BLOOMING FLOWER
A: N hello my readers my name is Light-Shadow and I'm here to bring you amazing stories. My other story Lightning's Scar is on hold while I fix up the chapters and plotline. Anyway this is my new fic. It starts on the final night of the Kyuubi's attack on Konoha and the sacrifice the Yondaime and his heir must make for Konoha READ ON!
Gamabunta's POV
Gamabunta slowly licked his lips as he gazed at the nine tailed fox standing a good mile away from him. Its tails swished through the air ripping up trees and swatting shinobi away from it like they were mere insects. Its slitted red eyes were locked on to the man standing on his head. Three tails whipped out heading for the Yondaime Hokage, Gamabunta pulled out his sword slicing one tail and blocking another. The third tail swerved around his sword and headed straight to the Yondaime who, after five minutes of seals was still about three minutes away from finishing his jutsu A: N I know it went faster with the Third but please he's sealing Kyuubi greatest of the biju it will take a BIT longer.
Gamabunta pulled his head back and the tip of the tail that would have hit the Yondaime hit him in the eye instead. Roaring in rage he shoved hard on his sword sending the two tails flying, reversing the swing he managed to clip the end of the third tail as Kyuubi pulled its tail away. Grinning as only a fox could it held its tail in front of the giant toad. He watched as slowly one drop of black blood fell to the ground eating through a tree like acid its grin got even bigger as red chakra surrounded the large wound reducing it to a scratch in seconds.
The toad licked his nervously licked his lips. 'One drop of blood spilled ONE!' "Arashi how much longer on this incredible jutsu you made?"
"……………………………….It's done."
Arashi's POV
It was cold. A cold he had started feeling almost eight minutes ago when he started the jutsu, it had started at his finger tips and now it was entering his very soul, it was a kind of cold that only one thing could produce DEATH.
'He remembered the first minute of the jutsu. He was riding in on Gamabunta the remaining shinobi cheering wildly now that the Yondaime was here, Kakashi saluted him before heading in to attack again. The Sandaime was standing by a lake along with all the elite Uchiha who had activated their bloodline, the rest were on the front lines. He was starting another water jutsu to throw against the might of the Kyuubi, all his actions watched by Sharingan eyes.'
'Why does it have to be like this? The war with stone was just finished we were just starting to recover. WHY DID THE KYUUBI HAVE TO ATTACK NOW?'
Time was literally slowing down for the rest of the world it was just the Kyuubi and himself the rest of the world was separated, different, unimportant. Kyuubi's eyes were slowly narrowing, realizing there was more to this jutsu and this man then it had first guessed.
A curtain of mist billowed out behind the Yondaime's back. Two ghostly white horns were the first thing to cut through the mist, followed by a head of white hair twisting in an unseen wind, and finally a face. A gray corpse like face that could send shivers down your spine just by looking at it. Clutched in its teeth was a scroll. The mists parted over its broad shoulders and gray arms. Shinigami floated in the air, his waist and legs hidden in mist, his body floating behind Gamabunta, his shoulders barely above the Hokage's head. His arm slowly lifted towards the body of the Hokage.
Smirking the Yondaime watched as the grin fell from the face as its eyes widened in fear, then narrowed again in anger. Letting out a roar Kyuubi looked right into the eyes of the Yondaime.
'FOOLISH MORTAL YOUR PLAN IS DOOMED TO FAIL. SHINIGAMI MAY DRAG MY SOUL OUT OF THIS BODY I FORGED OF CHAKRA AND DUST, BUT TO WHAT RESULT? YOU WILL DIE A SECOND BEFORE THE SEAL IS FINISHED AND I WILL ESCAPE ALL YOU HAVE DONE IS WON YOUR PATHETIC VILLAGE A FEW MINUTES, IT IS OF NO CONSEQUENCE!'
"YOU THINK SO KYUUBI? WELL PREPARE TO BE AMAZED!'
'I talk confidently but can I really pull it off? My chakra control must be flawless, my timing must be perfect, I'll have to control Shinigami though my will alone and my child's body MUST be strong enough to handle the strain the sealing will take. NO this is no time for doubts I've figured this out to the last second NOTHING WILL GO WRONG, I CAN'T MESS UP I'M THE YONDAIME!'
'YOU THINK YOU CAN DESTROY ME MORTAL? YOU THINK YOU HAVE ANY HOPE OF MATCHING MY STRENGTH, MY POWER? VERY WELL DO YOUR WORST!'
"Shinigami please, do what you must."
'AS YOU WISH'
The arm of Shinigami shot forward, going through Arashi's white coat and into his body, gasping at the cold and at the feeling of his life force slowly starting to be drained away, he ripped a hole in his shirt and looked at his stomach. Shinigami's spectral arm shot out towards the Kyuubi, the arm went through the smirking mouth of the beast and down towards its chest. The arm returned towards the Yondaime, a red sphere of energy, the soul of the Kyuubi, in its grasp.
The body of the Kyuubi stopped all movement stopped, its fur changing from a vibrant red to a lifeless gray and starting at the end of each tail it crumpled to dust.
Smiling at the cheers of every shinobi assembled, he gazed down at his stomach now covered in a spiral seal and the gray lifeless skin that was steadily growing all over his body.
'Damn I need all my chakra for this jutsu but at the rate Shinigami is draining my life I won't have enough time to make it to the hospital.'
"GAMABUNTA I NEED SOME OF YOUR CHAKRA!"
'ANYTHING FOR YOU ARASHI.'
Feeling the burst of chakra form Gamabunta he jumped down from the head of the toad and landed beside the body of one Sandaime Hokage.
"Congratulations on you victory Arashi."
"Thank you my friend now please come with me to the hospital I need your help."
Seeing the intense expression on the face of his successor he immediately agreed.
Scene Change
The main hospitol of Konoha was situated near the center of Konoha so luckily it had suffered no damage from the fire jutsus of the Kyuubi. On its top floor it had a special wing, this wing was composed of all the rooms that had a window looking east, on the top floor. This wing was reserved for the ruling classes of Konoha. That being the Uchiha, Aburame, Uchiha and of course the Hokage and their families.
Only one room was occupied in this wing, occupied by three people. The head doctor of the hospital, a beautiful raven haired women who's pale, creamy skin was covered in blood no one would have a problem seeing she was dead, and the third a small baby wrapped in a cloth.
The baby was lying on a table covered in seals, it was crying but the doctor didn't notice it had happened twenty years of serving Konoha as a med nin and his first patient had died. Two loud pops and a puff of smoke shook him out of his stupor.
Arashi's POV
Arashi looked around the room, waiting for the arms of his wife to hold him tight.
The hug never came.
Looking over at the bed he saw the still body of his wife. Her beautiful skin covered in blood, her ruby red lips gnawed to the point of bleeding. Any other day he would have been ripping out his hair in grief. Today it was just another sorrow in a day that seemed like a dream.
"What happened?" he asked in a strangled voice.
"It-it was a, sh-she d-died in ch-child b-birth Hokage-sama."
"I see, please leave us."
"B-but the baby!"
"LEAVE NOW"
"Yes Hokage-sama."
Tearing his gaze away from his dead wife he looked at the table there, still crying, was the baby that all their hopes rested upon.
"Hmmmm it's a girl not a boy. But she has my looks."
Chuckling at the joke Sarutobi looked over at the little baby girl his laughter stopped when he saw the seals.
"Arashi you can't be serious."
"I am. It's the only way any adult would die form the strain on their chakra coils before the seal would be finished, and she is the only child young enough to take it. Besides if I could not sacrifice my own child how could I ask another to sacrifice theirs?"
Not waiting for a reply the Yondaime flew through several seals.
"Fuuinjutsu Shiki Fūjin: Dead Demon Consuming Seal"
Shinigami's arm once again reached out of Arashi's stomach it flew towards the little baby girl and shoved the glowing red sphere into her stomach. The Yondaime watched closely as the seal shined brighter and brighter then finally fell dark, as if it was a tattoo.
"Good…cough, cough…she was strong en…cough, cough… ough to survive please my friend see to it that she is seen as a hero…cough, cough… she is all that stands between this world and the return of Kyuubi."
" I will Arashi I promise."
"G…o……o………d…." The Yondaime's shallow breathing stopped and his eyes fluttered shut. Kazama Arashi the greatest shinobi Konoha had ever produced was dead.
Looking back at the baby he noticed that the seal was already fading away and that six whisker marks had appeared on the baby. Three to each cheek. Rubbing the bridge of his nose the Hokage called in the doctor and told him to check up on the baby.
He didn't know how to tell the Village that Arashi was dead, but the Kyuubi wasn't dead.
Suddenly remembering something he lifted a small scroll out of one of the pockets on his robe. Arashi had given it to him before the came to the hospitol, breaking the wax seal that held it closed the Hokage read the last words Arashi Kazama would ever say.
'I leave every thing to my wife and child, if it is a boy the name should be Naruto if a girl Naruko. I know it won't be easy my friend but please tell the villagers I know they will understand my child's sacrifice. Oh yes I hid all my notes concerning the seal in the compartment behind my picture refer to that if anything goes wrong.'
Sighing once again Sarutobi rolled up the scroll.
Time Skip: Two Weeks
The repairs to Konoha had begun in earnest. With no one else strong enough to take the position Sarutobi was reinstated as the Hokage, a first in the world of shinobi.
But here he was Sarutobi the Sandaime Hokage standing on a stage with every shinobi and civilian in the village below him. The funeral for the Yondaime had just ended, probably not the best time to be telling them this but no other time was free in the next year.
Raising his voice above the collective muttering of the assembled people.
"Friends I have something I must tell you about the nature of the death of the Yondaime." The sudden silence seemed to quiet enough to hear a kunai drop. "I lied he did not die from chakra exhaustion as I told you." The muttering started up again instantly. "QUIET. In order to stop the progress of the Kyuubi he summoned the death god Shinigami to stop it."
Hundreds of people cheered at this and several shouted out there praise to the Yondaime.
"QUIET. PLEASE LET ME FINISH. He couldn't kill it and Shinigami could not hold it so it was sealed. Sealed into a child."
Holding up the child he shouted "THIS GIRL IS THE SAVIOR OF KONOHA."
The response was not what he expected. Mothers pulled children behind them, Fathers stood in front of their families in order to protect them from the 'demon child'. Most of the shinobi assembled pulled out kunai and prepared jutsus.
"WHAT DO YOU THINK YOU'RE DOING?"
"Hokage-sama that child is the Kyuubi it must be killed!"
"No didn't you listen she is the container not the Kyuubi!"
"You truly expect us to believe that a baby girl can hold back the might of the Kyuubi, it must be killed!"
Sarutobi snapped his fingers and four squads of ANBU surrounded him and the baby.
"I didn't want to do this but I must Naruko's status is now a Village secret. If any man, woman or child is caught speaking of this the punishment will be instant death."
No one was happy about this of course but four squads of ANBU do a lot to 'improve' a person's point of view.
Still muttering angrily the crowd began to go their own ways.
Scene Change: Back at the Hokage's Tower and two assassination attempts later
'I tried Arashi.' Thought the Hokage. 'They were just to blinded by pain and loss to see the truth." Looking down at the baby he made a decision he had been struggling with all day. "I'm sorry little one but even saying you're the Yondaime's legacy won't change their minds now. And you've already had two assignation attempts I don't want twenty."
"Very well Naruko your new name is Uzumaki Naruko. You will stay at an orphanage until you reach the age of six and can attend the shinobi academy."
A:N He did not know his wife was dead yet.
Well until next time Adios!
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