A/N: Hey, this is the first of many chapters of All in the Mind. I would just like to point out now that Minato is NOT using the Hiraishin in this story; the technique is similar but different and will be expanded upon later in the story.
Disclaimer: I don't own Naruto/Naruto Shippuden.
Arc 1 – Pre-Academy:
Chapter 1 – Proven Prophecy:
During the time of the Rikudō Sennin a prophecy was told by the Ōgama Sennin, it said:
A clan will rise far in the west,
blue eyes and blonde hair.
They will have the power of the mind.
Split into three: Telepathy, Teleportation or Telekinesis.
These will be known as The Kokoro Bloodline.
Another will rise from the Senju.
Born in whirlpools.
Fiery red hair and fair skin.
They will have the power of seals, swords and longevity.
This will be The Uzu Bloodline.
From these clans a child will be born with the power of three.
This child will have the power of two great beasts
He will save the world against its greatest threats.
For over a thousand years this prophecy was never proven true, the children of the clan only inherited one of the three, until one October night.
Lake on the outskirts of Konoha –
There was a woman suspended on the water of a lake, close to the shore, by seals that connected to the rocks that protruded from the water. She had a slender, but feminine build, fair skin, violet eyes, fiery red hair that fell down to her ankles with strands that framed both sides of her face and a black clip that parts her hair to the left, keeping it out of her eyes. She was showing signs of exhaustion as her fair skin had paled and bags were under her eyes. She was wearing a small, short sleeved white zip up that left her stomach exposed and a green blanket around her lower body. On her exposed stomach were seal markings.
On the shore of the lake stood a masked man, he was wearing a black full body cloak that hide all features about him except his face, that was concealed by an orange mask with a black flame pattern it also had a single eye hole that showed his right eye. The eye was different than a regular eye; this eye was blood red with a black iris that was surrounded by three black tomoes. The Sharingan (Copy Wheel Eye).
The man was staring at the red haired woman when she raised her head to glare at him; this was a mistake because as soon as her eyes met his he used his Sharingan.
"Kushina, close your eyes now!" Boomed a voice from inside the now named Kushina's mind.
"What? Why?" She replied.
"He has the Sharingan and he's using it to control me."
Hearing this Kushina tried to close her eyes, but she couldn't. "I can't."
"I'm sorry Kushina but I can't stop him. I'm losing…"
The voice didn't finish as it went silent.
"Emerge." The masked man was the only word the man commanded, this caused the circle in the centre of Kushina's seal to bubble and push from her.
Red chakra began to pour out of the circle and cover her entire body. Once the cloak was fully formed it shot up into the sky. As the chakra travelled through the air its form changed, the form it took was a fox head. As more and more chakra was released into the sky the more of the fox's body was formed.
Once the chakra manifested, what was left as a result was around a 400 meter tall orange fox, behind it was 9 huge tails swinging around wildly. It had black marking that ran from around his eyes to the inside of his rabbit like eyes. It also had a humanoid upper torso, arms and hands. His eyes were blood red with black irises, however three tomoes faded onto them but just as soon as they appeared, they were gone. It roared into the night, causing the rocks to crack and waves forming on the lake.
Kushina, exhausted from the night, collapsed into the shallow water as the seal shackles faded. The Masked Man looked down at Kushina, then back up to the fox. "Why don't I make the Kyuubi crush his former Jinchuriki?" He asked himself as the Kyuubi raised his hand like paw, but had a look of resistance on his face. He then pushed his paw down at speed and slammed it into the ground were Kushina kneeled. "You really are as quick as a flash." The Masked Man said to what seems like no-one until he turned around and saw a silhouette of a man carrying Kushina, bridal style.
The man was wearing a standard Konoha uniform with two bands on both of his sleeves; a green flak jacket, blue forehead protector, and blue sandals. The forehead protector was wrapped around his forehead with a leaf etched into it. He had blue eyes and spiky blonde hair that framed his face by two jaw-length bangs.
He looks down at Kushina, with concern in his eyes, returns the look. "Minato, is Naruto safe?"
"Yes, he's fine. He is in a safe place." Minato replies.
"That's good but Minato you have to stop that masked man from using Kurama to destroy Konoha."
Minato doesn't give a response and disappears.
"He flew away again." The Masked Man said as he turned away from the tree. "Never mind, let's head to Konoha."
Hokage Safe House –
In the little house, in the woods, all that could be heard is the crying of a baby. In the bed was said baby, this baby had blonde hair, blue eyes and three whisker marks on each cheek. This baby was Naruto Namikaze.
Suddenly Minato and Kushina appeared next to the bed with the baby Naruto in it. Minato places Kushina on the bed. As soon as she was laid on the bed she placed a hand over Naruto and he calmed down.
"Thank you, thank you Minato." Kushina said as she snuggled Naruto into her.
Minato looks on at the scene with a soft smile. He was a husband and a father and it made what he was about to do all the more difficult. He turned around and walked to a wardrobe on the opposite side of the room, inside the wardrobe was a white haori with a red flame design on the bottom and the kanji for Yondaime Hokage written vertically down the back. He took it out and put it on and ties it on the front with a small, thin orange rope.
Kushina turns away from Naruto to see Minato putting the haori on. "I may not like this but I know you have to do this. Just promise me you will come back to us."
Minato just nodded and disappeared again.
Hokage Monument, Konoha –
Minato reappeared on top of the huge replica of his head. He looked on in horror at what Kurama was doing to Konohagakure (Village Hidden in the Leaves). He knew Kurama wouldn't do this after he became sealed in Kushina as she befriended him. Now that Masked Man had turned him back to entity of hatred he used to be.
Now Kurama surrounded by the destroyed building on fire and was charging a Bijūdama and aiming it straight at Minato. He then shot it straight at Minato; it destroyed all the buildings in its path. Minato just stood there and as the Bijūdama stopped in mid-air as seals appeared and the Bijūdama was sucked in and disappeared. Nothing happened for a few seconds until an explosion happened a few miles behind the monument.
"I'll have to be careful. With attacks on such a large scale I'll have to choose the locations carefully." Minato thought as he looked back to Kurama. "I'll have to report what happened to the Sandaime."
As Minato was thinking about this a hand appeared behind him and just as he was about to grab Minato he sense the hand and spun around. However the kunai just went straight through the Masked Man's head and hand. As soon as the kunai passes through the Masked Man flips his hand and grabs Minato's arm.
"I'm your opponent…" The Masked Man said as he stared at Minato and he began to be sucked into The Masked Man's right eye. "…and it's all over."
Minato reacted by teleporting away before he can be sucked in. "He's fast. I can't waste time." The Masked Man said.
Destroyed Safe house –
Minato appeared in front of the safe house destroyed by the explosive tags placed on Naruto's blanket. "He can become tangible and intangible at a moment's notice, if didn't react fast enough I would have been pulled in. I don't recognize that teleportation jutsu."
While Minato was thinking The Masked Man appeared in a spiral teleportation. "I won't let you escape now." The Masked Man said.
Minato stands up and picks up a kunai. "He defeated the ANBU Black Ops assigned to the Sandaime, passed the highest level classified barrier and knew Kurama's seal would weaken at child birth. Even more than that he undid the seal and manipulated him. He got through the village's barriers without triggering any of them. As far as I know there's only one shinobi who can do all that."
"Are you Madara Uchiha?" Minato asks.
The Masked Man didn't reply to him, he only takes off his hood and takes out a chain with shackles on either end from his left sleeve. He then proceeds to lock the shackles around each of his wrists so that the chain was behind him while Minato got into a combat stance. As soon as The Masked Man locked the shackles they took off after each other.
However the same thing happens, Minato thrusted his kunai forward and it and he just passed right through The Masked Man and was caught by the chain behind him. Minato, having a feeling The Masked Man was going to try the teleportation jutsu on him again, teleported out of the chains hold and reappeared next to another of his kunai that were scattered all over the clearing from the explosion.
They both prepared for a second attack on each other, after a second of staring each other down they charged again, this time was different as Minato hurled his kunai in front of him at The Masked Man. It passed straight through his head, thinking he had this won The Masked Man reached out to grab Minato as they continued the charge however the instant before they would touch the kunai had fully passed through The Masked Man's head and Minato created a sphere of pure, spiraling chakra in his right hand, the Rasengan, and teleported to his kunai and slammed the Rasengan into The Masked Man's back destroying the back of the cloak and the ground he slammed The Masked Man into and also left a seal on his back.
The entire clearing was covered in dust and dirt, out of this jumps The Masked Man clutching is left arm as it melts off and Minato stands in the destruction looking on and doesn't say a word as he teleports to the seal on The Masked Man's back and slams his hand into his gut, causing the melting arm to fly off.
Minato then activates a Contract Seal on The Masked Man that breaks the connection between him and Kurama.
"With this you can no longer control the Kyuubi." Minato said as he jumped back to avoid any attacks.
Seeing that his plan to capture the Kyuubi has failed The Masked Man uses his spiral teleportation to disappear, content on the fact that the seal doesn't take affect straight away and the Kyuubi will keep destroying things for a few more hours.
Minato, seeing The Masked Man escape, decides he has to deal with Kurama and teleports back to the Hokage Monument.
Hokage Monument, Konoha –
Minato returned to the same spot he appeared at last time to see as similar sight, Kurama destroying Konoha.
"This is terrible."
Acting on this he began weaving hand signs. "Kuchiyose no Jutsu (Summoning Technique)!" He shouted and an explosion of smoke appeared in mid-air as a large toad fell from the smoke.
This toad was coloured a dull, rusty red, but around his eyes and on his lips and chest were brighter red markings. Over his left eye, was a large scar. His tongue had a series of stud-like piercings on both the upper and lower side. He was wearing a large blue happi vest that has the kanji ebi on the back, and always carries a massive dosu blade at his hip. He also had a large kiseru pipe in his mouth. This is Gamabunta, Chief Toad of the Gama clan of Mount Myoboku.
Gamabunta landed directly on top of Kurama, pushing the fox to the ground. Minato then appeared on Gamabunta's head.
"Kushina, forgive me."
"Gamabunta, I need you to keep Kurama down."
"What do you think I am? A miracle worker?
"In order to teleport Kurama I'm going to have to use a lot of chakra."
Kurama at this point was charging another Bijūdama and just as he ate it, him and Minato disappeared, leaving Gamabunta, the Konoha shinobi and the destruction.
Outside of Konoha –
Kurama appeared at the now destroyed safe house where Kushina and Naruto were and Minato appeared a second later with both his wife and son, exhausted.
"I need to create a barrier." Minato said, between breathes.
"You can't your chakra is almost gone, but I can." Kushina replied as she shot gold coloured chakra chains out from her back, Kongō Fūsa (Adamantine Sealing Chains). These chains burrowed into the ground and resurfaced to ensnare Kurama and create a dome around them.
With all the commotion, Naruto began to cry. Kushina looked at her son. "Did I wake you up? I'm sorry, Naruto." She then looked at Minato. "Minato I'm going to seal Kurama into Naruto or he will be used as a tool of war again. I won't survive it, so I need you take care of Naruto."
Hearing this caused tears in Minato; he leaned in and kissed his beloved wife. Then he turned to Kurama. "There is only one way to seal Kurama into Naruto and it involves splitting Kurama and sacrificing me in the process. But I have to do this for the good of both Kurama and Naruto and I can't let that Masked Man get his hands on Kurama as I suspect he had more planned for him than just destroying Konoha."
So Minato summoned a ritual cradle and placed Naruto in, he then began to weave hand signs. "Shiki Fujin (Dead Demon Consuming Seal)!"
Hearing the seal Minato used Kushina looked up in shock. "Minato, no you can't."
Minato turned to his wife. "I'm sorry Kushina but this is the only way to ensure that Kurama, you and Naruto are safe." He said as a transparent figure appeared behind him with long, shaggy white hair, from which two red horns protruded, and purple coloured skin. It was draped in a large white garment and carried a set of prayer beads. It also had a tantō in its mouth. This was the Shinigami. Also in front of the Shinigami was a transparent silhouette of Minato.
Outside of the barrier a man arrived. This man had spiked grey hair with a small goatee, his skin is lightly tanned and he has the wrinkles and liver spots of old age. He also had a single line running vertically under the outer corners of each eye, which stretched down into his face until they reached his cheeks. He was wearing combat attire, consisting of a black jumpsuit, mesh segments over the lower portions of his limbs, and a green gauntlet that covered much of his right arm. He also wore an armoured hood with a bandanna-like forehead protector over this, tied with two long straps. Across the back was written the kanji for fire. This was Hiruzen Sarutobi, the Sandaime.
"Those two are taking to the Kyuubi down by themselves by sacrificing themselves." He said.
Back in the barrier the Shinigami thrust his hand through the spectral version of Minato, causing the same wound to appear on the real body of Minato. The hand then reached out and grabbed Kurama and pulled out the Yin half of his chakra and placed it in Minato, leaving a spiral seal on his stomach. The Shinigami then repeated the process however took the remaining Yang half and placed it in Naruto but before the seal could be completed a white light came down from the sky and disappeared into Naruto's seal.
This caused some thing to happen as the Shinigami looked at Naruto with an angered expression. Minato, Kushina and Hiruzen were confused, not only for the light entering Naruto's seal but also the Shinigami not severing Minato's soul.
The Shinigami then just faded away as Minato collapsed and Kushina's Kongō Fūsa retracting into her back as she also collapsed. Seeing this Hiruzen ran straight over to the two, he checked to see if they were alive and were relieved to feel a small pulse from both of them but before he could help four people appeared on the other side of the collapsed couple.
Two of them were woman, while the other two were men. The two women had long red hair, one had green eyes while the other had blue and they were both dressed in loose black long sleeved tops with black pants that were wrapped in wrapping at the bottom, dark crimson sandals and a white medic coat over it and on the left shoulder of the coat was the Uzumaki clan symbol however it was different as it was yellow and red in a Yin-Yang style with a black spiral over it. The two men both had blonde hair, blue eyes and they were wearing skin tight black tops that same symbol on the back and trousers with wrapping at the bottom and very dark yellow sandals.
Hiruzen was in shock as he recognized the two women as members of the Uzumaki clan, because of the red hair, which was said to have been destroyed when Uzushiogakure (Village Hidden in the Whirling Tides) fell.
"Sandaime." said the taller of the blondes with a bow.
"Yes?" He replied.
"We are members of the Namikaze clan and the women are from the Uzumaki clan. I know you have a lot of question but they will have to wait."
"Of course."
Hearing this, the women checked on Minato and Kushina, then looked up at Hiruzen and the blue eyed one asked. "Did Minato seal the Kyuubi inside himself?"
"Yes but only half of it. The other is sealed within his and Kushina's son, Naruto." Hiruzen replied as he picked up the blonde baby from the cradle.
They then looked at each other with worry then back at the couple. "We will have to take them."
This set off alarm bells for Hiruzen. "What do you mean "take them"?"
"You see the Kyuubi is different from the other Biju as it cannot be sealed within anyone. It can only be sealed within an Uzumaki or Senju because of the large chakra reserves they are born with and the longevity both clans possess. If it is sealed with another, even half of its chakra, the chakra will kill the host. We have to take them back to the Uzumaki clan so they can transfer it back to Kushina, however because of how slow the extraction has to be it will take about five years to complete at that point they will both wake and will return." Replied the same Uzumaki, she then stood to look at Naruto's seal, however as soon as she started to channel her chakra into it white chakra emerged from the seal and the Uzumaki flew back. "I can't access his seal, it's being protected."
"We have to go now." The second Uzumaki said as she turned to Hiruzen. "We'll send someone to look after the boy."
"Its fine I'll look after Naruto." Hiruzen replied as the Namikaze and Uzumaki then gathered near Minato and Kushina and where about to go when Hiruzen spoke up again. "I want reports on how they are doing every month, I don't care how hard it is, as you are taking the Yondaime and his wife."
The taller Namikaze nodded to this request. "You have my word." He said as they all disappeared.
Hiruzen looked down at the baby in his arms. "You are the splitting image of your father." He said as he put his finger in front of Naruto and he responded by grabbing it. "I guess I will look after you until your mom and dad are better." He said as Naruto smiled and wavered his arms around happily, the sight caused Hiruzen to smile and he turned and took off into the forest towards Konoha.
Mount Myoboku –
Inside a stone temple sat a toad similar in size to Gamabunta however he was brown in colour, with a white belly, was very wrinkled and squinting. He was wearing a professor's hat with tassels and an orb on top of it. He was also wearing a necklace with the toad's village symbol for oil on it. This was Gamamaru, the Ōgama Sennin.
In front of him stood two smaller toads. The one on the right was a male and was a green toad with white hair styled in somewhat of a Mohawk, very thick eyebrows and a small goatee. He wore a high collared cloak. This was Fukasaku one of the heirs of the Ōgama Sennin. The other was a female toad and had a green underside with purple marking around her mouth and the back of her body. The top of her head looks as though she is wearing a hair net with hair-rollers underneath, giving her an 'old woman' look. This was Shima, also the heir of the Ōgama Sennin and Fukasaku's wife.
"Children, the prophecy I told long ago have been proven true. The child with the power of three and two has been born."
End of Chapter 1
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