A Set of Broken Blades

By

Ragnorokrising

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I really wanted to post this, just because i thought it was a good idea. It's a Naruto/Gaara story about there friendship, not a gay Naruto. Please review to tell me what you think.

Chapter One: Forging a Blade

Flames roared around the giant beast and the surrounding trees. The mighty Kyuubi no Kitsune breathed heavily as his power fluctuated. His tails hung around him on the ground, and a long gash cut his left back leg open. A snicker in front of him made his tails rise, a sphere of energy slowly forming in the back of his throat. "Older brother, Kyuubi no Kitsune, how you have fallen." the giant eight headed and eight tailed snake in front of the red fox reared up, blocking the moon.

"You won't be saying that in a moment you over grown salamander!" the snake hissed as a line of purple energy shot from between each mouth. A giant sphere of purple fired straight at Kyuubi, who opened his mouth and roared. A huge swirling vortex of black fire spun in his mouth. He opened his mouth as large as possible, letting the flames leak around him and turn his fur black. His tails started to pump energy into it. He reared up into the air, swinging back down and letting the orb shoot toward the purple energy. It tore through the sphere and through the chest of the snake, killing it.

"OROCHI IS DEAD! RETREAT!" shouted the large badger further back. All but one of the other Bijuu ran, trying to get away from Kyuubi before they suffered the same fate. The only one left was the six tailed weasel, Raijuu of the Thunder.

"Are you not going to run from me Raijuu?" asked the older demon.

"You wounded me Kyuubi. I can go on no longer." he turned to his side, showing Kyuubi a long bleeding set of deep cuts. "I can only offer myself to you so that I may one day serve you." in a flash of gold, he became a slim golden sword about twenty inches long. The sheath was black with a picture of the giant weasel on it. Kyuubi let it hang around his neck so its energy could flow into him. The other six Bijuu dashed away, their own wounds slowing them down. Kyuubi sighed and turned towards a village far in the distance. He shot his mind out towards it, looking for the one human he trusted.

'Minato, it's me, Kyuubi.'

'Fox, what do you want?'

'I'm wounded, and I won't be able to fight again for at least forty years. Didn't you say your wife is pregnant?'

'Oh no, I know where you're going with this. You're not using either of them as a vessel!'

'Still, I'm coming to Konoha. I'll be there tomorrow.' Kyuubi cut the link short there. In Konoha, Minato sighed as the fox tried to get his child in its grasp. He sat outside a surgery room, waiting for Tsunade to finish 'working', as she called it, on Kushina. He polished his last tri-pronged kunai and moved on to shuriken when Tsunade came out of the room, Kushina following her.

"You were right Minato, something is wrong with the pregnancies." she sighed, plopping down onto the uncomfortably hard chairs in the waiting room. Then she turned her attention to Kushina, who ran a head over her stomach that was showing that she was pregnant. "I can't tell what's wrong, but they aren't going to survive long when they're born and Kushina will most likely die as well. No medic could heal her unless they had the power of, I don't know, Kyuubi, at their disposal." Minato flinched, drawing Kushina's attention.

"Minato, is there something you're not telling me?"

"The Kyuubi, he's coming so I can seal him away to heal after a bad fight. If he's seal into one of them, they will survive." Kushina tried to protest, Minato put one of his hands to his head and another up to quiet them.

'Kyuubi, are you still there?'

'Yeah, what'd ya want now?'

'Okay, you can be sealed into one of them so they can live.'

'You'll need something of power to contain me and the Raijuu inside it. That is, if you can make a seal for it.'

'You know I love a challenge.' the connection ended with an exchange of laughter between the two. Minato lowered his hands. Kushina slowly turned her gaze on him, as if trying to connect with the fox herself. "Kushina, Tsunade, I have a way to save them. However," he said, raising his finger up in front of his face and tilting his head slightly more in Kushina's direction. "I need that item we were talking about earlier."

"No!" the snapping response came so quickly, Minato barely finished his sentence. "It's an Uzumaki heirloom! I won't give it up for you to let a demon sleep inside it!" Minato's eyes glazed over, a distant look coming out.

"Kushina, would you doom our child to death at your side, to save a single item that will sit aside behind a large wall of boxes and collect dust? We might as well just abort them." Tsunade and Kushina gasped.

"Minato…I'm not heartless."

"Then you would doom the child, separating your old clan and your new one at the same time?" a tear broke away from Kushina's eye, sliding down her cheek and onto the floor. She slid her hand into a hidden pouch on her leg and pulled out a white and red scroll with the Uzumaki clan symbol on it. He carefully took it from her and put it in his pocket.

"The fox will be sealed behind the mountain to keep it a secret. I'll go work on the seals." he walked away; a tear of his own falling from having to hurt is wife in such a way.

(The Next Day)

It was behind the large expense of rock and trees that an injured fox with a sword hung from his neck sat and waited. First his weapon was removed and placed in a large circle to be shrunken down to a pendant on a black chain. Then Minato painted a seal on Kushina's naval. She tried to look at it, but he stopped her. "You don't want to mess up the seals."

"Was that a fat joke?" he ignored her (smart move) and painted a similar seal on Kyuubi's forehead between his eyes. Kushina snapped her head towards Minato. "That's a berserker seal Minato!" again he ignored her. He stood between them and spread his arms out to either side where the palms faced the seals. Sparks flew from his finger tips then a set of chakra strings connected the seals to each finger. With a mighty tug and a groan of effort, as well as a few popping noises, Kyuubi was slammed into a seal further off, becoming a ball of red energy.

"Berserker Sealing Jutsu!" the object flew through the strings and into Kushina's seal. She screamed in pain as the seal went bright red. Tsunade had her knocked out in a temporary coma in a few seconds.

"Now we wait until she awakes."

"When will that be Tsunade?" Jiraiya questioned.

"When she goes into labor in a few days. Until then, I'd say you should go to Sealing Country and get that set of scrolls you spoke of Minato." the momentary gleam in the Kage's eyes went un-noticed by the healer.

"I'll be back in time." he turned away from the others and let his cloak fall to the ground, intricate lines of golden light glowing on the inside.

'Weight seals huh? Minato, you're determined to become the fastest person in the Elemental Nations aren't you?' joked Jiraiya to himself. His former student spread his legs and made a ram seal. He closed his eyes and sent chakra through his body ad focused it to three spots. In a hug burst of chakra, the first three Celestial Gates opened up and increased Minato's speed. He sent some of that extra chakra to his legs and flew away from the village. He traveled for a few hours at this speed, then after opening the fourth gate, shot over a huge expense of lake, thus using a large portion of his chakra, and arrived in Sealing Country.

"Halt! Who goes there?" a single guard came out of a huge gate, decorated in weapons.

"Hello Hoyitame, long time no see."

"Minato, is that you?" a smile broke the man's stern looks apart to show joy and surprise. "Last time I saw you was a year before the war ended."

"Hoyitame, I would love to catch up and all, but I'm in a bit of a twist." he briefly explained what was going on with Kushina.

"And you need the Namikaze scrolls?" the Kage nodded his head. Hoyitame hesitated before nodding and leading Minato through the village. Since it was two in the morning, every one except the ANBU were asleep. They stopped in front of a small alter. Hoyitame told the blonde he could go no further and let him inside.

Stepping in front of the large table, he took thirteen scrolls and sealed them away. Stepping further back, he knocked on the wall a few times before a hollow sound came back. "I found you." he pushed the spot and the wall sprung in on itself. Behind the secret compartment, two more scrolls sat. He grabbed them and hit a button on the wall. A black glass case came down. He edged his hand towards the scroll it held.

"Minato, is that you?" his hand froze. Out of the shadows, a blonde woman with cerulean eyes held a small green orb. "Brother, what are you doing in the village? You were banished!" he smiled sadly at her before he appeared behind her, his hand still shaking from the chop that knocked out his younger sister. He went back to the box and in flash, snatched the box up, grabbed a blue scroll inside it, placed a decoy scroll back inside in the exact same place, and put the box back down.

But he wasn't quick enough.

Several small green spheres rolled out of the walls in his direction. He flew to his sister and out of the alter, dropping her on the ground. Green, poisonous smog came out of the door way as he flooded his leg muscles with chakra. He would need Tsunade soon.

(Konoha: Minato's Arrival)

Staggering into the Kage tower with ANBU helping him stay standing, Minato lay on the couch and let Tsunade heal the muscles. "What were you thinking? If you hadn't been as fast as you are, your bones would have shattered from the force of the chakra and you would be crippled for life." he felt the pain numb as she slowly put each piece of the fractured skeletal inlay of his legs together again. The scrolls were in his bag which he reached into, pulling out a green scroll.

"I needed to get these scrolls." he dropped the rolled up paper back into the bag and drifted into unconsciousness. When he awoke, he was in a hospital room, next to Kushina, with several monitoring devices in his body. He took each one out and dropped it on the ground, alerting his nurses. Tsunade, angry and obviously hung over, came in and pointed a finger to start yelling, until Kushina took a large breath and stuttered something inaudible. "What Kushina?"

"I said, I think my water broke." she started going into labor, and once again Minato passed out.

(An Hour Later)

The Yondaime Hokage was by no means an emotional man, but when he looked at the small male baby crying in the crib with the berserker seal on his naval and the female baby lying dead next to her mother, he couldn't help but cry. He stroked the boy's head, for some reason being born full of hair, and smiled down at him. "I will name you Naruto, in honor of your mother's birth country."

"Minato, the council wishes to speak to you." Jiraiya placed his hand on the blonde's shoulder. "They know about the fox being sealed. A ROOT member was watching you." he sighed and picked up Naruto, patting him on the back.

"Well, let's get going shall we?" he opened the door and left the hospital, ignoring the civilians around him. Shoving away a hand trying to reach Naruto, he entered the council room and stared down Danzo first, killing intent rolling off him and slightly scaring Naruto. "Danzo, I told you to disband ROOT! I will give you a day to do so, before you are removed with them from the village. Now what do you old farts want?" he said, ignoring Danzo's shocked look.

"Lord Hokage, we have come to discuss that…creature in your arms." spoke Homura.

"This creature is my son and only child. You will show him some respect or be cast out of this village for dishonoring the current Kage family." the malice in his voice was un-mistakable.

"Your…son… holds a demon inside him. The problem is the demon could take over at any moment." began Koharu.

"And we want you to either kill it, or let us make it a weapon." finished Danzo. Staring at the council with hate filled eyes, Minato handed Jiraiya Naruto. The older white haired man made a Shadow Clone to watch and left the room. Once the lock clicked into place, Minato flew forward and grabbed Danzo's collar, pulled him over the wooden table, spun in a circle and hurled the war hawk into a wall. The ROOT leader slid to the ground unconscious.

"THAT IS MY CHILD! THE LAST OF THE FAMILY THAT DOESN'T WANT TO KILL ME!" he pointed at the door where his baby waited. "I swear if you try anything that could harm my son," sticking his hand in the second kunai pouch on his waist, he hurled his special kunai at each council member. Activating the seals, he flew through the council room and landed in the same place. "I'll activate the choker seals on your necks. One snap and you choke yourself to death."

Each person placed their hand on the seals at their necks. The Jiraiya clone smiled before disappearing. Walking out the door, Minato took Naruto from his ex-sensei's hands and flashed home.

(Next Day)

Minato was sitting in his study when he heard it. The wall of his room where he let Naruto rest exploding open mixed with the sound of Naruto's screams. He dashed out of the door and burst open to see a huge zanbato flying down on Naruto. He couldn't cast an offensive jutsu or get to Naruto in time, so he cast a Foreign Sleep Jutsu on him. He had discovered the other night that when Naruto slept, Kyuubi came out. The blue edged red flames that acted as a shield for Naruto were pierced by the sword as the baby fell asleep.

"GET AWAY FROM MY HOST!" a flaming tail slammed into the masked man. Inside a cocoon of fire, Naruto slept, tucked into a ball. The flames around the child took the shape of a bison sized nine tailed fox. "If this child was older and I could take on my true size, I would crush you beneath my paw." instead, four tails shot forward and pieced him, turning his body to ash.

'Note to self: never make Naruto or Kyuubi mad when he turns thirteen.' thought Minato.