Twelve years ago, the night before the Nine-Tailed Fox attacked the Village Hidden in the Leaves, a boy was born. With blond hair and blue eyes, he was considered the proud son of his father and mother, Ebuto and Kyla Uzumaki.
After the baby was wrapped in a warm blanket, sitting on his mother's lap, who is sitting in a rocking chair, with the father looking over the mother's shoulder at the baby, the mother said, "You're so beautiful. With your blond hair, and bright blue eyes." She slowly pet the little baby's hair.
Still looking at the sleeping baby, the mother asked the father, "Ebuto, what should we name him?"
The father responded, "I want it to be a strong name, or in other words my name." The father smiled. The mother looked up at him and smiled.
She said, "How about," she looks back down at the baby, "Naruto. Naruto Uzumaki?" She looked back up at the father. The father looked up at the ceiling thinking.
"Naruto," he echoed.
"Naruto," he repeated.
He said, "It has the 'uto' in it like my name. I like it." He looked back down at the baby.
"Naruto Uzumaki," the father repeated for the last time to him.
Later that night, when everyone was asleep, there was a knock at the door. Ebuto got up to answer the door. Knowing that since he was part of the village's Anbu Black Ops, the person at the door was probably another member of the Anbu Black Ops telling him about a problem in the village. His predictions were true. When he opened the door a masked person with a cloak on was standing on the other side.
Ebuto said, "When should I answer to you?"
The masked person said, "When the Hokage's word flows through his strength..." Ebuto counted to five in his head, made a hand sign, used some of his chakra (as did the other person), and they both said, "The Anbu Black Ops." Ebuto revealed a mark on the other guy's forehead showing that he was part of the Anbu Black Ops, as did the other person to him.
After they both knew that the other one was Black Ops, the person said, "Ebuto, there's an emergency meeting in the Lord Hokage's office."
Ebuto nodded and said, "I'll be right over." The other person vanished. Ebuto closed the door and walked to his room.
Kyla got up and said, "Who was it?"
Ebuto got his mask and cloak, put them on, and said, "I got a meeting to go to. I won't be long." He started walking towards the door. Kyla got out of bed, walked to Ebuto, and put a hand on his shoulder. Ebuto stopped.
Kyla said, "Has being part of the Anbu Black Ops make you forget something?"
Ebuto turned around and asked, "What?"
Kyla said, "This." She took off Ebuto's mask and kissed him.
After the kiss, Ebuto put his mask back on and said, "I'll be back by morning. Give Naruto a kiss for me will you?" Kyla nodded. Ebuto walked out of the house and vanished. Kyla, depressed, closed the door and walked to her room. Naruto was sound asleep. Kyla kissed Naruto two times. She got in her bed and fell asleep.
Ebuto appeared in front of the Hokage's house. He walked inside and went into the meeting room. Many Anbu Black Ops were sitting around a huge table. Ebuto found an empty seat and sat down. The instant Ebuto sat down, the Third Hokage entered the room. All of the Anbu Black Ops stood up. The Third Hokage walked over to his chair at the end of the table. All at once, everyone sat down.
The Third Hokage said, "Black Ops, we have a situation on our hands, a very serious situation." The Hokage took a puff out of his pipe.
He continued, "It seems that the Nine-Tailed Fox spirit has escaped it's prison and is roaming the country-side." Chatter rose among everyone.
A Black Ops member said, "But how did it escape it's prison?"
The Hokage said, "No one knows for sure, but it is a threat that needs to be taken care of."
Another member stood up and said, "How are we to capture it? Or better yet, destroy it? If it got out of it's last prison, then what would be stronger to hold it in?"
The Hokage sighed and said, "I don't know, but if anyone knows of any jutsu that can stop this monster, please speak up now." He looked among everyone's faces. Nobody said anything.
Someone, after a long silence, asked the Hokage, "Do you know of any jutsu?" The Hokage lowered his head and took another puff out of his pipe.
Without looking up he responded, "No." He looked up, "But the least we can do is draw the Nine-Tailed Fox away from the village." Everyone agreed.
"Then it is settled," the Hokage said, "Escort the women and children out of the village and gather as many men as possible to fight this monster."
Everyone immediately said, "Yes sir, Lord Hokage." And they ran out of the room to tell everybody about the threat.
The Hokage stayed in his room with his assistant, Yondaime. Yondaime said, "You lied when you said that you didn't know of any jutsu, did you?"
The Hokage sighed and said, "Yes I did lie. I do have a jutsu that can stop it, but I wouldn't be able to use it."
Yondaime asked, "Why not, sir?"
The Hokage started, "There are only three other people who know of this jutsu besides me, plus you when I tell you. It's called the Spirit Seal Jutsu. It takes the spirit of whatever you want to seal, and seals it inside of your own body. The only problem is that it takes a lot of strength and chakra to use it. Considering that I am too old and do not have enough strength, I cannot do it."
Yondaime nodded and said, "I understand sir."
The Hokage sighed and said, "I just hate it that there are going to be so many lives lost."
Yondaime said, "I will sacrifice my life for the village, Lord Hokage."
Ebuto first ran to his house to make sure that his family was safe. When he got to his house, the door was already open. Scared of what might have happened to them, he ran inside. Most of the important stuff was out of the house. There was a lot of broken items in there though. That worried Ebuto.
"Someone might have captured them. I've got to go find them," Ebuto thought.
He started to run out of the house when an Anbu Black Ops came to him and said, "Someone's already got this house. Move on to the next one." Ebuto sighed in relief and nodded.
"At least they are okay," he thought. He ran out of his house and started checking houses. Most of the houses were emptied. Ebuto looked up and saw a house on a hill near the edge of the city.
"Last house," Ebuto thought. He ran up to the house and knocked on the door. A man answered the door. Ebuto could see a woman and two children behind the man.
Ebuto said, "The Hokage orders that all women and children are to leave the village and any men who want to help the Anbu Black Ops are to meet up at the Hokage's house."
The man nodded and said, "We know." He motioned for his wife and children to the door.
Ebuto said, "I'll get them to safety."
The man said, "I know you will." Ebuto escorted the woman along with her children. He looked back to see what the man would do. The man looked inside, sighed, closed the door, and locked it. He stood there with his head against the door. He looked back up at the house, examining every part of it. He then dropped the key in his pocket, wiped the tears from his eyes, and ran towards the Hokage's house.
Ebuto sighed and thought, "I feel bad for him. He's going to lose his house and everything he held dear to him. But then again, so am I." Ebuto turned around to make sure that the woman and children were still there. They were. He led them to a shelter house.
Panting hard, Kyla stopped to take a breath. With Naruto in her arms, it was hard to run. She looked back behind her to see if he was still there. She didn't know who "he" was, but he already tried to take Naruto from her. She knew that "he" was an Anbu Black Ops. He wore a mask and cloak like all of the other ones. She knew it wasn't Ebuto though, his mask and cloak were different.
She couldn't see him behind her. She still didn't feel safe though. Just then, "he" jumped out of the woods in front of her. She grabbed a kunai from her pouch on her leg and threw it at him. The kunai went right through him.
"A genjutsu," Kyla thought. She went to grab another kunai in defense, but a hand grabbed her arm before she could get the kunai.
He said, "I'm going to need to borrow your baby, ma'am." He grabbed Naruto and ran off. Kyla wanted to throw a kunai at him, but then she thought that she might hit Naruto. She wanted to run after him, but she was too tired from running away from him. All she could do was scream Naruto's name, cry, and hope by some miracle that Naruto would come back to her.
"Naruto! Please give me back my baby! Naruto! Naruto!!"
When Ebuto got to the shelter house, he went to go see where Kyla and Naruto were. He searched through every shelter, but didn't see his family anywhere. He looked around some more to see if he could spot them, he didn't.
He walked to a nearby Anbu Black Ops and asked, "Have you seen a mother with a blond haired baby anywhere?"
The Black Ops thought for a moment and then said, "As a matter of fact, I did see a woman with a baby with blond hair." Ebuto got excited. "But the woman carried her baby and ran into the woods." And he pointed to a woods. Frantic, Ebuto ran into the woods. He jumped from tree to tree looking around.
The further he went in the woods, the more he thought that he would never see Kyla or Naruto again. The he heard, "Naruto!" He knew the voice was Kyla's and ran towards it.
He saw her in a fetal position, leaning against a tree, crying into her arms. He jumped down to her and said, "What's wrong?" and he held her.
Trying to stop crying so she could talk, Kyla said, "A man, hph... came up behind me and, hph... took Naruto!" She cried into Ebuto's chest.
Ebuto was going to yell at Kyla for not trying to get Naruto back, but then he thought that she was tired from running away from whoever kidnapped Naruto.
"Come on," Ebuto said. He picked Kyla up and brought her to the shelter house.
After Ebuto made sure that Kyla was alright, he went to go look for Naruto. He jumped on top of a tall building and scouted the area. Just then, the sun started to rise.
"Morning already?" Ebuto thought. He stared out in the area where the sun was. Then he saw something moving. He squinted his eyes so he could see. He saw a silhouette of a big animal-like body with nine flinging tails behind it. His eyes got as wide as they could. He said, "Oh my God."