A New Hope
Hey everyone! Thank you to those who voted and here is the winning idea.(As you can tell by the summary.) This will be a MinaSaku, massacre fanfic, and will be fallowing the canon, events wise. Many scenes will be different with Minato being there and Sakura will not be a fan-girl, cause I just can't write her as one. But I will try my best to make them as real and developed as possible, since I only just started writing this summer and am still working on in depth writing.
Disclaimer; I don't own Naruto...damn.
Please enjoy!
Minato just completed the hand signs in order to summon the shinigami and seal the kyuubi in his new born son, Naruto. The shinigami appears before him, but instead of impaling him with his tanto, he creates a few hand signs causing everything to fade into grey except Minato and himself and begins to speak.
" Namikaze Minato, eh?"
" How do you know my name and why are you speaking to me, shouldn't you just fulfill your job and leave?" Minato questioned,confused by the shinigami's behavior.
" Normally yes. However you are an exception to the rule." the shinigami answered.
" Why?"
" Because mortal" he began not liking being questioned by those he deem beneath him. " the gods have seen what the future holds if I were to take your life and it is not favorable in the least. Well to them."
" Really? So what does this mean exactly?"
" It means that for using my seal you will pay a different price, one that is more difficult than just giving away your life." Minato just stared at him listening to his words for any trickery." Since you will not be dying, you will not be able to seal part of yourself into your son. However you will not live on as you have been after this event. The gods need to make it look like you died like most expected, at least for a while as to keep the dangerous threats from coming after you too soon."
" So whats going to happen?"
" You my little mortal shall be time traveling."
" Time travel? Is that even possible?" Minato asked in disbelief.
" Yes mortal, for the Gods anything is possible. Now do not interrupt me, for I have much to explain in the short amount of time before you go. First I must let you know that your wife will die." Minato made a pained expression, even if he knew that she was gonna die, it would be with him and not alone, but that's not going to happen now." Next all of the events that would happen if you really were to die will still happen, until you get to the future and start changing things. Also you will not wake up the same as you were before I sent you there nor will your power be the same until you have reached the point you are at now." Minato's face was now contorted into confusion, but the shinigami only continued on." Finally since you will be going into the future and not the past you don't need to worry about the whole butterfly effect seeing as how you do not know of the events to come and how they play out."
" But won't people recognize me, when they see me walking around Konoha?"
The shinigami grinned." Not for a few years mortal. Now get ready, the beast is about to be sealed and the moment it is you will be thrust into the future." he warned as the scenery began to appear and the shinigami moved to stop the kyuubi from killing Naruto with his claws.
" Kushina!" shouted Minato as he ran to her. She was collapsed over by Naruto.
" Minato...I don't have much longer and you did the seal and now Naruto will..." she trailed off, losing the ability to speak.
" Don't worry Kushina, Naruto will not grow up alone." he reassured her, but did not give the reason." I just wish you could be there in order to help him in the stages of being a jinchuriki."
Kushina smiled weakly." Don't worry... if he is truly my son, he will be able to get through it."
Minato smiled back. " I know."
" I love you Naruto, Minato." she said as she held Naruto close and looked and Minato.
" I love both you and Naruto as well, Kushina." said Minato as two tears slid down him face.
The seal finally activated and the kyuubi was sucked into Naruto. As soon as that happened Minato was engulfed in a blue light and disappeared. The only thing remaining were his headband and fourth hokage robe.
When Minato finally awoke it was to a bright white ceiling, which caused him to cringe and groan in pain. His head was pounding and he can hear his heart beat like a drum against his ears. As the pain lessened, but did not completely go away he opened his eyes again as he sat up slowly. When he did he was met with white and red this time.
" Old man...what are you doing here and what happened?" Minato asked not hearing the sound of his voice due to the pain.
" Before I answer that young man, please tell me how you ended up in my office looking as if you just battled a hundred men with your bare hands and who you are." he commanded sternly, yet gently.
" I wish I battle them, then I could have survived with a lot less of a headache and what do you mean who I am? You know me old man, I'm Namikaze Minato, yondaime and Konoha's yellow flash, or have you finally gone senile with age?"
" So your Minato?" the Hokage asked with a raised eyebrow.
" In the flesh."
" Then would you mind stepping in front of this mirror for me?" he asked gesturing towards the mirror on the corner on the opposite side of Minato's bed.
" Sure." he said skeptically. Sure he knew he might have looked a little banged up from fighting the kyuubi, but the spiky blonde hair and ocean blue eyes should be a dead give away. He thought, while his eyes were closed for a moment trying to lessen the pain that was slowly going away. Then finally he was in front of the mirror and opened his eyes.
He blinked once, twice, thrice. Then he stared.
" Old man is this one of Tsunade-obaa-san's inventions so that she can try and look young?" he asked thumb pointed at the mirror.
" No son, that is a normal mirror." he replied casually, though he was really watching the boy who claimed to be the Fourth Hokage. He has to admit that the boy looks just like Minato did at that age, but Minato is a grown man, or was, so for this child to claim to be him is preposterous. Although, Minato's body was never recovered, so this kid could possibly... he didn't even let his hopeful side finish that though. He learned not to be hopeful after his son died and even more so when his wife passed away, he would need cold hard facts before he ever believed this boy's story.
" Oh I see."
pause.
" WHAT THE HELL?!"
" A boy your age should not use such language."
" Old man, I'm 23 years old, I can use whatever the hell kinda language I want, but right now I want to know why I'm 11 years old and how far into the future am I?"
Sarutobi blinked then pondered on if he should tell him or not, before sighing." It has been 11 years since the kyuubi attack. Now what is this about time travel?"
" Look old man I think we should talk about this in the safety of my office...er your office, so as to not let people, who really don't need to know in on this important conversation."
" Ah, I agree. However do you plan on leaving the hospital like that?" Sarutobi asked trying to keep the mock out of his voice. Though he is still not able to believe this boy's story yet, he can't help the fondness and memories the child creates. Similar to Minato's son Naruto, no matter how much of a pain he is, he is someone many want to be around once they get to know him.
Minato looked down and saw that he was in a short sleeve hospital gown, with white boxers on. One thought quickly came to mind. Who changed me? But he decided some mysteries were better left unsolved." Are there any spare clothes?" The Hokage pointed to a small dresser and Minato quickly went over there and got changed. He was now wearing a forest green short-sleeve shirt, brown cargo shorts and grabbed the standard blue shinobi sandals." Ready when you are." he stated with a grin.
The two made their way to the office taking the less crowded paths as to not draw attention to themselves. Once in the office the Hokage asked Minato to explain from the beginning and after Minato was done with his tale, the Hokage leaned back in his chair.
" So you really are Minato?"
" Yes."
" And you time traveled into the future?"
" Yes."
" In order to save Konoha?"
" Mmmhmm."
" Kami and I thought I'd seen it all."
Minato grinned." Well you've seen more than I have. So old man, what's Konoha like now? Did they rebuild the damaged buildings from the kyuubi attack?"
Now came the hard part thought Sarutobi. He was not sure how to tell Minato about the Uchiha incident nor about Kakashi's with drawl to becoming close to anyone ever again.
" Minato, things are a lot worse than when you left, I'm afraid." he began. Minato's posture immediately straighten and his face grew serious.
" What do you mean?"
" After the kyuubi attack it was discovered that only a sharingan wielder could control the demon." flashbacks of a masked man appeared in Minato's mind, but he waited to see where this was going." So the village elders began watching the Uchiha clan closely and practically kept them on lock down. But this resulted in the Uchiha trying to build a coup." Minato's eyes widened." I was informed through clan heir and prodigy Uchiha Itachi. He was more loyal to the leaf than he was to his clan. So I told the elders and we tried to find some common ground before anything got out of hand, however the Uchiha clan head Uchiha Fugaku would not compromise and in the end Danzou and the other head elders went behind my back and gave young Itachi a... mission." Minato did not like where this was going." The original mission was for him to massacre his whole family and be pardoned for stopping the Uchiha forces, but he was unable to kill one person. His little brother Uchiha Sasuke and because of that the mission changed. He is now a rogue ninja and is Jiraiya's secret contact within the criminal world." the Sandaime chanced a look at Minato and wished he hadn't.
Minatos face was contorted into rage, with his fist clenched. But his eyes are where he saw everything. Anger, rage, pity, disappointment, and sadness.
" If only I could have come here sooner, then maybe..."
" Minato you should not even finish that sentence. In our line of work there are many things that we will come to regret, however things that we have no control over should not be one of them."
" But..."
" Think about all the lives you can save instead of the ones you lost. Besides if this had gone to your plan you would have been long dead and never known about the massacre."
Minato nodded." Is there anything else?"
" Kakashi." at the name Minato was back to his serious posture." Don't worry he is still alive. However he does not allow anyone to get close to him, is more often than not at the memorial stone grieving, and has developed bad habits."
" Such as?" Minato questioned with a raised eyebrow.
" His idea of on time is three hours late, he no longer gives straight answers, unless it's an emergency, and he reads porn in public."
" Are we talking about Hatake Kakashi?"
" Yes."
" Wow, you miss 11 years and all of a sudden you know nothing. Old man what am I going to do now? The shinigami said I would no longer be at my same power level, which I can see why now, I can't just go around saying I'm Namikaze Minato, without getting bombarded with questions and I'm barely past 5 feet."
" Well I have though of a solution to all of that."
" Oh?"
"Yes. You shall attend the academy like every student your age and work your body and power back up to it's original level, plus at that age you were still considered a prodigy and a powerful ninja and that along with all of your past knowledge should be more than enough to help you rise through the ranks quickly."
" Thanks, but I'm gonna slow down this time. No need to rush into what I have already done, but I will be working on my chakra levels and stamina."
" Next you will change your surname and don't worry, I'm sure you won't mind this one."
" But what about a cover story? Some people might recognize me even though I'm younger."
" That's where the new surname comes in. Minato you now have a younger brother."
" Eh?"
But Minato did not need the third's answer, because right then the doors busted open to reveal similar blond hair and blue eyes, that Minato knew could only belong to one person.
" MY NAME IS UZUMAKI NARUTO, BELIEVE IT!"
'Dear lord Kushina...He is definitely your son.'
Hope the chapter was not too bad, I wrote it at 1:30 in the morning. Also I wanted to let you all know that I will try to update 'BNB' at least once a month along with 'B-rabbit Sakura', so keep reviewing and I will keep providing new chapters.
Thanks for reading!
Bye~