Here we go. My first fanfiction, I hope you enjoy it. Please read and review. I have been toying with this idea for a while but never actually got around to putting finger to keyboard, but still here it is. Also Beta reader required, PM if interested.
Disclaimer: I do not own anything to do with Naruto,Naruto Shippuden or any related products, I am simply a fan writing his version of an already epic on with the show
Konohagakure no sato, the village hidden in the leaves, viewed by many as the most powerful of the hidden villages. Situated in the land of fire surrounded by a giant forest created through the powers of on Hashirama Senju's Wood style: Deep forest Emergence and the birthplace of several of the most powerful shinobi in the world.
However right now this great village is being raised to the ground. Several have already fallen to the force that lays waste to all in its path. This almighty being that seemingly cannot be stopped. Its name, the nine tailed demon fox, A hideous construct of pure demonic chakra that legends say can cause earthquakes and tsunamis with just a flick of one of its nine tails. Those who stand before it fall like leaves in a hurricane, hundreds of brave souls have already fallen foul of its terrible wrath but before we can continue with this terrible tale we must first travel far into the village to the hospital where a certain red-haired woman is giving birth.
She cries out in pain as the stress of childbirth causes immense waves of pain to wrack her tired body. Her husband and lover standing close watches over with both love and worry in his eyes, love at the thought that soon his child would be born and worry at the thought that she might not survive labour. If you were to look at his eyes closely you would see a shadow of guilt for a deed yet to be commited.
These two are by far the only people currently in the room. There are two medic-nin who are preparing to deliver the child. The first and senior appears to be a woman in her mid twenties with blond hair held in two pigtails and hazel eyes, the junior is a girl of no more than sixteen with dark green hair and black eyes. Both were dressed in white medical robes with latex gloves. Four others resided in that room the oldest by far was a man who looked to be in his eighties wearing full battle armour with the leaf symbol engraved on his helmet and a serious look on his face, the next was a man with long, white, spiky hair tied in a pigtail and who had red lines that extended down his face through his eyes, he wore a green Gi with a red haori over it and a large scroll hung horizontally across his back, his forehead was adorned with a horned mettle plate with the kanji for oil on it. The last two appeared to be the same age as the young medic and were holding each other closely. The girl had purple rectangular marks at an angle on her cheeks under her eyes along with straight brown hair that framed her face and was holding on to the boy as if her life depended on it. Said boy was about the same height as the adults and wore standard village jonin gear along with metal backed gloves, his face was almost entirely covered by a navy blue mask and his forehead protector covering his left eye, his hair stood out as a completely unbelievable silver spire in the room.
The red-haired woman suddenly cried out in pain.
"shit here it comes, Shizune get ready Kushina's about to become a mother"
The green haired medic now identified as Shizune rushed to do as her master had asked.
The red head known currently as Kushina let out another cry of pain and clenched the hand of her husband, a grimace crossed his face as cracking was heard. Convulsions racked her body as the baby fought to come out. The torture continued for another agonising thirty minutes before eventually.
"Kushina, Minato, congratulations you are now the parents of a beautiful baby boy"
"Tsunade-Baachan thank you, you've brought our little Naruto into the world"
Naruto appeared to be little more than a bundle of love and his azure eyes were already wide open and looking around his new environment.
Kushina then started to spasm!
"Shit the stress was too much for her she's dying on us"
"Tsunade-Baachan please save her, I don't want Naruto to grow up without a family. Wealready know that my life is near it's end but I want all of you to look after him as he grows up." Minato paused for to breath and steady himself before speaking again " Sarutobi, Jiraya-sensei, Rin, Kakashi I want all of you to look out for him if Kushina-hime doesn't make it and I know that Baachan won't stay around no matter how much I ask but still. Know this until he reaches the rank of genin or you deem it appropriate his name shall be Naruto Uzumaki and not Namikaze." With that said Minato Namikaze Fourth Hokage of the Village Hidden in the Leaves turned with Naruto in his arms and walked out to confront the Nine-tailed fox.
Meanwhile:
"Shizune, 20mg morphine and 2 litres of B positive blood and hurry it up"
"Right away lady Tsunade" the green haired girl rushed around gathering the necessary supplies.
The heart rate monitor beside Kushina started to slow down
Back with the other ninja:
"I can't believe that brat's going to go through with the sealing. It's his own son after all" one very grumpy toad sage grumbled.
"Peace Jiraiya, you and I both know that neither of us can perform the sealing, Minato is the only one in the village who can currently perform the jutsu." The armour clad ninja, Hiruzen Sarutobi responded " all that we can do is hope that we are able to help little Naruto when this is all over and that the villagers do not think ill of him for what he shall bear."
"I know sensei. I know"
"Lord hokage, Master Jiraiya, we may not be able to do much for him, after all the two strongest ninja in the village cannot abandon their posts in order to look after one child and Rin and Myself will be needed on missions outside the village." The masked ninja Kakashi stated bluntly. " However even if I cannot help him as he grows up I would like to make a request that should he be made a genin that I am assigned as his jonin instructor."
"kakashi-kun -"
"Rin, I have to say this, I dislike it as much as you do but it is the truth and I make this solemn promise in the name of my father the White Fang of the Leaf that if I find anyone has hurt sensei's son then I will hunt them down and end their miserable existence." The young man said this with such commitment and force that none there could doubt the feelings behind those words. Minato had saved the boy from not only the shadow of his father but also from the darkness in his own heart filling the gaping void not having a father had caused the boy.
The four ninja, young and old, turned to look upon the beast that was destroying their homes and at the great turning point in the history of the hidden leaf.
Out facing the Fox;
"Alright then here we go" Minato bit his thumb and ran through a set of hand seals" I, INU, SARU, TORI, HITSUJI. NINJA ART: SUMMONING JUTSU" A huge plume of smoke billowed out onto the battlefield and when it cleared a massive toad of size equal to the fox was there on its back it wore a vest with the kanji for Chief Toad upon it and around it's waist it wore a belt holding a blade that could only be described as deadly. It looked upon the demonic beast and grunted as it's webbed hand reached around to grab the hilt of the sword.
Many of the ninja upon seeing this were filled with joy
"The fourth, the fourth has joined us at last." "Maybe now we can beat this monstrosity"
"Nobody can defeat the fourth" "We will survive to see the sun rise again"
Minato paid the screams of joy only the slightest bit of notice as he prepared for what would be his final and probably greatest act. The hand seals flashed through his fingers and he called out the jutsus name " Sealing Jutsu: Reaper Death Seal" the shinigami materialised behind him and they looked out as one at the ravenous monster and for the first time Minato noticed that the eyes of the fox were not the usual slit ones but they had a human pupil surrounded by three tomoe on a black circle and at this realisation he called out to the god of death " Great Lord I beg of thee Take my life as payment and seal the fox into my son so that my village might yet live"
The Shinigami took only a moment to make his decision. "YOU WHO HAVE SUMMONED ME, I WILL DO AS YOU ASK!" With that he plunged his clawed hand deep inside the fox and pulled out its soul and dragged the spectral being towards Naruto and thrust the fox deep inside Naruto's gut and then as the seal started to form it turned towards the wavering Hokage and declared in a voice that was not entirely without malice "YOU HAVE PERFORMED THIS FORBIDDEN RITUAL AND FOR THAT YOUR LIFE IS FORFEIT HOWEVER YOU HAVE LED A LIFE OF GOOD AND AS SUCH I SHALL NOT DEVOUR YOUR SOUL AS IS MY WANT. INSTEAD I SEND YOUR SOUL TO THE LIFE HEREAFTER"
Upon hearing this Minato turned his head to what coincidentally was the west and marvelled as all turned to silver glass and a grey ship arrived to take him away. Thus ended the life of the Fourth Hokage.
Back in the medical room:
BEEP---BEEP---BEEP---BEEP---BEEP----BEEP-----BEEP------BEEP--------BEEP----------BEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEP
"It's too late Shizune we've lost her, that makes five people precious to me that have been lost to this village." Tsunade paused before continuing almost as if doubting what she was about to commit them both to "I can't stay here anymore, Shizune gather your things. I want to be long gone before dawn"
"Hai Tsunade-shisou"
Next day at the council chambers:
"Honourable council members we are gathered here to discuss a great tragedy that has befallen our village. Last night we were attacked by the nine-tailed fox and lost a great many loyal shinobi as well as our beloved fourth hokage. Therefore I will once again take up the mantle of Hokage from this day. Any who object speak now" There were none. "Therefore I would like to get on with the business of rebuilding by assigning genin teams and some of the chunin to aid the civilians in the rebuilding of the city while the rest of the chunin and the Jonin take on as many missions as possible in order to show the world that the leaf has not been weakened in the least by the attack. All those in favour raise your hands." Unsurprisingly there was a 100% agreement to the Thirds proclamation. "Next on the agenda is the matter of rebuilding the leaf's forces"
The meeting continued on in this manner for many hours until finally;
"The final matter to settle is that of one young boy in particular that was orphaned during the attack"
One of the civilian members of the council piped up asking "Hokage-sama, if I may ask, why is this child any more important than any other?"
Sarutobi responded in a tired manner not to dissimilar to that of the smartest but also laziest member of the council, one Shikaku Nara. "I was just about to get to that point before you interrupted Miyamoto. The boy's name is Naruto Uzumaki and unlike what many of the council think the fox was not killed by the Fourth. It is impossible to kill what is essentially pure energy and so Minato-sama did the only thing that he could do, he sealed the fox. Nothing inanimate could have held all of that chakra without exploding and releasing the beast, also an adult's chakra coils are too rigid to accustom to the massive influx of chakra. Therefore only a child could be used to seal the beast; that child is this boy, he is the leafs first and only jinchūriki."
Almost immediately there were cries for the child to be executed from the entire civilian council and a fair portion of the shinobi council for as a form of vengeance for those that thy lost during the attack, the confirmed dead still rising, and because fear breeds hate. However on voice alone rang out across the din.
"Give him to me Hiruzen and I will train him to be the weapon Konoha needs to survive the days ahead"
The mystery voice came from Danzō Shimura an old team-mate of the Third along with his current advisors Koharu and Homura. He was the head of a faction of the ANBU known as the foundation that trained Shinobi to lose all of their emotions and become will-less killing machines, human weapons. While this had been necessary during the great ninja wars Hiruzen no longer condoned programs such as that and had ordered Danzō to disband his organisation. But the training centres remained unused and dusty.
"Danzō, strong though the Foundation ninja undoubtedly were I do not wish to put Naruto through that. He will be allowed to grow up to live a normal life and should he so choose to become a ninja then you may aid in his training with the consent of his Jonin sensei and at no other time." Sarutobi then closed his eyes for a moment and opened them again with the look of a battle hardened warrior and spoke "All events surrounding the birth and subsequent curse of Naruto Uzumaki are hearby classified as a triple-S ranked secret and speaking of it to any who do not know is punishable by death. Also any who should attack this boy will be executed where they stand. Do I make myself understood?"
There was a resounding cry of Yes Hokage-sama, almost as if these battle weary shinobi and successful merchants were back at school facing an angry headmaster.
On a mountain somewhere in The Land of Fire:
"The boy will need a family for he shall receive none in the leaf, we shall take him in and raise him as one of us until the day comes when he must make his own choices."
Thus begins the tale of Naruto: The Ninja Monk. I Have public exams soon so updates will be delayed, please don't be angry, should be done with the next chapter within the month.
Until next time!