Prologue
Namikaze Minato sat in a quiet room behind his desk. A single candle was burning to provide the forth Hokage with light. All over the room, there were strips of papers laying everywhere. Three days ago everything he knew changed. Three days ago, the Kyuubi attacked Konoha. The forth Hokage's first thought was to head into battle right away to defeat it, or at least force it to leave the village. Minato headed into battle upon the back of Gamabunta, but after seeing first hand the devastation the demon was causing he retreated to from another plan. After three days, he had finally done it.
"This is it." He stated to himself as he looked over the scroll he had just written. "This has to be it." He let out a sigh.
"May I enter?" A voice accompanied a knock at the door of the small room.
"Of course!" The young Hokage called out. The door slowly opened to reveal the third Hokage. "What can I do for you, Sarutobi-sensei?" Minato asked his elder, the man he had succeeded as Hokage.
"How goes your research?" The old man asked as he walked into the room carefully stepping over the scrolls that were scattered on the floor.
Minato let out a sigh. "I have it." He ran his hands over his face. "I think." He smiled at the older man.
"That is fantastic!" Sarutobi exclaimed. He noticed that Minato didn't share his excitement.
"There is a catch." Minato leaned back in his chair. Sarutobi nodded. Of course he knew of the price that had to be paid. To use a Technique of this type, you had to sacrifice yourself. "It's not what you are thinking, I would gladly give my life for this village. In order for the jutsu to work, you need to seal the demon in a newborn child. Anything else and the demon would kill its host and go free again."
Sarutobi stayed silent for a moment. "There is no other way?" He broke the minute long silence.
"None." Minato affirmed. "I have wasted too much time, I must stop this demon before more die." Minato stood and began to gather the scrolls he had written.
"Wait a moment, Minato." Sarutobi placed a man on the younger man's shoulder. "Allow me to go in your place. I'm an old man. You are still young and you have a family that is going to need you. With what your child is going to endure, he will need you too."
Minato stood in the doorway of the room. "I cannot ask another to make a sacrifice I am unwilling to make." Was all he said before leaving the room. Sarutobi stood for a moment as he watched the forth Hokage walk out of his sight.
Sarutobi closed his eyes. "Forgive me Minato, but I have to do this." He said as he dropped his Hokage robe and hat. "Summoning Technique!" He shouted after he bit his thumb to draw blood. A poof of smoke filled the room as Sarutobi stepped back.
"What is the meaning of this, Sarutobi?" A deep voice spoke from inside the cloud.
"Sorry, my old friend, but there is one last thing you must do for me." Sarutobi said as the body belonging to the voice walked from the cloud. "There isn't much time." Enma nodded his head before turning into a staff. Sarutobi picked the staff up and chased after Minato.
Sarutobi caught up to the forth Hokage as he was exiting the Hospital with his new born son. "What is your plan, Sarutobi?" The monkey king said. "You can't possible aim to fight him."
"No." Sarutobi spoke as he watch the forth Hokage hold his son before placing him in a crib to carry him. "I will make this quick." Sarutobi said as he produced a clone and had it transform to the appearance of himself in his Hokage robes. The clone walked out into the street to talk with Minato.
"Come to talk me out of it again, sensei?" The forth asked without looking up.
"I came to wish you luck, Minato." The clone of the third told him. Minato noticed something was wrong, but it was too late. The last thing he remembered was a blow the back of his head and everything went black.
With a poof of smoke, the clone of the third Hokage disappeared, and the real one walked to the crib where his son was laying. The young boy was quietly sleeping with a blanket wrapped around him. Sarutobi touched the boy lightly on his cheek before he bit into the tip of his thumb again. Performing the jutsu, a much large cloud of smoke appeared then the one from before.
"Sarutobi-sama." A booming voice sounded. The voice shook windows in the builds around the clearing they stood in.
"We have one last fight, my friend." The third Hokage scooped up the now crying child and jumped to the back of the large gorilla that stood before him.
"I am at your service, Sarutobi-sama." The beasts voice shook the surroundings again, and it also caused the unconscious Hokage to stir.
"Quickly, before he wakes up." The former Hokage ordered and the gorilla armed with two large katanas and fully body armor took off towards the fighting. "You won't be fighting the demon, you just need to get me close enough and give me time to prepare."
"I will do everything I can to do just that." The large gorilla shouted as he slammed down into the battlefield. The kyuubi stood tall several hundred yards away. The space between them was covered in debris and the bodies of fallen Leaf Shinobis.
"I will need a few minutes to prepare!" Sarutobi shouted over the roars of the nine-tailed demon.
"Very well!" The gorilla shouted back. The kyuubi attention was locked on the new addition to the battlefield. Drawing both his katanas, the gorilla prepared for anything the beast would do. On his back, the former Hokage read of one of the scrolls he ad taken from Minato. He grimaced as he looked over them, it was true what Minato had said. It appeared that Minato had discovered a way to seal the demon within the first day of his studying, the remainder of the days had been spent on trying to figure out away to make it so he could do it without a child. Sarutobi rolled out the main scroll, in the center was the spot where the child had to lay. Sarutobi gathered the crying boy from his crib and held him in his arms.
"I am ready, get me closer!" The gorilla charged the kyuubi and came crashing down just in front of it. The third quickly put the child in the center of the scroll and started to cast the technique required. "This is it my friend!"
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Minato's eyes slowly opened. He was lying on his back in front of the hospital. The back of his head ached, and he could feel the warmth of blood on his back. Sitting up he felt the area that hurt, blood was still following. After regaining his senses, he looked around. The crib that is child was in was gone. There were large foot marks in the dirt road. He remembered Sarutobi approaching him, and then everything when black. As he rose to his feet, he heard and ear shattering roar. Judging the distance and direction, he used one of the many seals he had over the village and vanished from in front of the hospital.
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All the shinobi on the battlefield watched as the large monkey appeared before them. They shouted and cheered. "It's Sandaime!", "He is here to fight!". When the gorilla landed within one hundred feet of the kyuubi, the pure chakra that the demon let off made Sarutobi fall to his knees.
Fighting the chakra, the third rose to his feet and glanced back at the child with a smile on his face. He turned his face towards the demon as he let out a roar that made him stumble backwards. "Fuuinjutsu Shiki Fuujin no jutsu!" Sarutobi shouted as he formed the hand seals.
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Minato arrived on the battlefield to see the kyuubi was no long there. At the front of the clearing, he saw one of his predecessors summons and he vanished again. When he appeared in front of the massive monkey, the beast was holding something in each hand. He held his hands before the forth Hokage opening the right one first. Being held was Minato's son, the seal on his stomach was all the Hokage needed to see to know what was in the other hand. The lifeless body of the third Hokage was placed before him and the summon vanished into a cloud of smoke.
The forth Hokage set his newborn son down next to the deceased Hokage as survivors from the battle approached him. As they saw who was standing at the front of the area, they all dropped to one knee. "Please." He spoke quietly. "Rise, right now I am in your debt." All the shinobi looked up to see the leader of there village, the strongest shinobi any of them have known, drop to his knees and put his forehead on the ground. "You are all heroes of Konoha." He picked his head up to see the shocked looks on the faces on the ones before him.
Several of the shinobi in the front of the crowd walked over to help the forth up. "Hokage-sama, what are your orders?" One of them asked. The mans face was covered in blood on the left side and one of his arms hung limply at his side.
"Please, look after my son. I am going to carry Sandaime back to the village." The crowd parted as the Hokage walked towards the body of the third. Minato watched as a person he recognized picked up his son. "Take him to his mother, Kakashi."
"Of course, sensei." Kakashi told him as he started to make his way to the village. Minato held the third Hokage in his arms and walked towards the village. All the surviving Shinobi followed after the Hokage with most of them stopping to pick up the body of a fallen friend to carry back to the village.
A/N: Hello, thanks for reading. I know that there are probably stories that follow this same plot device, but I haven't actually read one. So I decided to write my own. Second chapter is done, but I have to proofread it.
Thanks for reading.