Well, this came from a crazy idea I had while reading the saga of A Mother's Love from lord of the land of fire. He imagined how Naruto would grow if Kushina survived (A Mother's Love, completed), if Kushina survived without being able to assert her rights of Minato's wife (A Mother's Love: Fire and Blood, ongoing) and if Minato survived (A Father's Love, ongoing). Now I imagined what if someone else than Jiraya were Naruto's godfather. I hope my crappy English will not stop you from appreciating. Good reading.
by lord Martiya
CHAPTER 1: THE GODFATHER
"Damn, where are they?" Kushina asked.
"You should know, they're still celebrating. After all, it's not everyday you return triumphant from a war." Jiraya replied.
Then the doors of the room opened, and entered two men completely different. The first to enter was blonde, quite handsome, excited, visibly happy and dressed in cerimonial robes. The second was black-haired, creepy-looking, controlled, apathic and dressed in a combat gear.
"I hope there's a reason you requested of me. I'm a bit tired, and would like a good sleep." the creepy man said. He was Orochimaru, The White Snake, The Creepy, The Exterminator, The Youkai(1), Various Other Terrifying Nicknames, war hero of the Second Great Shinobi War and of the Kumo Front of the Third War, killer of nine Jinchuriki (Orochimaru would bet that the Three Tail was cursing his luck for having two different hosts idiot enough to charge at Orochimaru and being literally humiliated to death(2)) and leading strategist of the Fire Country.
"C0me on, Orochichan, there's a very good reason for this!" the blonde replied. He was Namikaze Minato, The Yellow Flash, Various Nicknames Less Terrifying Than Orochimaru's Ones, war hero of the Iwa Front of the Third War, reigning Hokage and one of the only two living people who could use the name Orochichan without going to feed Manda.
"I'm waiting."
"Well, Orochichan, Minato and me need a favor from you." Kushina said, using her privilege as Minato's wife to use the O-word without becoming snake food. "You know, I'm pregnant, and..."
"Don't worry, I will vouch for you when you'll finally reveal to Minato's fangirls that you snatched their bone."
"You would do this regardless I ask. What we want is that you become our son's godfather."
"WHAT?!?!?!" was Jiraya's comment.
Orochimaru, still calm, clapped and complimented: "You know, there's very few people who can prank my teammate like this. But please, I know that the job will go to him: even if I would be a better choice, I know that I'm not exactly appreciated enough. Besides, Jiraya is your husband's teacher..."
"Do you know what a godfather is supposed to do?" Minato asked.
"Take care and raise the child should the parents be unable to do it."
"And that's exactly why we would like to have you."
"Let's no misunderstand, Orochichan, I still think that you're a cold-blooded, prideful, vengeful, motherfucking and sadistic bastard and despise you for those Cursed Seals of yours." Kushina added. "But I have to admit that you have some redeeming quality, like responsability, equality, brain and your pride in never breaking a promise, and that nobody would dare to fuck with you, not after you dealed with that guy... What was his name?"
"Itachi, like Fugaku's son(3)."
"Yeah, right. So, with you as godfather, should Minato and I die nobody would be idiot enough to harm him. Besides, I can't trust Jiraya in raising my little Naruto without transforming him in a pervert..."
"Kushina-chan, you hurt me!" Jiraya said. "You should know that if I raise Naruto he would become a Super Pervert, exactly like me!"
"That's for Tsunade." Orochimaru said while proceeding to punch Jiraya's head. "That woman worries me, she's always in the hospital from his death... And, Kushina, I accept." Orochimaru then produced a sheet of paper and gave him to Minato. "Hokage-sama, I'd like to submit this to your attention. As Naruto's godfather I can't use the children from the councilmembers' families and risk to be caught and forced to flee... Now, if you want to excuse me..."
Orochimaru went away, and Minato stared at the paper.
"Minato, please tell me that's not a request of prisoners and criminals to use attempting to revive the Mokuton bloodline limit." Jiraya said.
"It isn't, he request only death-sentenced criminals." Minato replied.
"Darling, are we still in time to offer the job to Jiraya?" Kushina asked.
"No."
Footnotes
(1)Youkai is a term that designate a wide variety of monsters and supernatural beings in Japanese folklore. Amongst the youkai there're shapeshifting animals like kitsune and tanuki, living household items, humans mutated in demons as oni and ushi-oni, and many others. Confirmed youkai in Naruto are some of the Biju (the Shuukaku is a tanuki, the two-tailed cat is a nekomata, The Eight is an ushi-oni and the Kyubi no Kitsune is a kitsune), and Orochimaru is sometimes believed a youkai (Ibiki Morino declared to not be sure Orochimaru is a human or a youkai pretending to be human, while Kabuto called him a youkai when he was fighting a Six-Tailed Naruto), and I'm not sure if Orochimaru is still human or somehow became a youkai.
(2)In this story, the unnamed and disappeared Three Tailed Jinchuriki will not be Hozuki Mangetsu, regardless of whatever Kishimoto will say if and when he'll reveal his identity.
(3)That's an original character, and Itachi and Sasuke's great-uncle. He hold a grudge with Orochimaru for consistently showing him up, and fucked with him in the wrong manner. You can imagine what happened to him. His fame sometimes make Itachi wanting to change name.