Disclaimer: I do not own naruto.
Prologue
There was nothing I could do…….
As I lay here watching my screaming child, a deep sense of regret and darkness over shadowed me.
I was dying….. This much I knew for a fact. As the life forces slowly leave me, I reached over, took my child in my arms and cuddled him. His cries slowly ceased and he cooed softly. I looked at him sadly, here he is now, being held by his father and is protected for the moment. But pretty soon, he would be on his own. I drew my dying breathe and whispered in his ear.
"Be strong, Naruto, my son."
Then I closed my eyes, and fell.