Making a Unique Path
"He's going to become a hero, I promise you" Namikaze Minato's last words to his beloved and no longer pregnant wife. He had a small boy, already resembling himself, carried tightly in his arms. Standing in the door, head tilted back so that she barely saw how his lips were trembling as he spoke. His always lively blond hair was dull and flat. The bags under his eyes showed his pain throughout the last 24 hours.
"I promise you" he repeated himself before taking a long step out of the room. Kushina could hear the hurried steps towards the stairs. A tapping sound that carefully lulled her into a never ending sleep.
Boy in arm, Minato made his way towards the other side of the village. He knew that he was the only shinobi able to stand up to such a terrifying beast, yet he didn't speed up. He wanted out of all his heart to spend more time with his newborn son.
Time went by far too quickly. Naruto slept so carefully in his arms that he couldn't wake him up. Not that he would wake if he tried anyways
An old man walked up to him from behind, gently put his hand at Minato's shoulder and said with the utmost carefulness: "We will never blame you if you do not do this. After all how can someone expect another person to sacrifice his life and put his own son's life in danger by sealing a beast in him?" Minato felt that the words were comforting and he knew that Sarutobi truly meant them. This was entirely to be his own choice.
"What's that?" Minato put on a prankster's face "If I'm not gonna do it, then who is?" Then he handed over the newborn child to the old Hokage and set off towards the nine tailed bijou.
He saw fallen shinobi all over the place. For these men
Then he lifted his eyes up to the crushed village. For all of this village and its citizens
Then he stopped, looked back towards the old man carrying the child. But most of all for you, Naruto. This will be my ultimate sacrifice.
With these last thoughts he unregretful left for his last stand.
The rest of the story about Yondaime and Kyuubi is known to all and I myself believe it was just the prelude to what is to come.
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Naruto came into the room and looked first at the piece of paper in Jiraya's hand and then at his face. "Ero-sennin, what's that?" He pointed at the note.
Jiraya had a tear in his eye, he was so close to revealing the story to his godson. At last his intelligent side got through to him. He lit a match and set the note on fire. "Just some bad research for the new book" Naruto looked clearly disappointed and almost irritated. "Tch, I should have known…" Then he lifted his hands up to the back of his head, turned around and with a grunt spat out the words: "Good night" before he left towards his own bed.
Little did Jiraya know how big of a change he just had made by not telling the blonde haired ninja about his past at this moment.
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A.N: I'm thinking of making this a story where all the Team 7 members at some point turns away from Konoha. As I've hinted in this"prologue" Naruto is tired from all the crap he's been through and he'll leave Konoha forever while on a trip with Jiraya. I'm thinking; should I show what's happened up until now or just continue from this point on a throw in a bit of flashbacks. Well since this is my first try I'm not expecting much of myself, but if I get like one or two that actually supports me I'll actually make more of an exciting story out of this. And yes at some point there will be pairings.