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Full Summary: "Naruto," Shisui broke his shocked silence, "your eyes... the Sharingan." | When Uchiha's bloodline limit awakens in a Namikaze, Naruto's life gets just a tad bit more complicated. Having a jinchūriki as a sister and a Hokage as a dad doesn't help things. At all. | Alive!Minato & Kushina, Jinchūriki!Sister, Smart!Naruto, Sarutobi did the sealing. Mangekyō coming in Shippūden. Crimson Eyed Uzumaki's rewrite.
And here it is! The beginning of the promised rewrite and continuation of Crimson Eyed Uzumaki, one of my first fan fictions.
I'm REALLY sorry for such a terrible story picture, but my PC is broken and I only have my pitiful, cheap laptop left that wouldn't ever run Photoshop decently. So I had to use limited amount of pictures on this laptop and an online editor to create it. I promise that once I get my PC back, I'll make a real eye candy.
I think I said all I needed in the 4th chapter/author's notes of Crimson Eyed Uzumaki, so I'll cut my babblings short and let you get to the story.
Reflections in the Sanguine Eyes
Prologue
The air in the council room was somber. The scent of death and the residues of bone-chilling, malicious chakra still lingered in the air. Konoha had just suffered one of the greatest catastrophes in her history – The Nine Tail's Attack.
It was instant and unexpected, even to the 4th Hokage.
After Kyūbi was transported away from the village, 3rd Hokage, Sarutobi Hiruzen, had managed to barely slip into the barrier created by Kushina's Adamantine Sealing Chains before it was fully erected.
After a short talk, he convinced Minato to let him do the sealing instead. The technique he used, Dead Demon Consuming Seal, didn't cost much chakra; it did, however, cost the user's entire life force.
Hiruzen dropped dead not a minute later.
After everything calmed down somewhat, the council was assembled to solve the numerous problems caused by the tragedy.
"...Now, we get to the final issue."
The Fourth's voice, although quite and calm, was easily heard around the room.
"The matter of our new jinchūriki," guessed Danzo. His voice was as indifferent as ever as he apathetically gazed at the village's leader.
"Yes," Minato nodded, "My daughter's status must absolutely remain a secret to the other Hidden Villages."
Shikaku's eyes narrowed. He must've seen the blonde's plan, "What are you suggesting?"
"The casualties measure up to several thousand ninja, and a few hundred civilians. Including the Lord Third. 1/4 of entire village has been obliterated, and the fire spread to another few miles before it was put out. Right now, Konoha is in grave danger. People are in a desperate need of morale boost."
"...You plan to reveal Aoko-chan's status to the village."
Finally, others seemed to have caught up with his idea.
Minato nodded in agreement, "Strange it may seem, all the immigrants that settled in Konoha in past several years were civilians. Many checks and tests have proved that. Chances of a spy in the village are extremely slim.
Save for a few higher-ups, no one in the village knew that Konoha had already housed a jinchūriki. Having witnessed the destructive power of the Nine Tails first hand, ninja will be delighted to know that we now have potential to harness such power in several years."
A few minutes passed in silence as everybody thought over his plan.
Finally, Inoichi spoke up, "She's your daughter. Jinchūriki have a nasty history of being persecuted. Are you going to let her suffer such fate?"
Finally, a tiny smirk broke Minato's dispassionate expression, "Well, looks like I'll be the first one to have changed that history."
Despite the chill of night, people's still strong and raging emotions prevented them from shivering in cold.
Both ninja and civilians have been ordered to assemble in the Hokage Residence. The enormous congregation of people barely fit inside the huge, walled area.
On top of the Hokage Tower—which was located in the center of the large expanse—walked out Minato.
His movements were regal, befitting his position as the sole ruler of one of the strongest militaristic sovereignties in the world. Even with his seemingly off-guard appearance, he had a faint but noticeable aura of extreme danger around him.
"Dear citizens of Konoha," began the 4th Hokage, "a great calamity has befallen our beloved village today. The unexpected attack of Nine Tailed Demon Fox took us all by surprise. A myriad lives have been lost. We may never see some of our loved ones again. A large chunk of Konoha has been destroyed.
But let me ask you a question: is this the first time Konoha has experienced such hardship?"
The answers were various, but they all carried the same meaning: no, it wasn't.
"Yet we are still standing tall and proud, and have been so for generations, have we not?
Yes, countless of our comrades have fallen. Yes, dozens of buildings have been destroyed. But we are still alive. I am still alive. Konoha's Third Hokage, Sarutobi Hiruzen, the man hailed as God of Shinobi and The Professor has given his life today so that I could live on. So that I could make sure this village will be brought back to her greatness. I will not let his sacrifice be in vain. Will of Fire still burns brightly within us, does it not?"
The crowd, that was once full of grief, roared, their sorrow being converted into the courage and strength of will.
"The road back to top will be a long one, but we will persevere, just as we had before! The names of the fallen will forever be remembered and engraved in the history as the heroes who saved Konoha! For all the lives extinguished, we will fight harder than ever! Don't you agree?"
Cheers and cries were deafening. Despite all the misfortune, one thing was set in their minds – they'd recover first and mourn later.
It took several orders of silence to calm down the masses.
"Now, there is a subject I'd like to talk about. You probably wonder about the fate of the Nine Tails."
The mood darkened almost instantly.
"Opposed to what most of you may think, it is not dead."
The explosion of outrage that followed Minato's statement were fully expected and planned for.
"Calm down, calm down! There is no need to worry. It is safely locked up, and I can guarantee that it will not touch our village for a long time—if ever. Sealed personally by the Shinigami himself, he has trapped it securely inside my newborn daughter."
The responses were—if possible—even more outrageous.
"Please, let me finish my statement before coming up with any conclusions on your own," Minato placated the crowd. "My daughter, Aoko, has not been taken over by the Kyūbi. She is the exactly same person she was before the sealing, and the demon will not influence her in any way. In fact, it is possible for her to utilize the Fox's power when she grows into a strong kunoichi. She—a citizen of Konoha just like you and me—will be able to control the humongous power of Kyūbi. Do you understand what that means?"
The civilians, who didn't really understand most of it, cheered along with the ninja population—who seemed to have grasped what their Hokage was implying—anyway. If those who knew about such things thought this was a great thing, then who were they to refute?
Let it not be said that Minato wasn't an excellent leader and a shrewd manipulator.
Unfortunately, what the Hokage didn't take into account is how much of an impact this event would have on his son's and Aoko's fraternal twin brother's, Naruto's life.
Prologue End
Read This, It's Sort Of Important:
Well, what do you think?
I wasn't originally planning to make a prologue, but thought that it would be better to not put two different things in a same chapter.
I think this chapter had a little 'too serious' feel to it, but that's really what I wanted. The Kyūbi Attack was no time for jokes and I tried to portray as much graveness of situation as I could. I hope I succeeded.
Since this chapter was a prologue, it was really short—~1300 words—so I tried to publish it quickly. I'll still do my best to have an actual chapter posted by the end of the week or—if really needed—only a few days later.
This was my first time writing a mass meeting, so I hope it wasn't too cheesy and disappointing. Add the fact that I wrote this at about 1 AM, I really hope it was okay.
Some of you may wonder why I made out Minato to be such a great person. I mentioned it already that I want to bash and 'neglect' as little as possible, and make such things as realistic as possible. So I'm trying my best to make him a great person despite not being the best dad. I think divulging any more information and reasons would be excessive, so I'll shut up right now.
As for polls from Crimson Eyed Uzumaki, the paring poll is closed, and the most likely candidate is Ryūzetsu. In case some of you don't know, she's a girl from the Blood Prison Shippūden movie. Tayuya has been suggested a few times, and I'll think about it, but I'll still probably choose Ryūzetsu. I mentioned this lots of times already, and I'll do it again – this isn't a romance focused fan fiction. Choosing Ryūzetsu compliments the plot I have planned greatly, and I think that's the most important thing.
Whether more Uciha's survive, Sasuke defects or not, and what team Naruto will be placed on have now been decided—all complimentary for the direction I've chosen this fanfic to take—so the poll for this is closed as well.
Now, the summons. I think dragons are really cliché(yes, I knew that from beginning, but I couldn't come up with another good flying summon), and I've gotten an idea to browse through Naruto fanon wikia. I found two that I really liked – Tsumuji, a wind phoenix, and Panthers, the ground summons. We've seen Sasuke use 2 summons - snakes and hawks, so I can choose 2 for Naruto too. Go Google Naruto fanon wikia and look up those two mounts, or just go to my profile and I have links there.
The summons poll is still open to suggestions, but only unique and not very cliché ones.
I want to post this rewrite today, and I'm fairly limited on time, so next chapter will contain some of the answers I wanted to give to the reviewers. Reviews submitted on this fanfic will also be answered in next chapter.
I'd really like to know your thoughts and opinions about this, so reviews will be greatly appreciated.
Thank you for reading!
