False Start

AverageOtaku0915

Alright, FFN! My name is ?. I'm not new to FF but i am new to the story making, Lol. As you know this is my first time so cut me some slack! For those that don't know, i plan on this being a somewhat alt universe with an original plot. For example, some people that died in canon will be alive or there might be something new here and there. Although, if you are a fan of mary/gary sues, you are in the wrong place. For i hate them with a passion! Literally….but anyways, some people may act differently while others may act the same...like i said this is an alt universe. But enough with all that! Let the story commence!

Disclaimer: I don't own anything that's already owned by someone

Prologue: The Beginning of the End

As the sun was setting, a small group of individuals sat around a table on the uzumaki/namikaze compound, which was recently moved a little ways outside of Konoha's walls. With the hokage being the clan head, noone would dare to try and attack them…..right? At the head of that table sat twin blondes, male and female, wearing party hats. Today they would be celebrating their 4th birthday. However, despite them being twins, they were nothing alike. The boy had spiky blonde hair while the girl had long flowing blonde hair. The boy appeared to be quite energetic and loud while the girl was calm and quiet. However, one thing that was the same about them was their sparkling, bright blue eyes that they got from their father.

"Kaaaaaa-saan, when's tou-san gonna get hereee?" the boy whined.

The boy's mother, Kushina Uzumaki smiled warmly at her son. Kushina had red flowing hair and grey eyes. It appeared that her kids didn't really get much from her other than the daughter looking like her and having long hair like her. "Now Naruto, you know that your father is a very busy man but you also know that he would never skip out on you guy's birthday. Right, Harumi?"

Harumi, the girl, gave her mother a small smile and a nod in agreement. Naruto however, wasn't pleased by that. "But he's already 4 hours late Kaa-san!?"

Kushina sweatdropped at her son. With a shake of her head, she thought, 'He doesn't even know how to tell time yet.'

While that was going on, three more individuals sat down near the end of the table. The first was a young man, Obito Uchiha. He had black, low spiky hair and eyes that were black as coal. That was basic eye color for any uchiha though. The second was a woman named Rin Nohara. She had straight brown hair and chocolate brown eyes. Last but not least, was a young man who seemed to be a few years younger than them but still bore the same jounin vest that they did. His name was Kakashi Hatake. He had white, gravity defying hair and wore a mask that covered majority of his face. "Ya know, Minato sensei is actually a bit late though huh?" Obito asked.

"Maybe he's a little caught up in some paperwork or something," Rin tried to defend her sensei in his absence.

Kakashi looked up from reading a certain smutty book and decided to give his input as well. "...or maybe he's somewhere lost on the road of life…."

"Or he's helping an old lady get back to her house, right? I'm pretty sure that that's only a you thing Kakashi," Obito deadpanned.

"Yeah, hehehe. Sorry Kakashi-kun, but i think that Obito-Kun is right about that one. That's specifically an excuse that only you can use." Kakashi shrugged his shoulders and went back to reading his book while Obito lightly blushed at how Rin agreed with him.

…..But seriously though, just where was he at though….

Hokage Mountain

Minato Namikaze was currently being held up by a man who was wearing a hooded black cloak and a plain black mask. If it was dark enough, it would look as if Minato was talking to a shadow. "Who are you and why are you in my village?" Minato asked.

The cloaked man answered, "You may called me god. As for why i'm here….i would simply like to test myself against the yellow flash."

Minato narrowed his eyes at this….god. 'This guy was calling himself "god" and by the feel of his chakra, he can back the name up.' He thought to himself. He wasn't going to take this man lightly. "Did you bring others with you?"

If the mask wasn't there, the fourth hokage would've seen the small but unnerving smile he was giving him. "Yes there is."

Minato was slightly taken back by the straightforward answer he was given, but "god" appeared to have more to say.

"However, have no fear. For they shall not interfere with us or your village, Hokage-sama.," he assured him.

Minato dropped into a stance as he pulled out his signature kunai. "I do not know what your true motives are, but i will not let you harm my village."

"god" didn't make any movements, but three unusually large birds poofed into existence and took up into the sky. Minato briefly watched the strange summons as they circled around them, as if they were observing them. "My summons will not do anything unless i tell them otherwise…..for now, all they are doing is being of some assistance to me."

Minato didn't say anything and threw his kunai past the cloaked man. The second the kunai passed by, Minato flashed out of existence and appeared in the air behind "god" with his previously airborne kunai in one hand and a rasengan being charged in the other. As Minato brought his rasengan down on "god" he yelled, "Rasen-" but suddenly stopped as his attack did not connect, but instead, begin to be absorbed. That wasn't all though. Once his rasengan was fully absorbed, not even second later was he being blown away by some strong force. By the time he had recovered, the cloaked man had turned around to face him and Minato immediately took note of the extremely pale purple glow where the eye holes of the mask was at.

A black steel rod, that seemed to emit chakra, slid from the sleeve of "god's" cloak into his hand. "I hope that isn't all that you have to offer, Yellow flash. If it is…..then this fight will be over quickly."

Uzumaki/Namikaze compound

Kakashi, Rin, and Obito stood with kunai and tanto (in kakashi's case) at the ready. Kushina stood behind them in front of her twins ready to protect them with her life. In front of all of them stood two unknown ninja. Both were wearing black cloaks with pitch black masks, making their gender unknown as well. Although, one did carry a decent sized sword on his back. They had just flown in out of nowhere on these strange bird summons. However, all they had done so far was stare at them in quiet.

"W-who are you people!?" Kakashi ordered.

One of the masked ninja took a step forward and gave a low chuckle that sounded like a man. "Woah...aren't you gonna' introduce yourselves first before we have to tell you all ours?" the man joked. However, he actually waited for them to introduce themselves, but none of them did so. "Alright then, so much for an first impression right Angel?"

The other masked ninja, whose name was apparently Angel responded to her ally. "Pein, this is not the time for your playful attitude. Despite us being more than capable of handling these ninja, we have a mission that must be accomplished."

Pein crossed his arms over his chest and sighed. "True enough...Besides, even though that guy is the fastest guy alive, god-sama's abilities will make there fight be a piece of cake."

The other five ninja immediately stiffened at what pein had just said. Obito's eyes instantly transformed into his three tomoe sharingan. "So you guys are the reason why Minato sensei is so late….and by what you're saying, you think that your leader will wipe the floor with our hokage?! That's a load of bull-!" Obito was about to launch himself at the masked ninja, but Kakashi quickly grabbed him to stop him from doing so. "Kakashi, what are you doing!?" Obito yelled.

Kakashi waited until he stopped resisting to release him. "I know that you're ready to pummel these guys into the ground and believe me, i am to. However, we still don't know what they're even here for."

Obito thought about it for a while and started to blush in embarrassment. "I guess you're right," he admitted. But Obito's fire was suddenly lit again as he focused his attention back on the two masked ninja. "What are you guys here for?!"

Pein lifted his hand and pointed his finger at the birthday twins.

Kushina instantly shifted her kids out of view and took on a defensive stance. "What do you want with my kids?"She defensively asked.

"well ….if you don't know now then i'm sure you're gonna know in a few years or so. But, just as a hint, our leader had been doing some research and lets just say….he found them."

Kushina asked rin to take the kids into the house and to stay there with them. "KAA-SAN!" they both cried. Kushina turned around and softly smiled at her children. "Don't worry sweetie, Mommy will be right there when she's done. But she has to beat up these bad guys first, okay." She kissed them both on the forehead and watched as the three of them went into the house. Then she turned around and gave them the look of an experienced warrior. "I don't know what you're expecting out of my kids, but i refuse to let you have them."

Pein scratched the back of his head through his hood." well, we only need one sooooo….we'll probably kill the other one."

That was the last straw for Kushina as she shot off to combat the enemy. However, before she couldn't even get close to Pein, she had to jump back to avoid a barrage of paper shuriken. She looked up from the deadly origami and saw that Angel was standing with her hand outstretched. "Kushina-san, you fight will be with me and even though you will fall, i assure you that the life of the "lucky" twin will not be taken. For he-" She pointed her finger at Pein. "-Doesn't have the heart" Pein was behind her mumbling something about a buzzkill but Angel paid him no mind.

"I can't say that i am not relieved by your assurance. However, that does not mean i will allow you to take either of my children," Kushina stated. Both ninjas then shunshined to another part of the compound where they would have their battle.

Pein vs. Kakashi & Obito

By now, Pein was over Angels buzzkill and was actually kind of excited about his handicapped match. " So i got an Uchiha and the White Fangs prodigal son, huh? It's been a few years since i helped kill Hanzo, but i still haven't fought anyone that lives up to his strength. Hopefully, you guys will be able to change that."

Kakashi and Obito were slightly disturbed by the fact that this guy had fought and killed Hanzo the Salamander. However, they couldn't afford to be scared or this would be their last time being scared of anything. "Obito. Let's not make any reckless moves. If what this guy said is true then he might be on another level."

"I know Kakashi. That's why i'll sit back and provide long range attacks with my fire style while you get up close and personal since you excel in hand to hand combat. If you get tired we can switch places and then you can charge up that final attack." Kakashi stared at Obito dumbfounded after actually giving such a good plan. "Hahaha! I'm not that dumb knucklehead that i used to be back in the day Kakashi" Obito gave him a smile full of confidence and wished him good luck before hopping off into the trees.

"Oh! So you guys formed a plan in hopes of beating me huh? I think your chances would've been greater if you both just rushed me."

Kakashi paid no mind to Pein and darted forward with his white light chakra sabre in hand. Once he got in close, he switched to a reverse grip and swiftly swung for Pein's neck. Pein leaned back just enough to avoid the tip, but Kakashi wasn't done yet. He got low to the ground and spun around with a kick that was aimed at Pein's head. Pein caught the offending foot by the heel but was surprised when he felt that same foot began to force his body downward. Using the momentum of Pein lowering himself, Kakashi brought himself up off the ground with his other foot flying towards Pein's head once again. Pein tried to bring his hand up to block, but was to slow as Kakashi's kick connected with his skull causing him to slide back a few yards while letting go of Kakashi's other foot at the same time. Pein tried to recover but wasn't given the chance to as he heard the cackling sound of fire coming from behind. He quickly ducked out of the way of the fireball, but was slightly singed at the bottom of his cloak. Pein once again tried to recover but wasn't given the chance to as Kakashi was already upon him, from above, in the swinging motion. Pein was then forced to pull his sword out to block Kakashi's swing. However, instead of a block, Kakashi was literally pushed back due to the size difference in body and blade. Pein quickly glanced back to make sure that there wasn't any jutsu on his tail before quickly confronting the recovering Kakashi. Pein quickly overpowered Kakashi and once again pushed him back. Pein wasted no time in following up and slammed the flat side of his sword into kakashi's stomach with tremendous force. Kakashi coughed up a bit of blood as Peins sword connected with his abdomen and was slightly bounced off the ground. However, Pein wasn't going to just let him fall back to the ground as he grabbed Kakashi by the face and slammed him headfirst back into the ground causing the crust of the earth to spiderweb crack. Pein removed his hand to see that Kakashi's forehead had started to bleed quite a bit from his last attack. 'He's clearly out of commision now' Pein thought to himself. 'Now where is….' Peins thoughts were cut short as he heard the approaching sound of footsteps coming from behind. He didn't have the time to turn around though as a foot had already connected with the middle of his back. He cried out in pain as he was sent flying away from the downed prodigy.

"O-Obi...to.."

Obito looked down at his old teammate and smiled that same confident smile from before. "Don't worry Kakashi. I'll handle this guy until you're ready to finish this."

"Wha..what about an op-"

"Don't worry about an opening. You'll know when it's there. For now, you gain back some strength. I'm going to need you to finish this, okay." Obito picked Kakashi up and went to set him up on a nearby tree. By that time, Pein was fully recovered and was patiently waiting for Obito to return to the battle.

"So , are you ready for part two of our battle," Obito asked.

Pein spat out a wad of spit and crossed his arms over his chest. "You guys are really proving to be a problem, hehe. But, you're far from the power of Hanzo. 'Even though Nagato took care of most of the work'"

"Heh. well you're still going down today" Obito quickly did a few hand signs before saying, "fire style: fireball jutsu!" A medium sized ball of fire left from Obito's mouth as it began to quickly home in on Pein.

Despite the burning ball of death headed his way, Pein didn't show any interest in actually dodging. "Well if you want a battle with jutsu….." Pein done a few hand signs of his own before yelling, "Wind style: Gale palm technique!" Pein had his arms horizontal to the ground on both sides before bringing them together with a clap. A large vacuum of wind pushed from his hand towards the fireball.

Obito watched with a smirk as the vacuum came into contact with the fireball, immediately causing it to grow in size and ferocity. 'Fire beats wind you teme'. However, Obito was quickly brought out of his thoughts as the fireball seemed to be heading back towards him. And Unfortunately, it was. Obito quickly tried to evade the fireball but the explosion was powerful and threw him off his feet and landing roughly on his right arm. He tried to push himself up, but felt a severe pain in his shoulder and upper arm. 'My arm's….dislocated' obito horridly thought. He wasn't able to think anymore though because Pein was standing over him.

"If your wind is stronger than the fire, not only will it intensify it….it also blow it away. hahahah. You guys were good, but you weren't nowhere near as strong as Hanzo." Pein slowly removed his sword from the strap on his back. "We have a plan to bring peace, but of course ones that oppose us will have to die. Unfortunately, you'll be the first of many. Now, you will know p-"

Pein was cut off as the sound of a thousand chirping birds was heard from behind. "Birds?" he wondered out loud.

Obito gave a weak smile, "heh those aren't birds...that's…"

Pein turned around and realization hit him hard as for fact, the electricity sparking around the hand of Kakashi Hatake, was not any birds. Pein tried bringing his sword around to block the death blow, but the prodigy was already to close in. Pein could feel the sparks jumping around him and before he knew it…"Raikiri!" Kakashi had plunged his hand in Pein's stomach and came out through his back. Pein looked down at his bleeding stomach in shock and coughed up a wad of blood. Kakashi removed his arm and allowed him to fall to the ground. However, before Pein could hit the ground, he barely got out the word, "boom". Obito nor Kakashi heard it, but Obito saw the build up of chakra with his sharingan. "Kakashi, move!" he warned. But that warning was drowned out by the sound of the explosion that greatly exceeded the fireball's from earlier. Obito's ears were ringing and his vision was clouded due to the smoke. He called out for Kakashi over and over again despite not being able to hear his own voice. Fortunately, his search for Kakashi was short lived as he could see his feet…...hovering? Obito followed Kakashi's feet upward and his eyes widened with fear as his heart dropped. Kakashi's hovering was due to being held by the man that just recently "blown himself up".

Pein looked down at Obito with no emotion at all. He once again removed the sword that was strapped to his back as Obito started to beg for him to spare his life. "I told you before.." Pein started. "We will bring peace to this world. Of course there will be those that oppose us….but we will dispose of the opposers. Just consider yourself lucky that you're not the first. Now, you will know pain."

Even without the sharingan, Obito was pretty sure that everything would still looks as if happening in slow motion. Pein brought his sword forward to skewer Kakashi's heart as he reached up with a hand that desperately wanted to save his friend, but he was to late. However, another hand reached forward with speed that even his sharingan could barely follow. That same hand redirected Peins arm into an upward motion, causing the sword to flow up instead of straight into Kakashi's heart. This caused Kakashi's Death to be due at a later date, but his right eye had to take the blow instead. Kakashi cried out in pain as his eye was destroyed, but another hand shot out carrying a significant kunai that quickly found its way into the heart of Pein. The light in Peins eyes immediatley left from the instant kill and his grip on Kakashi's neck loosened causing him to drop the, still screaming boy. Peins body fell to the ground with a heavy thud, kicking up some dirt as well. Obito stared him for a while before seeing the chakra in him slowly fade away. Once he ruled him dead, he turned around as quickly as possible to see who their saviour was and tears instantly began to build up in his eyes. Their saviour stood with Kakashi in his arms and he was slightly breathing heavy. He had a sad smile on his face and looked as if he was going to say something, but he was interrupted by the sound of a female crying out in pain. Both their heads shot towards the sound and gave a sigh of relief as they saw Kushina giving angel the knockout punch. Kushina had cuts all over her body and she was breathing heavily. Other than that though, she was fine. She heard someone call her name and her head snapped towards the source. When she laid eyes on the speaker, she quickly ran over and hugged him tightly, while still minding the boy in his hand. "Sorry i'm late guys." Minato stood with his wife hugging him around the waist and Kakashi still in his arms. Although, the boy had apparently fell unconscious. Minato scanned his surroundings and instantly took note that some people were missing. "Ku-chan, where are our kids and Rin" he panickedly asked.

Kushina let go of him and quickly rubbed her eyes of any tears. "They're all safe inside the house," she answered.

Minato softly placed Kakashi in her arms and began to sprint towards their house. "Good. once i get them, i will teleport us to Konoha." he glanced at the dead Pein and unconscious Angel. "Their leader has some type of power that i have never seen before. We have to get out of here before he returns." Minato quickly barged through the door and began to call out for Rin and his kids. After a few seconds they all came running to him from the 2nd floor of their house.

"Tou san!" Naruto came running first with Rin following close behind with a sleeping Harumi in her arms. Naruto hugged his father's leg and began to dry his tears with his pants leg. "Tou-san, i'm scared. Bad people came and tried to take me and Haru, but Kaa-san put us in here with Rin-oneechan. I heard loud exposins outside to tou-san...is kaa-san okay?"

Minato ruffled his sons hair and kissed him on the forehead. "I assure that everything okay, kiddo. Now c'mon we have to take a trip to Konoha so that no more bad guys can come." Naruto vigorously shook his head yes as his father grabbed Harumi from Rin.

They were barely out the door before Minato was blocking them from going any further. god stood blocking the path from them to proceed. Minato gave Harumi back to Rin and steeled himself for the 2nd part of their battle. God calmly put his hand out in front of him and Minato braced himself for something big. However, instead of a big attack, both Angel and Pein started to float towards him.

Rin pulled on minato sleeve to get his attention. "Minato sensei….how is he doing that?" she asked.

Minato didn't have an exact answer but he figured that it had to be a part of his attacks from when they fought earlier. "I really don't know Rin-chan, this wasn't part of anything that he showed me when we were fighting. However, he does have the ability to negate chakra and forcefully push us away."

While they were discussing god's abilities, naruto couldn't help but look in awe, despite god being the enemy. However, that awe suddenly turned to fright as he felt himself begin to drift towards him as well. "Tousan help me!" he yelled.

Minato looked down beside him as Naruto shot off towards god right before his eyes. Minato acted quickly and took out his three pronged kunai and threw it towards the man. However, god already experienced that kunai at work and quickly threw a steel rod at it to knock it off course. He saw Minato flash a good distance away and glanced behind him to see Kushina also making a mad dash for him. With a struggling Naruto in one hand, god stuck his other hand out in front of him. God glanced at Peins body on the ground as his eyes glowed with chakra. By now, Kushina was inches away and minato had already threw his kunai again. 'You all will know pain….' Minato had flashed into existence and was centimeters away from grabbing his son. Minato and god made eye contact before disaster happened. "Shinra Tensei!"

Days later, unknown location

"Nagato! By doing this you'll be limiting yourself. We already have the boy and you've sealed his memories so all we have to do is train him and get him to master that power that you're so sure he has."

For what was just said was right. Naruto currently laid, unconscious, on the floor and looked as if he was enjoying that spot. Nagato had recently placed a seal called, Memory Erasing Seal on Naruto causing him to have no memories of what had been happening the past few days or anything that had to do with Konoha. All he gave to replace that was that he had been an orphan for all 4 years of being on the earth and that he was originally from Ame instead of Konoha. He also added that they had found him in a near death state one day and had been taking care of him ever since. He also erased his name and decided that he would give him the name Menma whenever he woke up. He did allow him to keep his birth date though. In conclusion, when Nar-Menma wakes up, he'll basically have a clean slate. The only other major thing would be his appearance, but he wouldn't be stepping foot out of Amegakure any time soon. So by the time he was 13 he was sure that he would have something figured out.

"Konan. We do have the boy and i can see the dormant power that lies within him, but without Yahiko here this all would be for nothing. This journey to Peace will leave me empty if he isn't here to experience it with us!" Nagato yelled.

"But it won't even be the real Yahiko if you do this! He'll only be a shell that's being controlled by you! He'll basically still be dead!." Nagato's eyes widened at what she said and Konan put her hands over her mouth, shocked at what she had said herself. "Listen, Nagato-k-"

"Enough," Nagato interrupted. "This conversation is over. I'm going to the chamber to begin the technique. Remember, when he wakes up, he'll have memories of you being the big sister he never had. so , make sure you play your part right." with that, nagato was gone and out the door. She wanted to chase after him, but she had to be here for when Menma wakes up. And as if on cue, Menma, the new Naruto began to wake up from his spot on the floor.

Menma rubbed his bright blue eyes clear of eye boogers and gave a cute yawn. He looked around sleepily and almost immediately spotted the blue haired goddess. "Ko-chan!" the sleepiness that he had immediately left as he picked himself up off the ground and ran to give her a hug, which Konan accepted with open arms.

Konan smiled warmly at the little blonde that was currently snuggling in her stomach. She might have to play the part of being his "big sister", but she had a strange feeling that she could get use to this "little brother".

"Good Morning, Menma-kun."

A/N: Okaaaaaaaay! so, that was the prologue...lemme know what you guys think. i mean, don't like flame and stuff, but..ya know..constructive critism..i think it is lol. but yea, lets be cool okay T-T. it's my first story, but i promise that it'll only get better from here.