Me: yes I know I should work on other stories before posting this one, but this idea has been bugging me for a long time and I thing it's gonna turn out really well so yeah
Sally: No fair the more stories you have the longer it's gonna take for you to update mine!
Me: yes but you know that your story is the least likely for me to stop since I've planned it the most
Sally:...yeah well...you still don't update enough
Me: get over it, maybe if more people read your stories I'd update it more
Sally: Hear that people? go read my story!
Me: -_-' onto the story then
Me: I present to you, chapter one of What If
Kakashi's POV -night of the nine tailed fox attack-
I ran towards where the nine tails was last seen. Minato Sensei is fighting it, I have to help him before it's-
I stopped when I saw Hiruzen Sarutobi, the Third Hokage, walking away from where the fox was. As he got closer I saw he was holding a small child wrapped in a blanket.
"Kakashi."
"Yes Third Hokage?" Where is Minato Sensei?
"Please watch over this child until I can find an orphanage to place him in." He handed me the sleeping baby, it didn't take long to recognize the bright yellow hair.
"This is-"
"Minato's child. Yes. And the new jinchruriki of the nine tailed fox." But that would mean that Minato Sensei seal it into his own child, and Kushina likely wouldn't have survived having the nine tailed fox extracted from her in the first place.
And the cost of the sealing justu Minato Sensei most likely used is...his life.
"Minato Sensei isn't-" the Third looked away, "...I see" I looked down at the child, the only difference in his/her appearance from Minato's was the three whisker-like birthmarks on both cheeks.
"Her name is Naruto."
The next day
The Third was acting as Hokage until either they find a new one to replace Minato Sensei or they decided to just make him Hokage again when I was called to the Hokage office, and to bring Naruto.
"Kakashi, thank you for coming, I found a an orphanage that would be willing to take in Naruto." I looked down at the infant.
"No."
"No?"
"You can't send Naruto to an orphanage, she will be ignore or abused because of the nine tailed fox, same if you leave her on her own once she's old enough."
"Then what do you propose, Kakashi?"
"I will adopt Naruto." I told the third.
"Kakashi, you are too y-"
"I am a jounin and an anbu, I think I'd be able to watch one child." I said making it clear I was certain.
We stared at each other for what felt like hours, though it was probably just minuets, when Naruto started to cry as she woke from her nap; I started to rock her in my arms to quiet her.
The Third sighed, "Very well, Kakashi, if you are certain you can care for both the child and yourself, then I suppose you can adopt Naruto." I smiled under my mask. I was relieved that I would be able to watch over the legacy of my...former...sensei, instead of Naruto being sent to a foster who wouldn't care or even hate Naruto.
"However, if I hear that you are not able to care for Naruto then she will be sent to an orphanage." I nodded, I just have to make sure that never happens.
"Also I have made it forbidden for anyone to speak of the nine tails being sealed inside of Naruto, and for the few that know, that she is Minato's heir. After all if enemy ninja were to find out then Naruto and the leaf village could be targeted. And that includes you, Kakashi, you must not tell Naruto of either of these things either." I nodded, though I wished I could at least tell Naruto who her parents were, the Third did have a point. Though I'm pretty sure that the only people who even knew Minato and Kushina were having a child are Jiraiya, the Third, Mikoto Uchiha, and myself.
Besides if nobody Naruto's age new of the nine tails being sealed in her then she would be more likely to make friends than in it were public knowledge.
The Third sighed, "I'll get the paperwork for you."
"Thank you." I said as the Hokage left to get the paper work done, though I did miss him mutter. "As if I didn't have enough of that already."
Me: Sorry the first chapter is a bit short, but this is just the prologue after all so yeah
Sally: it's still longer than the first chapter of my story(s) *pouts*
Me: get over it.
Me: please comment your thoughts, questions, concerns, criticism, whatever and I'll respond in the next chapter ^.^ and keep in mind that I'll update faster once I get proof that people read and/or like my stories. (p.s. I also wouldn't mind if read my other stories, just sayin')