Prologue.
"They told me, son... No matter what you are, either a human, youkai or an alien it doesn't matter to us"
"you're special, you were born to do great things"
"...you know what?"
"..."
"They were right"
Many life time ago, it all began with a small tear from a goddess. In turn it became the very thing that makes us exist even today.
The Dragon Heart...
a immense powerful object that protects us from any threats who are willing to plunge any world it is connected to into the eternal darkness. Many don't know why this incredible crystal exist or why it is important for our existence but what many can agree on it have protected us for so many years against a threat so terrifying that even the demons of hell pales against them.
Born out of the depths of the dark corrupted void they have destroyed and devoured so many worlds, their strength and magic too powerful to be matched against, where we all have tried to kill them only for them to respawn back into the void and come back even stronger, these creatures are called...
The Void Demons...
no one know why they exist or what their motives are, the only thing that everyone knows is that they hunger for souls, life essence and everything that Life gives. No one is safe from them, not even the gods are match against them as their powers can't seem to permanently destroy them for good.
when all hopes were lost, we prayed for the dragon heart to give us its aid against the threat that can't be killed. The dragon Heart responded to our plea and gave us the means to fight against the void demons and permanently kill them for good, They gave us The Spirit Guardians.
giving us powerful spirits of the world itself we were able to fight back the Void demon that plagued so many of our worlds for so long.
With the aid of the spirit Guardians we've manage to drive the Void demons back into the void they came from, but for how long? no one is certain as we cannot destroy the very void itself, Only drive it back and recover our strength. However what many don't know is that there isn't just one Dragon Heart, there are many, many more, hundreds of thousands of them exist and every one of the enormous crystal houses millions of worlds, many are alike and yet so different at the same time, same people and yet so different.
So many possibilities that no one can imagine... However should the Void demon succeded at reaching the Dragon Heart all world connected to it will be destroyed and a new Void God will be born and it will continue to invade other Dragon Hearts no matter what.
every Dragon heart have once been invaded by the demons of the void... all except one.
This crystal was spared from the horrors due to being recently born many millions of years ago and it once housed one world, those who lived in that world were Demons, angels and of course The Nephalem lived there... But now due to the savage war between the Angels and Demons the young Dragon Heart had enough of the pointless bickering between these two races and decided to split the world into million of pieces so that new life can prosper within them, those who survived and witness such change to their world called it The Great Rebirth of their world. Although the Angels and Demons survived and went back to where they came from, no one knows what became of the Nephalem.
Some says that The Nephalem died during The Great Rebirth, some says the Nephalem went into hiding from their forefathers out of fear of being hunted down. No one can say for sure but one thing that we all know is that one day they will return, either it will be good or bad.
however a familiar darkness have noticed this one particular Dragon Heart and already are on the move to devour it, but what this darkness don't know they weren't the only one who notice it as well... and soon a Knight of the dragon heart will rise to protect it from the coming of Void...
{At the Heart of the Dragon Heart}
Within a star filled world with every star are in different colors an enormous white bluish heart-shaped crystal floated in the empty space.
The enormous crystal pulsed a gentle glow with different colors after each pulse, the Dragon heart floated in the strange space that it's home without a care. However on top of the planet sized crystal stood a young looking person.
on top of one of the large crystals spires that came out of the dragon heart itself, stood a young girl with long black hair, purple glowing eyes and fair pale skin. Her clothing is consist of a white sleeveless shirt with light purple highlight, a black cowl and thin white detached sleeves with runes of different colors inscribed into them, white skirt that reaches down to her upper knees with also light purple highlights and she was bare foot. She didn't look older than 14 and yet if you look into her eyes it tells a person of millennium years old with unimaginable knowledge staring right back at you.
This girl name is Nexian, a Xillian that was tasked to protect the Dragon Heart as a last resort if the creature of the void manage to reach the Dragon Heart.
Although she is a Xillian she isn't the guardian of the Dragon heart she's standing atop of, no she was once guardian of another, but tragedy soon came as her old Dragon heart was consumed and a Void god was born and took control of her, trying to destroy one of her sisters Dragon heart but was ultimately defeated by two Knight's of the dragon heart and freed from its control.
a small tear ran down from her cheeks as she still remember the beautiful worlds her Dragon Heart have created and how many times she visited those worlds and it people is now lost forever, the only one who know they once existed is her and no one else.
Even though her sisters and brothers told her it was not her fault, but the fault of the mortals who desired power and in return destroyed their very existence. She still blame herself for not being fast enough to stop it from happening.
Shaking her head from those negative thoughts she concentrated to connecting with this young Dragon heart, although she was surprised that this young crystal haven't been targeted by those monsters yet. She can't shake the feeling that the Death god knew of its existence but never told anyone of it, maybe he feared that if someone connected to the void found out about it they wouldn't hesitate to go and seize it.
Usually when a Dragon Heart is born a Xillian is created by it to protect it from anyone wishes it harm, but the biggest question is where is the Xillian tasked to protect this Dragon heart? He or she was nowhere in sight and Nexian have searched and waited for her fellow sibling to show up.
But now she is tired of searching and waiting around for the Xillian to show up she decided to connect with the young Dragon heart and sense where Her missing sibling is located, while she was at it she also could try sense where her friend had gone out to as well, when she and her friend came to this world not long ago in hope of the Void demons haven't reached the Dragon heart, fortunately they haven't even got any closer to any of the mortal worlds yet so for once they got enough time to prepare against them but an hour ago her friend disappeared without a trace.
worried that she might have sprung some kind of defence the Dragon heart has and accidently sent somewhere else... not that she can defend herself she was more worried for anyone getting her attention, after all her friend tends to be... a little bit of a prankster.
"Any poor unsuspecting mortal will likely wished they never met her... that is they don't meet her after their time has come to go to the other side" Nexian thought as she raised her hand toward her and closed her eyes to concentrating of connecting with the Dragon heart.
After few minutes have passed she could feel the Dragon heart respond to her, almost like it recognize her. Smiling to herself, she's happy enough that the Dragon heart was unharmed and still recognized what an Xillian is.
Although she couldn't help but frown at that, from the way the Dragon heart responded it seems so... desperate, like it knew was vulnerable and its guardian is nowhere to be found. Shaking her head she sense the crystal wanted to show her something, without hesitation she allowed it and suddenly images of war, angel and demons, the great rebirth of one world into many... and the death of the young Dragon Heart's Xillian.
Eyed widen in shock, she never expected that. Her young sibling died during the Great rebirth while protecting it from a threat that nearly destroyed the world many times, this threat was no other than the prime evil itself.
frowning she mentally asked the crystal to see what happened exactly and why didn't the demon lord accept it when the rebirth was really needed.
After viewing the events of what happened she can't help but sigh, it was expected for a demon lord trying to seize power, a power that he have no way of controlling and believed that destroying the crystal would allow him to devour the essence of the Dragon heart and become a true god of terror.
This have happened way too many times and the result is not pretty.
after viewing the last memories she can't help but let the tears fall, her sibling a young Xillian boy sacrificed himself to protect the Dragon heart from the Prime evil, however the Xillian have defeated the Prime evil many times but he keep coming back and even stronger than before. Seeing that the great rebirth was still going the Xillian had no choice but to use a sacrificial spell in order to permanently kill the prime evil for good so that it will never be able to hurt both the Dragon heart and the innocent people living within all the worlds connected to it.
This spell was forbidden because once used it, the Xillians will no longer exist by severing his or her bond with the Dragon heart which means it cannot create a new one either... leaving it vulnerable for anyone with evil in their hearts.
Nexian can't really believe it...
the Dragon Heart have been vulnerable for anyone to find it for so many years, how in Skylian's name did it go unnoticed for so long? anyone could have gotten their chance to either claim the Dragon heart for themself or destroyed it out of stupidity knowing the mortals and their superiority complex or other weird mortal behavior they usually do.
Sighing, she didn't think much to it now. To be honest she's not sure if there some forces here that did everything they could to make sure the Dragon heart was hidden... either that the Void demon were pretty much stupid to notice it.
"somehow it wouldn't surprise me if that is the case... after all, those abominations are just bunch of mindless creatures without a leader to guide them" Nexian thought as she began to sense where her lost companion is located "nevermind that, i'm just glad that the Dragon heart isn't hurt" Nexian began focus while mutters "Now time to find where that damn fox is"
"you called~"
"GAH!" Nexian yelped as she nearly fell down from the spire she was standing on, looking back she can't help but glare at the he supposed lost companion "Skirra! where the heck did you go!?" she asked while glared at the fox woman.
a humanoid female fox with pale blond fur and white muzzle, she wore a white and light blue robes with a hood on that has a skull shaped symbol on it, almost resemble a wedding dress of short. The back of the hood is open letting her long wavy hair down, There was also couple of small ball of pale blue fire with skull shaped mask floated around her, acting as guards of short.
another thing about her is that her eyes were closed, never seem to open them at all. Also she have two small wings, one is black while the other is white.
this fox woman name is Skirra Windstorm, the Avatar of the Death God himself and the first mortal to become the Nephelim.
Skirra just smiled and answered "well to answer your question i was kind of kidnapped by a human" Nexian just raised an eye brow "you were kidnapped...? wait you mean you were summoned by a human?" Skirra nods while summon a fancy looking chair out of nowhere and sat down "indeed, i was surprised that humans connected to this Dragon heart had the power to actually summon the Avatar of death god... although what he wanted from me kind of disturbs me"
Nexian sat down on the crystal floor, not bothering summon something to sit on as she's much more comfortable on the floor "what did this human want?" she asked.
Crossing her legs Skirra answered "he wanted me to seal a nine tailed demon fox into his son, stopping it from further destroying his village" Nexian eye wided at that "what!? he didn't try to bind you!?" she exclaimed, not believing what she heard. Skirra smile never faltered "nope, he wanted me to seal the demon fox into his son and hell he even offered his soul in order to save his family and his village from the demon"
"that's... surprising, most mortals usually try to bend most of the spiritual beings to their will" Nexian said.
"i was surprised as well but i did as he asked me and i even spared him and healed his wife because i don't usually deal with this taking souls from mortal business since it's usually a Shinigami or a Death knight's job do to that" Skirra said.
"i see... that explains where you were" Nexian said, while she didn't like the fact a human asked Skirra to seal a demon... A DEMON into his own son, sure it was to protect his family and his village but seriously there were other ways to eliminate a frickin demon, hopefully the seal Skirra made is strong enough to hold it... oh who is she kidding! The demon is pretty much stuck since the only one who can unlock the seal is Skirra and she doubt that Skirra would open it too.
after all even if the boy and the demon got along and wanted Skirra to release it they have to beat her on a duel, Skirra love a good spar with the mortals since they can do amazing things and she also want them to grow stronger in order to fight the void demons... in other words they're pretty much screwed since Skirra can take on three Xillians and beat them, coming out of the fight with few scratches.
"although..." Nexian looked up to Skirra, who seemed unsure about something "while i'm happy that the father and mother are happy their child is ok and all but i can't help but notice something is wrong with the child" Skirra said.
"what do you mean?" Nexian asked.
Skirra just waved her hand dismissal "ah it's nothing, let just focus at how we deal with this Dragon heart, any idea how we proceed?"
Nexian said nothing but stared at the view of crystalized mountains, she knows that a familiar enemy is coming and she would love nothing more but to destroy them herself. However she can't, because if she went all out against them the mortal worlds would get caught in the crossfire. Frowning she knows those monsters uses this tactic to roam within the mortal worlds so that she and the other Xillians can't do anything without accidently destroy half of the world just to destroy couple of Void demons, after all Xillians can't really hold back their powers so the only thing they can do is to rely on the mortals and other spiritual beings live in the mortal world.
Sighing she answered "we do what we always do when a Dragon heart is born" Skirra smile widen even more, almost sinister "my, my... i almost feel sorry for those things, because even not summoned i can sense some of the spirits reside in this dragon heart are very powerful... heck i even sense a familiar spirit waiting for us to summon it"
"you don't mean...?"
"yes... one of them are here" Skirra said as she sat up from her chair as it disappeared in blue particle of light.
Nexian said nothing more and sat up as well, both she and Skirra began fly away from the spire they were on and toward the ground where they can perform the summonig of a Spirit guardian. Nexian can't help but wonder how powerful the spirit guardians were of this Dragon heart, for a very long time since her sibling's death no Spirit guardian have ever been summoned so they either have grown strong in stasis or have grown weaker... time will tell once the spirits answer the sumnmoners call.
Once they reach the ground level Nexian immediately went to connecting with the Dragon heart again so that she can get its permission to summon the spirits, after all trying to summon the spirit guardians without asking will alert the dragon heart and any sort of defense will activate and she doesn't have the time for that right now.
After few minutes she got her answer, smiling to herself due to how quick it was she began to summon the orb of calling.
A bright light suddenly appeared in front of the girls and once the light was gone a large golden ring with blue runes inscribed into it and a orange colored orb floating inside the ring appeared before them.
Nexian smiled when she recognized the spirit reside within the orb, usually when the orb of calling appears there aren't usually spirits inside the orb as it usually used to call for any spirits that suit the summoner fighting style, but for it already has a spirit which means one thing...
"looks like a Knight of the Dragon Heart is choosen eh?" Skirra said as she walked closer to the orb.
Nexian nodded as her smile never faded, looks like luck are in their favor for once. But the bigger question is, who is the choosen one?
Nexian walked closer to the orb and petted it "Thank you for coming and help us... We really need one of you for the little one here, we can't let another Dragon heart be consumed so good luck... Eidan, the Dawn Bringer" she said as the orb seem to pulse a gentle glow, like it understood what she said. Nexian stepped back and once she's at a good distant away from the orb it began glow a white light and disappeared. Likely going to the one the spirit choose to be its summoner.
Skirra watched where the orb once was and can't help but chuckle "my, my... never expected he come all the way here just to help us, to be honest i expected either Orpeus Gale or Night Harmony be the one helping the choosen knight" Nexian said nothing and glanced at Skirra for a moment.
"...aren't you going to follow it and see who is the choosen one?" she asked, only earn another chuckle from the fox lady.
"nope! there's no need for that because i already sense where it is going and who it is going to~"
"really? who?"
Skirra didn't say anything but turned around and began walk away while answered "remember the child that i sealed the demon inside? take a good guess who is coming for it" Nexian said nothing as she watch Skirra walk away, likely have some duties to attend to, she stopped glancing at Skirra and turn her attention to the sky "...i see, then may the fortune be with the little one then, because he will need it" she said.
{In the mortal world, within Elemental continent}
At a dark night above a large and wide forest, a figure flew very fast toward a large village with a mountain that has carved faces on them, showing the past and current leaders of the shinobi village.
the figure was a woman, she looked to be mid twenties with black long hime-style hair, brown eyes, fair pale skin and currently wearing a traditional miko outfit with a sword strapped to her left hip, the sword was a elegant Katana with a red handle with white diamond shape going down from top to bottom of the handle.
This woman was no other than Akemi Tsukino Hakurei, the stranded shrine maiden from Gensokyo.
Akemi flew fast as she could toward Konoha, when she heard and saw the Kyuubi she feared the worst for her little sister figure and wondered if the seal actually broke and let the demon free.
She never expected the Kyuubi suddenly appear, if anything she was expecting another day of cleaning up the front yard of the shrine, teaching her 4 year old son Fenrir the power of Yin and yang orbs and maybe beat the crap out of her husband if he tried to corrupt their son to the dark side known as the icha icha paradise...again.
And also see if they got any donation at all... probably not.
However right now she was worried for her little sister Kushina, they may not be related by blood but they were both the closes thing to sisters ever since Akemi got stranded in this world.
That's right, Akemi is not from this world. In fact she's from a world known as Gensokyo, a land of fantasy and where all Youkai, Fairies and gods live. How she got into this world was because she was fighting a devil when she was still young and a novice miko, they were fighting nearby a strange stone shaped door with dull blue colored runes inscribed on each stone.
Akemi honestly don't remember what happened, all she remembered was that one of her or the devils attack hit the door and suddenly opened up a rift which sucked both her and the devil in. The sudden force of being pulled and shot out through the woods injured her greatly and the devil didn't fare any better either.
Although injured the devil tried to finish her off if it wasn't for nearby Anbu shinobi returning from their mission and saw the monster was about to do, they quickly killed it and took Akemi with them to Konoha to treat her injuries.
After being admited to the hospital the village leader Sandaime hokage, hiruzen sarutobi visited her to see who she was and where she came from. After telling him who she was and where she came from, she realized that she might have ended up in the outside world of Gensokyo and asked if she could find the stone door that sucked both her and the devil in and see if she could open it up again and go home.
Luckily for her the old man is a very kind man and believed her story seeing as he himself have seen many strange things in his life, finding out a young miko and a devil coming out of a portal was nothing new to him.
However when they got to the ancient portal door, Akemi couldn't find a way to open it so that she can go home to her twin sister, realizing that she's trapped in an unfamiliar world so she had no choice but to live in Konoha and offer her service as the local shrine maiden and beat up any Youkai that bother the humans.
At first the people didn't trust her due to being a foreigner and didn't believe that she was from another world so the first few month's was pretty hard for her, that is until she met Kushina Uzumaki who came with her clan after surviving the destruction of their home village who settle in the village ever since.
Kushina happened to stumble upon Akemi's little shrine and was awed by the miko's ability to fly and the power of yin and yang orb, at first Akemi didn't want anything to do with Kushina believing her to be another kid that want to make fun of her for not being from Konoha or her so called crazy stories of being from another world.
but after few months of Kushina's constant visiting they both became good friends, she even befriended Kushina's boyfriend Minato Namikaze and his goofy cousin named Akira Tsukino who was a genin at the time. Few years later Akemi moved away from Konoha to a village named Silver creek that were located near the end of the border of the fire country with Sarutobi's permission and even got money from him to build her new shrine, acting as a safe haven for any travellers and refugees from a continent called Tamriel.
Why she moved over there? well there is only one answer to that... Danzo and the damn civilian council.
after displaying impressive powers figthing against youkais and even humans, sealing their chakra away leaving them vulnerable for the konoha shinobi capture them. The council and Danzo saw that Akemi is someone worth to have as a weapon for Konoha against all who dare oppose them.
When Akemi, Sarutobi and the shinobi council were called to the council meeting and heard of their plan, they were not impressed or happy for that matter.
Akemi did not want anything to do with their wars or their so called plans of breeding future shinobis children with the same powers as her so that they be used for wars, after her refusal Danzo sent his Root to capture her for her defiance... which didn't end well for both him and his men. After sealing the Root anbu chakra away and even went as far cut Danzo arm off she immediately packed everything she have and left Konoha, never returning again.
Few months later after establish a shrine in Silver creek, Kushina and Minato visited whenever they could and were pretty pissed off at the council dark intention to their friend/big sister and vowed to make sure they help her whenever they can. Akira also visited and even told stories of his travels whenever he comes back from a mission and even told her funny stories to cheered her up whenever she's down, although slowly but surely love soon bloomed between the miko and the ninja and few months later they officially became a couple and many years later they married and have a Son named Fenrir.
Akemi smiled a bit when she remember the fond times both she and Akira would have when they were young and when Fenrir was born, it was the happiest moment of her life, however she can't help but frown. After she refused the council and injured Danzo greatly they never gave up and tried everything to make her submit to them, but she always come out as a victor because she now lives in a village that was under the jurisdiction of Daimyo who didn't really see eye to eye with the corrupt council and she fought off all of the ninjas that tried to kidnapp her.
ever since then, she had nothing to worry about anymore as the council for once see's that she's not worth it getting the daimyo on their bad side or their seat on the council stripped away... well maybe except Danzo because even today he still haven't given up to get either Akemi or Fenrir into his Root program despite Sarutobi ordered him to disband the Root.
"Akemi! slow down already! these old bones can't follow the same speed your going!"
Looking behind her she sees her old mentor Deckard Cain flying behind her, Deckard cain is an old man with white hair and beard with bald on top of his head, dressed in dull blue robes with a satchel attached to his side while holding a old wooden staff in his hands. Deckard Cain is an famous old scholar with vast knowledge of the world itself and he's a Youkai magician that he even claimed he was once trained by an Archangel, who saw great potential in Cain and a pure heart to help out the innocents who truly needs it.
How the old man became her mentor was because he was staying in Silver creek for few weeks until he sensed Akemi powers while cleaning around the shrine one day, seeing someone so young and one that doesn't wish for bloodshed between humans and youkais are very rare so he personally helped her controll her powers, the Blade of Hakurei and the Yin-yang orbs.
After that the Old man became like a grandfather figure to her, despite him being a fan of those cursed books written by the toad sage.
She glanced down and saw in the woods a figure jumping on the branches of the trees, following them. she no doubt knows that her husband is following them since he can't fly like her and Cain does, so he have to use the old fashion ways of following them.
"I can't slow down now! i must know if Kushina, Minato and their baby are alright!" Cain shook his head "i know that lass, but exhausting yourself out won't help if those damn parasites gonna use this chance take you while no one is looking!" Akemi grit her teeths, she knows that as long she's somewhere near Konoha they will likely use some excuse to capture her. Although she's disappointed at Sarutobi for not getting rid of the damn council but she can see that they are beneficial since they take care of the trade and economics within the village, the only thing that could be better if Sandaime kicked out the current council member and replace them with better one.
But alas he had to worry about the great shinobi wars, couldn't see the corruption growing within the council but now there might be a chance to take the bad root out since Minato was elected to be the fourth hokage...If he isn't deadalready after the Kyuubi attack.
after flying for few more minutes they were nearly in front of the main gate of Konoha, and from the sky they could see the devestation Kyuubi have brought to the village. Akemi can't help but look on sorrow at how much the village have suffered, sure some of the people there weren't the most kindest people she met but not all of them were bad as most welcomed her with opened arms when they saw she could fight against youkai where their shinobi couldn't.
Cain looked at the devestation of what the great fox have done, he have seen such destruction many times before by either the hands of humans or elves, but even so it still wrench his heart to see so many innocent have to die by the Kyuubi's rage.
after all he can't help but feel sorry for the bijuu, sealed away and used for wars by power hungry fools was not something he ever wished for anyone to go through that. They both floated down to the ground as the neared the main gate, as soon they touched the ground Akira jumped out of the woods and landed next to them and was trying to catch his breath.
"hah... huff... damn Akemi-chan slow down a bit would you? i'm not used to jump around like i once did" he said.
Akira looked to be mid twenties with Dark blue spiky hair and blue eyes, he wore a rather normal jounin outfit that he put on in case of he and his wife got into a fight with anyone from Konoha. The reason why he's having a hard time catching up to his wife and her mentor was because of an injury he got during one of his mission that ruined his Shinobi career... not like he cared anymore as he want to live with his beautiful wife and son in peace now. While he was trying to catch his breath couple of Anbu appeared in front of the group, the leader with the bird mask walked up to them "Akemi-san, Akira-san! Yondaime-sama requested your presence immediately should you arrive the village" he said.
Akemi eye wided when he mention the Yondaime "is minato alive?" she asked and earned a nod from the Anbu captain.
"yes and so is his wife... though she kind of looked devestated when they came back from the battlefield where the Kyuubi once was while hugging a bundle of cloth" Akemi and Akira blood nearly ran cold when he said that, Kushina looked devestated? does that mean their baby...?
Akira stepped forward and asked "where are they now?" "they're in the hospital, they haven't moved from their room and refused anyone except Sarutobi-sama, Jiraiya-sama and Tsunade-sama in to their room and are waiting for you now"
"i see..."
"by the way who's the old man?" the captain asked, Cain cleared his throat and answered "my name is Deckard Cain lad, just your ordinary wandering scholar and a friend to Akemi and Akira" the Anbu captain looked at Akemi for confirmation. akemi nodded and answered to the captain "he's an old friend so don't worry, beside he might be of help with his healing magic, but anyway please lead the way to the hospital" the Anbu nodded and led them to the hospital. While on their way to the hospital they noted that most of the building were intact and the villagers looked either spooked or angry, likely at the Kyuubi for what have happened to their village and killing their loved ones.
once they reached the hospital they entered the main entrance, they could see a great deal of nurses and doctors running around, tending to injured patients after the attack. The anbu captain turned to them and said "wait here for a bit, Lady Tsunade will be here soon. Now if you excuse me" with that he left.
"Akemi! Akira!" they turned toward the one who called them out and lo and behold Senju Tsunade walked up to them, Tsunade is a light-skinned woman of average height with brown eyes and blond two loose ponytails. She wears a grass-green haori with the kanji for gamble written on the back. Underneath she wears a grey, kimono-style blouse with no sleeves, held closed by a broad, dark bluish-grey obi that matches her pants. Her blouse is closed quite low, revealing her sizeable cleavage. She wears open-toed, strappy black sandals with high heels.
Akemi smiled when she saw the slug sannin and walked up to the her and gave her a hug "it's so nice to see you again Tsunade" Tsunad esmiled back and hugged back "nice to see you again brat, how goes with your son?" Akemi smiled and answered "Fenrir is doing fine, right now Deeha is looking after him while we're here"
"you mean the Lizard guy?"
"they're called Argonians but yes"
They both ended the hug and Tsunade looked over to Akira "nice to see you again Akira" she said, the blue haired man just smiled and waved "nice seeing you again grandma! you sure haven't age a bit since the last time i saw you" Tsunade left eye twitched at being called grandma while Akemi and Cain chuckled, Cain stepped forward and raised his hand "nice to finally meet you m'lady, the names Deckard Cain and Akemi's old mentor" Tsunade smiled and shook his hand "nice to meet you as well Cain, i've heard of your deeds and i must say i'm impressed"
Cain just chuckled, Akemi soon looked at Tsunade seriously "Tsunade, is are Kushina and Minato alright?" Tsunade nodded with a sorrowful look "yes they are, even after used the forbidden jutsu i'm surprised that Minato is still alive... or Kushina for that matter"
"why do you say that?" Akira asked while crossed his arms.
Tsunade said nothing but told them to follow her, on the way she explained in low voice to them "you guys know that if the Jinchuuriki's bijuu is gone they will die right? well Kyuubi is no longer sealed inside of Kushina and somehow she's still alive" they eyed widen at that, Cain began stutter "b-but th-that's impossible, no mortal should be able to survive having their bijuu separated from them so how?" Tsunade shook her head "the only thing Minato told me is that he... summoned something... something much more powerful than a shinigami and it not only sealed Kyuubi away but healed Kushina as well, allowing her to live"
"Did their baby survive? the Anbu captain did say that Kushina looked devestated when they came back" Akira asked.
Tsunade said nothing but they reached toward the end of the corridor with two Anbu guarding in front of a door, likely where Minato and Kushina are.
she walked up to them "they're here, let us pass" she said and getting nods from the guards, she opened the door and immediately they could hear kushina wailing coming from the room, Akemi's heart nearly broke hearing her little sister crying like this and feared that the baby might not have survived, Akira clenched his fist, fearing for the worst that his little cousin baby might be dead if Kushina crying is anything go by.
Once they entered the room Tsunade closed the door behind and inside the room were four people, first is Sandaime hokage Hiruzen Sarutobi wearing his traditional hokage robes and hat. Second is a man with long spiky white hair tied in a long pony tail, wearing a red Haori with two simple yellow circles on each side and a dull green short kimono shirt with matching pants. Wearing a headband with the kanji for Oil and wore wooden Geta, last but not least he has a large scroll hanging behind his back. He was no other than Jiraiya the toad sage and the author of the infamous/famous Icha Ihca paradise.
the third person is Minato Namikaze, he have blond spiky hair tied with a Konoha shinobi headband and blue eyes, tan skin, wearing his white coat with red flames on the bottom and the kanji for fourth hokage on the back. Wearing his green flak jacket and dark blue shirt with matching pants, and last weaing dark blue sandals.
and the last person with long red hair, plum blue eyes and pale skin was Kushina Namikaze Uzumaki, wife of Minato Namikaze and she was currently wearing the hospital gown and hugging a bundle of cloth which akemi assume is Kushina child.
Akira looked around and could see silencing seals plastered all over the walls, likely to prevent from anyone listenting what's going on in the room.
Sarutobi turned around to greet them with a sad smile etched on his face "Akemi-chan, it's good to see you again after all these years" Akemi smiled back, she haven't seen the old monkey for many years ever since she moved out of konoha due to the idiocy of the council "the feeling mutual gramps" she answered, getting a chuckle from the old man "even today you still call me that" he said.
Akemi just smiled sadly while akira stepped up and bowed in respect for his old superior "it's good to see you again Sandaime-sama" the old monkey nodded with a smile "it's good to see you as well Akira, i hope the crippling injury didn't get worse over the years"
Akira just laughed and put his hands behind his head "heh you know me old man! i'm not someone going down easy because of a injury" Sarutobi just chuckled while Minato smiled at his cousin carefree personality, even at darkest time he always smile and trying to see thing positive no matter what.
Sarutobi noticed someone behind Akemi and Akira and realized who he is "well i be damned, Cain you magnificant son of a bitch! i didn't know you were in town!" he walked up to his old friend and shook his hand, Cain smiled brightly and returned the gesture "heh well you know me, always come unannounced whenever i damn pleases" Ameki looked at her old mentor and the retired hokage in surprise "you both know each others?" Sarutobi nodded with a smile on his face "indeed, we met during a mission when i was younger, the old bastard saved me and my teams lives from a surprise attack from Iwa nins" "i see" Akemi mutters while Jiraiya coughed to get their attention and said "now that we all had our little reunion can we focus on the matter now?" Akemi nodded and walked up to Kushina who haven't said a word, only cry while hugging her baby. Never letting it go no matter what.
Akemi kneelt next to her bed and asked "Imouto i'm here, please tell me what's going on, is your baby alright?" Kushina kept crying while muttering to herself, she could only make out what she was saying is "they will kill him...they will kill him..." over and over, confused what she means she looked over to Minato for explanation.
"Minato... why is Kushina like this? and what does she mean by they will kill him?" Minato sighed as he pulled out a nearby chair and sat down and begins to explain "you see after we sealed Kyuubi away in Naruto we-" "YOU WHAT!?" he winced at Akemi's outburst, she walked right to him and grabbed him by his shirt "What went through your head thinking sealing the bijuu inside your son!? don't you have any idea what he will go through!?" Minato nodded and answered "i know but we had no choice, Kushina was on the verge of dying and Naruto was the only Uzumaki baby who could handle the kyuubi sealed inside of him, if i tried seal the kyuubi inside Kushina again she will die by the strain and it will resurface and attack us again... i'm sorry but i had no choice" Akira placed his hand on his wife shoulder, shaking his head to her that berating him isn't worth it.
Akemi kept glaring at Minato, even his intention are good it doesn't change the fact that MOST humans will hate the poor child because of what he contains when they learn the truth and would not stop at anything to kill him.
but there was one thing that she want to know so she asked the biggest question how this incident began "Minato... i want to know how the hell did the Kyuubi escape the seal?" Minato didn't say anything but sighed as he stared out at the window he answered "i...i honestly don't know, At first when Kushina-chan was giving birth to Naruto it went perfectly fine, the Kyuubi did try escape the seal but it failed" Akemi raised an eyebrow "if everything went fine what the hell happened?" she asked.
"well when Hiruzen wife who was helping Kushina with the baby and all, Biwako looked... shocked when she saw Naruto and before i asked her what was wrong she... she was shoot through the chest by a demonic looking arrow, i was lucky that i was fast enough to save Naruto before Biwako fell on top of him with the arrow sticking out of her chest" Cain eyed widen "a demonic arrow? you mean a demon attacked you!?" Minato slowly nodded "that's what i think because when i saw who attacked us and killed all of the Anbu that was station on the secret location we were... i-i honestly don't know what exactly i saw but to me it looked like a man... a man in full body armor with a hood that hid his face and his whole body shrouded by a smoke of darkness, but when i saw his eyes... his burning red eyes stared right through my very soul" at this point Minato was slightly shaking from his seat, the experience with that.. that demon was not he was mentally prepared for, hell he doubt A would be prepared for that demon either.
Cain looked worried, from the way Minato description of the demon it sounded like a creature from the burnings hell itself have come to the mortal world who seemed to have possessed a human body, likely a skilled hunter of some kind.
Honestly he didn't blame Minato to be shaken from all of this because from what he remember from his teacher about the demons from the burning hells they can make any powerful man or woman into a gibberish mess, hell he even met few of those things and he almost lost his life AND his mind several times against those creatures.
needless to say Youkais got nothing against demon of hells.
Akira placed his hand on Minato's shoulder "Minato take it easy, i know it must have been one hell of a experience meeting with a hell demon but please tell us what happen next" Minato nodded, not shaking anymore he continued "after the demon killed everyone but me, Kushina and Naruto, but what i find it strange is that he demanded me to hand over my son to him but not Kushina who still had the kyuubi sealed inside her"
Akira and Akemi raised an eyebrow, the demon demanded Minato to hand over his son to it? why didn't it demand the kyuubi?
Every demon of hells desire powers and Kyuubi sure has plenty to spare and yet it didn't go after it so why?
"why would that monster go after your son?" Akira asked, to be honest it didn't really make sense why the demon would go after his cousin kid and not Kuhsina. Minato shrugged his shoulders and answered "don't know and honestly i don't want to either, when i didn't do as it said it threw some kind of bomb at me, i avoided it but that thing was fast... fast enough to take Kushina hostage and teleported away not before telling me that if i didn't give Naruto to him south of Konoha or else he would unleash Kyuubi upon Konoha"
"after that he was gone with Kushina and i had to Hiraishin away before the bomb he threw exploded" He paused for a bit before continueing "I immediately Hiraishin to the hospital and gave Naruto to Tsunade to look after him and told her to alarm all Shinobi for battle, after that i went to where that demon was and before i could get there... Kyuubi was free"
Akemi frowned and asked "so that monster knew you wouldn't give Naruto to him so he just went right away to rip Kyuubi out of Kushina?" nodded he can't help but sigh as he watched Kushina still holding their son like her life depended on it "yeah and i feared the worst for Kushina so as quickly as possible i manage to get there in time to find out Kushina is still alive and was about to be crushed by the fox so i manage to save her before it happened"
"after saving Kushina and took her to the hospital and left her with Naruto and Tsunade, i proceed to go after the demon and found him waiting for me. He taunted me about being a useless human for not knowing the true destiny that my people could have if i listened to him" Cain raised an eyebrow at that "true destiny? what in Kami's name does it mean by that?" he asked.
Minato shook his head, not having a clue what the demon really meant about that "honestly i don't really care what that thing really want so i battle against it in order to release its control over Kyuubi... it was the most hardest battle i ever fought in my entire life, that thing unleashed so many arrows and bombs, firing hellfire everywhere and summons monsters from the depths of hell against me but in the end i manage to win... barely, although he manage to get away before i could finish it off"
"And let me guess he ranted about how he will have his revenge or that he will take Naruto from you one way or another right?" Akira asked, getting a chuckle from Minato "in the manner of speaking yes".
"After his battle against that demon Minato went ahead to seal the Kyuubi inside his son and Hiraishin back to the hospital, which brings us to the tough situation with Naruto's... condition" Hiruzen explained which earn a sigh from Akemi.
"i see..." she mutters "i can understand why you guys are so worried about Naruto having Kyuubi sealed inside of hi-"
"No it's not it nee-chan..." Akemi turned to Kushina when she finally spoke "th-they will kill my baby because of the curse" she said.
Now that got all three of them their attention, Akemi walked over to Kushina and asked "wait what curse?" Kushina didn't answer but she lowered the bundle of cloth and showed them her child, what they saw... was not exactly they were expecting.
The baby skin was slightly pale and red crimson hair like his mother, however what most that stood out of this normal child was the fox ears and tail. The fox ears and tail were crimson red like his hair and also dipped in black, making them looks like black flames.
Akemi and Akira stared in shock while Cain looked in interest, wondering if it's the work of the fox "Kushina... what happened to your baby? is this the work of that damn fox?" Akemi asked.
"i can answer that" Hiruzen answered and begin to explain "what you see now is the curse known as the Curse of Uzumaki clan" "The curse of Uzumaki clan?" Akira asked, Hiruzen nodded "indeed, i don't know all the details of how this curse began or why the clan was cursed but every hundred years a child with the blood of an Uzumaki is born with the curse, they are born Youkais"
"Born youkais? i've heard of things happen like that before with human parents although very rarely" Cain said, getting a nod from Hiruzen.
"indeed and today... i'm afraid the child will likely be dead if the Clan head get the news of this" this surprised Akemi "wait dead? why do you mean by that old man?" she asked and the look she got from Hiruzen wasn't a good one "...in the past when the curse began, the old clan head have passed a law within the clan that if a child from a Uzumaki family is born with the curse... he or she must die so that their evil will not either stain the clans reputation or for the safety of humanity" getting a gasp from everyone.
Akira and Akemi looked at the old Hokage in shock "w-w-wait a minute! they will kill a frickin kid just because he was born as a youkai!?" Akira shouted, Akemi express her anger at this so called law "just because a child was born as a youkai doesn't mean it is evil... evil are born through suffering, cruelty and greed" Jiraiya nodded at what she said "i agree kid, i don't believe the crap of a kid is born evil just because of a damn curse"
Tsunade sighed though "as much i also want to agree with you, we cannot deny the Clan head when he get the news of this... this is a matter of Clan business and if we go against a clan law we not only have the Uzumaki clan against us but the rest of the village as well due to the Kyuubi attack" everyone can't help but silently agree with the slug princess, the chaos of what Kyuubi have done have sparked hatred within the people of Konoha.
The people will not hesitate to side with the Uzumaki clan so that they can have their revenge.
Akemi however frowned and thought of something to help baby, unless... "Kushina, what if i used the Blade of Hakurei to dispell the curse... you think little Naruto will revert back to his human form?" she asked, getting a surprise look from Kushina and Minato "you... you think it'll work?" Minato asked, because he doesn't want to get his hopes up if it didn't worked.
Akemi nodded "I'll try, please everyone give me some space so that i can begin the exorcism ritual" everyone nodded and moved back to give Akemi some space, Minato picked his son up and walked to the middle of the room and placed him on the floor. Once he done that he nodded to Akemi who nodded back and walked up to the baby, first she pulled out an amulet and placed in on the baby's chest and pulled her blade out.
Akemi eyed her sword, this blade was no normal katana. It was a Holy blade to banish evil and has been with the Hakurei family for a very long time, she was lucky to have it with her when she was still young or otherwise she wouldn't stood a chance against the devil years ago.
Shaking her head she held the Katana above the baby and began chant the exorcism spell.
Kushina and Minato watched in hope that the exorcism worked while Jiraiya, Akira and Tsunade silently prayed that the spell worked and nothing bad happened to the kid, Hiruzen and Cain kept close to the door, preventing that no one comes in and disturb the ritual. When Akemi came to the last words the blade bagan to glow in bright blue color and the floor where Naruto is, appeared a glowing blue Yin-yang circle underneath the child and the amulet that was placed on his chest began to glow as well.
Akemi then held the blade upside down with both hands and stabbed down to the child onto the amulet, no sound of steel piercing the flesh was heard but instead the light became so bright that everyone had to cover the eyes from being blinded.
once the light died down everyone opened their eyes and looked if the exorcism worked.
but to everyone shock it didn't, the fox ears and tail were still there and the child kept sleeping, unaware what's going on.
Akemi watched in shock that the exorcism spell didn't work, she did the incantation correctly and even used the holy blade as a focus which double the power of dispelling the curse and yet... it didn't.
Cain who was mostly shocked of them all and can't help but stutter "i-it didn't work!?" Akira shook his head in disbelief, he have seen Akemi done this many times and they never failed before, so why didn't it work this time then?
Akemi inspected her blade, there was nothing wrong with it and she brought the right amulets too so why didn't it work? she sighed and sheated the blade and picked the baby up. She walked over to Kushina and gave her child back "i'm sorry Kushina but... this isn't normal at all, either my exorcism of dispelling the curse didn't work or... we're dealing with something that's beyond our knowledge of understanding... i'm sorry" Kushina smiled sadly while took her baby in her arms "it's ok nee-chan... you did your best" she said.
Cain could see the pained look Minato and Kushina had in their eyes and couldn't help but feel sorry for them.
He want to help them but the situation doesn't seem good and a innocent child will be killed because of a barbaric law made by fools in the past, however an idea came up to him and maybe... just maybe it might save the child.
"Minato, Kushina and everyone... i might have an idea to save the little one here!" now everyone stared at the old wizard, seeing he has their attention he begins to explain "what if you disown the child and came up with a false story of how he died and that you sealed the fox somewhere else" Minato eyed wided at that "what!? you want us to disown our son away!?" he shouted while Kushina held Naruto closer to her, not wanting to let him go.
Hiruzen however stepped up and said "Minato listen, what Cain said could be the only solution we have to save Naruto's life from the clan and the people" Kushina began to weep "and so that he can grow up without any parents to look after him? without to show him the love he needs? is that what you want!?" Cain shook his head "i'm sorry but this is the only way and from what i seen the people are after blood and won't stop till the baby is dead"
Kushina looked down to her baby and saw he was awake, the baby's purple colored eyes watched in curiosity at his mother and reached out his arms to her while gurgled. She smiled and held out a finger to him which he grabbed and played with it, she can't help but wonder what kind of monsters would so willingly kill an innocent baby just because of what he is.
She looked up to the others and asked "but if... if we're doing this then who would look after him then? who will be willing to raise a youkai child with Kyuubi sealed inside of him?" everyone went silent on what she said, she was right no one in Konoha were willing to raise a fox youkai, especially if they found out he has the Kyuubi sealed inside...of...him...?
"wait a second here!" Akemi exclaimed "Minato you said you sealed Kyuubi inside your son right? and the fact he was born a youkai?" getting nods she looked at the baby in shock "...it's not possible...sealing a youkai inside a human is possible but sealing a Youkai into another is not, they are made of spiritual energy and clashing two different energies will only result either an explosion of spiritual energy or creating a terrifying monster..."
Akira glanced at his cousin with a sweatdrop behind his head "you sure took a big gamble there cousin" Minato sadly nodded "yes i know but we really had no choice plus i didn't even know that Naruto was born with the curse because i didn't look closely" Akemi sighed, and she thought Kushina was sometimes careless.
Cain looked at the baby in interest "huh... the fact not only the exorcism didn't work but to house the mighty Kyuubi no yoko as well... this is no ordinary youkai child here" Tsunade nodded "yes and from what my grandmother told me before her death that every child that was born after century they always displayed unatural abilities and can do thing that not even youkai can do"
Cain mutters "i see..." while Minato walked over to his son and can't help but smile sadly, he know that Cain and Hiruzen is right. The only way for his son to survive is to disown him and make up false story of how he died and that he sealed Kyuubi away somewhere else... it didn't make it easier to know that he might grow up alone without any parents and most humans fear the youkais.
Naruto wasn't going to have it easy, that's for sure.
"...Kushina i think...no i believe this is for the best, this is Naruto's only chance for him to live" Minato said, Kushina didn't glance up but kept staring at her child. She knows she would likely never to see him again, but if it means for him to live then so be it "alright mina-kun... i don't like this but it's not like any of us has a choice to begin with... i don't want him to grow up alone" she said while tears streamed down from her eyes.
Akira couldn't help but feel useless right now, ever since the failed mission and the injury he got years ago that ruined his career he always feared that should Akemi strength fail her defending herself and their son he would not be any match either because of his injury below his chest he got from the kumo nins.
Akemi though couldn't help but feel angry at the council, the bastard clan head Mamoru Uzumaki for this situation. If they buy the lie and finds out Naruto is an orphan youkai child they will likely make his life miserable no matter what, humans have always showed that even they can be more of a monsters than youkais ever have been.
however an idea came to these married couple, one that could prevent little Naruto from growing up alone and won't be in the mercy of those narrow minded fools in Konoha.
Akemi and Akira glanced at each other, nodded that both of them agreed what to do and won't regret it either.
"Kushina, Minato" both of them looked over to Akemi and Akira who walked over them with smile on their faces "we will take Naruto in and raise him as our own" both of them eyed widen, Kushina stuttered and hoped they weren't joking "a-are you re-really sure? y-you would take my naru-chan in?" both of them smiled and nodded "of course, beside i'm pretty sure my little Fenrir would love to have a little brother" Akemi answered.
akira just grinned and gave them a thumb up "jupp! beside anyone got a problem with that they can just go to hell for all i care!" Minato smiled while Kushina weeped in happiness that perhaps not all are against them.
Cain smiled at his student and her goofy husband, the first time he met his student she was quite the brat he remembered but now, she was a refined woman now and got one heck of a punch should anyone dare to piss her off.
Or have their Chakra and magic sealed away...
Jiraiya and Tsunade smiled as well, knowing that Naruto is in capable hands now and perhaps he can actually live a peaceful life, Hiruzen coughed to get their attention "well since we solved the problem, now comes another one... the council meeting and how we're going to tell them what the hell happened" everyone tensed up when he mention that, Minato frowned when the old man mentioning about it. Ever since he was elected to be the fourth hokage he have ordered some of his Anbu to investigate most of the Council members records and what he found... was disturbing.
he made a mental note to get the council replaced and have some of them jailed for... yeah you probably don't wanna know.
He sighed "i guess made them wait for a while, probably gonna complain that i let them waiting for like an hour..." "actually it's been three hours Minato" Hiruzen corrected him which everyone chuckled while the baby gurgled happily.
Minato smiled sheepily "heh my fault then, although i'm wondering what our cover up story is gonna be? it has to be believable" "just tell them that you survived thanks to a Kitsune woman who happened to be a friend of Kushina and Akemi, she wished to do the sealing as an act of revenge against Kyuubi who killed her mate not long ago, when she did the sealing it cost her life and her last wish was that someone to look after her son" Cain paused for a bit before continuing "as for how your son died let just say whoever attacked you and Kushina he killed him by detonating an explosion tag that erased any trace of the child body, extreme yes but hopefully they believe it" Cain told him, Everyone nodded at that cover up. Sure it may not sound hundred percent proof but then again Akemi was a good friend to couple of Youkais and Akemi have no doubt they will help her as they aren't exactly fond of politics,especially when children are threatened to be killed by some dumb law.
Hiruzen nodded at the plan and turn to Akemi and Kushina "we'll be back soon, hopefully they buy the cover up... but something tells me Mamoru isn't going to believe it but still good luck" they nodded as Minato and Hiruzen disappeared in yellow flash.
Kushina sighed in relief "thank you so much Akemi Nee-chan, if you guys weren't here to adopt Naruto i... i didn't know what to do" Akemi smiled and shook her head "even so i still adopt him Kushina, i won't let an innocent child suffer through hate and loneliness by bigots and fools" Akira nodded "like akemi-chan said Kushina-chan, we ain't gonna let your kid go parentless because of those bastards, i'll make sure he become a great shinobi!" he boasted.
"oh no, i'll make sure he become a great priest like me, maybe even a warrior priest" Akemi said, not exactly approving of her husband idea.
Kushina and Cain just chuckled, while the idea for Naruto becoming a Shinobi or a Priest sound quite good if he want to become one when he grows up.
Jiraiya however had an idea "why not train him in both arts instead?" everyone looked at him for explanation, he sighed and explained "listen why not train the kid becoming a combination of a shinobi AND a priest... like a Demon hunter or something" Tsunade raised an eyebrow "demon hunter? you want Naruto hunt his own kind to death?" she asked, earning a spit take from him "WHAT!? HELL NO! i mean him beating up any Youkai that bothers humans or anyone else like Akemi does!"
Akemi nodded "indeed and i rather not turning little Naruto into a killing machine, but perhaps what you say Jiraiya might be... better i suppose" Akira nodded "a demon hunter huh... now that sound pretty awesome" he said.
Kushina looked down to Naruto who was chewing on her hair which she couldn't help but giggle at that "what do you say Naru-chan? do you wanna become a big scary Demon hunter and beat up any bad humans and youkai for messing with innocent people?" she asked which she got a happy gurgle for a respond.
"i take that as a yes" Akira said which everyone laughed.
Tsunade chuckled and walked over to the window and looked out, she could see half of konoha in ruins it pained her to see her grandparents life work almost destroyed by a damn demon, but now was not the time to dwell in dark thoughts of that monster as she knows what hatred can do to a person, glancing over at the door she mutters "...how long is Shizune gonna take?"
Jiraiya who heard her muttering while he walked up to her asked "what are you muttering about?" Tsunade said nothing at first but kept staring at the door, she sighed and answered "when Kushina and Minato came back i immediately took a blood sample from Naruto and what i saw... stunned me" "what did you see?" Jiraiya asked.
"i'm not sure exactly but it did show that Naruto isn't a human and yet still showed him being related to Minato and Kushina but when i tried to compare with other blood sample like Humans and youkai... somehow both of the blood DNA showed that they bear some kind of ancestry trait from Naruto's dna...almost like both us humans and youkai came from his dna" Now Jiraiya was surprised "wait are you telling me that we humans and Youkai are somehow related in a way?" Tsunade didn't say anything, she didn't really have a real answer to that as she's still shocked of the discovery.
finding out that humans and youkai are somehow related in some way that no one have bothered to look into can be shocking.
"to be honest Jiraiya... i'm not sure what we're dealing with here, first the curse of my grandmother's clan happening and now this? i need some time to search more information on what's going on before i can give a straight answer" Jiraiya nodded and agreed, it's better to find the truth instead of go by theories that may not be true at all.
Cain who heard their little conversation didn't say anything, after all he can agree to what Tsunade said as he also came across many artifacts and legends hinting on both Humans and Youkai came from something but any infromation about it has been lost to ages and as a scholar it is his job to uncover the secrets.
Even it means to travel to the most dangerous place of the world and possibly piss off the Angels and Demons just to look for the truth.
But suddenly a yellow flash appeared in the middle of the room, Minato and Hiruzen appeared with panicked look "Kushina we got a problem, Mamoru is heading to the hospital with some of your clansmen!" everyone eyed widen what he said "W-WHAT!?" Kushina and Tsunade exclaimed, Jiraiya frowned and asked "why is he heading over here and how did the meeting go?"
"it went smoothly, they bought the lie but when we mention the part with the woman's son he got immediately suspicious but didn't say anything, when the meeting was over he demanded to see the child and see for himself if it is true or not that he's not your son" Hiruzen explained and everyone began to panic.
Kushina began berate herself for forgetting about the important detail about her clan. Her clan specialising in fuinjutsu and there are likely some sort of jutsu that could tell Naruto is an Uzumaki, it is over... all the hope they had is gone now.
Akemi however didn't panic as she grabbed Naruto and held him close to her, kushina surprised at Akemi action couldn't help but ask "nee-chan why-" "shhh... don't worry, if that son of a bitch trying anything i personally kill him myself" Akemi said as Cain stood beside her and nodded.
There no way he's going to let some extreme traditionalist fool kill an innocent baby because his clans law says so, Akira nodded as well and stood beside his wife. Ready to take out his Kunai should thing go south.
It was then the door slammed opened and walked in was the Clan head of the Uzumaki clan Mamoru Uzumaki along with few clan members behind him.
he was an tall man who looked to be in his mid forties with red long hair and beard, he wore a rather normal but fancy looking dull red robes with a forest green Haori and wooden sandals with white socks. This man is known for being merciless in battle and has a very strong Xenophobic view against all who aren't human. His grey eyes scanned the room and once he saw Naruto held by akemi he instantly frowned.
"i see that the Miko is here as well... what a surprise" he said.
"nice seeing you as well jackass" she said while glaring at the most arrogant bastards she have ever come across in her life, she never liked him the moment they met. To her he's nothing more but a spineless power hungry monsters that would likely sacrifice his own clan member to gain more power if he could.
he snarled at Akemi for the remark "Watch your tongue woman! your speaking to-" "whatever i don't give a crap who you are, so mind explain why you suddenly barged in with an army of your clan people armed to teeth?" she asked.
Hiruzen mentaly chuckled, he can see why Kushina and Akemi get so well along together as both don't take crap from no one. However it is sort lived as Mamoru walked up to Akemi "I have no reason to tell you Akemi, i'm here to see if that...thing isn't from MY clan" Akemi glared darkened when he called Naruto a Thing, it's like this bastards don't see him as a baby who's just recently been born into this world.
"And what make you so sure that the baby is from your clan? he's a young youkai infant and his parents were both Kitsunes" Akemi said, But Mamoru looked at her with Narrowed eyes and said "Because something like this have happened before and we will see if Minato and Hiruzen is telling the truth"
Mamoru glanced at one of his men, silently order one of them to bring him something, heeding his call one of them walked over to him and handed him a scroll... a scroll that Kushina and Tsunade who have heard from Mito and what it does to new born infant who were born with the curse.
Tsunade eyed widen in shock when she saw the scroll she glared at Mamoru and shouted "The scroll of Purging...you brought THAT thing!? are you really that heartless!?" Mamoru ignored his distant cousin and opened the scroll while glaring at Akemi "now be so kind and put that thing's hand onto this scroll... we'll see if this thing really is from the clan or not"
Kushina already weeping at what's going to happen couldn't watch as she closed her eyes, Jiraiya who heard what sort of scroll mamoru brought with him couldn't watch what is about to happen to his godson he looked away while Tsunade looked ready to pounce the man. Minato felt like his heart was about tear itself apart as he once heard of what that scroll does, Hiruzen lowered his hat as he felt like he failed Minato and Kushina.
Akemi, Akira and Cain who were not familiar with the scroll did not know what it did, so Cain decided to ask what it does "may i ask what does this particular scroll does?" the moment he said that, Mamoru just glared at him and said "when someone from our clan are born with this so called curse we purge them with this scroll that have been passed through generations within our clan, if those things aren't from our clan then the scroll will burn itself up"
Akira who was sweating nervously swallowed and asked "a-and what happens if the kid is from the clan?" Mamoru didn't say anything as he kept glaring at Akemi whose glare didn't falter, what came next could spark a reaction from the miko so the elder choose his words carefully as he knows what she's capable of. He did not want to have his chakra sealed away like the rest of the fools who kept coming after her.
"the baby will ignite into flames and die"
*BAM*
Everyone looked in shock as Akemi sucker punched the clan head to his face, she looked at that... that monster in rage "you would dare... YOU WOULD DARE TO DO THAT TO A BABY!?" she screamed and would have hit him more if it wasn't for Minato and Akira held her back.
"Akemi-chan calm down, your not making the situation better" Akira whispered to her, trying to calm her down.
"please listen to your husband Akemi! any wrong move we likely have the whole village agaisnt us should they learn the truth" Minato whispered.
Mamoru who expected it calmly wiped the blood that ran down from his lips and stared directly at akemi's eyes and answered "yes... yes i will, for the sake of humanity these things must die as my ancestors have done for so many years." his glare deepend "however unlike you and your naive way of thinking that Youkai and human can coexist will never happen, now be so kind and place the goddamn things hand onto the scroll before I LOSE MY TEMPER!"
Akemi kept glaring at that monster while holding Naruto close to her, never letting him go.
She would rather die than handing Naruto over to that sorry excuse of a human being, she could sense Cain slowly gathering his mana. Likely to use some kind of teleportation spell to teleport them away from them.
but suddenly through Akemi's point of view everything suddenly flashed before her eyes and what she saw was something she never seen before, the largest heart shaped crystal she ever seen floated in star filled space it pulsed with different colors, next was an strange large golden ring with blue runes inscribed into it and a orange colored orb floating inside the ring appeared before her.
The orb seemed to slowly floated toward her and spoke in gentle but childish voice "Don't worry! i won't let my summoner die so go ahead and prove them wrong!" and with that the vision disappeared.
Akemi blinked couple of times, what was it that she saw? was it real or she imagine things?
But something tells her it was real and whoever the orb was that spoke to her wasn't lying, somehow deep inside her she knew she could rely on it to save Naruto's life.
"Might acting as well without him getting suspicious" she thought and looked straight in Mamoru's eyes with a glare "very well but know this, i don't know what your goddamn problem is Mamoru but i can promise you that the child is not a part of your damn clan and this have been nothing but waste of mine and everyone's time!" everyone eyed widen at what she said.
Mamoru were the most surprised of them all "what is this? first she defended this creature and now she's letting it touch the scroll to prove it isn't Kushina's child!? something not right here" he thought and held the scroll toward Akemi.
Kushina looked at her sister figure in shock, she's not sure what Akemi is playing here but somehow she must know what's she's doing or other wise she would have at least try fighting back against them. Clutching her chest she prayed that whatever sort of plan Akemi came up with it better work, because she doubt she could stand watching her baby burn right in front of her.
Cain looked at his old apprentice in surprise, at first she looked like she was about fight against the Uzumaki group and their clan leader but suddenly she changed her mind but he could see that she knows something and won't hesitate to prove them wrong that Naruto wasn't Minato and Kushina's child.
"i hope you know what your doing akemi"
Akemi walked slowly toward the scroll with Naruto in her arms who were oblivious that might happen to him, she could feel her heart pounding harder with each every step she takes. sighs deeply she held Naruto toward her and grabbed his tiny hands she out it onto the scroll and everyone held their breath at what might happen right now.
At first the scroll didn't do anything until a small glow started to appear on the ancient paper, what happened next shocked them all.
The scroll burst into flames that forced Mamoru drop it in shock while akemi pulled naruto close to her and stepped back to avoid the sudden burst of fire so that it wouldn't hurt him.
Everyone stared at what remain of the scroll which is now nothing more but pile of ashes, Minato and Akira just looked in shock and happy at the same time, whatever Akemi did it worked! However Mamoru narrowed his eyes in anger and pointed at Akemi "YOU! YOU DID SOMETHING!" he screamed, startled everyone and made the baby cry.
Akemi glared at the foolish bastard and answered "i did nothing, i said the baby was not Kushina-chan child but you didn't believe me, it's the truth and nothing more!" Mamoru glare darkened "i refuse to believe this... this so called truth you claim!" He glanced at one of his rather nervous clan member and pointed "bring me another one and this time YOU hold that thing!" the nervous young man nodded and took out another scroll of Purging and walked up to Akemi and stuttered.
"i-i'm sorry but-" but Akemi cut him off "it's alright, it's not your fault because of a foolish bastard of a leader of yours forcing you to do something you don't want to" the young Uzumaki nodded and carefully held Naruto in his right arm while holding the scroll in another.
Mamoru took the scroll from him and opened it, revealing another scroll of Purging and held it toward the young man.
The young man gulped and carefully let the baby touch the scroll again, to be honest he and the rest of his people didn't want to do this but they can't go against the clan head and their law so he hoped that the miko is right that the child isn't Kushina-san kid but someone else, after all he really didn't have anything against youkai as most of them left his clan alone.
Naruto stopped crying and saw the weird scroll again, he touched it out of curiosity and what happened next was the scroll burts into flames.
Mamoru stared at the ashes in shock, the scrolls burned twice... TWICE! the scrolls burnt itself after the creature touched it showing that the thing really wasn't Kushina and Minato's child. Akemi smirked and took Naruto back from the dumbfounded Uzumaki member from his arms "see? We were telling you the truth, now i suggest that you leave before I lose MY temper" Mamoru expression darken and turn around toward the door "i see... looks like you weren't lying Minato... you and Kushina have my condolence for your son Naruto, it's too bad there was no body left to burry it... everyone we're leaving" all of the Uzumaki clan members nodded and followed him, some sighed in relief while other were disappointed, never liked youkais like their leader does and would rather have the creature dead instead of letting it live.
As soon they left everyone sighed in relief "holy crap... for a minute i thought my heart was gonna stop for a moment" Akira said as he wiped the sweat from his brows, Jiraiya and Hiruzen nodded. It was not something they wanted to happened when Mamoru came to see if the boy are part of the clan but in the end it doesn't matter, as long Naruto lives that what's important.
Minato and Tsunade sighed in relief while Kushina couldn't stop smiling, they somehow did it! she don't know what Akemi did but it didn't matter, her little Naru-chan lives and that what matter to her.
Akemi sighed in relief that her trust to that strange orb was well placed, although she wonder what it means when it said that it won't let its summoner die. Does that mean Naruto will have its help in the future? if so she can only hope it's not something bad, after all it's better be prepared just in case it turns out to be something sinister.
Cain placed a hand on Akemi shoulder and nodded to her with a smile "I don't know what you did Akemi but i'm damn proud you manage to pull it off!" Akemi smiled slightly, although she wanted to tell them that she got help from a strange orb from a vision that she had a minute ago but it's probably better that she keep this to herself.
After all she don't want to add more problems to Minato and Kushina knowing that some unknown force that they don't even know if it's good or evil have helped them.
"well i dunno about you guys but i think that everyone need to go back home and rest, this have been one hell of a night" Akira said making everyone nod.
Jiraiya chuckled "can't agree more kid, i better go and see my spy network and see if i can get anything about this mysterious demon that attacked Minato and his family" he said and shunshin away. Hiruzen nodded and couldn't agree more with his student, he want that demon pay for killing his wife and good deal of people from Konoha.
"i agree with the pervert, it's best that we quickly find that monster before he strike again, now if you excuse me i have some patients and a apprentice who have yet to show up to tend to" Tsunade said as she walked out, Kushina lied down the bed as everything that have transpired have finally taken a toll on her and right now she just want to sleep.
but there was something she need to do before go to sleep, she looked over to Akemi and held her arms out "Nee-chan, can i hold Naruto for a little bit, i want to say my goodbye to him" Akemi nodded and let Kushina take the baby from her arms.
Kushina stroke the baby's hair while she couldn't stop crying knowing that she will never be able to raise him, sure she might see him time to time but it wouldn't feel the same. She looked down to his eyes who stretched his tiny hands toward her while gurgling happily.
"look at you, how can someone so adorable be considered evil by some constipated bastard just because you're not human? Naruto... No matter what you are, either a human, youkai or an alien it doesn't matter to me or your father you're special, you were born to do great things i know it..." She said.
Minato sat next to his wife bed as he looked at his son with a smile, he couldn't hold back his tears as he would never be able to raise his son like any proud father would and he hope that his Cousin and his wife will protect him no matter what "you hear that Naruto? to us your our most precious son and it literally hurts us to give you away for your safety, i hope that one day you will find someone to love and raise a family of your own"
Kushina nodded as she continue "Like your father said Naru-chan, your our beloved little fox... i want you to eat your vegetables and brush your teeth every day you hear me? a-and make sure not cause too many problems for Akemi and her dork of a husband, but if he tries anything to turn you into a pervert prank the hell out of him" "hey!" ignoring him she continued "And a-always remember, your daddy and mommy will always love you no matter what, goodbye my little maelstrom" with that she kissed his forehead and shakily gave Naruto back to Akemi trying not to burst into tears.
Akemi who listened their speech to their son couldn't help but shed a tear, having your child taken away from you just to make sure he's safe is heartbreaking but it was for Naruto's sake.
"Kushina i promise you, i'll protect Naruto with everything that i have... if those bastards on the council or Mamoru tries anything i'll castrate them with a rusty spoon" Akemi said, Kushina couldn't help but chuckle "i know that you will nee-chan, please take care..." she said and then fell asleep, satisfied that she used last of her energy to say her goodbye to her baby.
Akemi looked sadly at the sleeping form of Kushina, it's amazing that she still went on despite everything she went through without losing consciousness. Having Kyuubi taken out from her, finding out her son was born with the family curse and the baby nearly killed by a constipated bastard who followed their clans barbaric laws.
"Man this is messed up... all of this because of bunch of assholes messing everything up" Akira said, Cain and Minato agreed with Akira. All this madness that happened was all because of a damn demon and an old messed up law made by foolish humans from the past destroyed everything that Kushina and Minato always wanted, a family.
But suddenly the door slammed opened and two young kids ran in, one with black spiky hair and wearing goggles while have bandages covering his left eye, he wore a long sleeved blue uniform and a blue jacket with an orange collar and trimmings and has the Uchiha clan crest on the back, he wore a white belt and shinobi sandals.
The other one is few year younger than his teamate who have silver spiky hair, wearing a Konoha headband that also covered his left eye and wearing a face mask that cover half of his face. He wore a black T-shirt with white stripes in the middle of the sleeves. On his arms he wears black sleeves with metal arm protectors over them. He also has leather straps around his back and chest, and a Tanto strapped on the back, he wore black pants and blue shinobi sandals.
These kids are Obito Uchiha and Kakashi Hatake, Minato's surviving genin team.
"Minato-sensei are you alright!?" Obito half shouted and half asked, earning a smack behind his head by Kakashi.
"OW! the hell teme!?" Kakashi sighed as he pointed at the sleeping form of Kushina "don't you see Kushina-san is sleeping?" Obito blinked before grinned sheepishly while rubbing back of his head "hehehehe... sorry" he wisphered.
Minato chuckled "don't worry Obito, Kushina have been through a lot so i doubt she's waking up for a while" he said, Obito sighed in relief as he wouldn't get punished by Kushina for waking her up while Kakashi nodded at his sensei. Noticing Akemi and Akira he bowed to them out of respect "Akemi-san, Akira-san it's nice to see you again" Akemi smiled and nodded to Kakashi answered back "it's good to see you again Kakashi, Obito"
Obito grinned when he saw Akira he held his fist toward him "Akira-san long time no see!" Akira grinned as well and bumped his fist against Obito's "nice seeing you too kiddo!" and then Akemi and Kakashi smacked the idiots back of their head for being too loud.
Hiruzen chuckled as he watched them getting smacked around and turned to Minato "well Minato if you excuse me, there is something i need to attend to so good luck" Minato nodded "sure thing Hiruzen and thank you for your help with all of this" The retired hokage just chuckled and told Minato it was nothing as he left.
Minato watched as the old man left and turn to see Akemi angrily lecture Akira and Obito who has big bumps on their head, likely from getting hit on the head.
He can't help but sweatdrop as he chuckled at the scene, remembering how Kushina and Akemi would lecture Obito and Kakashi... or Akira mostly for either being reckless and doing stupid things that might have gotten themself killed. Suddenly he get depressed that certain someone who will never be able to live these happy moments with her teamates and her sensei.
Thinking about that if he wasn't away on that mission he might have saved Rin from taking Kakashi Raikiri through the chest, just to make sure the mist plan never succeed from destroying Konoha within with Sanbi, the three tailed turtle.
Just then he can't help but thank the Silver Creek's Guardian Deeha for saving Obito before being crushed by a boulder after he and Kakashi saved Rin from the Iwa nins, it was fortunate that the Argonian battle mage was nearby and destroyed the falling boulder before it crushed Obito and replaceed Obito's eye after he gave his sharingan to Kakashi after losing his eye against the Iwa nins with a rather special eye that he created with his magic.
Ever since then the two kids have become best friends after the mission and Minato can't help but thank Kami that Obito survived and manage to snap Kakashi out of his depression from killing Rin and told him that feeling sorry won't bring her back but to keep living and continue live happy.
That would what Rin wanted.
Minato smiled as he remembered that after Obito brough Kakashi back from his deep depression and couldn't be any prouder as their sensei.
Akemi looked at the clock and saw it was very late and her son probably worried why his parents haven't come home yet, sighing she turn to Minato and said "Minato me and Akira need to go back, Fenrir probably worried that we haven't come home yet" Mianto nodded "it's alright and thanks for everything Akemi and tell your son me and Kushina said hi"
Akemi nodded as Obito and Kakashi looked in confusion, wondering what's going on and where is their Sensei son is.
"...hey Sensei where's Naruto? didn't you say Kushina was giving birth today? and why is Akemi-san holding a baby fox youkai?" Obito asked while Kakashi nodded wondering about it as well.
Minato sighed and answered "i tell you guys later, only that you guys promise me never tell anyone what i'm about to tell you alright?" the kids nodded. Akira walked over to his wife while watching baby who have fallen asleep, it was kind of amazing how easily the kid fell asleep when everyone seem to be shouting like idiots... wait did he call himself an idiot just now?
Shaking his head he placed his arm around Akemi and commented "it's kind of amazing how everything went smoothly, i expected some kind of fight from either Mamoru or one of Danzo's drones but neither of that happened" Akemi nodded as Cain walked up to them "perhaps lady fortune is in our favor for once" he said.
Akemi shrugged "honestly i'm just glad the baby is alright, Cain do you think you could teleport us back to Silver Creek? i doubt some of the people outside would like to see me carrying a baby kitsune around" "actually i was about ask you if you and Akira wanted to teleport back to the village but very well" the old wizard said as he took out a Portal scroll.
The portal scrolls are one of Cain's many created magical artifact within Elemental nations and it is useful for anyone want a quick way to come home.
Cain opened the scroll and tossed away, the scroll suddenly exploded into dark blue partical of light that opened up a man sized rift in the air. Obito and Kakashi were amazed while Minato looked in interest, he heard of those Portal scrolls but never seen them being used before, so watching them how they worked is pretty interesting.
Akira whistle at the work of the portal scroll "man i heard you mentioning about them Akemi but hot damn that's just awesome" he said.
Akemi nodded and turn to Minato "Goodbye Minato, take care and make sure Kushina doesn't do anything stupid" Minato just chuckled as he waved goodbye to them "sure and see you three one day, take care" the three nodded and stepped through the portal, once they gone through the portal it closed itself in bright blue flash.
Minato watched where they once stood and can't help but sigh. Ever since the end of the third great shinobi war he thought that both he and Kushina could live happily with their baby in peace since they were no longer in war but apparently it was not to be, sighing once again he glanced at his wife sleeping peacefuly and thanked whoever the weird fox woman he summoned was allowed her to continue to live and not taking his soul.
although he was curious who that strange winged woman was, he can't help but getting the feeling that he might see more of her in the future.
Shaking his head he glanced the last time where Akemi and the others once where and thought "Naruto, know this that both me and your mother will always love you no matter what, whatever sort of profession you choose we will alway be proud of you... And whatever you do don't make us grandparents too early or i never hear the end of Obito and Akira calling me an old man"
chuckling at the last part he turned toward his students "Kakashi, Obito you two better go home and rest, we got a lot of work to do tomorrow" both of them nodded as they shunshin away, leaving their sensei with his wife to tend to.
{Elsewhere at Silver Creek}
Within a large village that nearly rival Konoha by size, at the main plaza a blue flash of light appeared and open a portal right in the very air and out came Akemi, Akira and Deckerd Cain.
Once they were through the portal close behind them and Akira stretched his arms "Man! that sure saved us time and energy!" he exclaimed.
Cain nodded with a smile "indeed, why do you think i created the Portal scrolls for?" Akemi looked around as she saw the familiar medieval-styled town, from what she heard of Silver Creek when she moved over here years ago is that when the Refugees came to the fire country through sea they were given a land by the fire Daimyo so that they can rebuild their home that was stolen from them by a power hungry government known as the aldmeri dominion or as many call them the Thamlor.
Honestly she don't know much about these Thamlors but from what she heard from the people who escaped the land of Tamriel they are bad news and that's all she need to know.
Shaking her head she turn to Cain and Akira "Anyway lets go back to the shrine, i'm sure my little wolf is worried why we haven't come back for several hours, plus giving him the good news that he's a big brother now" Akira nodded with a smile as he remember the awkward situation with their son asking for a little brother. He cuckled as how deep red Akemi was and Cain laughing his ass off back then.
Cain on the other hand shook his head "sorry lass, but i it is time for me to go now" he said. Akemi and Akira looked at the old man in confusion and then remembered that today was the day he's going to the most dangerous place in the world.
The frozen wasteland up north, the Arreat Crater.
The married couple got worried now, they heard many things about that... Crater, it been said that many adventurers and even royal armies have gone to the frozen wasteland and never returned. Some manage to come back but they were never the same ever again, those who came back were insane and spoke in some weird language none have ever heard before.
"Old man... are you really SURE that your willing to go to that crater?" Akemi asked, she didn't want to lose her old mentor.
Sure he may be an old pervert and complain a lot of back problems but he have been there for her when she was still learning to use both the Hakurei blade and the yin-yang orbs, also he was the one who taught her everything he could where Konoha failed at.
Cain nodded "I'll be honest with you Akemi... i don't want to do this but the damn Thamlor forced my hand to travel to the most cursed place of the world" Akira raised an eyebrow "The Thalmor? what did they do this time?" he asked. Cain sighed as he stroke his beard "They are looking for something... and the place they're looking for is at the very crater i'm going to" Akemi instantly frowned at that, if they are willing to waste reasources and men looking for something at the Frozen wasteland then it can't be good.
After all those Elves aren't exactly fond of the humans living the elemental continent for taking in refugees whom they been chasing for years, especially their most hated enemy whom fled to the continent leading all of the refugees away from the dominion.
Who is their most hated enemy you may ask? well it is no other than the Dragonborn himself.
Although that was over two century ago and Akemi doubt that the Dragonborn is alive after all these years... Then again she could be wrong since it is proven that anyone can become some sort of Youkai and live very long time.
Cain sighed as he really didn't want to do this but there was no telling what the Thalmor might find if they succeeded, after all he have his fair share of troubles running into them and had to fight them off since they have been after his knowledge of...Well everything about the world, for a very long time now.
But if they do find what they are looking for... the world will soon looking grim very soon.
"...*sigh* well looks like this is it, take care Akemi and you too my boy... i may not return alive but promise me this, take good care of the baby and make sure that heartless bastard Mamoru isn't trying anything, alright?" getting a sad nod from the couple he flashed a grin as he walked away.
Who knows how long this journey will take and will he survive this dangerous trip? time will tell.
Akemi and Akira watched as Cain walked away and disappeared within a flash of light, likely one of his other teleport creations. Shaking her head, she and her husband walked toward the large hills outside the town which where their home is located near the forest.
Akira yawned as he stretched his arms, today have been rather eventful, first the Kyuubi being controlled by a demon from the Burning hells, second his Cousin son born as a youkai and nearly killed by a overzealous bastard with a stick up his ass and last the old man Cain going away to the most dangerous place on the planet and there's a high chance that he might get kill over there.
Akira sighed as he wondered what those Thalmor people were thinking of finding over there, he won't be surprise if that a great deal of Thalmor have died finding something that was never there to begin with.
Akemi on the other hand was thinking how she'll Protect Naruto from Konoha, Danzo and his pawns on the council have always tried to find a way to get either her or her son to be their weapon for that village and after adopting Naruto they will likely go after him too. Frowning, she wouldn't be surprised is that Danzo and the Council will likely use the kyuubi incident to gain some political powers behind Minato's back.
Shaking her head, Humans can be so damn corrupted it's not even funny.
"say Akemi-chan, wonder how will Fenrir react to that we Adopted the little guy here?" Akira asked, snapping her out of her thoughts "honestly i think he'll be ecstatic with joy that he has a little brother now" she answered and Akira nodded "i think so too, but still kinda worried if those butt stabbers back Konoha won't try anything when they learn we adopted the kid" he wondered.
"I was thinking the same thing, Danzo and his pets are likely finding out we adopted the baby and will likely try take him when we aren't looking"
Akira nodded, the mummy bastard won't let this chance getting a baby kitsune youkai out of his reach so they have to make sure keep an eye on Naruto all the time and never leave him or Fenrir alone as well, it's a good thing Kushina and Minato placed a lot of seals around the shrine to keep any shinobi's with evil intent coming for them.
"i can see the shrine now" Akemi said as they could see a rather plain but good looking shrine from the distant near the woods, the main house is a simple shrine while behind it was a storage house and an outhouse, not far from the shrine was a small field where they grew vegetable in case of money shortage. Akemi smiled when she saw it, sure it's not the same shrine back in Gensoyko when it was just her and her twin sister lived there but it's home and served her well for many years.
Akira grinned when he saw two familiar figures near the shrine and from the looks of it they were sparring, he sprinted toward them as he shouted "HEEEEY!" this got the two attention.
Over at the front yard of the shrine a young 4 year old boy with short black spiky hair, blue eyes and slight pale skin, wearing a black shirt with the yin-yang symbol on the back, red shorts that reach down bellow his knees and normal shinobi sandals looked over to see his father sprinting toward them and waving his arms around like an idiot.
This boy is Fenrir Tsukino Hakurei, son of Akemi and Akira.
Fenrir saw his father running toward them and grinned, he dropped the wooden training sword and ran toward his father and jumped into his arms "Dad!" he exclaimed.
Akira grinned as he hugged his son "whoa there fella! don't try break my spine will ya?" he joked which he got a giggle from Fenrir.
"you two certainly took your time" a deep but gentle voice comments, not too far from the son and father stood a humanoid lizard man with dark grey bluish scales and has fins for ears, Silver reptile eyes and he's wearing a robed armor with a Glass longsword attached to his side. This Argonian is no other than Deeha, the Silver Creeks most powerful village guardian it ever has.
Akemi walked by her husband as she greeted the guardian "hello Deeha, sorry for making you baby sitting our son but we were worried for Minato and Kushina and had to go see that they were alright" the Argonian just chuckled "it's no problem at all Akemi, beside everything is alright in the village? Biju are very destructive being after all" both the couples nodded "yeah, Minato and Kushina survived and half of konoha survived as well, although we found out the culprit of the Kyuubi incident might be a demon from the Burning hells if Minato's description of that guy is anything to go by" Akira said which Deeha instantly frowned "A demon? what business does a Demon of Oblivion have anything to do with a Shinobi village?" he asked.
Akemi shrugged "no idea, the only thing we found out it was after the kyuubi and nothing else" she answered.
Fenrir who was about to greet his mother when he saw she was holding something in her arms, being a curious young boy he can't help but ask "mama, what's that in your arms?" Akemi smiled when he asked, she kneeled down to show Fenrir and said "Fenrir i want to say hello to your little brother".
Fenrir eyed widen and couldn't help but be excited, when his mother showed his new brother to him the first thing he said when he saw him was "wow he got cat ears and a bushy dog tail!" Akira laughed while Akemi just chuckled "actually dear it's fox ears and tail" Fenrir tilted his head at that "but wait does that mean my new little brother is a yukei?" "it's Youkai Fenrir but yes, we took him in after his mother sacrificed herself to seal kyuubi away and asked us to look after her son" Akemi answered.
Deeha cocked his eyes when she mention the fox woman "wait what? who sacrificed herself to stop the biju? i don't know any kitsune around here, also where did she seal the kyuubi at?" he asked. "can't tell you, we promised Minato not to tell anyone where the Kyuubi is sealed without fearing the same demon coming back for revenge" Akemi answered, Deeha nodded, it's probably best if he didn't know where it is sealed.
"um mommy can i hold him?" Fenrir asked as he want to hold his adopted brother, honestly he really didn't care if his brother is a youkai or not. Akemi nodded and gently held him to Fenrir which he took the baby carefully not to drop him by accident, it was that moment Naruto decided to wake up and saw a new face staring at him, gurgled in curiosity which made Fenrir giggle "i think he likes me!" Fenrir said which everyone smiled and chuckled.
"by the way where's the old fart?" Deeha asked as he saw Cain was nowhere to be seen as the last time he saw the old man we went with Akemi and Akira toward Konoha several hours ago.
"he decided to travell to that cursed crater" Akira answered.
"i see... hopefully the old bastard makes it"
"i hope so too Deeha, i really hope so..." Akemi muttered.
Fenrir looked back and forth at his parents and uncle Deeha, not really sure what they were talking about but didn't ask as he thought it was another boring talk between grown up. He looked back to his little brother and asked "dad, mom, what's his name?" this made both of them tense up, they want to tell their son his name is Naruto but feared that if someone finds out he has the same name of Minato and Kushina 'Deceased' son they will get suspicious and likely investigate.
"...i... i dunno, his mother never told us his name" Akira said, not sure how to respond, Akemi said nothing as she didn't know either how to respond to that.
"...how about Firion?" Deeha answered, everyone looked at him in confusion "why Firion?" Akira asked "it's the name of a great champion during the Oblivion crisis four hundred years ago back in my home continent" he answered. Akemi and Akira thought for a moment and nodded, Firion sounded somehow... right.
"Firion... yeah why not, it's perfect" Akemi said. Fenrir nodded too as he liked the name as well, he looked down to the baby and exclaimed "Hello Firion! my name is Fenrir, i'm your older brother!" Akemi smiled while the men just chuckled. Akemi can't express how happy she is that Fenrir already bonded with his adopted brother, a small part of her worried that if Fenrir wouldn't accept Naruto but seems like it she didn't have to worry about.
Akira walked over to his family as patted Fenrir's back as he looked at firion happily, he was happy and sad. Happy for Naruto get to live and Fenrir getting a little brother, sad that Minato and Kushina will never be able to raise Naruto as his true parents without Mamoru and the Council ruining it.
Akemi smiled as she stroke Firion's hair and said "Welcome to the family Firion".
To everyone looking at this scene they would see a happy family welcoming a new family member to their home, not caring that he was an outsider nor a human. But what none of them knew, deep down within Firion's soul a familiar Orb lies dormant, waiting till the day that come for Firion call for it aid and realize his true destiny.
The destiny of the Knight of the Dragon Heart.
AAAAAAAAAAAAAND DONE!
Holy crap! this took frickin long to finish and this is just the Prologue of the story!
I... I be honest i was planning for the Prologue to be either 3000 or 4000 words NOT OVER 20000 WORDS!
But i felt like you all waited for me to upload the remake for so long and i felt bad for you guys have to wait like two frickin months for me to upload the first chapter of the remake... well the Prologue chapter if i'm correct (though one hell of a long one) but still i'm happy that it's done and show you all i'm working on it and haven't abandon it at all.
As for everyone have noticed something and probably asking "what happened to some of your stories? they are all GOOOOOOONE!" yes they are gone because A: i didn't like how they began or which the direction they were going toward, B: i want to redo some of my old stories and correct them, C: i'm drunk.
But anyway i know this Prologue probably not 100% grammar proof but I'm willing to learn and gain more experience writing since well English isn't my native language as I live in Sweden but like I said i'm willing to learn more and if you guys know any writing program that can help me and correct my grammar, i would appreciate it so much as it would make writing things a little bit better for both me and for you guys reading my stories.
Anyway you all notice that this story isn't just one Crossover of Naruto and Touhou but many others as well, because I've been planning for a long time before winter that i want to make this a story of world travel between worlds and if you guess it correctly then yes, this won't be the only the Elder scrolls and diablo series be added in this crossover as other anime and games will be added in as well.
what games and anime will i put in? well that's a secret :D
anyway about the poll of which pairing you want for Naruto to be with and i honestly surprised that many people still want me to continue the Naruto x Cirno pairing like i did in my old story.
But i will add another week and see now how many will vote on their favorite pairing and this time the Poll will be closed and the pairing you guys want will happen and there's no returning back so vote wisely which pairing you guys want, once the poll closed i will start a new one for Fenrir as he's also the second Main character of the story.
That's right Naruto won't be the only main character of this story as i want to focus on other characters as well and see their struggle through all trial thrown against them, but also many of you probably asking about Obito not in Madara clutches and how will this affect the Eye of the Moon Plan.
Honestly Madara can just get another puppet seeing as the world of Naruto is connected with the world of Elder scrolls and there are people who can mind control others and do their bidding but also has horrible past so he really didn't have any shortage of easily controlled poor fools to take and stab them later.
But also if anyone asking where in the timeline of the elder scroll is taken place in, well Alduin is pretty much dead like two centuries ago by the Dragonborn so this is a whole new timeline and Thalmor are in control of Tamriel and the emperor is nothing more their puppet to control so be expecting them in the near future. Also anyone asking about Deckard Cain and how the hell is he alive when in fact he was killed in Diablo 3, well let just say this Deckard Cain is the reincarnate of the old Deckard Cain, hope that answered your question.
Anyway i'll be taking a break for a little while, waking up 04:15 Am and working from near 6 Am till 4 PM and working on the story is NOT a good combination and i think i can only work on weekends on the story without the place i'm working at won't drain all of my energy (=_=;)
seriously you guys have no frickin clue how tired I am after work and i have to go working on the story as well!? *sigh* looks like i can only work on my story on weekends because that's where i'm at fully rested and can work on it at 100%.
Anyway I just want to say that i'm happy that i finally uploaded the Remake and I'll be updating my profile of my OC since they as well will be put in this story and I kind of wanted to change them but haven't got the time to do so. Now though i'll be updating them so they current one you see when cheeking my profile for information about my OC won't be put in this story due to how old the information is.
Anyway that's all I want to say and i hope you all enjoyed it.
UltraZeta120Moron signing off.
