The Nine Tailed Sage
summary: this is a "what if" story about how Naruto's life would have been different had his parents lived through the Kyubi incident
ch1. the prologue
Jiraiya, the legendary Toad Sage and member of the Sanin was peeking on the womens' bath at a random village in the Land of Fire. Everything was fine until suddenly he went flying with a voice yelling "You dammed pervert! I'll teach you to peek on women!" Jiraiya could only moan in pain as he listened to the very famillar voice scold him after nearly kiling him. At the same time another voice he recognized was saying "Lady Tsunade, you've nearly killed Master Jiraiya. …Again." "Hmph. Serves him right for peeking". Later that day, once Jiraiya had recovered, Tsunade asked him an important question "Why are you here?" His answer was simple. "To bring you back to Konoha for the birth of my godson, what else?". Tsunade's answer was equally simple. "Never!" Jiraiya glared at her, saying, "It wasn't a request. You're coming because Minato's wife Kushina is about to give birth and with the Kyubi sealed inside her, there's no telling how much stress her body will be under giving birth and trying to keep the Kyubi sealed away. If something happens to her physically, there's no one better to help her than you." Tsunade sighed in defeat, knowing there was no way to say no since she didn't have anything against Jiraiya's student and his wife, so she simply said, "Let's go, but it'll take a least a week to get to Konoha." At this, Jiraiya laughed, saying "That's only if we walked, but we're taking the express route." At that, he quickly bit his thumb and ran through a set of handsigns before slamming his palm to the ground, shouting "Kuchiose no jutsu!" Once the large cloud of smoke vanished, there stood a gigantic toad with a blue vest and a pipe in its mouth. Jiraiya jumped onto the toad's head, followed by Tsunade and Shizune. "Come on, Bunta. We need to get to Konoha, fast" said Jiraiya. Gama Bunta's response was simply, "Fine, but you owe me. I'm not a taxi after all!".
They made it in under a day, but Tsunade was confused. She asked, "Why are we outside the village, Jiriaya?" Jiraiya looked at her like the answer should be obvious, but he answered anyway for fear of getting beaten up if he did or said anything that angered the Slug Princes. "It's to risky to have the birth in the village. The Kyubi could break out if something goes wrong." Tsunade just jumped off of Bunta and walked into the cave where Kushina was starting to go into labor and Minato was glancing at her worriedly as he focused on the Kyubi's seal. Tsunade just scoffed and made her way to Kushina. Glancing at Minato, she scolded him, saying "Focus solely on the seal. Kushina will be fine." Then, turning to Jiraiya, and shoved him outside, ordering him to stand guard with the ANBU while threatining him that she would kill him if he dared sneak off to due some "research" as he called his perverted peeking. After many hours of painful labor, Tsunade announced, "Congratulations. It's a healthy baby boy. What due you want to name him?" She answer from Minato and Kushina was simultaniously "Namikaze Naruto." Just then, their was loud noise and Naruto was snatched from the arms of Tsunade by a spiral-masked man. He then told Minato, "Follow me or your son dies at the ripe old age of 1 minute." Then he disappeared, instantly followed by Minato. Minato was quck to get Naruto back and placed him safely in his crib at the Namikaze Estate. Little did he know at this same time the masked man who had kidnapped baby Naruto was back at the cave where Kushina was. Tsunade was unable to stop him from extracting the Kyubi and using the power of his Sharingan to control the Kyubi so he could finally have his revenge on the Village Hidden in the Leaves. Minato donned his Hokage robe and set out to face and try to stop the Kyubi from destroying his village. Tsunade and Shizune were quick to set to work healing the damage to Kushina's chakra network from the Kyubi extraction. They both knew that if they weren't quick and thorough, Kushina would die from the damage.
Minato on the other hand was facing the toughest decision of his entire life, whether or not use his own son as the new vessel for the Kyubi since it was a being of pure chakra and therefore immortal. He teleported back to the cave to get Kushina and help set things up for the Sealing Ceremony, for he could see no other option but to seal the Kyubi in Naruto or loose the entire village to the Kyubi's rampage. Tsunade and Shizune had just finished healing Kushina when Minato reappeared. As soon as Kushina noticed him, she asked in a panicked voice, "Is Naruto okay?" Minato smiled gently at her saying "he's fine but the village wont be if I wait to much longer I'm going to have to seal the kyubi inside of him there is no other option. Saying Kushina was shocked would be an understatement even Tsunade and Shizune were at a lose for words but no one could think of any other way since the Kyubi couldn't be resealed inside Kushina since her chakra coils were already develop the Kyubi would break the seal killing her and dooming the village. So with a heavy heart Kushina said "alright but this means Naruto will have a terribly hard life" at this point Tsunadde interrupted saying "it wont be to hard with you two looking after him plus you'll have myself and that pervert Jiraiya to help hiim". Minato using the hirushin no jutsu brought Naruto and Kushina to were the Kyubi was and Kushina using chains made from her chakra held the Kyubi still while Minato performed a series of complicated hand signs summoning the shinigami and sealing the Kyubi inside of Naruto. Minato and Kushina, though tired, were very much alive thanks to Tsunade and the fact that Minato didn't seal the Kyubi in himself the shinigami didn't take his soul.
Yes I know I didn't cover the fight between Minato and Madara or the fight between Minato and the kyubi but that is because I have no intention of retelling things the same as the manga so if you wanna see those fight or anything I didn't cover just read the manga since anyhting I didn't cover is the same as the manga. Also I know I changed the way the sealing jutsu works but it was the only way I could keep minato and kushina alive. To all those who favorited this story or added it to there alerts thank you but i would really like it if you left a review so i know what you thought of the story and how i can improve it.
