Naruto-oneshot between Naruto's parents. This means SPOILERS!!
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Plotbunny attack. A little break from Do Not Go Gentle and Chocolate Box.
Naruto is not mine.
Breathe
Breathe in, breathe out, breathe in, breathe out…
Outside the hospital, on the day Naruto was born, people were dying.
Kushina was hemorrhaging.
She was dying.
She knew that.
Minato did not.
Thank god. Thank god that he did not know. Thank god that Naruto was born safely, thank god that Minato would care for him, thank god that Naruto would be safe, safe from the outside.
There was Minato, on the threshold of the hospital door. He was bleeding too.
On the outside.
The second she saw his eyes, she knew.
No. He could not. He could not do this to her. Not to her son either.
"You're going to face Kyuubi aren't you?"
"Yes."
"By yourself?"
"Yes."
"You will die."
"Yes."
He could not.
"Fine. Fine then. What will I say to him? Hm? What will I tell our son when he asks for his father? What will he tell the other boys when they ask for his parentage? Who will teach him to be great? Tell me that Minato."
A pause. Then-"You could-"
"Don't! Don't say that Minato! I have bore your son. I have borne him, and he has killed me! I do not hate him. I could not hate him! But I will never raise him too greatness! I will never raise him to anything! But who will care for him?! If you do not live, who will watch over him?! With you dead? TELL ME MINATO! WHO WILL WATCH OVER MY CHILD? WHO WILL FEED HIM? WHO WILL MAKE SURE HE'S SAFE? WHO WILL MAKE SURE HE'S NEVER ALONE? TELL ME! You are hokage are you not? You have thousands of ninja, waiting to die for you in an instant! Have them fight the monster! But please I beg you-"But she stopped.
He said, "I cannot live for them if I send others to die for them."
Kushina said, quietly: "Then live for your son."
"What will he have to look up too? You worry about what he will say to the other boys. But my son cannot look up to a broken man. And that is what I will be, if I send these ninja to die. You want to know who will teach him. How could I teach my son to stand? No, Kushina. This is our fate. Our son will stand on his own."
"Then nothing could change your mind?"
"Where is he? I want to see him. I haven't seen him yet."
"The nurses have him."
"If I could, I would save you too."
"Go save your village, Minato."
The Fourth Hokage, soon to be deceased, rose and started for the door. At the threshold, with his back toward his wife, he said, "I think he will be called Uzumaki, after your family. It is a good name. Naruto Uzumaki. Our son will be strong."
Kushina relaxed against the pillows and watched her son's father leave. She turned her face to the window and watched the destruction outside. Inside, she was dying. Outside, she was dying too.
Breathe in, breathe out, breathe in breathe out…
-Fin-
Wow that was fun. I don't normally write minor characters(Because I don't remember they exist, and when I do write them, I never get the names right and I have to look up the names in the manga and that means going through like, 600 pgs of Naruto and it's just too much trouble…)