Ok people im sorry to say im rewriting the chapters I've done because of some plot holes. Heres the new a better chapter 1 chapters 2-4 will be coming out soon. I will be adding some chapter in-between them to.

I don't own anything.

Path to Rebirth

Chapter 1

The Uzumaki clan of Uzushiogakure was among the most feared of shinobi clans, they were in a league that was only rivaled by the Uchiha and the Senju clans, for good reason. Their ability and aptitude in the sealing arts were the greatest ever seen in the elemental nations. With it, they could defeat entire nations with the right seal. This, combined by their incredible longevity, some of their members able to live up to two hundred years, and their potent chakra is what led to their downfall. Fear is an extremely powerful driving force, and the Uzumaki were feared by all their enemies.

But even with all of the people that feared them, this was still not the extent of their power. Their bloodline went even deeper, able to access the Rin'negan and a more advance level of their basic bloodline.

But all of this power is what led to their destruction. After the second ninja war Iwa fearing the alliance of Uzu and Konoha, launch a preemptive attack on Uzu, destroying the village and scattering her few remaining citizens. The once great clan and her village were in ruins. Uzushiogakure and most of its people were destroyed in this one attack.

Mito Uzumaki was one such person that survived the attack. She was the widowed wife of the First Hokage, Hashirama Senju. Their marriage helped reinforce the relations between the Senju clan and their distant relatives, the Uzumaki and by extension the Leaf Village itself. But one of her, if not her most important roles was the fact that she was the first host to the Kyuubi no Kitsune. After the First's battle with Madara Uchiha at the Valley of the End, she used her exceptional skill in Fūinjutsu and sealed the beast into herself. She became the first ever host of the terrible demon. Fast forward several decades, in the waning years of her life, she was forced to choose the next host of the fox, lest the beast escape and reek more havoc on her beloved home.

The only logical choice was Kushina Uzumaki, because of her unnaturally potent chakra. She was also the orphan princess of Uzushiogakure. Her parents were Haya Uzumaki daughter of Hashirama Senju and Mito Uzumaki, and Madara Uchiha although only her mother knew this and took it to the grave with the destruction of Uzushiogakure.

She was on her way to become the replacement Jinchūriki of the Kyuubi for her grandmother so that the beast would never be free, when the attack happened and was devastated by the news when she found out. But she later put up a strong front when she joined the academy, and gained the name Red Hot-Blooded Habanera for her efforts.

She grew up happy while she lived with Hiruzen and his wife Biwako Sarutobi of the Sarutobi Clan. It wasn't till she was kidnapped and her rescue by Minato Namikaze had she truly started to enjoy her life in Konoha. Then tragedy struck in the form of the 3rd ninja world war. The cause of the war was the attack on Uzu, tensions had finally risen high enough that open fights would start any time Iwa and Konoha shinobi met.

Out of the five major nations Iwa and Konoha were against each other while Kumo and Suna only joined in to gain the spoils of war and were working on their own only helping one or the other side when it benefited them. As for Mizu they had just started a civil war between bloodline users, the rebels, and the shinobi that were loyal to the current Mizukage; Yagura the Jinchūriki of the Sanbi, the Kyodaigame.

Many legendry ninja fell in war such as Sakumo Hatake, a man that was said to be as strong as the 3rd Hokage in his prime. But while many fell others were born like Minato Namikaze, the future Hokage, known for his sealing knowledge and his tactical genius on and off the field. There were others like Akasuna no Sasori, who became famous with his innovative use of puppets that few had ever thought of. Sadly, it was this war that lead him to making his human puppets. Because of this the third Kazekage had attacked him but was killed in the process. Eventually the war ended when Minato turned the tide of the war with his infamous Hiraishin no Jutsu.

As the war ended Kushina was ready to finally have a serious relationship with Minato as they were soon married later that year by Hiruzen. The only ones at the wedding were Jiraiya, Tsunade, Biwako and Hiruzen who was marrying the couple. They were married a year before the happy couple found out that Kushina would be having twins, one boy and one girl.

Path of Rebirth

Through all of this the Kyuubi was awake and watching, waiting for an opportunity to get free from the second prison it found itself in. After over a decade of trying to escape it stopped trying to use force and sat, well hung around waiting for even the smallest of opportunities to be free. It saw a chance at entertainment and hopefully if the odds were in its favor, a way out. When it sensed the twin children growing in its container's belly, it decided to make the children stronger. Because while it would never admit it out loud these two young ones where its' children too in some way.

So the Kyuubi did the one thing Kushina did not want, it sent its chakra to the embryos. Once it was able to spread its chakra through the two it went through the genetics of both and found that they had the genetic codes of the three descendent clans of the Rikudō Sennin. Kyuubi also found that the Namikaze had a bloodline that gave the recipient a very high level for understanding how Jikukan worked. The Kyuubi knew that even with its massive chakra stores it would take most if not all of its energy to just unlock the potential to use the bloodlines in one of them. It started with the boy to give it a fighting chance, knowing that if it did escaped it would most likely end up in the girl, as was the tradition. By the time Kushina went into labor it had only finished the boy's genetic makeover and had only just got started with the girls Uzumaki bloodline, only able to awaken the basics of it.

As all of this was happening the village in the leaf thought that they would be at peace for a long time. Why wouldn't they, they had just won another war. And they would be right till the night of October 10th.

Path to Rebirth

As Kushina gave birth to her first child a boy that was quickly named Naruto, he had a pale skin tone and a tuff of dark blond hair with a few streaks of crimson red in it, the seal weakened. While this was happening an orange masked man hid in the shadows waiting for the best time to strike. As the second child was born he saw his chance, the second baby was a girl that the parents lovingly named Narumi, she had pale skin tone and red hair the same shade as her mother.

This was when a man decided to attack. Just as Minato was about to stabilize the seal, two unmistakable cries of people dying ripped through their ears.

"BIWAKO-SAMA! TAJI!" Minato roared.

His attention was grabbed by a new person who had somehow bypassed the guards and the barrier, wearing a hooded black cloak and an orange mask with black stripes and a single eye hole where the right eye should be. He was holding Narumi in his arm, one arm prepared to strike her, "Yondaime Hokage…Minato. Back away from the Jinchūriki or your daughter dies at the ripe age of one minute."

Minato's eyes narrowed as two thoughts ran through his mind, 'How did he break through the barrier. Who the hell is this guy?'

The blonde Hokage was about to move to attempt to rescue his newborn daughter when Kushina moaned as the Kyuubi began to push for its freedom from the seal on her exposed stomach.

"Kushina!" he cried. 'The seal's not done!' he thought.

The masked assailant produced a kunai in his left hand and threatened the Hokage once more, "Back away from the Jinchūriki…or don't you care if your daughter dies?"

"Hold it, j-just calm down!" Minato pleaded, raising his hand up in a reaching gesture as Kushina experienced another wave of pain. Then, to Minato's much growing fear, the man threw Narumi into the air.

"You should take your own advice Minato. I'm perfectly calm," the man berated.

"NARUMI!" Kushina cried while her husband's gaze turned absolutely murderous as the wailing newborn started to fall and the man drew a kunai out in preparation for an upwards thrust.

The next moment, Minato had Narumi in his arms as he rested his feet against the wall behind his attacker.

"You live up to the 'Kiroii Senkou' moniker, but what now?" the man quipped with a backwards glance.

Minato glanced down, seeing smoke flow up from the bottom of the baby blanket, and he recognized the flow as that of multiple paper bombs. A quick movement of his hands later and Minato separated the child from the impending explosion.

"MINATO! NARUMI!" Kushina cried when she noticed the man in her life and her newborn daughter disappear.

She turned and looked at the stranger angrily while holding onto her son close to her and said, "Don't you dare harm my son!"

The masked man cocked his head to the side and replied while walking over to her, "Why would I hurt a little brat like him." He then picked up baby Naruto and put him in the crib that was to the side of the birthing table. The next thing Kushina saw was his had landing on her solder and the feeling a twisting sensation before everything went black.

Path to Rebirth

The house went up in fire and smoke as it exploded, and Minato, using his body to protect his and his wife's baby as they were thrown away from the blast.

"Thank Kami…you're not hurt," Minato breathed a sigh of relief as he caught his breath while sitting on the ground, cradling the shrieking infant who obviously did not like all the jostling.

"Ow…" Minato winced as he finally registered the pain of a small piece of wood that had embedded itself in his lower right shin, through his pants and wrappings. He plucked the wood out and his mind was already trying to figure out why they had been attacked.

'He's after Kushina. He forced me to use my Hiraishin no Jutsu to separate us! Gotta hurry!'

He used his Hiraishin once more to get Narumi to another house. He then quickly placed Narumi in the bed sized crib and wrapped a blanket around her.

"You'll be safe here," he mentioned, although he may have been trying to reassure himself. "You'll wait here on your own for a bit Narumi…I've gotta go save your mom before it's too late and see where your brother is." And like that he was gone in a flash of yellow light.

The next place he appeared was the cave. He looked around to see that while Kushina was gone, "Most likely captured for the Kyuubi." he saw Naruto fast asleep in the crib. "Good you're safe. I need to go save your mother little guy. I need to leave you here while I go save your mother, promise to be brave while you're here." And like with Narumi he was gone the next second, only leaving a flash of light.

Path to Rebirth

Kushina was strung up with chains binding her wrists that were tethered to several giant boulders jutting up from a mountain lake; kanji were drawn around four vertical pieces of stone and along the chains, forming a seal, as the seal on Kushina gullet spread so that it began to manifest itself on the lower portion of her face.

In her weakened condition, she was forced to kneel on another stone as the cloaked man stood before her and she pried for information, "What…are you after?"

"I came to rip the Kyuubi from your stomach and use it to crush Konoha," the man answered.

"…What…?" the shock caused by his answer stopped her thought process cold.

"Minato's teleportation jutsu uses a special marking that lets him instantly move from one marking to the next," the man continued. "I see he's incorporated it into the design of your seal."

The man's head lifted and in the eyelet of his mask, a fully mature, three tomoe Sharingan was revealed, "All so he would always be there to protect you…but I managed to get away from him. And the seal has been greatly weakened from the birth of your twins…do you have any idea how long I've waited for this moment?"

Realization began to dawn on the new mother and her eyes locked with the Sharingan as it peered into her, allowing the man to enter the seal's inner construct where the Kyuubi was bound by chains to a large ball with each of its tails staked along with its torso and paws. It tried to fight off its assailant's genjutsu, but in its weakened state from upgrading the two children and trying to get free the Sharingan easily prevailed and its slit eyes reflecting the Sharingan – the indicator that the man's control was a success.

The chains began to melt and the stakes disappeared, allowing the fox's chakra to manifest as a chakra cloak around Kushina, who screamed in agony when the fox began to emerge from the seal.

Her captor brought his right up in a hand seal and uttered his first command to his new beast, "Come forth, Kyuubi no Yoko!"

With a roar that shook the heavens, the full form of the beast emerged from its host.

Below, the man turned from Kushina who had collapsed now that the chains were no longer holding her up and he commanded once more, "We head for Konohagakure no Sato."

"S…stop…" a severely weakened Kushina squeaked out.

The man did stop and turned back in slow surprise, "…The Uzumaki Clan is really something special. Even wrenching a Biju from your body didn't kill you right away."

The fox above growled and the man spoke once more, mentally commanding the monstrous fox to smash the woman, "It's only fitting for the Kyuubi to kill its former Jinchūriki."

And just like that, the fox smashed its paw down where Kushina was laying, sprawled across the rock, unable to move. Upon contact, the section of ground exploded from the shear amount of power exuded from said Bijou.

As the dust settled, Minato was crouching on top of a large tree, cradling his wife against himself.

"A small glimmer of hope," their enemy scoffed. "But it's too late."

"Minato…" Kushina huffed and struggled to speak. "Are Naruto and Narumi…are they okay?"

The Yondaime smiled down at her, "Yes…their fine. I hid Narumi somewhere safe and Naruto is still in the delivery room."

"Oh, thank Kami…" Kushina sighed, happy as any mother would be when knowing that their children were safe from harm. "Minato…stop him…stop the Kyuubi…they're headed for the village…"

An unhappy Minato sighed as Kushina's eyes closed from exhaustion and he vanished with her.

The man who had attacked merely looked on and spoke for no reason than to hear himself speak, "Gone again…no matter…on to Konoha!"

Path to Rebirth

The masked man went on to let the Kyuubi out in the heart of Konoha where it could cause the most damage. It wasn't till Minato was able to drive him away that he got the chance to seal away the Kyuubi. But as the masked man was fleeing he said, "I will have the Kyuubi one way or another."

Instead of using the Shiki Fuuin to seal the beast away he used a variant, so that he could stay alive, that spilt the fox's chakra into yin and yang. He sealed the yin into his wife and the yang into his daughter.

The citizens of Konoha celebrated their apparent victory over the Kyuubi. Naruto, who was left alone in the cave, had a little of the Kyuubi's chakra which was left inside of him from the remodeling. It had no sentience or much power but enough to connect with the young baby boy on an instinctual level and give him comfort.

Madara appeared in the cave that the birth of his grandchildren had taken place in. He turned to look at the baby boy as he thought about the future and what he would have to do to make his plans complete. The cave was unstable after all the fighting that went on in such a short amount of time. It is because of this that a fairly large chunk of rock fell above Naruto. Madara seeing what was about to happen to the new born was about to intervene when before it could hurt the baby, Naruto's eyes opened to reveal metallic purple color eyes with a black ripple line affect going out from the center and a bubble of force surrounded the child protecting it from the rock. When the danger was over the infant gave out a tired yawn and went to sleep. As he was closing his eyes the Rin'negan deactivated.

Madara stood there in shock, happy that his mask covered his face because of how unlike a ninja it was to do that. "Hmm you could be the deciding factor in the war to come. I may just choose you over your sister now that I know your special to Naruto-chan. You will be a good boy for your Jiji won't you?" Madara said in a way that although it was sweet was creepy for anyone that knew him. After spending about half an hour with the young boy Madara left.

Path to Rebirth

It was a week later when the Toad Sage Jiraiya was able to get back to Konoha. In that week many things had happened that had miraculously helped the Leaf Village. One of them was that with the destruction of a good portion of the village the spies that were inside were easily found and apprehended when they were trying to report back to their villages on what happened. Another was the better than expected acceptance of the fact that the Kyuubi was sealed, though unbeknownst to them it was for the 3rd time. Among the many hurt citizens Kushina was taken to the hospital in time to be healed by Tsunade that had arrived a few days after the event.

Jiraiya quickly rushed past the entrance and made his way to the Hokage tower where the 3rd and 4th Hokage were at discussing what to do for the rebuilding project that was happening after the mess that the fox had caused.

As he entered the Hokage office he hears Minato telling an ANBU, "Tighten security around the Village," he turns his head to the Jonin commander Shikaku and said, "Call back half of all on mission teams , we need more man power."

"Hai, Lord Hokage." The seal masked ANBU agent and Shikaku said.

Jiraiya cough into his hand to get their attention. Hiruzen Sarutobi turned first and smiled to see his last truly loyal student left. "Ah Jiraiya-kun it's good to see. What news do you have to report on the events going on outside of Konoha?" he asked in a kind but serious voice. Minato look up to hear the answer also.

"Everything is going as expected. Suna is trying to send support as requested by Minato, Mizu has found out about the attack somehow but while Mizu would have a good chance to cause some trouble the civil war going on over there holds them off. Iwa and Kumo have heard nothing from what I can tell from the spies in those areas. The minor villages besides Ame seem to be at a peace time level of military readiness but I wouldn't worry about Ame too much they're always like that. But on the safe side it would be good to beef up around here for at least a month so villages like Iwa if they do find out won't try anything." Jiraiya finished reporting.

Minato nods his head while thinking about the problems that are happening now. He can't help but think about Child of the Prophecy that Jiraiya had talked about. "Jiraiya- sensei I have been thinking about the prophecy you told me, how you thought it was about me."

Jiraiya nodded, "Yea but the old toad can barely remember anything I wouldn't get your hopes up on being more famous than you are now." He finished with a loud laugh hoping to raise the spirits in the room some.

After hearing that Minato was silent for a time before saying, "Could Narumi be the child of prophecy?"

Both Hiruzen and Jiraiya's looks grow hard when he asked this question. "She could be. She has a great power in her and from what I heard from the message you sent me she does have the good half, the yang half, of the Kyuubi's power in her. I would say that she could be that child but why would you want that? But anyways you won't have to worry about that till the one to bring destruction comes around" Jiraiya asked in worry.

"I waited to tell either of you this till you both were here where I could get a proper judgment from the both of you. The Kyuubi didn't escape." The two older men's eyes widen at the implication that someone wanted the Kyuubi out, "It was freed by a masked man, who I think was Madara." Minato said with a grim look to his face as both men visibly paled at the mention of that man's name, and continue to pale as Minato said, "He had the ability use Jikukan jutsu that could keep up with me. Truth be told they are stronger then my Hiraishin Jutsu."

"Wha-what do you mean stronger than yours?" Jiraiya questioned in worry as the strongest jutsu he knew could be beat so easily.

"His unlike my version doesn't need a seal to work and from what I could figure out he has no limit on how far he could travel." Minato said with no small amount of hurt pride over his best jutsu being beaten so easily.

"I can see why you think she's the prophecy child now." Jiraiya said, "But what can we do about it, I highly doubt even at sensei's strongest that he could fight Madara. What makes you think that Narumi will be able to do it? No offence sensei." He quickly added not trying to sound rude.

"None taken, its true even in my prime with all my knowledge that I have now, I would still have a hard time fighting the man. That's just how strong he and Hashirama-sensei were." Hiruzen told the two of them, not trying to sugar coat anything if the man that had killed his wife really was Madara.

Minato looks up at Jiraiya and Hiruzen, "Because Jiraiya I believe in her, she's my child and because I and eventually you will train her to be the best ninja ever." Minato said with conviction in his voice.

And like that Jiraiya's personality did a complete 180 as he went from being serious to groaning at the prospect of training another brat, "Ok, but don't even think that I will train the little gaki till she's older. I think I'll start her training after her first chunin exam." Jiraiya said with a small smile on his face.

"Good that will allow me to train her at from six or seven so she can have good basic understanding of chakra to start trying to take control of the Kyuubi's chakra." Minato said as if he was finalizing a plan.

Hiruzen gained a hard look on his face at the fact that neither Minato nor Jiraiya even mention Naruto's training, so he asked, "What about little Naruto-chans training?"

"Oh. I was going to start his training when he was 12 around the time that he started the academy. Why?" Minato questioned truly perplexed at Hiruzen's sudden interest in his son's training.

"Oh just wanted to know is all." Hiruzen said but didn't push any further. "If he doesn't train the boy in a few years I might have something to do in my free time." thought Hiruzen giving a small grin inside his head. "I must be going now I have clan matters to handle. Have a good day you two." He said nodding goodbye to the two.

The two younger men in the room were curious about the out of nowhere question but left it alone, he's old after all. Minato turns back to his sensei and said, "Jiraiya I need you to leave within three days' time to see if you can find anywhere Madara would be hiding."

"You got it. By the way how are Kushina and the kids doing?" Jiraiya asked.

"Their doing good Kushina is at the hospital now recovering from the Kyuubi being taken and then being put back in her. The kids are there with her, she won't let them leave her sight." Minato said with concern and finished with a chuckle.

"I'm sure she will heal up just fine. She is after all an Uzumaki." Jiraiya said reassuringly.

"I might as well think about something new to write while I have a break. I'm not getting money from my first book." Jiraiya said with a sigh.

"It's ok I know you will think of something to write about Jiraiya-sensei." Minato says with a good natured smile. Jiraiya laughs and says good bye as he hops out the window so he can go relax at the hot spring, neither knowing that day was the birth of the Icha Icha book.

Path to Rebirth

In a city that had constant rain, in the city's tallest tower sat two people. One male and one female, both wore black chin length collar cloaks with red clouds outlined in white. The male had spiky orange hair with six black metal studs in his nose and seven in each ear. His eyes were the same as a special new born babies eyes, the Rin'negan. The female had blue hair done up in a bun style on one side of her head, she had orange eyes, blue lipstick and eye shadow; she also had a lip piercing. Both people had blank looks on their faces.

"When did he say he would be here Pein-sama?" questioned the woman.

The man now known as Pein turned to look at her and said, "He will get here when he gets here Konan."

Before she could say something else a man with a mask appeared to be walking in from outside through the mouth shaped door, "Ah did little Konan-chan miss me?" questioned Madara in a happy voice.

Her glare was lost on neither of the men in the room, but they just didn't care. Pein turned to Madara and asked, "What are your orders now Madara?"

"Continue as planned." Madara replied without missing a beat. Both Pein and Konan nodded and got up to leave when Madara said something that stopped both cold in their tracks.

"I think it would interest the two of you to know I found some of your family Nagato." That alone would be cause to make the mortal god both worry and happy for their safety, but what Madara said next was cruel, "And he just so happens to have awaken the Rin'negan."

Both people leaving whip their heads around to find out more information, only to see Madara teleporting away in his own personal way laughing like the only man that got a joke no one else heard.

The end

Well how did you guy and girls like the story R&R and add to watch list.