Konoha was considered to be one of the great shinobi villages. The strongest known ninjas hailed from that village; Tsunade, Jiraiya, Orochimaru, and of course the Yellow Flash, Arashi. Things were looking promising for this village until the disaster struck one fateful October night. For out of the East came a terrifying creature that was simple known as the Kyuubi because of its' nine tails.
No one knows why this fearsome fox decided to attack the village. Maybe it was being controlled by a faction against them, or having revenge on the village for some imagined slight or it could be that it just like to destroy and decided that Konoha was first. But it came that night and rained destruction on the village with its' tails and paws. Many a ninja were slain that night. The Hyuuga's couldn't close its' chakra holes nor could the Uchiha's fire techniques slow it down.
In the Hokage tower, a yellowed haired young man was busy researching different methods to take down the monstrosity outside the village walls. Beside him was a white haired man with red marks from eye to bottom of cheeks who was helping him in the research. Occasionally an ANBU came in to give reports on the battle with the fox.
The yellow haired man had a frantic look on his face as he went back and forth with different scrolls of seals. His face lit up with a look of triumph and relief as he said:
"Jiraiya! I found a solution for our predicament!"
"You did!?" The white haired man named Jiraiya said in excitement. "Well, what is it Arashi?"
Arashi pulled up a couple blank scrolls and with a pen made a complicated spiral seal on one of them. He showed it to Jiraiya and said:
"This is what we can do; we'll simply seal away the Kyuubi into a container. We can't destroy it since it is too strong and legends do say that the Kyuubi can rebuild its' body if it is destroyed. By sealing it, we can save the village and have more time to find a way to destroy the Kyuubi."
"How are we to do this? Kyuubi won't let us walk up to it and seal him away. And what kind of container will hold a demon?" Jiraiya asked while scanning the seal.
Arashi grimaced at these questions and replied:
"From what I researched, the only thing that contain the Kyuubi's power is a newborn babe since their chakra coils are not developed yet and the babe can grow into carrying the fox's power. As to how we will seal the fox inside the babe, I will have to use the Death God summoning to do it."
Jiraiya leapt up at that statement and cried out:
"What! You can't really mean that Arashi?! You know what happens to those who summon the Death God."
"I know." Arashi said quietly, "Your soul is put into the Death God's stomach for ten thousand years." He gave Jiraiya a fierce look and pointed a finger to outside. "But I will do anything to save my precious people from it all! You don't know the summoning and the Third is too weak to perform it since he unfortunately caught a nasty flu virus. That leaves only me to do the summoning and I swore when I took up the position of hokage that I will protect this village to my dying breath."
Jiraiya had a defeated look on his face since he knew that Arashi was right and wouldn't let anyone else do the summoning. He said:
"I understand Arashi, but it doesn't mean I'll like it. Whose baby are you going to use in the summoning?"
"Well, if I had a child of my own, I'd use them in a heartbeat but since I'm a bachelor and fatherless; I will have to quickly find someone else's child."
"Who would be willing to give their child up as a sacrifice?"
"I don't know Jiraiya. I will get some ANBU to look around for volunteers and hope that someone is willing." Arashi then proceeded to do so and sent a couple of ANBU to search the village for newborns.
While waiting for the search results, Arashi and Jiraiya were making preparations for the sealing. A room in the Hokage tower was soon covered in seals and a small alter with four candles were set in the middle of the room in readiness of the sacrifice. Soon all was finished with the preparations and waited for the baby. A silver haired ANBU with one eye showing soon burst into the room with an orange bundle in his arms.
"Sensei!" He yelled, "Here's the child you wanted!"
"That's good Kakashi." Arashi said as he took the bundle from Kakashi. He look down at a tiny baby with a full shock of bright yellow hair. "Good gracious, he looks kind of like me!"
"Any lady friends you were visiting lately that you might want to tell us?" Jiraiya asked with a perverted look on his face.
Arashi scowled at Jiraiya. "No, I haven't been seeing anyone lately. I have been too busy being a Hokage to have time to visit anyone." He looked over to Kakashi and asked: "Whose child is this anyway Kakashi?"
Kakashi had a puzzled look on his face. "You know, I really don't know whose child this is. I was traveling on the outer edges of the village to find if any families with children were living in that area when near training ground 44 entrances I saw a…." Kakashi trailed off as his face got more confused.
"You saw what?" Jiraiya asked impatiently
"I'm not really sure." Kakashi replied, unsure of his answer. "My memory seems really fuzzy on that aspect. What I do recall is a woman wearing fancy orange silk robes pacing in front of the training ground. I can't tell you what her looks were or even age but I can't get the image of those bright orange robes she wore.
Anyway, she was pacing back and forth in front of the entrance with a look of indecisiveness on her face. Tears were falling, that I remember. The baby was being carried in front of her. I approached her to tell her that she could be in danger of Kyuubi when she saw me and broke off with her pacing. She seem to resolve herself and walked right up to me and plunked the baby into my arms while saying: 'Here's the child you need. He is an orphan and has no name. Use him in sealing the Kyuubi. Now go!' I then found myself running to the Hokage tower."
Arashi and Jiraiya both stared at Kakashi in disbelief. Arashi then had a thoughtful look on his face before saying:
"She could been using a genjutsu on you to make you not remember her. I do not understand why she doesn't want us to know the child's mother. Bright orange robes you say?" He asked Kakashi who quickly nodded his head. Arashi turned to Jiraiya and asked:
"Do you know anyone who would were bright orange fancy robes and good at genjutsu?"
Jiraiya shook his head no and said: "Lets not forget that if she was good at genjutsu she could of disguised her clothes also."
"That's not all I remember," Kakashi interrupted Jiraiya as a memory surfaced to his mind. "I had out my sharigran in case Kyuubi swung my way. If she was using a genjutsu, it's a very good one cause I couldn't see through it."
Arashi and Jiraiya had a dumbstruck look on their faces at this. The sharigran couldn't see through the genjutsu? What kind of power did this child's mother have? They stared down in wonder at the child in Arashi's arms who gave a yawn and open his eyes to show a deep blue color. The moment was soon shattered at the sound of a howl Kyuubi gave. Arashi got a determined look on his face turned to look at Jiriaya.
"It is time Jiraiya. The mother of this child gave consent and abandon him so he will be the container of Kyuubi. Let's get ready for the ceremony." He gave the child to Jiraiya to prepare and turned to Kakashi. "Kakashi, I need you to tell the everyone that I will be coming out to help soon to deal with the demon. They just need to hold it off for just a little bit longer."
Kakashi nodded his head in acknowledgement and teleported out of the room. Jiraiya was quickly unwrapping the baby from the orange clothes when he paused and asked Arashi:
"What will the child's name be since the mother didn't give one to Kakashi?"
Arashi looked down at the child in Jiraiya's arms and thought for a moment. He brighten in thought and said:
"Well, if he were my child; I would name him Naruto."
"Honestly Arashi, you like ramen way too much." Jiraiya accused him with a smile and then said "What will be his last name?"
"Since I'm the last one in my clan and he's been abandoned; I might as well adopt him and he can have my last name Uzumaki."
Jiraiya nodded his head and resumed preparing the child now dubbed Naruto. Naruto was placed on the alter where he slept quietly on. The flames of the candles strangely flickered around him.
Jiraiya turned to face Arashi to give his farewell. Arashi smiled sadly and said:
"Well this is it Jiraiya. I'm going to head out and summon the Toad boss to help me out. You know it will be a success when the seal appears on the Naruto's stomach. The memories with you are great; though I could have done without the females attacking me when you infuriated them with your peeking."
Jiraiya gave a small smile at this before saying: "I will miss you my student and all the women that use to flock around you. You helped inspire a lot of my writings with that crowd of females following you."
Arashi shook his head and gave a small laugh. His face turned serious as he said: "I want you to keep an eye out for Naruto when you can. I love this village but some people here are incredible thick headed and may think that Naruto is Kyuubi. He deserves some help in life since he was given up for this purpose."
Jiraiya gave a 'Hai' in agreement with Arashi and watched as Arashi waved goodbye and left the building to face off Kyuubi. He then looked down at Naruto on the alter and watched him to pass the time.
A great howl was heard were he was standing and he could hear the muffle clashes of Kyuubi and Arashi. A few moments later there was a great screech of terror and then utter silence. The candles that surrounded Naruto flared up high and the seal on the floor beneath the alter glowed brightly. A swirling seal appeared on Naruto's stomach and the child woke up and wailed loudly. Jiraiya approached the alter and picked up Naruto. He watched in detachment as three horizontal lines appeared on each of Naruto's cheeks. He then held the child close to him and mourned silently for the passing of his student Arashi.