Disclaimer: I do not own Naruto and am in no way affiliated with the creation of the manga. All Credit for the characters and settings go to Masashi Kishimoto.

This was originally intended as a one-shot fanfic that i was writing for a creative writing essay in english, but i got carried away with it. I hope you like it. :3


Anthem of our Dying Day
(Birth of a Guardian Angel)
Chapter 1

Namikaze Minato sat sleepily at his desk. His eyes flitted back and forth between the many piles of paperwork on his desk, and his baby boy who lay asleep in his cot. The weather outside was bright and sunny, not a cloud insight over Konoha, and

the temperature was the kind that makes you just want to sleep. Minato wanted nothing more than to go outside with his son and relax; but as the Yondaime (4th) Hokage (The village leader), he really needed to finish all the paperwork that lay

before him.

"This is worse than the coursework Jiraiya-sensei used to set me" he sighed and reached towards the nearest pile. Right at that moment, the sky turned a deep black, and the calm relaxing atmosphere was replaced by one of fear and hate. Puzzled

by the sudden reversal in the weather, Minato turned to look out over the town hoping to find the cause (if any) of all this.

The sight that befell him was nothing like what he had hoped to see. What Minato saw before him was a giant nine-tailed fox, a demon beast feared for its awesome destructive power. Before him and his town was none other than the Kyuubi.

Without a second's hesitation, the Yondaime summoned the ANBU black corps and ordered them to take every ninja they could to try and halt this terrifying beast, while he made preparations to evacuate all the villagers to a safe location.

"Shimaté" Minato cursed in his mind. The village had no plans for demon fox attacks and now his day had been ruined completely; but at least he didn't have to do the paperwork now. As he scooped Naruto (his baby boy) up in his arms, he smiled

and wondered just how the child could sleep though all this. It was just then that Minato realised exactly what he needed to do. The Kyuubi was to powerful to be killed, not even by one of the top 5 ninja nations; but you could seal them away...

inside of small children. Yondaime muttered an apology to his son and to his late wife Kushina for what he was about to do; and with that, he leapt out across the city, Naruto still in arms, and headed to the villages sealing tower.

As they arrived at the sealing tower, Minato was trying to hold back the tears in his eyes because; he knew sealing the nine-tails was going to take a large amount of energy, and to do so he would have to sacrifice himself. He thought about what

he was doing as he carefully drew the preparation seal on Naruto's stomach, and decided that with this, both he and his son would be revered as heroes. Kissing his son gently on the forehead, Minato said his final goodbyes and walked out the

door, no longer able to hold back the tears. He knew he would never see his son again, and he could only hope that Naruto would be cared for by someone kind and loving. Now all that was needed was to get to the other side of Konoha, but

running wouldn't be fast enough.

"I guess I have no choice" Minato sighed as he bit his thumb before yelling "Kuchiyosé no Jutsu". A cloud of smoke billowed around the Yondaime Hokage as a giant toad appeared beneath him. Without saying anything the giant toad, with Minato

standing atop his head, leapt across the whole village and in a couple of minutes they arrived at the site where the Kyuubi was currently taking out many of Konoha's finest ninja.

Minato rapidly performed what seemed to be dozens of hand seals, and in a flash of radiant blue light, the Kyuubi was gone, sealed away inside of Naruto forever. Feeling a sense of victory, a faint smile played across Minato's lips as the last of his

life energy faded away, and he fell gently to his knee's; dead. Or so everyone thought...


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