Hi everyone my name is RudeRage and this is my first FanFic, First of all I would like to say I'm a huge naruto fan and I'm a huge fan of FanFiction. I've read so much that I thought I would write one of my own. This story will mostly follow the major naruto story line and Naruto will be the Cannon Naruto. He just wouldn't be the same if he wasn't loud and annoying, he'll just be a little smarter thats all. I hope you like my story

Disclaimer: I don't own Naruto I only own my OC's

Speaking

Thinking

The Fox and The Light

Chapter One: A New Home

The night was illuminated by the fires that burned around and in Konohagakure. The screams of the injured and dying could be heard from all around. In the mist of the chaos a lone shinobi rushed towards the spot where a demon had once stood. The mans black hair seemed to blend in with the darkness as he ran. The speed at which he moved cause everything to blur around him. " Please don't die Minato." he said as he moved in closer. Finally he stopped and what he saw almost made him drop to his knees, his dear friend and teammate was laying on the ground. His blonde hair and handsome features smeared by dirt and blood, in his arms was a crying infant.

" Gouro…" It was little more than a whisper but it brought him out of his trance. He rushed over and knelt besides the dying mans side. " Minato you damn fool." Tears flowed freely from his face, Minato chuckled " You ran all the way from the border didn't you Gouro?"

The crying man nodded " Mary sensed the nine tails chakra, I'm so sorry Minato I got here as fast as I could." A faraway look spread across his friends face " I can see him Gouro, he has come for his payment." Gouro reached down and griped his best friends hand, as the Fourth Hokagae looked at him " Please take care of him, please make sure the see him as the hero he is and not as a monster, promise me that." Gouro looked at the blonde bundle in his other arm, he let go of his hand and picked the screaming child up. Gouro smiled " Looks just like you, but damn he's got Kushina's lungs." He looked down " I promise Minato." With his last breath the Fourth said " Thank you… my brother." With that the Fourth Hokagae, the Yellow Flash of Konoha's, Minato Namikaze left this earth.

Gouro let his head drop in prayer. " You can come out now Sarutobi-sama, you too Jiraya-sensei." The two figures stepped from the shadows. Gouro looked at his teacher with a plain tear stained face. "Gouro." The student and teacher looked at each other for the first time in years. " I will not abandoned him here."

The Sandaime looked at the pained young man. " Gouro he belongs here, this is his home, Minato would've wanted him to live here." Gouro looked down at the now sleeping child. " Who will take care of him?" He looked at his sensei. " I heard you were his godfather in my absence." Jiraya nodded " I can't take him with me, I have to keep our spy network going I can't take care of infant." " More like don't want to." Gouro thought.

" Well where will he go then if not with me? An orphanage?" His blood started to boil as he thought of his best friends last words to him. " I promised Minato that I would take care of this boy, that I would protect him, and that I would have Konoha people see him for the hero that he is."

" Gouro it is not your decision, Sarutobi-sensei is in charge of the boy." Jiraya yelled at his former student.

Gouro's face filled with anger " NO I WILL NOT LEAVE HIM!"

"ENOUGH!" The Thirds voice thundered over Jiraya's as he started to yell back. Sarutobi looked at Gouro " I believe you will take care of him Gouro I really do, but the fact is that Minato wanted his son to live here in the village."

Gouro face fell, and then suddenly picked up again " Give me twelve years with him outside the village, and then we will move back."

Sarutobi thought about gaining back a powerful shinobi such as Gouro " The Bolt" Haruto. " Does that mean you'll come back too?"

Gouro nodded " My family too, my son was born not too long ago. I will bring them both back and I will reinstate my self as a ninja." Sarutobi thought about and finally smirked " Fine twelve years with the boy, and than I expect you back here in time for him to take his gennin exam, and I want you and him come make yearly reports once he turns one."

Gouro smiled as he looked down at the newest addition to his family. " What did Minato name the boy?" Jiraya smiled " He named him after the character in my first book, but he also named him after you." Gouro looked at his sensei. " His name is Naruto." Gouro laughed " Naruto…" He looked at the boy " You will grow up to be just like your dad, one of the most powerful shinobi who ever lived." Gouro then said goodbye to his teacher and the Sandaime and disappeared in a flash of light.

" Do you think we made the right choice?" Jiraya said to his teacher. Sarutobi nodded " Nobody in this world could ever harm that boy with Gouro around, he will help that boy become a fine shinobi." " What about the fox?" At this Sarutobi frowned " I want you to check on him every once in awhile to make sure the seals fine." Jiraya nodded and disappeared. Hiruzen Sarutobi looked at his village, looked at the destruction, and sighed as the leaves started to pick up around him " We got a lot of work to do."

Gouro reappeared outside of the forest. He was about 30 miles from home. He thought if he wanted to make it before dawn he would need to be fast. He pushed chakra to his feet and started to take off towards his home that he and his wife had lived in ever since Mary was injured during a mission and they had quit being shinobi and moved to a village just on the border between the lands of Fire and Rice. His thought about his dearly departed friend. They hadn't seen each other since Gouro's wedding to there teammate Mary where Minato had been his best man. Not long after that Gouro retired from being a shinobi to help his wife.

He looked down at the sleeping child. He had seen the seal on the babies stomach and knew what it had meant. He had seen it on Kushina's stomach as well. " Minato you sealed the Kyubi in your own son." Gouro at first couldn't believe it, but then he thought about it. " Minato wouldn't ask anyone else to make such a sacrifice, so you made your own." He knew it must have broken his heart when he did it. Finally he stopped outside the gates to his home. It was outside town just a bit. He opened the gate. His home wasn't to big, but it wasn't to small. His savings from his ninja career made sure of that. He walked past the training yard and inside of his home. He saw his wife sitting at the table.

She turned to him, " I sensed Minato's chakra fading. Is he…." Gouro nodded his head " Yes my love."

He looked at his wife's dark brown hair, and her bandaged eyes. Even though her last mission took her sight, she could still see Chakra and sensed it better than anyone else in the world could. " Who are you holding?" Gouro looked down at the now awake Naruto. " Its Minato's son." He walked over and out Naruto in Mary's arms. She looked down at the boy and waved a hand over him. " He's beautiful, I'm going to go lay him down."

She got up and started towards another room down the hall. Gouro followed her and the walked into his son's nursery. She laid him down next to him. Immediately Naruto started to yawn and close his eyes, while the black haired baby opened his and looked at his new crib mate. His electric blue eye's so full of wonder. Eventually he grew tired of staring at the blonde baby and fell asleep.

Mary smiled " Those two are going to give us a lot of headaches if there anything like you and Minato." Gouro kissed his wife " I have a feeling these two are going to be better than us. Something about them." Mary patted her husband on the chest " Come on baby, lets go to bed." She walked down the hall and waited for her husband. " Naruto Namikaze and Ayumu Haruto…. You two are going to do great things." He slid the door shut and walked to bed with his wife.

Thats the first chapter of The Fox and The Light

Please review and I should have the second chapter up shortly. It will be there return to Konoha, but don't worry the first 12 years will be told in flashbacks.

So keep on reading RudeRage