Shinobi no Kage: Shadow of the Shinobi

"Yo"-Talking

'Yo'-Thoughts

"Yo"-Demon/Inner Sakura Talking

'Yo'-Demon/Inner Sakura Thoughts

Chidori- Jutsu/Seals

Summary: This is a tale from the chronicles of Uzumaki Naruto, shinobi of Konohagakure and offspring of Namikaze Minato and Nara Tsukiko.

Disclaimer: I do not own Naruto. I wish I did, cause if I did that would be fckin awesome.

Ch.1- How It All Began

Do you believe in fate? If you don't you better start to believe now, reason being that fate dictates a change in our very lives. Those changes being that of meeting a person who can become your best friend who would stand beside you for the rest of you life or your soul mate who you would spend the rest of your life with. The reason I began with this question is that our tale begins with one such fated encounter. This encounter is one between the Yondaime Hokage, Namikaze Minato and a kunoichi of the Nara clan, Nara Tsukiko…

(Inside the Hokage Tower)

"Kuso, where the hell did the Yondaime get to?" An extremely worried Chunnin secretary named Miyuri.

"How the hell should I know where he went to," retorted a frustrated crow masked ANBU guard.

"You and Raven stand right outside the door to his office, so you two should know whenever he decides to leave." Miyuri angrily growled out.

"So what do you suggest we do?" Raven inquired, finally entering the conversation between the two angry shinobi.

Crow sighed, "Well we can either a)wait for him to return, b)go out, scatter, and look around for him, or c)ask one of his ex-students to find and bring him back." (For those of you who are wandering where this takes place, this takes place after the Konoha-Iwa war, which means that Obito is dead and Kakashi has the Sharingan.)

"You do know that the chance of finding Minato when he doesn't want to be found is very low." A mysterious voice stated from behind Miyuri.

"EEEEEEEEEEEEEKKKK!" Miyuri screamed out spinning around to see a familiar man with spiky white hair with the front being held back by a strange piece of oni looking headgear with the kanji for "oil" inscribed on it, red face paint that looked like tear tracks running from his eyes, and strange clothes for a shinobi to wear (a red vest over olive green clothing, and geta sandals (clothing that made him look like a Kabuki performer.)) leaning against the wall with his arms crossed.

"J-JIRAIYA-SAMA!" Miyuri screeched out making Jiraiya and both ANBU collectively wince at the volume of her voice.

"Jeez you know, you really don't have to be that loud," the gama sannin whined out.

"Then don't sneak up on people like that you perverted baka," Miyuri angrily retorted.

"Well if you wanted to I could have snuck up a lot closer," Jiraiya grinned pervertedly after his statement.

Though apparently that was by far the worst thing that he could of said. Mainly because almost immediately Miyuri was instantly right in front of the sannin with a demonic look about her. "JI-RAI-YA!" Miyuri screamed and with the power that all women mysteriously seem to get when immensely pissed off. She gave the sannin a right hook that would of made Tsunade extremely proud she shot him down the hallway and through the wall of the Hokage tower screaming in pain.

"AAAAAAAHHHHHHH!!!" (I just had to put a scene with Jiraiya being sent flying across Konoha.)


(Outside Ichiraku Ramen)

Namikaze Minato the Yondaime Hokage and the mighty Kiroi Senko (Yellow Flash) walked away from Ichiraku rubbing his stomach with a content look upon his face. "Ah, ramen always hit's the mark," he stated while grinning happily.

Finally he stopped and looked up to the sky. "What should I do now? Should I go back to my office? No, maybe I should go to the monument and visit Obito," he pondered aloud to himself. "Yeah I really should go to visit him it's been awhile with me becoming the Yondaime and everything also with only Kakashi and Rin visiting he must be lonely," he said with a depressed tone.


(Pathway to the Hero's Monument)

"Well I'm almost there," Minato said while walking down the pathway towards the Hero's Monument.

Until…

"AAAAAAAHHHHHHH!" A voice yelled out from overhead causing Minato to stop and look up just in time to see a man-shaped figure soar through the sky. He continued to watch until he recognized the figures voice.

'Jiraiya-sensei huh. I wonder who he pissed off this time, but whoever it is must have used strength that rivals Tsunade's.' Minato thought while laughing his ass off at his former sensei's plight.

'Enough of that, I really should get to the monument now, I'm sure Jiraiya-sensei will be fine. He's had much worse by the hands of Tsunade anyway.' Minato thought continuing on his trek towards the monument.


(Hero's Monument)

Minato finally made it to the monument after the little Jiraiya episode, but stopped when he saw a woman wearing black standing in front of the monument. From the shaking of her shoulders he could tell that she was crying. Deciding he watched long enough he walked towards the woman. "Hey are you alright?" He asked in a concerned tone.

The woman's body tensed before she relaxed and she turned around leaving an awestruck Minato. 'S-She's extremely beautiful, she's like a tenshi descended from heaven.' Minato thought with a faint blush on his cheeks. Taking in her beautiful features, her light brown eyes, her black hair that cascaded down slightly past her shoulders, her cute button nose, her full rose lips. He looked down to take in her clothes, which were a simple mourners assemble, that consisted of primarily black clothes covering her form, but what really caught his eye was the clan symbol stitched onto the front of her clothing. 'So she's from the Nara clan huh? I didn't know that the women from that clan can be this beautiful.'

At the same time said tenshi was staring blushing at Minato like he was doing at her. 'I-I knew that Yondaime-sama was good looking but I never knew that he was incredibly handsome.' Were the female Nara's thoughts as she took in the Yondaime's features. His sun-kissed blonde hair that framed his in her opinion a face that put a god to shame in its handsome qualities along with his sapphire blue eyes that you could lose yourself in. She also took a look at the clothes that Arashi was wearing as well. He wore the common Jounin attire that consisted of a long sleeved navy blue shirt along with navy blue pants with a kunai pouch tapped on the leg, with the Jounin vest on over the shirt. Along with this he wore a white trench coat with flames on the bottom of it that almost completely obscured the standard blue shinobi sandals on his feet.

Finally after a while the two left their own little worlds and gazed at each other until both looked away sporting a heavy blush. "W-What are you d-doing here Y-Yondaime-sama?" The flustered Nara stuttered out.

"I came here to visit one of my students" Minato stated with a calm tone.

"Really?"

"Hai."

"Oh."

"So what did you come here for?" Minato asked.

"I came here to visit my best friend," she commented with a sorrowful tone and tears began to leak from her eyes. Only to be stopped when she unexpectedly found herself in a comforting hug. Causing the depressed state of mind to disappear and be replaced by a furious blush that turned her face beet red.(For those of you who want imagery think of Hinata's face through her interactions with Naruto.) 'W-Why is he h-hugging me?'

'Why am I holding her like this?' Minato thought with a faint blush on his cheeks. Even though he pondered on this he didn't let go.

Finally after what seemed to be an eternity, he finally released her from his hold. "Gomen, I don't know what came over me to do that," Minato apologized to the woman.

"N-no, it's ok, really it is."

"Are you sure?"

"Hai."

"So, how are feeling now?"

"Much better actually arigatou." She replied with a smile that completely lit up her face. Before she turned around and started to walk away from the monument. Only to be stopped by Minato's voice.

"Hey, I never got your name!" Minato yelled out to her retreating form.

"Shouldn't a gentleman give his name first before asking for the name of a lady?" She asked with a huff.

Minato gave her an embarrassed look before he answered. "My name is Minato, Namikaze Minato. Now can you tell my yours?"

"Now that your finally being a gentleman." She smiled at him before giving a reply to his inquiry, "My name is Tsukiko, Nara Tsukiko."

Minato got a stupid grin on his face before commenting. "A beautiful name for an extremely beautiful woman!" Watching her with his grin growing to almost face splitting proportions as Tsukiko's face lit up like a Christmas tree.


(1 Year Later)

After the two met at the monument they started dating for many months Konoha experienced one of the happiest days in their villages history. The wedding of Namikaze Minato and Nara Tsukiko (soon to be Namikaze Tsukiko).

However, the two did not wear the traditional tuxedo and wedding dress, but they wore their shinobi/kunoichi uniforms instead. Even though this was new to many of the people, it was still one of the most beautiful sights that the people of Konohagakure would remember for the rest of their lives.

One month later, it was announced that Kazama Tsukiko was pregnant, causing a celebration that spread throughout all of Konoha.

Everything was peaceful in Konoha for the next 8 ½ months until the unthinkable happened. The attack of the Kyuubi no Kitsune…. (A/N: I will just give a quick summary of the Kyuubi attack (If you don't know what happens with the Kyuubi attack then either read another fanfic or read the freakin' manga!))


(After the attack of the Kyuubi)

(Inside Hokage's Office)

Sarutobi Kien the Sandaime (took over as the hokage after Minato died), and Jiraiya of the Sannin were looking at a little blonde haired, azure eyed, whisker cheeked bundle of joy that was currently sleeping in the crib next to the Sandaime's desk.

Both of the powerful shinobis eyes were on the spiral seal on the child's stomach, circling around his navel. The seal in question was that of the Shiki Fujin (Dead Demon Consuming Seal) that the Yondaime used to defeat the Kyuubi by sealing it into the child before them. Though he did this at the cost of his own life.

The little boys mother had died shortly after giving birth to her son due to complications. After her death the Yondaime took the newborn in his arms and had set off atop of Gamabunta to go and seal off the Kyuubi.

Even though he had sealed the Kyuubi it had cost Konoha a great amount of their shinobi forces. Whole clans and a partial amount of clans were decimated due to the Kyuubi's immense power, infinite chakra, and godlike regeneration capabilities.

"So this is Minato and Tsukiko's kid huh?" Jiraiya asked looking at his former sensei.

"Yes it is," the Sandaime replied.

"Was he given a name?"

"I was told Tsukiko gave him the name of Naruto before she passed away."

"So Namikaze Naruto huh?"

"Yes, however Arashi asked me that until he is of age or is strong enough he should go by Uzumaki Naruto."

"Fine by me, but does the council know about his heritage or about carrying the Kyuubi?"

"No, the council neither knows of his parents or the fact that he is the jinchuuriki of the Kyuubi no Kitsune. Though I should and tell the council about what has transpired. Also, I'll need to announce to the public about what happened to the Kyuubi and about the Yondaime's last wish."

"I don't think that the villagers will listen to Minato's last wish."

Sandaime's face took a surprised look at this statement. "Oh? What made you draw out that conclusion?"

"With the fact that we lost many shinobi as well as some villagers due to the Kyuubi's attack most of the people will believe the little gaki to be the human form of the Kyuubi and will try to remove him from the realm of the living with any means possible."

Sandaime sighed as his face took the look of someone older than his years. "I see, well then do you have a solution to this situation?"

Jiraiya had a thoughtful look on his face before he gave his old sensei an idiotic grin. "Actually, I may have a solution to our little situation."

Sandaime gave Jiraiya an inquisitorial look before asking the question that he would most likely later regret. "What exactly do you suggest we do to fix our situation?"

Jiraiya's grin just grew wider as he stated his thoughts. "I think that I should take the gaki with me outside the village and train him to be a strong shinobi."

The elder Sarutobi looked at his old student in immense surprise. "That would be one of the worst ideas ever," he deadpanned.

Jiraiya frowned at the shooting down of his "brilliant" idea. "What's wrong with my little idea?"

"The boy may be a powerful shinobi, but I do not want the boy to come back and have the perverted tendencies that you have on a regular basis!" Sandaime growled in an angry tone when he concluded his statement.

Jiraiya was taken aback by his sensei's angry statement, even though the possibility of this happening was outrageously high. "Fine then, if it'll make you happy then I'll take him from Konoha and seek out Tsunade-hime, so then when he comes back he won't be a pervert, alright?"

"Even though that does sound satisfactory." The Sandaime sighed before continuing. "How exactly are you going to find her?"

Jiraiya paused for a second, the truth of the matter was that he had put no thought on how exactly he was going to find Tsunade. "Then why don't I wait here with the gaki and you send a messenger out to find Tsunade-hime?"

The Sandaime released another sigh 'I'm getting too old for this shit' he thought tiredly. "So then, in the meantime then where are you going to stay?"

"Well I'll stay at an inn while we wait and you can take Naruto and have someone take care of him until then."

"Very well then, now then I should go tell the council about the arrangements that we have agreed on concerning what to do little Naruto here." Sandaime said as he stood up, walked around his desk and headed for the door. "By the way, Kakashi and Rin(yes in my fic she's alive) should be here soon to keep an eye on Naruto, and before you ask, yes they do know about his parents and little furry problem."

Jiraiya gave a sigh similar to the one that the Sandaime earlier released. "Okay then, send someone to get me when Tsunade-hime finally gets here." With that said Jiraiya Shunshin'd away. As soon as Jiraiya left the Sandaime heard a knock at the door.

"Come in." Sandaime told the visitor with a calm tone. As the door opened he gave a small smile at the two people who just walked into the Hokage Office.

"Ah, Kakashi, Rin, it's good to see that you're here." The Sandaime said happily while examining the two shinobi that had just lost their sensei.

Hatake Kakashi wore a long sleeved black shirt with two bandoliers crossed on top that was originally designed to carry the sword that his late father Hatake Sakumo used to use in battle. Though, sadly that sword was broken beyond repair during the Konoha-Iwa War. He also wore baggy black pants with a kunai pouch strapped to his leg along with pitch black shinobi sandals. When you looked at the young Jounins face the only things you saw were his gravity defying silver hair and his right eye. His other eye was covered by his hitai-ate that covered a gift that his dead teammate had given him before he passed away, the Sharingan. His mouth was covered in a pitch black mask, one that he was always seen wearing, no one had ever seen what his real face looked like as people have tried on many occasions, but sadly, every attempt failed.

Rin (Don't know last name, if anyone knows please tell me.) had purple rectangular markings on her cheeks, light brown hair that went down to her shoulders, her hitai-ate secured around her forehead. For clothing she wore a light brown jacket that showed nothing underneath, black pants that weren't too tight nor too baggy giving her maximum maneuverability, she had her kunai pouch securely tied to her right leg, and she had the standard blue shinobi sandals.

"Yeah." Kakashi answered distractedly. "Where is Minato-sensei's son?" Only to get bopped on the back of the head.

"Kakashi!" Rin huffed. "Don't talk to the Sandaime like that, show some respect baka!"(Sorry for the little pseudo Naru/Saku moment)

"Itai, what the hell was that for!" Kakashi growled out in an irritated tone towards his teammate.

"That was for your lack of respect towards our leader!" Rin growled out in an equally irritated tone.

The two were about to continue their argument until Sarutobi thought that they should stop so he silenced both shinobi and kunoichi by clearing his throat. "Now then are both of you finished?"

"Hai." "Hai! Sandaime-sama!" Both simultaneously answered.

The Sandaime chuckled at both the shinobis reactions. "Now then, to answer your earlier question Kakashi, Naruto-kun is over there." He said as he pointed to the crib next his desk. Chuckling as he saw Rin disappear from her spot next to Kakashi to the spot next to the crib holding the infant Naruto. If one was not looking closely one might think that her sensei Minato might of actually taught his student his infamous Hiraishin. On closer inspection one would notice that this was an act of pure inhuman speed.

"KAWAII!" Rin screamed out in a typical reaction of just about any female when they see something that in their opinion that they deem to be extremely cute. The volume of said scream had even people walking by the Hokage Tower wincing in pain at the sound that suddenly attacked their defenseless ears. For those that were closer to the immense sound wave they were holding their ears in a lot of pain, some even had a trickle of blood escape through their abused ears. Though for some odd reason Naruto didn't even stir from his sleep.

After the effects of the super sonic sound attack(SSSA for short) wore off Kakashi decided to make himself heard. "Rin, you do know that you did not have to be that loud right?" Kakashi questioned emphasizing on that. However all his little inquiry gained him a venomous glare courtesy of Rin.

"Well Kakashi-kun, I can be as loud as I want got that!" Rin stated adding a dangerous little emphasize on kun.

Kakashi's eyes widened as he realized the danger he was in. "O-Okay Rin, let's not get too hasty alright." Kakashi stuttered out in an attempt to escape his teammates wrath. He watched with a relieved sigh as the feeling of danger left Rin.

"Fine then, just come over here so watch Naruto."

"Hai!"

"Alright then Sandaime-sama, we'll take good care of Naruto." Rin stated turning to where the Sandaime stood to find the spot that he previously occupied to be empty. 'Huh he must of left when I was speaking to Kakashi.'


(Inside the Council Room)

The council sat waiting for the Sandaime to show, but at the same time they were wondering why exactly the Sandaime called the council to convene. As they were pondering this the doors opened to admit the Sandaime.

"It's good to see that you all can be here on such short notice, though it does sadden me about the loss of Danzou."(A/N: Yes I did kill him off) The Sandaime announced with a obviously fake mournful look on his face. "I bet that you are all wondering why all of you were called here." He stated receiving a collective chorus of "Yes!" from most of the council members, with the exception of Hyuuga Hiashi and Aburame Shibi, who gave their answers in calm monotone voices.

"Very well then, I should tell you about how Yondaime defeated the Kyuubi no Kitsune." Sarutobi said watching as all the council members looked at him intently waiting for him to tell him. "The Yondaime after his preparations were done with he rode out on the toad boss Gamabunta and confronted the Kyuubi, when he was able to have the Kyuubi stay still he used a technique that he had developed in preparation for the Kyuubi, a technique called the Shiki Fujin a sealing technique that he used to seal the Kyuubi into a child that was born a hour before he confronted the Kyuubi."

Almost instantly he received shouts for the containers death with ranging reasons from "the demon will possess him" or that "the child could turn against them".

Hearing all this made the Sandaime's patience run extremely thin. "ENOUGH!!" He yelled out earning him the silence of the council. "Now then before I was interrupted, I was going to tell you the identity of this child, his name is Namikaze Naruto." He stated gained extreme shock from the council.

As expected when the silence became too long one member in particular stood up, this one being Nara Shikaku, the older brother of Tsukiko. "You mean that he's my nephew?" Shikaku asked their leader. He had a relieved look on his face at the thought that his little sister left something of herself in this world.

"Yes he is," He stated looking at Shikaku's face light up with happiness at the mention of his nephews survival. "He is the son of Nara Tsukiko and Namikaze Minato."

"Where is he?" Shikaku asked with an almost desperate look on his visage.

"He is currently sleeping in a crib in my office."

"Can I see him Sandaime-sama?"

"In a little bit."

"Very well." Shikaku sighed as he sat back down in his seat. As soon as he sat down another council member quickly asked one of their own questions.

"Where is the boy going to be staying?" The member asked starting a whole cycle of clans stating that Naruto could stay with their clans. Only for Shikaku to stop them.

"The boy is my nephew so it is only right for him to stay with his mother's clan."

"Actually Shikaku, we thought about it and Jiraiya and I decided that it was better for him to take Naruto with him to train him." Sarutobi stated earning a shocked look from Shikaku and the shinobi members of the council.

"Wh-what, why is he going with Jiraiya-sama?" Shikaku asked voicing the questions in all the council members heads.

"We believed that the Yondaime's enemies might try to either abduct Naruto or they might try to assassinate him. Also he believes that the villagers might try to take Naruto's life themselves regardless of who his parents were." This statement made all of the council members' eyes to widen in surprise at the possibility of this actually happening.

"This is why Jiraiya is going to take Naruto from Konoha mainly for his own safety." The Sandaime said before standing up and walking out of the council room.


(1 month later)

(The Hokage's Office)

The Sandaime sat at his desk still waiting for Tsunade to show up so she and Jiraiya can take Naruto. He sighed as he sat there glaring at the bane of all Hokages, Paperwork. 'I just wish that something would happen to take me away from this paperwork.' He thought and for him a godsend happened, he heard a knock at the door. 'Thank kami!' "Come in." He stated as the door slowly opened and he saw who was standing in the doorway a smile spread across his face. "Ah, Tsunade it's good to see you again."


End of Chapter 1

Hope you liked my first try. Also, ahead of time, I would like to say that some original jutsus that I add might not be spelt right in Japanese, so corrections will be much appreciated.

For the whole thing concerning Rin: I'm not totally sure what exactly she wore or what her clan name. In a few fics that I have read the authors give her the clan name of Inuzuka.

I had Danzou die because he is in my own opinion a corrupt bastard that deserved to die.

Also, in this the people do not know about the fact that Naruto contains the Kyuubi, they do know however who Naruto's parents are. What it meant by this is that they know that the Kyuubi was sealed away, but not where.

Please R&R, constructive criticism is welcome.