YO! Crazy7634, here. So, first of all, if you have noticed the similarity of this story to Juubi no Shinju's "The Rise of the Digimon King", please don't instantly start yelling complaints as I have asked for Juubi's permission to write this fic. I actually had thought of this idea a few months before the creation of "The Rise of the Digimon King", but have only gained to confidence to write stories a couple months ago and have finally gotten the time to write this very first chapter. Ask Juubi no Shinju yourself, I asked for permission due to the similarities our two ideas had. If you were brought here by either my Naruto and Steven Universe crossover story "A Second Chance" or my Naruto and Gravity Falls crossover story "Gravity Falls: Legend of the Nine Tailed Guardian" then welcome! If not, then I suggest that you do check them out. Also, if you find any mistakes, no matter how small, then let me know. Now, without further ado, I introduce… Son of Two Dragons.
Disclaimer: I do not own anything, especially Naruto and the Digimon series.
Chapter 1 – Of Dimensions and Dragons
"GROAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH!"
"KEEP THE BEAST BACK!"
"Don't let it get any closer!"
"We can't- It's too powerful!"
A loud, guttural roar reverberated in the air. Mysterious masked shinobi stood atop tall trees, sending a variety of elemental attacks at a colossal, reddish-orange, nine-tailed fox. Other trained warriors wearing dark-green, armoured vests provided support by throwing a multitude of metal weapons, all intending to slow the enormous monster back. Its slitted eyes narrowed as it scrutinized the massive army below its feet, their attempts at harming it barely damaging a single hair of its fur. The fox let out an irritated growl, finally having enough of their pathetic efforts. It breathed in deeply, causing the humans to pour even more chakra into their feet to not get sucked into its esophagus. The kitsune's chest swelled as its lungs were filled with air before promptly deflating when the quadruped let out another roar, one that was strong enough to force the shinobi off of their feet and launch them back into their village walls. Harsh winds crashed against an old man wearing grey shinobi combat armour who had managed to stay on his feet, albeit barely.
'Damn this vile creature…' Hiruzen Sarutobi muttered in his head, gritting his teeth in effort. 'How did it even get out in the first place? I thought Minato was supposed to keep him in his seal while Kushina gave birth!'
The old Hokage sighed in relief when the bijuu stopped, he gripped the adamantine staff in his hand tightly.
"Extend, Enma. NOW!" The Sandaime barked out, his transformed summon doing as he was told. The Monkey King hit the Kyuubi in the gut, taking the breath out of the fox's lungs. The blow was powerful enough to push it many miles away from the Hidden Village, the sight of it being pushed back made the Yondaime's predecessor sigh in relief.
'As much as I would like for it to not be here at all, that is better than nothing.' He thought. His stance turned slack slightly before he flinched into attention when the familiar sound of swirling leaves and puffing smoke reached his ears; black orbs slid to the left and an eyebrow rose when the form of his white-haired student appeared.
"Jiraiya? When did you get here, I thought you were out dealing with complications in your spy network?" The tall sannin stared and narrowed his eyes at the kitsune that was shaking its head as it tried to regain its composure.
"Minato sent me a letter by toad earlier that little Naruto was going to be born. I wasn't going to miss my grandson's birth." The Namikaze scoffed, not even turning to his sensei when he replied.
"Neither was I." The two males turned to their right when a figure landed on the tree near them, Jiraiya smiled when he saw who it was.
"Now isn't this a pleasant surprise… hey, Hime." The toad sage walked over to his blonde wife who happily returned the hug he gave her.
"Hey, yourself." She giggled. Sarutobi smiled at the sight of the two, glad that his two students had found happiness with each other. He still remembered the shock that they had experienced because of a revelation that they had made years ago.
[Flashback]
[Five Years Ago]
"Ow…. OW… OW!" An injured, blue-eyed, spiky-haired man yelped from his position on his hospital room's bed as his fiery, red-headed girlfriend roughly pushed a cotton ball coated with antiseptic fluid against a deep cut in his arm. "Come on Kushina… I know you're mad, but could you be a bit gentler please?"
The beautiful woman who currently wore a standard ANBU outfit and had her hair tied up into a long ponytail, pulled the object in her hand away from the male's arm and narrowed her eyes at him. She stood up from her seat beside his bed and glared at the blonde idiot in front of her, crossing her arms in her seriousness. Minato gulped when she stood up. Kushina's well-known demonic aura was starting to appear around her as she towered over him and his inability to move his heavily bandaged body from the bed he was on did not help his growing fear at all.
"Mad? MAD?! No, I'm not mad at all! Even though you sent your team away in order to deal with danger alone, with a broken arm broken arm no less, when you had gotten ambushed by many Iwa shinobi. Even though you purposefully lead the opposition through dangerous territory after nearly being overwhelmed by them. EVEN THOUGH you chose to do so heartily while bleeding profusely from multiple medium-sized rock shards imbedded into your frame. EVEN THOUGH YOU STILL CHOSE TO PERFORM AN UNSTABLE WORK-IN-PROGRESS JUTSU, A NEAR-SUICIDAL USE OF CHAKRA AT THAT POINT IN TIME, WHEN YOU KNEW FULL WELL THAT BACK-UP WAS LITERALLY A FEW STEPS AWAY FROM YOU; RENDERING THE USAGE OF YOUR TECHNIQUE TO BE UNNECESSARY! NO, I AM NOT MAD AT ALL!" The Uzumaki princess panted in exasperation, her hands were now fists at her sides. After a few minutes of silence, the red chakra around her slowly dissipated and her breathing went back to normal.
The injured Namikaze looked away from her, guilt swimming in his blue crystalline orbs, knowing that he had hurt her with his reckless actions. His irises instantly widened in alertness and his head snapped upwards, turning to his crimson-haired love when the sounds of sobbing reached his ears. Minato's eyes softened and another pang of guilt along with a knife of sadness stabbed his heart at the sight of Kushina having wrapped her arms around herself while her eyelids were screwed shut as tears poured out from the corners.
"Kushina…" he painfully pushed himself up from his laying position, barely managing not to wince in agony, and held his arms out to her. The woman in question opened her eyes slightly when she heard her name and immediately accepted his invitation, wrapping her arms around his bandaged torso gingerly as she sobbed into his shoulder. The blonde soothingly whispered sweet nothings into her ear, rubbing her back consolingly as he did so. More silent minutes passed, the two lovers had not moved from their position and the redhead's sobs were now mere sniffles. Minato buried his face into her hair while Kushina nuzzled her head into the crook of his neck, their presences calming the other down.
"…I was really worried about you." Kushina spoke, pulling her head away to look at Minato in the eye, her voice nothing more than whisper. "I was talking to Hokage-sama when your team came back. Seeing that they were bleeding and hurt without you in sight, I started to panic, though I didn't show that I was on the outside. Heck, I was thinking about so many scenarios that your squad could have gone through to have gotten themselves into their current conditions that I actually woke the big lug stuck in my stomach."
Minato chuckled, running a hand through Kushina's red locks. "Ah, I hope that old fox wasn't too much of a trouble."
"Heh, the guy was pretty annoyed… until he looked through my memories to see what had gotten me so worked up. When he saw why, he was the one causing a headache instead of me in our mindscape." The woman grew a small smile before it turned back into a frown. "*sigh* When the members of my ANBU team who were sent to look for you arrived, me and Kurama were practically in hysterics. Old man Sarutobi had to assign quite a lot of ANBU members to keep us from checking up on you at the hospital, he even had to step-in himself when Kurama decided that he would lend me some chakra to help get past them. Minato, the healing team- they… they nearly lost you a couple of times. They barely managed to save you. You had lost so much blood, and the chakra depletion you had definitely didn't help either."
The woman clenched her eyelids together as tears began to form once more. The yellow-haired man gave her a small, sad, smile and he lifted his right hand to caress her cheek. "Hey… come on now, don't cry. I'm sorry for making you worry so much. I know that my actions were brash and were not fully thought through, but at that time I had felt that they were completely necessary to ensure my teammates' survival. But seeing that I made my Benihime cry because of my choices… now I wish that I could go back in time in change it all."
Kushina giggled at this. "Even after a life-and-death situation, you can still find a time to be so cheesy."
"Only when it comes to you." Minato grew a large grin, happy that he managed to make her laugh. While the air between the two had begun to become less tense and more cheerful, one Hiruzen Sarutobi stood outside Minato's hospital room with a smile on his face as he observed the now laughing duo through a small opening in the door.
"Minato my boy, I am relieved that you have managed to cheer her up. Kushina and Kurama had been very frisky during your mini-coma…" He said quietly to himself, chuckling when the blonde man had begun tickling Kushina. The old man silently closed the door properly before turning to the medical ninja standing behind him. "So, Kai, how goes my hopefully future successor's recuperation going?"
"Well, one thing's for sure, Iwa did a great job on timing their attack. From the information I have managed to gather from the reports him and his teammates have given, their mission debriefing of dispatching a bandit group harassing travellers in Demon Country did not specify that there would be A-class rogue shinobi involved. With that piece of information unknown, they did not expect to be blindsided by three near S-class ninjas once their guard had been down when the bandits had been taken care of. After a couple of jutsus here and there, the team managed to overwhelm them; but not without getting wounded themselves. Two had been unable to properly move both their left or right arms after having said limbs encased with chakra-infused earth, the other was partially paralyzed because of a widespread lightning attack and Minato himself had been struck in the back with a decently sized fireball which was the cause of his third-degree burns. Unfortunately for them, the Iwa jōnin had chosen to attack right after they had managed to take down the three and you know the rest. That idiot got lucky. With how low the back-up team you sent said his chakra had been along with the blood loss he had gotten from the rock shards in his chest, he should've died a few moments after he used his experimental elemental-rasengan jutsu. If it weren't for the fact that the ANBU had arrived when they did…" Kai shook his head and sighed. The Namikaze and his team had really lucked out. If Kushina's ANBU squad hadn't been free at the time of distress and if the Kyuubi had not been able to transfer some power to the blonde, Minato's name would have been engraved onto the Konoha Memorial Stone as killed in action. "…I digress. We managed to heal up the holes in his torso as much as we could, and the burns are healing quite nicely albeit slowly. But as restless as he is, I'm afraid rest is what he needs most as someone in his condition. While he will whine about it, at least you won't have to tie him to the bed to keep him still… unlike Kushina."
The two chuckled at the last part. "Ahh, yes. I remember the last time she had been confined to a hospital bed because of injuries from a compromised mission. Hah, if it weren't for Minato's mission ending at around two weeks instead of one and a half months, I'm sure that we would have been fresh out of shinobi by the time he would have returned."
"*AHEM* Well, in other news, I'm sure that you will be VERY interested in what one of our medic-in-training have found." Kai smirked, handing the Hokage the file in his right hand while slowly bringing out the camera held in his left. Hiruzen arched an eyebrow at the mischievous twinkle in the younger man's eyes before opening the folder in his hands. The Sandaime tentatively read the words written in the pages, his eyes were lazily scanning the contents of the pieces of paper… until he reached a certain point in the page. His eyes widened until they were as large is dinner plates, his jaw dropped to the ground and the pipe he was smoking made loud clattering noises as it fell unto the hospital's tile floor. For five minutes the old man stood there, staring at the papers in his hands in disbelief until the click sound of a camera's shutter broke him out of his stupor. Hiruzen picked his pipe up from the ground and shook his head clear of shock before looking at the medic in front of him, his now serious eyes bore into the man's soul as they said a silent order; "explain".
"Yes, the information in that file is indeed true. We uncovered all of that data by coincidence when we had given the apprentices different tasks. The one who had revealed this had been very excited that his assignment was to take the blood of a known orphan and see if they could reunite said orphan with their family using a prototype machine that we had requested to be bought from the technologically-advanced Snow Country. We had expected him to take a young child's sample of blood, and when he went to take one of the samples, he thought he did too. But in his eagerness to get started, instead of taking the blood of Minashigo Nezumi, he accidentally took the blood of one Namikaze Minato. He ran it through our databases and was very surprised when he found the names of Senju Tsunade and Jiraiya appear to match his by parental descent." Kai put the camera away and the little mirth in his irises disappeared and was replaced with calm and curiousness. "What should we do about this, Lord Hokage? I assume that you will call an immediate return of both Lady Tsunade and Lord Jiraiya regardless of their resentment of the village to tell them that their son, the one who was long thought lost, is in fact alive?"
"I am getting too old for this…" The elderly Sarutobi sighed, making Kai chuckle at him as the leader adjusted his triangular hat with a hand. He placed his pipe back into his mouth and breathed out a puff of smoke. "Your assumption is correct. My pupils have suffered enough from tough times during the Third Ninja War. When Minato was born, they had been elated to see him. I had been there when he first came to this world… the expressions on my students' faces, the pure joy plastered on their visages, were expressions that I had not seen since their time as innocent young genin. We cannot withhold this information, whether the repercussions of my actions will cause an uproar with the Civilian Council or not, I will go through with this. Send out two of the emergency ANBU messenger squads, although they are only meant to be used during times of war, I do not give a damn. Create two copies of this file and send one of each copy to Tsunade and Jiraiya respectively while the original is to be placed in the Hokage Vault. Anything pertaining Senju Clan matters has been and always will be placed in the most secure storage area in this village."
The head of the hospital's faculty smirked again, pulling out the two copies of the file. Seeing his superior raise an eyebrow questioningly, he clarified. "I had figured that you would give an order similar to that, so I had made them beforehand. I suggest that you prepare, for you know that it won't just be the Civilian Council that will give you a headache due to an uproar."
[Flashback End]
The retired Sandaime chuckled slightly to himself as he remembered the amount of meetings that the council had requested to discuss the subject along with the situation of Tsunade and Jiraiya's return, which resulted in the door leading to his office being blown into smithereens. The amusement in his face disappeared when the leaves he stood on shook. "As much as I would hate to ruin your wonderful reunion, the fox has regained its composure."
Tsunade's honey-brown irises hardened when they turned to look at the bijuu that was causing tremors at every step it took as it made its way back towards the village. "While it is nice seeing you here, I didn't expect to see him of all things attacking the village."
Jiraiya sighed at this, "We didn't expect it either. He's never caused trouble before. In fact, all he's ever done is help Kushina and Minato. I'm just confused as to what brought this on-"
"-As are we." A voice interjected. Minato appeared in a yellow flash behind the trio, he was garbed in his jōnin outfit and had his Haori draped over him as he supported his tired wife with an arm while holding a bundle in the other. Their eyes widened when the light disappeared and fully showed the two's kneeling forms.
"Minato, Kushina! What happened?!" Tsunade cried, the three elder shinobi quickly went to the family's side and Jiraiya narrowed his eyes when he saw what Minato was holding in his arm. The redheaded Uzumaki was still wearing the same green dress she had on when she was giving birth to Naruto, she was very pale and the Slug Sannin noticed that she had signs major of chakra fatigue. Minato himself looked a bit roughed up. The Fourth Hokage had scratches all over his body, his injuries all having minor bleeding and his clothes were torn in multiple places. Three remaining members of Team Hiruzen were shocked when the small bundle in Minato's arm squirmed a bit as the little boy tried to get a closer look at the new appearances. "I-Is that…?"
The Namikaze-Uzumaki couple smiled, their gazes switched from the rampaging bijuu to their curious baby boy. The new Hokage grew a large, proud grin despite the predicament that his village was in at the moment. "Yep. Here in my arms is little Naruto Uzumaki-Namikaze."
The adults stared at the babe in wonder before they were snapped back to reality when Naruto started to reach out for the giant fox after it reached his peripheral vision. The adults now turned to the multi-tailed kitsune, their eyes filled with sadness.
"I would have loved to meet my grandson properly, but we seem to have forgotten that an old friend is growing closer to our location… Which brings me to ask the question that has been stuck on my mind since you two arrived here." Jiraiya stared at his son in the eyes seriously. "Why did you bring Naruto here? There is only one reason why you would ever need to have a child in a situation as dire as this… you wish the seal Kurama into your son, don't you?"
The others gasped and snapped their heads towards Minato's direction. Kushina pushed past her surprise and asked tentatively, "Minato-kun… he- he isn't right, is he?"
Her breath hitched in her throat when the man in question just looked away and nodded silently, clutching the baby against his chest a bit tighter. His wife spoke up once more, her eyes beginning to brim with tears. "…Why? Why would you put a burden like this upon our child?!"
"D-Do you remember that man? The one who appeared in the birthing chamber after Naruto was just born? The same man who pulled Kurama out of you and started this whole mess in the first place?" He asked her, the three spectators out of his mind for the moment.
"How could I forget…"
"He- When I went to apprehend him, he had expected that I would be dead at the end of our fight. So as we fought, he unravelled small pieces of information regarding why he would need the nine Bijuu in the first place. He slipped up and revealed a lot more than he expected when he said that he was planning on collecting the nine and, using their combined power, would place the whole Elemental Nations into an eternal genjutsu. If that isn't bad enough, he claimed himself to be Madara Uchiha… and with the sharingan eyes he wields, I am slightly inclined to believe him." The Yondaime gritted his teeth when he heard the others with him gasp in shock once more. "But judging by his strength and how the Konoha History books have described THAT man to be, I am guessing that at most he has either somehow found someone to teach him some of Madara's techniques or he has just done much studying about him that he can now imitate one of the most dangerous shinobi ever seen in these lands. Then again, this is only speculation. Now, the only way I can think of to stop him at this very moment, is to put Kurama into someone with a seal that is strong enough to give this "Madara" difficulty in releasing him once more. Unfortunately, the only child whose chakra coils are underdeveloped enough to live through the procedure is Naruto."
Everyone but Naruto looked down in sadness, the child being too focused at the look of the Kyuubi's eyes, the boy stared at them curiously as if there was something wrong. Silence filled the air until Jiraiya perked up in realization. "B-But Minato, the only seal that would even need an infant as young as Naruto and would be strong enough to delay "Madara" is the Dead Demon Consuming seal!"
"Yes… that is the seal I am going to use." He sighed, not daring to look at his wife when he heard her sob.
"Minato-kun, the drawback of that jutsu is the user's DEATH! Once the Shinigami has done his part of the bargain, he will consume your soul in exchange!" She yelled, tears now flowing down her face, holding on tightly to the arm he had been using to support her.
"I am well aware of the consequences of its usage, but this is the only way. None of you will be able to stop me or change my mind." He said with conviction and gave Kushina to his father before he stood up and disappeared in a flash of light.
"MINATO!"
[With Minato]
The Namikaze let out a breath of relief, his eyes were closed as he relaxed slightly at the sound of the shifting trees. He was instantly broken out of his serenity when a stomp caused the ground to shake and the trees to rustle loudly once more. His eyes trailed down to his baby son, chuckling slightly when he saw that the babe wasn't even fazed in the slightest when the scenery around him had changed in just a second. His gaze then turned ice cold as he stared up into the blood-red, vertically slitted eyes of the Kyuubi who towered up above him. The Yondaime rolled his shoulders and neck while unconsciously tightening his grip on the blanket covering Naruto. He smirked.
"I only have a few minutes before the others catch up. I don't know what's going on with you right now, Kurama. But one thing's for sure, I WILL stop this ensuing madness; even though it will cost me both my life…" He then smiled down at Naruto. "…and the chance to witness my son's."
Two poofs of smoke appeared behind the Hokage and revealed themselves to be Kage Bunshin. They nodded at their creator before quickly setting up the sealing ritual. The original himself kept watch on the fox as it seemed to have a staring contest with his whiskered child. Naruto tilted his head to the right slightly in innocence, his young mind not registering that the creature in front of him could be the end of his short existence despite the large amount of murderous intent it was giving off.
"M-Minato…?" The beast thought confusedly as Kurama's crimson eyes bore into Naruto's azure ones, Minato noticed that the beast's pupils kept repeatedly constricting before dilating and then constricting again.
'What's going on with him…?'
He was shaken out of his thoughts when one of his clones grabbed his shoulder and spoke while the other disappeared into smoke. "Everything's ready, boss."
"Alright. Take Naruto, I'll begin the hand seals immediately…" The clone saluted and took Naruto out of his creator's hands. "*sigh* Alright, let's do this."
'Snake, Boar, Ram, Rabbit, Dog…' He closed his eyes in concentration, saying the names of each of the hand signs in his head like a mantra. '…Rat, Bird, Horse-'
Minato's eyes flung open and he flipped backwards as his danger senses went off. He was glad that he had dodged when he did, if he had been a second too late then his head would have been sliced off at the neck by the chain that had created a small crater on the ground he had been on before. He gritted his teeth in frustration when he saw a figure spiral into materialization. "Madara…"
The blonde heard the mask-wearing shinobi chuckle evilly. "Well, this just won't do. I can't have you taking away my little toy, he's just so much fun to play with."
"Tch. I was wondering why the Kyuubi stopped his march. I should have known it was you."
"Ah, guilty as charged." Minato narrowed his eyes at his answer and slowly bent his knees into a fighting stance. The odd ninja chuckled once more. "I would love to stay and chat, but we both know that I have already said too much about my plans… I cannot allow you to live. Not that I was planning to anyway. Kill him!"
With lazy hand gesture, he gave the massive fox permission to attack. Kurama roared to the heavens before snapping his enormous maw at Minato, who managed to escape the beast's long fangs by teleporting a few meters behind the bijuu. Kurama spun around, his tails creating strong gusts of wind as they swished in the air.
'Gah, damn it.' He thought, his head craning as far back as it could as he stared at the fox who stood in all its incredible might. While Minato was occupied with the most powerful bijuu out of the nine, the Uchiha had other plans as he slowly made his way to baby Naruto. Minato's Kage Bunshin walked in front of Madara's path, a Hiraishin kunai in hand. Just as it was about to attack, it was dispelled by a sudden flick of the mysterious shinobi's chain. "Madara" towered over the fearless child who curiously tilted his head to the side in confusion.
"Hm. So YOU'RE the Yondaime's son, eh? The child he plans to seal my favourite toy into? Well, unfortunately for you young…" The black-haired man squinted as he read the writing stitched onto the baby's blanket. "…Naruto, I can't have that happening. Goodbye, child."
The cloaked male let more chain links out of his sleeves and flicked his wrist. The chain was about to strangle the poor kid to death when his chosen weapon was stopped by a different kind of chain… chains made out of pure chakra. He narrowed his eyes behind his mask as they flicked over to the quartet that jumped into the clearing.
"Get away from my son, you bastard!" Kushina growled out, enraged that this unknown man had just tried to end the short life of her son. She stumbled a bit when she dropped down from the trees, the fatigue she felt from both having Kurama extracted from his seal and from giving birth to Naruto clearly affecting her.
"Hmph. This is troublesome. It seems that this is my cue to leave, I will see you all in the far future. Though, probably not Minato." The man laughed cruelly before spiralling into nothing.
"Grr… That coward." Tsunade barked out before turning her attention away from "Madara" and to her son. "We have to forget about him for now, we have a bijuu on a tantrum to deal with."
The three with her nodded in agreement. At this point, Minato had noticed them after dodging a strike from three of Kurama's tails. "Tou-san, use "Earth Style: Swamp of the Underworld" behind Kurama and make it as big as possible. Old man Sarutobi, use Enma to push him into the jutsu and Kaa-san, hit the big lug on the head to push him into the mud. Kushina-chan, once he is stuck in the technique, bind him with chakra chains!"
"Right!" They nodded in understanding and immediately went to perform their assigned tasks before the fox, who was now facing them, had the chance to attack.
'Boar, Tiger!' Jiraiya thought as he formed the two hand signs and placed his hands on the ground, pushing as much chakra as he could into the technique. "EARTH STYLE: SWAMP OF THE UNDERWORLD!"
Sarutobi nodded in approval at seeing that the swamp was as big as Kurama. "Okay Enma. EXTEND!"
The kitsune grunted in pain as the adamantine staff collided with his stomach again while Tsunade blurred into materialization above Kurama's head. "Heavenly Foot of Pain!"
The Kyuubi roared as he felt immense agony once Tsunade's chakra-enhanced axe kick impacted with his head. The Senju's move worked as it managed to push Kurama's paws deep into the quicksand-like mud. The fox struggled, trying to free itself when chains erupted from the ground underneath him and restrained him even more than he already was.
"Alright. Now…" Minato breathed in and out to calm his heavily beating heart. He closed his eyes and begun to form the string of hand signs for the seal again. "Snake, Boar, Ram, Rabbit, Dog-"
"WAIT, MINATO!" The Hokage forced himself to ignore the pained plea of his wife and continued on. The others in the clearing tried to rush to the legendary Namikaze when they were held in place by hidden seals.
"-Rat, Bird, Horse, Snake!" His cerulean orbs snapped open and he clapped his hands. Once his hands collided with each other, the jutsu was activated and the spectral form of the Shinigami appeared behind the blonde with his soul in its grasp.
"What have you called upon me for, mortal?" the reaper rasped out. Minato fell to his knees at his usage of chakra and managed to pant out a reply.
"The Kyuubi. *pant* I would like for you to- *pant* seal ALL of the Kyuubi into my son." He said, pointing to Naruto. "Only a seal that was created with your help is- *pant* strong enough to keep him inside my son without him feeling any drawbacks."
The Shinigami turned to the watching babe and nodded in affirmative. "I shall aid you in this endeavour. I assume that that you know the price you will have to pay for my assistance?"
"Yes." Minato said grimly.
"Very well. What seal do you wish for me to strengthen?"
"The Eight Trigrams Seal."
The Shinigami nodded again and pushed his hand through the chest of Minato's soul. The Kage grunted as a blue, ghostly arm emerged from the centre of his torso and hit Kurama above where the bijuu's heart was supposed to be if the chakra beast had one. The Kyuubi roared in annoyance, his eyes once more caught sight of Naruto. He saw that the infant was placed on a sacrificial throne, and with the appearance of the Shinigami, it didn't take long until the fox's clouded mind put two and two together. In a final attempt to not get sealed, it reached for the still awake boy; intending to run him through with his nail. Minato saw this and immediately rushed in front of the strike while Kushina did the same thing, her desire to protect little Naruto helped her free herself from her trap. The new parents let out yells of agony when the fox's nail went straight through their bodies but were happy nonetheless when they had successfully saved their son from death. The pained shouts of his two closest friends broke the already withering genjutsu that had been placed on the strongest bijuu.
"M-Minato, K-Kushina?" His voice thundered out in confusion. "W-What the hell is going on?!"
"Heh. About time you… *cough* got out of that funk- *COUGH* you were in. You bastard." Kushina chuckled out weakly, blood running down the sides of her mouth. "Listen, I know you're confused… But promise us that you'll keep an eye on Naruto? Me and Minato won't be able to live through this..."
"But-!"
'Although I would hate to ruin this chat. My summoner's life force is fading.' The Shinigami grunted out, the soul in its clutches flickering on and off. 'I highly suggest that you finish the seal now. If you would like, I will seal parts of your souls into your son as well.'
The duo's eyes widened in surprise and Minato smiled as he placed his hands in a prayer formation again. "Thank you, Shinigami-sama. SEAL!"
And with that one word, Kurama was sucked into the seal on Naruto's abdomen while the life in the two parents' eyes began to fade away and then fell to the ground; unable to move their limbs. The Shinigami disappeared into the wind and Kushina managed to turn her head to the still stuck trio meters away from them and said her last words before passing away. "You guys better not give little Naruto any of your bad habits… we'll be watching…"
"Aww, now wasn't that touching?" Everyone except for the sleeping Naruto and the dead Kushina looked at the re-appeared "Madara" in surprise. He warped over to Naruto and pulled him into his arms. "I guess since you have something that belongs to me inside you, I'll have to take you with me, ne?"
Minato's eyes widened when the man began to spin into nothing with his son and quickly pushed his numb body to Hiraishin to the mark he had placed on his son when he placed him in his crib earlier. At the same time, Naruto cried loudly in his sleep as Kurama forced his chakra out of the seal as an attempt to get his new host away from the imposter. Unfortunately, the mixture of two space-time techniques plus the potent power of a bijuu created a bad reaction and created a rift in space and time; and since that small baby was in the middle of the collision, he was sucked into the rip as the other two adults were pushed away by a powerful gust of wind. The rift closed and the adults could do nothing but stare in either confusion, sadness or anger.
"WHAT?!"
[With Naruto and Kurama]
The blanketed baby examined his surrounding in amazement as he floated through pitch black darkness. He giggled when he saw two holes in open up and show two figures doing stupid things. One was of a straw-hat wearing man eating a ham leg the same size as his head while the other showed a pink-haired male and a blue cat with wings run away from a red-headed woman. Although the young child was enjoying his current situation, his tenant was not.
"Ah, damn it… where the hell did those idiots put us?!" Kurama growled out as he looked through the eyes of the energetic Naruto. He sighed in irritation. "Gah. If my guess is right, the reaction created by the collision of the techniques those two performed somehow put us through a rip in dimensions… of course, only THAT blonde idiot would get both me AND HIS SON in a situation like this. *Sigh* Alright. I guess the best thing to do at this point in time is to choose a good dimension to push this kid into… after all, I did promise to keep him safe."
The fox scanned each and every dimensional rip that opened up. To him, some of these dimensions were weird. One had humans capturing strange creatures in balls, another had what seemed to be a civilian girl ordering a half-demon dog to "sit"… there was even one that showed a bald twelve-year-old that had an arrow tattoo on his head and was laughing as he sped around on a ball of air before crashing into an odd statue.
"Okay… no, no, annnd no. If only there was one with things that could possibly give me a challenge in a fight…" The bijuu grumbled. He was about to take a nap when a particular doorway caught his eye. "Are those… dragons? Oh-HO! I guess I AM having fun today!"
Using his chakra, he formed a chain that burst out of the seal and attached itself to the inside of the rip. Naruto clapped and giggled when Kurama tugged on the chain to pull the Uzumaki-Namikaze into the rip at high speeds. When the infant's body made contact with the rip, his vision was blocked with a bright light; the babe still laughing madly in amusement.
[With the Four Great Dragons]
"Are you sure that letting humans interact with our kin is a good idea?" A red, fearsome-looking dragon with bone armour grunted.
"You know that we must give them a chance, Megidramon. They may not be able to do many things right on the first try, but they do learn from their mistakes." The gentle, feminine voice of a pink, feathery dragon spoke.
"Well… most of them do anyway." A six-winged, golden dragon with a red vambrace and a blue one on its left snickered out.
"Oh, hush up you." The pink dragon scolded, smacking the golden one on the head lightly with her tail while the gold dragon chuckled nervously under the pink one's glare.
"Hah! I say, if it weren't for you Magnadramon, Goldramon would be out of control. Instead of helping keep balance, he would probably be doing the opposite without even knowing it!" a bearded, blue dragon made out of lightning and thunder guffawed out.
"Shh, Azulongmon! You aren't helping at all." Goldramon pouted at the now-known Azulongmon, but the lightning dragon just kept on laughing at Goldramon's expense.
"I swear you all are a bunch of children…" Megidramon facepalmed. "We are getting off topic, now about the-"
Before Megidramon could finish his sentence, a flash of orange light interrupted him as it appeared in the middle of the odd area they were in. When the flash dimmed, it showed a baby boy who was rubbing his eyes tiredly.
"Hmm? A child?" Magnadramon said confusedly, hovering down to the child's height and placed her snout right in front of him. Naruto gazed up at the beast before him. After a few minutes of staring, he giggled and put his tiny arms on the furry maw of Magnadramon, nuzzling against the dragon as her calming presence helped him fall asleep. She squinted her eyes, looking closer at the babe's blanket to read the stitched letters. "…Naruto Uzumaki-Namikaze? Is that his name?"
"Where did it come from?"
"That is a good question to ask, Megidramon." Azulongmon spoke absentmindedly, raising an eyebrow at Naruto.
"Well, one thing's for sure, he is ADORABLE!" Magnadramon cooed when Naruto curled himself up like a dog against her with a hand in his mouth, sucking his thumb. "We're keeping him, right, Goldramon?"
"W-Well, I…" The digimon stuttered, not exactly knowing how to respond to the question. Seeing his hesitation, Magnadramon widened her eyes at the group's pseudo-leader, her forest-green orbs pleaded with him silently. Goldramon sighed at this, he knew that he couldn't say no to her when she did the dreaded puppy dog eyes. "..Fine."
Magnadramon squealed happily and coiled herself around the baby like a shield, cooing once-in-a-while when the sleeping child did something she considered cute. The two other male dragons snickered at Goldramon.
"Heh, she's got you wrapped around her finger."
"I must agree with Megidramon here. It seems that you are, as the humans call it, whipped."
Goldramon grew a tic mark in his annoyance at the two. He huffed and turned away from the laughing duo. "Shut up."