Naruto Nine Tails Resurrection
I don't own Naruto or any character or story/media associated, I am just a fan bringing a new spin on a popular idea, so please no legal shiznit.
The moon was full and shone bright like a silver sun; a hunter's moon is what shinobi call it. With moonlight that bright everything is visible, making a ninja's work easier. It's always more efficient for a shinobi to kill his opponent with less shadows. But tonight's hunter's moon brings no advantage or optimism, but instead drains confidence and hope from the massive ninja force assembled in the forest. They can see every horror and destruction done to their beloved home. Trees over a hundred feet high snapped like twigs, wildfires circling smoking craters in the ground, and large chunks of stone scattered through the forest broken from the great walls of the Village of Konoha. And the bodies; bodies of friends and fellow shinobi scattered about like broken toys flung about by a spoiled child.
"HOLD THE ATTACK AND WAIT FOR THE FOURTH HOKAGE," a ninja yells to his men as they hold the last line of defense for the village.
"IT'S GETTING CLOSER; DON'T LET IT NEAR THE VILLAGE." Desperately throwing shuriken is all these ninja can do to the beast before them. The sound of metal slices through the air as shuriken spin and kunai fly toward the Demon. But there is no sign that their effort is hurting or slowing the great beast as the razor sharp weapons bounce off huge orange fur.
A normal beast would be no match for a Konoha shinobi, even the largest and strangest predators that can be found around ninja villages wouldn't stand a chance. But this beast is considered to be more a force of nature and was famous for destroying whole villages and nations.
The Nine Tailed Fox demon is known throughout the ninja world as a legend, but everyone knows it's real. If you're lucky enough to see it and live to tell the tale your proof is in the damage it leaves. Mountains shatter under the swing of its tails, the ruble of buildings and homes can be found in its massive footprints. Whole coast lines have been washed away in the tidal waves this beast causes, and whole valleys have been carved into the earth with Fox Fire.
Every shinobi knows and fears the same will happen to their beloved home. Nothing has ever stopped the demon before, and collectively the shinobi hold onto the one and only desperate hope of stopping the beast. Only one person crosses theirs minds that can possibly save them now.
After all the fourth Hokage is a legend too, and he has accomplished many in the ninja world would have considered being impossible. Mastered legendary jutsu, ending a great ninja war, labeled "Retreat on Sight" by an enemy village, and created many unique jutsu unlike anything the shinobi world had ever seen. If anyone could face this demon Konoha's Yellow Flash could do it.
"RRRRRAAAAAWWWWRRRRRRR." The demon pulls its head back with a roar to charge another chakra bomb. Balls of blood red chakra pulse out of the Fox's body and swirl around like a snow globe to collect into a ball in front of its massive jaws, and as the energy compresses into a tight ball the demon eats it.
The ninja mentally say their goodbyes as they watch the demon look at them as though it was taking aim knowing there is nothing they can do to stop it. The Fox bares its teeth and opens its jaws to fire; a loud shot can be heard throughout the forest rushing past the trees to explode into side of the Nine Tails slamming it to the ground as he fires his Fox Fire Bomb. The deadly demon blast misses its human targets but obliterates a mountain a couple miles away incinerating plant life and melting stone in its path.
With a smash the large toad summons of the fourth Hokage can be seen landing in the forest smoking its pipe staring down the large and ferocious enemy.
Cheers can be heard from the remaining ninja forces as they look to their leader and hero calling him on to defeat this demon. As they gather their wounded and dead all they can do now is watch, and hope the Hokage has something that can stop this demon.
The Kyubi quickly recovers jumping to its feet and stares down at its new enemy a little more its own size. Great Boss Toad Gamabunta just licks his lips staring down the demon with a yellow haired ninja riding on his head.
"Sorry for getting you into this Boss Toad, but I need you to keep hitting him with your water bullets and push him back another five hundred yards".
The young Hokage has one desperate chance left to save his home and its people from destruction, sealing the demons soul and chakra will require his ultimate sacrifice. But the demon is intent on making it as difficult as possible; it roars and lunges forward to attack darting back and forth making itself a bad target. Gamabunta fires water bullets at the demon missing as the fox narrowly dodges each of the blasts.
"HMMMMM YOUR PRETTY FAST WELL TRY THIS ON FOR SIZE, RAPID MULTI WATER BULLET," the Toad summons voice echoes through the forest as he jumps forward firing water bullets like a machine gun.
The fox tries to dodge but each blast gets closer until two shots corner the demon and it jumps into the air to escape only to get blasted repeatedly in the chest. A satisfied smirk spreads on Bunta's face as he watches the demon soar through the air from the strength of his attacks. With a great crash the demon lands on its feet roaring its great anger and rage at the Boss summons, and as it prepares to lunge a chain lashes out of the ground to wrap around the demons throat. The fox growls out a startled bark and hisses in frustration as many more chains lash out and wrap themselves around the great Kitsune, and as the last chain encircles around its body they all suddenly pull the demon to the ground pinning the creature there.
All the ninja can do is cheer and watch as the great demon is subdued by the Hokage, and the sounds of those cheers reach the young Hokage as he rushes through the air riding on top the massive toads head. The happy cries gives him strength as he goes through the hand signs to perform his greatest and last jutsu ever, The Reaper Death Seal.
As the Hokage reaches the last of the hand signs he focuses his mind and says his own goodbyes, "This is it, for those I love, for the village, for the people, this is it…I am so sorry son to give you this burden and this pain but I believe in you…I love you".
Gamabunta crashes to the floor landing on his feet but Minato Namikaze leapt forward continuing the momentum built up from the Toad summons leap and rockets through the air like a missile homing in on its target. Holding his body straight as he rapidly approaches the struggling demon he roars his technique to the creature, "THE NIGHTMARES OVER DEMON, I SUMMON THEE, REAPER DEATH SEAL".
A look of horror can be seen in the foxes eyes as a brilliant flash illuminates the night, and he looks on as time seems to slow down to watch this tiny human speed towards him with a Shinigami soaring just behind his back. As Minato finally makes contact with the demon, he grunts in pain as the God of Death reaches through his soul to take hold of the demon, and with power not born in the living world the shinigami tears the demons spirit from its physical body. With the demon spirit and chakra being pulled through his body the Hokage begins visualizing the Eight Trigram seal in his mind and forms each layer of the seal making the mechanism of the lock to perform just the way he envisioned it.
The Nines Tails was being defeated and it knew it "NO, I REFUSE TO END THIS HERE, NOT TO A PUNY HUMAN NEVERRRRR". And with one last swell of power and the Nine Tails pulls the last of its strength and hatred through its youki chakra and pulses the power through Minato to attack the Shinigami.
Both Hokage and Shinigami feel the burning pain of the demon chakra circulate through their bodies like acid and for a moment the God of Death looses hold of the demon and Minato can only think of the pain. But conviction and duty returns to the Hokages mind and the love for all those he was trying to save flood his system like a cooling salve as he takes a powerful hold on his jutsu again. With an angry grab the Shinigami tears the fox demons spirit from its body, pulling that great mass of power into the fourth Hokages body and forcing it into the shape of the cage made in the humans mind.
One last great blast of light can be seen from a distance as though a sun was shining from the ground, and with the last bit of his energy the fourth Hokage pushes his containment technique into the small crying blonde child on the stone sealing a spiral pattern with kanji onto his son's stomach.
Sarutobi and a few Anbu can only watch with a strange foreboding of dread and guess at what their Hokage was saying to the crying baby before them with his dying wife in his arms. They watched as tears spilled from the mother and a mountain of sadness can be seen on the face of the blonde shinobi genius while he has his only chance to give his son advice for life ahead. Looking down at the now limp and dead form of his red headed love his body shakes just slightly as he looks over to Sarutobi and says, "My son is the hero today….. Honor him …."
Sarutobi slowly walks with the Anbu in tow up to still figure of their Hokage kneeling in the earth like a statue holding his wife before their baby like they were carved out of stone. The Anbu look on in sadness as they watch the third hokage kneel down to close the fourths eyes.
Sarutobi looks on his student's student with pride, "Do not be sad… truly I have never before seen such a death becoming of a ninja as I have today. Our Hokage has given his life protecting his people and his home. And even as death has taken him from us, look at him. He died sacrificing everything for this village and still has a smile on his face".
The Anbu all turn their masked faces to look on the fourth hokage and burn this memory into their minds. He truly was smiling, and even in death still gave off a sense of confidence and peace that only the fourth could inspire. As several of the Anbu leave to patrol the area they meet up with ninja scattered throughout the forest, and faster than any firestorm can travel the word spread out to all of Konoha.
The Yellow Flash and beloved Fourth Hokage of the village hidden in the leaves….. has died saving the village defeating the Nine Tailed Fox. And for the first time since the great shinobi war all the village was both happy to be alive and at the same time emotionally devastated at the loss of the most loved of all Hokages.
As these floods of emotion course through the village, Sarutobi the Third Hokage looks down at the crying child and wonders.
"What kind of life shall you live now little one, what does destiny have in store for you".
The child's wail loses strength and his eyes open to squint at the new world around him, and with a start Sarutobi notices the crimson orbs with slits like a cats staring out. As the elder ninja picks up the child he also notices the faint whisker marks on his cheeks and chuckles.
"Well then Naruto Uzumaki, container of the Nine Tailed Fox Spirit, I can see great things in your future…truly great".
There that's chapter one, already things are different if just a little, but little changes can truly make a difference in the long run.