AN: My friend asked me to write a Naruto Fan Fic. So I did so, and I found it quite enjoyable to do so. Unfortunately for my friend he did not like this one for he likes to stay as cannon as possible in Naruto Fan Fics, and I made this one a pretty far out AU. Still, I had a blast writing this first chapter, and I am looking forward to writing more on this.

This uses a few common ideas that are in a lot of Fics, but hopefully in new ways. Also, this starts off AU, and just goes further from cannon as time goes on.

AN2: Changed the Fourth's name to his real one. Other minor spelling and grammar changes made as well.

Summery: What if Naruto was born a stillborn and there were no other children available for the sealing? What would the Fourth do? Yes this is Naruto without Naruto in it.

Disclaimer: I do not own the intellectual property that is Naruto or any of its associated characters, locations, items, ideas, or anything else that may be associated with it. Those belong to each of their respective copyright owners. I do not own any of the intellectual properties that are other fictional persons, places or things. Those belong to each of their own copyright owners. I do not own any real person, place or thing. Those belong to either themselves, in the case of a person, or their real life current true owners in case of a place or object. What I do own is any and every original person, place or thing, used in here as well as the story its self. Those very few things are mine. And that's all that ever will be mine.

THE REINCARNATION OF KYUBI

CHAPTER ONE

A CHANGE IN PLANS

In a forest outside Konohagakure: in a tent

"Kakashi." Minato Namikaze, the fourth Hokage said to his pupil.

"Yes?" Minato's student Kakashi Hatake asked. At this very moment they were waiting for Kyubi no Yoko, the Nine Tailed Fox Demon. It had been slowly making its way to Konoha in a very destructive path. Many shinobi had died in the process of halting it, but it would and could not be swayed from its path. Its obvious destination was Konoha and there was no stopping it.

As Minato looked up from his research he said "There are no newborns to do the sealing I had come up with. I would have used my own child, but I have just lost him and my wife today to his birth." Minato said with tears in his eyes as his student just nodded. "So I had to come up with something different." He said, reigning in his tears, as if they had never been.

"What is it?" Minato's student Kakashi asked in a worried voice.

"Kyubi is truly immortal, like all its kind. It is impossible for us to kill it. Even if we did so, it would just reincarnate it's self after a little while, and be back up to its full strength within eighty one years at the very most." Minato said. "My plan is to mess around with its reincarnation." He said while frowning.

"What do you mean?" Kakashi asked in confusion.

"You will be one of the few to know the full extant of what I did, for I have a final mission for you." Minato told his young student.

"Final mission? Don't tell me your new plan is like that damn sealing plan?" Kakashi asked as his teacher nodded.

"Unfortunately it is." Minato said gravely. "I am going to summon the God of Death it's self, Shinigami." Kakashi's visible eye went wide at that statement. "Normally this would kill both opponents, but as the Kyubi is truly immortal it would just reincarnate it's self. I have made another jujitsu that will, disrupt, I guess you could say, its reincarnation." Minato told his pupil.

Kakashi was worried. His teacher was going to give his life, and not to kill that bastard fox, but to reincarnate it? "What will happen?" he asked worried.

"All Biju have two forms, their normal form and a human looking one. I will force Kyubi to be reincarnated into its human looking form, and then for it to be stuck in it without its memories until it is at its full power again. Hopefully about eighty years living with humans will make it more sympathetic to us. Maybe it will even become a defender of this village." Minato said with a far off look. Getting back to business, he said, "My final mission for you is to watch out for the reborn Kyubi, if it needs it. I fear the villagers will be, less then pleased with it." Kakashi nodded and then they waited. One hour latter, Minato set out to meet his death at the hands of Shinigami.

The Hokage Tower: two days latter

The Third Hokage, Sarutobi, was having a difficult time getting Kakashi to agree with him. "I was ordered by Minato to watch out for her!" Kakashi yelled. He was taking his last order from his Sensei very seriously.

"But I need you to go after the deserters of that night! Don't you trust that I can take care of her?" Sarutobi yelled back.

After many hours of arguing, Sarutobi finally got his way, and a grumbling Kakashi left to get ready for his mission. One that he would regret ever taking upon his return.

On a street in Konohagakure: eight years latter

It was raining and a little girl was running down the street. It seemed to her that half the village was on her tail, when it was only about twenty or so villagers. Only. They screamed 'Monster' and 'Demon' at the child as they pursued her. Then she tripped on a loose stone and they had caught up to her. And then the pain started again for her yet again.

Outside Konohagakure

Kakashi breathed in deeply as he entered the town. He had been gone for almost eight years now, tracking down the deserters from a horrible night. He had finally caught up to and executed the last one a few months ago and was he now finally home. The guards nodded to him as he entered. He then started on his way to the Hokage's tower.

Kakashi was a quarter of the way there when he heard it. A little girl's scream and the roar of a mob bent on killing. He quickly changed his course and was utterly shocked at what he saw. A mob of about twenty or so villagers had surrounded a little girl and they were beating her to death. As he watched on in his shock he saw the wounds on her started to heal on her even as new ones appeared, and he then suddenly realized who this child must be. 'It's Kyubi.' He thought. 'He promised me… why are they… never mind that, I've got to stop this!' He continued to think, jumping down and landing in the middle of the mob, taking five villagers out of the fight in the process.

"Are you mad?" Kakashi yelled at the mob in anger. "You know the law! It's forbidden to harm her!" he shouted at them.

Kakashi's words fell on deaf ears as one villager shouted back "She's a monster! She should never been aloud to stay in the village! We may not be able to kill the damn demon, but we can sure make her wish for death!" he said jumping at the girl in a rage of hate and fury. As he did so Kakashi quickly caused him to stop with a few well placed punches. Quickly grabbing the girl up, he jumped to the nearest roof and headed for the Hokage's tower.

The Hokage's tower: moments later

Kakashi kicked the double doors to the Hokage's office wide open with a sobbing little girl in his arms. As the guards went to stop him while he marched angrily to the Hokage he turned to look at them and said "Out." in an ice cold tone that promised utter pain would be dispensed by him if he was not obeyed.

Looking from Kakashi and his sobbing charge to his guards, the Hokage yelled "Clear this floor, NOW!" Bowing the guards did just that, leaving with a last questioning look at Kakashi.

"You want to know what I found upon my return? Well do you?" Kakashi yelled in rage at the Hokage "Twenty, that's twenty villagers beating the crap out of her. Calling her monster and Demon as well! What's happening? Why was the law broken? You promised me she'd be fine!" Kakashi yelled at the Hokage in his rage as the little girl watched on in shock.

"I can't stop them." The Hokage admitted in his utter shame. "They just don't care. All they see are their losses, their pain and their suffering and they take it all out on her. Why aren't you in the orphanage?" He then asked the little girl.

"They, they through me out." She said through her sobs. "Why, why does everyone hate me so?" she then cried, renewing her tears.

Kakashi looked to the Hokage "I'm going to tell her what she wants to know." He said in a tone that broke no argument.

"What? But the law…" The Hokage stammered.

"Seems to be broken daily." Kakashi said coldly. "She deserves the truth, and I'll give it to her and damn the fucking law!" Kakashi shouted.

The Hokage seemed to shrink at that statement and said in a defeated tone, "Fine."

Putting her in a chair Kakashi kneeled before her. "What's your name?" he asked her.

"I, I don't know. No one ever calls me anything but Monster and Demon and Devil's Spawn and…" She started when Kakashi said sighing

"I get the idea. Do you want to know why the villagers do this to you?" he asked. She nodded in some fear. "Do you know anything of the Demon named Kyubi? The one that attacked our village some eight years ago?" Kakashi asked softly.

"Yes." She said in a small voice.

"You are Kyubi." Kakashi said flatly.

"How? I can't be! That Demon died!" Kyubi shouted in her fear of the truth.

"No it didn't." Kakashi said while nodding his head. "It is impossible to kill a Demon. Even if you do manage to some how destroy the body, it will just reincarnate it's self. That's what happened to you. You are the reincarnation of Kyubi." Kakashi said evenly while staring her in the eyes.

"I can't be!" Kyubi screamed in her denial of the truth. "I don't even look like a fox!" She screamed.

"The Fourth Hokage gave his life to kill you and mess up your reincarnation." Kakashi said with pain in his voice. "It was an ingenious plan really. He preformed a Jujitsu that would stick you in your human form until you got your full powers back and one to also wipe your memory. Then he summoned the God of Death its self, Shinigami. If you summon the Death God, both combatants die." He said sadly. "And that's just what happened. But you, being a Demon, immediately reincarnated, but you reincarnated in your human form and with no memories. It was the Fourth's final wish that we would take care of you, in the hopes that when you grew up and into your full power, you'd have learned something about humans and would take care of us in return." Kakashi said staring in to her eyes. "Sadly that's not what happened." He said remorsefully.

"I, I really am Kyubi?" Kyubi asked in fear. "That's why they hate me?"

"Yes. The fools." Kakashi said angrily. "They have no idea what they're doing!" he screamed. "The danger they're putting this village in is staggering!" he then screamed that even louder.

"What danger?" Kyubi asked fearfully.

"You." Kakashi said evenly. "They are making you a danger to the village." He said flatly.

"What? How?" Kyubi asked confused.

Kakashi sighed. "Think about it. When you get your full powers back, or even a fraction of them, and you have been treated like you have, you could snap one day, and attack the village again. Don't they realize that their making an enemy out of someone that could destroy the entire village?" he said putting his face in his hands.

"But I, I don't want to destroy the village. I just want them to be nice to me." Kyubi said softly. "Like you are." She then whispered.

"I think we all want that." Kakashi said softly to her. Turning to the Hokage, Kakashi said "I'm taking her home with me. She needs someone to protect her and care for her. And it's obvious no one else in the village will do it." He said with disgust.

It was at this point in time that the doors to the Hokage's office flew open again and an angry 18 year old looking woman stomped into the office. "She's been attacked AGAIN!?!" The woman yelled. She stopped cold as she noticed the company the Hokage was keeping.

"Ah, Anko. Perfect timing to prove Kakashi here wrong about something." The Hokage chuckled.

"Prove who wrong about what?" Anko asked, puzzled momentarily out of her anger.

"Kakashi was under the impression no one cared for her." The Hokage said with a nod to Kyubi.

"Well it might as well be. Other then you and me and very few others, no one gives a shit about her." Anko said, rekindling her anger.

"Who, who are you?" Kyubi asked in a small voice.

Anko walked over to the chair where she sat and kneeled while saying "Well I'm always wearing a mask when we meet, so I'm not surprised you don't recognize me, but my name is Anko, Anko Mitarashi, I'm one of your so called 'Guardians' and the only one to volunteer for the job. I was on duty tonight, but I didn't make it before he obviously did." Anko said, jerking a thumb at Kakashi. "I never did get your name though."

"Kyubi." The little girl said while looking down.

"S

Ah, so someone broke the law and told you. Who was it?" Anko asked with indifference.

"I did." Kakashi said with anger. "Seeing as every other aspect of the law has been broken, I thought the whole thing should be."

Looking up at Kakashi, the seemingly younger woman smiled and said "I thought so too, but he wouldn't listen to me" She said jerking her thumb again, this time at the Hokage. "How'd you get him to agree to it?" Anko asked him.

"By giving him no choice in the matter." Kakashi said flatly.

"Why didn't I think of that?" Anko asked with a slightly manic laugh. "You know, I think I could get to like you Kakashi." She then said.

Kyubi interrupted them at this time by asking "Anko, why did you volunteer to guard me? I'm Kyubi, I did so much harm to this village and, and…" she then started crying.

Anko just waited for the tears to stop before answering. She needed time to think on how to word her response as well.

"Yes you are Kyubi, but that's not truly who you truly are anymore, now is it?" Anko started as Kyubi looked at her.

"What do you mean?" Kyubi asked very puzzled.

"Kyubi was an evil demonic killing machine." Kyubi flinched at that. "But that's not what you are, right?" Anko asked her.

"No." Kyubi said softly.

"No your not." Anko said with conviction. "Right now you're, well to be blunt about it, a prisoner, albeit an unconventional one. Right now you have two prisons you reside in. One is your true power, which will erode gradually with time, and the other is your memories, which will not erode but return all at once, upon your release. Now prison has a way of changing people, some for the better, and some for the worse. I have hopes of it changing you for the better."

Sighing, Anko continued. "But that's not the real reason I volunteered to watch over you. Next to you, I am the most hated person in this village. All the hate you receive, I do as well, but to a much lesser degree because as a Jonin I can take care of any casual attackers." Anko said with a slightly manic grin.

"Why do they hate you?" Kyubi asked.

"I am guilty by association to them. I was the pupil of a great traitor to the village, and even though I reported him as soon as I found out about it, and even though I was greatly, injured, by him before doing so, I will never be anything but 'That traitorous whore' to most of the village. But while I can protect myself from them, you, at this point and time, can not." Anko told Kyubi.

"Can, can you teach me to protect myself?" Kyubi then asked in a small tone of voice.

"I'd love to." Anko said with another slightly insane grin.

"Kakashi," The Hokage said, breaking the moment "I have considered your request, and I will grant it, with a stipulation."

"And that being?" Kakashi asked while crossing his arms.

"That Anko help you raise Kyubi as well." The Hokage said.

"What!?!" Anko half yelled in surprise.

And thus a new life began for the reincarnated Kyubi.

A house in an upper middleclass neighborhood in Konohagakure: later that night

"You know," Anko started to say while moving in boxes of her stuff. Kakashi's stuff was already there and Kyubi had passed out on the way to the house and was sleeping in Kakashi's bed at the moment, at least to their knowledge. "I've always wondered just how the villagers manage to hurt her so badly. I mean sure, she's been reincarnated and all, but just how long will it take her to get her power back?"

"Why do you ask?" Kakashi asked in suspicion.

"The sooner she starts getting it back, the sooner she can defend herself. You haven't been around here for long, but if she wasn't immortal I severely doubt she'd be alive right now with the way the villagers try to hurt her. Hurt, HA! They do every thing they can to try and kill her. I had to save her once from being burned alive on a bonfire." Anko said, shaking her head in disgust at the memory.

Kakashi's visible eye narrowed at that statement. "Well that's, disturbing." Kakashi said with no emotion. Shaking his head he said "I can answer some of your questions, seeing as I was guarding the Fourth as he studied while Kyubi approached. She was reborn with the equivalent power of a normal human child. She won't receive the power of having even one of her tails until she's somewhere in her ninth year. Every nine years she'll get back another tail. She also has the extremely low possibility of getting a tail's worth of power early, if she's truly in danger, but she would need to have gotten a least one tail's worth of power first." Kakashi said to Anko while unpacking.

"So eighty one years until she's back to her old self eh? I might be the only one who saw her sealed to live to see it." Anko said, not paying attention to what she was saying.

Kakashi looked up at her in suspicion and asked sharply "What do you mean by that?"

"Crap. I said that aloud, didn't I?" Anko asked rhetorically. "I guess you should know, since we'll be living together for quite some time. How old do you think I am?" Anko asked Kakashi.

"About eighteen or so." Kakashi replied.

"Try around thirty or so." Anko said with a small, dark laugh.

"How?" Kakashi asked, shocked.

"You know I was that bastard Orochimaru's apprentice right?" Anko asked. Kakashi nodded in response. "Before he left the village to pursue his insane goals, he, experimented on me." Anko said with a wince. "He wants immortality, and tried to see if his ideas would work on a group of test subjects. I found these subjects, and when I tried to free them, he caught me and made me one of them." Anko then started to laugh mirthlessly. "Out of about thirty or so subjects, I was the only one to live. And it worked to some extant. That bastard was very pleased with him self, saying that my survival, although only being a fraction of what was needed was never the less a good sign for the first step in the process." Anko said with anger at remembering that moment.

"So you are…" Kakashi started to ask with a wide eye, when Anko interrupted him with.

"No, I am not immortal. He didn't get that far. But I am ageless. I have not aged a second since he did that to me. Soon after that, I escaped him and reported his experiments to the Hokage and he fled as they went to arrest him. That was about twelve years ago." Anko told him.

Kyubi then walked into the room with tears in her eyes and asked "Why did that bad man hurt you like that?" She asked, surprising both Anko and Kakashi, who both had thought she was in bed and asleep.

Turning around and looking at her in surprise, Anko said, while kneeling down to be on her level "Because some people are just bad people. Just as there are good decent people, there are bad people." Anko told her, as she came in for a hug.

"Are the villagers bad then?" Kyubi asked.

Anko grimaced at that question. "No, they're just scared. And people can do very bad things to others when they are scared." Disengaging herself from the hug, she grabbed Kyubi by her shoulders and said "Don't hate the villagers, for they act out of fear. I don't hate them for that reason. They fear Orochimaru, and what he did before he left. And since I was his apprentice, they fear me as well. You, in your past life, did terrible things to this village, and both of us, until they see we are not what they think we are, will be hated. But eventually they will see the truth. Believe that, ok?" Anko asked while staring into her eyes. Kyubi nodded in return.

"Good, Now I think my unpacking can wait until tomorrow, so why don't the two of us go to bed? Kakashi can take the couch for the night." Anko asked Kyubi.

"Ok." Kyubi said in reply.

"Good, then let's get going." Anko said, picking Kyubi up, while Kakashi muttered

"But, but it's my bed."

Ending AN: Well there it is, the first chapter. I had to do some hard thinking when I came up with this, on how to limit Kyubi in the story. I came up with the one tail every nine years, with a tail in great danger idea for that. That means for most of the story, she'll have one or two tails, and I really don't see her going beyond three tails in this story. As to the power per tail, that's tricky, for it rises at an exponential rate. One tail is an equivalent of ten Jonin, and each subsequent tail multiplies that power by a factor of ten. Thus you see why I'm having most of the story limiting her to one or maybe two, with the possibility of three at the very end. Please tell me what you think and how I did, for this is my first foray into the Naruto section of Fan Fiction.