though it technically it isn't your birthday..."

"Minato we talked about this..."

A sheepish smile is her answer, Kushina smiles back.

"Fine." she said, opening an eye to see a man ready to greet one on... "But only if we do it together." she said quietly.

Minato grins at her, and says to Naruto without his wife, "Happy Birthday."


A/N:

Everything was made possible with the help of Chiemmy by her various suggestions and concepts that will soon arrive to this fic!

If anything seemed rushed, and unexplained that is very much intentional as chapter one would mostly explain everything.

And if you did any reviews, follows, or favorites I humbly express my gratitude, and even if you didn't thank you for taking the time to read a fanfic made by two girls who were bored with life.

Chapter one shall be expected to come sometime next week.

And almost forgot!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY NARUTO! (at least it's still Oct.10 here)