Disclaimer: Naruto's characters aren't mine, they belong to Masashi Kishimoto.
This fanfiction belongs to crimsonteresa (as in plot). She would like you to know that it will not be yaoi as will be later seen. She also is considering a sequel when it is done but that is for later.
So I Guess The Wedding's Off
"I do," said a beautiful young woman clothed in a wedding gown. Her hair was long and a brilliant red, her eyes a buzzing, vibrant green. The dress bodice shined with sparkles and the sleeves and skirt draped down magnificently. Her soft face glowed with anticipation.
"I..." started the man standing across from the woman. His garments were also white, although they looked less pure, as if they were gray, when compared to the wedding dress. He had messy blond hair and sky-deep blue eyes, but his face was filled with uncertainty rather than anticipation.
In front of the two stood a priest of sorts; actually, he was an old, retired ninja based on his appearance. He looked at the blonde impatiently, pitiless to wedding jitters.
"I..." the man tried again, but to no use. He looked into the green eyes of his bride, searching for help and strength, a reminder of who she was and why he was marrying her. Her eyes held nothing for him to find other than the same impatience the "priest" showed. "I..." He looked around at the faces in the audience, than back at the would-be wife with a sudden but firm resolve. "I don't."
Gasps sounded, the biggest from the woman dressed in the white wedding dress.
"Kushina-" the blonde tried, but was cut off.
"Do not. Minato, what were you thinking?" she pleaded. "How could you do that to me?!" Kushina's voice grew louder and more hysterical as she went on shouting at him about how she had deserved something after all her efforts. Too late, she realized she had slipped up after saying that her employers wouldn't accept the excuse of not being married for not having Minato's dead body.
"What?" he asked quietly, in a voice that stayed firm like the calm before a storm. "Kushina, why would you do that?" Minato's voice wavered slightly but remained like a stubborn palm tree.
"What, did you really think that I would settle as a hated person for the creature housed inside her body? Of course not!" the red-head barked. "If I must be hated, I shall be feared for something that I did, not some mangy old fox spirit."
Everything seemed to happen at once then. Kushina was pinned down by see-through bubbly red claws as something emerged from her; guests ran this way and that in horror, blocking present ninjas from coming to the immediate rescue of the town; a young man with silver hair wandering by got pushed past everyone into the writhing Kushina.
"What?" he asked quickly, looking up at Minato who stood frozen, silently questioning the older man. No answer was received that day.
A huge form of red took the shape of a nine tailed fox as it broke free of Kushina's body, crushing her with its unleashed power. The young ninja with silver hair was pinned down by the fox, and he looked up into its golden eyes with not fear but confusion. Apparently amused, the big nine-tails chuckled deeply. It did not last long, however, as a man with a wide-brimless hat saying "Hokage" quickly arrived in the puff of a cloud.
With a few moves that probably actually numbered over a hundred, the old man pulled out a seal. He paused until he saw the pinned ninja then proceeded on.
"Wait!" Minato called, seemingly noticing just now what the man labeled "Hokage" was doing. "He's just a kid that just arrived!"
The old man did not stop. Soon, in fact, two other powerful ninjas experienced in seals appeared at his side to help.
The silver-haired young man did look scared now, and struggled to move; he was now pinned with several seals and glowing chains as well as the nine-tailed fox. His voice yelled, only slightly muffled by a mask, at them to stop, but it was too late for the process to be stopped.
To finish it, the Hokage shouted gruffly, "Nine-tailed demon fox spirit, kyuubi, be sealed within this new body!"
Slowly but surely the huge fox drained into its new container, until the only proof of its previous presence was Kushina's crumpled body.
It had been six minutes since Minato had said "I don't."
The man with silver hair laid still on the ground, limbs spread out. His eyes were both now visible, as one had been hidden beneath his hair before, and they shined brightly; one black and one red. They glittered with emotions that the rest of his face wouldn't show; pain, confusion, fear, loss...
Minato approached the Hokage and started speaking fast, asking about what they would do with the "kid" now.
"Minato," the old man said in his deep voice, "you will have to oversee him. As the next Hokage, this will be your duty... And it was your bride that released the monster in the first place."
"I don't even know who he is! What if he's got family?!" The blonde started becoming frantic and making wide gestures.
"You don't know this boy? Well, don't worry about family matters, his is all dead." They both looked at the young man still lying down. "He doesn't have any ties, actually, so just worry about keeping him safe and in control. Perhaps we can find another Uzumaki to pour the kyuubi into, but for now it's best that we leave it. To have broken the seals like that... perhaps we should just focus on tighter seals within the boy rather than a new host."
"Are you sure about this?" Minato questioned one last time.
"I am."
With that the old man disappeared in a puff of smoke like he had come, leaving Minato and the young man alone in the grassy outdoor clearing. The blonde sighed and walked over to the silver-headed man slowly, reluctantly. He was shocked, though, to see a single sparkling tear sliding out of the scarred red eye.
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Sorry 'bout Kushina, I'm not a hater, I actually really like her... it just fits with the story this way :(