"You can't always win. Sometimes circumstances are outside your control, sometimes you suffer losses. If we don't bend, we break. A shinobi endures. Do you understand?" His life the prize in a game with stakes too high and odds too long, Naruto learns that survival is its own form of victory. Sequel to Patriot's Dawn. AU.

The Kyuubi Chakra was split into two halves and sealed into Naruto's sisters, the Yang into Erza, and the Yin into Mito. But there was another being there that night, and three possible hosts. Minato was able to survive the sealing by changing the seal at the last minute, not realizing his mistake until years later. First six chapters adopted from Jinx777.

Mito and Naruto Uzumaki are two children, both born in tragedy. Their birth leads into a story of suspense, and mystery. How do monsters come to be? Are they born, or are they created? Mito attempts to discover the answers to these questions. All the while trying to stop her psychopathic brother from leading the world into ruin. [Heavily based on Naoki Urasawa's Monster].

Mikoto finds an eight year old Naruto hung from a tree by a rope, she saves him and finds out he tried committing suicide, and not just that time, but dozens of times and something triggers in her, making her obsessed with the blond boy.

Shizuka; Emotionally damaged; kunoichi; combat genius. Naruto; Orphan; jinchuuriki; hero. This is not fate; it's fault. The mistakes of the past have come for reparation. "Thanks you old perv! You've done me a real solid here! NOT!"