On October the 10th the Kyuubi no Kitsune attacked the village hidden in the leaves, Konohagakure, it was wreaking havoc with Its nine tails as they flew around rearranging the landscape and sending many ninja to their deaths.
"Come on, we have to keep the Kyuubi away from the village at all costs until the Fourth gets here" yelled Hiruzen Sarutobi, the Third Hokage.
Almost on cue Minato Namikaze appeared in a flash of bright yellow with his signature jutsu the Hiraishin. Carrying him was a large toad almost as big as the Kyuubi itself. It was smoking a pipe and had a large scar running across his eye.
With a roar the Kyuubi turned to face the newcomer. Its tails began to channel positive and negative chakra and concentrating it into a small ball. Minato was already moving once he recognised the technique of which his Rasengan was based off. He threw one of his special kunai straight over the Kyuubi and instantly teleported to it which cause him to land on the Kyuubi.
"I only have one shot at this." he said to himself as he channelled his chakra and then the Kyuubi and the Fourth Hokage disappeared in a yellow flash.
Hiruzen yelled in surprise and his eyes began searching the landscape for any sign of Minato or the tailed beast. Suddenly a huge explosion ripped apart the earth over a ridge several miles away. Hiruzen clenched his fists and whispered to himself "It's all up to you now Minato."
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OVER THE RIDGE
Minato was breathing heavily with effort as the last Hiraishin had taken a lot of chakra and he just had to dodge a tailed beast ball/ He turned his head just to see a figure in a black coat with red clouds decorating it appear out of thin air. Reality seemed to twist around his lone right eye and Minato couldn't tell who it was as his face was covered with an orange mask with a pattern of a swirl on it.
Minato glared at the new intruder, but not for long as the Kyuubi began attacking once again. However its movements came to a standstill as the masked figure looked it in the eye. Then the mystery man began to speak.
"Minato you will let the Kyuubi destroy the Village Hidden in the Leaves or I will kill your wife and child."
Minato replied with a quizzical expression on his face "How can that be? They are guarded at a secure location with ANBU guarding them."
The masked man's eye glinted as he spoke "No secrets are hidden from me"
As he said this he began lifting something out from his pocket that was red. Minato gasped has he realised it was a few strands of his wife, Kushina's hair.
"YOU LET THE KYUUBI OUT!" screamed Minato and began seething with anger.
"You thought it just escaped during the birth? Tsk Tsk Tsk How naïve can you be? I knew the seal would be weak so I just gave the Kyuubi a little help."
With that Minato began to engage the masked man in taijutsu but soon realised the other man's defence was near impenetrable. The mystery man grinned under his mask but not for long as Minato managed to land a glancing blow on the man's shoulder.
"ENOUGH" said the other man with a hint of anger.
"You might have been able to stop the my plans this time but you will pay a heavy price." Said the masked man as he started teleporting with the centre of his jutsu based around his eye.
Minato tried vainly to stop him but he was intangible so all he could do was watch but jast as the masked man faded away Minato used Hiraishin to catch him as when he landed the glancing blow on the mystery man, he had put his Hiraishin seal on him.
Minato appeared to see a huge cavern with the masked man kneeling over Kushina and his newborn son. In the corner lay the Kyuubi with its eyes rolling like it was under a genjutsu, Minato knew he had the element of surprise so he swung a powerful haymaker at the man but his hand went right through causing him to overbalance and his whole body went through the man.
The masked man jumped back with the baby in his hands and skidded to the back of the cavern.
"Drop all your weapons NOW," said the man with no emotion, "or I will kill the boy."
Minato threw all his weapons to the captor and proceeded to raise his hand in the air as a gesture of surrender.
The masked man jumped over the pile of weapons and began walking towards Minato with a kunai drawn.
"Time for Konoha to get a new Hokage" he sneered.
"That will happen," said Minato, "but not today." He said as he flashed behind the man and stabbed him in the shoulder splattering blood all over his cloak. The masked man gasped in pain and dropped the baby on the floor before he began to teleport away.
"This will not be the end of me, however I cannot say the same for you as the Kyuubi is no longer under my power." He said in a monotonous voice.
Minato could only watch on in horror as the Kyuubi began to stir in the same room as his family, he didn't have enough chakra after using the Hiraishin to teleport the Kyuubi. The Fourth Hokage knew there was no way around it, he had to use THAT jutsu. He scooped his son of the floor and put him on a table and began to make the hand signs; Snake → Boar → Ram → Rabbit → Dog → Rat → Bird → Horse → Snake and in a poof of smoke the shinigami appeared behind Minato. The shinigami lowered his hand and it passed through Minato's stomach and grabbed the Kyuubi pulling it into the Minato's stomach. The Kyuubi roared in terror and tried to escape but it was pointless. Soon there was no Kyuubi and a glowing seal on Minato's stomach. Minato then summoned the Eight Trigrams Sealing table and placed his son on it before transferring the Kyuubi into him.
"My son, remember no-matter what people think of you, you will always be the hero of the leaf."
The Fourth Hokage, Minato Namikaze then breathed his last breath.
AN
Phew, finally done, this chapter took some time to think up and put down on paper. I would really like some feedback on this chapter especially about the length because in my opinion the long stories are the best. I will be placing a poll on how you would like this story to go. Make sure you vote! NR