Prologue: Kyūbi Attacks!

A red-haired woman continued crying over her two newborn babies, with blood dripping out of her mouth, the sight of the tears flowing down the woman's pretty face would break any man's heart, but the pain it caused the blond man with light blue eyes was simply unbearable, it was way too tempting to just grab the woman and children and just run out of there. But he knew, that as painful as it was, he had to protect the village, even at the cost of his own life, his family, for he was Hokage. While the red-furred rampaging monster (it looks like this, imagine a giant fox as tall as the Tokyo Tower, with nine tails swaying back and forth, with red fur as well of course, and its eyes are red with black slit pupils) destroyed another building, precious time was wasted, every second a life was lost, a villager's blood spilt, and yet, he yearned to just prolong his last few minutes with his family, knowing full well he had to sacrifice his life in order to seal the Kyūbi into his two children currently being cradled by their mother. Finally, he spoke.

"Kushina, you know as well as I do that this is the only way".

"But Minato! Do we really have to seal that, monster, inside of these children, OUR children?! For the balance of the nations, for peace, why do you have to die for that, for me!?"

The woman again spurted out blood saying these things, but either way, no-one cared as something serious was going on at the moment.

"To forsake ones village, one's nation, is the same as forsaking ones child. You of all people should know the harsh life that is for those without a place to call home, besides, our family… are shinobi!"

At his forceful words the woman known as Kushina widened her eyes in shock at the seriousness he now radiated from his tone. And realised that he was serious, and wouldn't back down, and then narrowed her eyes in anger at the man who was about to condemn her children to the unbearable fate that befell all that became Jinchūriki. The power of human sacrifice, basically those who had some sort of being sealed inside them, however, they often had been despised and hated by other people, as being vessels for the monster inside, the people hated them for even existing, as though it was all the Jinchūriki's fault for housing a monster in the first place. This fate was not one Kushina wanted to come upon her own children. However, the next words Minato spoke shocked her even more, as her eyes practically became tiny dinner plates, and made all her love for him reappear once more, as she realised who really he was fighting to protect.

"And besides, I'm no match for you even if I were to live, since there are some things that only you, as our children's mother, as Naruto and Kasumi's mother can say to them."

Tears fell down Kushina's face as Minato slowly picked up his little boy and girl, Naruto and Kasumi respectively, and continued talking, as if he wanted to prolong his time with them.

"I will gladly die for my children. That is the father's job."

Kushina, picking up and Minato's intent, decided to prolong their time even further as she forced him to give an explanation.

"But how are you going to seal the Kyūbi? We have two children after all."

Minato sighed, knowing full well Kushina wanted to prolong her time with the children as much as possible, since secretly he did too of course.

"Well firstly, I'll divide the Kyūbi into 3 parts: the yin chakra, yang chakra and it's spirit, then I'll seal the spirit into me and the yin and yang chakra into Naruto and Kasumi respectively, since it's too risky sealing the soul into one and chakra into the other, since twins are closer than blood, there is a chance that the Kyūbi might influence the one and get the other to both leave the village, and mainly because I don't want that monster's filthy paws/hands whatever they are onto my children's minds. It will be part of an 8-signed sealing, I'll add both of our chakras so you can meet them when they try to control the Nine-tails chakra. Since I can just seal the Kyūbi's spirit into me and kill it without wasting the power it gives the village and protection it offers the children this is the best choice. The chakra sealed in them may have a tiny form of intellect left over from the Nine-tailed Fox (The Kyūbi's name in English, since it's a pain having to insert a symbol every time I type the damned name I'll just to refer to it as Nine-tails/Nine-tailed Demon Fox, Nine-tails is the short form) there still is a risk there. But it will still be tiny, and I have utmost faith that my children will be able to control it, they are the children of Konoha's Yellow Flash, 4th Hokage and student of Master Jiraiya, one of the most powerful ninja in the Hidden Leaf. Besides as their parents, let's do our jobs and believe in them shall we?"

He added those last words with a luke-warm smile, as always creating butterflies in Kushina's stomach. Minato then placed his hands on the ground, emitted a small amount of chakra, and in front of him, with a puff of smoke, appeared a small altar, which could be best described as a large headrest, the kind used for kings of ancient times, with a deflated pillow on top. It was surrounded by 8 candles. With a mini floor supporting it all.

"Ok, now time for the 8 signed sealing"

Meanwhile the Nine-tails glared at Minato with its evil eyes as it realised just what Minato was about to do.

'Ritual Altars?! Is that puny human trying to seal me again?! And… wait a minute, IN THOSE TINY BABIES?!'

While the Nine-tails desperately struggled to get out of the golden chains that binded himin order to escape the fate of being sealed that awaited him, Minato placed the two children on the Ritual Altars and made the several hand signs. And then the Shinigami appeared, it looked like a ghost, well, it was the Death God, it had long, greyish-white hair, a long white cloak, no legs (did it really need any since it was a ghost?), dark-grey skin, black eyes with white sclera (google it) and a big knife in its mouth, it also was holding a necklace in its left hand.

Minato felt the cold presence of the Shinigami behind him and fought back a shiver and the urge to turn around, since the Shinigami was always going to be behind him he would never get a good look at the deity. But still he knew that it inspired fear and awe, but didn't think it would be that terrifying, and he was only behind him. And then couldn't help but gasp for breath as the Shinigami put its hand into Minato's stomach from behind, but then got control of himself and with his chakra, directed the arm towards the Demon fox, and then watched as the arm stretched, literally, stretched towards the target. Once he saw them connect, he realised that this was going to be difficult. Very difficult.

'OK! Now to seal the Nine-tails spirit into me, hopefully the chakra doesn't dissipate without a source of spiritual energy to create chakra, otherwise this is all pointless.'

"SEAL!"

Then something that looks like the fox, but with a translucent blue colour, shot outside the demon, down the arm and into the Minato's stomach, where a black circle and a spiral inside appeared. While the Demon standing before him suddenly collapsed a bit, then its eyes turned completely stumbled and almost fell to his knees as the weight of the Nine-tailed Fox suddenly dawned on his body. With an "Umph!" he managed to get back up.

'This is only the spirit! And yet it's so heavy, I hope this doesn't hurt Naruto and Kasumi'

"Now for the chakra… WHA…!"

The sentence was interrupted when the now spiritless Demon, struggled back up, and in a final desperate attempt, clumsily tried to stab the two children at once. However, it failed as Kushina and Minato suddenly jumped into the way. Needless to say, they were thinking the same thing.

'How did the Nine-tails do that? The spirit should have been sealed in me/Minato so it shouldn't have a will, or even move for that matter!'

"Kushina! You didn't have to get in the way! You need to raise our children!"

"You idiot Minato, dying for the children is the mother's job too, and besides, it's not fair for you to die just for us, all alone."

Meanwhile the Nine-tails inside Minato, smirked victoriously at his super-dumb vessel, well from its viewpoint at least, since Minato was a 1 in a generation genius and the fourth hokage, most powerful ninja currently in the hidden leaf.

'You've got to realise that even without its soul, the body still has a brain, and the brain still has thinking capacity, just doesn't have a will, it is then dominated by a balance of instinct and logic, so even if it can't move properly because of a lack of will, it will be able to soon enough. Idiot humans, BWAHAHAHAHAHAHA! *cough* *cough* *cough*, damn I need to get well soon, this stupid cold is getting annoying'

However the 4th Hokage decided to shuffle those thoughts out of the way for the moment and decided to create two shadow clones. With a hand seal, two people that looked exactly the same as him popped to his left and right with a puff of smoke, seemingly out of nowhere, and with a nod from him those two shouted one word that was so perfectly in synch that Kushina just had to get a little creeped out as always.

"SEAL!"

Then the two Shinigami that appeared with the other two, shadow clones as Minato called them, stabbed their arms through the Minatos and then stretched their arms towards the Nine-tails, still creeping Kushina even further.

'Damn it! I've got to get my thoughts straight. Naruto and Kasumi look so peaceful there, I am really going to regret not being able to raise them properly, well either way, Lord 3rd(3rd Hokage)will raise them properly, I'm sure of it'

Kushina, now calming down, struggled to turn her head towards the Nine-tails, now struggling with the two arms that had grabbed its hips. The arms then, slowly, and so very painfully for the Nine-tails, tore him in two. The demon fox then turned into a more translucent red as the now separated halves started transferring the now liquid fox between them. And slowly they both started changing colour, the one on the left started turning a darker red, while the other an orange colour. During this colour-changing session, actually the transfer of yin and yang chakra, Minato decided that now would be a good chance to say their final good-byes as the Shinigami prepared to finish the seal.

"Kushina, I don't have much time, say what you want to them, since you won't be meeting him for a while. I'm going to start the 8-signed seal now, I want to put my chakra in them too. It'll be quite a while before we can see them"

Kushina's face softened as she prepared to give a motherly speech on how to grow up.

"Naruto, Kasumi, make sure you don't be picky about your food, you have to eat and grow strong. Of course, don't eat too much, just because the Akimichi clan turn fat into power, doesn't mean you can…"

Minato smiled at Kushina's words, she always said the weirdest things.

"Make sure you stay warm and bathe every day, and make sure to get plenty of sleep too. Make friends, not a lot, but a few, ones that you can really, really trust. Also, make sure you keep up with your studies and practice ninjutsu hard. Although I wasn't really good at it. Everyone has their strengths and weaknesses, so if you don't do well at something, don't get all depressed. Respect your teachers and fellow students at the academy*cough*. This is important, the 3 Prohibitions of Shinobi. Be extra careful about lending and borrowing money. Put your mission wages into your savings account. And no alcohol until your twenty. Remember, too much can damage your health, so drink in moderation. And, the opposite genders, I'm a girl, so I can only say this to Kasumi, but still eventually you'll start to be attracted to the opposite gender. You might even be attracted to each other. Remember that this world is made of men and women, so it's only natural to take an interest in opposite genders…" Kushina's speech trailed off for a moment as she realised one of the risks of a boy and girl living together, alone, without restraints, even if they were brother and sister, posed.

'Oh sweet lord hopefully they don't start getting romantically involved with each other! But maybe that's ok, after all they are both part of the Uzumaki clan and incest doesn't really matter when it comes to bloodline clans. But still hopefully they don't start too early, what if Kasumi gets pregnant! What if… What if…' Kushina's mind suddenly went into overdrive thinking of all the possibilities of Naruto and Kasumi's possible 'relationship'. Minato recognised this and his eyes widened as well at this thought, but he shook those… disturbing thoughts away as he motioned for Kushina to continue her speech.

"Well never mind that, it's only natural to be attracted to each other, so don't worry"

Minato raised an eyebrow at her choice of words, but decided to let her continue.

"Just try to not get hooked on bad men or women, find someone like me, oh, and be careful around Jiraiya-sensei, you know. Naruto, Kasumi, from now on you two are going to face hardship and pain, but remember to be true to yourselves, have a dream and goal. But most of all, remember, you have each other to support, help each other through your trials. There's so much, so much more I want to tell you". A tear escaped from Kushina's eye as she grieved over the time she wanted to spend with her children. "There's so much more I want to pass on to you, to teach you, to help you with your life". Kushina gasped for breath as she cried over her babies. "I want to stay with you more, to watch you grow up, to be with you… I love you both". Minato's face, previously smiling at Kushina's words, now grew sad as he watched his wife cry. Kushina, however, stopped speaking to her children, it became too painful, but she spoke to Minato.

"Minato, sorry, I used up your time as well, didn't I?"

"No, it's alright. Naruto, Kasumi, everything that I wanted to say, has already been said by your stumbling, nagging mother." He winked with these words, and Kushina smiled at his care-free attitude.

"Eight-signed seal"

This was the last whisper of Minato, 4th Hokage, Konoha's Yellow Flash, and which gave Naruto and Kasumi a life of hardship, pain, hatred, and yet, gave a light that guided the world to peace.