Authors Note: Spoilers up to 498. Kushina was never the jinchuriki of the Kyuubi.

Summary: He is all she had left of her older sister Kushina and she will raise him even if she was young. Anko raises her nephew. Naruto story as he becomes a hero. Pairings NaruHina, ShikaTema

Disclaimer: I don't own.

Naruto: A Heroes Beginning

The Kyuubi Attack

She's dead, thought Anko as she stared at her older half-sister. Kushina had died giving birth the her son. Anko sat there in the hospital room next to her sister's dead body while her brother-in-law was sealing the Kyuubi into their son, her nephew, Naruto. The doctors said that not even Tsunade could have saved her. She did not hate her nephew for causing his mother's death in fact she loved him. After Orochimaru had betrayed to village, lied to her about the experiments, and left her to die 6 months ago, Kushina had always loved her and believed her. After Anbu found her, the villagers took out their hatred on her even though she had been proven innocent and loyal to the village. The cries of an infant entering the room broke her out of her thoughts and she turned around to find the Sandiame entering hold her nephew Naruto.

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The Sandaime Hokage sadly look down at the crying infant as he headed to Kushina room to hand him to Anko and explain certain things to her. The child was not even a couple of hours old and already a huge burden was placed on the boy. He knew Anko's life was already hard and it was only to get harder. Kushina and her mother, Koyuki, had come to Konoha after the destruction of Whirlpool when she was eight. Koyuki, who had been the heiress of the Uzumaki clan, had lost her husband years prior to the wars. After living here for 2 years she had started a relationship with Kenji Mitarashi. After 2 year they had become engaged. Sadly tragedy struck again when Kenji was kill during a mission. Koyuki had been two months pregnant at the time and gave birth to Anko six months later and gave her Kenji's surname to honor him. Koyuki passed away due to illness 4 years later and Kushina ended up taking care of her sister. The sisters were very close even though there was a 12 year age difference between the two. Anko had been one of the four people to know of Minato and Kushina's marriage. They had gotten married when they were eighteen, himself, Minato's mother, his sensei Jiraiya, and Kushina's sister Anko had been present at the wedding. When he entered to room he saw Anko spin around to look at him and rushed over to Naruto. He handed to crying infant to her and motioned her to sit down. "Anko with Kushina and Minato dead there are certain things that you are going to have to follow," started the Sandaime. "With Minato dead Naruto's name has been shorten from Uzumaki-Namikaze to Uzumaki to protect him from his father's enemies. His heritage must be kept secret you can not tell him who his father is," Sarutobi explained. "Anko you can tell him about Kushina as everyone will realize that he is her son but he must not of his father. You are going to have to take down all the picture that have Minato in them, even if they have Kushina in them. I made a law that forbids the older generation from telling the younger generation about the Kyuubi sealed in Naruto since the village seems to have ignored Minato's wish. I hope this will give him a normal life. Not even Naruto will know about the Kyuubi imprisoned in him. When you are on missions I will watch him." "I can tell him about sis all I want, but nothing about his father or the fox," muttered Anko. "You both are going to live in your sisters apartment so you do not have to worry about moving," spoke Sarutobi as he left the room.

Anko look at her nephew, who had fallen asleep during her conversation with the Hokage, and made a silent promise to her sister that she would take care of her son just like she did for her. His birth marks on his face had turn black and became more defined like whisker markers due to the sealing.

She placed him into the nursery Kushina had prepared and started to take down the pictures of Minato and Kushina and replaced them with older ones of Kushina and her. After this was done she whispered good night to Naruto and made her way to bed.

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As this was happening someone else was angrily fuming. Danzo was furious, the boy should have been his to craft into a weapon but the fool Sarutobi had denied him this and even had backing from the Fire Daimyo, instead he was given to his aunt. The boy even had an Anbu guards watch them 24/7. So he could not even kidnap the infant.

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Kurenia was now walking to her friend's apartment to check up on her. Yugito and Yugao were unable to come and Rin was busy at the hospital, so she was the only one of Anko's friends free. Anko to told her that she had moved into her sister's apartment when she before Kushina's funeral but she had not seen or heard from her since then and that was a week ago. She approached the door and knocked. As she waited she heard an infants crying from inside which puzzled her greatly. Why would there be a baby in Anko's apartment, she thought. Before she could ponder further Anko opened the door. Kurenai noticed that Anko look tired as she stepped into the apartment.

"Wait just a second Kurenai-chan," respond Anko after she closed to the door and ran into another room. Kurenai was shocked when she saw Anko return with a infant in her arms.

"Whose baby is that? I did not think you would be taking a mission just after losing your sister," question Kurenai when she realized that the baby was the child used for the sealing.

"Taking care of Naruto is not a mission, he is my nephew. Kushina-nee-chan died giving birth to him. I am all he has left Kurenai, his father died in the attack," explain Anko.

"I did not know Kushina was in a relationship Anko," spoke a surprised Kurenai.

"They kept their marriage and her pregnancy a secret to protect each other. Now that they are both dead I am raising him. That is the reason why I have been so busy," sadly explained Anko.

"How are you going to take care of him you are only 12. What are you going to do when you're on missions," asked Kurenai.

"Hokage-sama is going to watch him when I am on missions and Kushina was only 4 years old than I am and she raised me." As this was going on Naruto in his aunt's arms did not like being ignored and started crying. Kurenai watch as her best friend, who started humming a lullaby her mother used to sing to her, take care of Naruto. Kurenai asked about the father but Anko had told her that she knew who he was but could not tell her.

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That evening after Kurenai left Anko continued boxing up her sister's stuff that she could not use when she can across a picture of her and her sister when she had graduated from the academy. Tears dripped from her face when she realized that Kushina was really gone and Naruto would never hear his mothers voice or never she her smile when he graduated from the Academy. She hoped she could do as good as a job as for Naruto as Kushina did for her but she was sure going to try. She knew she had put it off long enough and went to the clan ledger. She open up the leather bound book and proceed to place the date of death next to her sister name and added Naruto's to the book. Now there where only two names in to book that did not have a date of death next to them and she prayed that it would not become one name.

Author Notes: Here is the timeline incase your are wondering.

Kushina was 12 when Anko was born and Kushina was 24 when Naruto was born. Kushina and Minato are the same age. Kushina was 8 when she came to Konoha.

Whirlpool did not have a shinobi village but they did have shinobi. There was only one shinobi clan and that was the Uzumaki clan. Kushina was able to save the clan ledger and the clan jutsu library. The ledger has all the names, birth dates, death dates, and parentage of every member of the clan. This is more important than anything else this is the clans history.

Since we do not know much about Kushina's fighting style I am going to say that she used the same style of Ninjutsu but more Suiton based i.e. instead of kage bunshins she used Mizu Bunshins and she used a Ninjato.

Naruto's affinities are going to be wind and water. Wind from his father and water as his mother's clan affinity. Like Sasuke was lightening and fire but the fore was his clan affinity.

Note: I really do not like Sasuke much but their will be no Sasuke bashing. He won't be there much since he is not the main character so no chapters with just Sasuke and only Sasuke like Kishimoto likes to do. So if he get his ass kicked don't complain. I think that the Sharingan is kind of cheap. At least Kakashi doesn't reliy on it but he still uses it and he still trains. Sasuke just wants to copy and expect everyone to bow to him.

I will try to get a chapter out every week but if it is longer than that then that means a really long chapter, a hard chapter to write, or I am rewriting older chapters.