"Talking"
Thinking
Summary: During Kyuubi's attack on Konoha, Naruto completely eradicates the King of Biju with a blast of psychic power. This power, the Phoenix, is the mark of the greatest mutant psychic that every lived: Nate Grey. NaruHina Inspired by Dirty Reid
Naruto: Legend of the Phoenix Force
Chapter One: Birth of A Hero
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The ground shook under the unfeeling blonde's feet. Never in his life had he imagined that something like this would happen. Hell he never believed something like this could happen. However life had a way in toying with someone's mind and the impossible had indeed happened. The Beast of Legends, Kyuubi, was at Konoha's doorstep and in its wake was a path paved with the blood of Konoha shinobi.
However the reason for the Yondaime's numbness wasn't the loss of his shinobi nor was it the because of the destruction of his home village. His reason for the despair was because his wife had just died giving birth to his only son.
They said she was too young and her body couldn't handle the stress of bearing a child, but would I listen!? I can't believe she's gone… I can't believe that I'll never see her smile, hear her voice and laughter again…
The young Hokage's distraught emitted from him in waves as another quake shook the foundation of the overfilled hospital again. Shaking for his depression, the Fourth gathered himself silently before steeling his resolve. He knew what he must do and the fact that he would have to do it to his only son would be his eternal shame.
I have no other choice, I am sorry Naruto I truly am… and with that the Fourth had disappeared from his wife's room with his son in hand.
Reappearing atop the Hokage's Tower the blonde Hokage easily stopped the Red Destroyer that was current desecrating his village, but what caught his eye was the black dot that had just been swapped but the beast's tail and was flying toward him at breakneck speeds. Jumping over the black bundle, the Fourth immediately regretted not staying and catching the projectile because it turned out to be the Sandaime!
The chakra enforced walls of the tower did little to slow the former Hokage's flight and the old man plowed through a half a dozen walls before coming to a halt in his old office. The Fourth rushed to his predecessor's side and with the help of a few Kage Bunshin he was able to lift the slab of concrete and steel that was crushing the Sandaime under it. Utilizing his limited knowledge of the medical field to ease the Professor's pain, the Fourth figured he must have been doing a good job when the man's groans began to die down and his breath evened out. Tearing his cloak to make bandages, the Fourth quickly wrapped the Sarutobi's legs and propped the barely conscious man against the wall.
"Please don't try to walk Sarutobi-sama, your legs have been severely injured in the crash and I fear that one of the jutting steel rods made have severed your spine," the Fourth said sadly, knowing that his predecessor and friend would never walk again. Pushing that fact to the back of his mind, the Fourth focused all his anger and sorrow onto the cause of all of this. Leaping out side in a single bound, the Fourth summoned Gamabunta in record time before landing atop the toad's head with his son in hand.
The air rushed passed him as the Toad King bound toward the King of Demons, and in the few spare moments he had before they would confront the demon the Fourth let his thoughts drift to back to his dead wife and the bundle in his arms. The boy was less than a day old and already he was about to be an orphan.
"Naruto-aiji before I go I want to…," but the Yondaime's words died down on the tip of his tongue when his newborn son opened his eyes for the first time. The sight of his son's piercing blues choked up the older blonde and for the first time since he became Hokage he wanted to put himself before the village! He wanted to live! Live for himself, live for his wife, live for his son!
Suddenly a burst of light surrounded him, Gamabunta, and his son. The light was strong enough to lift the summon off of the ground and eventually dispel the binds that tied the Toad Boss to this realm leaving Naruto and his father floating in midair.
'Where is this light coming from!?' the Fourth thought frantically while clutching his son protectively and looking from side to side. The light had caught the attention of the Kyuubi, and the great fox pounced before being immediately rebuffed by the light. The Fox King landed over one hundred meters away smoking from the blast of chakra that he repelled him. Judging the light with calculating eyes the nine tailed beasts fell into a deep stance and tightened its muscles for a second attack when the light pulsed, tossing the fox back again.
Inside the light the Fourth looked down at his son whose was now emitting an ethereal light that was pulsing wildly. The power behind each pulse was staggering, but not once did it ever hurt him or his son.
'That's my boy, setting records while only an infant,' the Fourth thought proudly when he realized that Naruto alone had more power than he along with all three Sanin did in their prime. Another pulse of power reinforced that fact, and unlike the last this one was phenomenal even by Naruto's standards. The pulse reshaped the orb of power, Naruto and his father were floating in, transforming it into giant bird of fire.
'A phoenix! Naruto managed to summon the will of fire incarnate this young!?' the boy's father thought shocked before he realized that the phoenix wasn't alive, but it was the visual representation of Naruto's power!
Watching astounded as his son's chakra puffed itself up like a proud peacock before leashing a mighty cry. The shriek, imbued with all the chakra that made up the phoenix, rebounded onto Kyuubi shaking his colossal frame before he dissolved out of existence, completely eradicated by the cry of Naruto's chakra alone!
Shocked the Fourth stared dumbfounded to the sleeping child in his arms, and with expert technique he landed on the ground safety without even stirring the baby in his arms. Immediately after landing the surviving shinobi rushed him; asking questions a mile a minute. Raising his hand for silence all the shinobi instantly obeyed their Hokage, despite their belief he had just summoned the 'Will of Fire' incarnate.
'How am I going to explain to them a child, despite the fact he is my son, destroyed the Kyuubi without dying of chakra exhaustion?' the blonde Hokage asked himself, all the while welling with pride at his son's accomplishment. He himself didn't understand how his son did it, but all he knew was that his baby boy had in fact defeated the greatest menace that had ever walked the earth.
Looking down at the bundle of joy clutching his arm as if he were going to disappear, the Fourth realized that whatever Naruto had done, he had done it to protect him.
'And I thought I was the one supposed to be protecting you…,' the Fourth thought chuckling as his own joke. Deciding he had let his shinobi stew long enough the Fourth lifted his gaze toward the brave men and women who had fought for their country, meeting each and every one of their gazes. They all had endured the same hardship he had, sacrificed body and blood in hopes to defeat the monster that threatened their loved ones, so in his eyes they deserved to know the truth…
"This is your savior Konoha not I! My son Uzumaki Naruto, after his late mother, saved us all from the Kyuubi with some sort of unknown power. A power brought out by his desire to save me, his father!" The Fourth proclaimed before tucking his boy back safely in his arms and looking each and every one of the shocked ninja in the eyes.
At first there was an awkward silence before one shinobi, his pupil Kakashi, let a cheer chanting Uzumaki Naruto before the rest of the crowd followed.
'Well little man, you're a hero now,' the Fourth thought bemused staring at his son's sleeping form.
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A/N: Let again I start a new fic and despite the fact I have a full fic load, this idea would not stop bugging me until I started to but it on paper (well technically on the screen but the principle is the same, I think?). Anyway a position for beta-reader is open so anyone willing to help please give send a PM. Other than that the next chapter is when the real twists start showing up but until then I'll leave it up to you to think exactly what it is cue maniacal laughter.
Japanese Terms
Aiji- beloved son
P.S. This chapter is to celebrate my father coming back from Iraq! The next one will hopefully be out soon (but with my current schedule its not likely).
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