Author's Note:
Hello, everyone! Before I get started here I would like to say any and all reviews are appreciated. Please keep in mind that this is my first Fanfic, but I am not a stranger to writing.
I am going to start off on the night the Kyuubi attacked the village and was sealed in the newborn Naruto. It is at the point of the fight where Minato has defeated the masked man and then teleports the Kyuubi outside of the village and plans to seal it away within Naruto. He also brings with him Kushina and Naruto.
Minato lands at the edge of a crater created by a Bijudama launched by the Kyuubi. In his arms he has Kushina and his newborn son, Naruto. The Kyuubi prepares another attack for the Yondaime Hokage and his family. Seeing so Kushina used her chakra chains to restrain the Kyuubi.
"Minato...I shall use my chakra chains to keep the Kyuubi at bay...and take it with me when I die." said Kushina panting from the recent extraction of the fox and child birth. Her chakra chains created a barrier that prevented anybody from entering and held the fox in place.
"But Kushina! There is no reason for you to die. I am going to seal the fox away...in Naruto." said Minato.
"No, Minato! You can't do that to our son. He is only baby. How do you know if he can maintain the seal, his chakra may not hold up like mine did." said Kushina.
"I must, Kushina. I may be his father, but I am also the Yondaime. The balance of power among the villages must be maintained. Even so, it is just a matter of time until the fox would reappear. Their will be nobody around to be the Jinchuuriki then. The man who caused this will be after the fox again and the only chance is if we keep it sealed away. The fox may also reappear right in his lap." said Minato as the Yondaime Hokage. Minato saw the Kushina was barely holding on; his time was running out. Minato continued, but as a father. "Besides, I can trust our son with the Kyuubi. After all, you are his mother, his chakra should be able to maintain the seal. I believe in him."
Minato left Naruto at Kushina's side until he was prepared. He summoned an alter on which the seal shall would be performed. He had to hurry if he was going to seal the fox. He summoned a toad named Gerotora in order to write the key of the seal.
"What! The Kyuubi! What's going on Minato?" said Gerotora.
"It escaped and I am going to seal it. I need to write the key to the seal. I have to hurry." Gerotora agreed and opened up to allow Minato to write the key. As he was about done writing, Kushina had a coughing spell, blood coming out as well.
"Kushina!" Minato exclaimed as rushing to her side. "Don't push your self. Once this is done I can take you to the hospital!"
"It's too late. I already had the Kyuubi extracted from me. Most other Jinchuuriki's die right after extraction, but it is amazing I am going as it is. It would only be a matter of time until I had died. That's why you must live Minato. If you go through with this then promise me to love him everyday. Watch him grow up and never leave him alone. Don't let him face the fate of most Jinchuuriki. Save him with love, the same love that saved me from that fate." said Kushina. Tears were streaming from her face as well as Minato's as she held her son in her arms. "My only regret is not seeing him grow up, not being their for him. Not seeing him become a ninja, getting married, and meeting our grandchildren. Never telling him stories or having fights, ya' know, being a family."
Like all of Kushina's dreams, Minato would do anything to make sure they came true. He may not be able to fully honor he last wise, but he would certainly try. "You can someday Kushina. I will work in the last of your chakra into the seal. So that someday you will meet our son."
Kushina looked up at her love, forcing a smiling with all her strength. "You make all my dreams come true one way or another, my love. Thank you, for making my life so wonderful."
Minato gazed into her eyes for what would be their last seconds together in this world. He took Naruto and laid him into the alter. He stood before his son with the Fox behind him, yet being constrained by the chakra chains of his unrelenting lover. "This will only hurt a little bit Naruto. Thank you, Kushina. For making my life like a true dream. I will not fail you."
"You never have and never will. Goodbye Minato...and goodbye my son, Naruto." Kushina spoke as Minato performed the hand signs for the Eight Trigrams Seals that would imprison the fox along with the remaining chakra of Kushina within Naruto. As the seal appeared on the infants stomach he let out a cry of pain. As the fox disappeared, the chakra chains containing him and the barrier disappeared as well. Kushina, who was standing next to the alter fell over onto her side.
"Kushina!" yelled Minato again. He went to her side, but all was hopeless. He had taken the rest of her chakra and put it into the seal so that someday she may meet her son; as her last dying wish. With no chakra and barely gripping onto life with what had all just occurred she had died right there. Minato gave her lifeless body the last hug he would ever give her. With tears in his eyes he remarked, "I will not fail you."
He stood up and grabbed Naruto. He was still crying from the seal put onto him. It didn't show any signs of a defect and held in place. "I am sorry Kyuubi. It pains me to deny you your freedom and seal you away, but please stay inside your prison. Keep my son safe and he will keep you safe. It is only a matter of time before that man comes again." He began to comfort his son and waited for help to arrive.
He didn't have to wait long. The Bijudama that went off before alerted the village to his location. While he had performed the sealing Sarutobi, the previous Hokage had arrived with several other shinobi. Now that it was over and the barrier had fallen they went to their Hokage.
When they got to the alter Minato had sat against it with his son in his arms. Minato was unconscious and Naruto had continued to cry from the seal. Sarutobi went up and grabbed the baby to stop the crying. He ordered them to get Minato to immediate medical attention and to return Kushina's body to the village. As he held Naruto in his arms he asked the same question every other villager had.
"What exactly happened here?"
Author's Note:
I hope that was a decent first chapter. I won't lie. In the making of this I had watched the scene in the anime and cried. I also cried while writing this part. This moment in the series was one of the most moving ones to me and I hoped to recreate that feeling, I can only hope I was somewhat successful, but I know it isn't perfect.
On a lighter note thanks for reading so far! This chapter is fairly short, but I plan on making most chapters after this longer.
