Dark Credence

Author's Note: My first 'legitimate' story! I know you'll enjoy this, but if not, I don't care. Try and give as much criticism and praise as you can in your reviews; it's the best way to keep an author updating!

Disclaimer: Even if I did own Naruto, the studio that would own ME; will make this story trash. Luckily, I own myself. That's something, right?

Chapter 1; Born 'Apo' Death

A husk of power, the monstrosity of power known as the Kyuubi No Yoko raged with unrelenting ferocity. Its orange tails staggered under the demeaning pressure of the golden chains that dethroned him to his submissive position. He bristled with his snout, atrocities of pure hate burning from his gaze towards those who dared him with such humiliation. Pierced by the claw of the seething Biju, the two known as Uzumaki Kushina and Namikaze Minato writhed with strained teeth. Beads of sweat swept down their faces as a numbing sensation flowed upon their abdomens. The look in their eyes tred by with a wavering shiver, as Kushina's orbs thawed from a streamline of salted tears.

They hung from the Chakra Monster's bare claw. Minato's stone cold maw failed in hiding the blood that slittered from his lips. Their bloodshot eyes dripped down to the pint figures below them. Two backs were arched, Kushina's and Minato's, along with a sharp pain resonating from the area. A croan was allowed credence behind their lips in the dazed-like state, hissing along through a throaty hum. They lew in husky breaths, as their eyes cleared enough to recognize the figures of their children. The babes were just a short distance away from a coppery puddle of blood; which thus was directly below their parents as it was filled with the their life fluid.

Despite their ignorance of the pain they've endured; the eyes of Uzumaki Kushina and Namikaze Minato refurbished a slight spark. When their eyes left the tiny forms that lew beneath, their glints would wither. The small smile that accompanied the situation would also dust away.

Within' the cadence of the shattering stretch of Killer Intent that reverberated throughout the scene; all the babe known as Uzumaki Naruto occupied to was tear its soul apart. Undisturbed wails and hiccups sanctioned the moans of his parents. His first were as cupped as possible whilst they swung in a frenze. His eyes salted over, mouth agape; the parents quickly took notice and their heart's shrunk by every moment. As he teared his eyes, the sun-kissed hair he'd inherit from Minato dimmed whilst it frayed in tuffs. His skin was peach tanned, much to his father, though, what struck were the three feral lines resemblant to whiskers that laid upon each cheek.

His eyes were shut away from the world, though, in an unalike manner to his brother:

"Sochi.." Kushina hoarsed with solemn. She watched to see the skin that surrounded the blonde-kissed boy's eyes were red and blached. The pain that he felt inverted to the form of his mother. Kushina's eyes wandered over to the first child she had birthed; the one with the most resemblance to herself. His soft scarlet flairs lew softly upon his puffy, pale skin. As he giggled with wide violet orbs一his hands were held out towards the figure of Kushina, giggling as all others present was suffocated by the nigh-omnipresent Killer Intent.

'My children..' a shared thought between Uzumaki and Namikaze; as their senses finally became overlaid with pain. 'My boys..' thought Uzumaki Kushina as she held back a shriek. She stretched longley, raging rips across her spine whilst she began to reach towards the two children. Her children. They were only just a few feet from her grasp, and she wanted to hold them within' her arms. She failed to lay even a finger on them; as she revealed upon the nail of the Kyuubi, watching as one child raged whilst another一

"I-i hop-pe you stay h-happy, Hamura." Kushina choked along with a shivering smile. Minato watched, as blood continued to leak from his lips and meet his drenched clothes and the coppery puddle.

"W-why?" crackled his voice as his fist became white; his palms leaking blood. "Why can't things go right!"

The resonation in his voice bristled a vibration upon the Kyuubi's claw; bringing their attention to the malevolent being at hand. The destructive Yoko snarled with its full barrel of teeth barred. Slight wisp of crimson energy surged from the beast's mouth, impaling the impaled with a shiver. Minato, with a shivering mouth, laid a weak hand upon the shoulder of his wife一and love一Kushina.

A nod continued.

Kushina flashed her head, with a flay of scarlet hair, to the position of her children. The smile once formed on her face began to wither and twitch before the few moments she spoke:

"N-naruto.." She hagged away, as her eyes watered to a wince towards the blonde child. He wailed as high as he could. "And H-hamura," she smiled tightly at the boy's curious stare. "D-don't be picky.." a mere croak:

"Eat a lot, a-alot, a-and grow s-stron一!" She hagged as blood flew from her mouth in a slime-like fashion. Coughing, "Ma-m-make! Sh-sure you bathe e-everyd-day and s-stay warm. D-don't s-stay up li-late; ma-make fra-friends. Y-you don't ne-need m-many, ju-just.."

She felt his hand on her shoulder once more, and she knew her time was up. Shifting once more, she weeped what would be her last words:

"I-i.. I love you!"

Minato, who was witness to the agouros moments by Kushina, allowed a small tear to fall from his eye. Looking down to his hands, he joined his fingers in a jointed manner before muttering what be his last words.

"S-shiki Fujin!"

A blindness encased, as all seemed to halt. Breaths were suctioned whilst the roars ceased. Once the light diminished, the Kyuubi was not to be seen, only the bodies of Uzumaki Kushina and Namikaze Minato lew upon the yellowed dirt and grass; their bodies caked in blood and abused by the head-wide holes accompanied towards their abdomens. Such was the scene introduced to Sarutobi Hiruzen.

He grimaced at the sight with sullen eyes. The orbs wandered off to the two bodies, then to another pair not to far off from the previous. His armor slightly clanked as he made his way towards the figures. He was quick to notice the wails emitted by the blonde. Now, at his feet, he held them up with soft hands. The blonde's wails continued on with no sense to cease, whist the one who seemed to resemble mostly towards Kushina, merely look on with unbridled curiosity. Hiruzen smiled at the boy, before looking closer at the blonde.

'The Jinchuriki.' he thought at he pulled down the babes cloth blanket to observe his navel. He covered the bare boy up before looking at something upon the cloth:

"Naruto.." he said as he read the name printed upon the cloth. He looked towards the other boy, before finding something similar:

"And一

"Hamura.."