Prologue

It was dark and cold as Uchiha Madara looked out from his position on the side of the Shodaime Hokage's statue at the Valley of the End. "So many memories." he said out loud while rising from his previously crouched form.

The once great leader of the Uchiha Clan took a deep breath and sighed, "It's finally time to begin." With that, he silently disappeared and headed off into the dark forest to the Akatsuki's main base located in Amegakure.

Flashback

"Come on, will you two just stop arguing for 2 minutes!" yelled the Yondaime Hokage of Konohagakure, Namikaze Minato. The two other occupants in the room turned to him with fire in their eyes from their interrupted heated argument.

His closest friend and what he considered to be a brother looked at him with anger, sadness and fear in his eyes. His long, spiky, tied up red-orange hair swayed as he stomped towards him while replying angrily, "NO! I refuse to let you sacrifice your life for my stupid mistakes Minato!"

His red slit eyes were blazing as he glared at his closest friend. Most of the world knew him as Kyuubi no Yoko, but to Minato, he's Kurama, the man who taught him so much and protected him whenever he did anything foolish, and the man he considers his best friend and brother.

"IF HE WANTS TO DO IT THEN LET HIM FOR KAMI'S SAKE!" yelled Madara before he lowered his voice, "I think you've taught him well enough to let him make his own decisions Kurama."

"FUCK YOU! HE'S MAKING A STUPID DECISION," Kyuubi yelled while his face turned red from all the adrenaline running through him, "THERE HAS TO BE A DIFFERENT WAY!"

Minato closed his bright blue eyes, stood up from his chair and angrily slammed his hands on his desk, "ENOUGH!, You two shut up already because I am doing this and that is FINAL!" He grabbed his Hokage robes decorated with flames on the bottom and stormed out of the room.

Kurama's eyes followed him. Angrily, he turned towards Madara and said, "Tell him he has 10 months."

With that he left the room and left Madara pondering in his thoughts.

And as Kurama said, 10 months later Kyuubi no Yoko attacked the village of Konoha and Namikaze Minato was pronounced dead after sealing the spirit away into a newborn, Uzumaki Naruto, using Shiki Fuujin. His body was never found and it was just assumed that it was an affect of the jutsu, or so they thought.

End Flashback

Somewhere deep in the forest Madara smirked at the memory while picking up his pace to Amegakure.

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Edited: September 6th, 2012