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"We have to hold it off until Yondaime gets here!!" One of the many Jonin screamed while his comrades fought their hardest to stave off the utter destruction that the Kyuubi wrote wherever his tails swept.

But despite the happenings on the battlefield, Yondaime wasn't anywhere near the battle. He was in a delivery room, pacing back and forth feverishly while in the company of his Sensei and the previous Hokage. "Minato-san…" The Hokage heard behind him, the voice was distinctly that of Sandaime. Turning to face the man a frantic look could be seen in his eyes, a look that spoke volumes on the plans he was running through his head about dealing with the Kyuubi. "There is another way…let me do it. I will gladly give my life to save this village!"

With a sigh, Minato put a hand on the shorter man's shoulder. "No…it is not your responsibility anymore Sandaime-sama. This is my burden to bear and I will do it gladly as well. You will be needed to lead our people once I am gone."

There was truth in what he spoke and Sarutobi couldn't deny that, but the thought of loosing the most powerful Shinobi to ever be born in Konoha was a thought that he did not wish to think. The two continued their speeches with each other for a while, but the Sannin along with them was unusually quiet at that moment, his own mind swimming with possibilities. It was at that moment that the doctor burst through the doors in a panic. "Hokage-sama!!" Everyone's attention was instantly directed at the man, who felt rather odd having the three most powerful people in the village hang on his every word. "It's a boy!" He proclaimed, but after seeing the joyous leaping and hollering coming from his Hokage he didn't know if he could tell the rest of the news. "But…" Minato instantly stopped and looked at him wide eyed in fear, there as only one thing that could come out of the doctor's mouth and it wasn't something he wanted to hear. "Kushina-san…she didn't make it…after looking at her son, she lost all strength and died after saying the word Naruto…"

In a bright flash of yellow light the Hokage was gone. "Minato!" Jiraiya yelled as he shot through the door, coming to the other side he frowned in sadness as he saw his student and best friend weeping on the cold corpse of his wife and mother to his child.

"KUSHINA-CHAN!!! NOOO!!" He screamed to the heavens, the brightest star in his sky had been darkened forever. "Don't leave me all alone! You were supposed to be here…you were supposed to raise him…you were supposed to love him…" He was breaking down and fast.

Seeing this Jiraiya turned quickly and took the infant out of the hands of the nurse. Walking over he put a supporting hand on Minato's shoulder. "You're son needs you now…Naruto needs you to be strong."

Looking up with eyes so red that you would think they belonged to a weak little child, not the Hokage; Minato was returned with a stern and firm look from his Sensei. "Naruto…my son." Picking him up he looked down onto a face that was almost a carbon copy of his. A saddened gaze crossed Minato's face as he realized what must be done. "I'm sorry Naruto…you'll never know your mother…or your father…"

"Wrong." Whipping his head around Minato was met with a serious looking Jiraiya standing at his side. "You raise that boy right…I had planned on training him one day…but oh well you'll be better than me anyway." Minato then suddenly collapsed from the hard chop to the back of his neck. With the Hokage unconscious at his feet, the Sannin turned solemnly to face his own Sensei. "Look after those two sensei…especially Minato…he won't understand yet." Then in a puff of smoke he was gone.

"WHEN IS YONDAIME-SAMA GETTING HERE!?!" A Chunin screamed in pain as he looked upon the decapitated torso of his best friend.

Just as he had screamed this there was a rumbling and a feeling of a massive amount of chakra being used. "Kuchiyose no jutsu!!" Suddenly the battlefield was engulfed in smoke, once the vicious winds from the assault blew them away the form of the gigantic Toad boss Gamabunta could be seen with a person riding atop his head.

"Hokage-sama!!" The Shinobi cheered as they waited to be saved by their glorious leader. That was until one of the ones closer to the Toad looked more closely and saw that it wasn't their blond haired Hokage, but the white haired Sannin. "No! It's Jiraiya-sama!!"

In an instant the cheers were shifted to yell the name of Jiraiya, this didn't go without notice. The Kyuubi had noticed the arrival of the Toad and was now laughing to himself at the lack of the village's Leader. "The Namikaze is too afraid to fight me himself? So be it! I'll tear everyone I see limb from limb until he shows up!!"

With a feral roar he shot off towards Jiraiya who to the Fox's surprise was holding a newborn in his arms as he gathered a huge amount of chakra. The Kyuubi was suddenly blinded by a bright blue light that seemed to explode from Jiraiya as he screamed and held the infant out before him, as the Kyuubi felt like he was being pulled into the baby. "Shiki Fūjin!!!" Jiraiya yelled as the last ounce of the Kyuubi was sucked into the boy in his arms. Collapsing to the ground his hacked up a large amount of blood, but with the last remaining strength he had he picked Naruto up and placed him on his chest. Looking down he saw that there were three cuts on either cheek, a wound Jiraiya was sure would scar. "I'm sorry Naruto…with your father alive you'll be raised right and might stand a chance not being hated for what's inside you. You'll never know me…" With a big cough that sprayed blood all over Gamabunta's head. "But I'll be watching over you…like the grandfather you never had…" With that, the Shinigami consumed his soul and the laughter of Jiraiya was lost to the world forever.

It was almost at that exact moment that Minato's eyes opened. After realizing what had happened he whirled around to look frantically at Sandaime, who had tears running down his face. "He…He didn't…" It was also then that he realized that he couldn't feel Jiraiya's chakra presence anywhere and that it seemed that the Kyuubi's ominous chakra was gone. "HE DIDN'T!!" In a bright flash of light he was gone.

Locating the kunai marker that Jiraiya had on him at all times, Minato instantly appeared next to the Sannin's corpse. Seeing the flash of light, all the Shinobi knew that their Hokage had finally arrived. Trembling, Minato fell to his knees, his hands holding onto his head amidst his panic. "NOOOOO!!!" He screamed out, but this was soon interrupted by the wailing of a baby. "…Naruto…"

"He sacrificed himself to save this village and ensure that the kid would have a family." Gamabunta said to the Hokage. "He died honorably…and you should be proud of him. He died a true Shinobi…but he's not the only hero. That kid should be regarded as an even bigger hero than Jiraiya…because he will have the burden of containing the Kyuubi all his life!" Everyone on the battlefield heard his words and was shocked to hear that Jiraiya had died, and even more shocked to hear that the Kyuubi was trapped inside a child.

The sound of someone arriving via Shunshin no Jutsu pulled Minato away from what the massive Toad was saying. "It was for the best…" Sandaime said as he looked down at the face of his now dead student. Even in death he wore a bright smile; somehow Sandaime felt that this is what Jiraiya really wanted. Minato just looked at the aged ex-Hokage like he was crazy. "He did all of this for Naruto…just think about it Minato-san. The boy will have enough problems because of the Kyuubi; it would be unbearable if he had no family. As soon as he heard about Kushina-chan I'm sure that he planned to do this."

Standing up and whipping his tears away he gazed hard at the night sky. In one day two of the brightest stars in his world had been extinguished. But then is gaze fell down to his son and he smiled, he realized that they both had died for him, and to honor their memories he would be the best father he could possibly be. It would be what Kushina and Jiraiya would have wanted, not constant mourning and depression. With his smile widening he leaned down and held his son close to his chest, but he couldn't help but feel the pains of guilt, regret, and remorse creep into his heart.

"I'll take is body back to the village…he'll get a hero's funeral." Hoisting Jiraiya's lifeless body over his shoulder he vanished in a puff of smoke.

"Bunta…we don't need you anymore." Minato said and with a nod from the toad and a gigantic explosion of smoke he was gone, leaving the Hokage on the ground with his son in his arms.

Taking his long white tunic like jacket off he wrapped Naruto tightly in it. It was also then that the surviving Shinobi began to gather around their leader. "Everyone…I present to you your savior." With a smile he held out Naruto for everyone to see. "His name is Namikaze Naruto…my son." A more solemn look over took his face after saying that. "Unfortunately Jiraiya-sama was lost in the fight to seal the Kyuubi…the funeral for him as well as all of the brave Shinobi who lost their lives today will be held tomorrow."

Murmurs started to be heard throughout the group once Minato's speech was done. "But if the Kyuubi is inside Naruto isn't he just the Kyuubi." "He's just a demon brat." "We should kill him to ensure the Kyuubi doesn't break free one day!"

The murmurs were getting louder and more negative by the second. "THAT'S ENOUGH!!" He yelled in a commanding voice that made everyone present fear for their lives. "Speaking such things about my son is the same as going against the Hokage, and the penalty for such treason is…death! The truth of the sealing of Kyuubi is now officially an S-class Village secret! Anyone who speaks of it, especially to anyone who does not know the truth…will be killed by my hands!" His glare made every person who had spoken out against Naruto quiver in fear, the look coming from Minato was one that said what he had said was the truth. "Now everyone go home to your families…this war is over." In a flash of yellow he was gone, leaving many to lock their lips concerning Naruto forever, yet many still held resentment for the infant.

But among everyone that was there only one had a grin on his face, and only one was chuckling softly to himself quietly. "This is going to be interesting indeed…" He said as the moonlight reflected off his pale white skin and illuminated his yellow snake like eyes.

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That does it for chapter one. With Jiraiya gone, how will the others in Konoha cope? How will Minato deal with the loss of two of his loved ones in one day? And most importantly, what has Orochimaru grinning about?

Also just to let any reads know, this a joint fanfic written by RasenganRendan and cloudfightback. You can look up either of them through this one's profile!!

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