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Namikaze

Prologue

Namikaze Minato was a man with experience in both war and love. He had faced armies of soldiers and never once had he flinched. He was considered to be the most powerful shinobi in Konohagakure, and even became the leader of said village and was also so feared by the enemy villages that they put a Flee on Sight order on him in order to keep their soldiers alive.

He had married a young beautiful woman with long crimson red hair by the name of Uzumaki Kushina who was the jailor of the most powerful being that walked the Nations of the Elements: Kyuubi no Kitsune. Said woman became his sole child's mother, but it was not meant to be.

Uchiha Obito, Minato's former student who was presumed dead, disrupted the birth of the young boy under the disguise of an unknown enemy and forced Minato to either save his wife or his son. He chose the only option any father would, and saved his son by using his fabled Hiraishin no Jutsu to catch the son as Obito threw him up in the air, only to find out that Obito had put explosive tags on the blanket that was wrapped around the infant. Minato had teleported back to his home to secure his son, and to get ready for the upcoming battle.

During the small amount of time that Minato was gone, Obito had bound Kushina with chains in a crucified manner between two trees, and used his Sharingan to take control of the beast inside of her and release it. She survived the extraction but Obito had other plans. He decided that if she could survive the release of a bijuu from her body, then he had no choice but to kill her. He ordered the monstrosity that is the Kyuubi to kill her, but just as his claw descended onto her, Minato was there to save her. He quickly teleported back to his house to put her down next to Naruto.

During this time, Obito had used Kamui to move himself into Konoha, and summoned the Kyuubi with the Kuchiyose no Jutsu in the middle of the city. The shinobi and kunoichi alike became horrified at the sight of the beast, but they held their ground.

Sarutobi Hiruzen arrived shortly after at the top of the Hokage Tower and started fighting the beast with the help of Enma, his personal summon and all of the shinobi and kunoichi that wasnt under the age of fourteen. These children had to be protected for the sake of the village and its future.

In the meantime, Minato had teleported on top of the mountain that harbored the faces of the four Hokage that in history had led the village. The beast sensed him, and charged his attack, the Bijuudama right at Minato. The young Hokage countered it by creating a space/time vortex that devoured the ball of condensed chakra, only to release its power a couple of miles away from the village where Minato had one of his tri-pronged kunai.

Just as he had sent the attack away, he sensed Obito behind him, and swung the kunai he had in hand at him, only to have it pass right through the masked enemy. Just as his hand and kunai had passed through Obito, he was grabbed, and started to become distorted by a time/space vortex much like the defensive barrier that he had used only a couple of seconds ago. He understood what this was, a Jikūkan Ninjutsu.

He quickly used Hiraishin to get away from the horrifying situation that he was put in, only to be followed by his former student. Minato was scared shitless. Not many people had the power and knowledge to use Jikūkan Ninjutsu, especially not something that surpassed his own.

Minato decided to go straight at him, only to go through him and get encased by a chain, which he quickly teleported out from. He thought for few seconds, before charging straight at Obito with a Rasengan in his hand, while throwing the kunai he had in his other hand straight at his head. It passed right through him, but just as Obito was going to grab him again to teleport the Hokage away, the blonde vanished.

Obito then felt a horrifying pain in his back, which was the result of the Rasengan that Minato had smashed into him. When Minato removed his hand from Obito's back, a Jutsu-Shiki could be seen lingering along Obito's back. Obito knew that he couldn't stay down for long, and quickly got up and jumped onto a wooden stump. Obito thought he had won, but his victory was short as Minato suddenly was in his face with his hand pressed at his stomach with a Summoning-disruption technique being used. The Kyuubi was no longer under Obito's control.

Obito quickly retreated, and Minato knew that he couldn't pursue the masked man, so he decided to teleport into the city and summon Gamabunta to hold Kyuubi down. He then teleported himself and the beast away, and quickly created a kagebunshin to get his wife and his son.

Minato knew that there was only one way to keep the village safe, and that was to seal the beast into someone. And that someone would be his son. Kushina protested, saying that she should be the one that it was going to be sealed in. They both knew however that she would never survive the sealing a second time as she was too exhausted and her life-force was drained from the extraction.

Minato started preparing for the sealing ceremony while Kushina quickly put up a barrier to keep the Kyuubi from running away, and then used her Chakra Chains to keep him still.

Minato performed the Shiki-Fuuin, a technique that summoned the Reaper itself to perform the sealing, at the cost of his life. Minato knew this was the only seal in his possession that was going to be able to keep the beast from being released. He quickly sealed half the Chakra into his son, but before he could seal the rest into himself, Kyuubi lashed out at the boy.

Both Kushina and Minato caught the claw with their bodies, impaling them both. They now knew that they were both going to die, so they decided to tell their goodbyes to their child. Minato performed the seal, and not only sealed the rest of the Kyuubi inside of himself but also added a second layer onto the seal that was on his son, this time with some of his own and his wife's chakra and a part of their souls. Seconds later they both passed away….

Not knowing what side effects his imprint would have on his son.

A/N: Hi guys, its been a while! Sorry I haven't uploaded anything but I have been sitting here with a shit ton of things to do including homework and things like that! This is the first chapter of a story that I have been brainstorming on for quite some time and I have decided that I will keep as many things as I can from you guys because... well, SUSPENSE YO! :D

Again, I'm sorry for the inactivity that I've had for the past years but I can assure you that I have been on this sight during all that time, I just haven't been uploading anything. I also have no clue how long this fanfiction will be because at the time of writing this, I have just written the prologue, which is more or less a transcript of what happened in the manga/anime... with a little twist at the end ;)