The Dishonored Raven, the Fox that Never Was, & the Man that Wept

By Pyro Yuki

Author's Note- Please read. VERY important

Okay, so first things first, this is my FIRST ever story. If I've made a mistake in uploading any chapters, it's because of that. I try my best to type good grammar but everyone has their moments.

Some things to expect ahead of reading: some crushes. I won't tell you (for now) because I want you to read and find out. *Evil Lol. But remember it's an ADVENTURE in the end. There's a bit of a Chakra element flare.

VERY IMPORTANT: The characters everyone loves in the manga and anime have DIFFERENT personalities in this story. Some more strongly than others. Hinata, Sasuke, and Sakura are the ones with most change I think. You'll have to read for why. Also, if I forget about some side characters in the Konoha 12, please don't take offense. Some characters just aren't that important to the story.

SORTA IMPORTANT: Naruto grows up differently. So does everyone else in the Konoha 12

SUPER IMPORTANT: This story might get a little complex, because it deals with Time-lines and past lives. SHOULD a character ever refer to 'past life' or 'other time-line', he or she IS referring to the REAL story of Naruto we all know. Think of this story as Naruto's somewhat 'flipped' world. **Think Road to Ninja Movie and you almost got it** Think of this story as one of those things that CHANGED the course of history from its normal path.

One last thing~ I'm American...so all the titles like Konohagakure, Kyuubi, and Japanese suffixes and name calling (Such as Teme or Dobe) isn't going to be something I'm going to care about. Yup. It's going to be dubbed down to make it easier for me. Sorry. Also, phrases like 'Believe it' and 'Ya' Know?' Are going to be said a few times…a FEW times. Again, first story- new writer.

8/30/15- wow….It's taken me TWO years to realize I meant PROLOGUE and not Epilogue in the title =-=….Wow….just wow…. Why didn't anyone tell me this? *facepalm*

Please message me if it's STILL confusing a couple chapters in. It's important feedback. Let's begin the story! ENJOY~~~ ~~ ~~

… Tends to mean a tiny time skip

Italics are thoughts. "." Are words.

(Comments from me)

All original characters and story belong to Masashi Kishimoto. I don't own Naruto.

Author's NoteEND- Please read ABOVE VERY important

Prologue Obito's Mistake (Part 1)

(Don't skip on the reading. Even if it sounds like a copy from the real story. You'll miss changes)

Konoha, otherwise known as the Hidden Leaf Village. Home to thousands of families, hard workers, ninja, and most of all- two Hokages. The 'Old Man' Third and the "Yellow Flash" Fourth. The Hidden Leaf Village was in the peak of its hay day and was curling up into another peaceful late summer evening when the cries of a woman in labor cut through the air in a remote area of the Village.

"OWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWW!" Screamed the red haired Uzumaki. Medical Ninja as well as ANBU Black Ops littered the cave and the area. All tense from her screaming in their ears.

"It's alright, Kushina. You're doing fine!" Her husband, Minato, gripped her hand for a moment before continuing to watch the complex chakra seals on his laboring wife's belly.

Kushina could hardly respond to that, or anything anyone else said. The pain blurred sight and sound all together. Her eyes snapped shut and she felt constant agony until finally…a baby's first cry was heard. She opened her dark blue, almost purple, eyes wide.

My…my baby. Naruto? She thought, raising her head slightly painfully just to get a look. But Minato held her back.

"It's alright, Kushina. It's over. We're parents now. I'm a father." The beginnings of tears of joy swam over the Fourth's eyes as he added that last bit more to himself. His wife smiled warmly, but tiredly at him. He was such a cry-baby, but she loved him and Naruto with all her heart.

"How touching." A cold and withdrawn voice came from in front of them, making both of them look sharply at the man in the cloak. He had a orange spiral mask and stood over two dead medical Ninja. The ANBU were dead on the ground too. But what both parents realized first was that he was holding a bundle of cloth wrapped around a baby Naruto Uzumaki-Namikaze.

"Naruto!" Both parents cried. Minato held his specialized kunai at the ready.

"Who are you?!" Minato shouted, eyes narrowing dangerously, lifting his kunai towards his face, poised to strike.

"There won't be any need for that. Step away from the Jinchuriki and I won't kill the boy. If you don't, his first breathes will be his last." The man threatened, lifting his own kunai towards the head of the crying baby boy.

"W-wait! Don't!" Minato cried in reflex, but the man already threw up the boy to cut him down. Minato disappeared in to blinding yellow flash, catching his newborn son.

"Naruto! Minato!" Kushina cried, unable to see what was going on.

She was answered with the sound of an explosion. She jerked her body to move. To save her baby and husband, but the seals held her down to the stone slab.

She blacked out right then.

…

She didn't know how long she had been out but it must not have been very long because it was still night. She hung from seal binds between two boulders in a ravine. There was no way to even move.

"What…do you want?" Kushina gasped, as she felt her life-force dying.

"The Nine tails, obviously." The man in front of her answered.

"Why?"

"To take control over the Leaf." He chuckled darkly. "I only had to wait for you to give birth and weaken the seal for me. Then make my move when the Yellow Flash wasn't around."

"Y…you'll nev-" She never got to finish as the man made a hand sign and her eyes saw the red and unmistakable eye of a Sharingan, dipping into the inner parts of her mind.

No way…The Uchiha are behind this?!

Kushina felt a horrible pulse run through her whole body. No! Don't come out! Don't let the seal become undone! She wanted to scream out, but was too weak to do anything more than a silent scream. The Nine Tails' redish orange chakra coming out of her like flames. More horrible pain and the seal broke, unleashing the Nine Tails'. She dropped onto the rock below her as the seal binds vanished. She lay limp and helpless on the cold stone.

She heard a sound she never thought she'd hear in her whole life. The Nine Tails' roar. She forced her eyes open. She had to stop this man…and the Nine Tails, even if her life was fading fast.

"W...Wait." She growled, struggling to pull herself up to fight the retreating man.

He let out an amused hum. "The Uzumaki clan have their skills cut out for them if you didn't die right away."

"S-Shut up." She moaned.

"I think I'll let HIM take care of you."

Before Kushina could even flinch, the Nine Tails' claws lashed out for her. She barely had time to close her eyes when she felt the familiar sick jolt in her chest and stomach as Minato flashed to her side and saved her from a quick death.

"Minato…" She sighed, knowing this wasn't the time to tell him again how much she hated doing that. "W-Where's Naruto? I…Is he safe?" She whimpered, shaking.

"He's in a safe place." The Fourth replied. His calm voice filled her heart with joy, but she could see how worried he really was.

"Thank God." She whispered. "Minato…He's planning on…destroying…the Village...with the Nine Tails." She told him. He had a worried scowl on his face. They vanished without another word.

…

Minato appeared back in their house, carrying Kushina in his arms. As he placed her on the bed beside their son, she let out a soft whimper. "W-Why?"

He didn't answer her, but whispered back, "Please just be here with Naruto."

Kushina pulled her infant son closer to her with one arm. "Naruto." She let a few tears roll down her normally healthy and slightly plump cheeks. Naruto was fast asleep, having no idea what was happening right now. She finally got a real look at her..their son. Blond spikes just like Minato. He was going to look so much like his father if they all survived this night. Though she noticed that his plump cheeks were like hers. His cheeks were clear but full of life. (That's right. He has no whiskers. There's a reason for that.)

She didn't see the over shadowed expression on her husband's face. He turned and pulled on his Hokage cloak. Fear dripped her heart at the silence.

"Minato…be safe." She choked out, though the darkness in her heart was telling her to stop him.

"I'll be right back." He told her with his back to her.

No! You won't! Something terrifying in Kushina broke through and in a shock of impulsive action, she grabbed Minato's cloak. All three members of the family disappeared in a yellow flash before the Fourth realized what his wife had done.

…

The Nine Tails roared viciously through the air of the night, destroying the Village and the people in it. Civilian or Ninja. It was a horrible sight to be scene. Broken buildings and bodies almost everywhere. It was a sickening sight to behold and screams filled the air like a war zone. Off in the distance, a small but atomic-like explosion could be heard from the Uchiha Compounds, crumbling it to dust. Terror gripped the civilians' hearts. If the Compounds of such an Elite Clan were destroyed, who would save them? Where were the Third and Fourth Hokages?!

That was answered when the Yellow Flash appeared on top of the Hokage Head Memorial. Followed by a red haired Kunoichi holding their infant son in her arms. He turned sharply to his wife.

"Kushina! What are you-"

"I'm sorry! I'm sorry, Minato, but I can't bare the thought of you dying! Of not knowing that I could have done something!" She cried with all the strength she had. Little Naruto woke up to the sound of his crying mother and started to cry himself. His mother held him close.

Minato was about to take his wife and son back when the roar of the Nine Tails' echoed through the air.

He turned back to the tailed beast. "So you've seen us?" He frowned, anger and fear rising in his chest.

"Kushina, get away from here! Don't even think of me. Think of Naruto." He ordered. The usual calmness in his voice gone.

"It's no use." The masked man claimed, watching from the farthest head, on the First Hokage.

"You-!" Both parents looked at him, but he pointed a finger out to the beast.

"Look out." He hummed.

Minato turned his head back to the beast, and sure enough, the monster was getting ready for an attack. An enormous ball of blood-like chakra was gathering at the beast's mouth, controlled by the tails.

The Fourth held his sealing kunai at the ready then let it began to glow between his two hands, held ready for a defensive seal.

"I won't let you destroy everything." He glared at the beast while his wife stood on her feet, glaring at the man who caused this. Naruto began quiet in her arms.

The Nine Tails shot out the nova-like chakra at the Fourth, annihilating everything as it traveled.

When it hit the Hokage, the seals on his kunai activated and a spiral of sealing laced around the blast. It was condensed and forced into a black hole, only to reappear behind the village in the distance. The blast destroyed everything within miles of it in the forest. Wind lashed out in waves as the ground shook like that of a earthquake.

This power isn't of this world! It's not going to be easy avoiding it while protecting the village. He scowled as he thought.

"MINATO!" His wife screamed. He turned and slashed out at the masked man behind him. His eyes widened as his kunai went through nothing as the air wavered and any damage disappeared.

"What?!" He snapped, as the man lurched forward in an attack stance.

"I can't let you destroy all my hard work." He muttered under the mask. Before Kushina could make out anything else, both men vanished from her sight.

She watched as the Nine Tails suddenly leapt out of the village. Why did he retreat? He was destroying us! She saw the Third Hokage with an army of ANBU and Jonin backing him as they attacked the tailed beast as one force.

Minato flashed in front of her, looking very worn out.

"Minato!"

"Kushina…I'm sorry. But….I don't think I have much chakra left. But I promise to beat the Nine Tails no matter what." He hugged her and Naruto with such warmth, but it terrified her. "Because I have so many important things to protect. Like my wife and son." He smiled at her, but she couldn't be more scared if the Grim Reaper smiled at her instead.

"Don't leave me…or Naruto. Please." She begged, holding him tightly. But he didn't answer. He let go and vanished.

That's when he reappeared in the sky. He quickly made Summon gestures and Gamabunta landed on top of the Nine Tails, surprising and pinning the fox down.

The Third bounded forward and landed beside the Fourth. "Minato-" he began to ask him something but the blonde shot him a look.

"I'm going to use the Reaper Seal, Third. It's the only way to save the village." His voice steeled.

"What?!" The older man shouted but Minato already began to make the hand gestures.

The Third flashed forward and punched Minato in the stomach, making him cough for air.

"…Sarutobi?" He coughed, legs buckling.

"I can't let you do that, Minato. You are far more precious to this village than an old fool like me. You have a wife and an infant son, for god's sake! The boy at least deserves to know the man his father is instead of listen about him in stories. No. I'll do it." The old man growled, beginning to store up his chakra while making the hand signs.

"Become the Hokage that the village needs. Their families and lives are all in your hands now, Minato. Your life is no longer your own to do as you like." The old man told him, like he was giving a student a lesson. A final lesson. The Fourth's eyes widened.

"You're also going to become the next Jinchuriki, Minato. Hold that responsibility well in your years. Hokage's Secret Jutsu: Death Reap Seal!" The old man cried out, unleashing his chakra for his final battle.

A ghostly Grim Reaper appeared behind Sarutobi but only he could see it. It grabbed into the Nine Tails' and began to pull its life force out against its will.

"What…What are you doing to me?!" the tailed beast howled, as its life force was pulled out and eaten by the Grim Reaper.

But the old man wasn't done yet. He made sealings around Minato, binding him in place as well. Minato struggled. "Don't do this Sarutobi!" he cried.

"I know when my time is up, Minato. I'm old but not a fool. I'm not the one needed anymore. You are. I can see that even in my dreams. I'm fulfilling my purpose for living this long." The wary man gasped and made the hand signs. He didn't have much time left!

"Eight Signed Sealing Jutsu!" He shouted, placing his shaking hand on Minato's stomach. Light began to glow all around the two Hokages and the two beasts.

"NOOO!" The Nine Tails roared, firing off one last small blast to fight back. But it missed the village completely, into a mountain side. Nobody heard the sound of rocks breaking. No one could hear the sound of bells sounding off before breaking. And NO ONE knew just how different their lives would change in a matter of seconds as the broken shrine of all the elemental gods began to glow and pulse out heat and light.

In the huge light around him, Minato could hear the warmth of his predecessor's voice. "You have my complete faith…Minato." Minato closed his eyes and lost consciousness.

Kushina, finally recovering her energy in that time, held Naruto close as she dashed towards the light. She landed beside the other shinobi circling the light. As it faded, she saw her husband on the ground, out cold. The Third was the same beside him.

"MINATO!" She screamed, running to him. She placed Naruto next to him so that she could lift his head with both hands and check his pulse. Her heart soared when she felt one.

"Thank God…..Thank God….Thank God, you fool. Idiot," She cried into his chest while ANBU checked the Third. They shook their heads and covered the old man's face with a cloth.

Space warped and the man in the mask stood, observing the scene.

"No…NO! I worked too hard for this!" He snapped, rage filling the air. The other ninja braced to battle this stranger when the ground shook. Naruto began crying.

"What's going on?!"

"Isn't the Nine Tails dead?!"

Other shouts like that echoed through the tattered village. A single bright light, like a star, could be seen on the same mountain side that the tailed beast attacked. A tower of light shot up into the sky. Everyone's blood froze as it got bigger and wider, with each passing second.

Everyone closed their eyes as the wave of light and power hit them and passed through them. Every village was soon experiencing the same thing. EVERYWHERE it was happening. And every living thing that had a breath passed out on the ground. Silence filled the air for the next 24 hours.

~~~End Part 1

8/30/15: K, so I'm going through all the chapters, reading them and FIXING some of the worst parts and trying to get everything back again before finishing up the next chapter. Sorry to all my readers that have had to wait and bare this.