This something that i have been working on for a while. It was just a side project to get my creative juices flowing. Then i realized it was pretty good and i was like what the hell let me see what you all think. hope its good reception.
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Chapter one
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In the village of Konoha, everything was in ruin, fire and crushed building litter the area. Cries of pain and anguish could be heard all over the village. To make matters worst they had lost their leader in battle. The reason for all this despair was a huge nine-tailed demon fox or Kyuubi as they called it. In the mist of all this a cry was heard, but this cry was different it came of an innocent infant. This infant had just lost both his parents and had the terrible beast sealed in his stomach.
The Third had a difficult choice to make reveal the truth about the child and have him become a scapegoat for the grieving villagers. The Third wasn't a fool as he knew that was the child's fate as much as he wanted to trust them he knew the humans governed themselves with their emotions and at the moment that emotion was fear and hatred. "No, I will not let that fate befall on this innocent child." he said to himself as he cradled the child in his arm. "This child must be protected and must become strong because his fate has already been decided for him. He will become a ninja of the Leaf and I will make sure he is the best."
The Third walked over to his desk and pushed the intercom calling for his secretary. Moments later a woman of about twenty six walked into his office. "Mai-chan please send for Kakashi. Tell him he has fifteen minutes to get here or he will be doing D-rank mission for four years if he is late."
Soon after an ANBU ninja was in front of the Third. "Bear give me the report what is the damage."
The masked ninja quickly gave him his report. "Hokage-sama, the northern sector is in complete ruins, the Namikaze, Uzumaki, and Yamanaka estates are completely destroyed. Unfortunately the Namikaze and Uzumaki clan has been destroyed by the attack, almost 95 percent of the Yamanaka clan has perished. The only survivors are Inoich, his wife and new born daughter Ino, including about 50 or so of the branch family. The Uchiha and Hyuga compounds have sustain little to no damage and suffered minimal loss of life. The rest of the clans compounds are still intact. Little to no civilians lives have been lost. Unfortunately for the Haruno clan which is separated into two sides the merchants and the shinobi. They have lost all of the Shinobi of that clan and their kenjustu style has been lost. Only survivor is a new born female, Sakura, daughter to the head of the shinobi house." Bear reported and continued with his report on the rest of the village but the Hokage wasn't really playing attention has he was thinking about the fates of the two heir of the two most powerful clans in Konoha.
"What to do...........I know what to do with Naruto, but what to do with Sakura, Miko never liked the civilian side of his family. And that side are always hungry for more power. With the ninja house out of the way they can get the seat in the council and boost their influence by having two seats. If they find out that Sakura is from the ninja side they would want to kill her or brainwash her to become nothing but a puppet. I can't let that happen I guess she will have the same fate as Naruto. Luckily not all of the ninja house is dead I can send her to train with her aunt and maybe the art will not be lost. Yes this is the best course to take." The Hokage was brought out of his musings when Bear finished his report.
"And that is all Hokage-sama"
"Tell me Bear-san where is Sakura now?"
"She is at one of the safe house north of here, sir."
"The bring her to me at once, do not let the rest of her family know of her existence."the Hokage said as he lifted his hand.
"Sir." and with that he left to retrieve the child.
After waiting for a couple of minutes a man walked into the room. He was wearing a dog mask. "Ah Kakashi it nice to see you, and on time too." the hokage looked at the man before him and sighed at the responsibility he was about to put him under.
"Hokage-sama you called." the man said in a quiet almost rasping voice almost as he just finished crying.
"Yes Kakashi-kun, I called you because I have a mission for you. It will be a very long term mission." the Third said. "Before I continue I have something to tell you. As you well know Minato-kun and Kushina-chan were very close. Well the thing is that they were closer than you think married in fact." The Third saw Kakashi tense up at hearing that. "I know you feel betrayed in finding out like this but they needed their relationship to be a secret as you well know how 'popular' Minato was. Anyways they were married and expecting." at this revelation Kakashi almost passed out.
"Hokage-sama what happen to the child, don't tell me that he was killed." he said as he could feel his sadness grow.
"No the child survived, but unfortunately he had a burden placed on him which cause the life of his father and mother. All for the sake of a village that will hate him." the Hokage said as he looked at the floor and had tears rolling down his face.
Kakashi now had a new feeling in the pit of his stomach one of dread. "Hokage please tell me that sensei didn't do what I think he did."
The Hokage only looked at the crib that was holding the child. "Yes he did. Minato sealed the Kyuubi in his own child to save the village, but in doing so he cursed him to a life of pain and loneliness. This day three pure souls were sacrificed for the sake of the village. And one had no say in the matter."
Kakashi look over to where the Third was looking and saw the crib. The crib that was holding the only tie to his dead sensei, his father figure, and his mother type figure. His brother, a hero of the village the moment he was born. He walked over to the crib and looked inside. There he saw the blond haired boy sleeping. "He looks just like his father so I am assuming he will be just like his mother, Kami help us." he said with a small chuckle. "So what is my mission then."
"Your mission is as follows, you Kakashi are to take Naruto Uzumaki-Namikaze heir to both clans and sole survivor, along with Sakura Haruno heiress to the Shinobi clan of her family to a secret training facility. When you arrive you will be their guardian until they turn thirteen. During that time they will train in the shinobi arts. At the time they reach thirteen they will be placed in their teams. At that time they will return to the village and take over their clans, but they will need representatives to stand in for them in meeting and such but they will have have final say for their respected clans." The third said in a serious tone.
Kakashi looked at the Hokage and thought why did Sakura have to go with him "Hokage-sama I understand Naruto what about Sakura why am I taking her with us too. Didn't anyone from her family survive I mean what of the merchant side of the family wouldn't they be able to take care of her?"
"Normally yes, but that side of the family has become corrupt and power hungry. As you know that family is split in two, so they have two seats in the council. Now the ninja side has always been loyal to the other Ninja families in the village, but the civilian side has always tried to marry of their females into the more powerful ninja families to gain more influence. Now imagine what would happen if they find out that the heiress of the Ninja side survived. They would either kill her and plant a civilian member to pose as her or brainwash her and make her their puppet. I for one will not let that happen." Kakashi looked at the hokage and was about to ask about how he was going to keep the council off their backs. The Hokage saw this and quickly answered his question before he asked. "Now as for the council I will tell them that the heir and heiress are alive but are in hiding. I will not tell them however of the 'condition' Naruto has though, only you and me know of this. Their accounts will have a freeze on them so no one can have access to them. All properties they own will be handled by me and my most trusted."
As soon as the Hokage finished his speech the door was opened and the ANBU nin that gave the Hokage the report walked in with a small bundle in his arms. "Sir I brought the child as you ordered." The man said as he handed the baby over to the Hokage. "OK dismissed." the Hokage ordered and the nin bowed and left. The third walked over to the crib that held Naruto and place the girl in it. He turned around and walked back to his desk. "Now as I stated earlier this will be a long term mission as such you will be paid for a s-rank mission. Now the location will be at the SEED headquarters in the northern border of Fire country."
Kakashi was floored at what he just heard, SEED was special organization in which children that showed promise were sent to to receive the best training possible, unlike ROOT they still retained their emotions and personalities. Also when they are recruited they have the expressed permission of the family unlike ROOT which kidnaps them and fake their deaths. So that way when they are finished with their duties they can return to their families. SEED and ROOT have always hated each other because of their different views on how to protect the great tree of Konoha. SEED says that to protect the tree one must do what is needed to be done but not harm the innocent. ROOT views is do whatever is necessary to secure the tree if some sacrifices need to be made so be it.
The Hokages always ran SEED, and most of their ANBU came from the organization, ROOT is primarily ran by the Civilian council president, his name is Danzo, a once famous and respected ninja. He was once hero of Konoha in the first war but due to his injuries in the last battle he could never be a shinobi again. He was never the same again, the reason he sustained those injuries was because the love of his life was killed in battle and in his shock the enemy took advantage of it, since that day he came to the conclusion that for a ninja to be successful they must be devoid of emotion. So he used his fame and prestige to charm the civilian council into letting him create his ROOT organization. Since then he and the Third had aways been at each others throat.
It was another reason the Third did not want to let the heir and heiress be known until they were out of the village. He knew that Danzo would have the children kidnapped and put into ROOT where they would be molded into mindless drones loyal to him, and with the backing of three powerful noble clans he would have been unstoppable.
Kakashi could see the logic in the Thirds decision to send the children away from Konoha, he also knew of the dealings of Danzo and didn't want his 'brother' becoming nothing but a mindless drone. He walked over to the crib and looked inside. He chuckled at the site which got the attention of the Third and he also walked over. Inside of the crib was Naruto and Sakura, Naruto was trying to take Sakura's blanket away from her while she was 'punching' him. "Something tells me that they will be a handful."
LATER THAT NIGHT.
Under the cover of darkness a figure was seen running towards the North gates of Konoha. In his arms was two bundles. He quickly ran only to be stopped as four ANBU nins surrounded him, but these weren't ordinary ANBU. They had white blank masks, the only difference was that they had "NE" across them.
"Danzo-sama wishes to speak with you and he wants you to bring the infants with us." the leader of the group said.
Kakashi knew he was caught and severely outnumbered but he was not going to let Danzo get his greedy hands on the babies. He would fight to the death if he had to. "Well I am afraid that you are going to have to tell Danzo that I refuse."
The leader of the group began to chuckle. "This wasn't a request, the children are the only thing that interest Danzo-sama, you are of no consequence" The leader then turned to the group "Kill him but don't hurt the infants." With his orders delivered they charged with their swords drawn. Kakashi secretly cursed his luck. He knew he couldn't fight back as he was holding two babies. He closed his eyes waiting for the attack but it never came. He opened his eyes and saw ten ANBU nins fighting the other group. They were the regular kind that were under the Hokage.
One of the ANBU wearing a cat mask came up to Kakashi and bowed "Inu its been a long time, what are you doing without your mask though and why are you carrying these two babies. Kakashi let out a sigh knowing that he was caught. "Well Neko this is Naruto son of my sensei, now before you say how, sensei married your sensei but had to keep it secret for their protection, because of the attack he lost both of them as you already know, and the female is the heiress to the Haruno Ninja house and for their protection I am taking them to the North of here." If Neko wasn't wearing her mask Kakashi would have seen her shocked face.
"But the only thing up there is.."
"Yes I know but it was Hokage-sama's decision, and I agree with him if they stay here their lives will be in constant danger, as you can well see. Danzo has already made his move to put them in ROOT. Imagine if he succeeded, he would have three very powerful clans backing him."
"Three?" Neko asked confused.
"Yes three the Haruno clan, Uzumaki and Namikaze clans. Naruto and Sakura are the last remaining survivors of the three Naruto being heir to both Uzumaki and Namikaze. So as you can see I can't let him get his hands on either of them." Kakashi said as he made his way towards the gates.
"Well then we will escort you and kids then we can't Danzo have them and I know he will not give up until he has them in his possession or dead." Neko said, but really wanted to spend more time with the son of her sensei. "Oh Kushina-sensei your son is so beautiful, I know when he gets older he will turn some heads. He looks just like Minato and you know how popular he was, I just hope he isn't as clueless as he was when it comes to the opposite sex."
They ran for a couple of hours before Naruto began to cry. Kakashi tried his best to calm him down but being that he was never around infants before he failed. Honestly he was surprised he hadn't dropped at least one of them by now. Neko was getting tired of the nonstop crying that she went over to Kakashi and took him away from him. After checking him to see if his diaper was dry she knew exactly what was wrong with him. He was hungry. Soon after Sakura began to wail, she too was hungry and needed a diaper change. Needless to say for the two ANBU ninjas were traumatized for years to come.
The trip to the SEED headquarters was eventful as many of the ROOT agents tried to take the infants from the ANBU, but after reaching the secret passage though the mountains they lost them and it was a quiet trip. After arriving Kakashi told Neko that he was going to stay at the headquarters until the kids were strong enough to defend themselves. Neko was ready to leave when she got a message from the Hokage. It was orders to remain on the compound to assist Kakashi in raising and training the children. So had removed her mask and gave up her title as ANBU captain. She went back to her given name, Kurenai.
MANY YEARS
A seven year old Naruto could be seen running through the forest surrounding the headquarters. After him was about twelve people, why you might ask. Well a certain somebody had contaminated the water supply with a poison, now the poison wasn't deadly it just made the body very weak, so weak in fact that it caused the body to have involuntary bowel movements. Naruto was laughing all the way as he still remembered how most of his victims had embarrassing accidents. The only reason he was caught was because he couldn't stop laugh and the chase began, which was now on its sixth hours and had no end in sight.
After many hours on the run Naruto was laying next to a river bank when he heard someone stepping through the bushes. "Hello Sakura-chan have they stopped trying to catch me and sent you to capture me." he said as he opened his eyes.
"Naruto-kun why must you be so troublesome sometimes." She replied as she sat next to Naruto.
"Come on Sakura-chan it wasn't that bad I mean this time I didn't even draw blood."
"I know so what happen for you to prank the senior class." Sakura said as she laid her head on Naruto's arm
"Well they were making fun of your hair and were making remarks about Kurenai-neechan, you know how I hate it when they talk about her like that."
"I know Naruto-kun but she can defend yourself and as for my hair I think they are just jealous so you don't need to prank them on our behave." Sakura said as she looked into Naruto's deep blue eyes.
"I know but you two are my precious people and I will always protect you," Naruto said as he looked into her emerald eyes. "and thats a promise of a life time. Now come on I have to turn myself in." with that both six year olds left towards the compound, never noticing two sets of eyes watching them.
"Well Kurenai-chan I believe Naruto inherited Minato-sensei sense of honor along with Kushina-sensei sense of justice. Kami help anyone who hurts his precious people." then Kakashi began to let out tears.
"What wrong Kakashi-kun" Kurenai asked.
"He didn't list me on his precious list I thought he like me." Kakashi cried as he received a punch to the head.
"Grow up Kakashi, you know you are on that list, now come on we still have to have lunch before we have to train them." Kurenai said as she walked away putting an extra sway in her hips making Kakashi drool and follow her like a mindless drone.
Naruto finally reached the compound where the whole senior class was waiting for him. Most of them were laughing their asses off since the majority were females and didn't get pranked. The ones that did was giving Naruto death glares. As the head instructor came out and saw the young boy he let out a chuckle.
"Naruto-kun how was morning run." he asked as the males where almost foaming at the mouth while the females couldn't stop giggling.
"It was good a little on the boring side but whatever, at least I had some company for a while." that did it as the females were now on the ground laughing and the boy charged. After a small bout with Naruto the males where on the ground defeated. They could believe that a seven year old had beatn them so easily, they were twice his age and he had crushed him. Naruto turned around to face the defeated males.
"I hope I beat some sense into you, I protect the ones that are precious to me, I won't tolerate anyone who makes fun of them or hurt them, also I respect all women and I will not let anyone speak of them as if they are some playthings. Next time I might not be so understanding this is your only warning don't let it happen again." After his speech all the females from all the classes had hearts in their eyes and the males where deep in thought.
"OK everyone back to training, we have a lots to do as for the males in the senior class thirty laps around the complex go." the head master yelled as he went back inside.
A girl about thirteen or fourteen walked up to Naruto as he was heading inside, "That was funny I can't believe you did that.....my name is Yuago Uzuki." She said as she held out her hand. Naruto looked at her for a minute and took her hand and shook it.
"Thanks that will teach them to make fun of my friend and talk about my nee-chan like that again." he said with a fox like grin. "So tell me when are you leaving this place, I think the exams are coming up soon."
"Oh in about two months I hope I do good enough to pass all the way to ANBU......I'd hate to do all this and just be stuck as a genin."
Naruto laughed "I know what you mean Yugao-chan, I'll go nuke-nin before I get stuck with D-ranked mission. I know you will do fine, and in five years when I leave myself I may be calling you captain."
"In five years if you play your cards right you will be calling me something more of that I am sure." Yugao thought as she walked back to her training ground as she saw Naruto heading to one of the classrooms.