Kakashi: …you done it again? /stares at wolf/
Moonwolf: shut up…/grumbles/
Kakashi: geeze… your brain is really on a roll… how many ideas are in that brain of yours?
Moonwolf: /groans/ to many now shut up!
I'm sorry…
The Sandaime sighed and walked through the forest with a bundle in his arms, Jiraya following right behind him with Minato in his arms… it was almost to much to think that the cheerful blond was…was… he couldn't even think it yet.
The bundle in his arms suddenly squirmed and Sarutobi looked down with a small smile at the small baby boy in his arms. This was Minato and Kushinas son…the Kyuubi vessel. Sarutobi stepped into a clearing with many shinobi's in, all helping each other out and clearing the area, but they stopped as the former Hokage stepped came with Jiraya right after him. Eyes instantly landed on the white fire coat with expression of fear "S-Sarutobi-sama?" it was a small voice to his left that caught his attention.
It was Kakashi.
A horrified looking Kakashi, with rips along his mask and tears in his jounin flak vest was staring at his sensei. Sarutobi couldn't help but feel pity for the fourteen year old boy because now he had officially lost not only his father and two team mates… now he had also lost his sensei and his biggest friend. Sarutobi sighed again "I…am sorry Kakashi… he… didn't make it" the silver haired boy stared blankly at him for a few moments and the Sandaime was almost afraid he didn't hear him. But then Kakashi's legs failed him and the boy fell onto his knees, his hands digging into the earth as his shoulders shook.
Sarutobi closed his eyes but open them again as the bundle in his arms made a gurgling sound. It snapped the attention of the grieving ninjas and instead their curiosity was grabbed "Sandaime-sama…what is that?" Fugaku Uchiha asked his voice tick with suppressed emotion.
Before Sarutobi could answer loud crashing interrupted everyone, coming closer and closer to them. It sent everyone except the old hokage into battle stance. A young boy came crashing into the clearing, skidding to a halt when he landed on the ground, the Konoha headband he was wearing relaxed everybody as they kept their eyes on the newcomer. The boy could be no more then teen, with waist length wine red hair, mismatched ocean blue and white eyes and a scar running from his temple, over one white eye and down his neck. His eyes was wide as he scanned the area. It dident take long before they landed on Yondaime.
He gasped "Aniki!" before running up to Jiraya, his small hands latching onto the once white sleeve of the Hokages coat. Jiraya bent his head, closing his eyes so he didn't have to see the trembling boy in front of him. The boy reached up one trembling hand and laid it on Minato's cheek as a small tear started to roll down his face. A chocked sob escaped him "he's so cold… Minato if this is a prank…" the boy couldn't go on, as more tears became sliding down his face.
Sarutobi swallowed heavily "Shin?" the boy turned his wet face to the Sandaime, lips trembling hard as his gaze landed on Kakashi not far from where he was "Shin do you know who this is?" Sarutobi lifted the blankets away from the bundle, reviling a small face with whisker marks. The boy identified as Shin gasped again "Naruto! Oh Kami he's alive!" a small flicker of a smile stole across the red heads face.
He cast one last glance at his older brother before moving over to the old man with the baby, wiping away his tears as he did. He held out his arms for the baby and Sarutobi handed the small boy over to the child "so you know who he is?" Shin nodded as he nuzzled his cheek against the child. "well?" Sarutobi raised his eyebrows as more then one shinobi shuffled "…he's Aniki's and Kushina-sama's child…" the redhead's voice was soft.
Gasps where heard around the clearing "…he's also the vessel of Kyuubi…" Shin was holding onto Naruto tightly as outraged voices came all around.
"WHAT?"
"THAT CHILD IS A DEMON THEN!"
"IT SHOULD BE KILLED!"
"DEMON! DEMON!"
In the end Sarutobi got fed up "SILENCE!" his voice boomed around the clearing, stilling everybody except Naruto who had started to cry when the yelling began. Shin was gently cradling him "you're the demons…" he muttered quietly before raising his voice enough to be heard properly, anger in his voice "Naruto is just a child… innocent but forced with a burden and your demanding him killed…the only child of your 'beloved' Yondaime" he snarled the word beloved like it was a curse, his arms gently rocking the blond in his arms.
The teen year then turned to Sarutobi "Hokage-sama I request that I get permission to leave the village for a unidentified amount of time to train Naruto" the Sandaime was startled "and…why would you want that? Your still only a child yourself" Shin glared. He waved a arm not holding Naruto around "because if this is how seasoned Ninjas behave the villagers will be way worse…Naruto will need love and care or he will become that blood thirsty monster that they fear"
Shin eyes where set in stubborn lines, even if the white eye could not see at all. Sarutobi closed his eye "Shin…I'm sorry but I can not grant you this request" Shin's mouth fell open "but don't worry…we will find a loving home for Naruto and you of course…" the redhead interrupted "NO! you don't get it jiji-chan!" Shin's voice was desperate and Sarutobi's face harden "no Shin…I will not allow you…" the young boy closed his eyes.
Then he opened them, his eyes looked so old "jiji-chan…I promised Minato I would look after him… the council will want Naruto dead…and Danzo… I'm sorry but your forcing my hand…" quick moves had the baby pressed tightly against Shin's chest, his hand pulling a three pointed kunai from his belt. Throwing it he made two one hand seals "Hiraishin no jutsu!" in a red flash the boy disappeared only to reappear on a high branch some meters away.
He was holding Naruto close "I'm sorry but…I can allow that Hokage-sama… but we'll be back" this was mostly said to Kakashi who was staring at the redhead "perhaps…when Naruto's genin exam is…." the smile was painful before the young boy flashed away, leaving the clearing in total silence.
Jiraya shifted the cooling body in his arms "what are you going to do Sarutobi-sensei?" he murmured. The old Hokage rubbed his temples "I…going to let him go… he is right" Kakashi chocked on his own tears "beside…he is not that far away…" Jiraya nodded "hai… he wouldn't really leave until Minato is…" Sarutobi nodded "and give Naruto a chance to say goodbye"
A breeze swayed gently through the remaining, the sound reminding more then one of the shinobi's gathered about the Yondaime's cheerful laughter and more then one felt ashamed about what they hade wanted with his child.
A few days later the Yondaime was buried, Sarutobi holding the sermonic to everyone gathered. Kakashi was standing in the frontline, clothed in black. Even his mask was black. In his hand was a single, tightly held note bearing two words ¨¨I'm sorry¨¨
AN: just to clear up something… Kakashi and Shin is not together and NEVER will be… their relationship will be cleared up later…when they return -