After the surprise success of Rainfall, I have decided to try out a different kind of story. Bare with me though as it is quite different this time.
This is The White Sage, I hope it is as intreresting as Rainfall seems to be for you guys! Read on my amazing people.
(This does not mean I have decided to stop with Rainfall, In fact it means I will be trying my best to keep them in competition with each other, thank you!)
It was a dark night in the legendary village known as the village hidden in the leaves. This single village was founded by shinobi famed for their godlike abilities, and caused a chain which eventually ceased the ancient clan wars. It has won every war that it faced over its many years, and has come to be known as the strongest of the great five. Konoha, or the leaf village, has produced many of the most powerful shinobi known to the ninja world, the first two Hokage's were the legendary Senju brothers, and then there was Hiruzen Sarutobi and his rival, Danzo Shimura. Hiruzen then went on to train the three legendary Sannin, Orochimaru, Tsunade Senju, and Jiraiya. Those three shinobi fought Hanzou the Salamander and lived to tell the tale, which was just the start for them. Then Jiraiya himself trained the current, and in some minds the strongest Hokage, Minato Namikaze. He is well known for how he single handily destroyed an entire battalion of Iwa shinobi during the last war, using his famed and feared technique, the Flying Thunder God. He also trained a boy who eventually made a name for himself too, despite not reaching adulthood he was already feared by hundreds of foreign shinobi for being the Copy ninja, and using his terrifying technique he named the Chidori.
Yes this village indeed does have a large history due to its shinobi alone, but also for the will of fire. In the village of Konoha the will of fire is something they pride themselves on, the second Hokage, Tobirama Senju taught his village and students all about the will of fire, and through his students it was taught to the next generations to come. This village has come out of enough wars as the victors to scare off the likes of Iwa, Kumo, Kiri and Suna, preventing any wars from being sparked at least for the next few years.
The leader of this famed village, Minato Namikaze, the fourth Hokage and the yellow flash of the leaf, was currently filing reports in his office, with three copies of himself helping out next to him. The position of Hokage wasn't as fun as most kids hoped it would be, sure you had complete control and everyone respected you, but most of it was just putting stamps on paper sheets over and over again.
Minato was a young man, with spiky blonde hair and bangs that framed his face on either side. His eyes were a calm blue that seemed to reflect the light as if they were the seas themselves. He had a mature face, with a pointed chin, and despite all of the work he had in front of he still had a happy smile on his face.
'The sooner I finish this, the sooner I can see Kushina.' He said as he somehow managed to increase his pace, if one were to peek into the room they wouldn't be able to keep up, not even if they had a fully mature Sharingan. It was true that he was excited to see his wife; his job kept him busy almost all day everyday so they couldn't spend much time together anymore, but that just motivated him to work harder so he could get back to her.
Most people wouldn't be able to handle not being together almost all the time, but not these two. They had been in love since they were kids, and felt so strongly about each other that not even the village would be able to come between them. In fact it was both of their dreams to become Hokage, and Minato reached his goal, and Kushina was happy for him.
Glancing out of his large office window he couldn't help but look at his face on the large Hokage monument, alongside three of his idols as a kid. Hiruzen had actually given him a lot of advice about being the leader of the village, and he respected the man for his power, knowledge, and heart.
Even Minato had to admit that nobody quite held the will of fire as strongly as the third Hokage. The man had been the rock of the village for more years than any other Hokage in history, but Minato hoped he'd one day reach that record. 'I still can't believe I made it.' He said to himself as he continued to stare, and at that moment he saw something strange.
It was like a bright light of something, maybe chakra, and it struck the Hokage monument just above his head. He felt a momentary burst of chakra but then it vanished as quickly as it came. 'What was that?' He asked himself as he stood up from his desk. Quickly taking his large coat, he vanished in a bright flicker of light, teleporting himself closer to where the strange light impacted.
Arriving on one of the large stone spikes created to resemble his hair, he jumped down to the ground, grasping a kunai in case there was a threat. As he got closer he saw something strange. 'This is definitely where it hit, no doubt about it.' Directly in front of Minato was a large crater that he most certainly knew wasn't there before.
Concentrating on sensing chakra, he concluded that there was nobody in the immediate vicinity with enough chakra to be a shinobi, before relaxing slightly. Jumping down into the crater he inspected it for any clues that would help him find out what happened here, but there was nothing. Sighing he stood up and turned, he would send some Anbu to check it out, and potentially a Hyuga. As he began walking he heard something, it was quiet but he could still hear it.
'What is that?' He thought as he began to concentrate on the noise, hoping to hear it again. At first he couldn't tell what it was, or where it was coming from, but just as he was about to give up the noise seemed to amplify. 'That sound... It sounds like...' He thought when suddenly it hit him. "A baby!" He shouted out loud, as he rushed further into the crater.
There, lying on the broken ground in the centre of the crater was a small, white haired infant, crying loudly. "Where are your parents little guy...?" Minato said as he picked the baby up slowly. The question was more to himself as he knew a baby couldn't talk to him; he frantically looked around for any signs of the parent while wrapping the baby up in his jacket to keep him from freezing to death.
He suddenly remembered why he was here, the light. Looking down at the baby he felt something powerful radiating off of him, a strong amount of chakra was hitting him with enough power to shock Minato. Looking around the crater he began to think. 'A baby with this much power, no parents, did he...?' He asked himself as he turned back to the boy in his arms.
He had finally stopped the infant from crying, and only now could he see the boy's eyes. His right eye was a dark red, resembling that of the Uchiha clan, while the left eye was pure white, looking almost exactly like a Hyuga's eye. This combination was new to Minato, but he decided it wasn't important. As the baby let out a loud yawn and snuggled into Minato's arms, the Hokage had a single thought. 'Maybe Kushina will know what to do.' And with that, Minato holding the small child in his arms flashed out of existence, heading to see his wonderful wife and hopefully get some help with the situation.
Kushina was ecstatic right now; she had just found out something amazing and couldn't wait to tell her amazing husband. She was even preparing a huge dinner for when he was finished working in the office, and had even cleaned the entire house to make it more special.
She had been, well, off recently, she was eating more, then less, then more again. She had been throwing up a lot, and her emotions were all over the place. She had visited the hospital thinking it was just a regular sickness, but what she found out almost made her faint. She was told that it was perfectly natural to be feeling this way, following that on with asking if she knew that she was having twins.
She had actually screamed the word yes, and people at the other side of the large building could hear her easily. She and Minato had almost finished their perfect lives, one of them had become Hokage, the war was over, they had gotten married, and all that was left of their large plan was to have a family. They both desperately wanted to become parents, and she couldn't wait to see his reaction.
Minato opened the door to an incredible smell of food; it actually began to make his mouth water almost instantly as he began to walk through into his house. 'Oh kami I'm so hungry.' He thought to himself as he began to think of how he was going to tell his wife about the child he was carrying. He could hear footsteps in the kitchen, and began to smile happily when he saw his beautiful wife staring at him, her long red hair flowing behind her as time seemed to slow down for Minato.
"Minato you're early! I have great news, and that means a great dinner too!" She said loudly, almost jumping at the sight of her husband, having missed him so much. Minato raised an eyebrow as his smile turned into a large grin.
"That's strange; I have news too, what's yours?" Minato asked hoping to hear more of his wife's voice having wished she was at the office with him. She immediately ran towards him screaming happily, unable to contain her happiness as she just blurted it out.
"I'm pregnant Minato! We're having twins! We're going to have a family!" As she spoke Minato's grin turned back into a smile as he couldn't believe her words. He momentarily forgot what he was about to say until his wife almost crashed into him, as she heard something. She froze mere inches from Minato as she heard what sounded like snoring. "Minato, what's that?" She asked curiously as she reached for her husband's coat and moving it to see what was beneath it.
As she moved it her heart seemed to skip a beat as she saw the cutest sight ever. There in her husband's arms was a tiny white haired child sleeping away peacefully. Looking back up to her husband she saw the confusion in his eyes. "I found him on the Hokage monument, in a crater. There was nobody with him, and even if there was why would they leave him in a crater on the ground? Before I found him there was a flash of light up there, I... think the light was him." He said slowly as he looked down at the boy he was holding, the baby beginning to wake up.
Kushina was shocked by what he had just told her, but how could a baby do such a thing? Her question was answered almost immediately as she felt a powerful amount of chakra burst out of the child after he opened his eyes. "Minato? What are we going to do? We can't just leave him, something could happen." Minato nodded at his wife's words, and had actually been thinking about it on the way over.
"I think we should keep him Kushina, he seems strong, so if we can raise him correctly then maybe we can help him control it. I know you just found out that we were having two, but if it means we can have a bigger family then..."
He was cut off as there was a small, but cute sound beginning to leave the infant's lips. Looking directly at Kushina with sleepy eyes he gave her a small smile and said the single word. "Mama..." The voice was quiet but seemed happy as the boy reached out towards the red-headed woman in an attempt to get to her.
Kushina felt tears in her eyes as she reached towards the small child, taking him out of her husband's grasp slowly and caringly. Bring the small boy close to her chest she began to cry happily. "Yes, mama's here. Minato, let's keep him, and give him a name and love him forever." She said with a huge smile on her face as she temporarily looked into Minato's eyes, before turning back to the baby in her arms. "I think we're going to call you Naruto." Minato heard her words as he got closer, hugging both of them happily as he too began to cry.
An entire nine months flew by with their new baby, and they were amazing. Turned out that Naruto was a quick learner and was already capable of talking and walking despite being only one year old. He wasn't much trouble, but they had to hide away the ninja gear as little Naruto had an obsession with kunai, shuriken and all other shinobi weapons with sharp edges, he had even found Kushina's old sword at one point.
All in all he was an amazing child and he made them the happiest they could be. He would spend the day with Kushina who liked to meet her friend Mikoto who had just had two children. Sometimes they would both go to visit Minato in the office, and every week Kakashi would babysit him and tell him stories. Jiraiya had come three maybe four times during the nine months to report back to Minato, and Naruto laughed each time the sannin made his entrance dance at the front door. He laughed harder when Kushina hit him for making a scene.
Something strange they noticed about Naruto was that he seemed to always know when anyone he was close to was near, as if sensing them. It started with just Minato returning from work, and Kushina took no notice of it, but then it stretched to Kakashi and Jiraiya, then even Mikoto and her children. They figured he just had an extraordinarily strong connection with the chakra around him, and it just proved that he would become something great in the future.
The day had finally arrived for Kushina's babies to arrive, and they chose to leave Naruto with Kakashi, as it would be unsafe for the boy to be there. See the reason it wouldn't be safe for him to be there during the pregnancy was because the woman giving birth, his foster mother, was in fact the Jinchuriki of the Kyuubi, a nine tailed fox demon capable of destroying almost anything in its path.
During the pregnancy of a female Jinchuriki the seal locking away the demon's inside of them is especially weak due to the strain of giving birth, so in order to keep the Kyuubi inside of the seal Minato would have to stabilize the seal until after the babies were born, then he would have to reseal it altogether. He would be against the clock and even a second too late could be disastrous for everyone, so they couldn't afford to have Naruto there with them.
They would also be in a secret location along with the head medic and several Anbu guards to keep them secure for the duration of the procedure. Few knew about the pregnancy and next to nobody knew of the location, as too many people knowing a secret lowers the chances of it remaining a secret.
Naruto was currently listening to Kakashi tell him about the cool jutsu he could use, and about missions he had completed over the years of him being a Jounin. Naruto loved spending time with Kakashi, he was like an older brother to him and Naruto looked up to the teenager a lot. Glancing out of the window he unknowingly looked directly in the location of his parents, in their 'hidden' location, before he went back to listening to Kakashi.
Kushina was screaming, and sweat was pouring down from her forehead like a waterfall as she shifted uncontrollably through sheer pain alone, as Minato tried to keep the seal stable and the medics attempted to do their job. "Almost there Kushina, you can do this." Minato said to his wife to encourage her.
Closing her eyes she arched her back and let out a final cry of pain, before lying back down and breathing heavily. The room was silent for a few seconds before it was filled with the sound of a baby crying, soon followed by another. Minato held his breath in shock and happiness as he began to cry slowly and happily. "Kushina..."
As he attempted to reach for one, the head medic slapped his hand away, giving him a stern look. "Mother first. You can wait." Minato refused to talk back as the woman before him actually scared him, and he had face hundreds of Iwa shinobi in a single fight without showing fear. The medic brought the two newborns over to Kushina, who had begun to regain her composure, although she was still breathing heavier than usual. "A healthy boy and girl."
Eagerly taking her children, her eyes watered as her mouth curled into a weak smile. They were both practically identical, despite the girls looking a little more feminine. They both had three whisker-like birthmarks on either of their cheeks, and their eyes were as blue as their father's. "Menma and Kazumi... What do you think Minato?" She said quietly and happily, glancing over to her husband who was currently wiping his tears.
Flashing her a large smile he immediately nodded. "Those are wonderful names Kushina." He couldn't contain his happiness, and all he could think about was showing Naruto his new siblings, knowing he would be ecstatic to have someone to play with, other than Kakashi. As he was thinking about this the medics took the two children, and despite wanting to meet his new children Minato knew what he needed to do and stepped towards Kushina.
Holding his hands above Kushina's seal in a hand-sign he began to focus his chakra, when suddenly there was a sound of bodies dropping behind him. "Step away from the Jinchuriki, Fourth Hokage." A deep voice spoke out in the back of the room as Minato turned around, immediately freezing. In front of him was a masked man, at his feet were the medics, but what made Minato freeze was the sight of his newly born children in the strange man's arms. "I won't ask again."
Naruto was sitting alone in the sittling room of Kakashi's apartment as the teen was currently in the kitchen preparing food, and the infant was sitting quietly at a window once more unknowingly looking in the direction of his parents. Without even realising it a tear dropped down his face, before suddenly he began to scream at the top of his lungs.
Kakashi immediately burst into the room at the sound of the boy crying, worried something had happened. Rushing to the boy he immediately took him into his arms as he began to cry hysterically. "Naruto, what's wrong?"
He asked hoping to understand what had the boy so unsettled as he had never been like this before. Naruto began to quiet down slowly before he lifted his small face so his eyes met Kakashi's single revealed eye, the teen noticing the sadness in his eyes. "Mama and Papa are in danger!" He said loudly so the teen would hear, before crying again.
'Danger? What does he mean, they're fine, they have Anbu guarding them don't they? Please say they are okay...' He thought to himself as he began to shush the boy. "Naruto, they are okay, nothing is wrong-" He was cut off as the sound of feet meeting the ground was heard behind him, turning he came face to face with his sensei and leader, with two children and an incredibly weak Kushina.
Minato had an angry look on his face, one that Kakashi had never seen before despite knowing the man for a long period of his life. Raising an eyebrow at his sensei, Minato quickly began to speak. "Someone was there, they were good, and somehow they knew. They wanted Kushina and used the children to distract me long enough. While I was gone with them to get them safe, he had transported Kushina somewhere else and unsealed you-know-what. We don't have much time, I am trusting you to keep them safe, I will be as fast as I can Kakashi."
Before the teen could say anything, the Hokage flashed out of existence once more, and at that exact moment there was a loud crash heard outside in the distance around the other side of the village. Rushing to the window Kakashi saw a huge plume of smoke in the distance, before suddenly huge claws and multiple gigantic tails burst out of the smoke, and with a loud Rawr the smoke was cleared to reveal a huge nine tailed fox, known only as the Kyuubi.
Naruto ran with his tiny legs over to his mother, who was currently weakly cuddling his new siblings. Crying upon seeing her weak, Kushina watched as her oldest son fell to his knees at her side with tears flowing down from his eyes. "Shh Naruto... I want.. you.. to meet some new people... this is your brother... Menma... and your.. sister Kazumi... and I want you to always protect them okay...?" She said weakly, as Naruto placed his small heads over each of the babies' whiskered sheeks, as he got a feel for their presences.
"Gamabunta, let's go!" Minato called out loudly as a huge toad, rivalling the size of the fox itself suddenly landed onto the Kyuubi from the air above it, with Minato on its head in his combat gear. With a growl the fox pushed the toad off of it with its tails, and with a loud crash Gamabunta landed on the ground, not expecting the large claw to come so quickly afterwards. It sliced over the toads eye, almost removing it altogether, and forcing the large amphibian to cry in pain, its voice echoing in the distance.
Gamabunta bent his huge legs, and with a powerful push he launched himself through the air towards the multi-tailed demon at high speeds, and as they struck each other they suddenly vanished from the village altogether. "It was the fourth! He's here, we're saved!" A few ninja called out; however the famed third Hokage only looked into the distance with a saddened look. Looking to a few local shinobi around him he immediately ordered them to follow him as they would need to back the Hokage up straight away.
Creating a shadow clone, Minato looked at his copy with a saddened look. "Bring them here, everyone of them. Tell Kushina I'm sorry." The clone nodded to the original before flashing out of the large clearing.
At that moment the Kyuubi fired a huge ball of compressed demonic chakra towards him, while he held his hands before him, grasping one of his special marked kunai. Before even reaching him, the large attack vanished as if entering a tear in space and time, before a gigantic explosion was seen far in the distance behind Minato, as he glared back at the Kyuubi that dared to ravage his village.
The clone reappeared with Minato's entire family, Naruto immediately running towards the now tiring man and hugging his leg. Looking down he smiled at his first son, tears appearing in his eyes as he began to go through a long series of hand-signs. "Get them both into position Kushina, Kakashi." He ordered both of them while his clone jumped off to distract the large fox during the long series of hand-signs the original needed to go through.
The Kyuubi saw what was happening and instantly knew his plan however. Growling deeply and loudly it reached up with a huge claw and sent it flying towards the two babies, going straight through the shadow clone in between them. Minato and Kushina saw what was about to happen and immediately jumped into action, but they wouldn't make it.
But one of them did. Naruto stood before his new siblings, arms stretched to the sides defensively. The fox, looking at the small boy that dared to oppose him, and hesitated. 'That brat! He looks just like him... But he is dead!' He argued in his head and decided to just go through the boy, however the slight pause of a hesitation was just enough for the two parents to arrive in time.
Naruto's breath left his lungs as the blood of both of his parents suddenly burst onto his face, as he watched the claw pierce both of their chest and stomachs. Letting out a loud scream he dropped to his knees crying loudly. Kakashi's single eye widened dramatically as a tear fell from it and onto his mask. Rushing to Naruto's side he held the poor boy, as Kushina turned to them both. "Naru...to... My brave... boy *Cough* I couldn't... be prouder my son..." Naruto's crying increased from his mother's words.
"We're sorry Naruto, but we need you to... mind your siblings now... they will need a lot of help okay...? But we believe in you and know that you can do this... I am sorry to you also Kakashi... you didn't need this... please mind our children... Death Reaper SEAL!" Minato cried out as tears left his eyes. Kakashi hugged Naruto quietly, but the boy reached out to his mother's face slowly, wiping her tears.
Minato felt weak as something seemed to pass through him, and watched as the Kyuubi froze in fear. A purple ghostly hand reached out of his chest and now began to pull of the large fox. 'Half for Menma...' He said weakly in his head as the hand reached over to his younger son and seemed to place something inside of him. '...And the half for Kazumi...' The hand did the same thing to his daughter. Minato then used the last of his and Kushina's strength to finish the jutsu. "Eight Trigrams SEAL!"
On the stomachs of the two crying babies appeared the black ink like forms of intricate seals, and simultaneously the fox disappeared and the parents dropped to their knees, before landing next to each other on the ground, their final breaths leaving their lungs.
At that moment Hiruzen and his small unit of shinobi appeared into the clearing, but they were too late. The third Hokage had a look of both sadness and regret plastered on his face. "Leave us, the Hokage is a hero, that is all you need to know."
Without any words back, the shinobi dispersed leaving only the third Hokage watching the sight of Kakashi calming young Naruto, and two new babies he knew to be Minato's and Kushina's. "Kakashi..." Hiruzen said as he began to slowly approach. Naruto crawled over to the two newborns on the floor while the teen looked over towards the third Hokage.
"Lord third?" He said quietly, still trying to process the events that had unfolded before him. "Lord third. I am taking these children to live me. I refuse to have them anywhere else, Naruto know's and trusts me, and I doubt master Jiraiya is going to arrive anytime soon, is he? If the council has a problem with it then they will lose their Jinchuriki's and one of their Jounin."
As he was talking Kakishi lifted an arm to his face, grasping the headband over his eye and lifting it. In his other socket was an implanted Sharingan eye, and this was just in case he had to defend himself having just threatened to become a rogue shinobi if anyone attempted to get in his way.
"Relax Kakashi, I will grant your wish, maybe this way they will still be able to have a childhood. I will keep it quiet for as long as I can, you have my word. Now go quickly, get home. Today has been rough, please get some rest."
What did you think of chapter one? Told you it was different to what I did to start Rainfall off, remember to leave a review to tell me what you guys thought of it, Honest opinions plz, no matter how harsh, Thanks guys :D