A/N - This story will be in an AU though my personalities will remain the same while many are heavily exaggerated (Sakura's love for Sasuke). I plan on doing something different unlike many of the other stories. I hope you all enjoy

Inside a rom with multiple candles light, Kushina Uzumaki Namikaze was giving birth to her son, Naruto Uzumaki Namikaze. Her husband, Minato Namikaze who was known as The Yellow Flash and the Fourth Hokage, had been standing right by her side as she was giving birth. In the arms of the Third Hokage's wife, a beautiful blond haired boy sat in the woman's arms. All of a sudden, she drops to the ground along with the assistants she had.

Holding a kunai to the newborn Baruto Namikaze, the man in a black cape and orange mask that had a swirl to reveal a single Sharingan eye had ordered Minato to get away from his wife or his child dies. Having thrown the baby in the air, Minato performed the Hiraishin and flashed to his son. When he noticed the exploding tags on Naruro's blanket, he quickly removed the blanket. At that time, the masked man vanished with Kushina.

Minato quickly flashed to his family's compound where he laid Naruto down in his crib. Outside the village, being held up by a series of seals, Kushina hung as her body ached in utter pain. The pain went through a series of hand seals and had taken a stream of crimson chakra from Kushina's body. To his surprise, Kushina was still alive though it was hardly. By the time Minato arrived, the man had vanished once more.

Taking his wife back home and placed her in the crib with Naruto, Minato placed his robes that declared he was the Fourth Hokage. "I'll be right back." Minato said to his wife and son. Meanwhile, inside the village, the masked man released Kyuubi by summoning it and letting it cause massive chaos and destruction. When Minato arrived to the Hokage's monument, both he and the man vanished away with their time-space jutsu.

"Who are you and why are you attacking the leaf?" Minato asked as he took the Namikaze Hummingbird Taijutsu style he developed.

"Fourth Hokage, it's time for the lead to end." The masked man said and charged while slashing away with his metallic chains.

"To be this skilled and be able to not only summon Kyuubi but to have it under control... Are you Madara Uchiha?" Minato asked the man as they clashed once more with each other.

Due to both ninja using their teleportation jutsu, neither of them were able to strike each other. "Time is running out. Do you attack me or save your village?" The man taunted.

"I'll do both!" Minato declared as he and the masked man charged. As they passed through each other, Ninaro was able to counter his time space jutsu by using the Hiraishin and landing his massive Rasengan into his back while marking him with the Hiraishin seal.

Immediately, Minato vanished and went through another series of hand seals. "Fuin Release - Contract Sealing Release!" Minato roared as he slammed his palm into the masked man's stomach. Mikes away, The nine tailed Fox's eyes reverted from their Sharingan to their normal demonic slits.

"Impressive Minato Namikaze! You live up to your title. I'm afraid this little dance must end. Have fun with your village and try not to be late." The masked man said as he vanished in a swirl.

Minato used the Hiraishin and had appeared back on the Hokage's monument where he and Kyuubi made eye contact. "Oh? Did you notice me?" Minato asked. Using its demonic chakra, a large sphere that was black with purple, blue, and red chakra swirling around it was fired off. Going through a set of seals, Minato used the Hiraishin Release - Guiding Thunder Barrier which redirected Kyuubi's attack.

Realizing that he needed to get the fix out of the village, Minato used the Hiraishin Release - Flying Thunder God Second Step : The Yellow Flash and threw his kunai toward the Fox which allowed him to warp and mark the beast while transporting them away from the village. This brought ease and cheers from the villagers until they were reminded that they needed to help the injured.

Minato then warped to Kushina and Naruto and brought them back to where the Fox was. While he didn't want to do it, Minato believed that sealing Kyuubi inside of Naruto would be the only way to make sure the Fox never attacks again. Kyuubi began roaring and when it saw Minato, Kushina suddenly used her Adamantine chains to help due the beast.

"Minato! Seal it back inside of me! I'll take it down with me!" Kushina cried out.

Minato looked at his wife. "I can't... It will only reform in a few years. I need to seal it away to make sure that it won't do anything to the village ever again!" Minato shouted.

"No! No! No! You can't! Not to my Naruto!" Kushina screamed as the tears were coming out.

Minato remained silent as the tears fell from his eyes. "There is only way I can do this..." Minato thought as he went through a multiple number of hand seals and behind him, the Shinigami which was known as the Reaper of Death, had appeared.

"No! Minato!" Kushina cried out.

"I'm going to seal half of Kyuubi's chakra inside of me. This way, Naruto will be able to contain and keep the Fox at bay. Naruto will be treated as a hero by keeping the village safe." Minato said.

"You know how Jinchuriki are treated." Kushina said.

"Not here. This village contains more love than Iv ever seen anywhere else. Naruto will be loved and cared for. He will be the hero of Konoha, I promise." Minato said. He then proceeded to have the Shinigami slice Kyuubi in half and took the Yin half of his chakra.

Kyuubi roared out and when it saw that it was going to be sealed inside of a baby, it went to strike until both Kushina and Minato got in the way. Having a massive claw of demonic chakra pierce their bodies, neither of them had any hope of survival.

"It's time! Fuin Release - Eight Trigrams Seal!" Minato shouted and Kyuubi's form turned into a stream of crimson chakra that was sent to the stomach of Naruto and a black seal that looked like a swirl appeared. "Kushina, we need to transfer the rest of our chakra inside of him... We need to say what we need to say..." Minato said as he used all his might to stand up.

"Naruto... I want you to know that I love you more than anything. You are my son, I know you'll grow up and make many friends and grow up to protect the village. Please don't follow the path of Lord Jiraiya and his research. Please only drink when you're old enough. Find a woman who you love and loves you. I'm so sorry that I won't be around to watch you grow up." Kushina said as she passed out and her soul crossed the threshold into the afterlife.

"Hey Naruto... I love you and want you to know that you are the true hero tonight. I may not be here to watch you grow up and become the man I know you will be. I know that Lady Tsunade... Lord Jiraiya sensei... and Kakashi won't let you be alone. I love you son and I promise that one day we will see each other agian." Minato said before his body vanished and the Shinigami swallowed his soul before vanishing.

Running along with a few Anbu, Hiruzen Sarutobi, fully dressed in his combat suit had arrived. "Minato! Kushina!" Hiruzen shouted as he could only see the blond haired baby with the Eight trigrams seal on his stomach.

"Lord Third! Kyuubi transformed into the baby! We need to kill it!" Shouted one of the Anbu as he prepared to strike until Hiruzen stopped him.

"Are you crazy? This is Naruto Uzumaki Namikaze! He's the son of Minato and Kushina! I will not let anyone harm this child!" Hiruzen roared.

The Anbu stood down as they waited for further instructions. Hiruzen ordered them to assist with the village while he returned to the Hokage's office where he would keep Naruto safe

A few hours passed before Hiruzen's long time friend, Danzo Shinura, Konoha's old war hawk entered his office. "Hiruzen! We are having a council meeting. Your presence has been requested." Danzo said before he realized that his friend was holding a baby.

"I understand. Please inform the council I'll be there shortly." Hiruzen said.

"Hiruzen, who is that?" Danzo asked while looking at the blond baby with whisker marks.

"This is Naruto Uzumaki Namikaze. He is the son of Minato and Kushina." Hiruzen explained.

"I see... So he's become just like his mother?" Danzo asked and has left after Hiruzen gave a soft nod.

The council room was filled with discussions about the events that took place this evening. Inside the council, their were three separate branches. The Shonobi side which consisted of clan heads and the civilian side that consisted of many popular clan members: The last section consisted of the Hokage's advisors who often placed their input and advised the hokage on what they recommend. Of course, being the Hokage, Hiruzen could ignore the council himself and make whatever decision he wanted.

The shinobi council consisted of Hiashi Hyuga, the head of the Hyuga clan, Fugaku Uchiha, the head of the Uchiha clan, Shibi Aburame, the head of the Aburame clan., Tsune Inuzuka, the head of the Inuzuka clan, Shikaku Nara, the head of the Nara clan, Inoichi Yamanaka, the head of the Yamanaka clan, Choza Akimichi, the head of the Akamichi clan, Kakashi Hatake, the head of the Hatake clan, Asuma Sarutobi, who recently became the head of the Sarutobi clan once his father resumed the title of Hokage. Kushina had represented the Uzumaki, Senju, and Namikaze clan since Minato had become the Hokage.

The civilian side was ran by Mebuki Haruno. She was often a dictator and tried every possible trick in the book to give the civilian side as much power as she could.

Hiruzen had entered the council chambers and had silenced everyone with his presence. Nobody failed to see that he was holding a baby boy with whiskers on his face.

"Lord Third, with all due respect, why do you have a baby?" Asked Shikaku.

Hiruzen gave a sad sigh. "In my hand is Naruto Uzumaki Bamikaze, the son of Minato and Kushina." Hiruzen announced.

"Where is Lord Fourth and Lady Kushina?" Asked the silver haired boy with a blue mask that covered the bottom half of his face asked.

"Kakashi... It pains me to say this but both Minato and Kushina are dead." Hiruzen announced.

Many of the civilians and shinobi held their head down in sadness. While the civilian side didn't always agree with the Hokage, many of them had massive respect for Minato for his kind and loving nature.

"Hiruzen, I do believe that the council deserves to know exactly what happened to baby Naruto." Danzo declared.

Hiruzen glared at his king time friend as he figured out how to address this. He smirked slightly that only Danzo could see it before speaking. "Before I reveal this, I'm passing a law that this is an S class secret. The punishment for breaking this law will be execution on the spot without trial. I wish for Naruro's heritage of being Minato and Kushina's son to be kept secret." Hiruzen said.

"That's ridiculous! This boy is their son and deserves to know who his parents are!" Tsune roared.

"I agree. Wouldn't it be a good idea for Naruto to know who his parents are?" Asked Inoichi.

"While I agree, Naruto deserves to know about his heritage, unfortunately, botg Minato and Kushina had many enemies. If Naruto was declared as their son, it would place a massive target on his back." Hiruzen explained which made the clan heads nod.

"Explain the main reason behind your law." Danzo said while giving the same smile Hiruzen gave him that wasn't noticed by anyone else.

Hiruzen sighed. "Before Minato died, he sealed Kyuubi inside of Naruto. He did this to prevent another attack from this monster. By having it inside of Naruto, the village would no longer be at risk." Hiruzen said.

"No way! Lord fourth would never do that! That Fox is tricky and has taken the form of a child!" Shouted one of the civilian who charged at baby Naruto with a knife. Suddenly, one of the Anbu jumped down and killed the man in cold blood.

Hiruzen looked with a mixture of anger and sadness. "Okay... Can I please have a show of hands on who wishes to have Naruto executed because they believe he is Kyuubi's reincarnation?" asked Hiruzen.

A few hands from the civilian side went up while both Fugaku and Hiashi raised their hands. To their surprise, Kakashi rose his hand as well.

"I see... Who votes otherwise?" Hiruzen asked as he saw only a few from the civilian side raise their hands and the rest of the Shinobi raised their own. Seeing that Naruro's execution won the vote, he stood up. "It's a good thing that I'm the Hokage and an overrule this. Those who believe Naruto should die are too stupid to tell the difference between a scroll and a kunai." Hiruzen muttered before leaving the council chambers.

Inside his office, Hiruzen called fourth the only two Anbu who trusted, Shank Inuzuka and Ryuk Inuzuka. Hiruzen ordered them to watch over Naruto and if anything happens to him, he will destroy the entire Inuzuka clan while leaking a bit of killing intent. Hiruzen exited the office where he encountered Kakashi.

"Lord third... I was looking for you... I was hoping to see if I could meet Naruto?" Kakashi asked.

Hiruzen glares at his successor's former apprentice. "I do recall seeing your hand be raised for Naruro's execution. I will not have anyone attempt anything on Naruto" Hiruzen said before an explosion was heard form his office. Multiple civilians had been killed for trying to end Naruto's life. Without hesitation, Hiruzen found the Inuzuka dead from a special poison that was released from the civilian's bodies. For some reason, Naruto appeared unaffected. He grabbed Naruto softly and left with him.

Entering a secret meeting place, both Jiraiya and Tsunade along with her student, Shizune appeared. Hiruzen greeted his two former students and Shizune with a respectful bow.

"So that's him?" Jiraiya asked while looking at the blond.

Hiruzen nodded as he gave them a better look at the boy. Shizune was melting at how cute Naruto was. This made Hiruzen chuckle. Tsunade's glare was hard due to the resemblance that he shared with both Minato and Niwaki.

"I've called you two here because I would like for one of you to take Naruto in and raise him." Hiruzen said as he was slowly rocking Naruto.

Jiraiya glared at the boy and sighed. "I'm sorry sensei, but I can't." Jiraiya admitted.

Hiruzen looked at the white haired man with a suspicious look. "Why not? While I am aware of your spy network, don't you understand what Naruto contains?" Hiruzen asked.

Jiraiya Gabe an uncomfortable sigh. "I'm sorry sensei. I can't not because I'm busy, but because I refuse to care for what killed Minato." Jiraiya said. This made Shizune's eyes go wide along with Hiruzen.

"You fool! Can't you tell the difference between a scroll and a damn kunai?" Hiruzen asked as he roared at Jiraiya.

"Maybe if he was like Kushina and had received Kyuubi when he was twelve before it could corrupt his mind but I'm sure as we speak, it's already planning to turn him into a monster of mass destruction!" Jiraiya roared.

Hiruzen turned to face his other student who continued her deep glare. "No." was all Tsunade said before she ordered Shizune to follow her because they were leaving. "I'm sorry sensei, but I can't. He looks too much like Niwaki.

Hiruzen said in disappointment. "No, I' m skrry. I failed I realize how ignorant and truly pathetic my students are. Just leave." Hiruzen said as he vanished in a shun shin out of the room.

As he proceeded out of the room, Hiruzen was stopped once more though it was Tsune Inuzuka. Unlike Kakashi, she voted for Naruto to live and be treated as normal child. The Inuzuka family were descendants of the Uzumaki clan and though zhiruzen believed she would be a good fit to adopt Naruto, he feared for the boy's safety.

"I'm sorry Tsune... I know you care about the boy and you consider him family. However, due to his status as a Jinchuriki, I cannot allow Naruro to be adopted, at least right now." Hiruzen said in a sad tone.

Tsune nodded and gave Naruto a slight rub on his cheek. Hiruzen proceeded on where he planned to go to the medical ward where he would oversee Naruto being checked out.

When the two arrived to the medical facility, Mikoto Uchiha, a friend of Kushina had left the compound against Fugaku's wishes to help heal the injured. When she saw Hiruzen with the baby, he pulled her aside and they went to a private area so Mikoto could give Naruto a basic check up.

While she inspected Naruto head to toe, she noticed a few scars on his body. This had Hiruzen's concern due to the attack inside his office. Mikoto admitted to believing his Uzumaki blood being the prime cause. She then requested to test some of Naruto's blood. While feeling uneasy, Hiruzen agreed but made Mikoto swear on her life to keep it in secret.

A few days pass and to Hiruzen's anger and surprise, multiple shinobi and villagers had tried to kill the few day old boy. The Hokage had been through theee wars and had never seen such hatred toward such an innocent soul before, especially from the boy's own village. Hiruzen had met with Mikoto who had news about Naruto.

"Lord Third, I have never seen anything like this before." Mikoto said.

Trying to keep any and all information about Naruto a secret if he could help it. "Yes, please tell me everything." Hiruzen said.

"I was testing Naruro's DNA and of course, I used my Sharingan and easily saw both of Lord Fourtg's and Kushina's DNA. However, I also found a different kind of DNA. It was strange and I noticed the chakra inside his cells were dark. It was like an evil presence had mixed with his body." Mikoto explained.

Hiruzen sighed. "Mikoto, what I'm about to tell you is an S rank secret, punishable by death. Do you understand?" Hiruzen asked in a serious tone.

"Yes Lord Third." Mikoto said in a confused tone.

"Naruto is the Jinchuriki of Kyuubi. Minato had sealed the demon inside of Naruto, minutes after his birth." Hiruzen said with a sad expression.

Mikoto was shocked because her eyes opened wide. "I see... So that explains everything." Mikoto said.

"What else did you discover?" Hiruzen asked as his curiosity got the best of him.

"I know the Uzumaki clan were know for their strong life force. However, I noticed as I damaged some of the cells, within seconds, they repaired themselves and were significantly stronger." Mikoto explained.

Hiruzen's eyes opened wide at what he heard. "Are you saying that Naruto is basically impossible to kill?" Hiruzen asked.

"In theory, yes. I don't know how durable he is, but I do know that as his cells break, they restore themselves. If I had to guess, if he were to lose an arm or body part, it would grow back on its own. Not to mention, I believe it could work on his organs or even his brain." Mikoto pointed.

"This is an interesting discovery..." Hiruzen silently thought. "Okay, Mikoto, I need you destroy any information in regards to this along with never speaking of this. If the council or Danzo gets wind of this, I' afraid Naruto will be turned into an emotionless weapon." Hiruzen.

"Yes Lord Hokage. I've been going only on memory so their is no proof about any of this at all." Mikoto said.

The Hokage nodded. Once Mikoto explained Naruto seemed perfectly fine, the two exited the medical area. Hiruzen took Naruto down to his compound where he would figure out what would be best for baby Naruto."

Hiruzen arrived home where he saw his son, Asuma, who was spending time with his girlfriend, Kurenai. When they were greeted by the Hokage, they were shocked to see Naruto. It appeared that someone revealed the truth about Naruto being a Jinchuriki. While neither Kurenai or Asuma spoke up, on the inside, they were livid for all the destruction Kyuubi did. Hiruzen wasn't naive to the two in front of him and brought Naruto his room where he would kee watch over the boy.

Over the next few weeks, Naruto remained with Hiruzen until Mebuki declared that Hiruzen is technically a clan member and wouldn't be allowed to take him in with fear the Sarutobi clan might take over. It was decided that Naruto would be placed in civilian's care in the orphanage. Hiruzen didn't like it one bit but the one thing that gave him hope, was Naruro's ability to survive and handle any amount of damage. Though the newly reinstated Hokage feared the affect it will have on Naruto's mental health.

End Notes

- I know this is similar to cannon until after the events that took place. I wanted to give Naruto a form of immortality because truthfully, we all make him immortal since he is never killed (permanently) so I'm taking this route. Idk how I plan on going about Naruro's growth but he will be adopted by a special someone. I hope you guys enjoyed and like the format that I used. Thanks for any and all support.