Chapter 1: The Sealing

The Namikaze estate, now all but extinct, suffered its most painful lose yet. The clan head, and current Yondaime, Namikaze Minato and his wife Namikaze Kushina, both perished during the attack of the kyuubi. Kushina, during child birth with Minato's second child, was whisked away to a medical tent far from where the kyuubi was. A lone kunoichi, new born baby in her arms, leaves the tent moments after the birth running to Konohagakure.

Entering the half destroyed village, she runs towards the Hokage Tower where the Sandaime was awaiting. Running into the opened doors and past a group of injured ninja seeking shelter, she runs up the stairs and to the big wooden doors of the Hokage Chamber. When she approaches the doors and slows down, two ANBU appear in front of the door and block it. "MOVE OUT OF MY WAY! I am under direct order from Yondaime to bring this child to Sandaime. The fate of the village is at stake here!" the young girl said with a tone that made the ANBU look at each other, but they stepped aside.

The girl almost blew the doors down when she entered his office. The Sandaime, being an older man, stood at a big window looking over the village to the giant 9 tailed beast that was not only laying waste to the village, but to the people who are trying to defend it. The man looks at the girl with eye's that show great sorrow. "So he's really gonna go along with it..." said the man sadly.

"…with Kushina's permission no less."

With a bit of hope left he looks at the girl and is about to ask a question, but her coming remark squashes what hope.

The girl moves a blanked that was covering the baby's head to the side to reveal his short blond hair. "She didn't make it…" with a tear running down her face.

With a swift punch to the desk that sat in the middle of the room, the old man turned back to the window. "Yondaime told me his plans…" Looking back at the girl "…He's going to seal the beast in to his son…" Motioning down to something at his feet, the girl inches forward to see a seal trigram drawn on the floor, and candles surrounding it.

Sandaime, motioning for the girl to hand over the child, takes the baby and cradles it for a moment. Knowing the hardships that are ahead of him in his life, and realizing that he will soon be the last Namikaze. "One day, you're gonna be just as strong as your father, if not stronger." Says Sandaime. Remembering something he forgot to ask the girl, "What's his name?"

"Naruto…Namikaze Naruto" said the girl as she looked at the sleeping child the Sandaime was now holding.

"Rin, do something for me please…." The old man turns to Rin as he places Naruto in the middle of the Seal. "…Senju Tsunade was last seen in a small village north of here. I want you to go find her and bring her here by any means necessary."

Rin nods, "Hai!" The girl turns to leave but is caught off guard by a blue aura now floating in the room over the boy. She looks to Sandaime but is caught off guard by his horrified look. "Something's not right, this chakra…it's not red….it's blue!" said the now worried man.

Rin, being able to sense that the presence of the chakra is familiar "It's….Yondaime's" Soon after feeling Yondaime's presence in the chakra "and…I feel, a great evil from within his presence.."

Sandaime, now looking at the floating chakra "Something went horribly wrong, it feels as if the Kyuubi is sealed inside of the Yondaime's chakra…" Nicking his thumb with his teeth, he places he thumb on the childs forehead. "SEAL!"

With a light brighter them most have seen, the chakra infuses itself the boy, who is now fully awake and crying. Rin, now focusing on the child worrying if the change in events would have an effect on the child, looks to Sandaime who looks to be in deep thought. "This effect…it's not the kinjutsu that he told me he was gonna use. He used the Eien no tamashī shīru kinjutsu instead…" He looks at Rin who is now dumbfounded, "He sealed himself, along with kyuubi, inside Naruto!"

Rin, being the smart girl that she is, knows that a bijuu being sealed into a human is one thing, but a bijuu along with its sealer being sealed into a human is another, "But won't Yondaime's knowledge, and powers leak into Naruto the same as the kyuubi's?"

Sandaime, now holding the baby in his arm's again, looks at the brunette haired Rin with a slight grin on his face, "That it will Rin, but the seal that suppresses the kyuubi's power must be activated first. With the kyuubi now dormant, that won't happen for some time. Knowing that all the information that he possess could have been lost, he must have chosen this jutsu instead of his original plan" He turns to the window and looks out to see the kyuubi is indeed gone as the sun starts to peak over the Hokage Monument.

"Rin," said Sandaime "Find Tsunade, her aid Shizune should be with her. I must ask her a favor that she is more than likely going to hate…"

Rin again bow's, "Hai!" She turns to the door and walks through and is off on her new quest leaving Sandaime and Naruto in the room.

Sandaime looks down and the child and manages to smile, "You even resemble him, Naruto."