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I DON'T OWN NARUTO, FLAT OUT

Prologue

Night of the Kyuubi attack

Konoha at first glance could be mistaken as a fortified civilian village. But if one where to look just a little bit closer they would see that the village was not what it seemed. In truth Konoha was a ninja village housing thousands of trained assassins, fighters and killers.

But more on Konoha later let us carry on with the story. In a darkly lit cave not far from Konoha there was a woman laying on a medical table with two other women by her feet. The woman had blood red hair, violet colored eyes, light skin that's almost the color of porcelain, and a relatively oval shaped face. She was dressed in the usual medical smock worn by patients and had a white sheet draped over her lower body. Her head was forward and her eyes clenched shut as she let out a loud scream of pain. The reason behind the pained screams was that the women was in the middle of giving birth.

"Minato Namikaze get the FUCK over here you prick! You did this to me, you can either hold my hand now or I can kill you later!" She screamed towards a shadow in the corner.

From the shadow stepped a tall man with bright blue eyes, golden blond hair, lightly tanned skin and a slightly angular face. He had his hands up in a placating manner. "Now Kushina you know I am only one side of the coin responsible for this situation," Minato said in a small timid voice.

"Don't you even try and slough any of the blame off on me!" Kushina spat back, "FUCK! Get that little hellion out of me!"

"Kushina calm down! If you don't calm down Kyuubi might break out of the seal," Minato said. He had moved from the corner and now had his left hand resting on Kushina's shoulder and his right hand grasping hers. Kushina's only response was to grunt as she clenched again and ground her teeth together.

Suddenly crying was heard throughout the cave. Both of the new parents fell silent and looked towards the foot of the bed. "It's a boy," The doctor announced. The doctor handed the newborn to the waiting nurse and severed the umbilical cord. The nurse then wrapped the child in a warm blanket and took him to the head of the bed.

"Ughh, if that little hellion is out then why does it still hurt so much," Kushina said in a highly strained voice.

"One second," the doctor said placing her hands on Kushina's stomach as they started to glow green, "Oh well it seems that you are having twins Kushina."

"TWINS! What do you mean twins!" Minato and Kushina shouted in perfect unison.

"Wait you two didn't know," The nurse said while looking at the new parents incredulously.

Minato rubbed the back of his sheepishly and said, "Yeah we kinda went to a doctor outside the of village and she wasn't all that skilled. We were trying to keep it a secret so we only wanted to let certain people know about Kushi-chan's pregnancy."

"You all can talk later Minato take your son so the nurse can get back here and help me," The doctor called.

The nurse shook her head in disbelief and handed Minato his son and returned to the doctor while grumbling something about idiot village leaders and secretive ninja.

"Okay Kushina a couple more pushes and we'll be done," The doctor said from under the sheet.

Minato turned back to Kushina so that he could show her her son to take her mind off the pain. "Say hello to our son Kushina," Minato said.

"Hello my little Naruto," Kushina cooed to her son.

Once more crying broke throughout the cave. This was followed by the doctor announcing the baby's gender, "It's a girl." The world fell away for the new parents as the gazed into each others eyes.

The next sound heard was two soft yet distinct thuds which broke Minato and Kushina from their reveling. They both turned towards the sound and gasped at the sight before them. Both the doctor and nurse where on the floor of the cave lying in a spreading pool of their own blood. Standing over them was a man in a black cloak and mask with a single eye hole on the right side. The mask was white with multiple lines across it on a horizontal axis with two going the full width of the mask. In his hands was the Namikaze's new born daughter with a kunai poised just above her head. "Step away from the Jinchuriki or your daughter will die before she has a chance to truly live," The strange man stated with an air of finality.

"I would recommend you not do something to drastic," Minato said while discreetly drawing one of his special tri-pronged kunai.

"If you insist," The stranger said before tossing the youngest Namikaze up followed by the kunai. There was a loud whoosh followed by a thunk as the kunai impacted the roof. "You are as fast as they say," Said the masked man, "but I have what I came for." The stranger placed his hand on Kushina's shoulder as a vortex formed originating from the eye hole in his mask. Both the man and Kushina where absorbed into the vortex and disappeared from the cave.

Minato looked down to his son and daughter before being engulfed by a flash of yellow light. When it cleared the Namikaze and his children where gone.

In a small house on the outskirts of Konoha

Inside of a large room with a large bed occupying the center with a massive crib visible against the northern wall there was a similar flash of yellow light. After the light died down Minato stood by the crib. "Sh sh sh, be calm little ones I'll be right back I have to go get your mother," Minato said as he lay both of his children in the crib.

Rocky outcrop 5 miles north of Konoha

Kushina stood chained to multiple rocks with seals while her feet rested on another. All across her skin were more seals with a large dark spot on her stomach. In front of her was the masked man. She was in pretty rough shape, her breath coming in heavy gasps. "Why are you doing this?" Kushina asked her eyes half closed from exhaustion.

"I'm doing this so I can get the Kyuubi and destroy Konoha," The masked man replied.

"What," Kushina said her eyes widening slightly.

The masked man just stared at her and explained the mechanics of the flying thunder god. "Minato marked your seal formula with one of his tags. He did this to protect you, unfortunately for you I put distance between you. Further more your seal is still in a weakened state from childbirth. I waited a very long time for this moment." The masked man said and the eye hole in his mask started glowing revealing a sharingan. The three tome in his eye span clockwise at high speed then stopped.

Kushina threw her head back in a silent scream as red chakra enveloped her body. The large dark spot on her stomach shifted and large amounts of the same red chakra shot from it. The chakra coalesced into a ball and took the form of the Kyuubi. Kyuubi was a massive red fox with piercing red eyes, rabbit like ears, nine flowing tails, and had an upper body similar to a humans in shape. The Kyuubi roared to the night sky.

The chakra that cloaked Kushina seamed to explode from her body. She fell forward landing on the rock she was standing on. Kushina lifted her head as the masked man turned to leave. "Wait," She said.

"Interesting. Uzumaki shinobi are impressive. Even after having your tailed beast removed you still persist," The man said. The man turned around and continued speaking "You were the Kyuubi jinchuriki, perhaps I should have him kill you." When the man said that the Kyuubi turned towards Kushina. Kushina looked up as best she could to the Kyuubi before it slammed its paw down on the rock she was on.

Just a few yards a way on a different outcropping Minato appeared with Kushina in his arms.

"You truly live up to your nickname," The masked man said.

"Minato, are the.. are the children safe?" Kushina asked her breaths coming in short pants.

"Yes they're fine. They're in a safe place right now," Minato replied a soft smile on his face.

"Minato you have to stop him. He's going to use Kyuubi to destroy the village," Kushina said. Minato turned his head and glared at the man before Minato and Kushina vanished in a yellow flash.

Back in the room with the children

Minato and Kushina reappeared back in the room with the crib. Minato stood as he turned to the crib. He stepped forward and placed Kushina in the crib with the two babies. "Why," Kushina asked.

"Never mind that. Just stay with Naruto and Sayuri," He said.

Kushina reached forward placing her hand lightly on Naruto's head and bringing him towards her. "Minato, thank you," Kushina said quietly, "Good luck."

"I'll return shortly," Came Minato's reply as he put on his short sleeved trench coat.

Konoha Proper

The villagers in Konoha were carrying on with their night life ignorant of what was about to happen. Near the eastern wall of the village there was a massive explosion of smoke. When the smoke cleared there for all to see in all his glory was the strongest of the nine tailed beasts, Kyuubi. People started to panic as Kyuubi started to destroy buildings indiscriminately. There were explosions everywhere as the village ninja did all they could to repel the beast.

Minato appeared on top of his visage on the Hokage Monument. He gazed out across the village with determination in his eyes. The Kyuubi took notice of Minato and turned towards him. Kyuubi sat on its haunches and opened it's mouth, orbs of blue and red energy appearing and coalescing into a black ball of chakra. "Don't fuck with me," Minato said forming a few quick hand seals. Kyuubi sent the ball of chakra at the monument as a large array of seals appeared. The ball impacted the seals and started to sink into them. The ball disappeared and the seals vanished shortly after. Minato threw his hands out in front, a tri-pronged kunai in his hands, of him and a large explosion rocked the mountain range behind the Hokage Monument.

A hand slowly reached for Minato from behind him. Minato sensed the opponent and spun around his kunai leading. As Minato span he saw it was the masked man behind him. Minato's kunai was aimed at the man's head. To Minato's surprise his kunai did not impact flesh as expected, instead phasing through the man. As Minato's hand exited the other side of the man's head the man grabbed Minato by the wrist.

"I'm your opponent.. and this is my victory," The man said the same vortex he took Kushina in forming. Minato started getting drawn into the vortex. Before Minato was fully sucked in he vanished in a yellow flash.

Clearing outside a destroyed shack

Minato appeared in a small clearing landing on his side. Not long after the masked man arrived in the clearing using his vortex teleportaion. Minato stood and glared at the masked stranger while the man looked impassive. "Are you Madara Uchiha," Minato asked suddenly, "No that can't be. He's dead."

"I wonder about that," The stranger said.

"It doesn't matter anyway, what does matter is why you're targeting Konoha," Minato said.

"I don't know, maybe it was impulse or it could have been planned," The man replied, "maybe it's for war or for peace." A chain dropped from the mans cloak sleeve. On either end of the chain manacles were attached and the man attached the chain to his wrists with the manacles. Minato brought his kunai up leaving it just bellow his chin. "Now that I have freed Kyuubi people have no more hope," the man claimed.

Minato and the man charged at each other. When they were five yards apart Minato lunged forward to impale his opponent with his kunai. The attack did not harm the man though as he phased right through it. Just as Minato passed through him the man became solid once more trying to catch Minato in his chain. Minato instantly teleported to one of the tri-pronged kunai littered throughout the clearing. They both charged again this time however Minato threw the kunai that he was holding. The kunai sailed clean through the man's head. The man reached to grab Minato as the kunai was passing through the man's head. Minato formed a ball of violently spinning chakra in an instant. Just as the man's hand touched Minato's jacket Minato flashed to the kunai behind the stranger and slammed the ball of chakra into his back. Just before Minato withdrew his hand he placed a flying thunder god marker on the man's back.

The man jumped from the cloud of dust made by Minato's attack clearly injured. "You hit me. This is what it means to be 'elusive'. I shouldn't have ever let my guard down," The stranger said. Minato flashed right in front of the man and placed his hand on the stranger's chest. A seal pattern appeared on the man's chest spreading out from Minato's palm. The stranger jumped away and speaks again "I must congratulate you Yondaime. You injured me and tore the Kyuubi from my control. But know this I will be back and there is nothing you can do about it." The masked man then disappeared into his same vortex teleportation technique.

Minato flashed from the clearing.

Konoha proper

Kyuubi was still rampaging through Konoha. Out of nowhere a massive pillar like object slams into Kyuubi's chest pushing it from the village. Kyuubi once more sat upon it's haunches gathering energy for the black chakra ball. Out of the sky a voice cried "Summoning: Food Cart Destroyer" and a giant red toad wearing a blue vest fell from the sky and landed on Kyuubi. Atop the toads head stood Minato. The toad grabbed onto Kyuubi as best it could.

Kyuubi roared at the massive red toad that held it down. "Release me you overgrown newt," Roared Kyuubi.

"Gamabunta! Do you think you can hold it down for a few minutes?!" Minato asked the now named toad boss.

"I'll see what I can do but you might want to hurry up with what ever you are planning Minato," Stated the toad boss.

"Alright Bunta, I can only ask you to do what you can," Minato said.

"Yondaime I will end you , you pathetic ningen," Kyuubi screamed while it struggled to free itself.

Minato disappeared in a brilliant flash and returned in the same manner holding Kushina and Naruto while Naruto's sister was in Kushina's arms. Minato set Kushina down on the ground and took their daughter from her. He stood and turned towards the Kyuubi. "What are you going to do?" Kushina asked in a weak voice.

"I'm going to seal the Kyuubi," Minato said as he looked down .

"No not our children. Use me, let me die with the Kyuubi. Please don't make our children go through that hell," Kushina pleaded of her husband as she broke into tears.

"I'm sorry Kushina but they will need their mother. I don't want them growing up as I did either," Minato said in a slightly strained voice, "They'll need you if they are going to live with this burden."

"Please don't put this burden on the both of them," Kushina begged of Minato.

Minato only smiled and looked to his son whom he held in his left arm. "I'm only going to use one for the sealing."

"They'll hate Naruto just as some of them hated me!" Kushina said as loudly as she could.

Before Minato could utter a word in order to refute his wife's claim the Kyuubi managed to escape Gamabunta. Before it could capitalize it was pinned to the ground by golden chains. "Kushina! Please don't strain yourself. They can still save you!" Minato said while at his wife's side.

"Fuzzball isn't going to hurt my family!" Kushina stated through clenched teeth. There was a fire in her eyes that only appears in a woman's eyes when their young are in danger.

"Okay but don't push yourself. Gamabunta help hold the Kyuubi!" Minato ordered his summon, "Kushina, I'm only sealing half of the Kyuubi's chakra into one of our children but I can't use Naruto."

"WHAT! You're using your daughter," Exclaimed the mighty demon.

"Why are you putting the burden on our little Sayuri?" Kushina asked now worried for her daughter.

"I'm choosing her so that Naruto can protect his little sister. Also she is the younger of the two and therefore her chakra coils are a little less developed," Minato reasoned in a calm voice.

"But what about the other half of the Kyuubi's chakra?" Kushina wondered.

"I'll seal it in myself using the Dead Demon Consuming Seal."Minato stated.

"Minato you know what that technique costs!" Kushina exclaimed.

"I know but I won't put that half of the burden on anyone," Minato said. Minato then handed Naruto to Kushina and moved a few meters away from her. He did a single hand seal and a sealing altar appeared and he set Sayuri upon it. Minato then took a couple of steps and stood between the Kyuubi and Sayuri. Minato started doing a long string of hand seals. When he reached the last seal he held it and called out "Dead Demon Consuming Seal."

Behind Minato a specter appeared. It had greyish skin, silvery white hair, beady black eyes, large fangs protruding from it's mouth, a sharp chin and narrow face. It was wearing a deep grey kimono that had light and dark patterns on it. The specter was holding a dagger between its teeth and prayer beads in its left hand.

The specter reached towards Minato with its right hand. Instead of touching Minato the hand seemed reach into him. The specter's hand shot out of Minato's abdomen towards the Kyuubi. Once it reached the Kyuubi the hand grabbed a hold of the fox and started pulling.

The fox soon started to roar in pain. The specter's hand was tearing a spectral image of the fox from its body. Within a minute the spectral fox split from Kyuubi and drawn into Minato.

Now standing there draped in loose chains was a highly emaciated version of the fox. Minato shifted slightly in preparation of sealing the fox in Sayuri. When Minato shifted the fox's gaze fell upon the newborn and the Kyuubi grew more enraged. Seeing an opportunity to stay free the beast lunged at the tiny girl upon the altar. Before the Kyuubi's blow landed Minato and Kushina appeared between the fox and their daughter. Both parents took the blow through the chest for their daughter the claw just missing Naruto as it exited his mother.

"Kushina why?" Minato asked before coughing up a copious amount of blood.

"Because I couldn't let the fur-ball kill our daughter," Kushina said as she also coughed up large amounts of blood.

Each parent said a tear filled farewell to their daughter and son knowing that they would not survive to watch over the children. "Eight Trigrams Sealing" Minato stated the name of his sealing technique weakly.

"NOOO!" Cried the Kyuubi as it was once again sealed.

As both parents drew their last breaths Minato muttered "seal" and the specter that Minato summoned withdrew its had from his back. When it withdrew its hand it took a bright blue silhouette of Minato and the fox specter from before. Both ghosts floated into the specter's open mouth and the specter ate both of them.

After both parents died a man with white hair, red lines beneath his eyes and wearing a red hoari burst from the trees. When he saw the dead parents he collapsed and broke into tears. "Minato. Kushina," He mumbled under his breath. Then he saw the small child on the altar but did not notice Naruto between Minato and Kushina.

The man quickly picked up Sayuri and ran from the clearing just before another man wearing some type of battle armor entered the clearing. He was quickly followed by a small group of ninja. "Yondaime-sama!" One of the ninja exclaimed.

When the group spotted the dead parents they rushed to them. When they got there the majority of the ninja broke down. "Sandaime-sama what are we going to do," Asked another ninja.

"I don't know," Spoke the man in the armor. He looked down and broke into tears. As he cried he saw something shift out of the corner of his eye. When he looked to the spot he saw a tuft of golden blond hair between the Yondaime and his wife. The old man knelt and separated the two and gasped. There in between the deceased duo was a small newborn boy. The Sandaime knew right away that this child was their son, Naruto.

"Sandaime-sama what is it?" asked a random ninja. The Sandaime stood and turned holding the child in his arms. All the gathered ninja shared a collective gasp. "Could he be the new container?" The same ninja asked in a hushed voice.

"Most likely. There is no other person here and I do not think the Yondaime sealed it in his wife or himself," The Sandaime said in an equally hushed tone. When he looked around he noticed that more people had gathered in the clearing and the treeline. By the looks on their faces he could tell that they were all drawing their own conclusions.

Just then another ninja stepped into the conversation. Her long black hair hung down to her mid back and her face was hidden by a mask made to look like an animal. "Sandaime-sama you are wrong in your assumption that the boy is the new container." She spoke in a calm voice. The Sandaime turned to her and fixed her with a look that said 'explain'. "I can not sense the Kyuubi within the child."

"How can you tell?" Asked the first ninja that had spoken with the Sandaime. He seemed skeptical of the female ninja's statement.

"I could always detect the Kyuubi's chakra within Kushina-sama even when she had it fully suppressed," She stated, "also I sensed a chakra signature enter and leave the clearing before we arrived. I also felt a second weaker signature leaving the clearing at the same time as the first. The second signature was mingled with the Kyuubi's."

"Can you still feel the signature?" Asked the Sandaime.

"I'm sorry Sandaime-sama. The person must be good because I can't feel them anymore," She spoke these words with a down trodden tone.

"Don't worry to much. But the way most of these people are looking at Naruto I would bet that his life will not be easy," Stated the Sandaime. "Even I don't believe I would be able to convince them he is nothing more than a child."

"Sandaime-sama could he be Yondaime-sama's son?" Asked the ninja who spoke first.

Sandaime just sighed and gave a slight nod.

"Then we cannot leave him unprotected," Said the female ANBU.

"This I know, but even then I think it prudent to keep the boys heritage concealed until such a time he can protect himself from his father's enemies," The Sandaime stated. "This will be classed a S-class secret until further notice."

"Hai, Sandaime-sama." Chorused the ninja that were with the Sandaime.

12 years later

It has been 12 long years since that fateful night. On a dusty road a tall figure walks. In front of the figure in the distance is the village of Konoha. The figure stands a rather imposing 6' 3" with broad shoulders, well muscled arms and a chiseled torso. He wears black cargo pants, black combat boots, a tight black elbow length shirt and a seemingly tattered black quarter cloak on his left side with a hood.(1) On his forearms starting just below the elbow and ending at the knuckles are blood red bandages wrapped around his arms.

On his right thigh was a type of holster tied there by blood red bandages. There is also a dark pouch tied to his waist over the back of his left hip by a dark orange sash. On his left bicep when the wind blew the cloak up we see another type of holster also tied with more blood red bandages.

From under the hood of the cloak peer a pair of sparkling sapphire blue eyes. From the small amount of visible skin the man's skin tone is a slight tan the same as Minato's.

In his right hand he carries a stunning lance at an angle with the blade down and the shaft passing behind his back. The lance is 7' 3" long with a silvery white blade that accounts for a foot of its length. Directly below the blade is a blood red horse hair plume. The shaft of the lance is white with what looks like black squiggles all along the length. To finish the shaft is a cap of the same metal as the blade with a pure white trail of horse hair.

For the man what the future holds is uncertain. But one thing is certain: Konoha wouldn't know what hit it.

(1) The cloak only covers from his hip up starting from the center of his spine and only wrapping around to halfway between the center of his chest and his shoulder.