Konohagakure no Sato, Outskirts

Minato Namikaze had just finished sealing the kyuubi into his twin daughter and son, holding the chakra and soul respectively. The shinigami who had been summoned by the fourth hokage to perform the act looked deep into his eyes and said, " Know this mortal as payment for summoning me onto this infernal plane, i decree that the village you care for will be razed to the ground by the fires of the very being you had me seal ". Having said his part the shinigami vanished from the battlefield.

Minato was shocked at what he heard and was thinking frantically of how the kyuubi could reform. He had believed that using the shinigami would not have any consequences that would harm his precious village. He looked at both his kids, Natsumi and Naruto, who were sleeping tiredly after having suffered through the pain of having a beast of chakra sealed within them. He noticed the whisker marks that were slowly but surely appearing on Naruto's face. He broke out of his thought after he realized Hiruzen and Jiraya arriving via shunshin. After he explained what had happened with the shinigami both the sannin and ex-hokage started to mull over what had happened.

Jiraya said, "Minato maybe it would be safe to keep the twins away from each other for a few years, since there is a risk of the soul observing back its chakra if they are kept close together". Minato and Sarutobi both saw the logic in the statement and had to figure out how exactly to go through this.

Sarutobi then noticed the whisker marks on Naruto's face and asked,"Minato can you open naruto's eyes and his mouth". Upon doing so the trio were shocked to see small fangs were his baby tooth should have been and his irises were continuously shifting from slits to normal. Jiraya then said,"Maybe the kyuubi's soul is not dormant as we thought and has already started tampering with his genetics. This only shows to prove that the soul is sentient within him and has to be kept away from its chakra source so it does not reform".

Minato nodded his head and asked sarutobi to keep naruto within the village as the jinchuriki so that other villages did not attack konoha while in its weakened state, while him and kushina would take Natsumi to Spring country where they could live in relative secrecy being a personal friend to their daimyo. He then hirashined all of them to the hospital.

Kushina immediatly jumped from her bed and grabbed her children crying softly knowing what had transpired. After minato explained his plan to her she was softly shaking with rage, "You bastard, you seal a bijuu into my children and now you want me to leave my son in this village, i truly regret the day i agreed to marry you and i dont think i can ever come to love you after what you have done" and spat on his face. Minato was heartbroken to see his wife acting in such a way while hiruzen and jiraya were trying to explain that the situation was unavoidable. Kushina calmed herself and looked at the three of them and said,"I understand that Natsumi and Naruto being close together may be dangerous to Natsumi for the time being, but why can't one of us stay with naruto, i dont feel comfortable leaving him in this village by himself".

Hiruzen replied,"Kushina, i assure you that the village's people will treat him with all the love and care he will ever need, you need to have more faith in our "Will of Fire"" he exclaimed. "And you know Natsumi will need her mother more since being a baby girl and Minato has to be with you seeing as he is the only one who can truly protect both of you from any amount of danger and can use hirashin to teleport you three if there comes a danger that the both of you cannot handle, whereas Naruto would be protected by the entirety of the village".Kushina could understand the logic behind his words and nodded her head to the idea even though feeling that this could possibly go very wrong. Minato then said, "I beg you kushina, you have to understand that i had to do this for the better of the village. I was fully confident that the sealing process would not bring harm to either of our children or else i assure you i would not have gone through with it. So please dont hold a grudge against me."

Kushina looked into his eyes with hate,"I will agree to live with you and act as a caring wife, so that our daughter will be happy, but know this i consider your involvement as nothing but a mission. Forget any ties you think you had with me since i consider our marriage over, with the act that you have committed." Minato had tears flowing from his eyes while hiruzen and jiraya were shocked to hear her statement. Kushina,Natsumi and Minato left for Spring country in the following week after Kushina cried over naruto and kissed him all over before leaving. It broke her heart to leave her son but knew it was necessary for the well-being of Natsumi.

Hiruzen,Jiraya and Minato had agreed to keep the fact that Minato, Kushina and Natsumi were alive as a SSS secret known only to the three of them and placed memory blocking seals on everyone who had seen them after kyuubi was sealed. Once the three of them left, Jiraya told Hiruzen, "Sensei make sure that Naruto is always kept under watch as i believe that kyuubi's soul may already have an influence on the boy. I'll arrive sometime later once my spy network has been properly assembled and organized to see the boy". Sarutobi only nodded and watched Jiraya leave with a shunshin.

Hiruzen took naruto to the hokage tower where he crossed paths with the last person he wanted to meet that day. Danzo watched his old teammate walking down the road with a bundle in his arms. As soon as he saw what was within it he understood the situation and told Sarutobi,"Hiruzen i have asked the village to convene in front of the hokage tower to alert them on what has happened with the kyuubi situation." The third hokage just nodded his head and kept walking, praying that the villagers would accept naruto.

Once the announcement was made, the vicinity was strangely calm until Naruto chose that specific moment to open his eyes and give a large yawn. As soon as the people and shinobi assembled saw his eyes and fangs they clamored for him to executed. But Hiruzen calmed them down saying that the village needed a live jinchuriki to keep the other villages at bay. The reason calmed the people down enough to not rush at him and strike the baby down but the hate that filled their eyes had not reduced even a little for the monster that took away their families and friends.

The baby was placed in the orphanage along with all the other orphans from the kyuubi attack.

3 years later, Konoha orphanage

Naruto woke up from his room in the attic and walked to the dining room where he took a seat far away from the other children. The matron walked up to him and placed some bread with mold on it and some water. He silently ate and drank it while looking around the room to see if anyone was coming near him. He looked like a normal child his age except for a few key differences. His eyes were slanted with slitted pupils and red irises. His fangs in place of his canines had grown bigger and his ears tipped and slanted. His body was malnourished and fingers were bent with pointed nails looking very similar to claws. Although he looked like a human for the most part his character and mind was like a cornered animal. Once the people around him started to feed him solid food at around 1 year he would always get sick but surprisingly it would pass within a few hours.

He noticed that the children were always mean to him but with his sharp senses he could hear the matrons in the orphanage promising the kids more food if they made sure that the demon was bullied constantly. He cried himself to sleep without knowing why he was hated to this extent. Everytime he walked through the village he was glared at and if he tried to make friends in the village park with the other children, he would be chased off by their parents who made sure to corrupt their children into thinking he was a demon who fed on little children.

As a child he learnt not to cry around other people as they found enjoyment in making him cry longer and put him in pain to see him wail. Although he hated the orphanage he knew the village outside was more dangerous. Once when naruto tried to sleep in the park he was caught by some citizens who had bound him with rope stabbed knifes through his hands and legs and left him at the orphanage by the time he had passed out from pain. After that incident he never went outside the orphanage when it became dark. The incident opened his eyes to the true evil waiting for him outside the walls of the orphanage where atleast he was never harmed physically.

The only person who could make him smile was the old man hokage, who came to visit him once a week and would buy him food and give him some money to spend on sweets. But even while spending time with him he never trusted him completely as naruto could feel that the old man was hiding things from him. But he was the only person in the whole village who didn't try to hurt him or make him feel miserable and he was grateful enough to not ask questions that would chase away the only person that treated him like a person. Whenever the old man brought him books on reading, writing and history of ninjas and chakra, he strived to study them as perfectly as possible so he could make him proud.

Within his mindscape

The kyuubi and other bijuu were not mindless beasts who only had bloodlust and rage in their minds. They were apathetic beings with great power left by the sage as a deterrant to war between humans. Although ironically they were captured and sealed by humans to be used as weapons. Kyuubi sat within her cell and watched her container go through his day eating and trying to learn to read from books while staying away from the sight of other humans. This was the first time she had been sealed unlike the other bijuus and did not know how to act towards her container, although her chakra was slowly forming within her again she was helpless to do anything but neutralize the poisons in her container's food and modify his body so as to improve his senses and provide him some natural defence in the form of claws, a regenerative factor and a lithe body that was built for sudden, darting movements.

She slowly reminisced how numerous strange masked shinobi had come into her cave while she was sleeping and tried to attack and seal her within an inanimate vessel. She thought flaring her chakra would have been enough to scare them off although strangely they kept trying in their futile attempts to hurt and seal her. Until they succeeded in drawing her away from her cave and towards a village. Later forces from the village had begun an assault on her, which angered her immensely and retaliated until a blond man summoned the shinigami and sealed her into her container.

Kyuubi had always been an apathetic creature who tried to stay away from affairs of the world. But being sealed into this frail creature formed a bond between the two of them and she tried whatever she could to make him ready for this cruel world. Although she could be cruel at times she was only heartless to the people who deserved it.

Hidden Root Headquarters

Danzo was sitting within his headquarters, mulling over what to be done about the junchuriki. Initially he had wanted to kidnap him and bring him to root for training but knew that this plan would backfire as hiruzen kept an eye on the boy and it would raise red flags if the boy appeared to go missing out of the blue. So he was letting things play out for itself.

He remembered how his order to attack the kyuubi had led to these events before him. His spy network had informed him that Iwa and Kumo were having talks about konoha, since they had two jinchurikis each while konoha had none. Danzo knew that it was time for konoha to have its own jinchiruki. He had initially wanted to trap it within a vessel like the hachibi had been. But this failed as his soldiers did not have enough knowledge in fuiinjutsu to perform the task. Then he had ordered them to lure the kyuubi to konoha so either Minato or Jiraya would seal it. The plan had gone through without a hitch, konoha gained a jinchuriki and the other village grew wary and backed off from making any invasion plans for the foreseeable future.

He had arranged for the boy to be thrown out of the orphanage into the streets. That would be the time he would strike and get to influence the boy by offering him protection from the public who still held grudges against the kyuubi.

Hokage Tower

Hiruzen was observing naruto through his crystal ball. He watched sadly as the boy's frightened eyes kept moving around the room to analyse any threats in the room. He had believed that the boy would have been accepted by the populace with time but nothing changed. Even when he visited naruto he noticed the boy did not open up to him at first but was glad that the boy had taken a liking to him and tried to make him proud by studying the books he gave him.

He was at first amazed at how quickly little naruto picked up on his studies. But as he was isolated from the populace he never did have anything else to distract him other than the books he gave him. He had planned to ask naruto to join the Ninja Academy by the time he was 6 so he could form bonds with other ninja children. He hoped that the shinobi parents had more sense to not convince their children from making friends with the poor boy. He knew that if Naruto did not form any bonds within the village he would have to be sealed and handed over to danzo or the yamanakas for mental conditioning if Minato did not come back by then.

Although he felt bad for the boy and the life he had to live, the good of the village came before everything else.

A/N: In this AU the kyuubi was never sealed. Minato thought once the kyuubi was ripped off of chakra it would become dormant. But since chakra is just energy, the chakra inside natsumi will eventually run out, but kyuubi sealed within naruto will keep producing it until it reaches its power again, although it will take a while to regrow nine tails worth of power.