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Death of a Demon
It is said that the Multiverse is never ending, where every choice creates a new universe. On this world alone there are nine demons that roam the planet so the idea that there are other worlds or other universes with more demons or worlds full of demons is not out of the realm of possibility.
Demons are said to be the opposite of gods, but what are demons and gods? There are some civilisations that quite often see their leaders as gods, so if there was a creature with great power say enough power to destroy a mountain then it is possible that this creature would be seen as either a demon or god or possibly both.
On our world the nine demons are too strong to be killed through normal means, so the people of the world came up with creative ways of dealing with them, using a skill which is not understood very well the demons were contained within object and people (the stronger ones could not be held in objects for long). This skill (sealing) uses lines to control the flow of chakra (energy created from the body and spirit combined), as the lines can be any shape it allows chakra to be shaped into more complicated shapes with less chakra used. If a line on a seal is misplaced or slightly out of place it can have drastic effects from slightly changing the efficiency of the seal to making the seal backfire.
Minato Namikaze atop of a giant toad used one of his signature techniques to move both himself and Gamabunta to face the Kyuubi that had been released from his wife to attack their village by Madara Uchiha. Minato after facing off against the Uchiha now had to face the most powerful being known to their people, to save as many people as he can as Konoha's (the village where he lives) shinobi were trying to push it back, he asks Gamabunta to hold off the Kyuubi whilst the giant toad does what asked of him (not without complaint) Minato gets in close and uses his signature technique one more time, this time to move both himself and the Kyuubi.
"Kushina what are you doing here?" Minato exclaimed as his wife carrying their new born son in her arms was present at the sight he and the Kyuubi appeared, Kushina restrained the Kyuubi using her special chakra in the form of chains.
"I will draw the Kyuubi back into me with the last of my chakra so it will die with me!" The tomboyish redhead spoke with tears in her eyes "You made me happy by loving me, there's nothing that I could imagine that would make me happier than to live with you and see our son grow up."
Minato moved quickly to embrace his love knowing it will be the last time with tears in his eyes his heart and throat both burning, still embracing his wife he starts making seals using his hands "I will give you the chance to see our son growing up, I will seal your chakra inside of him with the fox, know that my time with you has been better than all that I could have wished for, I love you!" with that Minato finished the last hand seals for the dead demon consuming seal.
This seal opened a hole throughout the multiverse with his son at the focal point, everyone throughout the world felt a shiver go down there back as if someone was walking over their graves. This hole in the multiverse only lasted for a couple of minutes but in that time the creature thought of as the god of death (If something is only seen when summoned without contract kills both summoner and target it gains a reputation), a creature of ineffable size and power attacked the Kyuubi with as much power as the portal could allow through, the nine tailed fox was almost killed in the attack and left virtually powerless. Before the fox had chance to recover the hole in the multiverse started to close and pulling the fox towards the young baby, Kushina's chakra that was surrounding the fox was pulled along with it into the young child via the seal.
Whisker marks appeared on the young boy's cheeks and a spiral tattoo on his stomach, the tattoo glowed for a few seconds before breaking and evaporating off his skin leaving behind a small red diamond just above his navel.
Minato was in excruciating pain knew he didn't have long to live but held on until Sarutobi Hiruzen appeared at his side, he was almost delirious at this point but he got out what he wanted to say even with his vision fading "Please protect Naruto he is all that's left of my love and our greatest achievement, please let him know that we both loved him and are proud of whatever he becomes, he is a hero before he can walk…" Minato lets out his last breath and collapses on the floor next the one who brought him his greatest happiness.
With a tear falling slowly from his brown eye Sarutobi moves over to Kushina and removes the sleeping bundle from her protective grasp before issuing commands to the ANBU in the surrounding foliage with an emotionless voice "Prepare them for burial, Inu go to their house and seal up all of their possessions, you'll need to be quick before the council catch on. Deliver them to my estate later on and don't hand it over to anyone but me, Uma get me a list of all new mothers and the rest of you gather the council, bring order back to the village and patrol the surrounding area move out."
It was several hours later before the whole council was assembled and Sarutobi again wearing the Hokage's robes of office was seated in front of them still holding the sleeping baby in one arm, the other holding a list his eyes slowly going through it. He looks to see most of the council there and the ones that weren't were probably not going to turn up for various reasons such as the giant nine tailed fox that crushed them or their family.
"As you can no doubt tell Minato fell facing the demon fox, as such I will be taking control of the village until I can find another worthy successor or I fall in battle as is dictated in the village mandate." Silence followed this announcement and many of the council had their heads bowed remembering the man that ended the last war and brought prestige to their village.
After a brief stint of silence Sarutobi continued "As you know it is impossible to kill a bijuu through normal means…" a small pause in anticipation of the outcry that he knew will follow his next statement "so Minato sealed the Kyuubi inside the new born child I'm holding." As expected there were cries of revenge amongst the council, mainly from the civilian side as they have less knowledge of seals than the shinobi side.
Sarutobi kept his peace until the council quietened down again "The child Naruto is as far as we know an orphan and will be known as Naruto Uzumaki out of respect for the former containers until such time as his parents are discovered, until then I will place him in a suitable home and he will be protected by ANBU until he can look after himself. There is to be no discussion on this anyone that is found trying to hurt Naruto will be considered a traitor to the Village anyone who is found informing others that Naruto is a Jinchuuriki will be considered a traitor and be executed on the spot. Danzou I know you will want to train the boy to be a weapon and I refuse, the boy will be given an elite tutor from the age of two until he reaches the age of academy graduation where he will be put on a team with people his own age."
With that said he stood, the council standing with him out of habit, and headed towards the Hokage's office to re-acquaint himself with it Naruto and the list still in his hands. Upon reaching the office he kicked it closed and barely made it to his chair before his emotionless face broke, he looked at the peaceful face of the child and thought as dreadful that this day was it could have been a lot worse.
Concentrating on the list in his other hand, automatically excluding clan mothers as that would cause hell with the other clans; he selected a few women who were shinobi on leave due to recently giving birth and made a new list of possible surrogate mothers for Naruto. With that done he went through any urgent paperwork (there wasn't much as people tend to forget paper work when a two hundred and fifty foot fox attacks) and wrote down instruction for the secretary to make sure the town gets back on its feet tomorrow put a reminder for a memorial service in his calendar before heading home.
A dog faced ANBU met him at the front of his estate and handed him a scroll "Good work Inu, I want you to call the women on this list to the tower tomorrow, make sure there is a half hour gap between each appointment." He handed the list of new mothers to the ANBU agent who bowed and left in a whirl of leaves. Sarutobi looked up at the starry night briefly before entering his family home.