Madara gazed at the corpses of Minato Namikaze and Kushina Uzumaki. He loathed that man; he had the nerve to put a halt on his revenge! Who the hell did he think he was! He almost hated him as much as he hated Hashirama, almost. No matter as in his mind, Madara was the true victor of this battle.
Madara gently grabbed the baby from the ground with his only working arm, as his right arm had been crushed by Minato's rasengan, "What did they call him just now? Ahh yes, Naruto. Now what shall we do with you?"
Footsteps ruffled through the grass alerting Madara of Konoha-nin.
Madara's lone eye scrutinized Naruto for a split second, "No, no chances shall be taken today. You will come with me. If I take Yondaime and his wife's corpses along to, they might just believe you died and I stole the corpses."
Madara rapidly hauled them all together and sucked them within his vortex. They were teleported to a seemingly infinite dimension. Bare of any decorative detail, box shaped spikes protruding from the endless floor.
Madara sat, trying to rest the wounds from his previous battle. He had to decide on a course of action to take regarding the Kyuubi Jinchuuriki. Kill him? No, that would be foolhardy. He didn't have the time to raise the brat either. Heh, but he was sure his minion would.
First thing was first, he had to locate Zetsu and have his body repaired.
Konohagakure No Sato
Hiruzen Sarutobi looked upon the destruction wrought upon the Kyuubi's attack and sighed. He was too old for this shit.
He felt a tug on his combat armor and looked to see a small child, couldn't possibly be older than 5. "Sandaime! My parents were killed! Please bring them back, you're powerful!"
Hiruzen knelt down and hugged the child. A scoff interrupted him before he could say anything.
"Hiruzen please, you don't have a chance to console all these orphaned brats, especially not now with the village devastated."
Hiruzen glared at Danzo Shimura, they were childhood friends, but it was a pity to see what Danzo had degraded to with age. Hiruzen patted the young child affectionately and told her to head towards the hospital and proceeded to follow Danzo.
Hiruzen entered the conference room within the Hokage tower, everyone had gathered there. His Advisors, the clan heads, and anyone of note.
Hiruzen started the conversation in a solemn tone, "As you all may know, today Konoha has suffered its most horrifying attack since it was conceived by the great First Hokage, Hashirama. Not only did we suffer losses of countless shinobi, but Minato and his wife were killed. We can't be weak at a time like this; this is when our will of fire should shine the brightest!"
Most of the people gasped in shock at hearing of the murder of Minato Namikaze.
"So what course of action will we take now? We can't remain without Hokage for very long, the other villages we'll see this as our moment of weakness, and we can't give them more excuses to attack. They already wish to end the age of Konoha's supremacy." Shikaku piqued in.
The other clan heads murmured in agreement.
Danzo saw this as his opportunity, "I propose to be the new Hokage! Now in this harsh time we don't need will of fire, it'll only make us softer in our opponent's eyes. We need someone who can get this village back on its feet."
"Bullshit." Shikaku glared at him. "Under the will of fire we became the strongest nation and under the will of fire we shall remain the strongest. I vote that Hiruzen should retake the mantle of Hokage." The various other clan heads agreed.
"I'm sorry Danzo, but it appears Hiruzen shall retake the title." Hotaru said after she saw that Hiruzen had won unanimously.
"Bah! You're all morons!" Danzo spat and stormed out of the room. Hiruzen couldn't help but feel bad for his old friend.
Danzo returned to his quarters and sat entranced in his thoughts. "This was no freak accident, this attack was planned. By who though? Either way the Kyuubi wasn't killed tonight, it was sealed. Whoever attacked has the host now. I must locate him, if he learns to harness his Jinchuuriki power it'll be over for Konoha."
Danzo had a new target and it would be his at all means necessary.
Amegakure
"Pain."
A man with ghastly, pale skin and rods perceiving what appeared to be a large majority of his body appeared before Madara Uchiha.
"What do you want?" Pain replied monotonously while apprehending the baby's appearance. This was a jinchuuriki, he could feel it.
"You are to raise the Kyuubi Jinchuuriki. You may train him how to use his power, but make sure he won't be a nuisance to kill when the time comes." Madara handed the baby over to Pain.
"How has Akatsuki been going?"
"Very well, according to expectations." Pain responded as he was handed the crying baby.
Madara chuckled, if there was ever a thing as to monotone that would be Pain right here. "I've got a present for you as well. Madara warped the two deceased bodies from his dimension. Minato and Kushina lay on the floor. "Do with them as you will, his name is Naruto. Now I must get going." Madara warped away.
Pain tried to calm the crying baby, but to no avail. Konan walked up to Pain, she had been in the sidelines and heard the entire conversation. She offered her arms, Pain happily obliged.
This was what Konan had always wanted. A baby with Yahiko, at least this is as close as that reality was ever going to get. She rocked Naruto to sleep and nuzzled him to her chest. She had to admit she was surprised at how well she could do this.
"I'm sorry Konan, I'm not very proficient at this." Pain stated.
"It's no problem, Nagato. This actually makes me feel…happy, I suppose."
Pain lightly placed his arm on her shoulder, "I'm truly sorry Konan, you're the only one I actually care about."
Konan's lips twitched into a slight smile, "Well let's go find Naruto a room to sleep."
A/N: First Fic ever, just something I thought I'd do for fun. Not much to say, might've made an error in the timeline though.