Disclaimer: I don't own Naruto. Masashi Kishimoto does, so thank him for Naruto.
Rated to be on the safe side.
Summary: Simple questions, what if Naruto wasn't the only child born to his parents on the day of the Kyuubi attack? What if there were more than one demon that attacked Konoha? What would their life be like?
A/N: I'll admit that I'm new and this is my first story, meaning I have little experience so be patient with me and sorry if the length seems a little short. I hope to have some constructive criticism and not just flames. Hopefully I'll have decent chapters and I'm not sure how long this might be. I may switch between the translations for certain things, sometimes using the English dub or the given name.
"Speaking"
Thinking
"Inner self/ Demon talking"
Demon thinking
"The Burden of Three"
In the Village Hidden in the Leaves, better known as Konohagakure or Konoha for short, there are many strong ninja that have pushed their village to be the strongest of the Five Great Shinobi Villages. The leader of this great village is known as the Hokage, the strongest ninja of Leaf. At this time the Yondaime Hokage has had a couple years of peace after after gaining his title and position from his exploits in the Great Shinobi War. The Yondaime or Fourth Hokage is Kazama Arashi, better know as Konoha's Yellow Flash because of one of the jutsu that he had developed. He stands at about five feet ten and a half inches tall (179.2 cm) and wears the usual jonin/chunin blue uniform with a brown vest under a dark red hooded cloak with white flames along the base of the cloak. Some of his most distinguishing features is that he has bright blond spiky hair and bright blue eyes.
Arashi is said to be the strongest ninja that Leaf has ever produced, but it is also well known that there is one person in the village and maybe even the entire shinobi world that has been able to be a match for him and at times prove to be someone that he would not want to anger. This person is said to also be the only one that can control the Yondaime. This strong person would be his the overall commander of the ANBU and strongest kunoichi since Tsunade, Kazama Mina, also known as the wife of the Yondaime Hokage. She is about five feet two inches (157.5 cm) and usual seen in her traditional black ANBU gear, a silver cloak with black flames at the base that was a gift from Arashi, and tiger mask. Her eyes are darker blue than husband's and has long white hair. Despite her strength and title there is another reason that she is feared, that reason is would be her swollen stomach. It was discovered by a few people a long time ago that it is wise not to anger the strongest woman in the village, but that is even more true when that woman has mood swings. It seems that she is in her last month of pregnancy and quite large. Mina and Arashi had first thought that they were going to be having one child until they had a medic-nin examine her and discovered that they weren't having one or event two children, but were having triplets.
The information concerning the Kazama children was decided to be kept secret, since only a handful of close friends knew of their marriage and only a few of them along with several medic-nin knew of her condition. The reason that it was to be kept secret was that they did not want any assassination attempts on Mina or her unborn children since both parents made many enemies. The only people that know of the Kazama's marriage would be their former students, the previous Hokage, and their former teacher Jiraiya. Only several of the medic-nin, the Sandaime or Third Hokage, and Jiraiya that know of her pregnancy.
Now that strongest figures of Konoha have been introduced and we seen how they were about a week prior, it would be wise to look at the current condition of some of them as well as the condition of the great village. Well at the moment Kazama Mina is resting on a bed completely tired while there are three bassinet next to her bed hold her sleeping children. She looks up to her husband and smiles before speaking with a sad expression on her face.
"Arashi are you sure that there is no other way to defeat them?" Mina was beginning to cry while asking this. "No way without our little angels having to carry such a terrible burden or us being unable to help them?"
Arashi sighed and rubbed his eyes "I with there was another way as well but we both know that we don't have anywhere near enough time to even try to think of another plan. It's either this or these little ones won't even have a chance at life. Not just them but entire village. I'm sorry love, but there is no other way."
The kunoichi continued to cry while moving her eyes to her children "It's just not fair, none of this. Seeing them makes me sad to know that we will miss out on too much. My sweet little babies they all look like you, the boys should look just like you when they grow up and my little girl will most should look like a blond haired version of me. I really wish we wouldn't miss out on seeing them grow help them."
"You're right. It's not fair, but it's either this or well all die. That would mean that you and I wouldn't be here anyway and that all of the village would be gone, including our children" Arashi agreed with his wife, and brought his eyes to the three resting as he said the last part just above a whisper.
They hugged each other while watching their children before getting ready to leave out. Arashi was already prepared so he just watched his sleeping children. It was discovered that even though they were triplets the boys would be like identical twins while their sister would have a strong resemblance to them. Mina was getting into her old ANBU uniform, which still fit pretty well and helped make her look much thinner than when she was pregnant. Arashi then picked up the eldest of the triplets while Mina picked up the other two and left their home. Mina had when into labor several hours before and refused to let her husband leave her to get help, but he was lucky that the Sandaime was with them and had some experience with childbirth.
Now most would be curious what could be going on that would make these two proud parents so sad and what the talk about the destruction of the village could mean. Well quite simply several hundred yards (or meters) away from the gate stood the three of the most fearsome creatures to ever walk the planet, three of the Biju. In this world there exists nine great being known as Biju, or tailed demon beasts. Comparing their strength to humans is like comparing a ripple in the water to a tsunami. They are ranked as the weakest being the Ichibi (One Tail) to the strongest being a the Kyuubi (Nine Tail). It can be noted that even though not as strong as those with more tails that Ichibi is said to be stronger than several of the Kage leaders combined. What has most scared is that it's the Kyuubi no Kitsune (Nine Tailed Fox), Shichibi no Tori (Seven Tailed Tiger), and Rokubi no Ookami (Six Tailed Wolf).
It was once said that there were once many villages as large or powerful as Konoha, but were completely destroyed in a day or two when just one of these giant creatures appeared. Seeing three many of the ninja wondered if there would be any survivors. Their only hope was the Yondaime. He had been making a plan to deal with these demons when they were first sited in the Land of Fire two days prior and slowly coming to Konoha while destroying the nearby area. Some of the ninja of the village was ordered to aid the villagers while the the rest of the shinobi forces distracted the three demons while waiting for the Yondaime. So far they had many losses, were doing as they were ordered.
Suddenly there was a huge puff of smoke and a giant toad appeared. The shinobi recognized this as the Yondaime's boss summon and the signal for them to retreat. On top of the toad's head was the Kazama family, Arashi holding their oldest son and Mina with the other two, son held in her right arm and daughter on her left. Arashi was amazed that Mina was still standing considering that she just finished giving birth an hour ago. He smiled as he thought what kind of ninja their children would be with not just their ancestors abilities, but also the chakra levels and endurance they would have.
As the two shinobi stood on the toad watching the three demons standing in front of them they began to wonder what their children lives would be like and hoped that they would forgive their parents for what they were about to do to them. With that last thought Arashi began to form the hand seals that was needed.
He and his wife realized that they would could not kill the demons while they were planning and that the only way to stop them would be to seal them away, but the question was what to seal them in. They had heard that with the help of an insane priest the Kazukage was able to seal the Ichibi into a teapot, but they knew that would not work because they were too powerful to be put in an object and that even if that could work the demons would be released if the object was destroyed. They then thought a person, but knew that the demon chakra would destroy the person's chakra pathways and kill the person while releasing the demon. The last option would be a child since the chakra pathways are underdeveloped, but they would need a infant to do that since it would most likely kill a child more than a few months old like it would an adult. Though it sounded cruel it was the last option that they had that could save the village, a sad reminder of saving the many over the few.
Once that was realized they needed at least three children they had to decided on who to use. They thought that it was heartless to ask a parent to give up their child to be a host and prison to a demon. They finally came to a decision that they had to use their own children and hope they would be born in time. The reason for that decision was that they were having three which they needed, they could not bring themselves to ask another to use their child for that, and last they realized that as the leader the Yondaime could not ask another to do something that he himself was not willing to do. If he did not then there was a good chance that they both would lose the village's support and respect for using other's children.
The final thing was to design the seal. In just hours they made the perfect seal that was a combination of two seals, but they ran into a problem. They did not have enough power to place one demon in a seal, let alone three. In the end they found a way to seal the demons away, but this made them even more depressed than the fact that they would be sealing the demons in their children. They tried to think of another way but time was running out. The ninja were already beginning to engage the demons at the time and at the exact moment they began to wonder if they could be another way their children decided to add their opinion, so to speak. Mina went into labor not long after and that leads us to where we are now.
As Arashi was finishing his last seals the demons were watching them intently, curious of what they were doing. When he finished the Shinigami (God of Death) appeared behind them him and his wife. The Shinigami then stuck his arms in the back of the adult Kazama's and began to do what he was called to do. Arashi had realized that for the sealing to work that he and his wife would need to give their life energy to the Shinigami and have him pulls the demons into the seals they placed on their children. They were heartbroken that they would be unable to be there for their children when they would be needed, but it was either that or they all face death.
The demons began to feel a suction pulling them toward the humans on the toad and sigh as they knew they could not escape the Shinigami's power, but they also knew that they could not be killed. With little resistance they each had a different thought: Shichibi Maybe we underestimated the humans if two of them were smart enough to defeat us. ;Rokubi Is the place really worth is for them to use their pups and sacrifice themselves? ;Kyuubi I can't believe that they stopped my revenge when I even call my brethren to aid me! Once the demons were pulled inside the seal the infants began to cry and three whisker-like marks began to appear on each of their cheeks. The parents began to calm their children down until the crying stopped.
With the demons pulled inside their seals the Shinigami pulled his hands out of the Kazama's back and waited. He may be the God of Death, but that didn't make him a heartless being. He allowed the two before him a couple of minutes before he would take them to the afterlife.
Arashi and Mina sat down while still on Gamabunta's head (most should know that's the name of the toad boss summon) and both began to cry. They could only hope that the Sandaime is able to take care of their children and keep them safe. Arashi pulled out a scroll that he used to store things while taking off his cloak and helping Mina take hers off. He then began to explain when she gave him an odd look.
"In this I stored all our letters to them as well as personal effects, including our photo album, their original birth certificates, that old cloak that I gave you before the one you just took off, my our old mask, some of our extra hitai-ates, and a couple of other things for them. The last things to put in here are the hitai-ate I am wearing, your mask, our cloaks, and our necklaces." Arashi said as he sealed everything.
He pulled off the necklace that he held in his hand. Hanging from the gold chain was a gold piece that was designed after the Leaf symbol and about the same size, but in the center of the swirl was a small sapphire as blue as his eyes with a reverse swirl design on it. His wife took out hers, which was on a much more slender chain and slightly smaller. She then took out a second one that was the same size and looked exactly like the one Arashi held except it was silver.
"This was suppose to be your anniversary gift, but I guess this will go to them as well. Oh I really with that we could be with our babies. Hopefully they can have a good life without us." The sad mother said as he placed the items in the scroll with several of his special kunai. He knew he had the scrolls inside their home, which he placed special seals and genjutsu over, and that they could use them to make more and whatever they wanted when they are old enough.
The two shinobi said a few words of how they love each other and their children before jumping off Gamabunta, who disappeared once they hit the ground. As they stood there the Sandaime walked up to them and had a couple of teen kunoichi with him. They handed their children to the girls before turning to the Sandaime Hokage, Saruboti. They had talked to him before had and they knew everything that was going on and what to do.
"Saruboti, we would want the village to look at these children as heroes. If it wasn't for them being here we would have never been able to stop those demons. Their part is just as important as ours, if not then more important than ours. I say that because each of them is holding and will hold a power that could easily destroy this entire village for the rest of their lives." The Yondaime said to the Sandaime.
Mina then spoke up as she leaned against Arashi for support, "Please take care of them they are now orphans and the only family they will have is each other. Please try to keep them together, if they can't have their parents love then maybe they can have their siblings' love"
Saruboti nodded his head as he watched the the girls step back a little to give them some privacy to talk and asked an important question, "And what are their names? Also I cannot let them have your surname because of all of the enemies that the Kazama name has created"
They both stood there for a second before Arashi spoke, "The boy with three whisker marks on each cheek is Naruto, he is the oldest of the three and holds the Kyuubi. The girl with two whisker marks on each cheek is Tatsuma, she is the second and holds the Rokubi. The boy with four whisker marks on each cheek is Hariken, he is the youngest and holds the Shichibi."
Mina began to speak once Arashi was done, "As for a surname you can do what I did, use our clan symbol. After all father took on the name Uzumaki since he had no surname when he became friends with Arashi's mother. I wonder...Uzumaki Naruto, Uzumaki Tatsuma, and Uzumaki Hariken. Well the name fits, it should be okay for them until they are strong enough to have their father's name again. You will take care of them for us, right?"
The Sandaime nodded his head as he spoke "Yes I'll do my best and when I'm unable I'll be sure to have them watched by trusted and loyal shinobi. What should I tell to Kakashi, Rin, and Kurenai?"
"Don't tell them anything for now, wait until at least one attains ninja status, but my best guess is that they will want to all be genin at the same time. I know they will be curious of the mark on their shoulder, seems that if all else fail you can use that as proof that they are my children. As for my mother and my aunt don't tell them yet either, they will be to sadden by our death to have our children's well being to add to their problems." Arashi said as he felt the Shinigami nearing them.
Mina spoke next, "It seems that our time is up, we will be watching from the other side. I would say that I can't wait to see you again, but hopefully it will be many years until then." She had a small smile on her face at the last part.
Arashi smiled too as he places his arm around his wife and gave her a small kiss on her cheek. He the spoke to the Sandaime again while handing over a scroll, "One last thing, when you think they are ready give them access to our home, possession, and tell them who we are. In this scroll are letters and items that we are leaving for them. There are number of seals on it that just react to my blood and chakra only, so only one of those three can open it"
The Sandaime took the scroll as the Shinigami appeared next to the Kazama's and prepared to take their souls. When the Shinigami vanished the lifeless bodies of the Yondaime and ANBU commander dropped to the ground. He sighed and rubbed his aged face as he heard the children crying a small distance away, most likely sensing their parents death. He had a couple thoughts running through his head as he was walking to the kunoichi that holding the infants. I hope that we can do as you two wished, but I do wonder what kind of life your children will live. Not only do they have strong parents and grandparents, but they also have ancestors that were strong even before the villages was started Of course the last thought that went through his head was I was really enjoying my retirement, I'm not looking forward to all the paperwork that I'll have to do because of this.
A/N: I'll say this now that I am a Hina/Naru fan so this pairing can be expected. Also I have yet to think how much of the original story I'll deviate from, other than several OC's ( and expect at least one more OC for now, maybe in a chapter or two).
Also I'm not sure if I got the name of the forehead protectors right, I seen others use this name, but I have yet to find the name, I hope that is correct. As for Rin and Kurenai, well I decided to add Rin since no one knows where she's at and I decided to make her Mina's former student, since she was about 15 at this time and was said to be a chunin at 13. That means that Mina could have became an ANBU again once her team split for those that would tell me something about ANBU not having students.
If I us something that is the creation of another artist without citing or asking permission I am sorry, it is either because we think alike or I liked your idea and it gave me ideas and couldn't remember the pen name or story later to properly ask, but I will apologize if that happens.
The ANBU commander thing was just an idea, I don't know if one exists in Naruto. We know that each ANBU unit has a captain and reports to the Hokage, but I thought what if there was an ANBU that ranked above the others and commanded all teams. Serving a role between the Hokage and ANBU devision somewhat like a four-star general to the President or something.
As for the name and relation, well I and many other Naruto fans believe that the connection between the Yondaime/Naruto is father/son. One site I know has been trying to narrow it down and said that it's most likely Kazama Arashi or Uzumaki Arashi. Mina was just thought up by me since Naruto's mother was never mentioned either.
I know that there are a few that tried the siblings thing and the multi-demon thing, but I wanted to try anyway. The triplet thing came about from another thought, I wanted twins but couldn't decide whether to have a brother or sister, so I did both. Couldn't do older siblings because that would most likely give away Naruto parents from birth and couldn't do younger siblings because his parents died. As for the whiskers, it's well known that felines have them and I'm not sure about wolves so I gave Naruto's brother an extra set and his sister a one less.
Last the names. As I said I just made-up Mina and if the name means anything I have no clue. Hariken and Tatsuma I put a little more thought in. Seeing that even though Naruto is said to mean a ramen topping it also means a maelstrom or whirlpool and Uzumaki is a spiral. From what I learned Arashi is a tempest or storm. Anyway Hariken is obviously from harike-n which means hurricane and Tetsuma is from tetsumaki which is a tornado.
Sorry for the long a/n, but being my first this should be one of the few times it will be this long. All I can say now is what do you think? Am I off to at least a decent start? Suggestions and reviews are helpful.