Brown Fox

Brown Fox

Chapter 1

The Forest Calls

I do not own Naruto, or any of the Characters that reside in the Naruto Universe.

There is a point in every beings life where they must make a choice; sometimes the choice is small and insignificant, like whether or not to eat the last piece of cake: or big and life changing, like which child to seal a nine tailed demon fox in. Yes, the loveable Namikaze Minato had quite a big dilemma on his hands; you see, his original plan was to seal the evil incarnate into his one and only son, but with about as much warning as a hurricane he had two beautiful children in his arms, with no decent way to determine which one of them should carry the burden of the wannabe plush toy. Between the children, there was considerable difference between them. One of them had unruly spiked hair, blonde, as the sun is bright, along with his signature blue eyes, while the other baby, had calm brown hair with light hazel eyes. The baby boy with brown hair on his right arm seemed to be complete opposite to the crying baby on his left arm.

"Minato-Sensei what are you waiting for? The Demon is just a few miles away, is the sealing technique Ready?" said a Jounin named Hatake Kakashi, this finely tuned killing machine had not only his genius mind, but the power of the Sharingan in his left eye. The now impatient silver haired prodigy was wearing a navy blue mask covering the lower half of his face, along with standard issue ANBU armor below his neckline, the only way to pick him out of a crowd right now was his single red eye. Looking at his former students eye it dawned upon him. 'Half and Half, I will just divide the charka down the middle, along with the soul, and put them separately into each of my children'.

"Yes, its time to put this damnable monster were it belongs, in a small child's stomach" he said with a bit of sarcasm, what better time for humor when one is facing there ultimate foe?

XxXxXx-15 minutes Later-XxXxXx

The job was done, the demon, finished, the charka, sealed, the soul, divided. The hero of the leaf was taking his last few breaths exhausted from his sealing technique. With his order to retreat for the ANBU squad sent with him, he was alone, left to spend the last few seconds of his life with his children. Well, that's what he thought at least, but when he saw a green haired woman walk out of the surrounding forest, whose only source of protection against the cold night was some bark covering only what seemed appropriate to the mysterious woman, before he could ask who this woman was, she quickly knelt down and picked up the still quiet brunette baby, and carried him away, before he could even get in a word of protest, the woman, along with his remaining life were gone.

As soon as the blonde hero was sent to his eternal torture, one of his two reaming students, this one showing an innate ability in healing and being of the female sex, was running to the now lifeless corpse of her late sensei. Before Rin could even cry over her dead teacher, who was just sent to the afterlife to join his third student Obito. She was interrupted by a loud cry, no, a loud shriek, of a blonde baby who was now looking up at her with cerulean eyes. Not unlike the ones that her sensei had. Quickly dismissing the thought of this being her sensei's son, he was unmarried and would never have an illegitimate relationship. Ignoring the boy's mysterious parenthood, Rin picked him up to examine him closer, the most obvious feature being his blonde hair, sharing an uncanny resemblance to her late sensei, but as Rin's eyes trailed down the small boys body, she noticed two things, one of the traits being his 3 whisker marks on each side of his cheeks, the other thing the medic-nin noticed was the intricate seal that was placed on the boys stomach, while she was studying the strange boy, he burst out in yet another loud cry, she could feel the sound waves hit her face feeling like a great wind.

"Uzumaki Naruto" said the chuckling chunnin, she had no idea why she decided to name the Demon Container, as far as she knew, he had parents, but it just felt natural to give the boy his name. With that being said, she left to report the finding of the Naruto to the soon to be re-instated Sabutori Sauske.

--------With the Mystery Woman--------

She looked down at the baby in her arms, she was instructed by her superiors to take the child and raise him in till he could fend for his own in the forest. To teach him everything one would need to live in the l forest. She had no idea why she was asked to raise this child; she was a proud matron of this forest, not some lowly baby sitter and she was by no means feminine, which lead her to question the judgment of the elders. But even with that said every time she looked down at the child, she could not help but think he was adorable, and quiet, quiet was good. She re-examined to baby to be sure she scooped up the right one.

"Brown Hair" she looked at the boy's scalp, "Check", "Hazel eyes", looking straight into the child's eyes making the baby squeamish, "Check". Pausing for a moment to remember the third detail "Whiskers on the cheeks, and an intricate seal on the child's stomach" after looking at the two mention areas, she sighed. 'Damn, I got the right one, that means I have to look after him now.' she bitterly thought as she stormed off with the child in hand. Wondering what evil tasks she would have to do for the next 10 years of the Child's life. But then the lady of the forest remembered something, a ritual of name giving the humans did to their children, since this one was indeed a human he still needed a name. Giving about as much thought to the name as one would give to the time of day, the lady of the forest came up with a name. "Kasshoku no Kitsune"(1), with that she smiled content with her more then fitting name of the child. The lady of the forest walked off into the dense forest, eager to report to her superiors the successes of her mission.

---------Hokage Tower--------

Rin walked into the Hokage's office, still cradling the baby back and forth to calm him down. She herself wishes that someone could do that to her now, the pain of losing her sensei along with her friend Obito was starting to wear on her. She wanted to stop being a Ninja, stop losing all of these precious people. She had only two people left, all of her relatives died in the Third Shinobi War, and with today, the majority of the rookie class was dead excluding Sabutori Asuma and her one time crush Kakashi. The Kyuubi was the fault for that. But the Hokage quickly brought her out of her sullen depression.

"Rin, may I ask why you have a child in your arms?" asked the wrinkled old man, Sabutori Sasuke, though to a commoner's eye he might appear to old and brittle to be a ninja of any caliber. But even an academy student could tell you that the older a Ninja is, the more deadly he becomes. The newly reinstated Third Hokage was no exception to this rule, he was feared throughout the Shinobi Nations and was praised as the "Professor" and is rumored to know a 1000 jutsu.

"Yes Hokage-Sama, I found this boy in the arms of the recently deceased Fourth Hokage, and he has developed whisker marks along and has the seal on his stomach depicting that this boy has the evil Fox sealed inside of him" answered the blonde, who had changed out of her medic nin gear into a green robe.

"Where is the other one?" asked Kakashi who was standing in the corner of the room, covered in blood and gore since he was too busy to bother himself to change into clean clothes.

"Other what?" questioned the medic nin, who was now wondering if she had forgotten anything.

"There was another baby, he had Brown hair and Hazel eyes, the child was with Minato-Sensei when we went off to kill the damnable fox." said the silver haired Jounin, with a hint of anger in his voice.

"There was no other baby on the site, and we both know that it would of not been able to crawl away, are you sure you saw another baby?" asked Rin, not hiding her anger in the least.

Kakashi, not being in a too happy mood himself replied, "I am positive that there was another child in Sensei's arms, I think you just screwed up again, and were too stunned to see him," after that was said he glared at the angered medic-nin, putting all the malice he could bolster, he was in no mood for Rin's shortcomings.

Before a fight could break out, the wizened Hokage interrupted "Enough! Both of you, get some rest, we have all lost plenty of fine shinobi today, I will not have you arguing about that past, or present mistakes" he said the last bit while looking at Rin, who all but folded under the scrutinizing glare. "Hand over the baby to me, I will send out a team of ANBU to look for the other child, I order you two to go home and sleep, you have both fought hard for Konoha and deserve rest." with that the two kindred spirits went to there homes and fell asleep for the night. But the wrinkled sage behind the desk had no luxury he had to find a baby, before someone else did.

"ANBU" yelled the tired Hokage as three masked ninja appeared before him. "I want you to find the boy that Kakashi described, he should be near the body of the late Hokage, may his soul be safe wherever the child may be".

"Hai" said the three masked Ninja, who jumped off to find the missing child.

"Lets hope Rin's mishap hasn't caused us to lose the child," mumbled the Third Hokage, "not only would it put the boys life in Jeopardy, but I have a hunch that the blonde child isn't the only demon container that was created tonight." Before the Hokage could even shut his eyes, the ANBU were back, but there was something missing from the skilled Ninja's hands. "Report" demanded the Hokage to the Masked Ninjas.

"We had no luck finding the child, dead or alive, we searched the surrounding area and found no traces of the baby, we presume him to be kidnapped." said the first of the three masked ninjas. "But we have no idea why anyone would want the Child, as far as we know, the baby had no bloodline or powerful family around".

The Hokage was baffled, did someone think the same thing as he, no, that was impossible, there was at max four ANBU including Kakashi with the former Hokage that would have been able to see the two children. And even Kakashi did not know about the possibility of the burden of the fox to be split in half. He sighed, if his speculations where correct then he just gave half of the Demon Lords strength to the closest being, if he was wrong, and may he be wrong, then he had done nothing but misplacing an innocent baby . But problem is, the Professor is never wrong.

A/N

(1). I am not fluent in Japanese nor do I know any of the grammatical rules of the language, this is supposed to mean "Brown Fox" if it does not mean this, I would appreciate it if someone would PM me and correct the Japanese meaning, and I do know his first name will be brown.

-The Old Yankee