Author's Note:
Hey guys I'm back with another story. Decided to go ahead and get the prologue out of the way. This chapter is fairly short, but the rest of the planned chapters look like they could be fairly long. All together, this will end up being my longest story and my first story with several chapters.
Hope you enjoy!
Disclaimer: I don't own Naruto or the Binding of Isaac. If I did, I'd probably have screwed up the Binding of Isaac as my mind isn't nearly that messed up.
Minato watched in horror as the giant claw of the Kyuubi raced towards him, Kushina, and his newborn son. Time slowed down as Minato saw a vision of Naruto's life without his parents. A life filled with sadness, anger, and crippling loneliness.
'I can't let that happen to my son.' Minato thought.
Looking around, Minato saw a small clearing not very far away, and quickly made a Shadow clone. The shadow clone grabbed Kushina, who was holding Naruto, and threw them towards the clearing.
Kushina's ninja training quickly kicked in, and she was able to land safely on her feet with Naruto safely held in her arms, even though she had just given birth and had the Kyuubi ripped out of her. She looked back towards Minato and saw that he had one of Kyuubi's claws going entirely through him. The last thing Kushina saw before her weariness overtook her was the Shinigami behind Minato, and a seal on Naruto.
5 years later
Kushina was sitting on a couch in the Namikaze estate, holding a polaroid. Looking at the picture, Kushina had tears in her eyes as she saw Minato holding her during her later months of pregnancy. She missed Minato dearly, and there was rarely a day that she didn't wish for him to be next to her. If only the Kyuubi didn't kill him, she would be happy with the one she loved above all others. The closest thing she had left was her son Naruto.
Naruto looked every bit like his father, and it tortured Kushina. Everytime she looked at him, she could hear the Kyuubi taunting her that she couldn't save her love.
Naruto usually kept to himself, drawing pictures and playing with his toys, as Kushina took care of him and protected him from the villagers that would try to hurt him. Although she missed her husband, she was happy that she had Naruto.
Kushina looked angrily at the group of villagers in front of her. They dared attack her son? She would show them what happened when a mother kunoichi protected her young.
"Why would you idiots even try hurting my son?" Kushina roared.
"Because your son has been tainted by the Kyuubi. He must be saved." One of the Villagers replied.
"Oh? How would you know that?" Kushina asked scathingly.
"We have seen how he acts! He sits around drawing pictures of himself being powerful, biding his time for when he can let the Kyuubi free! The Kyuubi wants to kill you and Naruto to make his Namikaze collection complete!" A villager shouted.
'That can't be true, can it?' thought Kushina. She pondered the activities of Naruto, and she found that he did draw such photographs. It did make sense that the Kyuubi would want to kill all three of them for vengance.
"Fine. I'll take away his things. This should take away the Kyuubi's methods of planning." Kushina said. 'It couldn't hurt. If the Kyuubi really is plotting like this, it would be smart to stop him. If Minato was here, he'd do the same thing'
Kushina returned to the estate, and rushed into Naruto's room. She took away the things that he had, including his toys, papers, crayons, and even his clothes.
'Don't want him to be able to use those to plot and scheme.' Kushina thought 'After all, if Kyuubi got free, Minato's sacrifice would be a waste.'
7 weeks later
Kushina looked at Naruto as she remembered the words of the villagers.
"Taking away his things isn't good enough!"
"He can still plot if he can get out of your house!"
"Only you can prevent Kyuubi attacks!"
"Kushina, listen to reason! The Kyuubi has corrupted your son!"
Kushina shook her head as she looked towards her son's room. 'He has been acting strange. More withdrawn. Isn't that right Minato?' Kushina thought while looking at a picture of her late husband.
Kushina paused for a second and then suddenly spoke "You are right Minato. He must be plotting and scheming, why else would he be so quiet. But what should I do to stop him?"
Once again Kushina paused, looking longingly at the picture.
"I will do it. This will be for the good of our son."
Kushina quickly got up from her seat and ran to her son's room. She looked in and saw that Naruto was nowhere to be found. Quickly, Kushina ran around the estate and found him outside drawing on the dirt.
'See my love.' Kushina heard. 'He is plotting against us.'
"You were right Minato. I must do this for his own good." Kushina grabbed Naruto and pulled him inside the house, ignoring Naruto's protests. Kushina pulled Naruto to his room, and threw him inside.
"You will stay in here Kyuubi." Kushina said, "Your scheming ends here."
Kushina knelt down and looked into Naruto's eyes and whispered "Naruto if you are still in there, please forgive me."
Kushina then left a confused Naruto in his room, shut the door, and sealed it shut.
'That should hold him Kushina.'
'I hope it does Minato. I really do.'
2 weeks later
Kushina looked into Naruto's room and saw him in the fetal position rocking back and forth.
'It is too late to save him now Kushina'
'Yes it is. The Kyuubi has taken him over. The Kyuubi has driven him insane!' Kushina thought.
Kushina had dark rings around her eyes, and had very disheveled hair. She had no time to sleep, as she needed to guarantee that the Kyuubi wouldn't possess Naruto. Every time that she checked on Naruto, his behavior got more and more odd. He would cry while asking for something to stop. Obviously he was complaining about the Kyuubi. What other reason would he be sad for?
'I'm sorry Minato, but there is only one thing to save Naruto now.' Kushina thought as she walked into her room.
Exiting her room, Kushina held a small box. Opening the box, she took out a strange tri-pronged kunai.
'It's okay Kushina. The only way to free Naruto is to kill the Kyuubi.'
"Yes that is true my love, I will destroy the Kyuubi's mortal body, and save our son!" Kushina yelled crazily.
Unknown to Kushina, Naruto had been watching through a small crack in his door. Naruto trembled in his room, as he scrambled to find a hiding place from his psychotic mother. He saw a trap door to the basement, hidden underneath a small rug in the center of his room. Without hesitation, he opened the trap door just as his mother burst in, kunai in hand. He flung himself into the unknown depths below.