"Shinigami… Shinigami answer me," Minato yelled into his dark, musty cell. He continued pacing back and forth, as he had become accustomed to for the past 16 years. After the first four years of his imprisonment, he learned that the inside of the Shingami was not, contrary to popular belief, in anyway a battlefield were you fought until you were killed, and then revived only to fight for your "life". It was actually a large prison cell which held all the users of the Shiki Fujin seal to trap the Kyuubi inside his own son. Even though his final moments in life was the sacrifice of his own life in order to save his home village, Konoha, the thought that he had to seal it within his own son haunted his feeble existence within the prison of the Shinigami. He just hoped that the villagers and ninja obeyed his dying wishes and allowed his son to live a full and normal life. "Shinigami, please, I really need to talk to you."
"What is it insignificant mortal, what do you want of the great Shinigami," the Shinigami asked Minato.
"Please, I want another chance at life to be with my son," Minato pleaded.
"Now, why would I give that opportunity to you?"
"Because I have something to give to you in return," whispered Minato.
"What could possibly be of any great worth to me mortal," spit the Shinigami vehemently.
"I will give you the yin portion of the Kyuubi.'
"Fine, but it had better still be fresh," replied the Shinigami in a raspy voice.
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Minato awoke moments later in a room he had never seen before. It seemed extremely foreign to him, but he supposed it was just the fact that he had been dead for sixteen years. As he stumbled out of the soft, velvety bed, he dragged himself out of the small room and into a large hallway. "May as well go train and see what jutsu I can still perform," Minato thought groggily. He walked out of the small apartment and jumped to the nearest rooftop heading for the nearest training field. He hopped from rooftop to rooftop, but he felt as if it was easier, as if he had gotten lighter, and he noticed that his stride seemed a lot shorter. "This must be what it's like to physically exert yourself after being dead for sixteen years inside the dark, musty prison cell inside the Shinigami. Another thought that drifted to his mind was the fact that his hair seemed a lot longer then he remembered it was. Finally, he arrived at training ground number 25, a training ground where there was no empty fields and only tall trees surrounding you on every side.
After six hours of long strenuous training, Minato felt extremely hungry, tired, and dirty, feelings that did not exist inside of the Shinigami prison. Even though he had trained for a while, the only jutsu he could perform from his previous lifetime was the rasengan, and even then it was an incomplete one, having very little power. It could only injure the person very little, and the only way it would score a kill was if he used Hiraishin to propel him at speeds to forcefully thrust the rasengan through someone's chest. He also discovered that his chakra capacity was only at about a fourth of what it had used to be before he died. Disappointed and downcast, he walked back to the place where he had awakened that morning. He would end this day with a shower and whatever was in the refrigerator, and tomorrow he would search for his wife and son. After finishing his dinner, which consisted of an apple and a cinnamon roll, he walked into the bathroom and stripped off his clothes. Once he had taken off his clothes he stepped into the shower noticing two important differences between this life, and his previous one. First, his breasts were gigantic, and his family jewels were missing. He ran out of the shower and looked into the mirror. The thought in his head finally formed and he let out a long blood-curdling scream. He was a girl. Not the Fourth Hokage, Minato Namikaze, but a teenage kunoichi who looked about 16 years old. He collapsed onto the ground and was out for the rest of the night.
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Inside the Hokage's Office
"Naruto, I am giving you this super-S ranked solo mission, do you understand why" a woman with long blonde hair said. This woman looked to be about thirty, but in reality was really about 55 years old. "Make sure to retrieve Kushina Uzumaki successfully from the Raiden Mountain range in between Wind country and the Bird country."
"Okay, granny Tsunade, but you have to promise that she will accept me for who I am," Naruto replied.
"She was an apprentice of mine, and I guarantee you that she did love you, and the only reason she left was due to the fact that the Third Hokage sent Orochimaru to inform her that the Yondaime, your father, had died, and that you had lived through the Kyuubi attack. It was probably because that the traitor gave her wrong information. We're lucky that he didn't kill her because he hated your father," Tsunade muttered.
"Thanks Tsunade, for giving me this chance to have part of my family back."
"Don't worry about it Naruto, you were able to both bring back Sasuke and finish off the Akatsuki, you deserve to know the love of your mother, and not only the hate that the villager's give you."
"But Tsunade, I was able to finish off the Akatsuki with the help of the Rookie Nine, Team Gai, and the Sand siblings. It's not like I did it all by myself."
"Naruto, you will turn out to be a great ninja, and you finished off Madara, Pein, and Zetsu. You're way too modest about how you handled the Akatsuki, because without you some of your friends may have ended up dying. Oh, and by the way good luck, and you'll need this," Tsunade replied wryly. She threw Naruto a black sack.
"What is this," Naruto asked.
"This is your knew uniform, Naruto Uzumaki you are promoted from Genin to Anbu, and may I add, the only genin to skip Chunin and Jounin. This S –ranked mission to find Kushina Uzumaki will be your first mission as a Covert Anbu, a branch of Anbu that uses only single members as a unit. This branch is extremely hard to get into and must get a unanimous recommendation by the Hokage, Elder Council, and at least three clan heads. You have become the youngest member of this branch in the history of Konoha, and may you serve it well… Red Fox," Tsunade declared. "Dismissed."
"Hai… Hokage-sama," Naruto replied with one of his true smiles on his face as he poofed away in a cloud of smoke.
After Tsunade was sure Naruto had left, she quietly said, "Jiraiya, you can come out now… I know you were there for our whole conversation." As Tsunade finished her final words, Jiraiya appeared out of a dark corner in Tsunade's office.
"Are you sure he's ready for this," Jiraiya asked.
"As ready as he'll ever be," replied Tsunade.
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Minato awoke from his slumber three hours later, and remembered the situation he was currently in. He was in the body of a teenage girl. As if on cue, the Shinigami's voice appeared in Minato's head. It said, "From this point on, you will start to fuse with this girl. All of her dreams will become your dreams, and all your dreams will become her dreams. Every memory of you past life will slowly fade away, as you will become more and more like the person who once accompanied this body. You and this girl will become one body, one soul, one ninja, and one person. You will never be the same, and she will never be the same either. You will retain her jutsus and her jutsus only. All bloodlines you once had are gone, and all of her bloodlines, powers, chakra, and justu are now yours. You may retain some of your memories, but when I finish speaking to you all things that made you a man will disappear, and you have female urges. Not only that, but since this girl is a teenager, you will experience her hormonal imbalances," The Shinigami said excitedly. His laughing grew fainter as Minato lost all of the traits of a man, and slowly started to become a woman. His first memories to disappear were the memories of his son and wife as he saw them as Minato Namikaze one last time. This would not be the last that he saw them ever, as he would encounter them many times to come in his new life.
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Naruto sighed to himself as he walked home to the small apartment that he called home. In one night, he learned who his parents were, assigned an S-ranked solo mission, and been promoted to Anbu, making him the highest ranking ninja, not counting Gaara, of the Konoha Twelve and Sand Siblings. He left the next day on a trip that would take him less than two days with his newly mastered Hiraishin. He sighed thinking about his life, and how different Konoha seemed nowadays. Shikamaru and Temari were dating, and Temari had somehow convinced Gaara to make her the official ambassador from Suna to Konoha. Neji had somehow managed to act less cold to everyone, and had realized Tenten had feelings for him. Even though the two denied it, everyone else knew that they were unofficially boyfriend and girlfriend. Sasuke, the human ice cube, no, no scratch that, the human ice block. No that wasn't even large enough to describe Sasuke; he was more like the official human iceberg. Even him, Mr. Self-Proclaimed Avenger had somehow managed to get Sakura to go out with him after all he had put her through. Even though Naruto didn't have an infatuation with her anymore, but looked at her as though she was his little sister. Even Gaara, the person who rarely spoke at all was going out with someone. He was dating Matsuri, his former student, even though it was slightly creepy, he wasn't that much older than her. Even though he had been promoted to Anbu, he still felt like something was missing. Even though Tsunade had told him about his parents, he still felt a hole in his heart. There must be something wrong with him, because all he had ever wanted was a family, and he still felt as though something was missing. He wondered about a certain pale-eyed Hyuuga as he opened the door to his apartment and walked in to rest and prepare for his upcoming mission.
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In a dark room, two men waited around small round table as another man dressed in all black slowly walked up to them. "Is the task completed," asked the tallest one dressed in fine white robes.
"Yes, I have completed my half of the deal, now fulfill yours," the one dressed in all black replied.
"Fine we present you with 3,000,000 ryo, now leave us," the tallest one dressed in the fancy white robes said nonchalantly. The man in black walked away, and a band of metal on his head flashed it showed a line through a picture of multiple clouds.
"Nice doing business with you… Hiashi," the mysterious ninja replied. "But isn't it a little cruel that you had me kill your eldest daughter?"
"She was a threat to our clan, and was weak at that, I did what had to be done," Hiashi replied calmly.
"Even I think it's a little cruel, but for 3,000,000 ryo, I would have taken her off your hands if you wanted me to Hiashi," the ninja clad in black replied.
"As he leapt over the village walls with his loot safely secured in his ninja pouch, Hiashi whispered, "detonate…" and a loud explosion was heard as five Anbu immediately arrived at the scene. Come Hirotomi, we must leave before the Anbu arrive."
"Yes Hyuuga-sama," Hirotomi replied as he ran after Hiashi like a small puppy.
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A cloaked stranger silently made her way towards the gates of Konoha as a loud explosion was heard on the distance. She slipped past the two guards, and if you looked close enough you could see her hands move into five different signs, and then phase through the Main gates of Konoha. At that hour most people would have said it was a ghost or just a figment of their imagination, but both of these people were wrong.
A/N
So, this is the first of my series One More Time, please Read and Review. Also, I do not own Naruto or any places, characters, or names associated with it. For those of you who read my discontinued story Two and a Half Years, what do you think is it an improvement over it or is it worse. Thanks and have a nice weekend.