Disclaimer: I do not own Naruto and all those things I'm too lazy to put in.
Naruto
Legacy
Chapter 1 : prologue
Jiraya of the newly named densetsu no sannin did not expect this when he had agreed to teach the three amegakure orphans, he did not expect one of them being an Uzumaki, let alone the other two, the girl who could make anything with paper, anything, even a huge naked statue of a woman with blond hair with pigtails, he giggled perversely at the thought, or the boy with a very strong fire affinity who had a thing for theatrics and was a prodigy at kenjutsu.
No, the thing was, due to the current four way war going on between Konoha and Uzushio, Suna, Iwa and Ame, any and all Uzumaki or anyone having any contact with an Uzumaki or an ally of Konoha or Uzushio would be killed.
He had explained to Nagato about the current situation and how if anyone found out he was an Uzumaki, he would be killed, he had offered to take the three of them to Uzushio or Konoha, but they vehemently refused the orange haired boy Yahiko stating that whatever happened, Ame was their home.
And if the boy being an Uzumaki wasn't enough, he had the eyes of the Rikudo Sennin the most powerful doujutsu in recorded history, the Rinnegan. Jiraya pushed his thoughts away as he saw the three training dutifully, but it was Yahiko who caught his attention the most though, he thought about allowing him to sign the toad contract.
The boy reminded him of himself, but he was still a citizen of a different shinobi village and Hiruzen sensei would kill him if he found out, he saw the boy flawlessly executing a Gokakyu (great fire ball) as he thought about how much of a powerhouse he could be if he could summon toads especially Gamabunta and due to their Uzumaki teammate he knew they would need it, screw Hiruzen.
He was definitely making him sign the toad contract.
[time skip-3 years]
The second shinobi war was over, it had ended with the destruction of Uzushio at the hands of Kumo, Iwa and Ame, the siege of Uzushio had lasted for three months, and when they had finally found a way to breach the barrier, the Uzumaki clan had bravely fought for 5 days without a rest, allowing the rest of the citizens of Uzushio escape to Kiri while the Uzumaki children along with the clan head's family of the Urahara clan had escaped to Konoha.
The battle had finally ended when only the sandaime Uzukage Uzumaki Arashi and 2000 enemy shinobi were left, reduced from the previous 15000 by only thirty or so Uzumaki, nearly half of the actual shinobi forces Kumo, Iwa and Ame had, it ended when Uzumaki Arashi had performed a suicide fuinjutsu taking the rest of the shinobi forces along with him.
The survivors never reached Konoha, there was no trace of them, Uzumaki Kushina was heartbroken thinking that she was all that was left of a once great clan, and hadn't left her apartment in days, atleast until Jiraya had let it slip that he had met an Uzumaki and trained him while in Ame to Minato who had immediately revealed it to Kushina.
And that's where we find ourselves now, a very angry Uzumaki Kushina beating the shit out of Jiraya of the sannin who was regretting slipping up to Minato, "ERO-SENSEI! I AM GOING TO KILL YOU DATTEBANE!" an extremely angry Kushina shouted, letting some Kyubi chakra leak through her voice "Look look Kushina-chan, if you kill me, you won't be able to find him will you? Besides, I can even take you to him, just please don't kill me!" a sweating Jiraya pleaded.
"Really!" Kushina asked, all hints of anger gone, Jiraya nodded very quickly.
"Yaaay!" Kushina cheered while Minato and Jiraya looked on both thinking along the same lines of bloody bipolar women.
The next morning, Jiraya reverse summoned all of them to Yahiko's current position.
With a poof of smoke, they arrived at the team's old hideout where Konan and Yahiko were kissing, Jiraya immediately started to jot down notes on a note pad that had appeared out of nowhere only to be punched in the face by Kushina who was glaring at him, Konan and Yahiko immediately broke away from their kiss to see what was the ruckus, and noticed Jiraya
"Jiraya-sensei!" both of them shouted and rushed to tackle him.
"What is going on?" Nagato asked, walking inside the room only to be tackled by a red blur shouting cousin at the loudest voice possible.
Said red blur began to rub her cheeks against his saying "I thought I was the last dattebane but I found you now and I'm not letting you go DATTEBANE!"
All the while Minato stood awkwardly scratching his cheek, "Ne, Ero-sensei" he began as Jiraya looked at him letting go of the hug, while Yahiko chuckled "Ero-sensei, that's a good one" he said. Minato smiled and looked at Jiraya, "We are here alright, but how by the bloody log! are we going go back to Konoha?!" Jiraya visibly paled "Sensei is going to kill me" he said before sighing and looking at Nagato who had a pleading look on his face as Kushina treated him like a long lost ragdoll.
-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-
After prying Kushina off Nagato, Jiraya looked at the three Ame orphans, "So how are you brats doing huh?" he asked, Yahiko's face brightened, "Awesomesensei! We are already planning on overthrowing that sleazy sick bastard Hanzo! Oh, and by the way how did you get here sensei?" Jiraya let out a laugh, "It's called reverse summoning gaki, using it you can summon yourself along with anything or anyone who has your chakra to Mount Mybokuzan or to another toad summoner" Yahiko cheered, "that means super awesome getaways!"
[time skip-2 years]
"So what makes you think you will be a good sensei for Kakashi Minato-san?" Hatake Sakumo asked, sipping his tea while still wearing his mask, Namikaze Minato looked down at his tea, "I know that I'm quite young" he said, still staring at the cup of tea he was holding I his hands, "But after having Jiraya-sensei teach me for all this while, I want to know why he took it up in the first place and why he decided to teach me of all people, an orphan!" Minato said, finally looking up.
"But that's not the only reason…" he continued, ignoring the curious look that the elder Hatake was giving him, "…unlike what everyone else thinks about you Sakumo-san, I respect you, I respect your decision to save your teammates rather than completing the mission, and I want to teach your son because I see potential, potential far greater than anyone I have ever met, I'm hoping that he could become like you." Minato finished, looking Sakumo directly in the eye.
"You know Minato-san…" Sakumo started, breaking the awkward silence that settled upon them, "…for a newly promoted jonin you are not so bad, but did you know, that every second of my life, I'm regretting the decision I took then…"
"You shouldn't" Minato interrupted, "Because, to me you are the real hero, you saved the life of your teammates, without hesitation, not caring about what it would do to your career, you Sakumo-san, are a bloody hero, something that I can never hope to achieve, and anyone who says otherwise is a bloody log damned fool!" Minato said rising before storming out of the room,
"You can come out now Kakashi" Sakumo said, sighing, Kakashi dropped from the roof, with a sad look on his face.
"Tou-san, do you really regret…" Kakashi began, "Regret saving my teammates?" Sakumo asked as Kakashi nodded, sighing once again, the elder Hatake looked out of the window, "I did" he said, turning back to his son after a while, "But now, I don't know" he said with his eyes full of despair, "But you would do well to remember this Kakashi…" he said, his eyes gaining some colour, "…an old friend once said this to me, those who break the rules are trash, but those who abandon their comrades are worse than trash."
"That means that your teammates are worse than trash." Kakashi said, surprising Sakumo, "They abandoned you when you needed them the most, that makes them worse than trash" Kakashi said with a hint of finality. And for the first time in two years, Hatake Sakumo smiled.
[time skip-3 years]
After Hatake Sakumo died on a mission Kakashi had dedicated himself to training, he had taken on his father's ideals to the extreme point, and more than anything, he stressed on teamwork, but he had become withdrawn to the point that he would only talk to his sensei or his wife who had insisted on him calling her Nee-chan, and he quickly complied knowing the anger of the red hot-blooded habenero.
But his aloofness was put to the test when his sensei pitted upon him and two other newly graduated genin the infamous bell test, Kakashi had quickly gathered the point of the test, but still, there remained the fact of how he was going to convince the other two to listen to him.
One was a fangirl and the other was a dobe, not that he had anything against him, but he was extremely stubborn, the fangirl would listen to him, but he didn't know about the other one, but to his extreme surprise, the dobe was the one who first agreed to the plan, 'maybe they wouldn't be deadweights after all' Kakashi thought as he saw his teammate perform the plan to perfection.
-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-
Namikaze Minato was extremely surprised when the so called deadlast performed a katon:Gokakyu no jutsu(fire release:grand fireball technique) he supposedly failed on the bunshin and henge as his chakra control was horrendous but still seeing an academy graduate pull off a elemental ninjutsu no matter its importance as a right of passage was impressive.
And if that wasn't enough, all three of them had teamed up and were pushing him enough for him to release one level of his kaze no teiko fuin(wind resistance seal) "I got it!" Inuzuka Rin said, from quite a distance, as Minato looked down to see his bells missing, "Good job, but who are you going to give the bells to?" Minato asked, "Kakashi or Obito?" Rin looked surprised for a moment before giving the bell to Kakashi.
Kakashi then immediately tossed the bell to Obito, "Keep it" he said, looking away, "I'm already chunin, it doesn't matter whether I pass it or not, I'll still be on duty." He finished, turning his back to the Uchiha and going towords his home, not noticing the grateful look that Obito was giving him.
[time skip-4 years]
Kakashi and Obito were rushing towards where their teammate was being held by some Iwa nin, they were being led by Kakashi's dogs while their sensei was holding back their reinforcements, it was Kakashi's first mission as jonin, and he had decided to go after their teammate first instead of focusing on the mission, to which, Obito was eternally grateful, it was obvious to everyone that he had a huge crush on the exiled Inuzuka.
As they reached their destination, Kakashi quickly took out the Iwa-nin guarding Rin as Obito went to release her, suddenly, Kakashi felt a huge killing intent focusing on him, he turned to look straight into the eyes of the leader of the group, he was most probably high-jonin level, Kakisi jumped back, escaping from a few kunai tossed at him.
"Just who do you think you are brat…" he asked venomously, "…waltzing into my camp and killing my Shinobi?"he finished before running straight at Kakashi forming hand signs, "doton: Shinju zanshu no jutsu (earth release: double suicide decapacitation technique)" he said before disappearing.
He suddenly appeared below Kakashi and pulled him down, burying him in the ground only to see it being revealed as a log, he quickly turned to block kunai wielding Kakashi and kicked him in the gut, Kakashi then began to go into his own hand signs, "katon: Karyu endan(fire release: fire dragon flame bullet)" Kakashi whispered as he shot out an enormous ball of flame shaped like a dragon.
The Iwa nin went through his own set of hand-seals, and produced an earth wall, stopping the fire ball "doton: Doryu heki(earth release: mud slide barrier)" he then went through another set of hand signs before shooting out mud bullets, only to see that Kakashi was missing.
The Iwa nin shouted in pain as Kakashi drove a kunai through his back, he retaliated by taking out his own kunai and swiping at Kakashi's face, the kunai met flesh as it slashed across Kakashi's left eye.
Kakashi immediately jumped back as he felt the cold metal across his face and went through a set of handsigns, "Chidori(one thousand birds)" he shouted as he drove the blade of lightning through the enemy nin's stomach.
Kakashi sat down, panting, exhausted from the jutsu and suffering tunnel vision, after a while,he heard Rin scream, quickly, he stood and ran towards the direction of the noise.
-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-
As Kakashi reached the place where Rin was imprisoned, he saw Obito fighting against a bunch of chunin, they were evenly matched and Kakashi didn't understand what the scream was about, his view changed as he saw Obito bleeding from multiple kunai wounds, he ran towards the ninja, kunai in hand and took out the Iwa nin.
"Thanks…" Obito said, panting and then collapsed, Rin quickly ran towards him and started patching him up, after Obito got enough energy to stand up, Kakashi took his arm and lifted him up, "Lets go…" he began, but was interrupted by rocks rumpling, "doton: dosekiryuu no jutsu(earth release: rock avalanche technique)" the Iwa nin that Kakashi was fighting shouted.
"Move!" Obito shouted pulling Kakashi to the side, only for him to fall under the range of the Jutsu, suddenly, in a yellow flash, Obito disappeared only to appear near Kakashi's side with Minato, both looked visibly sick.
"What did you?..." Rin began, "That, my cute little student, was the Hiraishin." Minato said, panting, "Was the bloody first time I had to use it too." Obito who had recovered from the experience looked at him, "We are never doing that again!" he said with finality.
Meanwhile, some distance away, a white figure stood in the shadows, observing what was going on, "tch…" it said, "Madara is not going to be pleased."
[time skip-2 months]
Inuzuka Rin had gotten kidnapped, again, this time by Kiri, seriously, who got kidnapped twice in two months? Kakashi and Obito were going towards where Rin was being kept while their Sensei was taking care of their mission, the destruction of Kannabi bridge.
When they reached the enemy camp, they were surprised by what they saw, Rin was in the middle of a sealing circle, and the Kiri nin were transferring something from a jar to Rin's body.
"Hey! What the hell are you doing?" Obito shouted, while he had gotten stronger, he was still his reckless old self.
"Well look here, more Konoha scum" the man performing the sealing said, with such animosity, that Iwa would have been jealous, "You are the scum here, kidnapping our teammate!" Obito retorted.
"Do you think we have forgotten what you did to our allies, Uzushio?... we still remember, this will be our weapon that we shall use for your destruction!" the man shouted.
"Cyclops, isn't Uzushio where Kushina-neechan is from?" Obito asked, looking at his one eyed teammate, the Kiri nin, who had listened to their conversation, raised ther eyebrows in surprise, "Ku…Ku…Kushina? As in Uzumaki Kushina?" one of them asked.
"Yeah she's Minato-sensei's girlfrie-gwaf" Obito began, but was stopped by Kakashi's hand in his mouth who was previously waving his arms to warn Obito to not speak.
"Shit!" the man who was performing the sealing cursed, "Reverse the seal dammit! Put the Sanbi back and let's leave" the other man shouted, while another looked at them and said, "Sorry for the inconvenience, we didn't know you were close with Uzumaki-sama, if you see her, please tell her, that all of the other survivors made it to Kiri, and also to be careful of a man named Shimura Danzo" he said before leaving with a Shunshin(body flicker) with the rest of the ninja, leaving an unconscious Rin.
"What just happened?" Obito asked, after Kakashi had removed his hand from Obito's mouth, "I think you just talk no jutsued them" Kakashi said before walking towards the unconscious Rin and picking her up.
Meanwhile back in Konoha, Uchiha Fugaku, sat in an armchair, drinking a cup of tea after a long day dealing with the Konoha military police force, when a white figure appeared before him, startled, he dropped the cup before drawing out a kunai, "Drop the Kunai now, you know" the voice said, slightly amused, "I'm just here to make a proposition.".
At the same time, at the Kannabi bridge in Kusagakure, Namikaze Minato was placing grade 3 kibaku fuda(exploding tag) around the bridge, as fast as he could, several of his clones patrolling around the area, suddenly one dispelled to tell him that reinforcements were arriving.
Minato quickly took out his Hiraishin(flying thunder god) Kunai and got ready, as soon as he spotted the reinforcements, he made the rat hand sign, "katsu(explode)" he said as the bridge blew up into smithereens, the fifty or so Iwa nin became visibly angry, "Get him!" the leader shouted as Minato threw the kunai.
In a yellow flash, all of the nin fell down, dead, Minato looked at the tree where a hunter nin stood, he was trembling like a leaf, Minato threw a kunai at him, but the nin disappeared with a shunshin.
-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-
Minato quickly flashed to his students, who were at the Konoha camp outside Kusa, after he quickly checked if all of them were alright, he let out a sigh of relief, "Sensei…" Kakashi began, but was cut off by a chunin who entered the tent, "All forces, retreat!" he shouted, "Iwa is advancing on Konoha, Sandaime-sama is fighting Kumo, at this rate, Konoha will be crushed!".
"Shit!" Minato cursed, before flashing away to Konoha's gates, from there, he ran towards the battlefield.
The sight he saw made him freeze, only 200 or so Konoha chunin and jonin, against 5000 of Iwa's forces, leading them was the Sandaime Tsuchikage's very own son, a S-rank threat, Minato took out his Last Hiraishin kunai and charged a rasengan(spiraling sphere), he had gotten the idea of the jutsu when he had last fought A and his brother Bee, the latter who being a Jinchuuriki had tried to shoot a Bijudama at him, The Keyword being tried, as he had quickly escaped after seeing him charge up the Jutsu.
He quickly calculated his chances of survival, which showed up very low at the current situation, he would definitely need that for this, he quickly started channeling Chakra to his eyes, and when he opened it, it glowed blue, there was no pupil or the white of the eye, his entire eye glowed a brilliant cerulean blue, "Yosougan(thought/mind eye)" he shouted as he threw the Kunai.
Immediately, the enemies started dropping like flies, the last thing they saw was a flash of yellow, the whole battle only lasted fifteen seconds, all the Iwa nin were dead.
Minato looked, at the bodies of the dead soldiers, a pang of guilt seeped through him, they were brave warriors, but he had taken away their right to die a courageous death, a look of sadness registered his face, it was necessary, but why did he feel like an emotionless murderer?
His thoughts cleared as he saw the Konoha nin cheering, panting, Namikaze Minato collapsed in exhaustion.
-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-
When he came to, he was inside familiar white walls, Konoha general hospital, Minato thought, he tried standing up, but a familiar red head pushed him down, "BAKA! Stay down, you're going to hurt yourself again dattebane" Kushina shouted, "Gomen Kushina-chan" Minato said, "How about I make it up to you by taking you out on a date as soon as I get out of this bloody hospital?".
"You'd better Minato-baka dattebane" Kushina said, pouting and looking away, "Ahem" a voice said from near the door, Minato and Kushina both turned to see who it was, "I hope I'm not interrupting anything" the Sandaime said, decked in full Hokage gear, looking at the young couple, "Sandaime-sama" Minato greeted "May I know what you're doing here?".
"Why I'm merely here to see if the hero of the third great Shinobi war is doing well and also to ask him if he'd like to be the Yondaime." Hiruzen replied with a twinkle in his eye.
Minato's jaw dropped, here was the Shinobi no kami, asking him to be the Yondaime, him a mere commoner, well not a commoner, but his heritage was not well Known, he blinked blankly looking at the Professor.
"Say yes you dummy!" Kushina shouted, hitting the back of his head, Minato quickly cleared his thoughts, and looked back at the Sandaime, "Why me?" he asked.
"Who better than the Yellow flash? The first ever SS-rank threat and the first to be given the flee on sight orders from every nations?" Hiruzen asked back, the twinkle still present in his eyes.
"The what?" Minato asked, looking at the hokage, "The yellow flash, that's what Iwa calls you now, the war ended a week ago, after you took out most of Its shinobi forces." The Sandaime said, Ignoring the 'I've been out for a week' look from Minato.
Minato thought for a while before replying, "I accept." he said, "Very well, you'd be discharged tomorrow and the coronation is this weekend." Hiruzen said before turning to leave.
"Weeelll, Yondaime-sama, this would call for a special celebration wouldn't it?" Kushina asked, her voice seductive and eyes shone with a mischievous glint "Hai! Kushina-sama!" Minato said, blushing furiously.
"So, how about we get out of this hospital and do something fun? Dattebane." Kushina asked, "Hai! Kushina-sama!" Minato shouted, and they both disappeared in a shunshin.
-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-
"Minato-sensei" Obito called, Knocking on the door, when no one answered, he knocked harder, "Minato-sensei!" he shouted, a muffled voice shouted from inside, "Coming!" Minato shouted back.
Opening the door, Minato was surprised to see Obito, "What are you doing here Obito?" he asked, "You know sensei, for the genius yellow flash, you're quite dumb, you forgot our mission report" Obito deadpanned, as Minato sweat dropped.
"Well come in and fill me up."Minato invited.
As Obito finished the mission report, Minato cursed, "I should have known!" he exclaimed to himself, "That double crossing bastard!" Obito looked on a bit scared at his sensei's expression, "Listen Obito, please don't tell Kushina this today, I'm planning something and if she finds out, it will ruin the night."
Obito looked at his sensei, chuckling at his currently pleading face, "I don't know Kushina-neechan will get angry at me…" Obito said, "I'll teach you a Jutsu" Minato said quickly.
"Make that two each and I'm your ring bearer" Obito said cheekily, "Fine, now leave before Kushina wakes up." Minato said, looking at the bedroom.
"Been busy huh sensei?" Obito asked following his gaze, Minato glared at him, "fine, fine, I'm leaving, ja ne" Obito said disappearing in a shunshin.
Minato sighed moving to the bedroom, slowly he shook Kushina to wake her up, "Kushina-chan, wake up." He tried, then sighing again "If you wake up we can go get ramen" he said, "RAMEN!" Kushina shouted, getting up, "Let's go!" she shouted, "Kushina-chan, you might want to get dressed." Minato said, pointing at her.
"Get out! MINATO-BAKA!" she shouted, and threw him out.
-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-
"Well, well, look who it is, the dumb genius and my favorite customer" Teuchi said, from behind the counter, "What will you have today?".
"3 bowls of Miso, 2 pork and 1 beef for me Dattebane!" Kushina said, happily,
"ho, ho, Going on a diet Kushina-chan?" Teuchi asked, as he went on to make the ramen, "Hell no I'm just getting started!" she shouted back.
"I'll have a pork" Minato said, "And when are you going to drop the dumb thing" Minato whined, looking at the hole that was his wallet.
"When you do something intelligent, when it comes to your love life." Teuchi said, placing two bowls of ramen in front of them.
After Kushina had gone through ten bowls of ramen and Minato crying for the sacrifice his wallet had made, they both looked at each other.
"I've something I've wanted to talk about with you" they both said, at the same time.
"Ayame, bring the camera!" Teuchi ordered, as his five year old daughter quickly ran inside bringing out a small camera and handing it to her father.
"You go first!" they both said at the same time again, ignoring Teuchi and Minato's team that had suddenly appeared.
"Fine both at the same time." Minato suggested, as Kushina nodded, playing with her hair, for some reason.
"3…2…1…now" Minato counted.
"I'm pregnant" "Marry me" they both blurted out at the same time, as two flashes of light went off.
Kushina looked shocked, which then went to unprecedented joy, "YES!" she shouted.
"Pay up" Obito said to the Ramen shop owner who grumbled but passed a wad of cash to Obito, as Rin let out a fan girlish scream and Kakashi just smiled on.
"I gotta give it to you, I'm removing the dumb now" Teuchi said to the frozen Minato, who kept muttering, "She's pregnant…" and "She said yes…" "Yo, genius?" Teuchi asked, waving a hand in front of him.
Minato promptly fell down and blacked out, while muttering "I'm gonna be a father".
"Nope!" Teuchi announced, "The dumb is coming right back on, hear that you dumb genius?" looking pointedly at the fainted blonde who was drooling on the ground.
-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-
"Was that a dream?" Minato asked himself, looking at the familiar hospital walls, "Nope!" Obito said cheekily, "You're engaged, Kushina-neechan is pregnant and you owe your team 6 jutsus."
Slowly, Minato sat up and then stood, "Did you tell her?" Minato asked looking at his ever-cheerful student, "No, I was waiting for you to wake up." He said with a serious look.
"Tell me what?" Kushina asked looking angry, suddenly entering the room, with Kakashi in tow, "Kakashi you have two eyes!" Obito exclaimed, "Yes! You idiot, I've always had two eyes, I just lost one in the war and now I fixed it alright, just like I told you I will" Kakashi replied, "But you had one yesterday?" Obito asked.
"I was covering it because it was newly transplanted!"
"You look weird with one black eye and one brown eye." Obito said ignoring Kakashi.
"STOP CHANGING THE TOPIC AND TELL MEWHAT YOU WERE KEEPING FROM ME!" Kushina shouted as Obito, Kakashi and Minato paled.
"You tell her!" Obito said pointing to Minato, who pointed back to Obito who then pointed to Kakashi.
"JUST TELL ME DATTEBANE!" Kushina shouted at Obito who paled further and began to spill everything.
"And you were keeping this from me?" Kushina asked, her voice dangerously low.
"I…I…I had a good reason, please don't kill me" Minato whimpered.
Kushina sighed and sat down on one of the chairs, "I've been getting nothing but bad news today, first Nagato, now this, DAMN YOU DANZO!".
"Don't worry Kushina-chan, just breathe, you're going to be a mother, these mood-swings are pretty common" Minato said, patting her back.
"I'M NOT HAVING MOOD SWINGS!" Kushina shouted while Minato sweat-dropped.
"But speaking about that, when is our wedding?" Kushina asked, blushing.
"How about this Thursday?" Minato asked, Smiling.
Kushina blushed even more.
"But that's two days away!" Obito exclaimed, "We need to get everything ready, Hey! What about our bachelor's party? And neechan's party?".
Kushina went tomato red.
"And Kushina-neechan's wedding dress, good thing sensei asked early, cause if he had waited for another month, Kushina-neechan's dress wouldn't have fit." Obito said, hands behind his head.
At that, the blushing dissapered.
"WHO ARE YOU CALLING FAT?" she shouted before she threw a screaming Obito out of the window as Kakashi chuckled.
"YOU WANT SOME TOO?" she asked, looking at Kakashi, who quickly disappeared.
"Ne, are you sure about it being on Thursday dattebane? You know your coronation is on the day after Friday?" Kushina asked turning to Minato.
"Hai" Minato replied smiling, "I could be Hokage any day, but our wedding is a special day, besides, I'm going to be your husband first and Hokage later"
Kushina started blushing again "You better keep that promise dattebane." She muttered.
"Kushina-chan, what was that about Nagato, What happened?" Minato asked, with a serious look on his face.
*Flashback*
Nagato and Yahiko stood beneath the cliff, looking at Hanzo and their captured friend, earlier, They had received a mission report from one of his goons they had suspiciously captured too easily, it had ended up as a trap as the prisoner quickly signaled to his allies who had attacked their hideout.
Only a few members had escaped and their operations were completely demolished, they had quickly gotten to the place where Konan was supposedly being held captive.
Of course, they had expected it to be a trap, but they had not expected enemies from Konoha who had come under the name of a man named Danzo, the battle was mostly one sided as the opponents had a hostage.
The tides changed when Yahiko had reverse summoned Konan as to how, he had started blushing. The change lasted for a while, until a masked man had appeared, only his eyes were visible from the mask, and it showed a fully mature Sharingan(copy wheel eye).
"Who are you?" Yahiko asked, looking at the man who had suddenly appeared, "Why, that's an excellent question, you can call me Tora" he said before his eyes shifted pattern, "Ameterasu (Illuminating heaven)" he said, as black flames separated Nagato from the others.
"My, my, what a nice pair of eyes you've got there." he taunted, "Would be a pity if someone took them away" he said before lunging at Nagato and pushing him down as a black shadow crept upon Nagato and removed his eyes.
Nagato shouted in pain as the flames died down, "He's all yours" the man said before disappearing as a very injured Yahiko and Konan rushed at him and reverse summoned themselves to Mount Myobokuzan.
*End flashback*
"And From there the great toad sages contacted ero-sensei who quickly enlisted Tsunade's help, revealing their existence to the Sandaime who has agreed to keeping it a secret as it might cause a civil war, he was angry at Jiraya about this but forgave him when he found out that Nagato is an Uzumaki. I think he still blames himself Dattebane." Kushina finished as a dark look passed upon Minato's face.
"She's here huh?" he asked, his tone devoid of any emotion.
Kushina nodded before sighing, Tsunade and Minato had a bad relationsip, something he didn't want to talk about, basically Tsunade abandoned her only living relative who was then a child as she went on a drinking\gambling spree across Hi no kuni.
"But anyway, let's go home we have a lot to do after all" Minato said, his tone back to normal.
"You do remember about the ritual right, Dattebane?" Kushina asked, her tone mischevious, the ritual was an Uzumaki right of passage, it was of two types, the Uzumaki coming of age ritual, a ritual that members of the Uzumaki clan undertook when they became 7 years old and the marriage ritual, which as the name suggested was to be used when the member of the Uzumaki clan got married, it basically acted as a guarantee for absolute loyalty to one's family and also prolonged the lifespans of non-Uzumaki clan members.
It involved, to quote the words of its creator, the becoming of one of the chakras of the users, basically, it was what they already did the day before in a more glorified manner.
"I won't forget things like that Kushina-chan!" Minato protested, making his tone as sweet as possible, Kushina responded by pinching his cheeks and saying something in Minato's ear which caused him to get a slight nosebleedas they both shinshined away.
[time skip-2 days]
Minato and Kushina were Now married, it was a small ceremony with Minato's and Kushina's teams along with the hokage, a few clan heads and Jiraya. They had invited Orochimaru, who politely declined, saying, 'I'm quite busy right now, besides, even if I wanted to, there is a problem that I'm trying quite hard to solve, and until I find its root and eradicate it, I won't be able to rest in peace.'
That had blown off multiple alarms in Minato's head, there was something going on between Danzo and Orochimaru. Whatever it was, it was ugly.
The whole day had spoiled when Danzo had tried to crash the wedding, saying, 'I would like to know why I wasn't invited to the wedding of the so called Yellow flash, I would believe that the invitation got lost on the way. But no need to worry because I'm here now' he had said with a smirk that quickly disappeared after Minato flashed him and his two cronies to the middle of nowhere before coming back to his wedding.
Obito was their ring bearer who was currently in the hospital for calling Kushina old. To his credit, he didn't really mean it that way when he said, 'Time sure does go by Kushina-neechan, next thing you know, you would be an old woman sipping tea sitting in a reclining chair while waiting for Minato-sensei to finish gardening so that you can talk to someone.'
Right now, he and Kushina lay exhausted on the bed after a long day, Kakashi and Kushina's spandex wearing student Gai were helping make the nursery, which Kushina had adamantly asked to be done right away.
He didn't understand what happened to Kushina's only male student, surely being on a team where everyone else as was a woman couldn't be so bad that you had to start wearing spandex, exclaiming utter nonsense about youth and claiming Kakashi, who couldn't care less, to be his eternal rival right?
He glanced over at Kushina who was breathing slowly, "ne Kushina-chan, What do you think we should name our child?" he asked, looking straight into her violet eyes.
"I think we should name him Menma dattebane" She said, after thinking for a moment.
"Do you have to name him after a ramen ingredient? And besides, how do you even know that it's a him?" Minato asked, sweat dropping.
"I just know Minato-baka!" Kushina exclaimed sitting up, "Besides, Menma sounds like a cool name, I like saying it, what do you think?"
"How about, Gilthunder?"
"Seriously?" Kushina asked glaring at him, "He is a human child who might or might not have the ability to make lightning, not a fish that can make lightning bolts dattebane"
Meanwhile, a pink haired man in a far off land sneezed.
Minato sweat dropped.
"My turn dattebane!" Kushina shouted, "How about Arashi, after my father?"
"Not a bad idea, I think I'll agree on that one, besides storm sounds cool."
"You know I've been thinking about what he'd be like, Dattebane, I want him to be just like Obito"
"You'd say that, considering he's your favourite, if you ask me though, I'd say he should be more like Kakashi."Minato replied, sitting.
"Yeah, what will you both do if he's like both of them and to add on top of it has all of your bad habits huh?" Jiraya said, sitting on the window sill.
"Ero-sensei don't even joke about that!" Kushina shouted.
"How long have you been there?" Minato asked.
"Long enough kid, I was hoping to get some ideas from you, but here you are, yapping about what your son would be like, He'd be like what he'd be like, so quit talking and start walking, cause the hokage's calling" Jiraya said as Minato deadpanned.
"Please don't start rapping, I've had enough rapping meeting kirabi that will last for a lifetime." He begged.
"Fine, fine, let's just see what the old man wants and comeback as quickly as possible." Jiraya said, chuckling as Minato flashed them both to the Hokage's office.
"Ah, Minato-kun, there you are, there are a few things we need to discuss about." The Sandaime greeted, "Hai Sandaime-sama" Minato said while bowing.
"No need to be formal, it's more of a personal matter, it involves your child and your wife." Hiruzen said, puffing his pipe.
"What about them, Hokage-sama?" Minato asked slightly suspicious, "You know how Kushina is the jinchuriki of the Kyubi no Kitsune, yes?" Hiruzen asked, as Minato nodded, "The time during birth is the most crucial time of a jinchuriki, it is the time when the seal is at its weakest, and there is a chance that the biju might escape. That's why just in case, I want you to learn some of the biju sealing methods in advance because if in fact the biju escapes, you can to seal it back."
Hiruzen paused for a movement, and puffed his pipe, before blowing out the smoke. "The first and last person to ever be able to seal the Kyubi was Uzumaki Mito-sama, and I know you can do this because you are the closest to her in terms of skill."
"The other thing concerns your unborn child, you know that because of your lineage, the child is very important, it'll be the heir of three clans, that makes it a high priority target for attacks on your child, not to mention that your child will manifest both of your bloodlines if he performs the Uzumaki ritual of seals." Hiruzen said with a worried look on his face.
"What are you proposing Hokage-sama?" Minato asked, his tone severe, "I'm proposing that your child should not undertake the ritual" Hiruzen said, looking into Minato's eyes.
Minato was angry, here was the Hokage asking him to deny his son his right as an Uzumaki, he had no right to ask something like this from him, he made no effort to hide his anger as he replied, "He will undertake the ritual, whether you like it or not, it is his birthright as an Uzumaki to do so and I will not allow you or anyone to deny what is his like you did to me!"
"I see." Hiruzen said, sadly, "Then you are dismissed."
[time skip-8 months]
October 9th the year of the Kyubi attack
Minato was walking back home, whistling, enjoying the night breeze, he had finished his work earlier than he had imagined and had decided to walk back home. As he reached the door of his home, he was approached by Orochimaru.
"Hello Orochimaru-san, may I ask what you want?" Minato asked as politely as possible, Orochimaru looked at him in the eye for a while before producing a file out of nowhere and handing it to Minato.
"What is this?" Minato asked, surprised, "Everything you need to know about our common enemy and his Oh so beloved village." Orochimaru hissed.
Minato looked at Orochimaru and asked, "Why are you giving me this?"
Orochimaru sighed and looked at the stars, before looking back at Minato, "I've done some horrible things Minato." He said, his eyes filled with guilt, "But you have to understand that I had to do it." Orochimaru paused, his face regretful and eyes full of shame and anger, "He…he took something from me, something that was more precious to me than my life, for that he will pay, but after today, I don't know if I'll be able to do it, That's why I'm doing it, so that he will one way or another pay for everything he has done!"
Minato looked at Orochimaru, in wonder, he had never seen the man looking remorseful ever before, "I trust you Minato, guard that file with your life, because if Danzo gets his hands on it, he will walk scot free, and more powerful than ever, promise me this" He said, Minato looked hesitant, but finally resolved himself before replying.
"I promise you that, no matter what, Danzo will never get this file." He said, and Orochimaru nodded, "Good, now for the other thing I came here for, What do you know about juin jutsu(cursed seal technique) ?"
"Enough that I would never recommend it, it deteriorates the users mind, reduces their life-span and makes them go insane"
"What would you consider a good substitute?" Orochimaru asked, his head tilted to one side.
"The Uzumaki marriage seals to ensure loyalty, the seal of truth to ensure that they do not lie to you and the chakra seaping method to add chakra to people's chakra coils" Minato replied, confused as to why Orochimaru was asking him this.
"I see, thank you for your time Yondaime-sama" Orochimaru hissed out before disappearing in a Shunshin.
Minato entered his house, the lights were out, meaning that Kushina was asleep, he quickly made his way to the basement, where his office was located to analyze the file.
What Minato found in the files was troubling, to say the least, the lengths that Danzo would go 'for Konoha' were horrifying, but what took the cake was what he had done to the Uzumaki clan and the Urahara clan members that had made its way to konoha, at the end of the file, he found a storage seal along with a note from Orochimaru stating that, 'All the scrolls and materials of the Uzumaki clan and the Urahara Clan that had tried to escape to Konoha is in here, it should go to its rightful owner.'
Minato quickly made a blood seal along with a barrier seal to prevent anyone from even touching it, let alone steal it, it was too late to summon the council now, tomorrow Danzo would pay.
He was cut off from his thoughts by Kushina screaming, quickly, he flashed to her position, where he saw collapsed on the floor, "MINATO-KUN, Naruto, the baby is coming!" she shouted.
They had decided to name him Naruto after Jiraya had gifted them the first copy of his book, the tale of the utterly gutsy ninja, they had named him after the protagonist of the story, making Jiraya his godfather by default.
Currently Minato sat by Kushina's side, as she crushed his hand, after he had signaled the ANBU in the shadows to prepare the place where Kushina was to give birth, "It's ready Hokage-sama!" boar said, appearing before him, "good" minato said, before flashing off to the location with Kushina.
It was at 2 in the Morning that Uzumaki-Namikaze Naruto was born, he had Minato's blond hair with quite a few strands of red hair and blue eyes, with Kushina's face and three Whisker like birth marks on either side of his face.
"He looks just like you" Kushina said, cradling the baby, "thank you, Kushina-chan" Minato said, smiling at her, "Thank you for everything."
Kushina smiled, weakly, the exhaustion finally catching up to her, "Hear that Naru-chan, that's your idiot father speaking" Kushina said, giggling slightly.
"Oh, ho, what a heart-warming scene, the Yondaime and his wife, cradling their newborn." An unknown person called, "It almost breaks my heart to ruin this scene, almost."
He quickly pushed Minato away and stole Naruto from Kushina, "Who are you…" Biwako began, only to be stabbed in the back by the man.
"Give me the Kyubi jinchuriki or this child dies" he said holding Naruto who had multiple Kibaku fuda on him.
"Naruto!" Kushina shouted, as the man activated the tags.
Minato quickly flashed to Naruto and then flashed away from the explosion to his house, gently placing the now peacefully sleeping child, "Just stay still for a while Naruto, your mother will be back soon" Minato explained as Naruto smiled lightly in his sleep.
The scene bought a smile to Minato's face, but he quickly steeled it and flashed to Kushina's position, only to see the Masked man ripping the Kyubi out of her.
"Kushina!" Minato shouted as he charged a rasengan and threw it at the man, but it was too late, the Kyubi was already out, exhausted, Kushina Dropped to the ground, breathing hard, the masked man disappeared with the Kyubi as Minato, rushed to Kushina's side, "Naruto!..." Kushina asked, "he's safe, I'll take you to him."
Minato quickly flashed to his house and placed Kushina on the bed, beside Naruto.
"I'm sorry Naru-chan, I'm sorry!" Kushina apologized, holding her child as close to her as possible, her eyes tearing, Minato walked up to the coat stand and picked up his Hokage trench coat and put it on.
"I'll be going out for a while Kushina-chan, just hold out for a bit longer." Minato said, smiling "I have a village to save." And flashed to the place where Kushina had given birth, only to see the man waiting for him.
"Who are you?" Minato asked scowling.
"I'm Uchiha Madara!" the man said, "You liar! Who are you really?!" Minato said, getting angry at the man.
"Hn!" the man grunted, "You may call me tora, my name is of no importance to you!" the man's eyes behind his mask changed, "Sharingan" Minato whispered, "That's right, bow before me and I'll spare you!" the man said.
Minato promptly threw a Hiraishin kunai at him, which the man dodged, but Minato quickly appeared behind the man and shoved a kunai through his heart, only for him to disappear into nothing, "Genjutsu!" Minato exclaimed in realization, "Yes, now look into my eyes and witness the strongest of Uchiha clan, Tsukiyomi(moon reader)"
The world quickly dissolved and became as red as blood, "In this world I'm god, and my will is reality" the masked man said, looking at the crucified form of Minato, as he began to multiply, "only a Mangekyo shanringan(kaleidoscope copy wheel eye) can escape from this illusion!" exclaiming, he and his copies plunged swords that came from nowhere into Minato's stomach.
"Really?" Minato asked, coughing out blood, "Atleast I can try, Yosogan!" he exclaimed as the slap he was hung on disappeared, "Impossible!" The man shouted, as Minato quickly dispatched a copy and took its sword, "You are going to be bloody sorry you messed with my family!" Minato shouted and ran towards the stunned copies, dispatching them.
He turned to the original and ran towards him, tora tried to raise his sword to defend, but was too late as Minato plunged the sword into his heart, the genjutsu dispelled and Minato rushed towards the man who was holding his chest in pain and tried to kill him.
The man reacted at the last second, leaning to the right as the kunai impaled his left arm.
Minato quickly went through a set of hand seals and placed his hand on the man's chest, "Keiyaku fuin (contract seal)" Minato said as seals appeared on the man's coat.
The man fell backwards, as his eyes warped, "AMETERASU!" the man shouted as black flames covered the Hokage's trench coat, who quickly took it off and threw it at the man, followed by a Kunai, "Kunai kage bunshin no jutsu(kunai shadow clone jutsu)" Minato shouted as one Kunai became one hundred.
The man quickly doused the black flames, but was surprised by the kunai coming at him, he replaced himself with a log.
"Hn, as expected from the Yondaime, you may have won this time, but I'll be back, and then I will rule the world!" the man shouted and disappeared into nothingness.
Minato cursed as he walked up to his coat picked it up and put it on, he saw the Kyubi roaring in anger and charging up a Bijudama and quickly flashed to the Hokage monument.
"Hiraishin:dorai(flying thunder god: guiding thunder)" Minato said as seals appeared before the bijudama before it hit the Hokage monument, teleporting it to a far away place.
"Yondaime-sama has arrived!" the Ninja cheered.
Minato quickly went through a bunch of hand seals, bit his thumb and placed his hand on the ground, "Kuchiyose no jutsu(summoning technique)" Minato whispered as a large toad appeared and fell on the Kyubi who roared in anger, "Gamabunta-sama, please hold the Kyubi down until I gather enough chakra to teleport it." Minato requested.
"Quite a fine opponent you've got now, what did you do to piss off Kushina?" the boss toad asked, as he jumped, escaping from a furious swipe of the fox, "Now!" Minato shouted as Gamabunta connected with the fox, Minato quickly teleported the fox to the clearing where he had previously fought the masked man, he quickly teleported to where Kushina and Naruto where and bought them to the Kyubi.
"Kushina-chan, I need your help to seal the Kyubi!" Minato shouted over the noise of the roaring Kyubi, as Kushina sent out chains made of pure chakra from her back, "Kongo fusa(adamantine sealing chains)" Kushina shouted as the chains Bound the biju down and created a barrier around it.
"Let me do it, I'll draw the Kyubi into me and take it with me!" Kushina said, her voice tired.
"Kushina you saw that man, he made it past all the ANBU and took Naruto from right under our noses, he plans to take over the world!"
"I'm going to seal it inside Naruto, he needs this power to survive the challenges that are going to come towards him, that man will be back and he will make Naruto's life miserable!"
"I'll seal half the Kyubi's chakra in him with theHakke no fuin shiki (eight triagrams sealing mrthod), a child can only hold so much, and the other half, I'll seal inside me, and I'll reverse the space-time seal to slowly send the chakra of my half into Naruto as he grows."
"No! please, seal it inside me, he doesn't need to suffer! You promised me, you promised that you'll be a husband and father before you're Hokage, why?!" She asked, tears streaming down from her eyes.
"I am taking this decision as a father Kushina-chan" Minato said, going through a set of seals. "Besides, I believe he's the child of the prophecy and that he will be the one to defeat that man, I know that he will survive and overcome, because he is our child, and every child needs a mother." He finished with a sad smile and clapped his hands.
"Shiki fujin!(Dead demon consuming seal!)" Minato shouted as a smoke erupted from his back, slowly taking form into a horrendous creature with red horns, purple skin, white hair and the most vicious set of teeth, it started muttering unintelligibly wraping its left arm with prayer beads, and restrained by its hair was Minato's soul..
"After I perform the shiki fujin, I'll seal yours and my chakra inside Naruto, that way, we can help him when he needs us."
"ME! THE GREAT KYUBI SEALED INTO A CHILD? I WILL NOT ALLOW THIS!" the kyubi roared and summoned all its strength, raising his claw, and driving it towards the sealing circle where Naruto was placed.
Minato rushed towards Naruto and stood between him and the Kyubi, the Kyubi's claw stopped abruptly a few inches away from Naruto, blood dripping on his chest, Naruto woke up and started crying.
'How?' Minato thought, 'a single adult body is not capable of stopping it.'
He got his answer as he saw Kushina standing before him.
"Kushina-chan, why?" Minato managed, blood dripping from his mouth, "It's a father's duty to protect their child, he needs you, Naruto needs his mother!"
"Baka-Minato" Kushina wheezed out, her eyes tired, "You can't stop me from doing what I want to do, you should know that by now"
Minato smiled before performing the final step of the shiki fujin, the kyubi's size reduced by half.
"This is the first time I've lost an argument to you, so this better work out dattebane." Kushina said, smiling weakly.
"Thank you, Kushina-chan, kuchiyose no jutsu" Minato said while taking a bit of blood from his mouth and summoning gerotora, the contract holder,
"What do you wan… THE KYUBI!" gerotora exclaimed in surprise, "Gerotora-san, I'm going to give you the seal to Kyubi's chakra, take it to Jiraya-sensei" Minato said, tossing a huge scroll that he had removed from the storage seal in his hand.
"Understood!" the toad said, wrapping itself around the scroll, disappearing in a poof of smoke.
The Shinigami immediately took out its Knife and licked it with its long tongue.
"Kushina-chan, I don't have much time left, so if you want to say something to Naruto, now's the time" Minato said, noticing the Shinigami.
Kushina nodded and turned to Naruto, "Naru-chan, don't be a picky eater, eat lots so that you and grow big, take a bath everyday and stay warm, and Don't stay up late at night, you'll need your sleep." Kushina took a deep breath before continuing, "Make friends, just a few that you can really trust, I'm no one to talk, but everyone has their own strengths and weaknesses, so don't feel down, if you're not good at something."
"Oh, and don't forget the three shinobi vices, make sure to save the money you earn from missions. Don't drink alcohol until you're twenty, too much is bad for your health." Kushina stopped for a while, a look of sadness crossing her face.
"Another prohibition is women, I'm a woman myself, so I don't know much about it, but it's okay if you become interested in a woman, but don't get hooked up on bad ones, if you can, get one just like me dattebane."
"Speaking of vices, watch out for ero-sensei, dattebane, don't pick up his bad habits alright?"
"Naruto you will face a lot of pain and suffering in your life, but believe in yourself and believe that your dreams will come true!"
Kushina shed her tears and started crying, "there's many, many, many, more things that I want to share with you, I wish I could stay longer! I love you."
Minato smiled sadly at the scene as Kushina wiped her tears, "Naruto, my advice for you as your father is that no matter what comes in your way, never bloody give up, keep moving on, and also, listen to the words of your nagging mother."
Minato then quickly went into the tori seal, "Hakke no fuin shiki!" minato shouted as the Kyubi immediately disappeared, roaring and its chakra moved towards Naruto, a spiral seal appearing on his stomach as he started crying in pain.
The shinigami plunged his Knife into Minato's soul as he took it inside him, killing Minato, who fell down with a smile on his face, looking at Naruto.
The barrier collapsed, and the Sandaime rushed in, and went to pick up Naruto.
"Yondaime-sama!" one of the jonin who was with him screamed, kneeling beside his limp body.
"Kushina!" Hiruzen asked, moving towards the red haired woman.
"Hiruzen-san…" Kushina began, coughing out blood, "…take care of Naruto…we named him after Jiraya-sensei's character, promise me that you'll make sure that he's safe."She croaked out, her throat dry.
"I promise Kushina, I promise that I'll take care of Naruto like he is my grandson! That's why, for his sake, you need to stop talking." Hiruzen said looking at the Uzumaki.
"thank you…" Kushina said smiling as she went limp.
"Kushina…Kushina!" Hiruzen called, registering her pulse, she was already gone.
'I've failed you twice old friend, first when I failed to aid you, and now when I failed to aid your daughter, I promise, I promise that I will not let anything happen to your grandson!' Hiruzen thought to himself as he saw the crying child, crying as if he knew that his mother was dead.
"It's alright Naruto-kun, don't worry, I won't let anything happen to you." The Sandaime Hokage, the Kami no shinobi said in a grandfatherly voice, as the child with the whisker marks seemingly understood and looked at him with his deep blue eyes.
Foot notes:
-I know that the destruction of the Kannabi bridge happens during the first time Rin gets kidnapped, but this is important to my story.
-I apologize for the unintended click bait in the summary, it was meant to imply that an additional feature is included into the seal.