A Different Life
This will be an AU and some characters will act different. I will be mixing canon with my own ideas for example some events will happen earlier than expected. I was inspired by many different authors to write this story and I could only wish to match them. They are Iron Monkey Fist, Kenchi618 and Jbriz, thank you guys for such awesome stories now without further ado on to the story.
The Kyubi had been released and the man claiming to be Madara Uchiha had just fled the battle. There was destruction everywhere. The village in ruins as buildings and ninja alike were crushed under the paws of the Kyubi. The biju stopped it rampage momentarily and looked towards the mountain known as the hokage monument where one lone figure stood. That figure was Minato Namikaze the fourth hokage.
"So you noticed me, if you think I'm going to let you destroy my village think again." Minato said with one of his signature kunai floating in front of his hands. Kyubi had released its attack and it speeding towards Minato but right before it could make contact a sealing formula appeared swallowing it whole. It appeared far away destroying mountains in the process.
"I need to be more careful with something that powerful." Minato thought to himself as he sensed someone behind him.
With the speed that made him legendary he spun around with the intent to take off the assailants head, but his kunai never made contact as his hand went through his opponents head. He didn't have much time to think about it as the man charged him.
"I am your opponent and you are done for." The man said as a vortex appeared from his eye.
Minato could feel himself being pulled into the vortex but he wasn't the yellow flash for nothing as he flashed to one of his scattered kunai.
"He got away so fast." The masked man said before disappearing.
Minato appeared crashing into the ground. He sat himself up before thinking. "Who is that, my attack went right through him but he materialized himself to grab me." His time for thinking was over as the masked man appeared in front of him.
"I won't let you get away." The masked man said. His masked shone by the moonlight his single eye was visible and it was a Sharingan.
This new revelation made Minato think. "A sharingan, who is this man? He snuck past the barrier I set up myself and he killed the ANBU handpicked by Sarutobi-sama along with Biwako-sama and Taji. He also seemed to know that a female jinchuriki's seal is weakened during childbirth and then he managed to release and tame the Kyubi and there are only two men that have been able to control the Kyubi." Minato then broke the silence.
"Are you Madara Uchiha?" The masked man lowered his hood showing his short black hair. "No that's impossible died long ago." Minato said.
"I wouldn't be so sure if I were you." The masked man said. Minato spoke again, "It really doesn't matter who you are. I'm not going to let you destroy what my predecessors have died to save." He finished.
"Aren't you a brave one but whether you try to stop me or not I will succeed." He said.
Minato had enough of talking he didn't have the privilege of time at the moment and he didn't have chakra to waste so he had to make it quick. Minato threw a kunai at the masked man who just let pass through him but that's what Minato wanted as he teleported to the kunai instantly calling upon a rasengan shoving it into the masked man digging into his back. Minato jumped away to create some space as the masked man got up. As the masked man started getting up Minato appeared in front of him with his palm buried in his chest before appearing back to where he once stood. The masked man stood up shakily holding his side as it looked like it was falling off.
"Impressive I must hand it to you fourth hokage you deserve the title of hokage, you manage to wound me and sever my ties with the nine tails. However, the nine tails will be mine again. I'm going to take over the world and there are so many ways of doing that and don't worry because I will come and there will be nothing you can do about it." He said disappearing into his vortex.
Minato stood there alone thinking to himself. "That tone, he was serious about taking over the world. He'll be back and when the time comes I'll be ready."
Expanding his senses making sure the masked man was gone he wasted no time teleporting back to the village. He had to seal the Kyubi before it could kill more of his villagers. He appeared on a destroyed rock formation on the outskirts of the village. He could see the Kyubi preparing to fire another bijudama so he sped through some hand seals slamming his palm on the ground as the toad chief Gamabunta was summoned above the biju before landing on top of it. Minato instantly appeared on top of Gamabunta.
"Bunta I need you to hold him down for a little bit." Minato said jumping down while going through hand seals.
He landed on top of the nine tails head before both on them disappearing. They landed in a clearing with a resounding crash as the Kyubi slid across the ground. Minato took this time to get ready for the sealing, he teleported to Kushina and Naruto. He appeared next to his sleeping wife and child, "Sorry my love but this has to be done." He said picking Naruto up and teleporting away.
Back at the clearing with the Kyubi, Minato was speeding through hand seals as the Kyubi was slamming its tails against the barrier he created. He finished his hand seals, "Uzumaki style: Ketsugo Tentai." He said as tendrils of light appeared from his body speeding towards the Kyubi. The tendrils went into the nine tails body and began pulling out its chakra. Minato just finished another set of hand seals as he placed Naruto on the throne he had just summoned. The Kyubi was roaring in place as it began being pulled into baby Naruto. A few seconds later the Kyubi was sealed and Minato was passed out leaving a crying Naruto.
X-x-X
(A week later)
Minato awoke to find himself in a place he hadn't been many times in his life, a hospital room. He sat up and took in his surroundings before beginning to panic as he remembered what occurred the night before. In an instant three figures appeared in front of him. He looked up to see his personal guard standing there. The first had brown shoulder length hair and wore his hitaite as a bandana, the second had spikey brown hair and a notable weal-like scar across the bridge of his nose and the last one had brown hair and a goatee.
"Hokage-sama do not strain yourself, you've only just awakened." The one with the scar said.
"Raido, how long have I been out?" He asked.
"You have been in a comatose like state for a week there was even talk of you not waking up." Raido responded. Minato was surprised he'd been out for a week then again he did seal the strongest of the biju.
"A week!" he exclaimed before trying to get up.
Before he could fully stand up the door slammed open causing everybody in the room to be on guard. Everyone relaxed once it turned out to be the hokage's wife. She ran to her husband's side hugging him as if she would never let go. Minato snapped his fingers signaling his guard to leave the room.
"Minato-kun you had me worried I didn't know if you would wake up or not." She said crying into his shoulder.
"Kushi-chan you never have to worry about me leaving you or Naruto, speaking of Naruto where is he?" He asked holding her tight.
"He is with Kakashi and his squad at the compound." She answered.
"I need to get back to being hokage so I need you to follow Genma and Iwashi. They will take you to get Naruto and bring you to council meeting." He said.
"Why do we need to be at the council meeting?" She asked already knowing the answer.
"The council will no doubt ask about the Kyubi and I will have to tell them the truth about you and Naruto." He said as snapped his fingers again once again calling upon his guards, as they appeared in front of him.
"Genma and Iwashi I want you two to escort Kushina to our compound and escort her to the council meeting also tell Kakashi to meet me here, Raido I want you to assemble the council." He commanded and they vanished without a word.
Minato got dressed in the clothes Kushina left him. He couldn't help but think back to what the Madara impostor said. "I'm going to take over the world and there are so many ways of doing that and don't worry because I will come and there will be nothing you can do about it." He shook the thought out of his head he had other things to think about. His hands flipped through a series of hand seals, slamming his palm on the ground a medium sized yellow and green toad appeared.
"Hey gamakiro I have a real important job for." Minato said kneeling down.
"Anything for you Minato-sama." Gamakiro said puffing his chest out.
"I need you to tell Jiraiya that he needs to come back to the village and tell him that it's not a request." Minato said as the toad disappeared to do its job. He didn't like giving his sensei commands but he had to think of the village first and he was pretty sure that his sensei was already on his way. He felt a small spike of chakra turning to the source he found Kakashi standing there.
"Kakashi it's nice to-." Minato started to say before Kakashi enveloped him in a hug before quickly pulling away.
"Sensei I'm glad you're okay." Kakashi said causing Minato to smile. Kakashi rarely acted like this, but he would enjoy the times when Kakashi wasn't always guarding his emotions.
"It's good to see you too Kakashi but I have some business to handle and I want you to come with me." Minato said and Kakashi was instantly at his sensei's side in full shinobi mode. Minato grabbed his shoulder and they disappeared in yellow flash. They appeared in a dark forest, they stood there as if waiting for something. They didn't have to wait long as three shadowy figures appeared walking from inside the forest. When they appeared it was three men, the elderly man in the middle had his left eye covered by bandages and he walked with a cane the two men flanking him stood in the shadows the only thing you could see where the blank white mask they wore.
"I see that you have awoken, what do I owe the pleasure hokage-sama?" The man asked.
"Spare me the pleasantries Danzo I want to know what you've been up to in my absence." Minato said in a commanding tone.
"What makes you think that I've been up to anything?" Danzo questioned.
"I'm no fool and neither are you so spare me the mind games." Minato said causing Danzo to chuckle.
"You were always a keen one I've sent my men throughout the elemental nations to place false events about the Kyubi attack." Danzo said.
"That's a good start but now I need you to send some men out to see what the other villages are up to." Minato commanded.
"It will be done hokage-sama." Danzo said
"Good and don't be late to the council meeting." Minato said grabbing Kakashi and teleporting away.
X-x-X
(Hokage's Office)
Minato and Kakashi appeared in the hokage's office just a Hiruzen Sarutobi was walking in the door. The moment Sarutobi saw Minato seem to make him look younger. The wrinkles on his face became less defined, his gray hair seemed to become darker and the bags under his eyes seemed to shrink.
"Oh Minato-kun how good it is to see you and you to Kakashi." Sarutobi said with a sigh of relief.
"It's nice to see you to Sarutobi-sama." Minato said as Kakashi bowed his head.
"I assume you want to talk about what has happened in your absence." Sarutobi asked. Before Minato could respond his personal guard appeared with Kushina and Naruto in tow. They kneeled before their superiors.
"We have your family and the council has been assembled." Genma said while still kneeling.
"Thank you, you may now return to your post." Minato said as they returned to the shadows.
"Hello Kushina-chan and how is baby Naruto doing?" Sarutobi said as he looked at the sleeping baby.
"Kushi-chan I want you to stay in here with Kakashi until I call you guys." Minato said.
"Okay Minato-kun but if one of those old geezers even think of hurting my baby they'll wish they were never born." Kushina said with passion as fiery as her hair.
"They wouldn't dare, I think we have a meeting to attend Sarutobi-sama." Minato said walking away with Sarutobi in tow.
X-x-X
(Council Room)
From outside the room you could hear the idle chatter of its inhabitants. As soon as Minato and Hiruzen entered the room it became silent and stayed that way for a few seconds until someone spoke up.
"It's nice to see you awake and moving around Hokage-sama." A man said with black hair in a spikey ponytail.
"It's nice to be up and moving Shikaku but I believe we have more important matters at hand." Minato said.
"As you all know I've been incapacitated for a week and Sarutobi has been acting hokage in my stead but I would like to be caught up on current events. First I want to know the damage to our forces, Shikaku I think this is your area." Minato said turning his attention to Shikaku.
"We lost around three thousand shinobi, that's roughly twenty percent of our forces." Shikaku answered in a grim tone.
"What about civilian losses Kizashi?" Minato questioned a pink haired man.
"The civilian losses were much less severe it was around four hundred, most of them were evacuated before the Kyubi reached the village." Kizashi said.
"Speaking of the Kyubi its appearance was so sudden, where did it come from?" A man with dark hair and eyes to match said.
"So was the sudden disappearance of the Uchiha during the attack Fugaku." A man said with pupil less eyes.
"What are you insinuating Hyuga." Fugaku said in angered tone.
"That there-." Hiashi started before being interrupted.
"Quiet, I don't need two of my clan heads acting like children." Minato bellowed exuding chakra making the air heavy. The room became quiet and the occupants started to sweat as the chakra pushed down on them. He stopped releasing his chakra much to the relief of his council members.
"I apologize for my outburst hokage-sama." Hiashi begrudgingly apologized. Minato looked towards Fugaku waiting for him to do the same.
"As am I hokage-sama." Fugaku said still glaring daggers at Hiashi.
"We will talk about the Uchiha's absence later but for now the topic of the Kyubi is at hand." Minato said snapping his fingers calling an ANBU from the shadows whispering in his ear. A few seconds later the ANBU walked in with Kushina and Naruto.
"While it's nice to see her, what is your wife doing here and whose child is she holding." A man with blonde hair and blues questioned.
"Kushina is here because she's part of the story and so is our son whom see is holding." Minato said the last part with pride.
"Son it all makes sense now, Kushina's sudden retirement from the ninja forces and Mikoto's talk of Sasuke having a best friend like her." Fugaku said.
"Now onto how the Kyubi appeared, now as all of you should know the First wife was Mito Uzumaki who was jinchuriki of the Kyubi but what most of you don't know was that when she died the Kyubi was transferred into Kushina." Minato said shocking most of the occupants of the room.
"So how did the Kyubi get released?" Homura one of the elders asked.
"Female jinchuriki seals are weakened during childbirth and someone found out and attacked Kushina after she gave birth." Minato said.
"So one person got through our barrier silently and killed three ANBU guard, Taji and Biwako-sama without anyone noticing before it was too late." A large man with spiral marks on his cheeks said.
"Yes Choza he used some type of teleporting jutsu that let him move freely in and out of our barrier without being detected." Minato wanted to keep the part about the Sharingan to himself for now.
"So he released the Kyubi and set it upon our village?" A feral looking woman asked.
"Who would do that and I don't know of anyone alive today that could control the Kyubi." A confused Fugaku asked.
"Well he separated me and Kushina when I took Naruto to safety then I rescued Kushina after he released the Kyubi. He tried to attack me but when I retaliated my kunai went straight through him as if nothing was there. We fought for a short time and I manage to wound him and relinquish his control over the Kyubi. He told me that he would be back and that he would take over the world then he disappeared." Minato explained.
"That explains where the Kyubi came from but it does not explain where it went." Danzo said.
Minato knew this was coming but it didn't make it any easier, "I sealed the Kyubi into my son." Minato said. The room got dangerously quiet Minato looked around the room at the different faces.
"Is he stable I mean will the Kyubi be able to break free?" A man with long black hair asked.
"Have you so little faith in my husband's skills, I've kept it at bay for thirteen years so I know my son can do it." Kushina spoke up for the first time.
"Kushina is right we need to have faith in our hokage's skill if we can't count on him then who." Shikaku said nodding in Kushina's direction.
"I guarantee you safety, the seal is sturdy and won't break any time soon." Minato assured his council.
"Him being your son and a jinchuriki I would think that he's going to receive special training." Danzo questioned.
Minato normal blue eyes became icy as they fell on Danzo, "You don't need to worry about my son he will receive whatever training I deem worthy and that's the end of that." Minato said with force.
"As you wish hokage-sama." Danzo relented.
"Kushina you may go Kakashi will escort you home, see you there." Minato said turning his attention back to the council.
X-x-X
(Later that Night at the Namikaze home)
Minato was lying in bed with Kushina. Naruto was in his crib next to the bed. Kushina rolled over facing him and dug her head into his chest.
"Minato we both barely made it through the attack and our baby boy would have had to grow up being an orphaned jinchuriki." She said starting to cry. Minato held her closer trying to console her.
"Shhh, don't talk like that we both made and we get to raise our son. I'll never let anything happen to you or Naruto." Minato said as he looked down to see Kushina sleep. He smiled and thought to himself, "I don't know what I would do without my family I'll die before I let anything happen to them." Soon he drifted off to sleep with a smile on his face and his wife in his arms.