Disclaimer: I don't own Naruto and am making no profit from this story.
Warning: will contain violence, cursing, being cursed, casual decapitation (in the future), and death (sexual situation may or may not exist in the future).
Warning2: This is a beta (rough-draft) and is subject to revision/deletion depending on how royally I fucked it up.
"---" speech (normal)
'---' thoughts
"abc" giant crap (summons and the like)
"The seal...no!" was all Minato could say. Blood, his blood, had fallen upon both his newborn son and the seal. The fox had struck him while he attempted to activate the Shinigami summon - and the seal being intricate as it was - required that it be untouched. He had no choice but to continue on and hope he could quickly fix the blood stained portions of the seal "Soldiers of Konoha hold for a few more min-".
His voice faltered as he saw his shinobi fighting vainly against the beast, he had to finish quickly. Blood flowing from his wound and vision fading, he began the process of (clumsily) attempting to salvage the seal by using his blood to write new arrays which would, in theory, not interfere with the original. 'Jiraiya would have been a great help...yet he had been wounded too gravely in the onset of the battle', Minato thought, 'at least he will survive to care for my child'.
The fox attempted to strike the wounded Hokage once again, but was interrupted by the giant summon. Gamabunta held steady, but knew that in mere moments his guard would be broken, leaving Minato without protection. Suddenly Gamabunta felt the faint pulsing of chakra behind him...'that son-of-a-bitch finally completed the seal!' "Humans -", the towering toad bellowed "- move away from the fox!". As the shinobi retreated, the skies began to darken and an ominous energy filled the air..."This isn't the Shiniga-" a horrifying sound overtook the sound of the toad's voice.
A hollow laughter blew through the wind and dominated the whole of Konoha. The being stood at twice the the toad's size with what could only be called a parody of the human shape. It's massive jaws were unhinged and dangled only connected by muscle and tissue, eyes simply didn't exist, the tendon and muscle were seen through missing patches of skin, every bone was either cracked or dislocated. Most terrifying of all was how still the monstrosity stood, no twitch of muscle - not even it's exposed heart twitched inside the fully viewable ribcage!
Minato fell to his knees and stared at the monsters non-beating heart and stated almost breathlessly, "I - I've summoned the God of Obliteration." As if to reply to his title, the god let loose a roar filled with agony, The One Born of Destruction raised its mangled arm and struck through the nine-tailed demon. It was simply no more, the only remnant of it's existence was the freely moving chakra which encircled the god's arm. The fox couldn't even struggle before that which even the Shinigami would flee from.
Gamabunta stood ready to defend his summoner, but knew his limit had long been reached, turned to Minato and spoke "Old friend, forgive me, I have no more chakra". Gamabunta was forced to return, leaving Minato to whatever end he was to have.
The Denier of Existence turned it's attention to the mortal who would dare attempt to command it and spoke in a hollow and broken voice, "yOu...MorTaL...shALl...paY...My...PrICE". Minato desperately yelled what would be his last words, "Please! Spare my village and my ch-", his voice was heard no more, silence was only averted by the sound of a crying baby.
The Bane of All Which is Mortal and All Which is Timeless spoke once more "ChILd...OF...BuRDen...YoU...ShaLL...Be...SpAred...WiTH...HeAVy...CoNseQuenCe". Chaos Incarnate raised it's decaying foot and crushed the child, absorbing his chakra. The flattened remains of Minato's baby were then rebuilt with the kitsune's volatile chakra, bone, muscle, and tissue quickly formed and placed itself together like some macabre jigsaw puzzle. It looked once more upon the gathered humans and released a sickeningly humored laugh...as if amused by their sheer insignificance...and it faded into the domain of nothingness.
The old Hokage, Sarutobi - his left leg damaged by a earthjutsu gone haywire (friendly fire) - limped toward the likely dead child, what he saw would haunt his dreams even after death. The newborn Namikaze was seemingly attempting to breath, gaping much like a fish out of water, eyes opened wide...irises which were once blue, now dull gray, sclera which should have been white, now the color of rust, and pupil's now bright silver. The newborns skin paled to match his gray irises, he picked up the child and rushed (as fast as a man with a busted leg could) him to the hospital - once more looking down at the baby - Sarutobi nearly dropped him when he noticed an actual word being silently mouthed by the child twice damned.
"Burden, burden, burden, burden..."
Sarutobi looked at the completely submissive council, most of the civilian leaders had either fled Konoha or had died attempting to flee from the Kyuubi, even the old war-hawk had fallen in the battle against the mighty beast. "Citizens and shinobi of the konoha, I will be assuming command of the Hokage position. Any who oppose this please make yourselves known." No member of the council resisted his decision to regain his old position. "Then under the Wartime Charter, I hereby exercise my right to declare martial law -", any further words were interrupted by the sounds of the remaining civilian's standing as they were escorted out of the meeting by ANBU agents...this was business of the military, not merchants.
Sarutobi then spoke to the still exhausted clan leaders, "Nara-san, tell us the estimated damage to our forces and our logistic situation."
The tired voice of Shikaku answered "Our forces have sustained massive casualties; of our 450 Genin, 198 Chunin, 72 Jonin, and 33 ANBU, we have lost 275 Genin, 104 Chunin, 24 Jonin and 7 ANBU by either death or career ending injuries." The council room was deathly silent until Shikaku spoke once more, "Logistically, we have taken minimal damage as the Kyuubi had been lured into the shinobi housing section, but many of the civilian leaders are dead as they lived nearby. Our recovery financially, while relatively quick, will prove chaotic as new leadership will be needed. Civilian casualties were heavy, of our original population numbering 27,000 we have 1,658 injured, 835 dead, and over 1,200 unaccounted for. Our greatest concern regarding them is the number which will likely leave Konoha after this incident."
Shikaku sighed and looked at Sarutobi as if asking permission to excuse himself, the aged leader motioned him to continue. "Our supplies in terms of weaponry are still plentiful, but some of our food storage units were damaged, we will have to begin rationing food until our next harvest and -". Shikaku's voice cracked and he began quietly sobbing in front of the council, "I-I'm sorry Hokage-sama, my daughter was... please excuse me." He quickly left to find his grief stricken wife, Sarutobi made no effort to stop him.
"Hyuuga-san please continue with the report."
The Hyuuga clan leader spoke "Hunter-nin had no casualties as most were on other assignments or doing their yearly combat review in Suna, we also had no casualties among our academy student pool as they were fastest to evacuate, I would recommend conscription of the top quarter of all academy classes, this should give us about a further 80 shinobi."
Sarutobi motioned a nearby ANBU agent and said "I hereby exercise the right to commission said students by the Wartime Charter, clause 6, effective immediately - collect my new shinobi, Inu-san." The ANBU agent began his mission without complaint.
"Hyuuga-san, what of our current medical situation?" The clan leader gave a cool reply, "currently we have lost about half our medic shinobi, but civilian doctors are all accounted for and are now dealing with the wounded. Hokage-sama, Tsunade has left of her own accord and the medic's are in disarray, the civilian's won't be able to keep up with the wonded without some form of assistance."
Sarutobi knew he was too old to be handling such affairs...hell he knew he was likely decaying as he walked! "What would the council suggest then?"
The question was answered by Yamanaka "I suggest pulling all shinobi from search and rescue duty and using them to help treat the lesser wonded, they all have at least minimal medic training at Chunin level, and Genin know at least first-aid, this action would likely condemn any survivors of the attack."
The Hokage nodded in acceptance "Looking for survivors when we can't even treat them would be a waste of time, Yamanaka, you will organize them so that they may assist in treating the wounded."
"Of course, Hokage-sama" was his only reply before quickly disappearing in a swirl of leaves
"Now then -" interrupted the Inuzuka clan head "-what is to be done about the child?" No one spoke for what seemed an eternity, until the Uchiha clan head stated his opinion "I recommend, Hokage-sama, that the child be placed under heavy guard until Jiraiya can inspect the seal for any...difficulties that may have occurred."
Sarutobi nodded in approval and stated, "Uchiha I agree with your proposal, now what do we do with the child should he be...cleared by Jiraiya?"
Tsume Inuzuka spoke once more "I propose putting him in either the civilian population, listed as an orphan (only Sarutobi and the witnesses of the sealing knew who his parents were) or be raised among shinobi so that he may be trained as one..."
Sarutobi interrupted "are you suggesting we create a weapon?!"
"N-no Hokage-sama, I simply wanted to ensure his safety by giving our shinobi an excuse to remain by him!" Tsume quickly corrected herself.
"I see...very well he will be placed among the civilian populace and be granted the right to become shinobi if he so desires. His identity, henceforth, is Naruto Uzumaki - status civilian - birth parents dead/unknown - his...condition is now considered an execution class secret." No one denied the God of Shinobi, "Danzo left us with quite a gift," he quickly moved to the next topic, "his Nu division will be added to our troops, after 're-education', of course."
"What of those who cannot be 're-educated'?" asked the normally silent Aburame.
"They shall be given to the gods for judgment." The room turned cold at the implications...simple murder.
"Now then I will adjourn this meeting as we all need rest for the coming days -" Sarutobi rested is head on the palm of his hand and waved the council off with the other "- now get out of my sight." The room emptied quickly, leaving the tired and pained Hokage alone. "Minato you bastard! Now I can't even kick your ass in the afterlife for leaving me with your problems!" His now clenched fist slammed into the table obliterating it...
Notes begin here, ignore at your discretion*
Shinobi/civilian numbers are made up, and as are the laws (to my knowledge, as I have only read the series once), the god was given a multitude of titles (which required capitalization) and was entirely bullshi-er made up. Any help with the -san -sama bullcrap would be welcome (don't fully understand it, only told that I should add it to the story) researching for fiction can be rather annoying. There will also be some time/age changes to suit what (I think) I want to do in future chapters.
Some of you may be wondering about the changes I've made to the Naruto universe, well to be completely honest I read the whole series in a single sitting and quite frankly dislike it. This "fic", as you people call it, was made due to a challenge made by a friend who said I lacked the creativity to make such a story, I took up the challenge and she asked me to write about this comic/manga (as well as something called a 'crossover' dealing with a show 'Love Hina' and game 'Disgaea', if anyone would be kind enough to tell me what these (and possibly give me a link to these) are so I can get her off my back...), so here I am dead tired from reading and annoyed at the sheer impossibilities in this world (I mean come on, regularly defying physics, impossible human movements, and the ability to spit giant balls of fire - by the god's I have a headache from trying to find ways to explain half that crap in my story), so don't expect me to be kind to some characters who I find annoying or I simply have no concern for. Killing some off or completely ignoring them would lessen the amount of potential time I would have to otherwise spend developing them (this extends to all major/minor/main character(s)).
Those of you who are into romance, I will try to appease you, but I'm not sure how to go about implementing it just yet (I wrote this without any direction or plan, and I intend for all my other chapters to be written as such, it's somewhat amusing that way). Drama, as you saw above, is not my forte (I feel there is enough in life as is...don't really want it in my literature too, one must likely be a masochist to want more), but I will do my best.
Know that regardless of weather you - like/disliked/don't care for - my story, I hate you all...but I hate you all equally, have a pleasant morning/day/evening/night...
Appx. word count minus notes and warning 1700+ (hope to improve this number)
Time taken - 1 hour to write, 20 mins reaserch into name spellings, and 15 mins grammar/spelling correction (unsatisfied with resulting story).
Next chapter will be out when I feel like writing (or my friend/soon-to-be-aquaintance annoys me enough...)
