Disclaimer : I do not own Naruto
Chapter 001
Hiruzen, The Third Hokage of Konoha, called God of Shinobi, is on the verge of breaking down and his knees are buckling, the only reason he is still standing is due to holding on to Enma, his summoms in Enmas Admantine Staff form, looking at his successor and his wifes dead and rapidly cooling bodies along with a wailing blond child with a splatter of drying blood on his face.
Hiruzen snapped out of his stupor due to the newborns increasing wailing and released his summons to his natural form and picked up the child into his arms.
He needed to do damage control immediately. And whispered " Kage Bunshin no Jutsu"With puff of a smoke there are ten of Hiruzen standing around, he looked at his shadow clones and said
" You know what to do"
And vanished in a Shunshin
Two of Hiruzens clones immediately took bodies of Minato and Kushina with him following after the original
One clone immediately ordered to every shinobi present with him at the site of ritual,
" Everything you witnessed here is a S-rank classified information, you will not speak of it and you will follow me this instant"
Along with another two clones herded around twenty shinobi of leaf to a secret location
Two clones went to find Inoichi Yamanaka
Two other clones went to his office as a advisor to Hokage, to pen a very important letter.
One clone went to find his old friend qnd bitter rival Danzo and another went to call the council meeting in the aftermath of Kyuubis attack.
Last one dispelled itself to give information of everything occured after the originals departure.
Sarutobi reached his clan compound and was about to call out to his wife when words caught in his throat, he didn't know if his wife was alive, not after what happened with Minato and Kushina, tears were streaming down his cheeks, he was a shinobi for most of his life, he led Konoha through two great wars and participated in the first great shinobi war, he lost friends, family and teachers, but loss of his successor, someone who was supposed to lead Konoha, someone who was supposed to be his legacy, dying and possible death of his own wife was almost too much for the old man. Almost.
He was SHINOBI and he will endure.
"Sayuri!", Hiruzen called to his daughter- in-law,a twenty year old beautiful woman, who came running at his voice.
He handed her the blue eyed, blonde haired child with whisker marks on his cheeks to Sayuri and said, " This is Naruto , He is Family, take care of him untill I sort this mess out, do not worry I will leave some help"
Smiling at her widened eyes with his tear streaked face Hiruzen left two more shadow clones with her, before vanishing in a rustle of leaves.