Naruto :: Heirs of Rikkudou Sennin
While jinchuuriki weren't common at any given time since before the creation of the modern nine bijuu, there still were some well known facts about them. And one of those facts is the following: the seal on the female jinchuuriki is at its weakest just after she has given a birth to her child. Tobi knew this, of course, but he also knew that Minato knew this as well, which meant that there will be many protections and other safeguards in place for when the current Kyuubi jinchuuriki will go into labor. So, even if it meant that he will have to fight against the stronger seal, Tobi decided that he should attack when Kushina wasn't ready to give birth yet – no one would expect this. So, the mask-wearing man had scheduled his attempt to destroy Konoha to August, 31st.
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"She's so cute, 'ttebane!" A certain redhead kunoichi exclaimed as she held her best friend's one month old daughter in her arms. "And I'm sure my Naru-chan will be just as handsome when he grows up. They'll make a great couple, 'ttebane!"
"Of course, Kushina-chan." Mikoto replied with a sigh, not wanting to argue with the ever-energetic Kyuubi jinchuuriki – keeping up with Sakae, while going on the easier missions was hard enough for her. Though, while she was of opinion that her children should have the right to choose their life partner themselves, she too was quite sure that her daughter will make a cute and enviable couple with Kushina's unborn son.
"Anyway, why I've come here today, Mikoto-chan..." The redhead said, while returning little Sakae to her mother. "Tsunade-sama had given her final estimations on when I'll give birth to Naru-chan. She said the it'll have sometime during the second week of October."
"That's good." The dark-haired beauty of the Uchiha clan replied. "Now, any rumors about the next generation of the Ino-Shika-Cho trio?" She asked... Yes, they were ninja, but it didn't mean that they weren't gossiping house-wives off-duty.
The two kunoichi spent the next couple of hours gossiping, as they discussed the already born heirs to the major Konoha clans, as well as those children who were still within their mothers. They also talked about Mikoto's firstborn son Itachi and how he was a little genius. And, finally, they discussed various rumors that were floating around the village... But in the end, it was beginning to get dark, and Kushina decided that it was time for her to head home, so that she could cook the dinner for her Minato-kun... But she only made it one block away from the Uchiha clan compound when a man in black cloak with a funny orange mask on his face materialized right in front of her out of the thin air.
"You're coming with me, the jinchuuriki of the Kyuubi no Yoko." The man said, before, suddenly, Kushina found herself being sucked into the only eye-hole of the man's mask... But she was still a good kunoichi and in that short moment while she was still being sucked into the alternative dimension, she managed to activate the special kunai Minato had given her. Hopefully, the blond Hokage (read, her husband) will be able to find and save her before the man who had abducted her manages to do whatever sinister plan he had in his mind...
...An undetermined amount of time later – she was inside some sort of an ancient temple and couldn't see the sky – Kushina was returned to the real world. And she was returned right into the center of a huge seal, the purpose which she could tell right away, thanks to the affinity to fuuinjutsu she possessed as a pure-blood Uzumaki: this seal was a ram to destroy the shishou fuuin on her stomach that kept the Kyuubi at bay.
"Since I'm sure you've alerted the Yellow Flash about your abduction, I don't have much time... So, my dear, shall we begin?" The masked man said, before making a handseal. Then Kushina's world exploded with an unimaginable pain of the bijuu being ripped out of her body...
For the moment she actually saw the towering and impossibly imposing figure of the greatest of the modern tailed beasts standing over her with it's mouth opened and ready to crush her with its massive teeth. But then there was a yellow flash she found herself in the Tsunade's office at Konoha hospital... Another moment later Minato disappeared away... Meanwhile the blond sannin began estimating the damage done to the now ex-jinchuuriki's body.
"This is not very good, Kushina-chan." The slug princess finally said. "While your Uzumaki blood is strong and kept you alive through the extraction, the damage is still massive... I'm sorry, but even with my level of skill, the choice still must be made: either I save your life, or I save Naruto's." Kushina replied her with pain-filled but very determined face.
Meanwhile, Minato was facing a difficult choice too. True, he had managed to break the man's control over the Kyuubi an wounded him enough to make him retreat, he still had a bijuu on the loose. A very angry and even more destructive bijuu... It needed to be sealed, and it needed to be sealed into a new container, and this container much be a young child, as anybody older than a couple of months would not survive the sealing of the Kyuubi into them – even if he was really good with seals, Minato knew that his work was still too crude, when compared to the true geniuses of the art, like Mito-sama or his Kushina-chan.
And even then, he doubted that just any child will be able to be the tamer of the nine-tails... Uzumaki were the perfect jinchuuriki, but his son wasn't born yet. And there were no Senju but Tsunade alive. This really left him with only one option. And no matter how it pained him to ask another to do such a sacrifice, the survival of the village came first... So, Minato used his most famous technique to teleport to the Uchiha clan compound...
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Mikoto, now moved into one of Minato's safe houses, along with her two children, only one of which was actually her own. One of these children was her daughter Sakae, now the third known jinchuuriki of the Kyuubi no Yoko, and the other was her friend's son Naruto, who might have been the container instead, had Minato known what choice Kushina would make...
Now, while still Uchiha by blood, both she and her daughter were no longer considered as such due to political reasons, and were moved out of the Uchiha compound on orders of Sarutobi Hiruzen, who retook the position of the Hokage. And while Mikoto didn't like this one bit, she was clever enough to understand why this was done: if Uchiha were to get a jinchuuriki as one of them, the clan would become too powerful, and this could lead to a number of consequences, among which there was even a civil war within the village... She and her daughter had their clan name sacrificed to keep Konoha peaceful.
But then again, even Tsunade wasn't sure that Sakae was still an Uchiha for her eyes changed: while her irises remained coal-black like her lineage said they should be, the whites of her eyes weren't white anymore – the sealing of the Kyuubi had changed them to become dull-purple in color...
Little Naruto too was changed from his brief exposure to the Kyuubi's yoki, it seemed, though, his changes were far more subtle and required both Jiraya of the sannin and the toad sages to confirm. It looked like his life force was extreme even for someone of Uzumaki heritage and it was so powerful that one could think that the little blonde possessed the body of the Sage that, according to the legends, belonged to the youngest son of Rikkudou Sennin and the founder of the Senju clan. But, despite this, he wasn't denied his mother's family name and still was officially Uzumaki.
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Despite their unique gifts, Naruto and Sakae were raised by Mikoto and Tsunade, who visited them almost daily, like normal shinobi children. Well, except for they were rarely brought down into the village and spent almost all of their time in the safe house and its quite large garden.
This, though, changed when eight years after the Kyuubi re-sealing, the Uchiha clan, unsatisfied with their political position in the village staged revolution. But before that could have happened, they were eliminated by two of the Hokage's agents – Itachi and Shisui – who were then forced to leave the village, leaving 'exiled' Mikoto and Sakae as the last ones of the once great Uchiha clan in Konoha...
The news of what had happened, especially the sacrifice Itachi had to make, devastated Mikoto, and, despite having a great purpose in her life, she slowly withered away till she passed away one day, leaving both of her children as complete orphans, though Tsunade was still there to care for them. Naruto and Sakae took the death of their mother hard, but they made it through and vowed to grow strong and to never let something similar happen again...
Since Sakae was now the last Uchiha in the village, she was allowed to retake the clan name and was granted access to her clan's scrolls. Meanwhile, Naruto, who finally got some control over the basic abilities his enhanced body granted him, was gifted with the Senju clan scrolls by Tsunade, in hopes that he could make some use of them...
Their self-driven training was very hard and often Tsunade had to heal them from the traumas they got while experimenting with various ninjutsu or taijutsu they weren't ready for, but the duo was growing strong, very strong...
Actually, by the time they were just eleven, both Naruto and Sakae had reached the skill levels of chuunin and Sarutobi, who still was the acting Hokage, had no other choice, but register them as ninja of Konohagakure no Sato. And even more so, he had to make them a tag-team of two, instead of adding them to any of the standard cells... Not that it turned out to be a bad decision, as the duo proved to be very capable and easily completed C-rank missions he had to give them.
Also, during one of those C-rank missions Sakae finally activated her doujutsu, which turned out to be the eyes of the Uchiha clan founder (who also was the oldest son of the Rikkudou Sennin). And since it was already known that Naruto had the Sage body of the Senju founder (and the youngest son of the Sage of six paths), the tag-team became known as the heirs duo. Quite fitting...
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