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This is the first Naruto story I've written so I hope you enjoy

Disclaimer: I do not own any part of the Naruto Anime or Manga they belong to Masashi Kishimoto I believe...

Chapter 0: Prologue Part 1

*Slam*

A woman swiftly turned on her left heel, now heading towards the eastern, and far less damaged, wing of what had once been the illustrious Konoha General Hospital. At least, she thought it was illustrious.

A Hospital built to be able to accommodate anything from the average sniffling civilian child, to the gravely injured shinobi, returning from a mission with a few limbs missing and hopped up on soldier and plasma pills just to make it to the building in the first place or even the various psychological issues that appeared in both shinobi and civilians, an unfortunate product of living in what was essentially a central hub of military power.

Yes, an establishment that, as a leading civilian physician and wife to the current head of the Konoha Shinobi Medical Division, Yakushi Genbu, she felt she could be outstandingly proud of.

That is, if it hadn't been for the vermin currently residing within ICU ward 3, which due to current emergency circumstances was being used as a shelter and maternity ward.

The offending presence in question took the form of an infant, barely a few hours of age; a child that she had recently learned was as of now the jinchuriki for the widely feared and revered, Kyubi no Yokou.

Earlier that evening the beast had, without any warning, began a large-scale attack on her home village, Konohagakure no Sato.

The resulting battle between the beast and Konoha's shinobi forces had been rather discouraging. Masses of shinobi both young and old had met their ends that night, all the while the beast had nary a scratch inflicted upon it.

Among the dead, was her eleven year old son, Kaito. According the report given to both her and her husband by the Academy teacher in charge of their son's class, Kaito had been anxious to join the battlefield and use the skills his father had taught him about first-aid and medical work in the field to help his fellow shinobi. It was while Kaito had been dressing a wound on one of the injured Chunin that the beast's massive tails descended on the area, crushing everything in their path.

When asked about a possible body recovery, the teacher again had bad news. Apparently, due to the beast's immense malevolence and bloodlust, the Kyubi's chakra itself seemed to disintegrate anything it touched, whether it was stone, wood or… flesh.

Grief stricken and with no means of honoring her son's passing or condolences from others due to the current state of the village, this woman, Yakushi Sumi, began a dark plot to rid herself what she thought was the cause of her pain, the Kyubi or rather, its host.

However, the question remained how to do the deed? She had borne witness to part of the battle, how neither jutsu nor weapons of any kind made any sort of lasting effect on the beast. Even weakened and sealed in the body of the child, she doubted that the beast had absolutely no means of protecting or healing itself. So what could she use?

Her answer came to light as she checked over the blood supply the hospital had left for its patients. Within the cooling chamber that housed the blood sat something else entirely, a container filled with a sickly green, gelatinous substance. This was it! Like a sign from the divine, speaking the gods' approval of her actions! She retrieved a syringe from her coat and quickly filled it with the goo. She left the inventory room and headed toward the new make-shift maternity ward, which brings us, to the now…

Security was understandably sparse throughout the hospital, as most of the shinobi and ANBU forces were being sent to secure borders and call for aid from allies, lest their vulnerable position be taken advantage of by the numerous factions that Konoha had made enemies of in its near century of existence.

It was for this reason that Sumi had made it so far from her usual post without arousing suspicion. Finally, she reached her destination; a small, isolated room guarded by a single Jounin, who appeared to be rather exhausted as it was…

"Ah shinobi-san, Hokage-sama has ordered a change in shifts for guard duty and while your replacement is making their way here my husband asked me to stand-in. Go on and take a well-deserved rest downstairs." It was a horrible lie and she knew it, but she had been so absorbed in her ideas for revenge that she had neglected to come up with a usable excuse for this situation.

So she was now banking her plans on the possibility that the Jounin had come here from the battlefield and was beyond exhausted to the point that the idea of sleep overrode his suspicions on the horrible cover-story she had given.

But wouldn't you know it, the already half-asleep shinobi simply made a weak grunt before stumbling away in a daze and heading downstairs. Sumi waited for the others in the hall to disappear before she entered the room.

The inside of the room was silent save for the small breaths of the infant in a blanket and the labored breaths of his soon to be killer. Sumi quietly locked the door and turned to face the small newborn, only the baby's face was visible outside the blanket. A round, chubby face with wisps of golden-blonde hair jutting from his scalp and three whisker shaped scars adorning each cheek. Had she not known who, or what, this child was, she may have thought of him as cute; a pity.

It was then the door started shaking and muffled shouts could be heard through the door. She turned back toward the entrance before smirking; it was far too late for them to stop her now. She turned back towards the sleeping infant and inserted the needle into a vein on the baby's thigh that she had uncovered from the blanket.

Injecting the green goo into the baby, she watched as the infant eventually stopped breathing. The rumbling at the door was frantic now and she realized that soon enough a ninja would come and break through the makeshift barrier she had made use of. Knowing the standard punishment for something like what she had done, she made her way to the window, opening it and positioning herself on the sill just as others burst into the room.

It was then she just smiled at them and jumped from her 3 story perch head-first. She vaguely heard someone yell out for her to stop but she didn't care. She had no remorse for what she had done and didn't want to await the inevitable punishment that awaited her.

'Soon Kaito-chan… soon your mother will be with you again, please wait for me…' her last thoughts before the impact that caused her death were of her beautiful baby boy and how they would be together in paradise forever now, waiting for her husband to join them… a happy afterlife.

-Break-

The Sandaime Hokage, Sarutobi Hiruzen, sighed as he released the smoke from his pipe; he really needed its relaxing feel now more than ever.

To put it bluntly, the entire night and following day had been a massive cluster fuck.

It had started with what should have been a night of rejoicing, as his successor and friend, Namikaze Minato, was to have his son that day.

Being that his wife Kushina, was the current Jinchuriki for the Kyubi, certain precautions had to be taken to reduce any sort of outside complication, lest the beast be released. Minato already possessed the key to Kushina's seal and was more than experienced enough to keep the Kyubi locked inside during the process. So Sarutobi had set up a high strength barrier around a natural cave formation just north of Konoha to serve as a birthing chamber and he had even gone as far as to assign several squads of ANBU to act as a security force around the cave.

Yet it seemed that, despite his best efforts, somehow the Kyubi had been released. Later on he discovered that someone or some group had been able to infiltrate the cave and eliminate all of his ANBU surrounding it. Sarutobi guessed that whoever the assailant or assailants were, they had assaulted the new parents just after Naruto's birth and had been able to kill both the midwife, who was a chunin herself and Sarutobi's own wife Biwako.

He had yet to even reach the point when he could deal with that.

But long story short, the Kyubi had been released and then was sent to attack Konoha, where Minato had appeared for a short time to protect the village, even being able to teleport an attack made by the Kyubi, in the form of a MASSIVE ball of concentrated chakra that would have easily destroyed the village, away to a safe distance before he disappeared again.

Sarutobi himself had been forced to lead the village's shinobi against the rabid beast and so he couldn't exactly follow the chain of events. But eventually he had arrived to the sight of Minato and Kushina, who were locked inside a barrier with the Kyubi, give their lives to protect their son and then seal the beast into the very same infant.

Now that in itself was an incident that he would be dealing with both mentally and physically for a very long time… But there was still more to come it seemed…

Not even a few hours later, he received word that there had been an attack on Minato's son, who had been named Naruto. At first the old Hokage had feared that it may have been Iwa or Kumo come to take advantage of the state of disarray Konoha was in and eliminate a possible threat or satisfy a thirst for revenge.

It turned out to be the latter, but it was not made by Iwa or Kumo; but by one of the medical staff at the very hospital where he had the child placed in. There had been a few Chunin and Jounin with Sarutobi when they had recovered the young babe and the old man had calculated the possibility of a rumor mill arising within the populace, but he hadn't accounted for the just how fast the fear driven populace would spread those rumors. Some exaggerating the story to impossible degrees, such as how the new Jinchurikki was already showing signs of being possessed and how it was already in chains just waiting for its execution day, (Sarutobi conveniently overlooked the show of relief the populace showed at that particular rumor, lest he lose what little faith he had left in his village).

But back to the present situation, the attacker in question, one Yakushi Sumi was the wife to the head of the Shinobi Medical Corps. She had also committed suicide upon being caught, most likely to escape the persecution she would face.

She had injected the infant with some sort of gelatinous goo that was still being analyzed; it had originally stopped the baby's heart and breathing. But as the infant was being rushed to amore equipped medical ward, he had started to convulse and his heart rate suddenly leaped up to a near inhuman rate. The available doctors had spent hours trying to counteract whatever it was the babe had been given , but nothing seemed to work and due to the patient being so young, any sort of major operations or treatments were too risky to use.

But just as quickly as the effects had appeared, they vanished and the boy immediately stabilized on his own. Never before had Sarutobi been as grateful for the newly jailed demon as he knew it was most likely the beast's regeneration that had allowed the small boy to live through the attack.

But that still left the matter of just WHAT the boy had been injected with. It had been a full day after the boy had stabilized and they still had made no headway as far as he knew.

So now he awaited the results as he was able to rel-

*Boom*

"Hokage-sama!"

So much for his brief period of relaxation…

Adopting a stern look on his face Sarutobi responded "Report…"

The shinobi who had just barged in through the door straightened up before beginning to speak; "Sir! We have just received word from the hospital regarding the strange substance we found in the syringe. This is the official analysis…" The shinobi finished as he handed over an unassuming folder with several pages of paper inside.

As Sarutobi read through the report, his face adopted an increasing look of concern. He finally finished before asking "Do they know if it will have any adverse effects on the boy?" there was a certain edge to his voice now that made the younger shinobi flinch before responding. "S-sir, the doctors are not sure as of yet, they would need to run some tests on the boy's body while the traces of the substance are still prevalent and they asked me to come here to get your permission to proceed…" The younger of the two watched with an uncomfortable look on his face as his superior's eyes bored into his head.

"…Tell them they have my permission to proceed, but if any anomalies should appear they are to record them and report to me before anymore actions are taken, understood?" Sarutobi was border-line threatening the young shinobi now, but he would take no chances with some of his villagers already having attacked the boy, who's to say his shinobi weren't contemplating similar ideas?

"H-h-hai, Hokage-sama, I will inform them right away" responded the younger male before he all but sprinted out of the room in an effort to escape the menacing aura his leader was currently giving off.

Looking over the report a second time to make sure he had not misread, Sarutobi picked up his pipe before taking what was possibly the longest drag he'd ever taken in his life. "Barely a day old and you have already had an attempt on your life; it seems the future does not bode well for you, young Naruto. I am truly sorry for the hardships you'll have to face because of who you are and I give you my word that I will do all I can to help you prepare for them…" The old man trailed off watching the sun set on the currently rebuilding Konoha.

And that's it for part one ladies and gentlemen!

Now note that this Prologue has two parts and there will be a time skip between the end of this one and the beginning of the next part, then I'm doing another skip to the start of the actual plotline.

Like I said before, this is my first Naruto story so if you have any criticism, constructive or otherwise, please give me it. If you want to flame… eh what the hell go for it, just don't expect a response.

But PLEASE REVIEW, I will be much more likely to continue if I get reviews encouraging me to do so haha.