So starts my first FanFiction on , like all beginner fanfictionists i do hope that you will review and give some good constructive criticism to tell me what you like or don't like about my writing style or story in general. I have had ideas on the pairings in the story however i will not be swayed on who they will be so you'll just have to wait for me to make up my mind.

DISCLAIMER: I DO own naruto GWAHAHAHAHAHAA... did i mention its opposite day?

Thus I begin the story : A Ninja's Fantasy

Ninth of October

11:48 PM

South Konoha Medical

Twas a peaceful night as a cry resounded from one of the rooms in the hospital. The sound was a well known to a majority of medical staff, for it was the crying of a new born child. Within, the nurse present cut the cord connecting the child to its mother, the umbilical cord, while at the same time checking the gender of the newborn and following up by wrapping it in a baby blue blanket.

"It's a boy!!" the nurse happily chimed as she handed the crying baby to its mother, who gladly held him in slender her arms. Tears were flowing down here face not only for the pain that had not resided from giving labour but also happiness, happiness that she had another person to love and care for along with her husband who was standing next to her, holding her hand, like he always had.

"He's beautiful Kushina…" the husband solemnly whispered into the new mother's ear as he brushed her blazing red hair away from her sweaty face and stared into her tired and tearing green eyes. The nurse left the room quietly to let the newly enlarged family their time to bond.

"Yes, he is isn't he?" Kushina followed looking into the cooling deep blue eyes of her son and thumb brushing through his hair "did you hear that Naruto-kun? You've only just been born and yet you're already beautiful" she continued to cradle the new born and to his parents surprise Naruto stopped crying as he opened his eyes wide to look at his parents "he looks just like you Minato-kun… the same hair, the same eyes… I'm imagine you'll be popular with the girls when you grow up Naruto-kun, just like your father"

"Yeah…" was all Minato could say for the realisation just hit him he now has a child, call him selfish if you want but he thought about how would he balance taking care of his son with his previous works? Would he have to cut time to take care of his son or just leave the care taking to Kushina?

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For the next few hours the trio simply cuddled together. However they would have gladly stayed longer were it not for the earthquake that shook the hospital and most likely the rest of Konoha judging from the strength of the quake. But, something was bothering Minato, it was the sound of the quake, it did not sound like a quake would and he would know being part of the ninja wars against Iwa, the village hidden in the stone, which had inhabitants that used their abilities to shake the earth. No its sound resembled a low growl.

Minato looked at the time… the clock on the table showed: 3:00 AM. Minato then shifted his gaze to his family, they were both sleeping peacefully and decided it would be the best time to make an escape to check what was happening, he hoped it was just another unexplainable force of nature.

Minato exited the hospital quietly and headed to his headquarters the Hokage Tower, after all he was the Hokage, to see if there were any reports of abnormal activity. He walked at a reasonable pace incase there was something abnormal happening but not fast enough to alarm as to people, leading them to believe that there was something wrong.

Upon reaching the towers main lobby he was assaulted by a barrage of reports but wherever he turned he could always hear four simple words that struck him hard "KONOHA IS UNDER ATTACK!!!"

Minato kept a cool head even though the ones around him were panicked like headless chickens, however his cool head did not stop the ones around him from being so loud as to totally nullify his ability to speak. So he took a deep breath and shouted at the top of his lungs "SILENCE!!" then all was silent and Minato continued "all of you who are ninja prepare for battle, those who are not report to me in a calm and dignified manner… dismissed." Many of those who were there nodded and most left to prepare for the battle ahead of them. However Minato himself did not know who, or possibly what they were fighting against, the answer came in the first verbal report "H-Hokage-sama... w-we are being attacked b-by the Kyuubi… the nine tailed bijuu… it is bound to our direction, approaching the north walls of Konoha…" the reporter was silent as Minato's eyes widened then quickly narrowed.

"I see…" he spoke as he bowed his head just enough to keep his eyes from visibility.

"Hokage-sama? What are your orders sir?" the "reporter" questioned

Minato raised his head and answered the question "go... take those who are behind you and wake all the people of the village… tell ninja to prepare and civilians to start evacuating"

"sir… what of the shelters of the Hokage monument? Couldn't we hide there?" the reporter gave her idea

"no… this is a bijuu we are talking about… the greatest of all nine, it would capable of tearing down the monument in a blink of an eye so no… you must evacuate…" Minato explained and lowered his head once more thinking of a way from averting the destruction of his village without the use of 'that' technique. His wife and son would need him most now but he could see no way out. He raised his head up and spoke once more "wait…" the group of people ready to leave did just that.

"Hokage-sama?" one asked but all sharing a confused expression.

"don't go too far unless you see the village burn…" Minato explained "the whole village"

"O-okay Hokage-sama" and with that the group left to do their appointed task.

Another resounding rumble made its way across the air as the earth he stood on shook. Moments later he heard the voices of his comrades shouting battle cries, jutsus and of the sort and Minato said to himself "so… it begins" as he stood up and started to erupt in a yellow flash "and soon… it will end"

Minato arrived in front of the hospital with another yellow flash and calmly walked in noticing the calm around him. 'guess the news hasn't arrived here yet… I do hope it won't get here at all.' He thought as he walked passed quite a few rooms and stopped in front of one… room 195.

Slowly he reached for the door knob and grasped it tightly, twisting and pushing slowly it as to not make a sound as it opened and walked in with a stealthy manner. He looked on the bed and found his wife and child, both of which were sleeping, he was sure that they would have their lives changed in mere moments. Minato let a few tear drops slide down his cheek and moved towards the bed. Looking at his loving wife he whispered softly "…I'm sorry, that is all I can say and I hope that one day you could forgive me for what I am about to do to you, me and our son" he shifted his gaze to the baby that was Naruto and moved his own hands to lift the boy out of his mother's arms "N-Naruto to you I am sorry that I will never be there for you and your mother, that I will never see you grow up and find love, that I wont see you make a name for yourself. But I am most sorry to what I am going to do with you, I will burden you with a horrible curse that I am sure even if I try to stop them, the village will hate you for."

With that he proceeded to walk out of the room, only to bump into the previous Hokage, Sarutobi Hiruzen. The aged man noticed the bundle in the man's arms and knew his plans instantly and began to speak "Minato… don't to it I will gladly substitute as the container… even if it would kill me, which undoubtedly it will" Hiruzen cursed the way he said that as he knew he shouldn't have said it would kill him.

Minato looked back at the man and answered the aged Sarutobi's statement "I'm sorry Hiruzen but I must do this on my own and I couldn't die in peace knowing I would take you with me" and tried to walk past the elder only to be blocked by said elder.

"And you're to curse your son on the way?!" Hiruzen spoke loudly trying to shake Minato out of his ideas

"I can only trust him with this burden Hiruzen and if you die which figure of power will be left to protect him? His mother? We both know she holds almost no political power here."

Minato had a point however Hiruzen did not want to fall back and spoke more "then I will do the jutsu while you survive to protect him yourself!"

Minato sighed as he saw a problem "we both know that your years are numbering on their lower side and that may lead you to not fully sealing the beast away, you already know I wont let you die, and apart from you and me the only other person that knows of the jutsu is Jiraya-sensei and he's off who knows where… so it must be this way, and, if you wont move out of my way then I am sorry Hiruzen" and with those words he lunged forwards at unbelievable speeds that caught Hiruzen off guard but only for a moment.

"Minato stop this madness! I can do it!" opposed the old Hokage as he parried blow after blow of Minato's strikes.

"I am the Hokage now and it is MY duty to protect this village even if it costs my family, I'm sure they would understand my responsibilities!" Minato pushed forward with his son still in his arms, showing how truly skilled he was. The elder Sarutobi was forced back from the unrelenting flurry of blows.

"NO! Minato you are a fool then! This village is not only yours to protect! All the ninja of the village are here to protect it too! And thus I shall do it! I have enough life in me to do that at least! Then you will survive to be with your son!" the aged professor argued and continued to push the fact that he would live to be with his son as he tried to push Minato back down the hall with his own barrage of strikes, however unfruitful the attempt was.

"I have wasted enough time here! Sarutobi at least try to see to it that he becomes a hero! This will be the last time you see me Sarutobi and we should be solemn not fighting! But I know you would never let up, your spirit is too strong, so… good bye Sarutobi…" and with a quick yellow flash Minato was behind Hiruzen and knocked him out with a swift blow to the neck. Needless to say Hiruzen was surprised as he fell onto the ground with a resounding thud.

Minato had begun to make his way to the exit when he heard yells from outside "WAKE EVERYONE UP AND GET OUT OF HERE!!" from some of the more calm people whereas some simply yelled "RUN-AWAY!!." With that he knew he must go quickly lest Kushina wake. With a quick yellow flash he was gone.

Meanwhile in hospital room 195, the noise had gotten to Kushina and she started to rouse from her sleep and felt something missing or out of place… maybe both, then realisation hit her in the face with significant force "WHERE THE HELL IS NARUTO?" she wailed at the top of her lungs as she jerked forward. She had a bad feeling and coupled with the fact that she heard screams of "the Kyuubi's gonna kill us!!" she knew of only one reason why Naruto was gone, how ever much Minato didn't like it, she knew of the 'that' Jutsu and dashed out of the room to find an unconscious Hiruzen on the floor and tried once to rouse him by slapping him in the face but achieved no response. Kushina was in too much of a hurry to care if the aged man would wake and left him on the hospital floor and dashed for the north side of Konoha in her hospital gown, she was slightly slower than a jonin ninja but that was due to the fact that she was a samurai not a ninja, nevertheless she was fast enough… She thought.

As she leapt across the roofs or the village she started to feel it, she was weakening, after all she had given birth only a few hours ago, any blood she may have lost had not been replenished. That's when she saw it, a monstrous figure, a massive mass of red, blood red, and it was in the middle of the north side of Konoha, littered around it were the remains of once strong buildings. Suddenly she felt energy rush into her but it did not feel like her own, she was so close to saving her son and husband from… himself?

To Kushina it mattered not who she was saving them from as long as they would be safe. It was all that mattered to her presently and she wouldn't care if she died along the way, as long as they were safe she wouldn't care, with that she continued to race towards the hulking beast.

Kushina had been running for at the most 3 minutes and was so close she could feel the power rolling off the beast in great waves, she slowed slightly at the power of the waves but ventured onwards. Until she spotted a man in a great white cloak that stood out in the night standing on top of a massive toad, the boss summon Gamabunta no doubt, she stood in shock as she saw the man jump onto the massive beast's head which she could clearly see as a fox now. That's when another wave hit her, not of power but of fear… he was going to do it in only mere moments and thus she used the majority of her power in one massive jump that would give her enough distance to reach the foxes head. Reach it she did but all in vain as the Hokage finished up his jutsu which had its chant muted by the terrifying roar of the fox below them. Kushina lunged out to them only to see Minato smiling and waving goodbye to her as he cried and held their son. A great explosion of light and sound erupted which seemed ethereal as it did not effect the surroundings apart from a strong wind which blew all close by away. Gamabunta was dispelled as the link keeping him in the realm was gone.

Kushina cried as she flew through the air at high velocities, she had lost her husband and most likely her child if he was affected like she was, the force of impact with the ground would most definitely kill him. So she cried as she closed her eyes half hoping that the inevitable impact with the ground would kill her too… "I'll see you soon Minato" she whispered

What Kushina did not know however was that Naruto was not sent through the air like she was, as a matter of fact he was slowly lowered down to the ground by an unseen force though some claim that they saw wispy red tendrils leading him down softly onto the ground. For whatever the reason, Uzumaki Namikaze Naruto had survived… amidst all the death and chaos.

Well.... how is that for a first chapter? Anyway please tell me what you think, constructive criticism welcome, flames maybe... depending on color(YAY RED AND BLUE!)