This is my first and probably only fanfiction. So feel free to do as you will and I'll just keep writing to my heart's content. Also there are no coincidences or miss labeling in this chapter so use your noggin and figure it out.
I don't own Naruto in any way, shape or form.
It was the night of october 10. It had been a fine, normal day in the land of fire or more specifically the village of Konoha. There was nothing abnormal about today to most of the population, but to a hand full it was otherwise. Today was the day that Kushina Uzumaki, secret wife of the fire shadow Minato Namikaze, were to give birth to twins. Everything was set up and all that needed to happen was for her to go into labor. It was early morning that she went into labor were she was then transported to the secured cave through the use of the famed flying thunder god Jutsu by Minato. From then on it was a difficult process for both soon to be parents as while Kushina was dealing with the child birth, Minato was making sure that the seal on kushina never wavered as if it did then all would be lost.
Hours later and well into the evening Kushina was giving birth to the firstborn. The child was a girl and she had wisps of blond hair and 3 fine whisker marks of each side of her face. The head nurse, Biwako (the 3rd fire shadows wife) was the one to deliver this child from Kushina, while the other nurse would deliver the last child. Biwako cleaned the child and presented her to the parents. After a brief glance from the 2, Kushina immediately named the newborn "Narumi". Minato wasn't going to challenge his wife and just kept the seal in check.
They then proceeded to deliver the second child. There were no complications in the birthing process however the child was…..odd. As the second nurse was cleaning the child she saw an anomaly in the child. As she peered the child she saw that the boy had the same fine whisker marks as his sister, but also had a pair of fox ears on his head as well as 2 tails on him. She was about to say something to Biwako but strangely couldn't talk as her throat had been sliced.
While everyone was recovering from the birthing and holding the deal in check, no one noticed the cloaked man with a mask phase into existence in the cave. The mysterman killed the nurse, disregarding the child, and killed biwako and took the girl hostage.
"Step away from the jinchuriki or your child dies," he said. As this was said he discreetly placed explosion tags on the bundle.
Minato steps away from his wife saying " Just leave my daughter alone". The masked man waits till Minato is 10ft away before he tosses the child into the air and goes for Kushina. While Minato has caught the child the stranger grabs Kushina and phases out of existence. Minato rips of the blankets from the child and cast them aside as he teleports to a small cottage away from the village where he places the child down and leaves for his wife.
The strange appears in a clearing near the village where he then sets about undoing the seal on her and releases the Kyuubi. Minato runs into the clearing as the fox is released from its prison with all 7 of its glorious tails swaying, destroying the land around it.
"Go and reap your justice apon that godforsaken village, Kyuubi" say the masked man as he gains control of the 9 tails and commands it to destroy the village.
Minato stands in horror as he cradles his comatose wife."Why would you do this? There are innocents down there that. Who are you to have wanted this?"
" who I am is of no concern for the likes of you, but just know that this is only the beginning of my plans for this world." he says as he phases out of existence in a swirl of darkness.
Minato weights his choices and decides to get his wife to safety with his daughter and teleports back to the cottage and lays her down as she stirs awake. He begins to write a will for his children should he die in the upcoming fight. While he is writing his will Kushina is starting to have a panic attack.
"Minato…..Minato..MINATO, where is naruto, where is my boy!?" She screams as she begins to look about the cottage. Narumi begins to cry at the sudden movements of Kushina.
"...He should be still in the cave, im sorry but i dont have the time to get him, but he should be fine for the time being. The masked man has left and the Kyuubi is in the village so where he is a should be safest for him. I'm leaving now to go and stop the Kyuubi hopefully I can find a way to stop it without resorting to the reaper death seal. I'll be back." and then he teleports out of the cottage leaving Kushina distraught, but too weak to do anything.
Minato appears on the hokage monument overlooking the village and sees Konoha fleeing from the 7-tailed demon that was there, his shinobi were doing all they could to either evacuate the civilians or fight the Kyuubi to stall for their hokage that they kept the utmost faith in. He could see the sandaime fighting off the Kyuubi, making sure that its deadliest attacks are prevented or redirected. At this time Minato comes to the conclusion that there is only one way and that was to seal the Kyuubi into a newborn, but he could not in good conscience seal it into a random child. He knew that he would have to seal it into his child and possible back into his wife as she already held the Kyuubi before.
"Summoning Jutsu" he said while doing the hand signs. When he finished a gargantuan toad appeared in a poof of smoke and land right on top of the fox.
"Minato, why have you summoned me?" the toad said
"Im sorry gamabunta but i need help with the Kyuubi, I need you to hold him down for a moment while I make preparations"
"Alright Minato, I'll do what I can but hurry up, this is a tailed beast after all."
"Thanks Gamabunta, I'll owe you some sake."
Minato steps away to confer with the sandaime, "Hiruzen, I'm sorry to do this but the only choice I have is to seal it away into my daughter and possibly my wife depending on the power of the reaper death seal. I have to ask you to resume command of konoha in my stead."
"Wait, Minato, let me go with you so that i may help restrain the Kyuubi while you seal it away" Hiruzen says. "Afterwards ill secure your wife and daughter from Danzo and the like."
"Thank you and grab my shoulder" Minato says. When the sandaime grabs his shoulder he teleports to the fox then teleports himself, Hiruzen, Gamabunta and the kyuubi to the clearing outside the cave they were in earlier.
When they appear they immediately set out to perform the sealing. While Minato teleported away to get his wife, Gamabunta and Hiruzen, with monkey king Enma, are keeping the Kyuubi at bay with Gamabunta pulling all of its tails together and Hiruzen was hammering into its legs making sure that it couldn't stand up correctly. Moments later Minato appears with Kushina and Narumiat his side. He sets them down and proceeds to summon the altar for Jutsu to seal the Kyuubi away.
"I'm starting the sealing now, Kushina please restrain it so that Gamabunta and Hiruzen aren't in the crossfire." Minato stats as he begins the hand signs for the reaper death seal. Kushina uses the last of her strength to hold the kyuubi down as Gamabunta de-summons and Hiruzen backs off. When Minato starts getting to the end of the chain of hand signs he feels a strong hit to the back of his head.
Before he blacks out he hears Hiruzen say, "I'm sorry Minato but you are still young and have more to do here than I. So let me take your place and sacrifice my life in your stead.
With this said Hiruzen begins the reaper death seal himself and begins the separation of the Kyuubi. He makes the shinigami separate the Kyuubi into yin and yang chakra while having it's soul eaten by the shinigami. This should, in theory, make the chakra less volatile without its sentience. He puts the yin half into Narumi, creating a hybrid reaper death seal/ shiki fuin seal on her while putting the yang half into Kushina's old seal. With this done Hiruzen and the Kyuubi enter the shinigami's stomach for the rest of eternity.
At this point Kushina and Narumi are out cold with Minato slowly coming to. With the imminent threat seemingly gone, the shinobi swarm to their leader to get answers. As Minato is getting up, with no thought on answering any questions, he seeks out his family to make sure they are alive. Only after making sure that they get to the hospital asap and treated does he answer all questions about the threat while stating that there will be a public address in 1 weeks time after bodies have been recovered and a funeral held. With that he goes to the hospital room his wife is in to stay by her side.
And with this it concludes October 10, or at least it would for most but there is one thing that has been forgotten within the chaos that was tonight. For 1 little boy was left all alone and forgotten.
During the sealing of the Kyuubi it had destroyed the surrounding area of the cave, which coincidentally had the very same cave that the birth of the twins happened. Where one newborn fox-boy would be laying in the blood of the nurse. When the cave was destroyed by the Kyuubi the boy was thrown from the clearing. While most would or should have died from something like this, but the boy seems to have the devil's luck and was thrown into a nearby river.
Hours later we find a women washing laundry in a river about ½ days walk from the village of Konoha. As she begins to fish up the chore she spots a wet bundle of rags flowing down the river towards her. As it gets closer se sees that the rags is decorated in swirls and that there is a baby in the rags. Making a snap decision she takes the bundle with the baby and her laundry and goes into her home where her husband is whittling a wooden statue of a knight. After a quick discussion they decide to unofficially adopt the boy whom they gave the name Uzumaki in connection to the print on the blankets.
And this is the beginning of the adventure of
The Wandering Guardian