Naruto:

The Pride of the Leaf

A/N: Real quick before we start this off. This is my first fanfiction so please be gentle and constructive with any reviews you have. Also if you notice any gramatical errors, feel free to point them out. Thanks!

Also another quick thing: I will have a few OC's but they will only be used as necessary and very few will actually be main characters.

Also theres this stuff:

While I do love ramen, I do not own Naruto.

Kyubbi talking

Thoughts

"Regular Speach"

"Mumbling"

Chapter 1

Minato stood at his window, looking out at the village. It was a cool summer morning and as the sun rose above the trees he smiled and thought to himself about his son who was expected to be born in the next few days. Suddenly, he felt a viscious killing intent behind him as Kushina came into the room

"Minato~", she started with a vein popping out of her forhead, clearly agrivated by something "did you not hear me calling for you?"

"Sorry," he replied rubbing the back of his head and flashing her his usual toothy grin, "I was just thinking abut how i can't wait for the little one to arrive"

"Oh, well that's nice" she said as she pulled out a kunai and chucked at her husband who barely managed to dodge, "BECAUSE HE'S ON HIS WAY! I'VE BEEN YELLING FOR YOU FOR TEN MINUTES THAT MY WATER'S BROKE AND YOU'RE UP HEAR STARING OUT THE DAMN WINDOW!" As she was screamig the last bit, she was throwing a seemingly endless number of kunai at her now terrified husband.

"Wait.. What?!" Minato replied with a dumbfounded look planted firmly on his face, still dodging kunai.

"I'M HAVING A FUCKING BABY!" and as she screamed those words she picked up the couch and threw it at her husband whose final thoughts before trying to teach a couch how to fly were..

This is gonna hurt... A lot..

5 Hours Later

Minato looked at his son and his wife and was noticably panicing. He never thought that he would ever have to make a choice like this. Rin had just told him that his son had been so influenced by the kyubbi's chakra during the pregnancy that he would have to have the bijuu placed inside of him to live, but if he took it out of Kushina, she would die.

His mind was trying frantically to come up with a solution where he didn't have to choose between his wife or his son when his other two students burst into the room simultaniusly yelling "Minato-sensei!"

Minato nodded at the two prompting them to continue.

"Minato-sensei," Obito started off enthusiastically, "I believe we may have found a way to save both of their lives!"

Minato practically jumped on the Uchiha, gripping the jounin's shoulder's much too tight for comfort whileexcitedly shouting "What is it?!" This was the first lead he's hd since he got word of the problem with his son's birth and he knew he was running out of time to make a decision.

It was Kakashi who spoke up next in his usual "The Reaper Death Seal."

Minato knew it. Hell, he'd created it but he knew the cost of using such a justu. So there's no way we get out of this without someone dying... Is there?

As if he had read Minto's mind, someone else entered the room and said "But there may be a way to stop a life being cut so dramtically short" Minato looked up to see the Sandaime standing in the doorway Kakashi and Obito had just burst through with his pipe still in his hand as he took a long drag off it.

"What do you mean, Sandaime-sama?" Minato asked skeptically.

"I've lived a long and fulfilling life Minato," he said as he exhaled, letting the smoke roll out of his outh as he spoke, "and it would be a tragedy to see a small child having to grow up without his parents. I know what you're thinking but at least let this life that has seen so much war end with its Will of Fire passed on."

Minato tried to speak out againt it, that his family needed him just as much, but Hiruzen simply raised his hand and Minato looked down to the ground, sobbing.

"I-I.. I can't t-thank you e-enough, Sandaime-sama" Minato said between sobs, his pride as a man and a shinobi nowhere to be found. In this moment all he could do was weep before a man whom deserved every bit of respect and admiration he'd received during his time as Hokage. Hiruzen knelt down beside the weeping man and placed his hand on his shoulder, trying to calm him down, telling how it's his choice and an honor to have such a respectable final purpose.

Kakashi and Obito kneeled down before the Sandaime as he stood back upright and walked into the room.

As seal took his toll on Hiruzen, he saw his life flash before his eyes, but it was not a life he had lived. It was as if he was watching from someone else's point of view. He saw the same blonde boy he'd just saved being treated creuly by the village, thrown out of stores, restraunts, and struggling just to earn anyones attention. A single tear rolled down his cheek and his final thoughts were those of satisfaction, of knowing that he had saved a young boy from going through something so painful.

I'm sure that one day, being raised by those two, that he'll become the Pride of the Leaf.

Those were the final thoughts of Sarutobi Hiruzen, Sandaime Hokake, as he sealed half of the Kyubbi into the small boy, leaving the other half in his now unconcsious mother who was holding her son as they slept.

Minato came in after he fealt the chakra signature of Sandaime suddenly extenguish and heard his son begin to cry.

He wiped the tears from his eyes and put on a facade of calm and collected as medic-nin and civilian doctors came out of the room, reporting the success and removing the body of the recently deceased Hiruzen.

Minato walked into the room, followed by Kakashi and Obito, to see his wife holding his now silent son. And in that moment everone in the room had the exact same thought.

Thank you, Sandaime-sama.

And thus began the tale of Namikaze Naruto, son of the Yellow Flash and Red Hot Habanero.

And that's the first chapter! What do you think? And yes, he did see Naruto's canon childhood is his premontion/flashback/out-of-body-experience/thing. Also, Obito is in the village, Rin is alive, and Kakashi doesnt have the sharingan, but I'm pretty sure you kew most of that already.

Questions? Comments? Concerns? Coupling ideas?

I'm game for pretty much anything but NaruxHina... worst.. couple..ever...

Anyways, Later!

-SurrealCeareal