These are a collection of prologues on different Naruto stories that I may write, as of right now they are all one shots that are up for adoption.


I do not own Naruto


This is my Family

The smell of blood permeated his senses; all around him was death and destruction. The Kyūbi no Yōko just disappeared from before the city's eyes, which meant only one thing. Looking to his side he could see a young Chūnin, the kid barley looks old enough to actually have been one. The boy was looking up in the sky as blood rained down on his face. "Hey, you there." The boy looks at man. "Did you just see Minato-kun?" The boy looked at man like he had no idea of what he was talking about, it made him wonder if he had gotten so old that people no longer knew the name Jiraiya of the Sannin. "Never mind kid get out of here I sure there are a lot of civilians that could use your help, besides I see Hiruzen-sensei jumping that way." Again the kid looked at him with total befuddlement, damn this not only did the kid not know the name of his current Hokage he didn't know the name of the last one. "How the hell did you become a shinobi?" Jiraiya had asked before jumping away.

An old man was jumping through the forest with reckless regard, the Sannin could tell that he knew something. "Hey Old Man." Jiraiya had called out to Hiruzen Sarutobi, his old teacher and mentor. The aged man slowed down at the sound of his voice. "Where are you going, and where is my prized pupil. How did the Kyūbi break out, I thought we took precautions"

Hiruzen stopped when he knew his old charge was trying to catch up to him. "Jiraiya, where have you been, I could have used you on the front lines, and don't tell me that you can't sense that." Many would assume that because that he was an old man Hiruzen was weak, the truth was far from it. Even in his old age he still holds the title Kami no Shinobi.

"Stop you're mussing sensei, you know I not a sensor what is it that you feel." Yes even the great Toad Sage is lacking at some shinobi skills.

"Damn it Jiraiya, you should know what this it is, Minato, he is about to make a daft mistake." Rounding a bout of rough terrain Jiraiya could see a dome of yellow shinning deep in the forest, it was a sight he hadn't seen in many years. Every so often the glint of golden chains could be seen swirling around.

"Is that them over there? What are we waiting for, we should hurry." Hiruzen just shook his head at the younger man and continued back down his path. They dashed through the thick forest at break neck speeds. Wherever it is that Minato went was far from the village, they guess he planned on stalling the beast until the sealing team could prepare someone, little did they know that they were so wrong. "Hey sensei, do you know who is going to be the next container."

The old man sequenced as the maned man said that, he never like the ideal of jinchūrikis. Sadly he could never publicly say so, after all he was a previous Kage. "No I don't, but I highly doubt it will be Kushina again, I am surprised that she erected the barrier in the first place. By all laws of nature she should be dead." Jiraiya let out a small chuckle. "Is there something funny?"

"Yeah, it's the image of Kushina listening to anyone." After all this was the woman that got the nick name Hot-blooded Habanero in the Academy.

Hiruzen and Jiraiya skidded to a stop as they got to the edge of the barrier and what they saw made up believe in Death. Both Minato and Kushina was holding back the Kyūbi's nail as it pierced threw their stomachs, in front of them was an altar that had a baby in it. "Sensei, Lord Third what took y'all so long, you're missing out on the party." Jiraiya's prized pupil and the man known as the Fourth Hokage was coughing up blood as he was trying to make a joke. "I'm sorry sensei I can't be there for Naruto so I have to ask…" he stopped to expunge more blood. Jiraiya couldn't comprehend what he was saying his vision was getting blurry from tears. "can you take care of him in my stead."

"Stop that nonsense, we'll have you all patched up before the new day." Jiraiya knew he was dying, it just wasn't right for a student to die before his teacher. "You'll see little Naruto will grow up in a loving family with a mom and dad." Tears were running down his face, what he said was the dream that he had for the life of his student.

Minato smiled back at him, he knew that he was trying to comfort him. More blood seeped out the side of his mouth. "Sensei…thank you… forever thing." For a second it seemed as if he pasted out. "I know I'm dying, so please take care of Naruto for me." He turned his eyes to the elder Kage. "Hiruzen-sama, I'm sorry about Biwako I tried to save her, but I was too late. Please make sure Naruto is loved by the people. And if I may have one more request." The old man nodded. "Watch out for Kakashi for me, he was so fragile after Obito and Rin's death. I am afraid that if he shuts down this time there will be no light for him."

The elder man nodded slowly in response to him, he was filled with sorrow and regret right now. But as an experienced shinobi he would keep any promise that he made to a dying man. "Minato, on behalf of Konoha I would like to say thank you." Minato gave him a blood filled smile and finished the sealing of the Kyūbi no Yōko, the chains that blocked them disappeared showing that Kushina's will also dimed at the same time as his.

Jiraiya fell to the floor breaking down in tears, now that Minato died all of his students have parted form this world to the next. Jiraiya had lost all hope, on the ground he opened his lungs and yelled at the world. As he did several squads of ANBU appeared next to them. One of the ANBU as considerably shorter than the rest saw the sight and tore of his mask showing a spinning red wheel. The pint-sized soldier dashed towards the two bodies lying on the floor on to be intercepted by Hiruzen himself, he wrapped himself around the ANBU member as silver hairs scratched his face. The boy size killer started to cry into the elder man's chest.

Lifting his head from the boy Hiruzen spoke up. "Team De, grab the bodies of Minato and Kushina Namikaze. Meet me at the Council room in one hour." The assigned ANBU squad took the bodies and disappeared into the winds. "The rest of you are dismissed." Kakashi released from him and was about to disappear when Hiruzen grabbed is arm. "Kakashi follow me." The kid wordless turned around and followed the old man as he went over to a alter that held a crib in it. "Jiraiya!"

Jiraiya was still on the floor as his sensei took control of the situation. He didn't want to be bothered by any of this, if he got word while he was out of the village he probably wouldn't return. He faintly heard that his sensei was giving out orders but he didn't pay attention to what he was saying. Only when he heard his name being called he looked up to see the misty eyed teen. "Kakashi, what are you doing here." He walked up to the kid to see something in his arms, Naruto, he had forgotten all about the baby boy.

Kakashi had so many high hopes for the day. Recently he had a much more positive outlook on life; after Rin died he thought that life would be over for him. But that was years ago, and now he had a relaxed job as his sensei's bodyguard. When he heard that Kushina went into labor today he had wanted to be in the delivering room with them, he had promise them that he would look after Naruto as his little brother when Minato-sensei told him the news. So he was a little upset that they said that he was too young to see birth, after all he had kill plenty of people. How bad could birth be? So it was shocking to him when he saw the Kyūbi released in the middle of the village. Finally the beast was subdued, by his sensei no less; he followed a group of ANBU that was traveling to the woods. There he saw that his sensei had died and he realized that everyone close to him dies. First his mother at birth, his father by suicide, Obito by boulders, Rin by his very own hands, and now his sensei by the monster that his wife held. Now he was holding his sensei's baby in his hands, he felt that just by touching him he sentenced the baby to an early death. He had wanted to hand him back the Third Hokage but the man refused and made him hold him while he got Jiraiya.

Hiruzen was a sad man; he had seen too much death in his too long lifetime. The way he figured a shinobi life should be was die young and live long. Meaning do everything you can before you died, the sad thing was that he did everything and he was still alive. He lived long a long and happy life, he married the love of his life Biwako and he had two wonderful sons. He was the team leader of the most renown ninja known as the Sannin, hell he even lived long enough for to see some of those people hate him. He had hope that he would be able to retire once Minato became the Hokage, but it doesn't look like that is an option anymore. "Boar, Rhino." The two masked ANBU agents appeared next to him. Gather the Council tell them to be Council room in forty-five minutes." The masked member floated away in the winds. The old man looked at the last two people in his presence. "You two follow me."

The grey-haired trio made their way out of the woods, they walked because of Naruto. As the made their way through the streets of Konoha, no citizen meet their eyes, no one was in the mood for formalities today. Today would forever be marked in their hearts that ruined there peaceful life. By the time the trio made their way through the city and into the Hokage tower there was exactly five minutes to spare. Hiruzen told his two companions to wait in his quarters until he called upon them. The old man made his way into the room that he would that he would have to explain all he saw to. The room was a large place made of wood it was created by the First Hokage himself, the First had originally designed to room to be a meeting place between dignitaries. The Second Hokage changed it into Council made up of all shinobi clans, than himself, the Third Hokage, official added the civilian side to the council. Recently Minato added seals on the walls that neglected any type of chakra to be released in the room. This room he fought many battles in, some were even physical. As he stepped into the room he saw the one person he wished was not there. "Ah, Danzō, is there a reason you are standing in front of the door."

The other man just stared back at him, via his one good eye. Danzō as a battle harden shinobi that ate his demons for breakfast. The Kyūbi appearing, like it did was just an early dinner for him. He grabbed his cane with his one good arm and pointed at the Hokage's seat. "I was just waiting for Minato-kun, I was being a good citizen and making sure no one sat in his seat."

Danzō had always pissed him off, ever since they were children it seemed he was one step in front of him. Even under his nose while he was Hokage Danzō manage to somehow create a secret ANBU. The man always a quench for power, well he wasn't going to let him scheme his way thought this. "Sadly, Minato-kun died in the sealing of the Kyūbi, but before he passed on he said that he wanted me to be reinstated as the Hokage." This made him wonder if there was any of the ROOT implanted in the teams that arrived after him.

Danzō turned around and sat in the seat reserved for the Shimura dignitary, once he was seated firmly he spoke up again. "Then I can assume that you have some type of writing confession stating that he did just so?" Under his calm demeanor the man known as Shinobi no Yami was fuming, once again he had his plains to rule Konoha ripped from underneath him.

Hiruzen gave him a small snide smile in return. "No he didn't, there was no time for it with him drawing is last breaths. If it pleases you, you can have Inoichi read my mind in order to ease yours."

The man in return gave him a polite smile. "No that will not be necessary Hokage-sama." Danzō knew that Hiruzen had the Yamanaka in his back pockets. Inoichi also had a grudge against him for procuring Fū from his clan, and would eagerly lie if it meant getting back at him anyway he could.

The newly reinstated Hokage smiled, things for once with that man went according to plan. He sat in the seat reserved for the Hokage while the rest of the table went quite. "Now that's finished we can continue with the real agenda that I called you all here for. As you may know the Kyūbi was released from Kushina Namikaze approximately four hours ago. We do not know the reason that it appeared in the middle of the city instead at the birthing site. We can only assume that there was foul play involved here. Inoichi I understand that you are in charge of the border defense did your team pick up on foreign or unknown entities on the radar."

The man in question stood up. He was tall at a height of five eleven, he wore the standard garb of a Jōnin over it was a sleeveless red haori, and like many Yamanaka males he had his long hair tied into a pony tail in the back of his head. As he stood he rubbed the back of his head in a tired manner. "Actually, minutes before the attack we picked up on a foreign chakra signature near the location that Kushina was supposed to give birth. It keep popping up at random locations that we thought the system was malfunctioning."

Danzō glared at him. "And you didn't think that a foreign chakra signature appearing near our jinchūriki's birth site was important." He turned his face towards Hiruzen. "Clearly Hokage your shinobi needs better training, as the Academy is not putting out anything competent."

Inoichi rushed out of his seat pushing it back, his fist was curled into a tight ball. A hefty man next to him who wore samurai like outfit, and had a head full of spiky short red hair, placed a gentle and on his shoulder. The man returned to his calm-like demeanor. "The reason that we didn't report anything was because the signature appeared out of nowhere and had no concernable destination, and had no point of entry it just appeared on the radar." He straightened his haori and sat back down.

Hiruzen sighed and nodded at him. "Thank-you for your report, next time there is an incident like that please inform me right away. Now that that is settled who would like to go first about damage reports." No one spoke up and the wizened old man looked towards the man that sat next to the Akimichi, he was man of normal stature in just about everything besides his face that had two scars on his right side. "Maybe Shikaku you would like to go first, you always have lovely stories."

The man that he pointed out was of the Nara clan if they were known for anything it would have been their laziness, so when Hiruzen pointed him out all he could do was give out a long sigh. "How troublesome." With that he told the Hokage and Council of damage reports and losses. Which dove the room into another long conversation that continued for thirty minutes. After about two hours of longer heated debates the meeting was coming to an end and just about everything was discussed.

That night everyone in the room aged by a couple years after the telling of what damage the Bijū cost. Everyone had almost forgo the thought of even bring up the ideal of finding out what happened to the Kyūbi, but sadly Hiruzen knew that he had to bring it up. He motion to some ANBU to bring in Jiraiya and Kakashi. "Lastly, we have one more agenda to attend to tonight, the sealing of the Kyūbi."

At this Danzō raised his ears up in interest. "Ah yes the Kyūbi, what poor soul did Minato seal the Bijū into." As soon as he said that the doors open and Jiraiya walked through the doors, and Danzō gasped. "Jiraiya of the Sannin has the Kyūbi sealed into him?"

Everyone in the room turned and looked at the man in question with different gazes. "Sensei, what the hell did you tell them?" The accused man question his teacher, stepping from behind him Kakashi stepped out still clinging onto Naruto.

The Hokage tiredly shook his head at his former teammate. "No Danzō Jiraiya is not the jinchūriki, the jinchūriki is no other than the Yondaime's son Naruto." The room was stunned in silence, for a baby to hold such a burden is a shame.

At times like this Danzō hated his job, but he already knew that most of the Council hated him so this would make no difference. "Are we sure the seal will hold it, after all he is just a baby."

Jiraiya gave him a death glare in return. "How dare you Danzō, Minato the seal master of Konoha put this seal on him himself, or did you doubt your previous Hokage's power?" Jiraiya had no time for manipulations, he had been sitting in the Hokage's quarters for hours getting impatient.

Danzō gritted his teeth. "No I do not Jiraiya-san but it is most imperative that we make sure of this, we don't want the baby to accidently release the seal no do we." Placing his cane on the ground for support we raised up and walked over to the meeting's guest. "I will look myself, I am not too shabby at fūinjutsu myself."

Kakashi quivered in his feet as the old man approached him, he had heard many stories about Shinobi no Yami and how he like to dig deep roots. Once again the boy pulled up the headband covering his eye to let his Sharingan display that night. He wasn't going to let the man do any harm to his new otōto, but his surprise for the first time since getting the eye implanted into himself it went blank.

He looked up as Danzō walked towards him, and his eyes widen as he saw the man laugh. "Hiruzen it seems that I was a little presumptuous, it looks like you do have one competent shinobi produced from that academy of ours. Alas boy you do not have to worry because like you I cannot use any chakra in this room. All I am merely doing is looking at the seal to see if with will hold." He lifted the baby's shirt and marvel at the seal that was place on his stomach, the seal was itself a testament to the greatness it took to become a Kage, regrettable his rose his voice up to vertebrate in the room. "The seal is passable, if only barely."

Jiraiya gritted his teeth and said something about old crazy men. Hiruzen he knew Danzō just had to get his finally words in no matter how petty they were. "Thank you for offering yourself to check the seal for me, because I am so incapable of doing it myself." Hiruzen tried to be as snide as possible when he said that. "Now that we have discussed the legitimacy of the seal could we please continue?" The ageing Professor smile when he received no rebuttals. "The subject I would like to discuss is the boy's life, more precisely how we will have it."

Danzō rose once again, to Hiruzen's nerve. "I will take the boy, as the jinchūriki he needs the best training that can be giving. I also suggest that make the boy's linage and occupation known to all the nations, no one will dear try to attack with the Minato's child as the jinchūriki."

Hiruzen slowly raised his hand up to prevent the man from talking anymore. "Danzō, I know that you have the village best interest in heart, but I cannot disagree with you more. Minato-kun asked me personally before he died to look out for his child's best interest, and I highly doubt the entire village knowing his situation will help him in any way. Let alone letting the whole world know, they will be after him for every day that he breaths. Therefor I motion the council to let Jiraiya of the Sannin and Kakashi of the Sharingan be placed as the child's guardians."

At that statement not only was the entire room in shock so was the two in question. If they were able to breathe they both would probably faint. Between the pair Jiraiya had the most experience and was able to recover first. "Excuse me sensei, but I don't see how that's possible. I'm your spymaster and I have to be on constant move I can't stay, and Kakashi is in the ANBU that isn't exactly the most stable line of work."

All along Hiruzen nodded expertly, as if he knew Jiraiya would say those exact words. "My dear boy, which is the precise reason I choose the two of you to do this job. Whilst one of you are away the other will stay here with the boy. Between the two of you, you make for than enough to take care of the child. And let us not forget you are the child's rightful Godfather and Kakashi…"

The small fragile teen looked up from the baby's face for the first time since being told of his new guardianship. His mind was in total upheaval, he was in no position to take care of a child he just finally got his own mind out of the preverbal sewers. "I am sorry Lord Third what did you say." He was glade he was able to say that much, there were so many important members of the village in the room he had no business in.

The Old Man gave him a gentle smile that showed none thing of the death he knew. "Kakashi, I said you are also the student of Minato, Danzō himself just praised your abilities. If Naruto cannot live with you two than who. You both are the closest he has to blood family now, so I would appreciate if you watched over the baby." For the first time in many years his tear-ducts broke open to let steady streams fall from his face.

Danzō raised from his spot. "This is ridiculous how you expect a traveling shinobi and a teenage boy to raise our jinchūriki." He would be damned if he let Hiruzen win yet another battle against him today.

Hiruzen scoffed at this. "The same way you a retired shinobi would teach him. Let us not be fool by their appearance Jiraiya is one of the best shinobi in all of the Elemental Nations, and little Kakashi here is on his way to be stronger than his father, Hatake Sakumo, who was said to be stronger than my own students the Sannin. Let us not forget that he is indeed the legend of Konoha's White Fang, and by living in the same home as Jiraiya I couldn't perceive how far his skills could grow." The smirk on his face told everyone there that his was right and he knew it, it would be foolish not to have them raise the boy. Now all he had to convince was Jiraiya and Kakashi.

Rage was seething from Danzō's pores no matter what he would say tonight Hiruzen would be ahead of him, twisting his worlds into poetry for himself. "What now we won't even disclose that we have a jinchūriki to the rest of the world, they will think we are weak. They will strike as fast as they struck Uzushio, and Suna will abandon us. Hiruzen I believe your old age is clouding your judgment." There was a quite murmur of agreement in the room.

Through some obscure means Hiruzen released an unbearable amount of chakra in Danzō's direction that made him grip the table to stay up, Naruto started to cry just from being in the room. "Damned what the rest of the world thinks Danzō I made a promise to Minato on his death bed to watch his child, and letting the village see as a demon because of his tenant will don't do." He then shifted his gaze at the rest of the occupants of in the room. "And shame on the rest of you, have you all forgotten that I and I alone hold the title Shinobi no Kami." He released the pressure that he put out, and Kakashi was soothing little Naruto. The Third Hokage sat once again in his seat with a calm demeanor like nothing just happened.

Danzō wiped perpetrating sweat off of his forehead. "Hiruzen that was quite the valiant display of power, but it does not solve my question. What will we do when the other Nations caught on that our previous jinchūriki is dead? Will we just say the Shinobi no Kami says we don't need one." He was glaring daggers into his eyes.

Hiruzen sighed. "No, we will tell them Jiraiya holds it." At that the man in question choked on whatever air he had left in his lungs, many there gather looked at him with curious gazes. "You can thank Danzō for the ideal, or was I the only one to see his face once Danzō thought my student to actually be it. Imagine what our enemies would think, not even Orochimaru would try to do something with his former teammate holding the Kyūbi." Hiruzen was giving this all he got, he may not have been able to save his wife that night but just maybe he would be able to save the boy. "Now since this is a matter regarding a jinchūriki as procedure the Council must vote on the choice that I the Hokage choose. One We place the boy under the tutelage of Jiraiya and Kakashi, and two We place the boy in a war orphanage. In both cases it is prohibited my law to tell him of his real condition, under the first option Jiraiya shall be called the jinchūriki for his own protection, and lastly under the second option he bears the name Uzumaki and is only shinobi of the level of advance Chūnin and over may know of his condition."

Someone in a grey three piece suit stood up, he was the Economic manger from the Civilian side. "Sir under Option A, what would his name be, will he be known as the Yondaime's son?"

Hiruzen squinted his eyes and pinched the bridge of his nose thinking. "No, in both cases it would be bad if Iwa, or Kumo found out that he was the son of Minato and Kushina. Once the child reaches Chūnin level I or Jiraiya or Kakashi can tell him of his tenant and parent. But not until then; when he is young and asked about his heritage we shall tell him he is a nameless orphanage, whose parents were kill by the Kyūbi during his birth." Hiruzen gave a long look at the civilians in the room, they may have looked uncomfortable talking about the situation but they would never betray him, after all he handpicked them for their positions. "So let's that it into vote shall we?"

All heads nodded and the ballets were passed out, they were simply there three choices: Option A, Option B, and Abstain. There was a total of thirty-three seats on the council sixteen of the seats were for shinobi clans, and sixteen of the seats were for the civilian side, the Hokage had his own special vote. Once the votes were collected they were passed straight away to the Hokage for there could be no tampering. The end result was five for abstain, twelve for option B and sixteen for option A. Hiruzen was pleased that the system worked out for him, now for the only thing left was Jiraiya and Kakashi to accepted after all it would be there lives that was affected.

In the whole time Jiraiya had been called into the meeting he barely spoke, after all he technically speaking had no right to speak. So he just stood and listen alike a good boy, it was extremely trying at times with his jubilant personality especially when they suggested that he will be the mock jinchūriki. Yet he played the role of the good little shinobi, after all he was nothing but a tool for the village. But now was different, they, all of the council, was looking at him expecting an answer that he didn't have. After all the brat was his students son, the last living part of him that he could hold onto, but was that even fair for the boy. He could never have a stable home with him as his guardian especially if he was named jinchūriki. Sure he could easily fight off anybody who came to him looking for a fight, he could just write off Sage mode as his bijū's power and not the toads. And even if Kakashi was around surly there would be times were he and Kakashi were both on mission who would watch over the tyke than. Not to mention that the kid was named after the only decent piece of literature he ever written.

Kakashi didn't know how much more he could take out of this day, damn it he was only thirteen did they really expect him to take care of a baby. And weren't they worried about his curse, no matter whom the person was they would die if he got too close to them, he had to be by himself. Isn't that the reason his sensei placed him in ANBU in the first place, the perfect occupation for a curse is to bring death in the shadows. Yet still he wanted to be there for the little boy, he told his sensei that Naruto would become his own otōto and he meant it. Now did that change because of Minato's death, did that relinquish him from some type of verbal contract. Then again they also said that Jiraiya-sama would also be there for him. The Legendary Sannin would be under the same room as him, they were right it would be a great opportunity for him, that way he could make sure no one close to him will ever die again. And he could train Naruto like Minato trained him, after all Minato-sensei was the closest thing he had to a parent his father killed himself. So wasn't the less he could do was act like a brother to his sensei's son.

The room was quite for a few minutes, nether of the men in question said a word. The rest of the council was staring at them in anticipation waiting for a response, after all if one said no than the deal was off. It was Hiruzen who finally broke the sentence, he cleared his throat with an expert level of thought interruption. Both of the guest look up into the old man's eyes neither telling what there soul truly desired. Gently Hiruzen grabbed two small identical pieces of paper and scribbled something on them. He handed each sheet to one of the two guys. Upon closer inspection it could be seen that he sheets were written two words, yes or no.