It was a warm fall morning, unusually warm for an October morning. Today was just an average day. Or so some had thought. "D-dear, I might be a tinsy wincy bit in labor..." This conversation was between the Fourth Hokage of the Villiage Hidden in the Leaves and his extreamely pregnant wife. "Let's go!" Minato Namikaze, the Yellow Flash, bounced around his new office of nine days. "We need this, and that, can't forget these either!" He was the supposed calm prodigy until it had anything to do with his wife, Kushina Uzumaki. Minato called for his wife's midwife as he went to prepare the Sealing Chamber. "Love you, see you in a bit." With that he vanished with the Flying Thunder God Jutsu.
It was during the evening of October Nineth that Kushina's midwife dragged the blabber mouth through Konoha. "Oh Mikoto! How are you? And is this little Sasuke? Awww how cute~" The Uchiha bride smiled and laughed at her friend. She could not get a word in, this Uzumaki could have the whole conversation with Mikoto turned away. "I'm off to have my baby now~ This is so exciting!" Kushina's midwife slowly pulled her away. "Miss Kushina, please hurry we cannot dilly dally." Kushina laughed and bid her goodbye to her friend. The beast was not willing to let Kushina have a child and stay at bay. This was the Nine-Tailed Fox's only chance to be free.
Minato had finished writing all the seals around Kushina's bed. In the corner was a baby cradle, and Kushina gushed. "It's so cute!~" rumbles could be felt inside the room as Kushina had a big contraction. Everyone but Minato were afraid of the fox breaking free, but Minato was terrified about the baby. What if he didn't have anything in common? What if they became stronger than him by the academy?! What if he misses out because of being Hokage? Kushina smiled at him. "Are you worried about the Academy or the Hokage secnario?" Minato blushed at his wife. She stuck her tounge out at the child-ish toughts of her love.
Contraction after contraction caused waves of chakra to shake the mountain and cause slight panic in the Villiage. Hiruzen Sarutobi watched the night sky, being the Third Hokage he loved everyone in the villiage. Even though he had fath in his successor, it was too quite a night for an easy birth. He wouldn't know it for a few more hours, but Sarutobi was right. He decided to take a stroll in the Villiage, ease some and maybe get a late night snack. Hiruzen smiled to all the children and bid greetings to their parents. Everyone was enjoying the warm night, until they saw the orange glow just past the forest.
"Breath Kushi-"
A loud scream echoed throughout the room. Minato winced as he held her seal together. "Just a little more!" The midwife reassured the parents as she pulled out a brand new baby boy. She wrapped the baby up in a clan cloth and handed him to his mother. "He's so perfect~" Minato began gushing when they brand new parents heard a scream. What they saw was a cloaked man in a spiral mask holding the midwife with a kunai to her neck. "One move Yellow Flash and she dies. I just want the beast." Kushina quickly threw one of her husband's kunai at the man, he blocked it with his own kunai. A red glow appeared through the hole in his mask. ' Sharingan?' The newly parents were confused by this reveal. Was the Uchiha trying to steal the Nine-Tails? Or was it just a trator among the mist? Minato placed his hand on the midwife and teleported her outside the cave. The Masked Man sent a kick to Minato, it was blocked than countered with a Flying Thunder God formula and a punch to the gut. Kushina held on to her baby as Minato held them and teleported to a safe haven.
"Naruto..." Minato kissed his wife and put on his Hokage cloak. "I'm sorry honey. Love the name too~" he apologized as he put up a barrier seal. Kushina kept on saying Naruto to her new baby boy. She was crying tears of joy for her baby, but also tears of terror for her husband. Minato promised he'd return safely.
The Masked Villian had other plans. "Come on, you had to know I would find you." Minato got into a battle stance waiting for his next move. "You literally put your Seal on me. I just followed the chakra back to her." He ponted at Kushina who now had red chakra flowing out of her, monsterous intent could be felt as you could hear the apologies made to baby Naruto about the pain and fear Kushina was causing. The Man leaped for her only to be intercepted by a flurry of kick and slices from Minato. He moved faster then an eye could see but the Man here had a Mangekyo Sharingan, the evoled form of the Uchiha's Kekkei Genkai.
Two kunai clashed back and forth, one was just a standard kunai and the other was a special crafted thee pronged kunai. The Man's Mangekyo Sharingan had a three-wheeled curved pinwheel styled pupil granting him the ability to phase through matter and short range teleportation. After it's activation Minato has not been able to land a hit on the Masked Man. He on the other hand has been knocking Minato around the battlefield. Minato threw his kunai at the man's head, it phased right through him with ease.
'1...2...3...Now!'
Minato appeared just above him with a blue swirling sphere of chakra in his right palm. "Raengan!"
Surprised, the man was hit in his left shoulder. Minato landed two more good hits on the Masked Villian which gave him the upper hand. In a desprate attempted to win he shot three huge fire balls strung together at Minato, "Fire Style: Grand Fireball Chain!" Minato teleported back out of the way of each blast and as he realized his mistake, he was way too far from his wife and too late to make it to her. The Masked Man preform many handsigns in quick succession and smashed his palm into Kushina's seal. "Release."
Back at the Village people were painking around two in the morning was when the siren blared. All the villagers were escorted to the bunkers that were located deep within the Hokage Faces. Hiruzen had assembled a small squad; Danzo Shimura, Asuma Sarutobi, and Tsume Inuzuka. The four went to the front gate as the worst of Sarutobi's fears had occurred. The Nine-Tailed Fox was charging the Leaf Village. "Summoning Jutsu!" The Third Hokage summoned The Monkey King: Enma as support. "Long time Hiruzen. This is not for a drink I pressume?"
The Nine-Tailed Fox swiped at the gate breaking through Konoha's defenses. Enma transformed into Sarutobi's armament staff in order to support the Third Hokage. Ninjas of all ranks came to the defense of the Village. Explosive kunai, fireballs, and fuma shuriken rained into the Nine-Tails barely effecting him. The Nine-Tails roared in annoyance sending shockwaves ruining houses and shops alike. "Shadow Clone Shuriken: Exploive Kunai!" Sarutobi threw multiple kunai that cloned, sending hundreds of explosions upon the Fox. He charged chakra into his mouth and fired it to the Hokage Mountain. At the highest speed known Minato appear right infront of the blast. With highspeed movement Minato created a barrier with the Flying Thunder God jutsu, sending the Tailed Beast Bomb towards his preivous seal placed on the Masked Man before. The Masked Man warped onto the Fox casing a controling genjustu upon him. Just as his gaze captured the Fox, the Tailed Beast Bomb appeared right on top of him. The Man's Mangekyo Sharingan began to warp it away from this plane. "My my, so fast with a plan of attack, eh Yellow Flash?" Chuckles could beheard from under the mask. Minato flashed on top of the Fox landing blows on the supposed Uchiha.
Below the Third and the rest of the Ninja ranks tried to slow down the Fox and protect what is left of the Leaf. The Fox sent a claw into the dirt, ripping threw Danzo's right arm like it was dust. Screams of pain could be deciphered between the roars and explosions. Blood scattered across the ground, bodies were in shreds or ashes after each attack. Medical ninja were strained and many have lost their lives. The battle wasn't even over yet. Minato premormed handsigns and smacked his hands on to the Demon Fox, a Flying Thunder God jutsu formula traced it's way around the Fox. "Release!" Minato, the Masked Uchiha, and the Demon Fox vanished into thin air. Hiruzen and a few jonin followed them into the dark.
The Fox crashed into the ground in a barrier seal made by Kushina. The Masked Man started to warp away from the battlefield, but was caught in a person barrier jutsu crafted by Minato. 'Curse you Minato-sensei...' Kushina open a scroll and summoned a sealing jar, modeled after the Sage of Six Paths personal weaponry. "Minato-kun now!" The Fox knew what was going on and a roar that sounded like no erupted from the forest. Just as the Fox was being sealed away his claw darted for Minato. Kushina jumped infront of it to protect her husband from her resposibility, but alas the Fox was completely sealed away yet at the same time both husband and wife had been inpaled by the Fox's fading claw. The barriers began to fall and the Masked Uchiha warped away with the Jar. His mission completed and the vessel dead. Things couldn't have gone any better.
Hiruzen reached the battlefield just to see the Fourh Hokage and his wife bid farewell to their hours old son. As the life escaped from their bodies, the baby Naruto let out his first cry of sorrow.
- 5 Years Later -
"WAAAAHHH!"
A little boy with messy blonde hair and the clearest blue eyes darted through the streets of Konoha. The Villagers were always angry at him, kicking him out of places. Up until about a week ago he was in a foster home for young children. "Sorry brat our age limit is 5 and aren't you suppose to be 5 soon?" Just like that he was on the street. In all honesty the home took you in until 15 years of age when most people would be genins by that age. But Naruto Uzumaki wasn't allowed to enter the academy for one more year. So here he was running like hell away from some shopkeeper with a bag of stale rolls. Is it really stealing when he was planning to throw them out? Naruto just ran as fast as he could, because if he could make past the playground he'd be home free!
'Just a little further...'
Naruto thought running past the oddest color hair he'd ever seen, pink. ' W -who is she?'
The little girl with pink hair was by the enterance of the playground crying. She had tear filled green eyes and scrapes on her knees. Older boys were laughing at her, chanting "Forehead!" loudly at her. Before he knew what was going on, Naruto tripped, rolled down the steps to the playground, and was caught by the baker. ' There goes my food for the week...' The baker walked past a trash can and tossed the bread in there as no one would buy it after the Uzumaki touched it. Naruto got up brushing himself off, "so much for that birthday gift!" He walked to the swing set and sat there. The sun was setting fast so most of the kids were leaving or had already left. Naruto noticed the pink hair girl leaving too, "Maybe next time I'll talk to her."
The next few days were hard for Naruto, no food and all the adults hated him for no reason he could think of. It was known to all but Naruto and his generation that Naruto's birth is the reason the Nine-tailed Demon Fox was released five years ago. Konoha lost a lot that night and the birth technically did weaken the seal, but it wasn't like Naruto was the fox or he planned for it. The village lost it's Kage, many of it's people, and is still recovering from all the damage done by the fox.
The next morning Naruto found nothing by hateful gazes and hurtful whispers behind his back. A little girl ran up to everyone handing out flowers, as she handed one to Naruto her mother yelled at her for interacting with the "Cursed Child of Konoha". Naruto's smile faded with a wince as the mother and daughter kept on walking down the street. Naruto bumped into another girl around his age, "Sorry..." The girl perked up and was about to apologize when her bodyguard pushed Naruto away. "Watch where you are going! The young lady does not need your kind touching her!" A few older kids and adults agreed with the bodyguard and began throwing rocks at the five year old blonde. Naruto bolted towards the forest, maybe he could hide out there for a little while.
Panting heavily Naruto wandered to a fence that blocked off an area to the forest marked as, 'Training Grounds 7'. '...that's an odd name.' Naruto found a hole along the fencing and sqeezed threw it. The grass was a lushful green and the water was as clear as Naruto's eyes. Three stumps were by the enterance, which was guarded by ANBU in cloaks. A kunai whizzed right by Naruto's ear notching into a tree behind him. "WAAAAHH! LEMME OUT LEMME OUTTA HERE!" He darted for the gate as the two ANBU were surprised on how he got in there. "H-how? Captain is going to kill us..." An armor ANBU with a dog mask appeared right behind Naruto out of a spiral of leaves. "My my," The Captain paused for a second as he squated down to eye level, "How did you get in here?" Naruto had tears falling down his face and turn back to the guards screaming, "C'MON MAN DON'T LET HIM KILL ME!"
Kakashi Hatake, Captain of the ANBU Black Opts, was meeting with the Third Hokage, Hiruzen Sarutobi. "Sir, I am not sure how he got in to the ANBU training exam. But I will take full respisibility for it." The Third waved his hand and thanked Kakashi for his willingness to take the fall. "That's not the problem here. It's the fact that the orphanage bioted him out a week ago..." The Third dismissed Kakashi and called for Naruto. "Whadda'yah want old man?" Naruto responded with an annoyed tone doning a suspicious and gruff look upon him. Hiruzen laughed at the young boy's attempt to be intimidating. "Would you like some candy?" Naruto smiled excitedly, "YEAH! I mean-" he went back to that 'intimidating' look, "Uh yeah, I'd like some." The Third smiled as Naruto happily devoured the bowl of candy. Hiruzen and Naruto talked for a long while about how he was booted out, the bread incident, and the near death at Training Grounds 7. The third laughed at Naruto sneaking in where no ANBU knew about him. 'Talented likehis father...loud like his mother' thought the Third. Hiruzen asked Naruto why he attempted to steal old bread and sleep in the playground at night.
"Well people call me the Cursed Child of Konoha...I don't know why though..."
The Third Hokage sat the young boy on his lap, "The reason I can't tell you is because of the last decree of the Fourth Hokage. I'm sorry Naruto." Naruto nodded sadly as the Dog Masked ANBU came back in. 'Looks alot like...like Minato-sensei?'
Hiruzen explained to Naruto that his room and board would be covered by the Third until he became a Genin. Naruto smiled and agreed. "Your the Hokage right?," Hiruzen nodded, "Then I am going to become the greatest Hokage ever! Even nicer than you, and stronger than the Fourth!" Hiruzen Sautobi smiled. He wish he could be there for that day to happen.