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The Uzumaki Prodigy
Prologue: A Different Outcome
The moon was close tonight, hanging low in the sky, a faint red hue to its normally pale face.
It gave the night a dread feel, casting long, dark shadows across the village.
Minato could feel his heart pounding a bit more rapidly beneath his ribs, his fingers tingling as he kept them from shaking from the adrenalin.
He did not know his enemy, couldn't even see his face, only the red glare of his sharingan eye peeking out from his mask.
His enemy's voice was like gravel, rough and deep. An undercurrent of hatred coiling through his words.
"It's over for you now, give up."
He tasted copper, metallic and harsh, there was a pain in his chest he was becoming more aware of as the rush of adrenalin ebbed and his nerves could push the pain messages through the haze.
His enemy probably thought he had the upper hand because of that.
The sharingan user tilted his head, stepping forward, his shoulders bunched ready to press the attack.
And Minato was behind him.
The kick he delivered to the back of the man's head was fast, brutally hard, he couldn't have seen it.
Minato's foot passed through his skull with no resistance anyway, as it had every time before.
The red-eyed shinobi whirled around, faster than he had any right to be, kunai blade in hand, ready to shove it through the Yondaime's throat when Minato deflected it with one of his own custom tri-tipped weapons.
And there it was, the brush of his fingers against the man's gloves, the split second of contact before the man became incorporeal again, pulling away.
"I'll let you win this day but this isn't the last you've seen of me."
He swirled away through the crack in his mask Minato saw he was smiling ominously.
Minato ran over to where Kushina was holding the Kyuubi with her chakra chains.
"Kushina are you okay?"
She nodded weakly.
"Just low on chakra."
Minato smiled a wave of relief washing over him.
"I'm going to seal the Kyuubi inside of Naruto ."
Kushina looked at him concerned.
"There's no way he'll be able to handle all of it, it will kill him."
Minato nodded coolly.
"I know I'm only sealing the Yin half of Kyuubi's chakra inside of him,"
He gestured to his stomach.
"I'm going to seal the Yang half inside myself and transfer it to Naruto when he's grown."
Kushina nodded.
"I'm going to need your help."
They held hands and began to funnel chakra a barrier surrounding them.
"Let's get started."
xXx
After some time of fighting against the Kyuubi's chakra, they managed to seal the Yang half inside of Minato and began the process of sealing the Yin half in Naruto.
They had a majority of it in when in a desperate attempt to escape imprisonment the Kyuubi wrestled free from Kushina's chakra chains.
Swinging his massive paw he went to impale Naruto.
Seeing this Kushina and Minato responded more out of reflex than thought.
Leaping in the way of its claw they stopped it just short of Naruto's head but impaled themselves in the process.
Ignoring the blood pouring from their mouths and the pain in their chests they finished the seal and the Kyuubi slowly began to vanish.
Kakashi landed near them with his ninken and a squad of ANBU.
"Finally we found you!"
He ran over to them when the Kyuubi began to roar and flail sending dust and debris flying and Minato and Kushina sliding off of his claw crimson blood dotting the ground.
Kakashi grabbed Naruto and wrapped him in his arms protecting him as the last of the Kyuubi's chakra was sealed inside of Naruto.
The Kyuubi shot a shockwave of chakra at the ground and a white flash rang out, the ground crumbled, and everyone was sent flying away from the impact site.
Kakashi winced his vision blurry he grabbed his head with one of his hands holding the crying Naruto in the other.
He stood up wiping the dust off of him he looked around the crater and saw two of the ANBU were there.
"Neko, Tako go gather search parties we need to find Minato and Kushina."
They nodded each making a seal and flickered away.
xXx
Kushina awoke to a sharp pain in her chest.
She looked up through the rubble and saw three figures running over to her.
One of the figures made some handsigns and a white spectral arm lifted the rubble tossing it to the side.
Kushina looked up into the eyes of the man and was captivated by the crimson light.
He had a sharingan with a spherical pattern a raven wing coming from either side.
His short spiky black hair was swept behind his ears, and he wore standard issue ANBU armor with a crow mask attached to his right arm.
His chakra was unique a wave of heat radiated from him as if he was a flaming vortex given human form.
He coughed up some blood into his hand his eyes reverting to their original onyx form.
He wiped the blood stealthily on his leg his allies didn't seem to notice.
"Are you alright Kushina?"
She nodded weakly unable to expend enough energy for a vocal response her chakra was almost completely gone and she had lost a lot of blood death was near.
The man checked her pulse then set her down on the ground he made several handsigns then placed both hands on her wound.
"Fire Style: Great Fiery Closing!"
She cried out in pain as she felt the gaping hole in her chest burn shut the man turned to his two allies desperately.
"She needs a transfusion Katariah what's her blood type?!"
The girl made some handsigns and her eyes glew with a lavender light she scanned Kushina's body closing her eyes for a moment.
"B."
"What are your blood types?"
The man Shisuo looked at him.
"I'm an A."
Katariah opened her eyes.
"I'm a C."
He nodded sighing.
"Luckily I'm a B this should keep her till the hospital we'll have to get some O- soon though."
He took a kunai and slashed his wrist causing crimson blood to flow from the wound He reached to Katariah who pulled out some surgical tubing.
Sliding one end into his wrist they slashed Kushina's wrist inserting the other end into the wound sending precious blood into her system.
"My name is Shi don't worry I won't let you die."
Once an adequate amount of blood had been transferred Katariah removed the tubing before stitching and wrapping their wounds in gauze.
Shi turned to look behind him.
"Shisuo, Katariah take her to the hospital I'm going to help search for Lord Minato."
They nodded picking her up on their shoulders and rushed off to the hospital.
xXx
Minato awoke to a sharp pain in his chest everything was blurry and his ears were ringing he couldn't move his left arm and right leg was crushed under rubble.
"Lord Minato where are you can you speak?!"
A female voice echoed in the distance Minato winced his vision was blurry.
"H-here."
Minato raised his hand weakly the pain was blinding he saw three figures rush over moving the rubble off of him the girl activated a Medic Jutsu and began to heal his wounds.
She had short reddish-brown hair in a pixie cut and forest green eyes, she wore a forest green sleeveless shirt and brown shorts with grey sandals and tan fingerless gloves.
"You'll be alright stay with me."
He nodded weakly before fading from consciousness his eyes rolling back.
"No, stay awake! Shit!"
She picked him up over her shoulder.
"Asuma, Kotetsu tell them Minato's been found."
They nodded and she rushed off towards the hospital.
xXx
Minato opened his eyes, the hospitals industrial lighting greeting him poorly.
He blinked a couple times trying to steady his vision then the pain set in and he forgot all about it.
Hearing that he was awake the nurse checked his vitals before quickly leaving to fetch someone.
About five minutes later the nurse came back with the Kunoichi from earlier she approached him and activated a medical jutsu.
"It appears your vitals are good, there's no telling what effect it had on your nervous system though."
She helped him to an upward sitting position before smacking him on the back he winced.
"Well, now we know you're not paralyzed."
He glared daggers at her and she smirked slyly.
"Now let me check your leg."
She grabbed his right leg and he winced in pain.
"Sorry, no permanent damage just a broken ankle and fractured leg bone,"
She set his leg down gently.
"You'll have to stay off it for a few weeks but with proper treatment, it should heal."
The Medic ninja went to leave when he grabbed her by the arm.
"Where is Kushina is she ok?"
She nodded.
"She's resting."
Minato sighed a breath of relief.
"And my son?"
The Medic-nin smiled.
"He's in the nursery, now get some rest wouldn't want you to die of exhaustion Ne?"
Minato nodded apprehensively then drifted off to sleep.
xXx
Kushina awoke to the dark blue of the early morning she looked across the room to see Shi coffee in hand scanning the area like a hawk.
He had bags under his eyes and his hair was a mess.
No doubt he had been guarding her throughout the night when he saw she was awake he smiled and went to talk to her only to slip spilling coffee all over his clothes.
"Darn!"
He rushed over to a sink to wash his clothes before they stained Kushina giggled lightly at the amusing turn of events a couple minutes later Shi came back with a new shirt.
"Sorry about that."
He scratched his head and she just waved it off.
"Hey Shi you still owe me Dango when we finish guard duty would you like t-"
The girl blushed.
"Oh sorry, Miss Kushina."
The girl bowed Shi smiled pointing at her.
"This lovely lady is Kasai Sarutobi She's my girlfrie-"
Kasai blushed bright red decking him in the stomach before he could finish his sentence.
"S-Shut up Stupid!"
Kushina smiled they reminded her of when she and Minato began dating as she had that thought she heard a sneeze emanate from across the room.
Kasai bowed.
"I'll be right back."
She rushed over to go check on her charge.
"Are you okay Lord Hokage?"
He nodded rubbing his nose.
Kasai opened the curtains separating the two halves of the room.
"Minato!"
Kushina smiled reaching out her hand and intertwining it with his.
Minato blushed and Kushina turned her head to look at Shi.
"Where's Naruto?!"
Shi waved his hand dismissively.
"Don't worry he's fine he's in the nursery."
Kushina breathed a sigh of relief.
"Thank you for everything."
Shi bowed.
"It's my duty."
xXx
Kakashi was thoroughly miffed he hadn't slept in the last 48 hours, his sensei might be dead, his village was destroyed, and he was stuck standing guard for a council of entitled old merchants.
But he was assigned to guard the Third in case anyone felt emboldened by the recent turn of events.
"This is an outrage Hiruzen you're shinobi were supposed to defend the village yet here we are my store lies in ruins it could be a year before I recoup profits!"
Hiruzen gave a death glare to Hiruji the cloth merchant.
"Enough I am the Hokage for the foreseeable future and you will refer to me as such or I will have you punished for treason so sit down and shut up!"
Hiruji paled and shrunk in his chair.
"Now we can get down to business Shikaku what is the damage?"
Shikaku stood he was a tall brusk man with a scarred face black hair done up in a spiky ponytail and deep brown eyes.
"405 reported casualties many more were injured and immeasurable structural damage was sustained, in short, it's a drag."
Hiruzen nodded somberly.
"Send reparations to the families of those lost and work on a charter we've got a lot of work ahead of us to restore the village,"
He adjusted his hat taking a puff from his pipe.
"Pull all B rank and lower missions we need all the hands on deck if we're to restore the village, send out scouting parties we don't want other villages thinking they can get the drop on us."
He stood up, setting one hand on the table.
"Stay strong everyone the will of fire will see us through, meeting adjourned."
Kakashi walked out of the council room running into his rival Gai.
"Ayo Kakashi you wanna get breakfast."
He nodded tagging along they walked out to a dumpling shop and ordered Kakashi eyed up the cute girl with short brown hair behind the counter.
She blushed handing them their order.
They sat down with some hot tea and sticky sweet dumplings and ate together.
Gai tried to make small talk but Kakashi didn't have anything he wanted to talk about.
Even before the Kyuubi attack, he'd been on back to back assassination missions and the blood on his hands wouldn't go away.
"Sorry, Gai I'll talk to you another time."
He walked over to the green-eyed girl behind the counter
"What's your name?"
She blushed.
"Nami."
He nodded.
"You want to come home with me tonight Nami."
She nodded fervently and took his hand.
Gai gave him a judgemental look but he didn't care he needed to cope with the pain.