Hiruzen Sarutobi stood, hands pressed against the barrier jutsu his successor erected faster than he could perform a substitution. He pounded his wrinkled fist against the sealing construct frustrated that he would have to watch Minato do battle with the most powerful biju in existence. He allowed his hands to fall, and determination to set into his eyes. Without looking away from the face off in front of him, he barked out orders.
"Squad two, I want everyone without S rank clearance under Minato out of here. Squads one, three and four, containment, three feet from the barrier line. If Minato fails, he will weaken it at least, and we can contain it. Squad Five, Status of the Village, and if you can, find out who the hell started this mess. Minato wouldn't have allowed the Kyuubi to escape unless there was a third party."
Within an instant the twenty animal masked shinobi disappeared to follow their orders. As soon as those blurs moved away, two more took their place, solidifying into a younger man and a middle aged one. The middle aged one had long hair and pale pink eyes. With a mumbled word, the veins around his eyes bulged and he glared at the barrier in front of the Third Hokage of Konohagakure.
"Sandieme-sama. Why is Minato conversing with the Kyuubi?" The Hyuuga asked.
"I don't know Hiashi. For all we know, the Kyuubi is sentient enough to hold conversation. Kakashi-kun, why are you here?" The Third growled.
"Kushina is dead Hokage-Sama. She saved my life from a kunai I couldn't see coming while I was transporting her to a secondary location under Sensei's orders." A tear fell from under the dog mask the young shinobi with gray gravity defying hair wore.
"Damn it…did you get visual on the assailant?"
"Yes, around my height, wearing a weird mask flame pattern. My Sharingan detected two kinds of chakra around him, as if he was under a genjutsu. But he didn't look like any chakra I have seen in the village." Came the tart reply. "However Kushina stated 'Him. He took Kyuubi' before she passed."
"Hiashi do you see anyone who shouldn't be here?" Hiruzen asked.
"No hokage-sama, no one other than… wait, is that a baby in the barrier with Minato!?" Hiashi exclaimed.
"Minato! No! Kakashi, go to the Uchiha, I want every member on patrol, find the assailant, he unleashed the Kyuubi. Go." Sarutobi sank to his knees as he watched his successor say his final words to both the Kyuubi who was being dragged into the babe's body, and the baby itself. Finally, as Minato slumped over his son, and the barrier dropped, the Kyuubi made eye contact with Hiruzen.
"Minato was both a fool and a hero. I will try to keep this one sane…But I hold little hope. It is likely that Minato just created a monster Old Monkey." With that he was sealed into the boy, along with multiple colored lights that Hiruzen didn't see around.
"Hiashi, status on the sealing of the boy, and I want details!" Sarutobi darted forward to gently place Minato's body on the ground beside the sealing alter.
"He is alive, the Kyuubi's chakra seems to be wrapping around another chakra. It's something I have never seen before sir. The boy has two, five, twelve, thirty, what is this? There seems to be close to forty other small chakras other than the Kyuubi sealed in the seal... they are slowly absorbing one another blending, and growing."
"Are they a threat to the sealing, the child, or the village?" Hiruzen demanded.
"I don't know. The Tailed Beasts are unique in that they never run out of chakra, and that they have intensely dense chakra. Each tail symbolizes how dense the chakra is. At least that is our current understanding. But these other chakras aren't as dense, but there are so many of them. Each is easily the chakra pool of a jonin, and there are still over forty colors slowly absorbing each other." Hiashi spoke as he stared at the seal.
"Since we must assume that Minato knew what he was doing, we must finish and lock the seal. Unless you see anything other than what you just said Hiashi." Sarutobi stood and prepared himself.
"I do not see anything else Hokage-sama" the Hyuuga dutifully replied.
The Third Hokage dashed through twelve handseals faster than even Hiashi could see, before placing his glowing palm on the seal. "Fuin-condense!"
The baby started to scream.
The Kyuubi growled at the three entities slowly being condensed into one. Before his very eyes, the blob started to assume human shape. A high artesian nose, smooth square jaw, with a mane of red hair cascading down to its shoulders like a waterfall of blood. A breath escapes his lips as his eyes snap open.
The Kyuubi tensed as his red eyes met the maroon eyes of the being in front of him. "Who are you?"
The being smiled, madness shining in his eyes. "We are Viscrag, and this boy is OURS!"