Disclaimer : I do not own Naruto ... blah blah blah
A/N : In all the fics I've read either the Yondaime comes back to life miraculously or Naruto receives some scrolls when he turns chunin. What good will be the scrolls if he has horrible basics. It is shown that most of the clans start training their shinobis from an early age and naruto will just start at 13 and will kick everyone's ass is preposterous. Can a father who is hailed as a genius shinobi leave his son on a hope that the village people who have suffered greatly will look at his son as a hero? A shinobi who has a plan for everything and if that fail there is fail safe plan and if not that then there is an escape root, to think that Yondaime will not even be able to think of a situation where his son will live a dreadful life is stupid. This is only an idea with Yondaime being a bit more realistic.
Chapter 1 : The Martyr and the Summon
A lone man was standing in an empty training ground. The various emotions which were swirling inside of him were making his head hurt. The man known as "The Yellow Flash of Konoha" was completely at a loss at this point of time. A genius shinobi said to come once in a generation, was the youngest Kage till date and will be the youngest to die as well.
It has been two days since the great bijuu, Kyuubi no Kitsune was found to be heading straight to Konoha, destroying everything in its path. Since yesterday the shinobi force has been trying to stall the great demon from reaching the village in the hopes that their genius hokage will be able to defeat the demon, once he found a way. Now, hailed as a genius in the world of shinobis was not a big deal, almost every generation has a few of them but, Yondaime hokage of Konoha was called a genius, as recognition to his unparalleled knowledge in all spheres of shinobi skills, especially in Fujin jutsus and creation of new jutsus. He has already created two jutsus which has left the shinobi world baffled, as no one knows even the slightest clue of how they were created. The only exception to the said group was Jiraiya of the Sannin as he taught everything he knew to his protégé, Namikaze Minato, Yondaime hokage of Konoha. Thus, Yondaime confided in his sensei and even helped him learn one of his prized techniques, Rasengan. Hirashin (The Flying Thunder God technique), however he wanted to keep only for his clan and that would mean, for his son. However, even then Jiraiya knew that there were seals in the special three pronged kunais which the Yondaime used while using Hirashin.
Coming back to the situation at hand, Minato has already come up with a solution. After delving into the usage of seals for the better part of his shinobi life, he already knew the only way to contain the bijuus is through seals. However, what has left him stumped is that Kyuubi no Kitsune has been known to ignore the human race for a long time now and he couldn't fathom the reason behind its sudden appearance. Not knowing all the factors always irritated him, and all his shinobi instincts were screaming "foul play" at him. He was sure that something is amiss in the events of Kyuubi's attack. He has already modified Shiki Fujin jutsu to ensure that the jinchuuriki (human sacrifice for the container of the demon) in which he will seal the good part (well as much good a demon can be) of Kyuubi to have various benefits from the demon but above all to ensure the mental stability by making it impossible for the demon to influence the jinchuuriki. The evil part of the kyuubi, he will be sealing in himself and will be taking along to the stomach of the Shinigami.
All of this was well and fine, what was left for him to do was to find a new born baby to be the jinchuriki. As if the fate was trying to mock him, Kushina, his wife went into an early labor due to tension of the attack and the overwhelming feeling of the Kyuubi's chakra which has already washed over the entire village. Now, being a hokage he cannot ask someone else to sacrifice their baby if he is not willing to do the same. So, he will be making his son, Naruto ,the jinchuuriki and will die in the process. This would have been fine with him if his beloved wife wouldn't have died due to the complications during the delivery of the baby and weakened state of her body. Now, here he was standing alone after mourning for his wife for barely few minutes, as that is all he could give at this time and contemplating about what he is going to do. Once he is dead, Naruto will be all alone, with no one to look after him. As soon as he found that Kushina was going to die he took steps to ensure that no one gets to know Naruto's origin except two persons.
Sandaime was old and was easy to succumb to the council and his advisors, a good man at heart but he will not be able to look after his son, He was sure that Sarutobi will try his best to take care of Naruto but that won't be enough.
Jiraiya, with his frivolous nature will not be able to look after an infant and couple that with the grief of his death, Jiraiya will be gone from the village in no time.
With the only two people who know about Naruto being his son, being totally useless in taking care of him, Minato was very frightened for the life that awaits his son. All the previous known jinchuurikis have been know to have a lonely life lacking of all warmth and love that an infant should have rather their life knows only hate, fear and pain. The council and villagers will be after his son's life. They will hate his very existence. Human beings are fickle creatures and need to push the blame on someone for all their sorrows. In the aftermath of the Kyubi's attack they will look for a scapegoat and who better than the resident demon container. Danzo, the known "war - hawk" will know the power that a jinchuuriki can hold and with the greatest of all demons sealed in Naruto, the opportunities for him will be endless. He will try his best to turn him into a weapon. Hopefully, Sarutobi will be able to make sure that at least that doesn't happen as he has been against Danzo's view of creating mindless tools. He cannot be naive enough to think that Naruto will have friends growing up, that is actually going far, his son will be lucky enough to find kindness in this village. What can he do for his son? What can he do so that his son doesn't snap with all the hatred and become a cold hearted killer? Which won't be surprising with all the chakra of Kyuubi available to him, he will be powerful.
Kushina lost her family when the whirlpool village was destroyed. He is an orphan. All he had were his friends. That thought struck him like a sledge hammer. His mind started working at great speeds going over all the scenarios and all the things which he will need to pull this off. He started making preparations and gathering things. With the reports coming in, it seams that the Kyuubi is able to regenerate any injury it received, keeping that in mind he modified the seal to ensure the same gift is provided to his son. Also, a very small amount of the Kyuubi's chakra will be converted and added to his son's chakra pool, he can only imagine what will be the effects of addition of such potent chakra into Naruto's coils. With all the preparations done, Minato made a cut in his hand followed by making the seals and gathering the chakra required and said "Kuchiyose no jutsu" after slamming his hand on the ground. A large cloud was generated which was blown away by a gentle breeze which was accompanied by grey tobacco smoke. After some time a huge toad was seen with a pipe in his mouth and sword on his side and Yondaime standing on top of him. Minato leaped off the toad's head to land in front of him.
"Yo Gamabunta-sama!" said Minato.
"Sigh! How many times do I have to tell you to call me Bunta, Minato" said the huge toad.
"Hai Hai" said Minato in an evasive manner while shaking his right hand all the while giving a grin in a way which suggests that he does this every time for fun.
"So Minato, I don't see any opponents or ongoing battle for which you need my help. Apart from this feeling of vile chakra in the air and that stupid mask of happiness on your face, I don't see anything wrong around here", said Bunta sarcastically. "Tell me Minato, what did you do to land yourself in deep shit."
"Sigh! As sharp as ever, Bunta. I wonder how you keep on seeing through my masks?" said Minato with a pout, can an adult even pout?
"Che! You don't grow, as old as me to be so easily fooled by morons like you" said Bunta.
Minato suddenly grew serious as he was running out of time and produced a bundle of cloth from behind his back to reveal a sleeping baby. The baby opened his beautiful sky blue eyes and gurgled happily in his father's arms. "Bunta, meet my son, Uzumaki Naruto."
Bunta smiled at the little tyke and said "So, Kushina finally agreed, huh! You have a beautiful son, Minato. Wait, did you say 'Uzumaki'?" asked a confused and a little suspicious Bunta.
Minato sighed and started explaining everything, "Bunta, Kushina passed away an hour back due to complications in the delivery. I want to keep Naruto's origin a secret from the world as I have a lot of enemies, inside and outside of the village. Only Jiraiya and Sarutobi are aware of this but in the days to come they will not be very helpful to my son. As you can feel the vile chakra, it is from the great bijuu Kyuubi who has almost reached the outskirts of Konoha and is destroying everything in its path. I've come up with a way to defeat him but I'll die while doing so. I'll be sealing the Kyuubi in Naruto. Do you see where I'm going with this, Bunta?"
Bunta was speechless after hearing this. He was really sad that the beautiful red headed woman passed away but he was shocked that the man he considers one of his best friends will be dying today as well. He was sure that he will be there when Minato will be facing the Kyuubi but then he thought of Naruto and was appalled at his situation, he was no stranger to the fate of jinchuurikis, "Orphan the day he is born and you're making your son into a jinchuuriki. Even if you are their hero but the village will ostracize your son. His life is going to be very sad. Isn't there any other way, Minato?"asked Bunta with a heavy heart.
"There is no other choice, Bunta. I know what you're saying that is why the fact he is my son will not be made public to ward off the assassination attempts. I am very sure he will lead a very painful and lonely life. That is why I've called for you, old friend." said the distressed kage.
"I'm always happy to help you, Minato."
"First, I request that Naruto to be allowed to sign the Toad contract so that he is able to call on your clan whenever he likes. Who knows when will Jiraiya come back to the village and let him sign it" asked Minato.
"That should not be a problem, after all he is your son. That alone will not be of any help, Minato because who will teach him to summon?"asked Bunta.
"For that purpose I've created this seal and with your permission if you allow the sacrifice to be only blood till he turns seven, it can take care of the hand seals required for summoning. He will be able to summon one of your kinds as a companion till that time. In that way he will be sure to have a friend. As you said, Bunta, his life will be painful and lonely, if he has even one friend then he will be able to stay sane. By the time he turns seven, I'm sure he will be able to call forth his chakra. If you allow this to happen, I can draw this seal on his arm with a drop of his blood which will be set to be time-released three years from now." asked Minato with desperation clear in his voice.
"You sure are a genius, Minato. This is a great idea. Gamakichi is just born and I'm sure with you and Kushina as his parents, Naruto and Gamakichi will have a great time together. I'll allow it for you, my old friend."
Minato let out a breath of relief and once again summoned another toad. This time a toad appeared of the height of Minato who opened his mouth and unrolled his tongue to show a huge scroll. Minato took the scroll and opened it. After this he took out a kunai and made a small cut on Naruto's thumb. Naruto immediately started crying and Minato hurriedly wrote "Namikaze Naruto" just next to his name. Minato hurriedly healed the cut and started soothing the baby. The toad took the scroll and addressed respectfully to Bunta, "Gamabunta-sama" and poofed out of existence.
Minato took out a scroll, turned towards Bunta again and said, "Arigato Bunta, I am really grateful to you for doing this. I've one last favor to ask of you. Please, give this scroll to Gamakichi to give it to Naruto on his sixth birthday. I'm in your debt, as I'll no longer be able to return it after today, you can ask Naruto once he understands everything."
"Che! No need to be so dramatic, Minato. I will make sure that he gets the scroll when he turns six. You owe me nothing. It was only a small thing and it has been an honor to fight with you. I await Naruto to summon me. I'll make him sweat like a pig before allowing him to summon me again, HA HA!" joked Bunta after he took the scroll and hid it somewhere on his person.
Minato drew the seal for containing the Kyubi on Naruto's stomach. Naruto was gurgling happily as if the brush was tickling him. After drawing the seal Minato kissed his son's head and said " I love you, Naruto. Kushina loved you. For what its worth, I am very sorry for the burden I'm about to put on you. Live well, my son."
With everything done he hopped on Bunta's head and said "Its time Bunta. Lets go and kick some demon ass."
Nothing more was left to be said. The greatest hero of konoha, who will become a martyr on this day and his summon hopped off to the battle.
A/N : As you can see, I'm not very good at writing this. I do not mind if someone else take this up. I' ve the story line till Chunin exams in my mind so not that big a problem. I'll be happy if someone wants to help in the writing part. Naruto will be smart and will be strong but he will earn his strength. No bloodline or doujutsu. No yaoi. There will be a little bashing. The pairing will be Naruto x female Haku. Their past is very much alike and they understand the pain of loneliness. I just love this pairing. Having said this, this will be a Naruto - centric fic. So, the side - plot will only be given in a summary kind of way.