This is just a story that popped up in my mind. If the second chapter will pop up too, then I'll write it, otherwise not.
Before you get the need to flame me or my story, remember that this is a fanfiction and as such it is in my right of fanfiction writer to make the characters as much OOC as I need them to be. Remember that I hate flamers, haters, idiots who just like to say other people work suck and grammatical maniacs. Constructive criticism is more than welcomed, as long as you don't call me a stupid and/or ignorant child just because of a little mistake. English is not my mother language, and I'm trying to get better.
Okay, I think I said everything I needed to say. Enjoy the story!
Kakashi Hatake quickly jumped from one tree branch to the next, rapidly approaching the site of his sensei last battle. He, as well as everyone else, had seen the fourth Hokage luring the Kyuubi away from the village, where they could fight without anyone else interfering or getting hurt. And now that the roars of the Nine-tailed fox had finally died down, the villagers and the ninjas wondered where their beloved Hokage had gone. Kakashi knew there was a very small possibility that the Hokage had gotten out of the battle alive. Only the first Hokage had ever defeated the demon fox in a one-on-one battle and survived to tell the tale, but that was because he had his bloodline limit made to fight the Kyuubi. The young Jounin hoped with all of his being to be wrong. He couldn't lose another precious person so soon after Obito and Rin. He just couldn't.
But the Hokage couldn't die. He had to go back to his family. To his wife, who would scold him for making her worry, and to his newborn son, who would for the first time meet his dad. Minato Namikaze had too much to live for to just die against the Kyuubi.
"But also much to die for" another voice told Kakashi, and he had to recognize that it was a good point. Minato would have gladly died if that meant protecting those who were important to him.
After the trees ended, Kakashi reached the site of battle. He looked around, surprised not to find the Kyuubi corpse. Then his eyes fixed on something else. He ran forward, all his being praying that it wasn't true, hoping that it was just nightmare about to end. He would wake up and tell himself he was stupid for even dreaming about something like this.
But Kami would not allow it today.
Kakashi fell on his knees, tears quickly forming in his eyes. In front of him there were the lifeless bodies of his sensei, Minato Namikaze, and his wife Kushina Uzumaki Namikaze.
Even in death, they were in each other embrace, not wanting to let go of the other even in their last breath. Then, the silver haired Jounin heard crying. He looked around, half dumb for the pain in his heart, and saw a small baby, whit spiky blond hair and whiskers marks on his cheeks. Kakashi got up and went to the small boy, kneeling in front of him to see better. Then the boy opened his eyes, and Kakashi gasped. He was seeing the same blue eyes of his sensei.
In that instant, his heart shattered. His sensei and his wife were dead. The Hokage and his wife were dead! And their son was now the Kyuubi container. And the villagers would never understand the difference. They would think the boy was some kind of reincarnation or something like that. Ignorant minds often had fool thoughts.
At that moment, Kakashi saw how his sensei's legacy and hard work was being reduced to dust, all in one night. One single, faithful night. The Jounin began to cry. And, throwing his arms to the sky, cried to the stars all of his pain.
-Two hours later, in the council chamber-
Danzo had to fight back a smirk upon hearing Kakashi report. If the fourth had (finally) died, then he could begin to move and bring Konoha to be the great military power he had always dreamed to see. Of course, it would take many years to accomplish, and he would have to stay mostly hidden at the beginning. But Danzo was nothing if not patient. He would wait as much as it took.
Hyuga Hiashi was silently wondering while half listening to the silver haired Jounin saying his report. He, like almost the whole council, had fought against Minato propositions when he was first made Hokage. Minato wanted to go against many ancient clan rules and tradition that limited the freedom of the clan members. But after talking to him in person, he began to see his point: if the clan was not feeling enslaved, there was a smaller possibility of rebellion, and more happiness (this was mostly Minato point), which would make them work more willingly for the good of the clan.
After many months of discussion, the two had become friends, and Hiashi had done the one thing that made him look like a madman by his clan elders: he offered his first daughter for marriage to Minato's first son.
The Hokage accepted only after adding the condition that the two had to be in love with each other. If one of the two wouldn't want to marry the other, the engagement was to be broken immediately.
Which, at the present time, would mean that his daughter Hinata and Minato's son Naruto, the Kyuubi vessel, were engaged. Hiashi sighed.
"The elders are going to love this" he thought sarcastically.
At the end of the night, after half the council had called for Naruto's death, two members asked to let him live like a normal kid, and Danzo proposed to make him into a weapon, Hiashi rose from his chair and said:
"Minato Namikaze's child, Naruto, is under the political protection of the Hyuga clan. An attack against him will mean an attack against my clan, and rest assured that we will react accordingly!"
The third Hokage (who arrived there more or less at the middle of the report) smiled at him, giving an approving nod, which meant that Hiashi had the Hokage approvation, and that pretty much settled the issue.
"Good, then there is nothing more to discuss. Naruto will not be able to live with the Hyuga clan, so not to draw any suspicions on his duty of jailer of the tailed beast. He will live in an orphanage until the age when he can watch after himself, and then live by himself or with a new family in case someone adopts him. And I make the events of this night, as well as the deaths of the Yondaime and the sealing of the Kyuubi a SSS-ranked village secret. To reveal anything about the events of this night will mean to betray the village".
- 30 minutes later, on the way to the Hyuga compound...-
Hiashi walked hastily. He knew he had to set everything in place before Danzo or another one of the clan heads could do something stupid like assassinate the newborn boy. He knew for sure that even between the clan heads there were many who couldn't understand the difference between a beast and his jailer.
He arrived at the gates of his house almost out of breath.
"Are you alright, Hiashi-sama?" asked one of the guard.
"I've been worse" replied Hiashi "Now, send immediately five Hyuga agents to monitor Konoha orphanage and protect the children in there. Tell them to wait until dawn, and tell them to report to me when the second group comes to take the day shift"
The guard immediately left to carry out the orders, while Hiashi entered the house and was greeted by his anxious wife.
"Hiashi! What's going on? What happened with the Kyuubi?"
"The Kyuubi is gone" replied Hiashi "but the Hokage is dead" he looked at the look of shock and sadness on his wife's face "I'm sorry, Tenshi. They were my friends too, and I will miss them greatly"
"They?" asked Tenshi "You can't mean..."
"Yes" he replied, pinching the bridge of his nose to try and fight back the tears that had threatened to fall for the whole meeting "Kushina was with him"
"NO!" she cried, falling on her knees, of her normal Hyuga emotionless behavior was completely gone "Kushina... and Minato... Why the best people are always the first ones to meet the end?"
"I don't know, my love. I don't know" he said, escorting her to her bed.
She laid there and continued to cry her lost friends. There, in the privacy of their bedroom, she could let go of her emotions without anyone telling her it was wrong.
Hiashi wanted nothing more than to stay with her and comfort her, but he had one last duty to perform. Naruto was the second child he had promised to protect that night. Now he had to go and find the other one.
-Three hours before, immediately after the Kyuubi sealing...-
"Goodbye, Naruto. I know you'll make me proud" said Minato, closing his eyes for the last time and falling on the ground, the love of his life breathing for the last time in his arms.
Not further than one hundred meters away from them, another woman gave her last breath, after giving life to her child.
The child was now alone, in the cold of the night, his newborn mind already working much faster and better than any baby's mind should. He had his mother last words burned into his brain
"You will be the light of so many hearts' darkness. You will bring hope to those who have none. You will change the world, I know it. So follow your heart and be happy, because you will be destined to great things"
He couldn't understand the meaning of the words, but some part of him knew they were very important, because they came from a very important person. A person who gave him life.
The baby was cold.
He was in the night, completely alone, and it was so cold. The small child was about to cry, when from the forest two foxes appeared. One was orange and the other one was a little more red. They went near the child, smelling him. When they felt his smell, they knew immediately what to do. They cuddled with the child, keeping him warm in the cold of the night.
Hours later, when a man arrived, both the foxes ran away. The man, none other than Hiashi Hyuga, found the baby to be perfectly unarmed and asleep, small tufts of fox fur stuck to his body. Hiashi took the baby in his arms and looked at the lifeless body of the child's mother. He let a lone tear roll on his cheek, before turning around and walking towards the village, murmuring "Goodbye, sis'"
He looked at the small child in his arms while walking. "I know how your mother wanted to name you" he thought "I can't keep you with me. You mother had a forbidden relationship; the elders would want me to kill you. But you can be sure I'll do anything I can to help you while I'll watch you grow up into the fine man my sister was sure you would be. Her great hope for the future... her little Irridus..."
At the mention of the name, the child opened his eyes. Hiashi almost dropped the child in shock when he saw those eyes. They were the color of amethysts, and the pupils were very thin and stretched.
Yes, Irridus' eyes are similar to the eye I put as cover for this story. Not the same, but similar.
Is that a genetic problem? Is it a bloodline limit? is it an evolution of the Hyuga's Byakugan?
Give me many reviews and maybe you'll find out in the next chapter :P
Bye!