Inspired by many fanfics, especially cr4zypt's 'legacy', though lately I hate it for making Naruto too godly, and 'The Yellow Fang' by policy, he's awesome. Oh wait, and the original Naruto of course, without that Japanese guy A.k.a Mr. Kishimoto, this fanfic, and every other Naruto fanfic, wouldn't exist in the the first place. I don't care what they say man but you're awesome, except when Kakashi gained perfect Susanoo part, seriously.
Disclaimer: I do not own Naruto or any of the associated characters, or jutsus, well, maybe some jutsu I own but... Kishi won't buy it. Oh, and I'm not making any money off this fic.
I'm making some adjustments to the time so the age of characters will not clash.
Chapter 1: Hidden past of the fire shadow
Konoha, Village Hidden in the Leafs.
-Hokage Office-
Minato Namikaze was not an idiot, while his predecessor went insane with the bane of all Kage duties: paperwork, he was silently drinking his tea while watching the village, not giving a damn to the mountain of paperworks behind him. He wasn't going to burn the paperwork of course; he couldn't even if he wanted to. The damn things were fireproof.
No, he used the Nidaime Hokage's most versatile jutsu; the kage bunshin no jutsu. With those creatures from hell contained by his clones, he was free to do anything. Well, as long as the clones didn't rebel that is, although they were plotting it right now. Minato had known, but gave them none of his attention, for his mind was elsewhere.
Right now, he was thinking about his father and mother. While he knew about his mother's death, he never knew of the final fate of his father. It has been 2 years since his last message, maybe he is truly dead, Minato thought.
Flashback, 24 years ago
"Tou-san! Tou-san! Look! I did it!" A young Minato yelled out cheerfully, while his father smiled at him full of pride. "You are going to be powerful shinobi like your old man, Minato." Minato's father said while ruffling the boy's hair. He had just taught him how to a climb tree by using chakra. Minato smiled, hearing his father's praise; after all it's not every day he saw those lips curved upwards, or those black eyes getting soft.
His father has black eyes, a strong jawline, and spiky black hair reaching his waist with bangs covering most of his right eye, though, it's unable to hide the creases he had since he was a boy. The air around him carried a tone of arrogance and promise of death. Minato didn't inherit any physical features from the man, but he did get his chakra nature,his touch of arrogance, and in immediate future, his techniques.
By the description alone anyone who lived in Konoha should have known him. This man is the Co-founder of Konohagakure no Sato, Madara Uchiha. Although it is understandable if people didn't recognize him. Not even his former best friend, Hashirama Senju, saw this particular part of the Uchiha.
Everyone thought that like the rest of the Uchiha clan Madara pursue power at all cost, they couldn't be more wrong. While it was true that the Uchiha clan is a clan that favors power, in actuality they love their kin so much that they pursue power to protect them.
Right now Madara was in The Land of Waves, a country located between Land of Whirlpool and Land of Fire, living with his wife Hitomi. Hitomi hailed from the Namikaze clan. The Namikaze clan was a little clan with a knack for sealing jutsu like the Uzumaki clan, though they didn't have the strong lifeforce or the chakra chains like they did. However, they're just as talented as the Uzumaki clan, whose chuunin level ninja were capable of using seals with just their hands, thanks to their bloodline.
Yes, they do have their own kekkei genkai, in fact, they have two: magnet release and swift release. Though they don't have the same affinity for magnet release like the third Kazekage who is capable of creating and using of iron sand, they cleverly use magnet release to draw the seals and use lightning chakra to activate them. This technique is very useful for a beginner or intermediate sealer from Namikaze clan. What made the clan famous, however, is their speed that rival even the likes of Raikages, thanks to their swift release. They use swift release to boost their shunshin no jutsu to beat even the speed of sound and at the same time activating all organ function to the max, providing them the reflex and sensory capacity needed to use the technique.
Hitomi herself never awakened magnet release, preventing her from using her sealing jutsu to its full potential. In exchange for her diminished use of seals, she was very proficient in swift release, making her the fastest messenger and the best assassin in the world.
How did they meet? She had found Madara after his battle with Hashirama. She was acting as a messenger from Uzushiogakure to Konoha, she had felt incredible surge of energy in the spot which later would be known as Valley of the End, and when she got there, she had found Madara with a hole in his chest.
Taking a possible rogue ninja who had capability to change the landscape wasn't the best decision in her life, but she just can't ignore a man lying there bleeding half to death. Hitomi, despite being an assassin, value human life as it was the first thing that she learned from the Uzumaki family that took care of her.
-38 years before the present time, Land of Waves-
"Oh my head where am I?" Madara groaned as he slowly opened his eyes, he immediately felt the pain in his chest. Looking around, he found out he was in a small wooden house, not much furniture, but the walls were full of seals 'Wow, the owner must be very paranoid, or an Uzumaki.'Madara thought.
He tried getting up, but a warm hand touched his shoulder. "Easy there champ, you got wounded pretty badly, I spent hours stitching that hole in your chest, so don't go and ruin them okay?" A soft but demanding voice said.
He turned around and... well, let's just say he wasn't disappointed, it was a woman, a very beautiful woman with silky smooth blond hair almost reaching her waist and baby blue eyes that complimented her cute oval face. She was wearing light armor with a Namikaze clan crest, a stylized blue swirling orbs, on the chest, which by the way, from the look of it was a c-cup in size, and an Uzushiogakure forehead protector. She didn't carry the same lethal aura as the shinobi of this era, but Madara knew better than to lower his guard, the crest of Namikaze prove her identity.
"Who are you and where am I?" asked Madara a bit suspicious because he knew that both the Uzumaki and Senju clans are loyal to one another.(1)
"My name is Hitomi Namikaze of Uzushiogakure, and right now we are in between the borders of Whirlpool and the Land of Fire, commonly known as the Land of Waves." Hitomi said.
"Hitomi Namikaze? The one who assassinate The last leader of the Hagoromo clan while she was barely 15?" thought Madara, intrigued by the fates decision surrounding his life.
"What happened? How did I get here?" asked Madara in a demanding tone. Uchihas are an impatient bunch after all. (Makes you wonder how the prodigal Sasori got this trait isn't it :P).
"Jeez you're asking way too many questions, just lie down and relax already, ok? You were injured in your last battle and barely made it. You're lucky that I found you still breathing and was able to heal you." She explained to him "There were times I didn't think you would pull through. After all, not many people could survive getting a sword run through their chest and lived to tell the tale. Now then, how about you tell me who you are?" She asked, knowing with that crest on his back he must be quite the powerful fellow.
"I am Madara Uchiha, former leader of the Uchiha clan, and co-founder of Konohagakure no Sato" said Madara with pride, despite how he felt for his former clan and village they are the strongest and it made him prideful.
"My, aren't we a bit full of ourselves?" Hitomi teased the second strongest man in the world before she burst out into laughter, not even bothering to hide it from him. Madara just glared at her and muttered something about troublesome blondes and what a drag they can be. (Let's just say that Madara has a rather rich ancestry).
"Although I wonder why you two fight, last time i checked both of you were best friends." Hitomi said, Madara eyes widened a little.
"How did you know that?" Madara demanded an answer, his sharingan blazing. It was a secret known only by his deceased family and the Senju brothers.
"Well, there's a mountain sized wood statue, for example, Also i am messenger from Uzushio to Konoha, and I happen to be a good friend of Mito Uzumaki." seeing Madara hadn't deactivating his sharingan she continued, waving her hands dismissively "Oh relax I won't turn you in. If you want to hide, I'll hide you, but right now just focus on healing yourself."
Madara nodded, though his sharingan remained active, the Namikaze in front of him wasn't known as death wind for nothing. "I'm going to go to the grocery and then cook you something. Do you want anything in particular, Uchiha-san?" asked Hitomi, trying to defuse the tension.
Deafening silence followed until Madara replied "Anything is fine". Hitomi nodded before she left to buy some groceries, leaving him alone with his own thought.
Madara lied his back in the bed, his teeth gritting when he remembered his loss to Hashirama, but then he remembered something and stared to chuckle darkly as he remembered that he had gotten what he wanted, a piece of The God of shinobi's power.
-Nine years later, 29 Years before present time-
Madara was working on a farm, which is a very strange sight for every single ninja in the world. If five years ago you asked the great Uchiha what was a hoe, He would have said that it was an improvised weapon. Now he knew everything there is to know about farming, mainly by learning from other farmers. His sharingan wasn't exactly very useful here.
"Maybe this is the peace I was seeking" thought Madara,The last nine years was simply the best years of his life. The hole in his heart, the one that keeps him hurt, was filled. No more politics, no more clan problems, No more revenge crap, not even eye of the moon plan.
"Guess that tablet only speaks for the Uchiha clan as a whole.(2)" Madara mused as he watch the clear sky above him. For the first time since his meetings with Hashirama at the river, he found something worth being called happiness.
Speaking of Hashirama, He received words that his rival died a year ago. Apparently their battle leave him weakened. Though Hashirama wasn't the only one that left weakened by the battle that created a valley, Madara didn't go to the First Great Shinobi war, like Hashirama did, he didn't fight 3,000 ninjas, among the enemy being Kakuzu of Takigakure, and make it back alive to tell the tale. It hurt his pride, but he had to admit Hashirama was better than him.
He heard someone calling his name and turned around, seeing Hitomi waving her hands at him. They were married now; nine years had been more than enough time to melt Madara's cold heart. Two years after their first encounter Hitomi had resigned from her shinobi career, she was tired of all the killing and had wanted to live a simple life here in Wave Country, becoming a farmer.
Madara himself, not knowing what to do (His Rinnegan hadn't surfaced yet, nor did he have good control with wood release, not when there was a troublesome blonde around.), decided to help her on the farm. But not before pulling the I'm-Saving-Your-Ass card in order to 'persuade' Madara to help her.
During the day they were working together on the farm, and during the night they would rest under the stars, sharing many things. Hitomi mostly talked about her day-to-day routine, but once in a while she would share her past as an orphan and how she found out about her clan. Madara himself preferred listening, not one to open his heart easily. But Namikaze was well-known for their ability to open one's heart and Hitomi wasn't an exception. It took a long time, but after 2 years Madara finally cracked and told her everything, his childhood, his little brother, and his friendship with Hashirama.
As Madara waved back at her he found his lips already touching hers. "Damn the Namikaze and their swift release" thought Madara, but he wasn't actually complaining, enjoying the alternative 'use' of his wife's skill. Seeing his wife giggling, he only chuckled. "Who would have thought that the Madara Uchiha and the last of Namikaze would marry each other and lived a simple civilian life?"He mused as he warp his arms around her body and leaned to capture his wife's eager lips.
How ironic was it? The great Uchiha always thought that ninja was supposed to die on the battlefield in the hands of the enemy who was stronger than themselves; but now he found himself actually longing for a simple civilian life he used to frown upon.
Suddenly Hitomi stopped their activity and said. "Madara, I'm pregnant." Madara eyes widened, a joyful smile appeared on his face and Hitomi found herself spinning around. "Hey now, If I'm going to cook you something, I need my head, you're making me dizzy" She said in her best angry voice, although her expression betray them.
Madara stopped and quickly kiss her again, in his mind, he steeled his resolve "If this is what it takes to make her happy, I will forget about my plans and focus on the future. I'll do anything for you, Hitomi."
-24 years before the current time, land of waves-
5 years have passed and now we could see a happy Madara leaning against a tree with Hitomi on his chest. Hitomi had a slight bulge in her stomach, pregnant with their second child. Both glanced at the sea, seeing a four year old kid standing on the water. He had spiky blond hair and the bluest eyes anyone had ever seen. His name was Minato Namikaze, son of Madara Uchiha and Hitomi Namikaze.
Seeing their son's success in standing on the water training both parents felt a burst of pride, feeling happy about having a wonderfully talented child and that they were going to have another one. Although both Madara and Hitomi had abandoned their shinobi ways they decided to train young Minato so he can defend himself should he needed it.
They also explained to him that they decided to give him his mother's name because the only Uchiha ever to be exiled was Madara himself. "It will be troublesome because the Uchiha will be looking for you, Blonde and sharingan isn't exactly a common combination" He told his son.
Unknown to his wife, he had actually trained his son in awakening the sharingan by accidentally putting him in a live or death situation (A tree walking lesson gone bad, If she knew let's just say that Madara wouldn't be dead, but losing something even more precious than his eyes, after all while he is strong she is very swift with her knife). After seeing his blood-red eyes Madara told him about his clan and said to Minato to be proud of his heritage.
A few weeks later….
-Land of Waves market-
Today is not a good day for Madara, combination of mood swings and food craving made Hitomi even more dangerous opponent than Hashirama. She was more than capable of making him feel anger, pain, and fear at the same time. So he had to buy every food ingredient available and cook everything she likes or fear the retribution.
Suddenly he felt a burst of chakra from his house, the signature unmistakably was his son's. It was so unstable that it made him remember the time Izuna unlocked Mangekyō Sharingan. Fearing something might have happened to Hitomi, he rushed through the woods to his home only to find Hitomi stabbed with a ninjatō, Minato with a mangekyō Sharingan, and six Iwa shinobi.
"MOTHER!" Minato turned his eyes to the Iwa shinobi who throw the ninjatō, his eyes full of rage, promising death to the one who hurt his mother.
Minato's right eye cried blood and instantly the offending Iwa shinobi found themselves burned by black flames, but Minato then collapsed from chakra exhaustion, not used to handling the chakra-taxing technique. Before any of the enemy ninja could lay their hands on Minato however, they found their sword broken and saw Madara with Kunai in his right hand.
One of the Iwa shinobi yelled at him "Who the fuck are you, you fucking little shit?" clearly one of the younger generations, then he gulped when he felt the killing intent Madara projected towards them. Madara's eyes turned into blood-red eyes with three tomoes.
The leader of the group smiled seeing the red orbs "Looks like the informant was right boys, Madara does live in this place"
His smile widened, becoming more repulsive every second "don't worry, we won't kill you. We will bring you to Tsuchikage-sama and let him kill you himself, but i'm going to take my sweet time killing that little shit for what he'd done to one of my boys" said the enemy as he created a cone structure between his hands.
"This man is capable of doing the Jinton (dust release), he must be Mu's son since he only taught Jinton to his son and that brat Onoki."Thought Madara analyzing the situation. "So you're Mu's son, huh? I will kill you and then I will present him your head when i kill him!" Madara said menacingly making Mu's son gritting his teeth from both fear and anger.
Before he was able to fire his Jinton technique he found himself with no the lower half of his body, which was then completely evaporated by Madara's combination of Susanoo and Amaterasu, his last vision being Madara's mangekyō Sharingan glowing bright red.
After the gruesome display the remaining Iwa shinobi ran for their lives only for Madara to use Yasaka Magatama and blast the poor bastards, not even leaving a bone in its wake.
Not even sparing a glance he turned to Minato, inspecting his son's condition. after deducing that his son was not in mortal danger, he slowly approached his lover. He looked at her and his heart filled with remorse for not being there, not being able to protect the one person that mattered the most in his world, the love of his life.
Suddenly Hitomi open her eyes, coughing several times, making Madara hopeful for a second. However, he saw her eyes and he knew that she did not have long before she would pass from this world. Trembling, Hitomi reached for his hand and held it. "Sorry Madara, for not being able to be with you for the rest of your life, I'm sorry that I have to die first." Hitomi said with her eyes full of tears.
With her remaining chakra she unsealed a scroll from her storage seal on her wrist and give it to Madara, She said "I haven't taught him anything about my clan's fuinjutsu or kekkei genkai." She started to cough badly. "Please teach these to him."
She gave him a weak smile before she continued, " T-take...*cough* care of our s-son, Madara." Hitomi said weakly as she gave one last kiss to her husband. Then she closed her eyes for the last time.
Madara just stood there frozen, looking at his now dead wife. In his mind, he was getting flashes of the last 14 years of his life. He had finally found happiness, only to have it ripped from his grasp.
Madara eyes slowly change its color, from obsidian black to blood-red with three tomoes surrounding the pupil, to three large tomoes with circle at their tops overlapping each other at the bottoms and straight line between them. In a fit of rage Madara used Amaterasu on his surrounding, His mind had shattered, and he roared his displeasure to the world
"What, what is this... This feeling... I never felt it before... This can't be real... This must be a bad dream... Yes ... This is not... My reality!" Madara thought. Suddenly he stopped, a realization hit him as he looked at Hitomi one last time. Then he made a decision that would influence the entire world.
"I was too naïve to think this would last, too naïve in believing that everything is going to be fine, too naïve and leave my plans behind. This world will never change, this reality is worthless."Madara's gaze grow cold. He sealed Hitomi's body in stasis seal so her body should be still in good condition when he buried her later, at the moment he had only one priority: his son.
"I will create a world where you will stand by my side, Hitomi. A world where you had never died, a world full of love and peace, where everyone can be the winner, where no child has to kill another child and then have their father take revenge on their son's death,I will...I don't care anymore, all I want is you."Madara thought as he picked up his son and jumped into the woods, leaving behind his former home burning with black flames. Unknown to everyone, even to him, he had fallen again to the curse of his clan, the curse of hatred.
Two months later…
Madara and Minato were standing a few miles outside the main gates of Konoha. Madara looked to Minato for the last time. "Minato, my son," said Madara, getting Minato's attention.
In the last two months Madara trained Minato in the same way his father used to train him, hell-bent on getting his son as strong as possible so he could keep himself safe.
During this month of training though Minato hadn't activated his mother's bloodlines, he had mastered (technically) two of Mangekyō Sharingan ability, Amaterasu and Enton (Blaze release), a feat never happened in history of the Uchiha clan. Susanoo was not Minato's forte, however, despite already mastering both eyes.
"Remember, keep the Uchiha heritage and bloodline a secret from the village but never forget your legacy. Even though I dislike the Senju, this village will keep you safe. Never abandon your beliefs and fight for what you hold dear, only when fighting to protect someone precious or for pride, that one will show his true strength." He told his son.
"I am sorry to leave you, my son, but this is something I must do alone. Speak to the Senju and tell him you are an orphan and wished to join Konoha. He will keep you safe. We may never meet again Minato and even if we do, we may have to fight each other. Until then, good luck" Madara said as he started to walk away, leaving his son to a new path.
"Tou-san, Tou-san!" Minato yelled at his father, "I don't understand anything you said before, why we might fight if we meet again, or what are you doing" Minato take a deep breath, holding his tears "but if... If kaa-san can be brought back, will we go back home?"
Madara stopped, turned back to Minato, who stared at him with his innocent eyes. Those eyes that never failed to destroy his facade, those light blue eyes he inherited from Hitomi. In flash Minato found himself in his father's embrace, feeling his hair wet from Madara's uncontained tears.
"Yes... We all can go back home. If this work, we can go back to our day skipping stones, eating your mom's dishes, you might even meet your uncle and your grandmother" Madara stopped for a while "Until that time live your life to the fullest, Minato"
-Present day-
Suddenly Minato awakened from his trip to memory lane by a knock on the door. Quickly dispelling his clones he opened the door and saw an Anbu wearing a horse mask said "Sir, it's time."
Despite being nervous, Minato managed to maintain a calm demeanor, a trait he received from his father. Nodding silently he teleported himself and the Anbu to the location.
A few hours later…
A scream and cry echoed through the room, no this is not T&I department, this was undisclosed location outside the village, a place for his wife Kushina to give birth to their first child: Naruto.
Naruto was a carbon copy of his father; He weighed in at three kilograms, had spiky blond hair, and pair of dark blue eyes.
"Congratulations Kushina-chan it's a healthy baby boy" said Biwako. Biwako was 175 centimeters tall with long light brown hair tied in a ponytail with brown eyes; she was also the Sandaime Hokage's wife.
she handed the mother the newborn baby. the mother, Kushina, is a red-headed beauty, a trait common to Uzumaki, With long smooth crimson red hair going all the way to her waist, blue eyes and an ample D-cup breasts adorned her well-developed body.
She embraced her son for the first time. "Hello Sochi." she said with tears flowing from her eyes and her husband finished her words with a smile "Welcome to our family, Naruto."
To Be Continued…
Author's note:
I won't make the Namikaze capable of magnet release like the third Kazekage; however I do have some ninja art from Suna that Naruto will use. For swift release neither Minato nor Naruto are capable of accessing this kekkei genkai, so they have to find another way to implement their clan's fightning style into theirs.
If anybody ask why Naruto has swift ancestry but can't use it, Swift release users will be his enemy and it will be coveted by many villages.
Namikaze clan is like the the kaguya clan, their kekkei genkai genetics jump generations. That's why some got the magnet release and swift release, other got either of them, and the rest never awakened it.
(1)what I mean is Madara was suspicious because the ruling clan of Uzushio is Uzumaki and they are loyal to Senju, the facto and the jure ruler of Konoha(their clan status + the current Hokage) and Hitomi might turned him to the uzumaki. The point is Namikaze isn't Uzumaki, some of you wrongly draw that conclusion.
(2)See the latest manga chapter guys and you'll understand.
UPDATE : TIMELINE
Okay obviously you all thought "How Madara somehow become the father of Namikaze Minato." okay here's the explanation.
In part one
Tsunade is 50-ish give or take in part one, meaning the sannin was about 38 when Tobi attacked the village while Hiruzen is 68-69 in part one, so he was 56-57 when Tobi attacked.
Timeline in my story
Age of both Madara and Hashirama when they create the village : 25-30, make it 30. Hashirama married when he was 18(Since Age expectancy is about 30 he didn't want his line to stop and arranged marriage is common in warring clan era) and have a son when he was 20, his son never went to war since Hashirama was still traumatized by Itama's death. madara stay single(protecting brother and clan and whatever).
time when madara and hashirama create the village we called it 0 SVE(Shinobi Village era), this is not official calendar.
0 SVE : Creation of Konoha, At the time village was formed Hiruzen was about 6 y.o.
2 SVE : Madara Crush Mu's Pride
3 SVE : Madara left the village.
11 SVE : Madara came back battling Hashirama leading to the valley of the end, around this time The sannin was born.
12 SVE : The first great war started.
13 SVE : Tired of Bloodshed Hitomi Namikaze retired.
15 SVE : Madara and Hitomi married, Madara 45, Hitomi 30 (Madara was still quite a looker in this age, not even a single white hair thanks to Hashirama's cell strong physical energy, hon hon hon).
19 SVE : Hashirama died from being weakened by his battle with Madara and Kakuzu of Takigakure in the first great ninja war, his body secured by Tobirama for researching wood release - Yeah, you know, the first darkness of shinobi, Tobirama Senju.
21 SVE : Minato Born, Kushina born
25 SVE : Hitomi died, Minato awaken Mangekyo and dropped by Madara at Konoha, Madara continue eye of the moon plan.
30 SVE : Kushina come to Konoha to become a jinchuriki.
33 SVE : Second Great war happened, Tobirama died here(as opposed to first great ninja war), replaced by Hiruzen who became hokage, Tsunade's become a widow, Kushina's parents dead and total destruction of Uzushiogakure.
45 SVE : Third great ninja war
47 sve :Madara died after leaving behind a message for Minato congratulating him for his candidancy as the fourth Hokage
49 SVE : Naruto born, Kushi+minato died.