CHAPTER 1

THE BEGINING

It was the night of the Kyuubi attack on Konoha and the Sandaime Hokage sat in what was once again his office. Off to the side of his desk slept a new born child that by all means should be seen as the prince of the village and a hero, but, sadly he knew that would not be true. What could only make things harder was that he couldn't even tell everyone who the child's father was. That he was the son of the Yondaime Hokage who made the ultimate sacrifice for his son and the village but, his father had too many enemies and to do so would only endanger the child and village even more. As he reclined in his leather chair which was the only thing he missed about the job he had to retake, he heard a voice that made his day somewhat better.

"Sensei…" Sarutobi looked up to see his most loyal student in Jiraiya of the Sannin, sensei to Yondaime and, the young infants God-father.

"What is it that you want Jiraiya?" Sarutobi said with a sad smile on his face.

"Well …. It's about Naruto." He paused truly thinking about what he was about to say. "I want to fulfill my role as god-father and take the boy with me." He stated.

"And why may I pray tale?" Sarutobi asked, he knew of Jiraiya's life and wasn't about to let his most irresponsible student take care of a baby.

"Besides it being the right thing to do….. I have the feeling that I can turn the boy into the greatest ninja to walk the planet, besides who would have the privilege to say that they trained two of the greatest shinobi ever." He said with an all knowing smirk on his face. "You can't possibly think that it would be safer to let him roam the village. You know they'll blame as the Kyuubi and take it out on him." He said.

Sarutobi sighed letting out a puff of smoke from his pipe knowing that his student was right. "Fine but bring him back when he is twelve so that he can at least graduate from the academy on time with kids his age." He finished and looked up to see his student laughing.

"Hahaha…. Sensei twelve years will be unfair to the rest of those kids but if that's what you want don't worry." He finished still chuckling a little bit.

"And what should I expect him to know when he comes back." Sarutobi now a little more interested at the idea of what Jiraiya could actually do.

"Ah come on sensei where is the fun in telling you everything I plan to teach the gaki." Jiraiya paused when he saw the stern look on his leader face. The Gama sennin sighed "Don't worry about his taijutsu as I've been working on something special for him. Outside of that, fuinjutsu and maybe give the gaki a weapon to have some fun with. But I do wish for one thing and that is that you send Kakashi to meet up with me in five years to watch over him for a month every three months and the final year before we come back to help the boy in his ninjutsu training."

"And why do u need him that often" Sarutobi asked not liking the idea of his student leaving young Naruto alone even if it is with Kakashi.

"First off I still do have to check in with my spies, and secondly how else am I gonna find time to do my research unless you want to wait longer for my next masterpiece." He finished with a lecherous grin while his sensei lowered his head to hide his blush.

"Fine" Sarutobi agreed knowing that Kakashi would want to do anything he could for his sensei and that he didn't have the nick name the copy ninja for nothing. And he couldn't stand the idea of having to wait for the icha-icha sequel.

Upon hearing the conformation Jiraiya quickly scooped the infant from the crib and left the office, but not before he reminded his sensei of the other headache he was left to deal with. "Enjoy explaining this one to the council."

Sarutobi slammed his head on the desk pissed that he forgot about that. "I can only hope he lives a longer life than your last student and might want to take this job of my hands." He sighed and turned to go to bed for tomorrow would bring forth his greatest enemy of all time PAPERWORK.

COUNCIL ROOM

The council room was in an uproar. The civilians were the loudest demanding to know what happened to the Kyuubi. The room fell deafly quiet the moment that the aged Hokage walked into the room and towards his seat. Once he took his seat he looked around at the clan heads and village elders that were in their seats he cleared his throat and prepared himself for the migraine he felt coming. "Please calm yourselves I will answer your questions to the best of my abilities. Now as we all know our beloved Yondaime gave his life to stop the Kyuubi and we can rest assured that we are safe now."

"Excuse Hokage-sama but can you tell us what has happened to the beast?" The lazy voice of Nara Shikaku said wanting to get this over with as soon as possible.

"Right to the point as always Shikaku. The Kyuubi has been sealed inside of an infant child."

"Then we should kill the child now and get rid of the beast once and for all." One civilian member said. He very quickly wished he kept his mouth shut and everyone thought twice before talking after feeling the Hokage's KI spike.

"I don't know what is wrong with you but, we are not going to act like a bunch of fearful barbarians and kill a newborn child who was given this great burden without even having a choice in the matter."

"I request that the child be placed in the care of the Uchiha clan so that the child can grow to be a proper shinobi." The proud voice of Uchiha Fugaku sounded off not one to miss a chance to strengthen his clan

A snort was heard as soon as he was done speaking. "If the child is to be raised to be a proper shinobi and citizen then it is obvious that the child should be placed in the care of the Hyuuga clan."

Hiruzen was about to retort when the voice that he least wanted to hear started to finally make his presence known. "While I'm sure that both respected clans can raise the boy like they say Sarutobi…."

He was cut off right there the aged Hokage had heard enough of this and he had much paperwork to finish. "I already know what you are about to say Danzo and, in anticipation that you all would act this way I have already taken care of this and all you need to know is that the child will, grow to be a strong shinobi without relying on the powers of the Kyuubi. Now if you excuse me I have a lot of work that I have to attend to as does everyone else has too. So you are all dismissed." Hiruzen then disappeared in a gust of wind and leaves.