A/N: This is my first story, but I am hitting the ground running. I can tell you that this will be a long story filled with some action, lots of fluffy goodness, and more deep meanings to the title than you can shake a stick at proceeds to shake stick until arm to tired to move. I can tell you now, this will be a naruhina story, so if you don't like it, tough, but you may still like the first chapter. As you may or may not notice, in this chapter, the word naruto is not used at all, as the prologue deals with his parents. So, even if you don't like the naruhina pairing , read the first chapter for a nice fluffy highlight of Naruto's parents. That being said, the rest of the pairings, and there will be more, will be my secret for the moment because otherwise they will give away some of the plot twists I have planned. Unreasoned flames are discouraged. If you didn't like something because of the plot, I'll ignore it, so don't waste your time or my time. If there is something in my writing style, tell me and I will try to fix it. That's it. Enjoy the beginning of Sunrise.

Disclaimer: Though I have wished so many times that I did, alas, I do not own the rights to Naruto.

Prologue

Within the Land of Fire, in the ninja village of Konohagakure, a man and a woman sat atop a very special and recognizable rock face. On this rock face, skilled artisans had crafted into the rock stone sculptures, each made to portray the face of one of Konoha's former and present Hokages, the leaders and strongest ninja of the village. Currently there were four faces carved into the rock; three were for previous Hokages, and one was for the present Hokage, the Yondaime Hokage, the fourth leader of Konoha.

The woman was very beautiful with brown hair and emerald green eyes. Wearing a gorgeous and obviously expensive white kimono, she could easily have passed for an angel at first glance. On her head was a hiatea with a spiral engraved in it, the spiral a symbol of her native village of the whirlpool village, Uzumaki. She had come to Konoha after the disbandment of her native village due to a declining population and economy, and had stayed after meeting the man she loved. Though she had something of a disruptive and outgoing personality, having performed many pranks on friends, family, and teachers during her younger years, she now sat on the mountain with a calm serenity about her, staring into the eyes of that man whose love had made her stay in the village without any friends or family from her native village.

Staring back at her was a man with bright blonde hair and eyes so blue they would make the sky envious of their color. He was wearing ceremonial ninja robes along with a long white coat with flames on the bottom, symbolic of the nation that he protects along with the rest of the ninja in the village. He too wore a hiatae on his forehead, though being a native of Konoha, his bore the symbol of a leaf. Though not quite as wild as the woman he loves, he had always been known to have boundless energy and stamina that is second to none. This helped him to maximize his ninja training and allowed him to become powerful faster than any of his colleagues or friends. He became so powerful so quickly that despite his relatively young age, he was named the successor to the Sandaime Hokage, and after his predecessor's retirement, he took up the mantle to become the Yondaime Hokage.

They were Uzumaki Kushina and Namikaze Minato, the Hokage and his wife, and they were deeply in love with one another, yet they each felt somewhat incomplete. There was something missing in the relationship. They needed something that would make their family whole. They needed a child, but that was something they had yet to do. This, as the Hokage had just found out, was about to change.

Now there are some things that people never expect to see. They never expect to see a pig fly, or to see a fish survive out of water. They never expect a dog to start talking in a human language or to see a tree lift up its roots and move somewhere else. In Konoha, the villagers never expected their Hokage to do anything unexpected of a leader of a powerful ninja village, but as was soon to become evident about this particular family, they need to learn to expect the unexpected, and they needed to start immediately because many people in the village saw the Hokage do something they'd never expect him to do when he heard the news of his wife's pregnancy.

He fainted.

Ten minutes later when he came to, his wife was staring right at him, confused and nervous about his reaction, though obviously somewhat amused by the unusual behavior of her husband. Deciding the direct approach was the best way to alleviate any doubts about her husband's feelings on the matter, she decided to talk to him about it.

"Minato-kun are you ok?"

Minato looked up at his wife and saw the nervous and anxious look in her face, but being somewhat cloudy on what happened before he passed out, he assumed she was concerned about him fainting.

"Of course I am, my dear. I guess I must've hit my head or something and passed out," he replied, rubbing the bump on his head. What he didn't realize was that he had actually gotten that bump as a result of his falling backwards when he fainted.

Kushina looked at her husband questioningly, wondering if he truly didn't remember why he had fainted. "Do you not remember why you fainted?"

"No, everything before I fainted is a bit woozy, though I do remember talking to you."

"Do you remember what we were talking about?"

"We were talking about us, how we met, how we fell in love, and things of that nature."

"Then what?"

"Well, we were talking about our current relationship and how both of us felt that something was missing."

"Do you remember what that something was?" Kushina asked expectantly.

Minato thought for a moment before replying, "You said that we needed something to make our family whole. You said what we were both feeling was that we needed a child, so that we would truly have a family."

"And what was your response?"

"I agreed with you and said we should start planning for having a kid. I also said that I hoped we wouldn't have to wait too long before it finally happened. Then you said that we wouldn't have to."

"And do you remember why I said we wouldn't have to wait?" Kushina asked, growing more nervous by the second.

"Well, that was because…" Minato trailed off as realization finally hit him, and it hit him hard. "Y-You're, you're…"

"I'm pregnant," Kushina finished, the nervousness on her face so obvious it was near palpable.

Seeing the nervous look on his wife's face, even the normally love-dense Minato could tell what was on her mind and what she had been so worried about when he woke up. Not wanting her to worry about anything, he figured fainting again probably wasn't the best idea, so he kept his composure as calm as he could, and put on a brave face for his wife.

"Honey, you don't need to be nervous about this. I already told you I wanted to have a kid, I just didn't think it would happen this soon, that's all. I'm happy about this, I really am."

"You really aren't upset about this? You're sure this is what you want? I mean, I could always have an ab…" Kushina started, tearing at the thought of giving up this child.

"No!" shouted Minato in a voice more stern and aggressive sounding than he had intended, evident by the fact that his wife backed up a bit when he said it. "No, I don't want you to give up this child. This is our child, and I want it too. I want to become a father and teach my son all the lessons that a father gets to teach his son. I want to be there for him and watch him grow up and become the man that he can be. This is our child, Kushina-chan, yours and mine, so don't even think about taking that away," Minato said in a much calmer voice.

"You do realize that it could very well be a daughter, don't you?"

"Oh Kami, I hope not," answered Minato, starting to worry about the thought of having a daughter instead of a son.

Kushina laughed at her husband's antics. Hearing her laugh was enough to calm down Minato as he went back to string into her eyes.

'No matter how many times I look into those eyes, they're always the most beautiful things I've ever seen,' thought Minato.

His wife was having similar thoughts.

"So we're really going to do this? We're really going to star our family?" Kushina asked, just wanting a little more confirmation from her husband.

"Yes, Kushina-chan, we're really going to and I couldn't be happier about it," he replied, appeasing all of her nerves, and in a way of sealing the discussion, he leaned over and kissed his wife on the lips.

Right as the two sets of lips touched, a ray of light shot up from the side of them. Looking over to see what the source of this light was, the two spouses saw the first rays of sunlight peaking over the horizon.

Somewhat taken aback by the beauty of the sunlight as the rays cast a yellow glow on the village, Kushina could only stare and utter one word that captivated the whole experience.

"Beautiful…"

Meanwhile, her husband was paying the sight little to no attention as his gaze was still on his wife, her body appearing to him to be even more beautiful if that was even possible.

"Yes, you are."

Kushina smiled back at her husband's corny compliment with a look that could warm even the coldest of hearts, a look that sent shivers down her husband's spine.

"With the sun coming up, I suppose I need to get to work. I do have a village to protect after all."

"Can't you stay with me just a little bit longer?" Kushina pleaded with him.

"I suppose my desk can wait for me for a bit, and Kami knows I'll always welcome a break from that paper work," he responded with a look of pure contentment on his face.

So the two sat together, not speaking a word to each other for the next half an hour. They just enjoyed each other's company and enjoyed the view of the sunrise.