A/N Okay,just had this idea coming up my mind out of nowhere.I have put my other story on hiatus and I think it will be on it a big time since this story will most likely take up all Naruto's is a Naruto/Sakura story,even if it will be later because they will have big time well ,I hope you will enjoy reading this and I will do my best for the best storytelling possible from me…
Summary: How would history's lines would stretch if Naruto would know who his father would be from the start? A Naruto/Sakura fanfic rated T for the moment, Alternate Universe.
The meeting room was perplexed by Minato's decision,the greatest of the tailed beasts,the Kyubi was on it's way towards Konoha and there was little time left to make important -hokage,Hiruzen Sarutobi,was the first to speak his concern towards Yondaime,the current Hokage.
"But Minato-kun,by making the deal with the Death God,you would die as well."
"I know it will be a sacrifice necessary to protect the villagers,the whole Konoha",serious as ever,the genius,Konoha's Yellow Flash replied.
After thinking a few moments,Sarutobi continued.
"I understand it is your job as a Hokage to protect Konoha and it's villagers,but the Kyubi is a chakra being,he's immortal and cannot be deafeated,even by Shinigami itself."
"I have already thought of that 's why I have developed a new seal that I hope it will far as I can predict,it will split Kyubi's chakra into two halves,one that will be feeding Shinigami and the other that needs to be sealed into a newborn infant.I will offer my own child just to shut Kyubi down forever so that he will never threaten us again."
The council room was now silent. They knew that once Minato has set up a plan he couldn't be taken away from it.
Sarutobi, after a few minutes of thinking, decided to break the silence once again.
"Minato-kun,I know that you care about Konoha,but what will happen to your child and Kushina?You know what happens to all Jinchiuriki and how they are treated."
"Here comes my last will,Sarutobi.I want Naruto to be recognized as the hero that protects the village every day so I want everyone to know that he is the vessel of Kyubi and he is my son."
"You have many enemies Minato-kun, and by that you would only be threatening him even more."
"I know that Sarutobi,and that's why I want you to find and talk to Jiraiya-sensei and Tsunade and tell them that is my last will to take care of my son. I will try and talk to Kushina before I take Naruto to the sealing process.I wish you all,luck with reconstructing if anything happens to Konoha." And with that Minato shunshined away.
"Well good people of Konoha,all we can do now is hope that the seal will work. I will go in search of Tsunade and Jiraiya.",It was Sarutobi's turn to shunshin away,leaving a silent council room behind.
"Minato, I won't let you take our son to seal the Kyubi in him. I will try and stop you even if it kills me" shouted an angered Kushina, taken back by Minato's decision.
"I know that all Jinchiuriki are treated as they are and that's why I ask you to remain by our son's side his life. All Jinchiuriki are treated as they are because they don't have a loving family." replied the calm Hokage.
Raindrops were by now dropping on the Hospital's windows.
Tears were falling on its floors.
"But…but…" Kushina could not say anything between her sobs. From time to time, her gasps for air were filing room 10 of the maternity.
"Look Kushina…I hope you can give our son the life he deserves, in a loving family. I love you and-"
She now felt his presence behind her. Feeling a slight guttural pain in her throat she collapsed unconscious, hearing his last words, "I'm sorry".
"You really are taking the things to the extremes lately Minato" A large man tilted by the doors frame said.
Minato moved to the window and watched the crescent moon in all its beauty. With a sad voice he managed to say reply,
"I wish that I could see my son growing up. I wish that I could see him as Hokage.I wish that I could give my approval to the girl he will love to marry him. I just wish that I could sit back and watch him grow. I just wish that whatever path he will take, I could be around the corner and tell him how proud I am of him."
A red light was now filling the horizon. He started to search in his pockets for something.
"Jiraiya-sensei, take care of my son and I ask of you to remind him that I will be always proud of him."
After finding what he was looking for, he handed it to Jiraiya.
"This scroll is for Naruto's eyes only. Give it to him when you think he will be mentally prepared for it. It contains my last words for him and the secret to my Hiraishin in case he decides to take the shinobi path. The seal will open only at the trickle of his blood. Take care of Kushina-chan as well and when she wakes up tell her I am sorry."
Minato came to face off Jiraiya, who didn't say anything in this meeting, their last meeting. The sad frown on the face of the teacher was giving it all. He was already mourning so Minato took his sensei into a quick hug and gave a light chuckle,
"Sensei, one last request"
Jiraiya, not finding any words decided to give him only a nod.
"Say hi to Tsunade and keep your hentai books away from my son"
At the statement, they both laughed dryly.
"Don't worry Minato, I will keep him away from my writings-"chuckling to himself, he added 'until legal age of course' "-and away from Tsunade's brutal strength".
After a few more seconds of cackles,jiraiya continued.
"Now now Minato, don't have anything else to do?" managed Jiraiya to say.
"Right..."
Passing near his lover, he kissed her one last time…
With sadness written on his face, he took his son from her embrace carefully.
"Good-bye sensei and please help Sarutobi-jiji with Konoha"
Jiraiya only nodded, and resumed his place on the frame of the door. It was going to be a long night.
The storm was violent.
The horizon was flickering with red lights.
The water droplets were now meeting two gigantic figures, one in front of Konoha and the other one facing it.
One was containing all hopes for humanity, the other one growling madly wanting to erase it.
His tears were now hidden by the rain. It wouldn't matter if anyone saw him anyway since most of them were either dead or scattered through the borrows that kept them safe.
"Be good…my son"
Two seconds later?
It was all gone. The large growling beast was nowhere to be seen. A miracle.
No time for miracles thoe…the time is for mourning.
The birds were chirping. The sun rays were penetrating the thick window glass in Konoha's Hospital. The last night would remain only as a black night in Konoha's history. A night when people had thrown their lives to protect the ones they love. A black day indeed and at the top of the 'KIA' list was the fourth Hokage himself. He sacrificed his life in hope that Konoha would see another day, a sunny one, that would not predict the rain that would fall down that night…the rain falling from the eyes of those who himself, alongside the others sacrificed his life for. In order to bring this new day, he sacrificed what he had the most precious as well…his own son, bringing him on a path full of pain and perils every corner he would pass near. His motives were unknown and neither to this day has been found why he did it with his own son, why he sealed the Kyubi no Yoko,the nine tailed-beast, the most powerful of them all…in his own son. All the facts will remain unanswered because of his own motives…and a sleepy face that groaned from its hospital bed…
"What the hall happened?" asked Kushina whilst rubbing her eyes.
Jiraiya, now by the window and looking at the reconstruction of Konoha asked the obvious, "You don't remember anything?"
Kushina settled by a shook of her head to let her get out of her sleepiness, "No…the last thing I remember is that Minato…" she remembered the last frames of the night before.
"-is sorry" the sannin added to her sentence with a sad tone.
Tears were now threatening to fall from Kushinas eyes. The silence took control of the situation until she saw that something was missing.
"Where is Naruto?"
Jiraiya turned to her, "Right now he is with Tsunade.I don't know how but Sarutobi-jiji managed to find her faster than I could think of. She is making a checkup on his health. Don't worry now, thoe…I have brought him after the sealing process and other than slight tickles that he might feel until he develops his chakra coils completely he is fine." He turned himself again towards the window, thinking…thinking about how much his student changed his life, how much he meant for him and vice-versa. Of course he would keep his word and watch over Naruto…like a grandfather and the godfather he was. How will his life change now? The answers for this question would be found only in the future…
Something was not right thoe…he turned around to see that Kushina was not there.
"Kushina?"
'Damn…where can she hide' he asked himself.
He turned himself towards the door and made himself way towards the checkup room asking any nurses he found if they had seen the red-haired woman.
Tsunade was during the last tests when the door bashed against the wall with a small bang. At that moment Naruto started to cry and Tsunade took him into her arms protectively and trying to calm him.
"What the hell is wrong with you?" she asked the panting white-haired man.
"ughh…I wanted…to ask….if you have seen….Kushina" he replied between pants.
She shrugged "Wasn't you supposed to watch over her? And for god's sake, Minato left you and me to watch over his son's life. Can't you do anything else good besides peeping on naked girls?"
"Well…I am not peeping…I am gathering info" replied Jiraiya regathering his breath.
"Tch…just go!"
'Even thoe I haven't seen her for some years it seems she is the same…' he thought as he closed the door behind him.
'Damn…she can't be using the shadow walk jutsu' a frown forming now on his face.
Walking, he was thinking now where she could go after just exiting the hospital.'Konoha Memorial' he thought.
With that in his mind, he jumped from roof to roof on the remaining Konoha houses. The rebuilding was already in process even thoe, a melancholic feeling was still floating in the air. Beyond the melancholic one there was still one that could be sent kilometers apart…the one of death, the one of burnt tissue, one of the only things that could remind everyone of the night before.
Closing the distance between him and the memorial stone that was already in place, he could see more and more villagers mourning the death of their great leader. Near the stone he could figure only two persons, Sarutobi holding into a hug the red-haired women. The funeral for the losses was to be made that night and the preparations were nearing completion. He approached the site and put his hand on Kushina's shoulder, wanting to show her that he was there to in case that she needed his shoulder. With a lighting reflex she jumped from Sandaime's hug into Jiraiya's one. The sannin looked over her shoulder and saw Minato's photo…his student's photo…his 'son's' photo…and let a small tear following his scrunched face features. After a few minutes of silence and Sarutobi's leave, wanting them to have some time alone, Jiraiya managed to let out a sight with his words…
"We will all miss Minato greatly, but he left you with a son. What do you plan to do?"
Minato was really a genius and Jiraiya knew that. Days before the Kyubi invasion, he told Jiraiya that if he died, Kushina would have to choose between their unborn child and really knew that she really loved him and would want to follow him in his sannin was now watching her grimace and knew that Minato was right and she really thought about suicide 'Damn women…sometimes they are graceful as the leaves flowing down with the wind but sometimes they are unthinkably wrong with their ways.' He thought.
After a few sobs, Kushina gasped for air and clearing her throat she replied "I don't know what I will do without him."
"Even if you die, you will never be by his side." Kushina now turned her shocked faced towards him as he continued "he made a pact with the Shinnigami and his soul will be eternally doomed into…Hell" She jerked after hearing this words. She didn't know the full implications with the Death God."Live for him" he lastly added.
She was now on her knees.
"Please Kami forgive me for even thinking at such an idea" she was now sobbing harder than kneeled now near her and taken her again in his hug, comforting her.
Later that day, the whole village came to commemorate their fallen comrades, friends, brothers, fathers or mothers, their fellow citizens, their fallen Hokage and savior of human-kind. Behind them remained the symbol of their sacrifice…the heartbroken people?...the tears that continued to fall?...no, Naruto…the living symbol of those that sacrificed their lifes, those that had fallen as heroes.
The villagers alongside all the shinobi gathered in front of the Memorial Stone in 20 lines. They were all staring at the photo of the the middle was left a free , wearing now a black knee length dress was caring the 2 days born Naruto went towards the Memorial while people were bowing their heads down in respect as she passed by them. As Kushina reached the last line of people she was met with two hands on each of her shoulders. One was Sarutobi's, who considered Minato almost as his grandson. The other one was Jiraiya's, Minato's sensei, who grew very close to him almost like to a son. The one and only godfather of recognized the person standing next to Jiraiya as Tsunade,the second of the three sannin,maybe the best medical ninja in the whole ninja world and one of the most beautiful as well known as the 'Legendary Sucker'.Tsunade gave a brief nod towards Kushina who replied the same.
As Kushina reached the small altar in front of the memorial stone, she placed with care the now most precious object in her life, the sleeping Naruto, oblivious to everyone and everything right now and began her little funeral speech turning to the crowd.
"First I would like a small moment of silence in remembrance"
They did as she told and after a couple of minutes continued.
"I would like to send my message of condolences to all families that were ripped apart by the attack of the Kyubi.I know the village of Konoha has passed through the worst times in the past few years, first the third Shinobi war and now the Kyubi attack. If it wouldn't be for you all as well Konoha right now wouldn't exist anymore and the great Will of Fire that goes through the generations would have extinguished. I hope this sad day won't escape the lines of History and be forgotten. The day itself doesn't matter in it's context but those that were in our hearts will always live watching us and forgetting them would be the greatest sin." She then turned towards Naruto and took him into her arms and presented him in front of the crowd.
"Minato's last will was that his son was to be presented to the whole village. My husband was overjoyed even with his unborn son. He told me so many times that the first thing he would after his son would be born was to present him to the whole village as I do now unfortunately at this event where we cry for those fallen." Kushina now turned towards the two sannin's and Sandaime who nodded in return.
"His son's name is Naruto and he let him under the protection of the four people you see in front of you. From now on he will be recognized as Naruto Namikaze, the last member of the Namikaze clan. The jail of the greatest of the tailed-beasts, Kyubi no Yoko,protector of you all, Namikaze Minato's, Yondaime's greatest legacy, the next keeper of the Will of Fire that runs through us all." She kissed Naruto on the forehead and ended her speech. The crowd replied with smiles.
It was now Sarutobi's turn as he stepped in front looking at the gathered crowd.
"As Kushina-chan said, the only thing that keeps us united, the hope we all are clinging on is the very same flame that burns into our hearts is the Will of Fire. The Will of Fire exists in all beings that we see around us but only those that can feel it will keep a close connection to the keeper of it, the Hokage itself. I am regretting for the lives that Kyubi took but now everything will be all right as it is sealed into Minato's own blood, by his own love, for the only Will of Fire. I know what happens to all the Jinchiuriki and how they are treated because they are considered monsters or demons, but I want to remind all of you that he is our angel not a demon. He is the last barrier between Kyubi and us. Threat him as our hero." It was his turn to kiss Naruto on the forehead. Noting that Jiraiya and Tsunade kissed him as well without saying any speech let the old man to make his final declaration that night.
"I, Sandaime, the current Hokage of Konoha, the current keeper of the Will of Fire, declare the funerals open and as a current citizen of Konoha I declare to start praying for the souls of the fallen."
The night was slowly taking control of the daylight as the villagers were putting their last words towards the heroes. The small raindrops were now starting to fall as the final sun rays were ending.
Seven days have passed from the fatidic day.
Seven days of mourning, the black week in Konoha.
The reconstructions were taking place all around Konoha.
Every day, as the villagers were now passing through the everyday busy place of Konoha Center, they were marveling at a small compound situated near Hokage's mansion, a small compound that guarded in big letters at the entrance 'NAMIKAZE COMPUND'.A small compound in which were living only four people and having a small place for each one of them.
The first chamber to the right was the property of Jiraiya, the great toad sage. It was rather simplistic and everyone from the street could see what was he doing and the many scripts that were laying on his walls. In the back of his small house there was a small training ground.
The second chamber was the one of the second sannin, Tsunade, the 'slug princess'. Even though the entrance was protected by a personal genjutsu, she didn't have much a valors besides her medical tools. After all, Sarutobi put her in the position of director of the hospital so she could use what was already there.
The third was Kushina' didn't have many values besides her photos with Minato thoe,no one knew that she had some secret compartments sealed by genjutsu and her blood in which she held the true treasury, scrolls with techniques left by Minato or her sensei, but the most important scroll, the one that she guarded it with her life, the scroll from Minato to his son.
The forth chamber was Naruto's one. It was the biggest one which was held under a genjutsu which was guarding Minato's own items. Decorating the walls were photos of Minato along his teacher, Tsunade, Kushina, all his important people. In the back of his house there was a training field bigger than the one Jiraiya owned. The training field was leading to a small path that leaded to the Hokage's chambers.
The house was silent when a silent cry began and the source of it was immediately surrounded by two woman touches (as Jiraiya was on errands *chuckles*).The source?
"Ok Naruto calm down."Kushina told her son while swinging him little.
This is the start of a story of a lifetime of the greatest ninja that ever existed, Namikaze Naruto.
A/N So what do you think? :D
Okay before I end, I have a few requests:
1. Could someone please tell me how is "grandma" and "grandpa" in Japanese? I want to introduce a bit of culture into this story.
2. Well, this chapter I really argued myself if I should kill Kushina or not. I was really close killing her but I decided that I will prolong a little her life a bit (so I'm still thinking of killing her) so what do you think?
Well I know the last part is kind of lame(with the chambers and so) but I had already planed what to do with them so the information's about chambers and such will be used in the next chapters.
Right now I am finishing my ideas about pairing as well. I will tell my final decision in the chapter, but the story is a NaruSaku one but will have kind of slow development.
This chapter was meant to be a prologue and I think I achieved that.
Well, help me get a better writer and please review. I don't know how long it will be the whole story but I hope I will achieve at least 100k words. I will put some lemons as well if I get many reviews.
I hope as well that I will release the next chapter by Sunday.
Thanks, and I hope you enjoyed reading it!
And by the way,I hate that in the update some words are someone knows how it can be prevented?
