(Konoha Outskirts)

Minato worked quickly as he applied the seal to Naruto. He had already used the Shiki Fūjin and destroyed the Kyūbi's soul. All he had left was to seal half of his chakra into Naruto before sealing the other half in himself and succumbing to the effects of using the seal. Finishing the seal he quickly placed a hand on it and cried out "Seal!" before standing back to watch his work. Half of the beast's chakra was immediately absorbed into Naruto's seal.

That was the moment everything changed.

Naruto began to wail loudly. Red chakra bubbled out of him and began to eat away at his little body. Minato leaned forward and began to examine the seal in panic.

"What went wrong?!" He quickly looked over each part. Sealing? Ok. Storage, ok. Merging, ok. Limiter, o-. He looked again in horror. The portion of the seal that handled the merging of the chakra into Naruto's own coils was two part. The first half drained Kyūbi's chakra from the seal into Naruto's coils, while the second half limited how much the first could drain. In his rush he had forgotten to add the brush stroke that acted as the limiter.

He quickly turned and fumbled for the ink and brush. When he turned back around it was too late, little Naruto's body disintegrated. He had killed his own son.

"N-no... Naruto," he whispered in shock. He watched blankly as the half that he had sealed inside of Naruto returned to the other half of Kyūbi's body.

The Shinigami sneered down at the man. Using his own son as a sacrifice for the Shiki Fūjin? It had respected the man at first, but now it was disgusted with him. As it reached out for the pure soul Minato shouted at him.

"Don't touch him! He's not... he wasn't supposed to die..." he said, tears streaming down his face. "How... how am I supposed to fix this?"

The Shinigami stared down at the man before turning once again to Naruto's soul. Reaching out a hand it grabbed him.

"NO! DON'T TOUCH HIM!" Minato threw one of his kunai and watched as it sailed harmlessly through the death god.

The Shinigami looked down at the man, impressed. Attacking death itself to save his son? Maybe he wasn't so bad after all. It turned to the chakra that had made up the Kyūbi's body and stuffed the little soul inside. A flash of light later and the two had merged, becoming a new being.

Minato stared at the Shinigami for a moment before walked over with his ink and brush and carefully applying a seal to the giant fox. When he finished he double-checked the seal. He didn't care how long he made the Shinigami wait now, he wouldn't make another mistake. When he was satisfied that his work was flawless he activated the seal and the beast shrunk down into a human infant.

He studied the child as it looked up at him and giggled. He no longer had his hair and eye color, but the whisker marks were still there. He had red hair that matched his mother's. 'At least it will be more believable that he's an Uzumaki, but those eyes...' The boy had blood red eyes with vertical slit pupils. 'The Kyūbi's eyes,' he thought.

"I'm sorry, Naruto. My mistake just made your life more difficult." He turned to glare at the Shinigami. "I'm not leaving him without an explanation. You'll just have to wait until I can write a scroll for him." He used Hiraishin to return to his home to grab a blank scroll. He hesitated as he looked outside and the heavily damaged village for a moment. He gathered up several other scrolls and used Hiraishin to return to his son and the Shinigami.

He quickly wrote a letter to his son and applied a small storage seal just above the one he had previously placed. He then altered his original and the child's looks changed to what they were previously, blonde hair and blue eyes. After linking the two together he sealed all the scrolls into the storage seal and turned to the Shinigami with a nod.

As the Shinigami devoured his soul and disappeared the Third and a group of ninja arrived. Hiruzen walked over and gently picked up the infant while a dog-masked ANBU crouched beside Minato.

Hiruzen looked at the seal on Naruto's stomach and frowned. He didn't recognize this seal. It must have been a new and more powerful seal. "A jinchūriki's life is difficult, but I will do what I can to assist you, Naruto."


(12 Years Later)

Naruto lay on his bed staring at the ceiling. He was vaguely aware that the sun had risen and that he hadn't slept at all last night. Not that anyone could blame him. He failed the graduation test a third time, was tricked into committing a crime, was told he was the Kyūbi by a traitor, and then after beating said traitor, given a field promotion to genin.

He would have met with the Hokage after that but the man decided to let the boy rest first. That was when things got even stranger. When he had gotten back to his apartment the seal on his stomach had begun to burn. Something happened to the seal after that. He could only compare it to 'cracking'. Part of the lines on the seal looked like they had cracked clean in half. A scroll had appeared, it felt like a blanket of fog had lifted from his brain, and his appearance had changed.

Iruka had refuted that he was the Kyūbi that night. Telling him he wasn't the monster that attacked the village and ranting on about other things. The scroll that came out of his seal had changed everything.

A knock on his door announced the arrival of an ANBU member to escort him to the Hokage. With a sigh he stood and answered the door.

"Uzu-" the ANBU blinked and cocked their head. "Naruto?"

Naruto simply nodded at the man.

"I'm here to escort you to the Hokage." Another nod from the child had the ANBU confused. Where was the hyperactivity? Where was the shouting? With a shake of his head, he grabbed the boy and vanished, reappearing in the Hokage's Office.

"Ah, Naru...to?" The Hokage too was confused by the change. He noticed the red hair first, then the eyes. His own widened in shock. "What happened to you?"

"The illusion that was covering up the fact that I'm the Kyūbi broke."

Hiruzen frowned. "Naruto, you're not the Kyūbi."

"You're wrong," the boy said, pulling the scroll out of his pocket and tossing it at the Hokage.

The old man caught the scroll before unrolling it and reading. His eyes widened as he read the scroll.

Naruto,

I made a terrible mistake the night I sealed the Kyūbi into you and I only hope that one day you can forgive me for what I did.

My intent was to turn you into a jinchūriki. A human prison for one of the tailed beasts. I made a mistake in the seal however, and the Kyūbi's chakra ended up destroying your body. I refused to let the Shinigami take your soul for my mistake and apparently the Shinigami refused to let Kyūbi's chakra go free. It did the only thing it could that would satisfy both of us. It placed your soul in the Kyūbi's chakra body, creating a new tailed beast.

Naruto, you are the Kyūbi no Yōko.


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A/N:

Just a short intro to give people an idea. Also to get something posted so people can read this crap and the crap on my profile and vote for crap.

Crap.

I'll be writing short intros for the other two and posting them as well. They'll come eventually. Probably the Hyoton intro next, because I haven't thought up anything Rikudō Sennin related at all.

SO, go read the short bits in my profile, decide which you would be most interested in reading next, and vote. If you have any ideas to contribute, feel free to let me know. I might even credit you with them!

Additional details and the poll are on my profile.