Prologue
The hospital room was filled with cries, coming from a newborn baby accompanied by its father, Minato Namikaze, and its mother, Kushina Uzumaki.
"It's a beautiful baby boy!" said Taji, who happened to be one of the midwives assisting the pregnancy.
"Im...a father." said Minato as he couldn't help but look in astonishment. He knelt down, taking a closer look at the life he helped create.
"Naruto...it's nice to meet you finally." Kushina warmly stated to a little Naruto, holding him gently in her arms. Minato placed his hand on Kushina's shoulder.
"Thank you, Kushina." both pair of eyes met each other with the strongest form of affection, ready to become a family. Suddenly, the door was flung wide open with two individuals entering the room.
"Koji, Rei-chan." Minato called out to his aides in a greeting manner.
"Sir, Lord Third would like to have a word with you." Rei briefly stated. Minato stared in confusion as to why he would be summoned at a time like this. Nonetheless, he agreed.
"What is it this time?" Kushina questioned.
"I'm not sure, but I'm gonna have to find out." Minato replied. "I'll be right back." he assured and made his way out.
"He's on the line." Koji said. Minato hastily picked up the phone, greeting his superior.
"Minato, my apologies for contacting you on such short notice." The Third Hokage (Hiruzen Sarutobi) said. "I give my congratulations to you and Kushina on your new child."
"I'm grateful sir." Minato replied. "Is anything the matter? It seems like you summoned me at such an unusual time." Hiruzen on the other line, sat back and let out a huge sigh.
"We have a problem, and at this point in time, the scale of it is unknown." He said bluntly. "Thirty minutes ago, I had learned that 3 of our guards at the border have left their posts." Minato's eyes widened in shock. He knew that even one border guard missing in action for fifteen minutes leaves an opening for anyone to enter the village unsupervised, especially for people who mean bad business.
"Their locations, are they known?" Minato questioned.
"Their disappearance is the least of my worries right now." Hiruzen replied. Minato reacted in utter confusion. "What I have also learned, is that our intelligence teams have sighted a large group of men, their tattoos appear to be from-" Minato paid closer attention to what he was about to say.
"Iwagakure. (The Hidden Stone)"
Minato angrily punched the counter beside him.
"Fuck!" he exclaimed. "It's...it's too early. I need to get there and stop this once and for all!"
"Minato," Hiruzen called out."For years, blood has been shed over meaningless turf wars, now that is over, your efforts to putting an end to that is why I named you my successor." Minato knew that his reputation would garner enemies from previous wars. "I do not want you to become a bigger target than you already are."
"I understand, sir." Minato acknowledged. He put the phone down, still not able to fully grasp the problem at hand and what form of action he should be taking next. He ordered both Koji and Rei to return to the room with him...
*BANG! BANG!*
Gunshots were heard from the same room Minato had just left. The horrifying sounds of screams and crashing brought the pair of three to hastily charge towards the doors leading to the altercation, proceeding with caution. Minato gave Koji the ready up to engage and with no hesitation, barged through the doors with their guns drawn, only to see a body guard and Taji, lying in their own pool of blood. Biwako, another midwife and happened to be the wife of the Lord Third, was held hostage by a man with a gun pointed straight at the side of her skull. He was accompanied by two other men.
"Make any fucking moves or this bitch gets it!" A perpetrator warned promptly. Both sides froze for a split second until the unknown hostile lost his patience with a little Naruto wailing in Kushina's arms due to the whole commotion.
"Shut that kid up bef-"
Rei, with full precision, discharged one single shot into the man's head as he was distracted, which caused the other two to step back in sheer confusion. Before they could aim at anyone, Minato and Koji finished them off swiftly.
"We need to get the hell out of here." Minato quickly stated.
"Are you going to tell me what is happening?" Kushina furiously whispered as she tried to calm her child down. Minato leaned towards her and picked their child up.
"The halls are clear sir!" Rei shouted.
"No time to explain. We need to leave." Minato said, giving the okay to his associates to request backup and transport his wife and kid to a secure location. His top priority right now, was to report back to Lord Third about what had just taken place.