Okay my second fanfic; hope people like it just as much as my other one. I do have some thing to say about the way the council works in this story though. Not all of the leaders on the council are ninja clans, the way most stories have it, but I don't classify the civilian members as clans in this story. In this story they're consider them to be in a house.
The difference between the clan and houses on the council is the way they're chosen. The clans' are chosen by the right by birth, meaning that they are the head of the clan. In this story the houses' are chosen by the right to vote. Anyone adult in their clan has the ability to be voted their seat on the council, so there is no clan head and the power has the possibility of being given to more suited individual at the day of the death of the current representative.
Chapter Zero -Prelude-
--Council Room--
The Sandaime was in the council room holding the baby in his arms tight after the disastrous results introducing him to the public. The council was silently sitting waiting for someone to bring up the subject everyone was waiting for.
Daichi a ninja from the Haruno house couldn't stand the wait anymore and said, "What are we going to do with him? I'm not suggesting we kill him, but certain precautions should be made incase the Kyuubi is able to take control."
"Do you have doubts about the sealing abilities of our late Hokage?" asked Shikaku Nara.
Tsume Inuzuka said, "None of us are able to deny the abilities of the Yondaime, but it doesn't hurt to have a backup plan. I propose the Hada, Seishin, Seirei Yokuatsu Fuu (Body, Mind, Spirit Suppression Seal)."
Choza Akimichi's eyes widened as he said, "That's ridiculous, he's just a baby and you fear what he holds to the point where you make it so he doesn't even have a chance to be a ninja, which judging by the civilian reaction to him, may be the only career available to him."
Shibi said, "It won't make it impossible for him to be a ninja, only harder."
"It makes it damn near impossible," Susumu Sarutobi, the elder son of the Sandaime.
Hiashi said, "I must agree with Susumu's comment. Also isn't this act somewhat unethical?"
Fugaku scoffed at this and said, "Ethics? From a clan that uses the Caged Bird seal? I cannot see any ethics coming from them. Plus, I think we should put a seal on the boy; you never know if he goes crazy."
Hiashi looked at his rival and scowled at him ready to make a subtle insult.
"Enough you two we are here to discuss the boy, not for you two to argue like always. I just need to know though, what is this seal we're all arguing about?" asked Hotaro, a female from the Ryuuto house.
Inoichi said, "Ah, yes most people from the civilian side wouldn't know about the seal. Well basically this seal suppresses anything that it is designed to by, in a sense, regulating the brain. The seal tends to include body, mind, and chakra control weakening, chakra suppression, and weaken hate and anger. I say that the addition of an extra barrier from the Kyuubi's mind would be beneficial."
After that Danzo said, "All this talk of sealing the boy's power is ridiculous! Give the boy to me so I may turn him into a weapon that will make Konoha feared among all ninja villages."
The Sandaime simply said, "No. Now that that's out of the way we may vote on the decision. I will go first; I vote nay."
The voting process went around and there were only six votes against, twelve votes for it, and Danzo abstained. Sarutobi sighed as he said, "I see that the council has decided. Very well, the seal will be placed on the young boy. But first, Hiashi would you be so kind as to check on the boy's chakra coils to see if there is any significant amount of stress?"
The Hyuuga activated his Byakugan and said, "Certainly, Hokage-sama. The boy's chakra coils are very stressed at the moment and, while I'm no medic or seal master, but I believe that it would be dangerous to perform the seal at the current time. I would say that you should wait another week or so before it is safe to place such a seal on the young boy."
The elderly Sarutobi said, "Okay, the sealing will be done one week from now at this time, dismissed."
After everybody was gone Jiraiya came out of hiding and said, "Why are you letting them place a seal like that on Minato's kid? I could take him away."
The Hokage had a solemn look on his face as he said, "No you'll be given the title of missing-nin and the hunter-nins would come after you. If they find you and a weapon goes astray, Naruto-kun over here might not be so lucky. You're good, but I fear that you may not be able to hold of several hunter-nins while protecting a baby and even I can't overrule the council's decision either so I'm backed into a corner here."
"Well this sucks, at least let me place the seal on the gaki," said a disheartened Jiraiya.
Sarutobi was confused by this request and asked, "Why would you want to place the seal on Naruto-kun, your favorite student's son?"
Jiraiya replied, "The seal effects the nervous system, the muscles, the brain itself, and the circulatory system, so it there is a risk for the person receiving it. The way I see it is I'm the best seal-user Konoha has to offer and by doing this Minato-kun's gaki will be safer."
Sarutobi gave a small grin and said, "Well then request granted."
Jiraiya gave a nod before jumping off the wall and doing his 'research'. After he left the Sandaime looked around the room, making sure that everybody was gone. The elderly man went to his desk pricked his finger and wiped it on an unseen seal on it and a book popped out. It was one of Jiraiya's classic Icha Icha series books. He started to read it, because he really needed to relax after today.
Susumu walked in, saw his father, and screamed, "SO YOU DID KEEP THAT BOOK YOU TOOK FROM ME WHEN I WAS SIXTEEN!"
The man's father quickly wiped the blood off the seal and the book disappeared back into the seal and he looked around the room and said, "Book? What book? I don't see any book."
Susumu was pissed he was being taken for an idiot. He had a big build, loved to fight, was kind of perverted, and cursed a lot, but he was an extremely smart man. Before he could say anything his father disappeared.
--The Next week--
The council, the Hokage, Jiraiya, and the baby Naruto were in a special room. The Gama-Sennin was preparing the equipment he would need and the council was making sure he didn't try anything fishy.
Jiraiya was done and placed Naruto under a sleeping ninjutsu, to make the process easier. Jiraiya went to work as soon as Naruto entered his REM cycle. Jiraiya started by painting the actual looks of the seal on the kid's forehead, which was an eight-pointed star. Then he started to do work on the seal to designate what it has to do. Once he was sure that the seal was made so it would do its functions perfectly he started to connect the limiter to the brain.
The Sannin then pricked his finger and the fingers of the Hokage and Naruto and let a small amount of their blood run into a bowl. He then proceeded to pour a small amount of chakra into the seal as he used the blood to go over it. Once the seal was covered in blood and had enough chakra to be activated all traces of it had disappeared.
The Hokage stood up and said, "There, now his power is limited."
Author's noteOh just to let any of you who have been reading my other story, I haven't abandoned it I just have a case of writer's block, which is part of the reason I wrote this.
I hope you guys like this fic and I hope for you fans of my other story like the different style because I feel if I'm going to get good at writing I should be able to change the style of writing for the story. It also helps for mystery because it makes it so you don't know what's going to happen based off of my other story. In my opinion NOT knowing what's about to happen is much more enjoyable because the plot twists are so much more unexpected.
Sorry for that little rant I like to take certain views like this.