Disclaimer: I don't own Naruto so that means that I'm not Masashi Kishimoto.
Chapter posted 11/21/2008.
"Naruto is alone with the enemy!", exclaimed while he headed to the place he left Naruto (not before leaving a clone watching over Zabuza and Haku)
On his way he felt a tremendous and evil source of chakra, something he never expected to feel again.
The Kyuubi's chakra.
MINUTES AGO
Naruto was going to resume his training with the clone his father left when they felt some chakra signatures. Four ninjas from different villages appeared, everyone with a slash in their forehead protectors.
Before Arashi could say anything, one of them attacked the Arashi clone.
The clone dodged easily the attack and slammed a Rasengan in the ninja's chest, killing him.
"Naruto, here's your next exercise... Take care of these fools by yourself. I'll help you if they happen to be too strong, but I don't think it will be necessary", said the clone.
"All right, Dad!", said Naruto happily at the perspective of a true fight.
The three remaining ninjas didn't take it very well and attacked Naruto.
One of them tried to hit him with his kodachi but the boy turned into a log.
The real Naruto threw a kunai at him with an explosive tag he created thanks to his father's lesson.
The ninja tried to dodge the kunai but the explosion was stronger than a normal explosive tag and died because some rocks ended embeded in his back.
"Yes!!", exclaimed Naruto, not aware that he took his first life, "Now, what about this? Kage Bunshin no Jutsu!!"
Twenty clones charged at the ninjas. Meanwhile the original Naruto proceeded to write another explosive tag, like his father did in his test.
"Naruto, it's too soon for trying that", warned the Arashi clone a bit concerned.
Meanwhile, the missing nins managed to destroy the clones, but not without a cost. One of them was dead, other had an arm heavily damaged and only one ended with a few bruises. The two survivors looked at Naruto with hate in their eyes.
"Where are the Demon Brothers?", thought one.
"How could that brat be so strong? I don't care about our employers said, I'm going to kill him!", exclaimed one of them.
Naruto threw a kunai with the tag, not noticing a minor mistake in the writting.
The tag started to blew sparks in a extreme, altering the speed and the trajectory of the kunai.
Said kunai flew in all directions with an insane speed.
The blade pierced trough the skull of the wounded nin, killing him.
Before the Arashi clone could react, he felt something in his gut: The kunai ended his chaotic trajectory embeded on himself.
"Upps...", thought Naruto.
"Naruto! Hang out while I come to help you!", shouted the clone before disappearing in a poof of smoke.
Before the enemy nin could do anything, Arashi appeared in the area.
"Don't worry, Naruto. I'm her...", said when a metallic claw connected with a chain pierced through his chest.
Arashi's lifeless body fell to the ground while the claw retracted to the hand of one of the Demon Brothers.
"Your father is death, boy. Now come with us if you don't want to share his destiny", said one of them, congratulating himself for the success of his Genjtsu.
Naruto was staring incredulous at the lifeless body who he believed was his father.
"D-Dad?...", babbled.
"You are not listening? Perhaps a beating will make you come to your senses", said the other Brother while he charged at Naruto.
The last thing he saw were a pair of red eyes with slitted pupils.
Minato flew to the place, cursing himself for not giving Naruto one of his special kunais.
"P-Please may he be alright...", thought Kushina.
They arrived to see a teary Naruto sorrounded by the bodies of unknown ninjas about to stab with a kunai.
Minato used his jutsu to get where his son was. He caught the kunai by the blade and slapped Naruto with the other hand.
"What were you going to do!!??", shouted furious.
Naruto looked at him with a mix of confussion and relief, ignoring the fact that he was slapped.
"D-Daddy?? Y-You are alive...", said before passing out.
Minato caught him before he hit the ground. He looked at the mark in Naruto's cheek and realized what he did.
"I-I hit our s-son...", babbled horrified, looking at his hand.
"You did it without t-thinking, Min-kun. H-He was about to kill himself... I-I would have done the same...", said Kushina between tears.
Minato looked horrified at his hand, then he formed he formed a fist and tightened it until it bleed.
The horror was replaced with a hellish fury
"Whoever who was behind this, will pay. WITH BLOOD!!", vowed.
Kushina didn't say anything, but agreed with her husband.
MEANWHILE, WITH HAKU AND ZABUZA
The former Swordsman of the Mist was looking at the Arashi clone with no idea what to do when his student awakened.
"Z-Zabuza-sama... What happened?", asked Haku, relieved to see his master alive.
"You were knocked by our adversary when you tried to block his attack", responded Zabuza.
Haku saw the Arashi clone who was watching over them and got into a fighting stance, between him and Zabuza.
"The fight is over", said the Arashi clone, "My original one has someting to propose you both, it will be a very beneficial agreement for both parts"
Haku calmed down when he saw that Zabuza was agreeing with him.
The beautiful boy kneeled before Zabuza.
"I-I'm sorry Zabuza-sama... I couldn't help you in your fight... I'll accept whatever punishment you see fit", said.
"There's no need for apologizing, I think that our adversary is more than he appears. Our customers lied to us, this Arashi guy can't be an A class ninja", said.
"An A class ninja?? Who told you that it was my level?", asked the clone undignified.
Before Zabuza could say anything they felt a murderous killing intent. Zabuza himself was a master of paralyzing his victims with his own, but this one was beyond anything he could do. It came from the way the original Arashi went. Something said him that the Demon Brothers and the other ninjas were now dead.
Seconds later Arashi appeared carrying his son in his arms. His eyes had death writting in them. Zabuza and Haku thought seriously about fleeing away, but they were not sure if they would be able to move.
"What happened!?", asked the clone before being ordered to dispel himself.
Arashi put his son in the ground and made some long breathings for calming down, later he headed to the former Mist nins.
Zabuza made his best to appear calm, he knew that he had no chance if Arashi attacked him, but he would give him a final fight.
Arashi removed his hood and his mask.
Haku didn't recognized the blond man, Zabuza did. This man killed more ninjas than the Seven Swordmen of the Mist during the time he was part of the group. He only hoped now for a quick death.
"Momochi Zabuza, I see that you recognize me. I have a proposition for you... but first you'll give me the names of your employers, you like it or not", said the Yellow Flash.
Zabuza told him everything.
KONOHA'S HOSPITAL, A HOUR LATER
Sarutobi rushed to the room were Naruto was checked. He found Arashi and a boy who looked like a girl attending an unconscious Naruto. (His years of experience didn't let him be fooled by Haku's looks)
"I received you message What happened? And who's this boy?", asked concerned.
"This boy is Haku, one of the few survivors of the Yukina clan. He is helping the nurses to take care of Naruto... Haku let me introduce you to Sarutobi Harizen, the Sandaime Hokage of Konoha", said Arashi.
"I-It's a honor to meet you, Hokage-sama... Your feats are very known in the Water Country... I-I never expected to meet somebody like you", said the boy obvoiusly surprised that he was able to recognize his gender.
"Same for me. I'm very sorry for what happened to your clan, they did the best for their country and they were betrayed for those they were protecting...", said the Hokage heartily, "... I would love to have a talk with you, but I must discuss a very important matter with Arashi-san... Please can you leave for a while?", asked.
Haku nodded and got out from the room.
Sarutobi performed some sound proof jutsus, looked to Naruto and then to Arashi.
"Can you tell me what happened? Is it true that your were attacked?", asked.
Arashi told him all the story concerning the attack. How Zabuza and other missing nins were hired by some villagers to capture Naruto and kill him.
The Hokage took a seat, trying to digest what Arashi told him. One of his worst nightmares since he got his Kage rank back just happened, he only could thank the fact that Naruto survived. Then he vowed to himself that something like that will never happen again.
"That Zabuza guy told you who hired him? Ibiki will make sure that they will confess so they will receive their deserved punishment", asked.
Arashi gave him a document.
"Better than that: This is Zabuza's contract. He has the custom of making writting contracts to use it against those customers who could try to treason him, it has all the signatures of the villagers who hired him and the other missing nins", said Arashi.
The Hokage looked at the document.
"Good, I will send the ANBU to arrest them and...", said before being interrupted.
"That's not necessary, the original Minato set up a trap with Zabuza's help, I'm just a clone. Now he must be giving these traitors what they deserve", said the clone.
The Hokage got up from the room and called his ANBU.
MEANWHILE, IN A HUT OUTSIDE KONOHA
The group of villagers were relieved. When they felt before the same vicious killer intent they felt the day Arashi Uzumaki arrived Konoha, they thought that they were going to get caught, but they received a message from Zabuza assuring that Arashi was death and the Fox Boy was captured.
He was going to arrive soon with his capture, in case of Zabuza being weakened enough, the ninjas who were among them would dispatch him so they would keep their money. If not they would just give him his payment. What Zabuza didn't know was that a man from another village promised them four times Zabuza's payment for the Uzumaki kid; it looks like he was wanted the boy because his bloodline, perhaps they should give the Fox Boy a beting to show their client how his power works.
Their chat was interrupted when Zabuza got into the cab with Naruto's unconscious form.
The Demon of the Mist didn't look happy.
"You lied about that Arashi guy! He was stronger than you told me! I lost all my subordinates and the extra ninjas you hired before I could kill him off", said letting Naruto's body fell to the ground.
"You knew the risk when you accepted this mission, Zabuza. Look it by the bright side, now you don't have to share the money with anybody", said a ninja who was named spokesman of the group while he handed Zabuza a bag with the money.
Zabuza took the money, his semblance relaxed visibly when he saw that all the money was there.
"What do you want the boy for? Do you have a grudge against him or else?", asked.
The spokesman decided to not tell Zabuza about the man who wanted Naruto because his bloodline, just in chase Zabuza decided to betray them for the money, he told him the other reasons.
"Obviously you don't know about it. The official story of Konoha says that the Yondaime Hokage died killing the Kyuubi a decade ago, that's not true, he died sealing the Fox into a baby boy... this boy. Naruto Uzumaki is the reincarnation of the Fox. The Sandaime was a fool and wanted him to have a life the most normal possible, so he made a law forbidding everyone to tell the truth or harming the boy", said the ninja.
"He is not the reincarnation of the Fox", clarified one of the villagers, "They are different entities, I only want him dead because killing him will kill the Fox too"
"I don't want to take the risk that someday the Fox would be able to destroy the seal and get free", said another ninja, "it's better to kill both of them now that the seal works"
"I only want him dead because I lost my money betting against him and his father", said another.
The rest of villagers and the ninjas told their reasons about why they wanted Naruto's death until the most murderous killing intent they ever felt paralyzed them.
Naruto got up and dispelled the Henge, revealing himself as Arashi Uzumaki.
"I heard enough!! You are a bunch of ungrateful traitors!! Your mere existence is an insult to Konoha!!", roared.
Some of the villagers pissed themselves, one of the ninjas tried to attack only to end with his head separated from his body.
Arashi summoned some Kage Bunshin who quickly dangled the traitors by the hands to the walls of the hut, using kunais to impale their hands.
"Z-Zabuza... Why did you betray us...", babbled one of them while he convoluted by the pain.
"You lied to me about my mission. The adversary was beyond my abilities, the contract is void and I take the money as compensation for the troubles and the loss of my men", said the former Mist Nin heading to the door.
"I'll see you in the hospital, remember to close the door when you leave... I have something to discuss with this scum", said Arashi to Zabuza.
Zabuza nodded and left the place.
Arashi looked at his prisoners.
"All you are guilty of high treason against Konoha, letting a group of missing get inside the village's territory, endangering all the population. And worst of all, you hired them for assasinate two fellow citizens of Konoha with the aggravation that you owe the life to one of them, my son! For that abhorrent crimes you are everyone sentenced to death!", shouted the furious father.
"W-Wait... O-Only the Hokage c-can sentence to death...", babbled one of the ninjas.
Arashi removed his mask and hood, revealing his true identity to the traitors.
"I'm the Hokage, the one whose final wish you betrayed...", said in a cold tone.
For a few seconds, all of them were speechless, too surprised to feel the pain until they realized that they were in real shit, then they started to beg for their lives pathetically.
"F-Forgive us Y-Yondaime-sama... We didn't know that it was you...", said one before being slapped.
"Shut up!! You should have respected my wish, was Naruto my son or not", said Minato.
"P-Please, Hokage-sama... T-They forced me into this...", begged another.
"Those who abandon his comrades are worse than trash", responded Minato while he punched him in the gut.
"I won't let scum like you be part of Konoha, my son won't be the ruler for those who would try to hurt him if they had the chance" said the ex Kage.
Minato headed to the ninjas.
"You are the worst ones of all. You dishonored the heros who died defending the village from the Fox, conspiring to kill one of them. As Hokage I strip all you of your ninja rank", said coldly.
He summoned some clones who stripped the ninjas of their vests and teared them to rags that were used to tap the eyes of the civilians.
"They will hear the executions, but not see them, their imagination will do a better job scaring them", thought Kushina.
Then he removed their forehead protectors, from Kushina's memories he knew how hard Naruto had to work to get his. The thought that the traitors had better opportunities to get them only infuriated him more.
"You dishonored the symbol of the Leaf...", said while he wrapped his fist with one of the protectors, with the metallic part coinciding with his knuckles.
"... This same symbol will be your end", said while he punched the ninja with it.
Minutes later, the Hokage in his battle gear and a squad of ANBU arrived at the scene only to see that traitors were already executed.
The ANBU recognized Arashi as Minato and soon they were trying to cope with the new info
"Isn't he the Yondaime!?"
"He used his own son for saving the village..."
"No wonder why he is so pissed with everyone..."
"So that's the reason why he is so strong..."
"I hope that the Hokage won't make us fight him..."
Sarutobi looked at the corpses of the ninjas, Minato executed them using their own forehead protectors as blunt weapons, they all had marks with the village's symbol over their bodies.
The civilians all had a second smile in their throats, with the exception of the wounds in their hands, they didn't appear to be tortured.
The Sandaime confronted the Yondaime.
"Minato, was it necessary to do this?", asked.
Minato nodded.
"Yes, it was. Executing them like that not only I made sure that they wished to not being born, I also send a message to all those who could try to do someting simmilar to Naruto, I or our precious people. We no longer will expect any gratitude from the citizens Konoha, but we won't take any crap from them neither", said the Yondaime.
Sarutobi stood there for a few moments, and talked.
"Yes, the villagers will think it two times before trying to do anything as fooliness again. You were lucky that we have the contract, it will silence any disagreement with the council. I will convoke them to explain this...", said.
"If they try to do something, I won't have any mercy with them", said Minato.
The Yondaime headed to the ANBU.
"My true identity is a S class secret, don't divulge under high treason, right?", said while he put back his mask.
All the ANBU agreed with him, some of them even vowed at him.
"By the way, not everyone on the contract is here, we should go after them", said the Sandaime.
Just in that time, the absent traitors knocked the door
"Sorry for being late, had the ninjas appeared with the Fox boy?", said Mizuki while he got into the hut with another villager.
They found the mess that were their fellow ploters, a squad of ANBU, a pissed Uzumaki and an angry Hokage.
"W-We are in a big t-trouble... d-don't we?", asked a very scared Mizuki.
All ANBU nodded.
Next chapter: Arashi VS the Council
SPECIAL REPORT: THE HIRAISHIN
I realized that Minato's technique couldn't be a superspeed technique because it would had a particular weakness. As you know, the main weakness of the Sharingan is that the eyes of an Uchiha are faster than their bodies, they can see an attack but it doesn't mean that they are fast enough for prevent it.
With a superspeed technique would happen the inverse situation: the body of the user would be too fast for his senses and he would endanger himself, he could trip with a small rock; tripping at superspeed would break all the bones of the user in the best situation. Superspeed would also lead to a tunnel vision that would leave the user vulnerable to counterattacks; Minato knew that fact, for that reason he recomended Kakashi to not use the Chidori in Kakashi Gaiden.
The Hiraishin can't be a teleportation technique for a very obvious reason, the enemy would know where he will appear and they could attack him at the moment he teleports were his seals are. It would lead to a massive Smash The Mole game with Minato as the mole, appearing in the seals instead of holes. Teleporting to a seal is not an unknown technique: the scrolls of the Chuunin Exams let the examinators teleport where the chuunin hopefuls were when they opened the scrolls.
Minato also perfected that seal teleportation technique, being able to teleport to the seals of his special kunais (as seen in Kakashi Gaiden).
As curiosity: If you are familiar with DC comics supervillains, there's one named Zoom who is the worst enemy of the superhero Flash, an evil of him. The first version was a time traveller but his power was superspeed, like Flash. The second version has no superspeed, he moves faster in time creating the feeling that he has superspeed, I realized that this power was better than the superspeed. Where's the curiosity? Look after an image of him in the web, use Professor Zoom or Zoom as keywords. You got it? Yes... he is a "Yellow Flash".
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