A/N: Well I don't have too many things to say but I want to ask any of you reading if you know can anyone tell me that which text editor you guys use to write stories because I had to use word for my fiction. Ok let's just skip that and get on to story. And I was going to put Naruto in any team other than 7, so I'll go with 10 on recommendation of bankai777.
'Thinking'
"Talking"
[few days later]
Few days after the incident all the Konoha was bustling with different kind of activities. Konoha was not only muscle but brains too. The people running this place knew how to raise the morale of general populace.
Just after the destruction by Nine-tailed fox the squads of ninjas were running overtime to do missions. They did not want to look weak in front of other villages.
Even a minute's weakness can mean instant death in Ninja world.
Also, the local order was maintained by the Konoha's Police force, which was made up of 'Uchihas'.
Who were The Uchihas? They were one of the prestigious clans of the Konoha village, revered as strongest along with their rival Senjus.
Then you will say who are the senjus? We will talk later.
Oh! We were talking about Uchihas. They were notorious group of ninjas, very troublesome to deal during fights especially because of their precious doujutsu namely 'Sharingan'. They could copy their enemies jutsus and tai-justsu (Martial art style) style, predict their movements and cast illusions. All these things made them invincible on battlefield.
Coming back to village, as it was being recovered slowly with the help of ninjas and common populace we see Kushina mother of two sitting in a grand mansion with her single child Narumi.
Kushina's eyes were bloodshot from crying too much. She was talking about killing someone named Danzo.
"That damned Danzo I'll kill him next time. Due to him….my (sob)..my poor baby Naruto…." She was talking to herself while remembering her worst day in history.
Flashback
Kushina's POV
As soon as I woke up I saw myself sprawled on floor with my head bent at an unbelievable angle.
It was painful, I was experiencing some pain in my back.
'that damned Minato he didn't even put me in bed. He just took the babies and …wait babies..'.suddenly I remembered my children who were not even a day old and they were being sacrificed. but what if the sealing failed.
What can I do? I started crying, these were tears of helplessness , bitterness. I couldn't do a thing to save my babies. Due to that damned fox taken out of my gut I was still weak.
"Knock" " Knock".
"who's there?" I asked weakly as i raised my head to look, I saw Hiruzen standing there with my babies. My children They are alive and well. I gestured Hiruzen to hand them to me. Looking closely I can jsut say wow! They look cute and I'm again crying like a kid, bawling my eyes out. Hiruzen had a small smile on his face, I wanted to say thanks to that creepy old man, but I'll cry for today because due only sobbing sound was coming out of my mouth.
I took my cuties in my arms and suddenly felt happy. Ah! That feeling of happiness is something else.
"How did you know about this safe Minato and me know about this" I aked the old man. He started looking here and there not answering my question. Minato yeah why didn't he come with sarutobi?
"What happened to Minato?" I suddenly found myself saying that.
Suddenly I saw the old man's face became grim.
"He is alive, but unconscious. We don't know when will he wake up"
'What? He is still alive then good he fulfilled his God Tsunade is coming, surely she can cure him.'
I wanted to believe that, but I had conflicted feelings. My Minato was alive! I was happy, but I still felt a sense of uneasiness that if Minato didn't wake up today something bad will happen. Just what did he do to himself?
"Let's go to hospital, Tsunade will be coming shortly." Hiruzen said that while looking at my pitful condition. ANBU guards came to help me while one took kids from my embrace. I tried to walk hurriedly but I just fell forward, just before I was going to fall an ANBU wearing cat mask came to my rescue and supported me to hospital.
I want to see Minato, I want to see my family complete.
Kushina's POV end
"Hurry up! My love"
Pow! Pow! Bam!
Suddenly a figure could be seen flying. That was legendary Sennin Jiraya aka 'The Gama sennin' and the beauty in twenties who sent him flying was Sennin Tsunade aka 'The Slug Princess'.
They were Sennins, named by 'Salamander the Hanzo' while fighting him. They were young then and couldn't defeat him but he still named them Sennins after their Summons. But now they had their fearful reputations along with them, A bloody history written by them during wars. There was one more but he defected the village.
By the way did I tell you that Tsunade was not in her twenties but was an old hag who has applied Genjutsu to look younger.
"DO YOU WANT TO DIE?" tsunade said that.
"WHAT? You can see me" author
"Of course! you *******"
Wow!...uhm...ahem
Ok now looking back to JIraya who was nursing his wounds suddenly stands up all healed while grinning like an idiot.
Tsunade could see that he was acting pretty good considering his student has sent message of attack on the village. She was his teammate for so many years she could read him like an open book. Jiraya was probably scared of losing his prized pupil. Only she knew how much he bribed her to bring her back to village. Of course she was not going to tell that to anyone.
Sigh!
'Being Hokage is troublesome' Tsunade thought and suddenly somewhere where large no. of Naras were resting all sneezed together.
"Let's just stop wasting time Jiraya. Hurry up! Now I can see the village gates….erm….or what remains of them." Tsunade said awkwardly as she saw the situation of the village. It could not be even called gate, there was just a single pillar and rest was rubble.
As they were just reaching the village gate an ANBU suddenly approached them. He did a formal salute to the two Sannins and said:
"Tsunade-sama, Jiraya-sama ! thank god you came. Please hurry to the hospital Hokage-sama is unconscious "
'See I was right. Being Hokage sucks' even I know that not to say that in front of Jiraya right now, no matter how much I wanted to say that.
Jiraya suddenly panicked, his goofy smile gone, and all colour drained from his face as he came into Ninja mode.
"Let's go" he left hurriedly after saying that.
Tsunade also followed his suit.
"In all this seriousness they forgot me" we hear a hushed voice. She is a lady with no makeup, carrying a small pig wearing clothes.
"Oink! Oink!"
"Yeah! I know Tonton we will hurry up too"
Name of the mature lady …'grrr'.(seriously)….ahem….girl was Shizune. She was Tsunade's apprentice.
"oink". Yeah and Tonton was name of the pig.
Hospital
In hospital everyone was running here and there. There was shortage of doctors who were working due to too much influx of patients. Moans of pain and crying of children and adults could be heard in the hallway of hospital.
Konoha's hospital could be said to have advanced facilities and curing procedures as compared to other villages, why? Because Konoha had its own legends of healers The first Hokage Senju Hsrshirama and Senju Tsunade her granddaughter both were legendary in their own suit and both provided them the required techniques.
But still it was not prepared to this extent.
Suddenly hospital doors opened and people see Senju Tsunade standing there looking as young as ever.
After seeing this hospital staff became happy to see a helping hand.
Loud cheers came from those who were still in condition to say something, but Tsunade was thinking something else.
'Why did I came here? Oh yeah! My dumb teammate guilt tripped me. Plus the money was too good to leave.'
'sigh'
"Tsunade-sama please we need your help in ward no. 5 otherwise patient is going to die" a nurse suddenly said to her.
"Huh? Oh sorry I was lost in thought. Well Shizune let's get to our work…Shizune?"
"y-yes….hah…hah….". huffing and puffing, out of breath Shizune finally reached the hospital.
Then Tsunade and Shizune started trating patients. Whenever there was blood Shizune came and cleaned the wound Tsunade was of no help in these kind of situations, due to her fear of blood.
When the reached the room of the Hokage they saw there were two beds and a crib with two little munchkins in it. On two beds were current Hokage and her wife.
On seeing Tsunade Kushina's eyes glittered with hope. Kushina wanted to say something, but tsunade clearly turned her face away from her. 'what did I do to her' Kushina thought to herself.
Since Minato's body was cleaned before. Thus, without much formalities she began treating Minato, then Kushina and finally a check up of babies.
Kushina still couldn't understand Tsunade's animosity towards her but she still meekly asked.
"How's Minato ?"
"Minato will live…"
"Thank god….I'm so happy. I won't forget this help Tsunade"
Tsunade was irritated because Kushina interrupted her in the middle of speaking because of her habit to reach to conclusions before listening to anyone, so she started talking little bit loudly.
"Listen to me first woman. I said that he will live, but I don't know when he will wake up"
Sudden halt came to Kushina's 220 Megawatt smile and kids woke up and started crying as if they knew what happened?
Kushina became silent. She was still a little bit weak after all not everyone can survive a Demon taken out of their gut. But her face looked like she could cry anytime, There was silence in room for small time.
"Knock! knock!"
After knocking HIruzen came inside the ward room and saw that Tsunade had treated Kushina as she looked a little bit healthier. Then he sighed suddenly before saying
"Kushina can you walk a little bit"
"Huh? Why? What happened now?"Kushina replied in a subdued voice.
"We need to decide the fate of kids"
Kushina was already frustrated but after hearing what Sarutobi was saying anger was what Kushina felt. Then venomously she spoke.
"What do you mean fate? They are the heroes of this village, what is there to decide?"
"Yeah but Village council won't accept that. They don't know that the kids father is Minato."
"Then tell them" Kushina stubbornly replied.
"Please Kushina, you need to look at this from my side now we are weakened so we cannot proudly declare that naruto and narumi are Minato's kids. This could start another war with Cloud village and right now we can't survive that"
Kushina knew that only Sarutobi could prove that their marraige had happened, if he said that she was lying people would say that she was saying this to acquire Namikaze's clan assets. She didn't know what to do? She looked at side where Tsunade was looking at her with pity. She looked at Minato's still body and knew that she would have to face this trial alone.
She further didn't say anything but she had little drops of tears at the side of her eyes. She schooled her emotions and got up and picked up the kids.
"Let's go"
Sigh
HIruzen wanted to do something for her but his hand were tied.
'Damn it! Minato wake up, I don't know for how much time I can protect your family from wolves' while thinking that he walked out of the room to attend the Village council meeting.
Nobody noticed a small toad listening to their conversation.
Village Council
Nearly every village has its own version of Village council.
And Konoha's Village Council consisted of two houses one was the 'Public Council' consisting merchants and representatives and other was 'Shinobi's council'.
Previously the matters like village security, weapons and many other ninja related works were decided by 'Shinobi council' but lately the political power of the 'Public Council' was becoming too great due to their trade and BRIBES to Fire Lord's ministers.
Everybody was sitting on their designated seats. Shinobi side of the council consisted of Clan heads and the three elders and Public council containing many merchants and influential people.
Many clan heads were looking like they want to be at home rather than meeting.
Some clan heads were bruised some had black eyes while some were still looking like they had stick shoved up their a**es.(guess who?)
When any decision was going to be made all council casted votes and to the side where majority voted wins. It was nearly a Democracy.
Suddenly door to the council opened.
Saurtobi Hiruzen came with 4 ANBU's and Kushina meekly following him while her babies were carried by a cat ANBU. Kushina quietly went to her seat. She was also the clan head of Uzumaki clan.
(A/N: I'm assuming that Uzumaki is recognised clan in Konoha )
All activity inside council room came to halt. They stood up from their seats to honour the Hokage. As he sat down everyone sat down.
"Let's start the todays discussion" HIruzen said in a manner like the court proceeding is going to start.
"We are here to decide the fate of the Demon spawns." Said a grinning merchant named 'Gozaru' with stomach like a sack of potatoes from Public council's section.
A sudden spike in killing intent was felt by Gozaru. He frantically searched the source and found kushina glaring him. Sweat started to pour from his forehead as he was nearly going to piss his pants but before situation reached to that stage Hiruzen asked kushina to stop that.
"I am tired, I have lost my wife and I am here working instead of mourning her. so I would request all of you to stop behaving like children." Hiruzen reprimanded everyone, then he turned to Gozaru and menacingly said.
"Shut up! and don't say anything until you are asked" Gozaru quietly sat down.
"But what he said was true we need to determine their fate, these children could become asset for Konoha if they are groomed properly " said Shimura Danzo an elder with one eye covered with bandages and a plastered hand. He was old and had a perfect poker face.
"Shut up you one eyed freak. I'm not giving my children to anyone" Kushina said angrily. She wanted to kill that one-eyed doll face but she couldn't do that now. So only choice was to provoke him.
But as usual Danzo didn't even twitch.
"But training aside what if the beast takes over the child" said a pink haired council member Michiko Haruno. She was fair skinned and a hot lady in her prime who looked like a model. And her defining feature was her pink coloured hair which suited her. She wore too much make up and jewellery, but it suited her.
All the council's males turned their head towards her as she said that. They wanted to be in the good grace of haruno.
Then they started supporting her claim.
"Now our hero, the fourth is not here. So who will save us if the beast frees againg"
"Let's just kill them"
"Let us give them to Danzo-sama. He can tame them"
All kinds of wild suggestions started coming from civilian council
'hu hu! Dumb pigs. They really fell for it. The task that Danzo-sama gave me will be completed without a hitch'. These were the thoughts of council memeber haruno.
"Stop! You don't need to worry about them, their mother is still alive. I'm not asking anything from village I'll raise them alone"
Kushina stood up. Glaring angrily at the council members she said.
The clan head of Uchihas Fugaku stood up at the same instant and said
"Then the demons will be under the control of Uzumaki clan that cannot be done. They won't be loyal to village but Uzumaki clan"
"As much as I want myself to raise them in my clan the concern of Fugaku-san is a valid one" this was said a man wearing noble clothes and long shiny black hair like women. He was Huyuga hiashi current clan head of Huyuga's. His eyes were frosty without any emotion and he had scowl on his face.
"What the hell are you guys saying? They are just children. Don't treat them like some items"
"Yes, they are kids but with a beast inside their gut which can destroy our village five times over in an instant" Fugaku said emotionlessly.
"But they are Minato's…."
"Silence" thundered Hiruzen's voice stopping Kushina from revealing the secret that they are Minato's kids.
Hearing Minato's name of Minato Shikaku nara clan head of Nara clan who was pretending to sleep opened his one eye and started his motor mind and as he connected the dots his eyes opened instantaneously and became wide.
'Shit! They are Minato's kids' shikaku concluded.
'Now he knows the secret too. I need to think something else now' Danzo thought while looking at Shikaku's reaction. He wanted this secret to remain secret for a little while but now it was out.
But shikaku is clever person he won't blurt it out for everyone but Ackmichis and Yamanakas would know that secret due to their friendship with Nara clan head.
"Let us let Kushina raise one child and one child be raised by village orphanage" suggested Danzo.
"What? No no no….that can't happen…please for god's sake. Don't do that"
"You are a Konoha ninja and you need to sacrifice things for the good of village" Danzo said emotionlessly.
"All in favour raise your hands" Danzo being elder could call the vote
All the civilian council raised their hands along with Huyugas, Uchihas and 2 elders.
"All against the motion"
Uzumaki, Nara, Yamanaka, Ackmichi, Kurama, Inazuka and Aburame were the clans that stood by kushina's plea. But still majority was against them.
Danzo smirked as he saw his side winning. He suddenly had a very satisfied smile on his face just for a moment, but I saw it.
"By looking at the majority votes this motion Is passed. Naruto Uzumaki will live in orphanage while narumi Uzumaki will live with her mother. No contact should be made between the mother and child else he will know of his parentage. All the cost of Naruto's expenditure will be provided from village funds for Orphans. That's the final decision" stated Danzo monotonously.
Hiruzen sighed again. He didn't even had control over his village council How could he control the village?
He looked towards Kushina who was silent, tears streaming out her eyes, her lips were trembling slowly. She lost her child to wolves.
'It is good that Minato is unconscious, if he would had seen Kushina like that all of the people here would be dead.' Were the thoughts of Hiruzen.
Slowly other matters were started but kushina remained like a statue.
After a while when the council meeting ended everybody went to their ways but Kushina was still sitting in trance.
"Kushina don't worry I'll see that Naruto is taken care of myself"
Kushina still didn't say anything.
Sarutobi sighed. He didn't know what to do anymore. As he slowly approached the naruto's crib which was brought here by an ANBU he saw his crystal blue eyes staring him curiously. He didn't even blink.
*Flashback end*
'wahh…wah….'
Kushina came out of her memory lane as she heard Narumi crying. She began to rock her slowly as the cries became sobs and at the end narumi became silent. She began to move her pudgy hands that tried to reach to her mother's face.
This small action brought a smile to Kushina's face.
At the orphanage
A small kid two three days old was crying as he had not been fed anything from two days.
"Shut up! You demon spawn" this was the voice of caretaker as she brought a bottle of milk after three days to the kid.
"Just drink this and Die. We cannot kill the other but due to Danzo-sama's grace we can torture you" said the same caretaker with a sickening smile.
A/N: Phew, its really difficult to write anything. Well I'm free so its not much of hassle. I don't know how many of you read this but please if you are reading this and you have some experience under your belt. Tell me how can I improve my writing style. Or what should I read to improve my storytelling. Bye for now and Merry Christmas.
