AN: now as is this my first story, I don't expect it to be great, but I will try my hardest to make sure it's something worth reading.
" Bijuu Speaking"
'Bijuu Thinking'
"Human Speaking"
'Human Thinking'
Disclaimer: I own nothing from Naruto. The plot line and any OC's I may decide to put in will be the only things I can claim credit for.
Chapter One: The Night it All Started
It was a warm October night. Every thing was quiet, yet there seemed to be something in the air that spoke of dark days to come. People went about there business as usual, having drinks in bars with friends, getting last minute shopping done before the shops closed, or taking a stroll to clear their heads.
However in a secluded place near Kanohagakure, or the Village Hidden in the Leaves, something special was happening, a baby was being born to his parents. While the father, midwife and nurse were talking to the mother, well, the mother was speaking to someone else.
'Come on Kurama, don't do this right now, neither you, I or the baby needs this kind of strain.'
'I know Kushina, but something is telling me to get out of here, call it instinct if you will, but I feel something or someone is going to be coming after me soon.'
'Is this like the time you warned me about Kumo just before I was snatched or is it something else entirely'
'This feels like something even worse than that. I'm sorry Kushina, but I have to get out of here.'
With that, the seal spread across her body as the great fox tried to get loose, sending the man into a panic causing the midwife to snap at him, telling him to act like the Kage he is before going back to giving instructions to the soon to be mother. After a few more minutes of instructions from the midwife, and the father keeping the seal restricted, a loud cry rings throughout the cave signifying that one Naruto Uzumaki-Namikaze has been born.
After cleaning the little guy up she takes him to his mother who happens to have a bright smile on her face, "Here you go Kushina, a mother should see and hold her son before the father."
Kushina Uzumaki takes her son in her arms and looks at him closely, seeing three whisker like marks on each of his cheeks she smiles, knowing that Kurama had a hand in this. She then looks up at her husband, Minato Namikaze with a smile, "He's here. Our little Maelstrom is finally here Minato."
Minato walks over and looks at his wife and child with tears in his eyes and a smile on his face as he looks upon his own blue eyes and blond hair, but his wifes slightly rounded face looking back at him. "He has my eyes and hair color, but it would seem that the rest of him is all you Kushi-Chan," the man says before he leans in to kiss her and their sons cheeks.
Before he can though, a scream and a thud is heard behind them and he turns to see a man in a black hooded cloak with an orange spiral mask covering his face standing there. The mask only has one eye hole in it and the eye that is showing is blazing red with three black tomoe, or commas showing in it. One hand has a hold of the midwife, who we can now see is Hiruzen Sarutobi, or the Third Hokages', wife Biwako, and the other is holding a kunai to her throat, "Step away from the Jinchuuriki and the child Forth Hokage, or else the old bag is gonna bite it."
Not being one to sit on her laurels, nor take kindly to insults, Biwako moves to stomp the mans foot then elbow him, but all she succeeds in doing is throwing herself off balance because she phases through him, with a kunai now burried in her neck. The mans eyes never leave the hokage, but from the "distraction" that Biwako cause, Minato rushes to attack him and phases through as well.
When he gets turned back around, the man now has Naruto in one arm standing next to Kushina who looks like she wants to rip the man in half. However, after seeing Biwako and her husband phase through the man, not to mention the way he took Naruto from her, she knows she doesn't stand a chance right now. Even though you can't see the mans face, you can hear the smirk in his voice as he holds another kunai over Naruto, "Leave this room and I will leave your child alive as I take the Jinchuuriki away from here."
Minato looks on in concern, knowing the man is lying, but also knowing he doesn't have much choice either. However, due to his hesitation and the man not having much patience at the moment, the knife is raised and the child is tossed into the air. Seeing their son thrown into the air like that Kushina cries out and Minato uses the Hiraishin to grab him as he begins to fall and disappears to their hidden home.
Upon arriving he drops the blanket due to a hissing noise coming from it and then uses his jutsu once again, but he doesn't get away unscathed as he now has a chunk of wood from a tree branch the blanket was near when it exploded sticking out of his leg. With a limp he moves to a bed and lays his son down on it with another blanket while smiling down at him, "Looks like daddy has to go rescue mommy again Naruto, we'll be back soon."
With that he leaves in another yellow flash and appears where Kushina is, seeing her with closed eyes, shallow breathing, and tears streaming down her face. He walks over to her and touches her face to wipe away the tears and her eyes snap open with a hateful fire in them, "He took the nine tails Minato, I don't have much longer but I would like to spend it with our son." With a sad nod, he takes her in his arms and they vanish back to their home, where Minato lays Kushina down with Naruto.
She takes him in her arms again as the tears stream down her face, even though their is a bright smile stretching across it. "I love you my little Maelstrom, I want you to grow up to be big and strong." With that she kisses him on the forehead and cheeks before closing her eyes, however, they snap back open with they all hear a roar coming from outside the village. She looks at her husband and gives him a nod telling him to go while she stays with their son, and he disappears in a flash.
Arriving on top of his head on the Hokage Monument, he spots the nine tails fast and it spots him before growling and gathering chakra and youkai to form a bijuudama. Before the beast fires it off he starts going through a series of hand signs, and as it is fired and approaching him, he finishes with his jutsu and teleports it off to explode in an unpopulated area. Sensing someone behind him now, he dodges off the left while turning to see the man in the mask standing there.
Remembering how Biwako phased through him earlier, Minato knows that he can't hit the man with a normal means of attack, which leaves out taijutsu and more than likely all ninjutsu and weapons. Then he figures if he can use a tossed weapon as a means to make him phase first, he might be able to catch him off guard and let him somehow get a hit. With that thought in mind, he tosses a kunai at the man, but it's not any normal kunai, it has three prongs, is slightly largers than a normal kunai and the handle has a seal on it.
As it reaches the man it begins to phase through him and Minato is thinking all right phase one is done, now I just have to time this perfectly or miss my chance altogether. As soon as the handle exits the mans back there is a bright flash, a hum, then a thud and cracking sound as the man gets hit in the upper back and shoulder area before crashing into a crator from the force of the impact. Standing up with his shoulders slumped, he feels a hand touch his chest and the seal that was revealed there from his torn cloak disappears. With a widened eye and a hard voice he looks at Minato, "I will come back later to claim what is mine." He then vanishes in a swirl, not to be seen for sometime.
Minato turns and sees the nine tails still fighting, but more like it's defending itself now instead of attacking. Seeing this, he vanishes and appears back at his home to lift Naruto and Kushina in his arms. With a heavy heart and a sad smile he looks at his son and wife, "Kushina, even though I don't want to, I have to seal away the nine tails into Naruto." Tears begin to leak from her eyes, but she nods her head, knowing that she wouldn't survive having the great beast, who happens to be her friend resealed inside of her.
Upon arriaval, Minato summons the boss of the toads, Gamabunta, and has him pounce the nine tails. Once he has the great fox pinned, Minato sets down Kushina and Naruto, then summons a stone cradle with deals all over it. He places Naruto in it and gets ready to start the sealing process when the third comes up to him, "I'll do it Minato. I've already heard word of what was found in the birthing cave, and no baby should grow up without his mother or father." Feeling bad for not being able to save Biwako, and having an inkling of what the man is talking about, Minato nods to Hiruzen who beings the ritual himself.
The nine tails looks to the two men and one woman who is still barely holding to life and nods to them with a bit of anger in his eyes. The anger stems from two things, the loss of his friend, and being controlled once again to attack a place he was supposed to guard. Seeing the nod, the third starts the sealing process, calling forth the Shinigami, or Death God, and speaking with him in privacy inside his mind since the seal has connected them. 'I ask that you use my life force to bolster that of the dying woman. If it wasn't for the attack on her person and the release of the nine tails from her, she would have lived a long life to raise her son alongside his father.'
The specter thinks this over for a while, knowing that the old man before him speaks the truth before giving him a nod. 'I agree with you Hiruzen Sarutobi.' After getting the nod and confirmation from the Death God, the old man continues on with the sealing, however, instead of splitting the great demon like what Minato had planned, he seals the entire beast into Naruto then falls to his knees.
Hiruzen waves Minato over to him and speaks his final words, "You and Kushina raise that boy well Minato. With you as his parents and the nine tails inside him, that boy can go far in his career. He may even be the greatest the leaf village will ever see." With a sigh, his eyes start to glaze over and he falls backwards while saying, "Tell Asuma and his brother I'm sorry, but that I did this last act of service to protect my king."
With tears streaming down his face, Minato nods, then turns back to his family wondering what Hiruzen meant about him And Kushina raising their son well. Shaking his head, he gathers his wife and son in his arms again and transports them all to his office after sending the Anbu there to gather the council. Once there, he lays his wife and son on the couch and looks to the anbu there and sends all but one out to help the ones that were on scene to help with the gathering, but this time of the clan heads.
The anbu who stayed has silver gravity defying hair and is wearing a dog mask, "Sensei are they gonna be alright," he asks with concern in his voice.
Minato looks at the young man and nods while shrugging his shoulders, "Honestly Kakashi, I can't say. What Hiruzen told me as he was passing is odd, but it also gives me a bit of hope too." He then sits behind his desk as he waits to hear that the council has been gathered so they can find out what all has happened and where.
While waiting, he notices that Kushinas' color is starting to come back, which it shouldn't be doing, but it is. A few minutes later, her eyes open and she sits up, lifting Naruto with her to look around, wondering if she dies and if not, is this some kind of miracle. As all know, a vessel who looses their beast is supposed to die, so she's hoping for the second option.
Her eyes finally fall on Kakashi and Minato, and it also dawns on her that she is holding her son who is sleeping peacefully. Her eyes finally lock on Minatos and he gives her a big smile with a nod, seeing the hope in them, to let her know that they're all alive. "Thank Kami ya know," she says with a little too much enthusiasm and a fist pump of the arm giving less support to Naruto which causes him to wake up and smile at her.
The chuckles which followed are interrupted by a knock on the door and a cat masked anbu coming in when told too. "The council and clan heads are gathered in the meeting room Hokage-sama," she says after bowing to him. With a curt nod and a lets go to everyone in the room he stands from his chair and leads everyone to the meeting chambers.
Upon arriving at the chambers, Minato moves to the head of the table, and Kushina with Naruto in her arms takes the Uzumaki seat, while Inu and Neko take up positions behind the Hokage. Minato look around and sees a lot of familiar faces, Hiahsi Hyuuga, Fugaku Uchiha, Choza Akamichii, Inoichi Yamanaka, Shikaku Nara, Tsume Inuzuka, Tsunade Senju, and many others. All were stone faced with red eyes, quite unlike the civilian side, some of them were still openly weeping. The three elders were there as well, Danzo, Hamura and Kohara, and taking the place of his father was Asuma Sarutobi.
Minato looks around one more time before speaking, "This night was and is hard on us all, but some more than others. Asuma, I'm sorry for your losses and I have a last message from your father who passed away performing a sealing it is, 'I gave one last sacrifice to save my king.' What he meant by this I do not know." The young mans eyes went wide and he gave a nod to Minato which meant he knew what his father was speaking of.
With a sigh, Minato spoke again, "The attack is the work of one man. Who this man is I don't know, but I do have my suspicions, but I'm not gonna accuse anyone with so little to go on. He somehow managed to bypass all the security where I was watching over Kushina here give birth to her son, kill the nurse, Biwako, and attempt to kill her child before making me leave to take the child to safety. While I was gone he to Kushina, extracted the nine tails from her, someone how managed to get control of it, then set it on the village. I went back to find her weak after the extraction and took her to where her son was before leaving to confront the man myself. He was using some kind of weird time/space ninjutsu that caused normal attacks to phase through him. I got lucky with a working theory after seeing what he did to Biwako, when she tried to free herself from him, by throwing one of my Hiraishin markers, letting it phase through him, then using the technique and a rasengan to land a hit. After doing this, I broke his hold on the nine tails and he left using some teleportation I've never seen before as well.
All eyes were locked on him as he was speaking. he had paused to get a drink of water when someone asked, "What happened to the beast after you broke his control?"
Putting the glass back down, he looked at the civilian who asked this with hard eyes, "He was sealed into the child in Kushinas arms." At this the shinobi side went wide eyed and quiet, while all the civilians started calling for the demons head and the KI being released by all shinobi present was almost enough to give them all heart attacks, especially what was coming from Minato, Kushina, Inu, and Tsume.
The Hokage stood and looked each and everyone of the civilians dead in the eye before speaking again. "I will not dishonor the sacrifices made by the man who sealed the beast, the child, or the childs parents by doing such a thing. If I hear another outburst like that or see anyone trying to harm this child, one Naruto Uzumaki as I understand it, then that person will be sent to T&I then beheaded publicly, it matters not if they are civilian or ninja. One thing I will ask though, is that you all not tell your children about this so the boy can grow up as normally as possible. If I hear of you turning your children against him, you will recieve the same punishment as if you had harmed him or conspired to do so." The ninjas and elders were nodding agreement while the civilians were nearly shitting themselves to agree as hastily as possible.
After pausing for another sip of water, Minato spoke one final time, "We've all had a long day. I want each and everyone of you to go home, help your families through this time of need and get things settled once more. Once all of the funerals have taken place, both private and public, we will meet once again to go over our financial situation and then start the process of rebuilding again. I know this has hit some harder than others, so if you need help, don't hesitate to come see me and I will do what I can. Until the next meeting, take care of yourselves and lets help everyone we can get through all this. that, he, Kushina, Inu and Neko left, leaving a thoughtful ninja council and a scared shitless civilian council to their thoughts as they sat there or went home.