A/N: Finally, an update! I've rewritten this part, there have been some minor changes, and I've added a few things, I'll be updating the story soon so, yeah, this is the first part, I don't think that much is different from the original prologue, but here it is. Soon the lightning thief will be updated and then I'll get back to the sea of monsters, I'm going to be completely re-writing the lightning thief but the sea of monsters will be mostly unchanged, it is only on the forth chapter so far. I hope you enjoy.
Jinchuuriki. It refers to those that hold one of the bijuu inside them. They are hated and feared by everyone and their lives are always hard. They are weapons to their villages, at least that is what most people assume they are, they could destroy armies with the power of the bijuu yet they do not long to be free, they are beaten but don't fight against their oppression, but... there is a reason for that. They are planning to leave. All of the bijuu originally come from the ten tails which used to be the world tree until its chakra was stolen. They are all connected.
When the sage of six paths imprisoned his mother and the juubi's body in the moon he failed to notice that something escaped the prison before it was fully formed. Zetsu. A parasitic life form Kaguya, the six paths mother, created using the last of hers and the ten tails power. He had one goal, to revive his "mother" Kaguya. The six paths went on to have a family and eventually had three children who all started their respected clans, the Uchiha, the Senju and the Uzumaki.
The bijuu were later freed by the sage when he created bodies for them out of pure chakra. All of the bijuu were still connected and all of them could feel each other they had a connection, it was hundreds of years later that they realised there was another connected to them. Zetsu being made of the last of the chakra making up the Shinju, it was not aware that the bijuu knew of his existence. A connection existed between the ten of them but Zetsu could not properly access it due to not being a bijuu, but the bijuu could see him and could see it's memories.
The bijuu viewed Zetsu's past and his goal and knew that the needed to stop him but all of them were already imprisoned in their Jinchuuriki, except for Kurama. Kurama tracked it down but got caught up in a fight between Hashirama Senju and Madara Uchiha. Madara, the fool that he was, thought he could control the kyuubi which angered him greatly, to the point where he started to fight him, Hashirama believed that the kyuubi was coming to attack Konoha so fought as well.
Eventually as the Kyuubi was about to kill Hashirama and Madara, Mito Uzumaki came and sealed the kyuubi inside herself and Hashirama finished off Madara or so he thought. After that Hashirama not fully trusting the Uchiha said that Madara could control the bijuu with his Sharingan and he fought them both. Taking credit for this feat he allowed this fear of him to inspire legends. He also greatly over exaggerated his power.
The kyuubi informed the other bijuu that Zetsu got away and he was sealed away. They were not happy but knew that it would take years for it to get the necessary equipment to start his plan so they decided to outlive their hosts and escape then to kill Zetsu. They tried to get along with their Jinchuuriki's but they didn't trust them especially Mito. Eventually their hosts died but to their irritation the humans tried to seal them again only Mito successfully transferred Kurama to the next Jinchuuriki, a young girl named Kushina.
The other bijuu escaped but in the next few years they had to fight for their freedom and fought the idiots who wanted to claim the title of bijuu slayer. Eventually the humans captured them whilst they were sleeping or unguarded and they were all resealed but after all of the lives lost trying to reclaim them people resented the Jinchuuriki as they both feared their power and thought that they were the bijuu reincarnated.
This was seemingly proved with Shukaku's Jinchuuriki as they chose to use a bad seal which gave Shukaku access to their Jinchuuriki's conscious but it resulted in the Jinchuuriki losing his mind as they could hear the whispers of the bijuu through their shared mind link. The Jinchuuriki could not hear what was being said but the constant whispers drove him to insanity, he could not sleep but it was not the bijuu's fault. This was when the myth that Shukaku ate souls while they slept began.
The bijuu were horrified at what happened to their Jinchuuriki and tried to help them by allowing them some access to their power to protect them from all of the pain they had and gave them bloodlines. This proved to be a mistake as they were further ostracised by their villages and were forced into becoming ninjas to basically be weapons for their villages.
The bijuu became even more disgusted by the treatment of their tenants so they started to bring them into the shared mindscape to give them some human contact with the other Jinchuuriki. None of the villages knew anything about this. Kushina being the only one who was a secret Jinchuuriki to other humans revealed something to them that not even the bijuu expected. She was a Goddess.
She came from another world and came here to see what it was like. Her real name was Artemis and she was the Goddess of the moon on her world she revealed that there were other Gods were on this world. Apparently, she was not actually able to use her powers now because the body she was using is a mere fraction of her power and once she died "she" would go back to the source of her power which was her original body.
The bijuu eventually told the Jinchuuriki about Zetsu and how it planned to use Madara, who was alive, to put the world in an illusion so that he could revive its mother of course the Jinchuuriki agreed to try to track them down before they could begin their plan.
Eventually the Jinchuuriki to Gyuki died and Gyuki was freed he ended up fighting the third Raikage even though Gyuki was weak after being unsealed he was still strong enough to hold off most of Kumo and made it to the outskirts of the village where they faced off against each other. Though he was weak and tired he was still impressed that the Raikage managed to fight him until he could be sealed. He was sealed into a young orphan boy named Killer B.
Another Jinchuuriki was also created by extracting the bijuu out of an expecting mother named Mari. Kukuo being one of the more sensitive bijuu nearly broke down when she was being extracted as this was the end for all Jinchuuriki. Mari was a very sensitive woman, she was very tall and very muscular but was very shy most of the time she didn't particularly like many "humans" but the father of her soon to be born was different.
Mari's last words to Kukuo and the other Jinchuuriki were "I'm so sorry I have to leave you all. I love you all and I just want you to know that all of you are my family. Kushina I've always thought of you as a big sister you are the reason I lived do long and the rest of you I love you the same way. I don't have long now but soon you'll be able to meet my daughter, she's so beautiful and I know your all going to love her. It seems it's my time to go, I love you all" and like that a fine woman was gone.
Finally, Kukuo was re-sealed, resulting in Hana the newest Jinchuuriki of Kukuo she was a large child and her mother was likely to die even if the bijuu wasn't extracted from the her. The older Jinchuuriki realised that their time was ending.
At this point Roshi the young Jinchuuriki to Son Goku at the age of 7 left his village of Iwa.
His official excuse was that he wanted to learn to control his power but the other Jinchuuriki found out that he left to begin the search he met up with one of the elder Jinchuuriki named Hotaru who was Chomei's Jinchuuriki. She was a beautiful woman with a dark complexion she had dark green hair and orange eyes. She was originally from Kumo until she was kidnapped at a young age to became Taki's Jinchuuriki.
She became a missing ninja of Taki the only minor country to have a Jinchuuriki. She left after finding out she was pregnant. She knew that in Taki her daughter would be discriminated against for being her daughter. Eventually her past caught up with her and she was captured. She was kept in a cell until her daughter was born.
The village leader then forced her daughter to become the next Jinchuuriki and during a painful extraction told Chomei "Chomei, we have been together for a long time but it's coming to an end." Chomei's response was to cry slightly. "Chomei will you promise me one thing? Please look after my daughter, raise her as your own. I didn't know her father well but he was one of the few that was nice and treated me as a human being. Please promise me you'll raise her." Chomei cried out a response of "Yes" and another great Jinchuuriki died.
The next Jinchuuriki to go was the Jinchuuriki to the sanbi Isobu died in by being assassinated for growing too powerful for the village to control and he was murdered. This taught the other Jinchuuriki two things, not to trust the "humans" and to always hide their power form them to make them think you were weak. The next Jinchuuriki was a barely one-year-old named Yagura. Her mother abandoned her as soon as she became the Jinchuuriki and her father was nowhere to be found.
Another Jinchuuriki casualty this one on a mission the host of Saiken the six-tailed slug. The slug was free for a short amount of time during which managed to find out that Madara had taken an apprentice of sorts so that when he died he would have someone to continue with "his" plan. Apparently, he somehow gained the Gedo Mazo statue and was planning to capture the bijuu.
How Saiken found this out was easy as neither Madara or Zetsu expected anyone to know she simply split off a part of her similar to how the slug summon Katsyu breaks down and snuck in while no one was looking and found out some more details of the plan this way. Though Zetsu thought he knew everything, he only knew the general points not exact details which is why this was done.
Unfortunately, whilst communicating with her ulterior self she was unaware of her surroundings and was sealed into a young boy by the name of Utakata though fortunately her slug did not disappear and due to the psychic connection between the two the bijuu had another spy on the inside. The Jinchuuriki and the bijuu were now trying to come up with a countermeasure to fight against them.
Thought they had no ideas at the time they knew they had plenty of time to go as Madara had now died and his false rinnegan eyes had been transplanted to a young Uzumaki boy in Ame. They knew that he would have to be old enough to use the Gedo Mezu for their plan to come into effect and now they had plenty of time to come up with a plan.
The next container to die was the nibi's, Matatabi's, container who contracted a rare disease that only the healing chakra of Kurama could heal which unfortunately was too hard to keep sending across the connection to heal him. His name was Fumio and he was a very strong man but couldn't live off of the connection between the as if the chakra was sent too much it might damage his ability to come to the mindscape.
His reasoning behind this was "If I have to give up seeing you, my family, then I would rather die." This led to a big argument saying his life was more important to which he replied "I want my last moments to be with you. Frankly I'm terrified of dying so at least allow my last moments to be with you and my little Yugito." He died the next day his last words being "Yugito I'm sorry I have to leave you but I'm trusting you with your family now trust them and even when times get hard live on for me and as for you Matatabi look after my baby girl for me would you now I think a nice nap would be good. I'll just go for a nice sleep, please don't wake me up Matatabi." He then fell asleep and the extraction began, it was painless for him as he was already dead.
The next Jinchuuriki, his daughter Yugito who was brought to him by a woman who stayed with him for a short amount of time and called herself Amorette. She returned several months later and gave him their daughter who was now six months old.
Amorette said she had to leave for her homeland and that her family have rules about relationships so she must leave. He was upset as she was the first woman to ever care for him in any way due to his Jinchuuriki status.
And so Yugito was left alone with no one to look after her. Luckily Killer B managed to find her and thought he was young he protected her from most of the hate and took as much of it onto himself instead of the baby girl. He made sure to look after her at all times and became a guardian of sorts to her. He remembered her father always looked after him when he was getting beat up and he made a promise to himself and all the other Jinchuuriki. He would guard her and take all the hate for her. His reasoning was that no one deserved to live like they had to so he would make sure she didn't.
The oldest Jinchuuriki of his generation, Bunpuku, the second generation Jinchuuriki of Shukaku knew his time was ending. He had so many regrets about his life as in the past he was the reason many of the Jinchuuriki were treated the way they were. In the past when the whispers of the bijuu wouldn't stop he had problems sleeping and it drove him insane for a time.
The bijuu managed to teach him to block it out, but it was too late. When he awoke he was in a prison cell and had been for the past 50 years they kept him locked here and his only solace was talking to his brothers and sisters in the link. He was one of the few Jinchuuriki to reach a substantial age. Hell, he was one of the few ninjas to reach a substantial age.
He was now an old man at the age of 73 and he was over the bloodlust he used to have in his youth and now he wanted a way of being remembered. He knew he would never have children he was too old but he wanted to be remembered. Maybe he can give all his knowledge to the new Jinchuuriki he loved them he saw in them a little bit of himself before he lost his mind, he knew that is what is would do. He would leave them knowledge on all his experiences all his jutsu, everything.
He heard footsteps coming towards him, that was a first. No one ever came to see him the guards only came to give food and that was only in the morning and at night. It was currently about midday as the only ones in the bijuu link are the bijuu themselves. That probably meant it was time, they were going to remove Shukaku.
The Kazekage, Rasa if he recalled correctly, walked in. "It is time Bunpuku."
"So, who is the 'lucky' soul having Shukaku in them?" asked Bunpuku.
"I don't see how that is any of your business."
"I like to know which poor child's life you're going to destroy."
"It's my son." Rasa whispered.
"What seal are you going to use?"
"The same as yours."
"What? You're going to drive your own child insane? Are you mad?"
"…"
"I need a weapon for the village."
"And you think that destroying your son's life will give you that?"
"…"
"Does your wife know?"
"No." Rasa whispered.
"She won't know, she has to leave, something about her family rules. It doesn't matter anyway it is time for the sealing."
'I guess this is it, Shukaku can you do me a favour'
"Of course, what do you need my old friend?"
'Teach the new Jinchuuriki my style, teach him everything, my jutsu everything. Make sure they all know as well and protect him make sure he doesn't suffer.'
"Of course, my friend. I'm going to miss you; you remind me of tou-san."
'Thank you.'
It was then that one of the oldest Jinchuuriki's to ever live died he died happy knowing that he would not be forgotten and that the pain of life is over.
"Hello little man" he said looking towards Garra, Rasa's youngest son, "may you enjoy your life and your new family I hope you have a good life."
Then there was only one Jinchuuriki from the second generation. Kushina sat on the top of the Hokage monument with her arms hugging her knees, tears streaming down her face. She sat on the top of her boyfriend's head she just needed to be alone he couldn't understand. There was no one who could understand at this point, Roshi was the closest but even then, no one could truly understand what it is to be a Jinchuuriki.
To be a Jinchuuriki. She just realised it even she didn't know. She was a goddess she couldn't understand her status was a secret not open to the public. She knew she would do what she could to stop this Zetsu's plan but she would need to be careful. If she died she could not actually return she could do nothing if she died and now, there is a reason she knew she was weak compared to her original.
She started to stand, there are so many options to what could happen she could tell Minato he might not believe her. Obito was his student he wouldn't believe him. As she stood up fully one would notice the bulge in her stomach. There were problems with the bijuu connections because she was pregnant the seal would be weak.
The only reason the others risked using the connection when pregnant was because Mari knew she was going to die and Hotaru had Roshi to boost the signal and take the both of them across. She didn't want to risk it her baby was not going to be a Jinchuuriki she would make sure that her baby would not suffer.
She went to her apartment; Minato was waiting for her he was the one man she loved at least this part of her did, she had no idea what the rest of her would think. She would have her baby and then the rest of her would do what it would.
Her baby was coming she was so happy she couldn't wait! It hurt, though, he was taking his damn time, but he was her son dattabane! She really needed to get rid of that it was getting annoying and what if her son inherited it. She found out that the other Olympians had been here to visit but she was the only one that she knew would go the way she did by making her own 'body'.
She'd never had a demigod before but she was still a virgin she used an illusion to get her boyfriend to make her baby. It may seem manipulative but she didn't want her baby to be in trouble for her oath being broken.
There was her baby. He was hers. Her baby boy she would protect him with all she had. She was exhausted. Biwako came and took him so that Minato could fix the seal she went out of the room and Minato was beside her keeping poor Kurama-Chan in her. If Kurama wanted out Kurama would probably be out.
She heard a scream and turned there was the masked man, Obito, she could not call out to him but what was he doing here and why was he holding… her baby! He was after the kyuubi and was threatening her baby she couldn't allow that. She tried to stand but Kurama and just giving birth took its toll.
She couldn't she what was going on but were those explosive tags, Obito had her now Kurama-Chan was getting out. Kurama was talking to her why couldn't she understand, 'why she didn't open the link?' then they could have been warned. No! It was her fault! If this was her fault then, no! Her son could be hurt because of her.
There was a flash. Minato! He took her. "Where is he? Where is my baby Minato?"
He was on the bed! He was on the bed! He was fine! Her baby was ok!
She looked outside, why was Kurama-Chan attacking? Kurama has no idea what is going on. She tried to stop Minato tell him to call of the ninja but he was gone. She was alone with her baby. She remembered the name, the name they decided on with help from Jiraiya-sensei.
Naruto.
Minato came back he took Naruto, why would he… No not her baby she wouldn't let him take her baby and make him into a Jinchuuriki. No! She sprinted away to find him to stop Kurama-Chan to save her baby.
She saw Kurama-Chan disappear in a flash of light. That could only mean… Where… Where is her baby. She searched for Minato's chakra signature. It was miles away. She sprinted she came just in time to see him finish the hand signs.
"NO!" she screamed but it was too late the ghostly apparition of the Shinigami appeared behind him, she heard Kurama-Chan screaming, telling him to stop. She heard Naruto crying, screaming as the cold hand plunged into his stomach sealing his fate as a Jinchuuriki. Kurama-Chan was gone but Minato was still there. He didn't have long; she went to his side sobbing all the way.
"Why?" she asked her voice barely a whisper.
"Why our son why did you condemn his life to hell. Why? WHY? WHY?" Screaming the last sentence with as much anger as she could while staring at her husband's dying form.
"What kind of man would I be if I asked someone else's child to bear this burden?"
"A smart man."
"No, a coward." He said simply, "this is going to be the last time I will ever see you at least try to be happy" he said wheezing, he didn't have long and he knew it.
"I love you." She said cradling his head in her lap, tears streaming down her face but she smiled, she smiled. For him.
"And I love you and so" he said, going into his pocket, "Kushina Uzumaki" he pulled out a ring, "will you please marry me? I am the Hokage so I already have the paperwork done all I need is you to say yes."
"Yes" she cried a fresh batch of tears coming down "of course I'll marry you."
"Good, please take care of our son."
"I will with all of my being."
"Then, if this is going to be the last chance I get to say it." Kushina sobbed even more as the harsh reality hit her.
"Kushina Uzumaki, I love y…"
And with that Konoha's Yondaime Hokage, Konoha no Kiiroi Senkō, the husband of Kushina Uzumaki and the father of Naruto Uzumaki, Minato Namikaze died.
Shortly after Kushina started to feel weak and her heart slowed.
"No, I can't die now."
But her body gave up, she curled around her baby and with her arms around her husband with Naruto in the middle and whispered into her baby's ear, "I'm so sorry sweetie but I'll come back as soon as I can I promise."
And with that Kushina Uzumaki died.
In the deserts of Suna Garra no Subaku cried causing the sand around him to curl around him protectively.
In the mountains of Kumo Yugito Nii cried as hard as she could because she felt the nice lady who was nice to her in her dreams go away. Killer B stopped and at that moment he felt a wave of grief as one of the few genuinely nice people in the world left. He stood in silence for a moment before hugging Yugito so they could cry on each other's shoulders.
Yagura at the age of five she felt she could handle anything but then she couldn't feel her the person who she trusted who she loved, she was gone.
Roshi now in his early twenties was walking down a lane when he felt a wave of pain hit him, she was gone her connection broken. So, he did the only thing he could, he sat under a tree and cried.
Hana being very young couldn't understand everything very well but she knew that all of the 'people' around her were monsters so when she felt the one who stopped the monsters, she told her that was her job, disappear she wept in despair.
Fu knew that everyone around her were not the same as her she was better and they hated her for it they were jealous so she didn't care so when one of the few people she cared about was gone she sat in her tree and cried.
Killer B sat there as he hugged Yugito he could feel a new connection being formed, it seemed there was a new member to their family. He must have been Kushina's son they all knew he would be born son and when they found out she was pregnant they were worried that the same thing that happened to Hoturo and Mari would happen to her but she was the Hokage's girlfriend. Unfortunately, the newly formed Akatsuki chose her as their first victim. She was unassuming as she could not enter the link with her failing seal. They tried to warn her but none of them could get anywhere near Konoha. They failed her. He cried harder.
Naruto didn't know what had happened he was scared then mommy made the scarred go away, but then she did as well but she was right there so he just sat there and cried.
In another world Artemis stiffened, she was at her camp when suddenly memories hit her, so many memories but it was the later ones that caused her breath to stop. Her baby was still there in that horrible place but she couldn't go back her father and the rest of the Gods had been there and they all agreed because it was for the best to shut it off from their world. At least temporarily until it was safe to go. 16 years it would be locked away inaccessible to everyone even the Gods.
She gasped as tears rolled down her cheeks she had just actively condemned her son to a life of hell without knowing it.
She cried. Her hunters watched confused. They heard her muttering, "Please be ok please just be ok until then, mommas coming baby"
On Olympus, many of the other Gods barely cared that they either had children there or that they left them alone and scared. None of them knew what their children had become, none knew the pain they would suffer or the lives they would live. They all assumed they would be fine at least until they were allowed to return for them.
The problem with other worlds is that you have can't keep the 'door' open to long as it causes damage to the rest of the world. To stop this the Gods agreed to close the 'door' to this new world. Some weren't happy about it but agreed it needed to be done. Most of the Gods had, in secret, gone there to have children. This gave them a chance to wind down for their Godly duties.
Most of them had actually created a body for themselves using their power which had the result of them being able to spend as much time as they could unfortunately they went in at different times so they couldn't keep track of one another. Most of the Gods chose adult bodies with the exception of Artemis who chose a child's and created hers to join another family.
This meant that they were likely to die earlier because the body could only handle so much Artemis was the exception as she put such a small amount of her power in her that she wasn't even demi-god level but was strong enough to live. The others eventually left leaving only Artemis' body there which would come across the dimension regardless if the 'door' was open or not.
As it was none of the Gods could cross to the dimension for the next 16 years so it would be then that they saw their children.