The Ninja Overlord Part 1: Rise of an Overlord!

by The Dark Dragen

Final Arc of this story begins, read as Naruto slowly learns the truth not only about his family and what he is, but also learns what was done to him. But as he learns the truth, the seed of darkness slowly grows and blooms, where Naruto will begin to walk down a dark path. Dark/Naruto... please read and leave feedback.

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Chapter Three.

Kushina Uzumaki and Minato Namikaze - Part 3.

(Birth of Naruto Uzumaki.)

10th of October 1900 - Land of Fire, Few miles from Konohagakure:

We begin our story with Minato, Kushina and their four year old daughter Naruko, seating in front of a warm fire a few miles away from Konoha. The reason they were so far from the village, was because Kushina was with child again. Unlike normal childbirths, a childbirth for Jinchūriki like Kushina, it's a dangerous time. The reason for this, was because the seals that kept the Tailed Beast within them were at their weakest during this time, due to the nurturing of the child in the womb taking precedence over the reinforcement of the seal. So there was a risk of the Tailed Beast escaping and going on a rampage.

Because of this risk, some might wonder why women were made into a Jinchūriki, when such a danger existed. But the thing was, with the life of a ninja and as a Jinchūriki, there were many who didn't want children. As unless you were one of the better ones, or you give up being a ninja to have children, a life as a ninja can be a short one and you could be dead in a few years, if not sooner. And for someone who's a Jinchūriki, it's more dangerous seeing you have more people hating you because of what they were.

However, for Jinchūriki who do want to have children, as long as the proper preparations are taken, having a child or even multiple children wouldn't be a problem. As long as the woman had someone who can keep the seal steady and make sure the Tailed Beast can't escape, as well as restore their chakra that was taken to full power afterwards. Not only that, but they would need a small Sealing Team there, just in the case of if the Tailed Beast had indeed been able to escape. But as long as they took these preparations, there was no reason that a female Jinchūriki can't have children.

For Minato and Kushina, they had a hut built in a canyon area a few miles from the Hidden Leaf Village on top of a butte. The hut was built by Minato months before Naruko was born, so that Kushina would have a safe place to give birth to their daughter. When they were in the hut, they were protected by a powerful barrier, so that nothing could get in or out of it until it was down. Whilst the barrier was powerful, the Third Hokage had ANBU who were loyal to him, protecting the perimeter, to make sure no one tried to break the barrier.

Now like last time Minato and Kazuo, Kazuo was patrolling the area, were there to keep the seal steady and make sure the Tailed Beast didn't escape, whilst there were four Seal Masters around the hut so if the Fox did escape they could seal the Beast up again before it could do too much damage.

For the medical side of things, they had two medical ninja looking after Kushina during her pregnancy with Naruto, the same two who helped her with her pregnancy with Naruto. Biwako Sarutobi was the former Hokage's wife, and nineteen year old Tomoyo Kōdona.

Biwako was the only one able to keep the secret about the seal that was currently keeping the Nine Tail Beast weak during this time. Biwako had long, brown hair which she kept in a high ponytail, dark eyes, slightly visible creases at the corners of her eyes and her mouth. She wore a purple kimono-like dress, along with a white haori and sandals.

Tomoyo was Biwako's apprentice, she had shoulder length brown hair with bangs that hang over her forehead. She is usually seen wearing a single small hair clip. She has Hazel coloured eyes to match her short brown hair. She was wearing the basic medic ninja outfit, white medical jacket and pants with a white beret.

The group have been at the at the hut for a week, as their son was suspected to be born at any time. No one other than those there, knew that they were there at that moment. There was two reasons for this, the first was that for the handful of people who knew that Kushina was a Jinchūriki, could try could try and use this opportunity to try and control the Nine Tailed Beast for their own use. The second reason was that, should the Nine Tails did escape, they were far enough away from the village that they could fight it and reseal the beast before it got to the Village.

It was now their seventh day at the hut, and Minato was sitting in a soft chair, watching Naruko talk to Kushina's belly, telling her little brother Naruto to hurry up, as she wanted to play with him. Minato couldn't help but laugh at his four year old, and told her, "Naruko dear, it'll be a while before you can play with him."

"That's right dear." Kushina agreed with her husband.

"I know that Mummy, Daddy," the little blonde haired girl acknowledged, "but the sooner that he gets here, the sooner he can grow old so we can play with each other."

The two parent's couldn't help but laugh at this, it was the kind of thing that they suspected to come from the four year old. But as Minato sat back and watched his daughter and wife play with each other, his bright smile became a sad one as he thought about how they got here, and the loss that they had to deal with along the way. It all started a few months after he gained his Genin team, when it was announced that the problems that was happening around at the time had become so bad that it was now known as the Third Shinobi World War.

Thankfully though, neither he nor his team were called upon to fight in the war just yet, but that mainly because it was the start of the war. But as the war went on though, his obligations were split between training his students and helping with the war effort. But seeing that they could be called at any moment, he was forced to teach them war tactics and how to fight on a war front. It was hard work seeing that Obito and Kakashi could never pay nice with each other, while Rin was forced to play peacekeeper between the two.

It was his wife that pointed out the problem with Obito and Kakashi: Obito fancied Rin but she fancied Kakashi, however Kakashi had no feelings for her. So because Rin fancied Kakashi, and was better than him in almost every way, Obito hated him. Sadly for Minato, there wasn't much he could do about it.

Over the first year things were going on as normal. The war was still raging on, but as of yet, his team wasn't called into it. During the year, Kushina had grown close to his team, bringing lunch to them when they were in the village training. But because of Rin's cuteness, Kushina grew the closest to her, much to Rin's dismay, as his wife could be overbearing at times.

However, Rin dealt with it like a good Shinobi, considering it helped that during her free time, Rin was able to play with Naruko. Over the year Rin and Naruko became close, so close that whilst not related by blood, they thought of themselves as sisters. And should anyone hurt one of the two, may Kami have mercy on their souls, as the Red-Hot Habanero would not.

By the end of the year, Minato thought his team was ready to become chūnin and so he decided to put them through the exams. Sadly, only Kakashi was able to pass it by defeating Might Guy in the third and final exam, and so becoming a chūnin. So Minato spent the following year training Obito and Rin harder, so they could pass the exam the following year, which they did. Just as Obito and Rin became chūnin, the seven year old Kakashi became a jōnin, the youngest one ever. It was a few days later when shit hit the fan for Minato and his team, as they were finally called into the war.

Their first mission in the war was to destroy the Kannabi Bridge, as it would hinder Iwagakure from using Kusagakure as a relief point. But on the way to do so, shortly after entering Kusa, they encountered an Iwagakure scout. Upon encountering scout, Kakashi tried to eliminate him with his new jutsu, the Chidori, but the attack speed left him vulnerable to counter-attack, forcing Minato to step in, save Kakashi, and kill the scout himself.

Minato remembered that after that attack, there a scout from their own Village that appeared with orders that Minato was to head to the frontlines. So Minato then transferred leadership of the mission to Kakashi, but not before telling the young jōnin, to not use the Chidori again. If he knew what he knew now, Minato would be in two minds about what happened next. As he would have told them to wait and keep out of sight, and they would carry on with the mission once he returned.

The reason that he had been called to the frontlines, was because that the Konoha shinobi were outnumbered and most of them were either severely injured or were killed, but with his arrival and help, the surviving shinobi were able to wipe out the opposing Iwagakure forces. Thanks to him, they were victorious in this battle, which was against a thousand ninja, and it would later convince the Third Tsuchikage to accept a peace treaty with the Hidden Village. On that day, he gained the nickname the Yellow Flash and a 'flee on sight' in all the Bingo Books in the Elemental Nations.

Minato sighed sadly as he remembered that when he rendezvoused with his team afterwards, he found Kakashi and Rin were surrounded by Iwagakure forces. He soon found that Obito was dead, with Kakashi and Rin injured and barely able to fight. And so within his anger, Minato slaughtered the shinobi. Once he rescued them, he allowed them to recover, and as he did, he asked what happened.

Kakashi and Rin informed their leader, that shortly after he left for the frontlines, all three of them continued to trek further into Kusa. But as they did, they were found and surrounded by the scout's teammates,, who kidnapped Rin in order to find out what their mission was.

Kakashi informed Minato that Obito immediately suggested that they rescue Rin, but Kakashi elected to abandon her, as he believed it was more important to finish the mission as ordered, before concerning themselves with her safety. Obito refused to go along with this order, as he believed that teammates were more important than following orders, and so he was going to rescue his friend Rin. But before leaving, Obito told Kakashi that Sakumo, Kakashi's father, had been a true hero and that, whilst it was bad to abandon one's mission, those who would abandon their own teammates in order to complete a mission, were worse than scum. So Obito left the new jōnin, to carry out the mission alone.

Minato had a tear in his eye now as he remembered Rin taking the story from Kakashi and informed him that, during the kidnap she found out their names were Taiseki and Kakkō. And that Kakkō attempted to interrogate her by using genjutsu, to find out what their mission was, and if she knew anything about Konoha's war efforts. But thanks to her strong will though, they weren't able to break her, which till this day Minato was proud of. As not many at her age would be able to withstand interrogation under the right genjutsu.

Rin went on to explain that Obito was somehow able to locate the cave the enemy was using as a hideout and where she was being kept, but was found by a camouflaged Taiseki before he could launch a rescue. Here Kakashi told Minato that Obito's words had gotten to him, and that he was wrong all this time and so he went to help his teammate to save Rin. He arrived in time to save Obito from Taiseki with his White Light Chakra Sabre, which he had inherited from his father. During the attack though, Kakashi had lost the use of his left eye.

Minato remembered with a sad fond smile, that both Rin and Kakashi smiled sadly as they informed him that in his desire to help Kakashi, Obito awakened his Sharingan. It was thanks to this that Obito was able to see through Taiseki's camouflage and kill him. After defeating Taiseki, they rescued Rin. The problem was her other captor, Kakkō, who had caused the cave to collapse around them. Because of this, the team ran for the exit, but on their way out, due to his damaged eye, Kakashi was struck in his blind spot and had difficulty avoiding the falling rocks. Thankfully though, if you could call it thankfully, Obito noticed that Kakashi was about to be hit by a large falling boulder, so Obito pushed him out of the way, and in doing so, took his place.

Rin and Kakashi informed that the right side of Obito's body had been crushed, and they had no way to free him, but the young black haired boy didn't seem to care. He was happy that his friends were safe, Obito accepted his fate. In fact he made an offering, to replace Kakashi's lost eye, he gave his left Sharingan as an apology for not getting him a present earlier when Kakashi became a jōnin. Not because he didn't want to, but because he wasn't sure what to get the new jōnin. So this was a way to thank his friend for the help, and something he could give as a present that could help make Kakashi stronger. So as the team's shinobi medic, Obito asked Rin to do the transplant. It was hard, but knowing that time was against them, Rin wasted no time given the very grim circumstances, and had begun the procedure immediately.

After Rin transplanted Obito's Sharingan into Kakashi, the young Jōnin confronted Kakkō. During the fight, his White Light Chakra Sabre was destroyed, but he was able to kill Kakkō with Chidori; due to the Sharingan's heightened vision, Kakashi was finally able to handle its speed.

Kakashi informed his team leader that he went back to where Obito and Rin were, but Iwa reinforcements soon arrived and started constricting the rubble. Here Obito had asked him to take Rin away and keep her safe, which Kakashi did, leaving Obito behind. As they left the cave, they were surrounded by Iwagakure forces, and they were forced to defend themselves for as long as they could, holding the shinobi off until Minato eventually tracked them down and finished off the rest himself.

Once they were healed up and ready to head out, they left to finish the mission to destroy the Kannabi Bridge. When they had done that, they returned to Konoha to mourn Obito's death and give him the burial that he deserved. Despite many from the Uchiha clan being against Kakashi wielding a Sharingan as he had no blood-ties to them, Fugaku Uchiha, the Uchiha Head at the time, chose to honour Obito's dying actions and let Kakashi keep his gift.

Kakashi changed a lot since then, changed from being a loner, to someone who was committed to themselves to teamwork and always placed his teammates' well-being above the mission objective. He started to believe that goals can be accomplished more effectively together, asking for help when he needs it, providing help when it is requested of him, and even praise allies when they deserve it. An abuse of one's teammates is the only thing that can makes Kakashi cast aside his normally stoic demeanour, causing him to attack without mercy or his usual sense of sportsmanship.

Thinking about the last few years, brought more tears to Minato, and his daughter saw him and asked, "Daddy, why are you crying?"

"Oh I'm thinking about the past sweetheart," Minato told his daughter, "and I remembered some sad moments that's all."

"Okay daddy." Naruko told her father as she hugged him.

Kushina watched the father and daughter, and she suspected what was wrong. He had been thinking about the deaths of two of his students, Obito and Rin. Obito died protecting his friends, whilst Rin died a few months later as she threw herself in front of an attack from Kakashi. This wasn't the first time he done so, he done so since their deaths, but have gotten better over the years.

Not surprising really, from what she was told, during a mission, Rin was kidnapped by Kirigakure, otherwise known as The Village Hidden in the Mist, for some unknown reason. Upon hearing about this, Kakashi went out and rescue his teammate. But on the way back to Konoha, Kakashi informed them that Rin revealed that Kiri had sealed the Three Tail Beast into her body with the intention to, once she inevitably lost control of it, have it unleashed on Konoha and destroy the village from within.

In order to prevent this from happening, Kakashi told them that Rin begged him to kill her, but he refused, unwilling to break his promise to Obito to protect her no matter what, and hoping to find some other solution. Before Rin could argue against this, Kirigakure ninja had caught up with them and tried to retrieve her, where Kakashi fought them off with his renamed Chidori, the Lightning Cutter.

During one of his attacks, Rin jumped in front of Kakashi's attack, and the young jōnin was unable to stop it and so stab his former teammate and friend. As she died, she told the masked boy that she was happy, as he would be safe. The young Hatake boy told them that the trauma of this caused his Sharingan to evolve into a Mangekyō Sharingan shortly before he passed out from exhaustion and heart break. He was later found by Konoha reinforcements, but none could explain the slaughter of all the Kiri forces.

When news of Rin's death came to them, she and Naruko were heartbroken, as Kushina thought of her as another daughter, and Naruko thought of her as an older sister. It took a while, but over time the pain lessened, but Naruko would cry when she heard the name of her older sister. Which is why they don't say their names around her, not until she at least gets older. She and Minato try and not think about them often, as they still cry when they do too.

They know that as a shinobi, death was just a matter of time the moment you become a genin, it was rare for one to die as one, but it is possible if you had bad luck. The possibility of death goes up so high once they become chūnin. But to die so at such a young age, not having the chance to live life, fall in love and have their own family was painful, even to a seasoned shinobi like Minato and Kushina. Sure as shinobi they were taught to suppress their feelings, but as a parent yourself, to see child die, a shinobi or not, it was hard for them. Minato was upset as he wasn't there for Rin, he believed that if he was there, he might have been able to save her by removing the Tail Beast. But he was away on another mission for the Third Hokage.

Kushina remembered that as time passed both the Third Hokage of the Hidden Village of the Leaf, from the Land of the Fire, and the Third Tsuchikage of the Village Hidden by Rocks from the Land of Earth, decided to end the Third Shinobi World War by signing a peace treaty with each other. Both sides had begun to grow weary of sacrificing more lives to an ongoing stalemate war, so decided that a peace treaty over the objection of military hard-liners in their respective villages, would be the only way to stop the war. Ōnoki, the Third Tsuchikage, was at first reluctant to accept the peace treaty, he only accepted it after seeing Minato Namikaze, single-handedly stop an invasion consisting of a thousand Iwa shinobi.

Now after the war ended, there were a few people within Konohagakure who were upset at the losses of their ninja, Danzō among them. Even Kushina was one of them in part, as if the Third took a firmer hand in the war, Rin and Obito might have been alive today. But she also knew that whilst she was upset with the Third, she also knew that the others seemed to forget that within a war, there'll always be losses on both sides of the war, and there wasn't much he could do about it. However though those who were upset with him, wanted the Third Hokage to step down as Hokage.

Kushina learned that in the place the Third, they wanted Danzō to become the Fourth Hokage, who was unlike the Third, he wasn't soft hearted. The Third was kind and a pacifist and wasn't willing to make the difficult decisions. Those who want him out thought that if the Third took a firmer hand to things, some of their problems, even the war could have been avoided. So with someone like Danzō who was raised in times of war, was the ideal person for the next Hokage, as Danzō beliefs were of that the interests of the village, should be placed above all else, even ethics and morals. Anything and everything to protect the village, handling any threat that would hurt their village in anyway possible. Something Kushina didn't want, as it could start another war, something she didn't want.

But Kushina knew that as long as the current Hokage is alive, he could decide who becomes the next Hokage. So seeing that he is forced to step down, he had to think about who he wanted to become the Fourth Hokage. The Third had hoped that his prized student Orochimaru could succeed him as the next Hokage, but despite his best efforts, he could never convince him of the Will of Fire: that Konoha was a family that the Hokage had to risk everything to keep safe.

Hiruzen considered Jiraiya as his successor, but Jiraiya did not believe he was responsible enough to be the next Hokage. But Jiraiya did suggest to Hiruzen that he could use his, Jiraiya's, former student, Minato Namikaze, who had proven himself time and again during the Third Shinobi World War. Hiruzen realized that her husband was a good choice, not only was he powerful, but he also had the Will of Fire that Hiruzen. And so, her husband become the Fourth Hokage. For the first few months, the former Hokage helped her husband with the transition of power by advising him on how to handle individuals and other village matters. He even retained some of his own ANBU, who helped protect her and her family.

Now before they knew it, Kushina learnt that she was going to give birth once again. This time it was going to be a baby boy, Naruko was happy that she was going to get a baby brother soon. Now they were going to call him Naruto, from Minato's former sensei, Jiraiya, book: Tale of the Utterly Gutsy Shinobi. Minato enjoyed the book, finding the main character very much like Jiraiya. He decided to name his and Kushina Uzumaki's then-unborn son "Naruto" after the main character, hoping that their Naruto would be just as determined as the character (and thus its author.) Jiraiya tried to convince them not to since that would make him Naruto's godfather, but Minato and Kushina insisted this was a good thing.

During her pregnancy the former Hokage asked Minato for a favour, to give Kakashi bodyguard duty, to protect her. Kushina learnt that since the death of his friends, Kakashi fallen to darkness, and Third hoped that protecting her would pull him back. Hoping that the nightmares the young man had would stop, and he would become a better person once again. Instead of the cold and ruthless person he was at the moment.

As Kushina was thinking about the past, she suddenly felt a pain in her belly and seconds later her water broke, letting her know she was going to have Naruto soon. Knowing this she screamed in pain, and shouted, "Minato! Get Biwako! My water has broken."

Now hearing that his wife was in labour, Minato went outside to get Biwako, who was taking a break from keeping an eye on his wife, waiting for this moment. He just wished that Kazuo was around.

So once he got Biwako, they left Naruko with an ANBU to play with, they took Kushina to the sealing chamber under the hut. This was where she would give birth to Naruto, as it had powerful barriers to keep the Tailed Beast in should it escape from Kushina.

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Birthing Chamber:

"I forgot how much pain Kushina went through when she had Naruko." Minato said thoughtfully as he remembered the time when Naruko was born, as he watched his wife scream in pain and threaten him with pain if this ever happened again.

"And like I told you then, she'll be fine," Biwako reminded the Fourth Hokage, "forget about that and stay focused on the Nine Tails Seal. Remembe,r you are now the Fourth Hokage, start acting like one and get a grip on yourself. As I told you last time, most men would drop dead from such pain, women are much stronger."

As she said this, Minato could feel the Nine Tail Beast trying to break from the seal, so he had to put a bit more power into the seal. 'Damn, the Fox is just as strong as last time,' Minato thought to himself, remembering Naruko's birth, 'it is still trying to break free.'

"Come on dear, you can do this." Minato encourage his wife, this lasted for about half an hour. Minato was encouraging his wife, as he kept the seal together. If he was honest with himself, the damn Tailed Beast seemed to be more power this time round. It was taking everything he had to keep the Fox sealed within his wife.

"I can see his head Kushina, we're almost there my dear." Biwako told the mother to be.

"Just hang there, you're doing great." said the medical ninja that was helping Biwako with the birth.

"Naruto my boy, hurry up and get out!" Minato called out as he felt the Fox almost breaking free. As he pushed more power into the seal, then he yelled at the beast, "And you stay in there Kyūbi!"

Just then, Naruto was born, and Biwako told the medical ninja to give her some hot water so she could clean the baby up, and making sure the after birth was taken from Kushina. As there was no other problems she had to deal with now.

"Today I'm a father again." Minato said with a smile, as he hold out his arms to hold his child.

"Yes, you have a healthy baby boy Minato." Biwako told the father, before she past him and reminded him, "Remember what I told you last time, mother's first father's second.

"So Naruto, we finally meet." Kushina told her new son with a painful smile.

"Now, now let me check to make sure your son is okay." Biwako told the parents.

"Kushina, I know it is a silly question that you just give birth, but are you alright?" asked the Fourth Hokage.

"I'm ok." his wife told him.

"Alright, now I realized what you have just been through, but we have to reseal the Nine Tails." Minato told his wife as he put his hands on his belly. But before he could, he heard something and as he looked around, he saw Biwako and the other medical ninja Tomoyo collapses onto the floor, dead. Calling out in shock Minato cried out, "Lady Biwako! Tomoyo!"

Behind them was a man wearing a black hooded robe, and a white mask with one eye hole and what Minato thought was black flames on one side of the mask. "Fourth Hokage Minato, step away from the Jinchūriki," the masked man told the Hokage, "or the child will die within his first minute of living."

'How the hell did this person get past the barrier?' Minato thought darkly worried for his wife and his new born child. 'Who, who is this bastard?'

Just then Kushina screamed out in pain, and Minato grasped, "Kushina!"

'Damn it, the Nine Tail Seal is breaking!' Minato thought worriedly as he saw seals on his wife was spreading, as he knew they were slowly breaking. He knew if he didn't do something, the Nine Tailed Beast would be free, but at the same time, his son was in danger too, he didn't know what to do.

"Step away from the Jinchūriki," repeated the masked, "don't you care what happens to the brat?"

"Please wait, please stay calm," Minato told the man, as he raised his arms and stepped away from his wife. He didn't want to, but he didn't want to risk his new son or his daughter who was above them. Whatever happens, once he got his son, Minato could give chase to this man and get his wife back.

"Speak for yourself, I am as calm as I can be." the masked man told Minato, as he threw Naruto into the air.

Seeing this Kushina cried out in fear, "Naruto!"

But as the masked man jumped to get Naruto, Minato used his Flying Raijin Jutsu to teleport to get to his son before he hit the ground. He thanked the gods that he decided to put the seals around the room, just encase the Fox did escape and he needed to fight it. The young man never thought that he would need it to save his son like this.

"Leave it to the Yellow Flash of the Leaf," remarked the masked man, "but what about the next one."

And with that, the masked man triggered the seals on the blanket, that set the them alight. Minato saw this and so he dropped the blanket, as Kushina cried out to her son. When Minato dropped the blanket, he ran out of the chamber, and the hut, along the way he told the ANBU that was with Naruko to come with him. It was a good thing that he did, whilst he wasn't sure what kind of damage the Paper Bomb would make, he was glad he told the ANBU to follow them with Naruko. Just encase. Just as he told the ANBU to follow them, the hut blow up right behind them.

When they barely made it out of the house, he sighed in relief and looked at Naruto and Naruko, glad they both were ok. "Good both Naruto and Naruko are fine. What about you Bull are you okay?"

"I'm fine Lord Hokage, but what about you." said Bull, as he pointed at the Fourth Hokage's foot, where a piece of wood was stuck in it.

Minato looked at his foot, and for the first time since they left the hut, felt the pain coming from it, "It hurts but nothing I'm not used to." Minato rasped in pain, as he pulled the wood from his foot, 'Who was that guy? He made me use the Flying Raijin Jutsu.' Something that a rare few could do, but then again he was using it save to son, 'Not only that, but his target was Kushina, as she was the Jinchūriki. But how? We were very careful to not allow anyone to know that she was one. Whatever the case, whoever he is, he was able to succeeded in separating us. I need to hurry and take the kids to the safehouse and then find her.'

Just then, Kazuo appeared in a puff of smoke, seeing the hut on fire, he worriedly asked, "What happened here? Where's Kushina?"

So Minato explained to his father-in-law what happened, before finishing up by asking, "Where were you?"

"I found three of the ANBU that meant to be protecting you all killed, so I searched the area to see if the others were okay, and to see if I could find the killer." Kazuo explained Minato, "But I found them all killed, so I kept on searching, as I never thought for once that someone would be able to get past the barrier, as it was created to withstand the Tailed Beasts. So whoever it is must be, was either very powerful or very skilled, to be able to get past it."

"Or both." Minato acknowledged fearfully, not wanting someone that powerful to get their hands on Kyūbi.

"Yes or both," admitted Kazuo darkly, before turning to look at his Grandchildren and asked Minato, "what are you going to do now?"

"What do you think?" Minato asked sarcastically, "I'm going to take Bull and my children to the safehouse I set up, where no one knows about, and then I'm going to find my wife and kill the bastard who would dare hurt my family."

"Good to hear," Kazuo smirked at this, "and I'll help you. No one dares hurt the little family I have left and get away with it."

"Good, now let's get Naruto and Naruko somewhere safe." Minato told Kazuo, and with that he used the Flying Raijin Jutsu to take the five of them to his safehouse. Although, once they got there, Minato had to take a Food Pill to replenish his chakra. Because he used so much chakra to get the five of them there,

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Meanwhile, Unknown Location:

Whilst Minato and her father was looking after her children and looking for her, Kushina found herself at a location she hadn't seen before, where she tied up to four stone pillars by black chakra. As she was being tied up, she was breathing heavily and she said, "Aright, what do you want from me?"

"I'm going to extract the Nine Tails, and Crush the Leaf Village." the masked man informed the Jinchūriki.

"No you can't." Kushina told the man.

"Like you could even stop me, or your husband for that matter, in fact he can't get here easily." the man told her, with a smirk under the mask, "Minato's teleportation jutsu, allows him to move instantly between locations that are marked with jutsu formulas." the masked man informed the young mother, "Which is where the formula is incorporated into the seal that has the Nine Tails sealed. So that way your husband could protect you at all times, but he's far away. And your Nine Tails seal is now weakened, thanks to your childbirth, so I can now use the beast for my own needs."

"Please don't do this," begged Kushina, "the Nine Tails is uncontrollable and would kill and destroy everything around it."

"I know, which is why I want it." the masked man said darkly, "Do you have any idea how long I have waited for this day? A long time, and nothing is going to stop me to get what I want now I'm so close." And with that, the masked man started to undo the seal on Kushina's belly. As he did, Kushina began to scream in pain as an orange chakra cloak appeared around her, along with a few tails as well.

After a few minutes of Kushina screaming in pain, the seal begun to open, and in doing so, made what looked like a black hole opening in Kushina's belly.

"Now come on out NINE TAILS!" the masked man cried out as he pulled a black like entity. This black entity, soon turned into orange chakra, and then into the Nine Tailed Beast itself.

"Good, now we'll head of to the Hidden Leaf Village." the masked man told the beast. Normally one wouldn't be able to control any of the Tail Beasts, more so with the Nine Tailed Beast. But the masked man wasn't a normal man, he was an Uchiha and had the Sharingan, eyes with great power. One of these powers were if you were strong enough, and knew the right ability, you could control any of the Tailed Beasts, even Kyūbi.

With the Nine Tails out of the seal, the black chakra rope disappeared, and fell onto the rock, whilst not dead, Kushina was weakened and unable to move much. She only had enough power to push herself up, and call out with one word, "Wait!"

"You Kushina are just about amazing," the masked man acknowledged, "you don't die right away when the tailed beast is extracted. You were the Nine-Tails Jinchūriki." and with that the man had Nine Tails attack Kushina, and in doing so said, "So I'll let you die by his hands."

And with that, Kyūbi used it right paw to squish his former prison. But at the last second, Minato appeared and saved his wife, whilst Kazuo appeared in front of them, ready to protect his daughter and her husband.

"You really are as quick as a flash," commented the masked man, as he saw Minato save his wife, "but you are too late, I've got what I wanted."

With Kushina though, whilst she was weak, she was worried about them and so asked, "Our children, are they okay?"

"They're fine," Minato reinsured his wife, "they are with Bull at the safehouse."

"Ah good," Kushina sighed in relief, "Minato that masked man, is with Kyūbi, they are heading towards our village."

Both Kazuo and Minato wanted to fight this man, but they knew that alone they wouldn't win. Not only was there the Nine Tails to deal with, but the masked man too, who had to be very powerful to break the Nine Tail Seal. Sure it was weakened thanks to Kushina giving birth to Naruto, but it still needed someone powerful enough to break the seal itself. Whilst they couldn't see the masked man's face properly, Minato thought he saw that the man had a Sharingan, and if that was true, two of them fighting him wouldn't be enough, especially with Kyūbi there.

Realizing this, Minato called out to his father-in-law, "Kazuo, go and warn Hiruzen about what is going on. I'll take Kushina to the kids and come back as soon as I can."

"Understood." Kazuo replied, knowing that a full out fight without backup would be foolish here, and so decided to get it, whilst Minato took his wife to the safehouse to be with their newborn son and to be with their daughter.

o0OoO0o

As his son-in-law used his Flying Raijin Jutsu to take his daughter to his safehouse, Kazuo used the Body Flicker Technique to get to Hiruzen's office. When he got there, he heard the former Hokage, "It can't be." As he felt something he hoped he wouldn't in his life time, the Nine Tails chakra.

"Lord Hiruzen, we have a problem." said Kazuo.

"Lord Kazuo," the former Hokage said in surprise, not suspecting him there when his daughter was meant to be giving birth, "what are you doing here? I thought you would be with your daughter, seeing that she should be giving birth at any moment."

"She did, but they were attacked." Kazuo explained urgently.

"What!?" Hiruzen asked in worry, "What happened?"

"I don't know the full story, but the ANBU that you sent to protect her and my family were killed by a masked man." explained Kazuo, "Then he kidnapped Kushina, where he freed the Nine Tails. We were too late to stop it, but instead I came to warn you, whilst Minato went and took Kushina to a safehouse."

Hearing this, Hiruzen stood up in shock and fear at what he heard, as he went to the cupboard in the office to take out his armour so he could go out to fight the Chakra Beast. They couldn't allow it to run free, as they didn't know what would happen if they did.

"Do you know who this masked man was?" asked the former Hokage, as he put his armour on.

"Sadly no, just that he is coming here to attack the village." Kazuo half-lied to the former Hokage, he knew it was an Uchiha, he wasn't sure if he was a someone from the Clan within, a Rogue Ninja, or a off branch that lived out of the village. So he didn't want make a problem with the Uchiha Clan from the village, as whilst he didn't care much about the village, he did care about his family. So if he blamed Uchiha Clan from the village, it could create problems that could get back to his family, something he didn't want.

"Okay, in that case I want you to patrol the village, and when the masked man or the Nine Tails attacks, I want you to keep them busy until I or Minato come to help you." explained Hiruzen, "Whilst you are doing this, I'll get ANBU and the other ninja not on missions to take the civilian to the settlers and have them meet up with us."

And so the two parted, Kazuo went and patrolled the village for the masked man and Kyūbi, whilst the former Hokage went to the ANBU Headquarters to get the ANBU to get them to get the villagers to the settlers. But as he got to the ANBU Headquarters, the Nine Tails appeared and started to attack the village. But as he got out to the front of the Headquarters, an ANBU met him. He was wearing a dog like porcelain mask, and had on black clothing, a grey flak jacket, metal arm guards and gloves, and ninja sandals with spikes, three ninja pouches on their back-waist and a signature spiral tattoo on their shoulder. They also had a sword on their back.

The ANBU walked up to Hiruzen and said, "Lord Hiruzen, it's the Nine Tails, it is attacking the village."

"I know, I'm going to try and restrain it," Hiruzen told the ANBU, "I want you and the others to protect the villagers and bring them to the settlers. Use any shinobi that you can find to help you." And with that the ANBU the Body Flicker Technique to gather the others to protect the villagers.

'So what Kazuo told me was true,' the former Hokage thought to himself, 'someone has freed the Nine Tails and set it upon the village. I had hoped it wasn't true. But why? Why would someone want to do this, and how are they controlling the Beast? Is a member of the Uchiha Clan behind all this?'

"You should have ordered the Uchiha Police Force to guard the civilians and keep them in the back with the rear guard." Hiruzen heard a familiar voice behind him.

It was his old friend and rival, Danzō Shimura, he had black, shaggy hair, and his right eye was bandaged, which he said was because of a battle wound. His good eye was brown. Now Danzō had an x-shaped scar on his chin ever since his youth. He was wearing a white shirt, with a black or dark grey robe over the top of it covering from his feet, to just over his right shoulder. The robe conceals his right arm which was bandaged.

Over the years they fought often about how to run the village, Hiruzen wanted to do thing peacefully and talk before taking action. But Danzō wanted him to take a firmer hand to things, show the Elemental Nutrition their strength, show that they couldn't be walked all over. Both of them had different ideas as to what a ninja should be.

"But why?" Hiruzen asked his old friend, "We can use their Visual Prowess of the Uchiha to suppress the Nine Tails!"

"But they can also manipulate the Nine Tails too!" countered Danzō, "You have heard the rumours of the unrest within the Clan. If they decided to betray the village and take control of the Nine Tails, they could use it to their advantage and destroy the village. It would be like the second coming of Madara Uchiha."

Hiruzen could only sigh at this, as he too was thinking the same thing. But at the same time, they needed every able shinobi to deal with the Nine Tails. Before he could say anything though, the ground shook, and the former Hokage knew he had to go, "I'll leave you to protect the civilians. You may order the ANBU and the security units as you wish. And make sure to guard the youth of the village as well." He knew that the Uchiha Clan wouldn't like this, but he couldn't risk one of them taking control of the Nine Tails for themselves.

"I understand." Danzō told Hiruzen, and with that, the former Hokage left to deal with Kyūbi.

o0OoO0o

So as Danzō got the ANBU and the Uchiha Police force protected the village, something the Uchiha Clan didn't like as some of them wanted to fight too, Hiruzen joined Kazuo and the other ninja battling the Nine Tails. Minato too, entered the battlefield once he knew his family was okay.

Once he landed on his stone head, which was on Hokage Rock, he looked upon the destruction of the village caused by Kyūbi, he then thought to himself, 'As the Hokage of this village, I shall protect the village of my ancestors. My home... This is what I have to do right now. I won't allow you destroy my home Kyūbi.' Justthen Kyūbi roared and looked in his direction as if he heard his thoughts. 'So you notice me then err?'

Just as he thought this, he noticed that the Beast had created a Tailed Beast Ball, and was just releasing it towards him. "I won't let you do this." Minato told the Beast as the Ball headed towards him, hand seals for the Flying Raijin Jutsu. Just before the chakra ball hit Minato, it hit an invisible wall instead, and it looked like time and space warped the area and the ball was swallowed into nothing.

Just as this happened there was a huge explosion far off, and upon seeing that, Minato thought to himself, 'With that much power, I'll have to choose carefully where I redirect his attacks.'

Just then Minato could sense that someone was behind him and about to attack, so flicking his wrist, a kunai flew into Minato's hands. But just as he went into the attack, the kunai went right through the masked man, as if he were merely a ghost. As the kunai went through him, the masked man grabbed Minato's arm, to stop him from attacking again.

"I am your opponent, and you have lost." the masked man told Minato. As the man said this, space seemed to wrap around Minato and he was being pulled into the masked man's striking range. But before he could, he used Flying Raijin Jutsu to escape the pull disappear. "Hmm, he got away, he's so fast," the masked man whispered in awe, not suspecting someone to be able to pull away from his Kamui Jutsu. "Next time I'll take him much quicker, as soon as we touch."

o0OoO0o

As the Fourth Hokage landed flat on his back at the other end of the village, he said to himself, "Damn it, my attack went right through him." Minato couldn't believe it, he had never heard of a jutsu that could do such a feat, to render an attack completely useless like that. "But he then made himself solid again and tried to pull me towards him. What was that jutsu?"

Just then, the space within the air seemed to split and had created what looked like a whirlpool, which the masked man then walked out of, and said in a dangerous tone, "You shall not escape me again, Hokage."

'So he could use a teleportation jutsu too?' Minato thought to himself, 'That must be how he was able to get inside the chamber, as well as to escape with Kushina so quickly. He also defeated the ANBU black op, which was assigned by Lord Hiruzen and got past the highest level classified barrier, as well as knew that the Nine Tails Seal would be weakened during childbirth.

'What's more impressive than that, he was able to undo the Kyūbi's seal as well as tame him too. He was also able to slip in and out of the villages barriers without triggering any of our alarms. As far as I know, there's only one shinobi who can do all this.' Then out loud he asked the masked man, "Are you Madara Uchiha?" At this the masked man pulled his hood down, but Minato went on to say, "No that would be impossible, he is dead after all."

"I wonder about that." the masked man told Minato.

"In the end though, it doesn't really matter who you are." Minato told the man, "But why attack the Hidden Leaf village?"

"What would you like to hear?" asked the masked man, "I could say I did it on a whim, or that I planned it all. Or that it's for war, or even for peace."

'Whatever the case, he's no ordinary opponent!' Minato acknowledged to himself, 'He can control the Kyūbi, and his teleportation jutsu can even suppress both Lord Second's and my own. Not only that, but he has dangerous ideology. If I don't settle this now, we'll have an even bigger problem than Kyūbi. If I teleport myself to the village, he'll follow me, and that might cause the village even more trouble.' Minato didn't like that idea, as it would put too many people at risk, 'If he's anything like Madara, he won't be able to keep the Nine Tails under the summoning jutsu for too much longer. I'll have to just entrust the village to Lord Third, and just take this guy down, right here, right now.'

Before Minato could say anything else, the masked man said, "Now that I have freed Kyūbi, there is no hope for any of you!" And with that, both men struck...

Just as Minato used his kunai to attack, the kunai went right through the masked man. However, the chains that were behind the man, had wrapped around Minato and were tightening. But the Fourth Hokage used his Flying Raijin Jutsu to teleport himself out of arms way.

'My physical attacks have no effect on him.' Minato thought to himself as he teleported away from the man a few meters, 'He makes himself solid when he attacks me. I have to allow myself to be struck, and at the same time i'll strike him as well. But he knows that he's vulnerable when he attacks, and considering the time remaining for the summoning Nine Tails jutsu. He won't want a lengthy battle either. In other words, the only choice is to strike at the same time as he strikes me. Still, he takes a risk when he attacks. So whoever attacks an instant faster, will win this match.'

And so, a second later, Minato went in for the kill, using the kunai that he uses for his Flying Raijin Jutsu. And when he did,, the kunai went through the masked man as he suspected it would. He then created a Rasengan as soon as the kunai was fully through the masked man and when he was about to attack Minato. Minato then teleported to the kunai and hit his target with his Rasengan. Once the masked man was hit by the Rasengan, he hit the ground with a small impact. Little did the masked man know it at the time, but Minato had marked him with that attack so that he could use the Flying Raijin whenever the Fourth wanted.

'Damn it, he teleported himself to his kunai.' the masked man realized as he hit the ground.

And at the same time Minato said, "Flying Raijin Level Two."

As soon as he hit the ground, the masked man jumped away and onto one of the boulders that was close by. Whilst he could still move, he didn't get totally off scot free - he was in pain and his left hand was liquidizing and falling off him.

"You got me." the masked man acknowledged, surprised that someone was able to hurt him as much as Minato was able to, not in a long while since someone was able to do this. "You really are a slippery one. I never should have let my guard down around yo -" before he could finish what he was saying, Minato appeared in front of him and hit him in the stomach.

"The Flying Raijin," the masked me said in pain, and realized what happened, he said, "of course, he must have marked me somewhere." Then as he looked down he saw a seal appear on him, it was the one seal he didn't want to see, 'Blast it, a contract seal.' the masked man thought to himself, before looking to Minato and saying, "Trying to separate the Nine Tails from me are you?"

"With this, Kyūbi is no longer yours to control." Minato told the masked man.

Whilst the contract seal worked, Kyūbi was still on a rampage, but this time for a different reason, two reasons in fact. The first was that someone dared to control it, it the mightiest of the Tailed Beasts, he was unhappy about that. The second reason was that it has been sealed for so long, within two different people in the last hundred years or so. And seeing that it was so mad, it needed to let out some steam and this would do. But the thing was that the shinobi and kunoichi of this village was pushing it away from the village, and into a nearby forest. Kyūbi wasn't making it easy for them, as it had killed a few of them before they could push it back into the forest.

Now with the masked man badly hurt, and without his left arm, he knew he wasn't strong enough to continue this fight, and that for now, the Tailed Beast was out of his reach.

"You are worthy of your title, Fourth Hokage," acknowledge the masked man, "injuring me so badly and separating the Nine Tails from me. But know this, one day he will be mine." and as he said this, he used his own teleportation jutsu to get away, and being injured, Minato couldn't do much to stop him. But his parting words sent chills down Minato, "One day I shall rule the world, there's so many other ways to do so." And with that the masked man was gone.

'Given his tone of voice, he isn't joking around,' Minato thought darkly, 'one day he'll try and take over the world.'

But there was little he could do about this, he had to deal with Kyūbi. If he didn't do something about it, the Tail Beast would destroy the Leaf Village and all its inhabitants. And if that happened, there would be no one to stop the masked man when he finally returns, since there would have to be someone alive to do so. After thinking about all this, he used the Flying Raijin to teleport himself back to Hokage Rock, and to join the battle against the Nine Tails.

o0OoO0o

As Minato got to the battlefield, his first thoughts were, 'This is bad, real bad.' Things weren't looking good, the village was severely damaged and would take time to be fixed. There were a lot of dead bodies of people he knew, or they were in the process of dying.

Luckily though, there were a lot of minor injuries and not everyone was fatally wounded. The only good thing that had happened it seemed, was that the Tailed Beast was now outside the village. The main problem at the moment was that Nine Tail was about to let lose another Tail Beast Ball. To stop this, Minato summoned the Boss Toad, Gamabunta, on top of the Nine Tails and jumped on top of Gamabunta head.

Once he appeared to save the villagers, he could hear that they were whilst shocked, were quite happy to see him. But Minato was looking around the village, the final words that the masked man told him kept going through his mind, "But know this, one day he will be mine."

Minato couldn't allow this to happen, he HAD to do something to prepare for when he returns. The problem was that there was only one way he could think of, something his wife wouldn't like him for, but as the Hokage, he had to think about his village not only his family. "Forgive me Kushina," Minato said in the air, before looking down to Gamabunta, "Gamabunta, I need you to hold the Nine Tails down for a little bit longer."

"I'll give it my best Minato," Gamabunta told his summoner, "but it's going to tough, even for me."

'I need time to build up my chakra,' Minato thought to himself, as he build up his chakra, 'it'll take a lot to teleport Kyūbi away from here.' Lucky though, Minato needed only a twenty seconds to build up enough chakra to teleport the Nine Tails to where his safehouse was.

But as he did this, Kyūbi let loose the Tail Beast Ball that it was forming and the attack had hit the safehouse. There was nothing he could do about it. But lucky for Minato though, Bull was able to teleport them out of the safehouse mere seconds before the Tail Beast Ball had hit them.

"Thanks Bull, now I need to put up a barrier immediately." Minato told Bull, but stopped and thought to himself, 'I don't have much chakra left.'

"I can do it, Minato." Kushina told her husband, she launched Adamantine Sealing Chains from her body and into the ground, chaining the Nine Tails down as well. The chains also sealed the Foxes power for a while, Kushina hoped that they would last long enough so that Minato could seal Kyūbi back into her before she dies. But as she did this, Bull sat on the ground with his legs crossed, and put up his own sealing barriers to help her, so that there was less stress on her to keep the Nine Tails from escaping.

"Kushina!" called out Minato. Kushina was on her hands and knees, coughing in pain. She was using too much chakra and she was still recovering from childbirth. At this point, Naruto and Naruko both woke up and started to cry. "Woke you two up did I? I'm sorry Naruto and Naruko." Kushina said softly.

"Kushina." Minato whispered softly, worried about his wife.

"I'll take Kyūbi with me to my death." Kushina told her husband, "So that we can delay the revival of the Nine Tails for a while. It's all I can manage now, with the little chakra I have left. But I'll be able to save you three, that's all that matters to me. So thank you, for everything that you have done for me."

"Kushina…" Minato said with a sad voice, "It was because of you, you're the one that made me the Fourth Hokage. You made me the man I am today. And you made me a father of two beautiful children. And yet…"

"Oh Minato," Kushina consoled her husband, "don't give me that sad look of yours. I... I'm happy, because you love me. And what's more, today is the birthday of our second beautiful child. But most of all, if I imagine me alive, and our future, the four of us together as a family. I can't really picture us anything but truly happy." Here a few tears started to form in Minato's eyes, as his wife went on to say, "I guess if I was allowed one regret, I wish I could see Naruto and Naruko all grown up, I wish I could see that."

Kushina, there's no need for you to die, in order to kill the Nine Tails." Minato told his wife, as tears were flowing down his face, "Preserve what little chakra you have left to heal, so that you can teach Naruto and Naruko what is needed."

"Minato, what are you planning?" the redhead asked her husband.

"You're too weak to become Kyūbi's Jinchūriki again," Minato told his wife, "so I'm going to split Nine Tails power into two, and use the Eight Sign Seal to make Naruto and Naruko its new Jinchūriki."

"You can't do that to them Minato, you have no idea what this'll do to them should anyone find out." Kushina informed her husband, "It was only by luck that I was able to hide what I was from everyone, if anyone found out that I was a Jinchūriki. My life would have been so much different, worse than anything that you can imagine."

"That's why you need to live, to make sure others don't learn about it." Minato told his wife, "Allowing you to die with Kyūbi is strategically unwise. If you die with the Nine Tails, there won't be a Jinchūriki around when it remerges in years to come. You know that your Clan are the few who can hold its power, and at the moment they are all gone. And when the Nine Tails we appeared, we might have someone to become its Jinchūriki, because they aren't powerful enough." Minato tried to tell his wife his reasonings for what he was about to do to his children, he might not like it, but for the Greater Good, this had to be done. He then went on to say, "There will be an upset in the balance of power between the Tailed Beasts. But what's more important than that… is that you would have died for nothing."

"I don't care about the upset in the balance." his wife told him darkly, "And I wouldn't have died for nothing, I would died giving people many years without fear of the Nine Tails appearing. It would be at least ten or more years before Nine Tails would have enough power to regain its body, and a few more years before it has the strength to attack. Who knows, people could have found another way to seal these Tailed Beasts away, without sealing them into people. So that people can lead a normal life, and don't have to hide who they are in fear they would be used or/and be mistreated."

Kushina was happy for herself to die and allowing people a few years of peace without worrying about Kyūbi for a while. It would also give them a reason to research other ways to seal it and others of its kind instead of sealing it into a person. As if they don't have someone to seal the Tailed Beast into, they would be forced to find another way to do seal the Beasts away.

But that's not the only reason, as she went on to explain, "You have no idea what it'll do to the children if you did this to them. Forget for a moment that should everyone at the very least mistrust them, use them, even hate them should people learn about them being Jinchūriki. Their chakra will be harder to control and master because of making them into a Jinchūriki at a young age.

"There was a reason why they waited until I became a genin before they made me a Jinchūriki, as by then I had basic control over my chakra, and so my chakra and Kyūbi's chakra wouldn't mix. By making them Jinchūriki as children, their chakra will mix and make it harder to control and master." Kushina tried to make her husband see sense about all this, "You know that my Clan's chakra is hard enough to control as it is, because of how much we have. But adding Nine Tails chakra before they have mastered their own, it'll be even harder for them. Please think about this." Kushina begged her husband to reconsider.

"That's why they'll have you and Kazuo," Minato told his wife, "so they'll have you to teach them and help them along the way."

"Please, think about this," Kushina begged her husband, "what you're thinking of doing will most likely make their life's with full of hardships should anyone learn about this. As a father, think about this, what kind of father would do such a thing to their children willingly."

"Yes I am a father, but I'm also the Hokage of the Hidden Leaf," Minato told his wife sadly, "it's not like I want to do this to them. I really don't want to do this to them, and if I had any other option I wouldn't do this to them. But as the Hokage, I also need to think about the village too, since the founding of this village, we always had a Jinchūriki which held the Nine Tails. Should the other leaders of the other villages learn that we don't have one, they might see our village, our nation... as weak. They will try to take us over. We need a Jinchūriki to keep the balance, not only with the power of the other Tailed Beasts, but between our nations too."

"Fuck the other Tailed Beasts, fuck the nations too," Kushina spit at him. "I'm a mother, I would rather see them all go to ash for all I care. All I care about is our children's safety and happiness. I would even prefer to see everything destroyed before seeing them hurt in anyway. I know if they decide to become shinobi/kunoichi, their lives will be hard ones, and maybe short ones. But it would be their choices, they would pick it... not me, not you, but them.

"But I would never make it harder for them by making them Jinchūriki at such a young age. It's bad enough at the age I was when I become one, but I willingly became a Jinchūriki knowing the effects that would come with it. But you're not willing to give the option to make that choice, you're forcing it upon them."

"I know, and as I said, if I had any other option I would take it." Minato informed his wife, who like her, hated the idea of what he was going to do to his children, but he had to think of not only of his own family. But for the village as well, who as a Hokage, they too were his family and so, he needed to look after them. "But there's another reason as to why I'm doing this, do you remember what Jiraiya told us, about the Child of Prophecy."

"Do you mean the one where you were the one that was meant to save the shinobi world. Not one of our children." Kushina reminded Minato, she didn't believe in this prophecy, as she believed that Jiraiya didn't tell them everything about this so called prophecy, that the Great Toad Sage from Mount Myōboku told Jiraiya about.

Jiraiya told them that sometime in the future, the shinobi world would be facing troubling times. That someone or something would put the world into calamity, and that Minato was the one who could save it. But Kushina suspected that there was more to it, that Jiraiya lied about the full prophecy for some reason and didn't want the full thing to be known. She felt as if it had to be something about the one who would cause the calamity. It could be that the one within the prophecy would either cause it, or save them from it.

"Yes and about the world being in upheaval, and all of the calamities that will accompany it." Minato told his wife seriously, "Now I've become convinced about two things today. First, I think that the masked man attacked us today, will surely one day bring catastrophe to this world. And second I think that the one who'll save us, to stop him, is not me but this child, our own Naruto will save us all. This infant, whose godfather is Master Jiraiya, will clear the way for the future as a Jinchūriki, with Naruko next to him helping him."

"But what if by doing this, making our children Jinchūriki, they are the ones that create the calamity that the Toad Sage foretold?" Kushina countered, worried by the fact that Minato would be making their children Jinchūriki and the consequences could be what starts the calamity that the Great Toad Sage saw in his version, and that they were the ones that would destroy the world as they knew it. She then went on with her concerns, "And what if the actions of this masked man, was merely just the beginning? That by attacking us and savagely taking the Nine Tails from me, and nearly killing me in the process, we would be forced to make our children into a Jinchūriki, is the very thing that'll lead to the calamity that was foretold by the Toad Sage?"

"I know you are worried, but I don't think you're right." Minato reassured his wife, "I don't why, but I can sense that Naruto is the one, the person who'll protect the world and create a better future. I just know it. He is our child after all, why wouldn't I believe in him?" Minato finished cheekily.

Kushina couldn't believe it, her foolish husband was going to condemn their children for sake of a gut feeling, she just simply couldn't believe it. He most likely believed that the villagers would see them as heroes, and so, treat them as such, but she knew differently. Unlike her who was in fact a Jinchūriki and knew what she was talking about, her husband had no idea of the fear of someone discovering what she was, the fear that they would turn against her, people hating her because she was a Jinchūriki, the prison warden for Kyūbi.

She had been lucky to hide what she was… who she was keeping inside her. But she knew that if people found out what she was, they wouldn't care that she was keeping them safe by keeping Kyūbi within her, all they would see of her would be the Nine Tails and not its warden. She had heard how bad things could get from other villages that had a Jinchūriki, and she didn't want the same thing to happen to their children.

Then a thought came to her, and so she asked, "How are you going to split the Nine Tails power to make them into Jinchūriki?"

"I'm going to use Reaper Death Seal, it's the only way to do this." Minato told his wife simply, as he performed the sign seals for the Reaper Death Seal, knowing that his wife would try and stop him.

"What? Why?" Kushina exclaimed in shock at what he was doing, "Why sacrifice yourself? Why sacrifice our children to a possible hardship? Why burden them so heavily? With something that could hurt them, have people look at them in fear and disgust, make people hate them and believe they shouldn't be alive. All to simply maintain the balance between the Tail Beasts? For the sake of the country? For our village? There's no reason to sacrifice Naruto and Naruko for that!"

"Forsaking one's nation and abandoning one village… it's the same as abandoning one's own child." The Fourth Hokage attempted to explain his reasoning for what he was doing, "You should understand, since your very own homeland was destroyed. You know how harsh life can be for someone without a nation."

"But my nation was destroyed because people feared that we were too powerful, this is something different entirely." Kushina tried to explain, "Let me take in the Kyūbi again and allow me to die with it. So that our children do not have to carry such a burden as being Jinchūriki."

But Minato didn't seem to hear her, as he went on to say, "Besides, we're a family of shinobi, we are born to serve and die our nation and village. Finally, even if I did live, I could never be a substitute to you, you are their mother. They need you more than they do me, especially Naruko."

Then as he bent down to pick up his children who were now back to sleep, he said, "I'll die for my children, it is my duty as their father."

"Damn you Fourth Hokage!" they heard Kyūbi sneer out as Minato summoned the Ritual Altar and female Scroll Toad, Akane, which was pink and mint green with dark markings around her eyes and mouth, and a circular mark just below her mouth. As a scroll toad, her abdomen can extend to reveal a scroll which whilst concealed, gives her the appearance of wearing an obi.

Akane was shocked at first until her summoner informed her what was going on, as Minato sealed the first half of the Tailed Beast Yin chakra into his daughter. There was nothing Kyūbi could do about this, as the chains made it hard for the fox to move, so when its power was cut in half, it also shrank in half of his normal size. Kushina was too weak to stop her husband from doing this to their daughter.

'Damn it, another Ritual Altar!' Kyūbi cursed as it saw Minato summon another Ritual Altar and Scroll Toad, a male one named Gerotora, this one was black and orange instead of pink and mint green. 'He's planning to seal the rest of me in the other baby.'

But before Minato could seal the rest of Kyūbi into his son, he heard Kushina cough as she tried to get closer. But because she was running low on chakra, and in pain from childbirth, she couldn't move far. Minato then called out, "Kushina, are you okay!?

But as he did this, seeing that the chains were loose enough for Kyūbi to move, it went in to strike, and it cried out "HE'S MINE!"

But faster than a blink of the eye, both Minato and Kushina were in front of the attack, even with Kushina in pain, and had one of Kyūbi's claw speared into them. But in turn, they had saved their newborn son from being killed. "I said I was his father, dying for him is my duty." Minato told his redheaded wife.

"Yes, but I'm his mother, so it's my duty too." Kushina told her husband.

"Why you!" sneered the Nine Tails darkly, unhappy he wasn't able to kill the child.

"I think this is the first time I lost an argument," Kushina joked in pain."I guess this just proves how serious you about doing this."

"Thank you Kushina." Minato thanked his wife. Kushina was in too much pain to correct him, it's not that she wanted this, but seeing that they were about to die, there wasn't anything she could do to stop this. She couldn't seal the fox back into her like she wanted, so this was the only option left to her. But she did have another, to tell him to behave and a few words about how to act in the future, and about gaining friends he trusted and do well in school, and about money. After she was done, Minato sealed Kyūbi's Yang chakra within Naruto.

With the Nine Tails sealed within the children, the claw within them disappeared and Bull quickly drop the barrier, which allowed those who were on the other side to run up to the Fourth Hokage and his family. These people were Kazuo, Lord Hiruzen and a few trusted ANBU. Kazuo ran up to his daughter first, to make sure she was okay as the former Hokage went to check if the Fourth Hokage was okay.

As Kazuo healed his daughter the best he could, Kushina whispered what happened, and asked her father to get her children out of the village, so that they could lead normal lives where no one knew about them. Kazuo knew that as long as Kushina could get some more chakra into her soon, she would be fine, as their Bloodline of healing would kick in and she would heal herself, but without it, she would be dead in hours.

However, before he could help his daughter, Kazuo had to get his grandchildren out of there, even if his daughter dies, this was something she wanted. But because of fighting the Nine Tail earlier, and trying to break down the barrier too, he was low on chakra and could only teleport one child to one of his safehouses that he had not far out of the village.

Once placing a medical jutsu to place his daughter in a state animated stasis, to keep her from getting worse, Kazuo picked up Naruko, who was the closest to him, he looked at them and said, "Listen, we don't know where this masked man gone, or if he is returning or not, so I think it would be for the best that I take Naruto and Naruko to one of my safehouses that has someone ready to keep them safe until we get this sorted."

This was true, Kazuo was a shinobi, so whilst he hoped for the best outcome to his missions, he also prepared for the worse should something goes wrong and had to hide for a while until the heat is gone. And knowing the risks of his daughter giving birth, and that someone might one day try and use it against Kushina, so he prepared a place and someone he trusted to protect his family should the worse comes to the worse.

Thinking that nothing was wrong, Hiruzen said "You're right Lord Kazuo, it is best that they are taken somewhere safe."

"I'll be back in a few minutes, I don't have enough chakra to take both of them at the same time." Kazuo informed the others, hoping that Minato in the state he was in would not realize what was going on.

Oh how much Kazuo want to kill the man for what he done to his grandchildren, sure his clan use children to become Jinchūriki but never, no never newborns, not even at times like this. His clan would use those who had become genin or someone older, to become the new Jinchūriki. Making one as young as this was monstrous, and something he would never thought of doing. As the child's chakra would be out of sorts, and hard to control and master, whilst not impossible for a newborn not to be affected by the side-effects, it was rare. If they did, it would take much longer for a child to master and control their powers.

"I understand, I'll make sure that young Naruto is safe until you come back." the former Hokage informed Kazuo, who with a puff of smoke was gone.

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Once Kazuo was gone, Minato coughed and told Hiruzen, "Lord Third stop, both you and I know that I'm done for, it is only matter of time before I'm dead."

"My boy, I have to try." the former Hokage told Minato.

"Don't waste any time, save your power you'll need it for when Kazuo returns." Minato informed him.

"What do you mean?" asked Hiruzen.

So Minato explained the best he could about what happened, how he split Kyūbi's chakra and how he placed both halves into his children and in doing so making them the new Jinchūriki Nine Tails. He went on to explain about how his wife was against this, and most likely asked her father to take them away from the village, to protect them from anyone who might use or hurt them.

"So for the village, you need to keep Naruto here." Minato told Hiruzen, "Should the other villages learn that we don't have a Nine Tail Jinchūriki, they might attack the Land of Fire."

As much as he hated to admit it, the Fourth Hokage was right, whilst he wanted Naruto to be with his family, the village needed him too. As one of the reasons that the Land of Fire haven't been attacked often since the last Shinobi War, was because of the fear that they might use their Jinchūriki against them. To lose that fact, was only asking for trouble, something Land of Fire didn't need right now. As people see them as weak, because the Land of Fire is considered as a peaceful land, so without a Jinchūriki, they could be openly attacked.

But there was one problem, and so asked Minato, "Whilst I don't like, I can admit that we need a Jinchūriki, but how can we stop Kazuo, he is the active Uzukage of the Hidden Village of the Whirlpool. Whilst we can stop him tonight seeing he is as weak as us, what about the future once he regains his strength, what is stopping him then?"

"You should use the Banishment Jutsu that I created," Minato informed Hiruzen, "if you use that, it'll keep him from being able to re-enter the village and taking Naruto."

"That's a Forbidden Jutsu," the former Hokage told Minato, "you made it so yourself, seeing you're the one that created."

Yeah, it was the one that he and Kazuo created, so that they could banish people who they believe couldn't be rehabilitated, without fear of them returning to repay them for banishing them. It took a while, but they were able to create the Jutsu so it would be able to connect to the Village barrier, which would stop the person from entering it.

Now the reason he made it a Forbidden Jutsu, was that should anyone other than the caster undo the seal, they would die within six month to a year. The reason that Minato put a death sentence into the seal, was to discourage a person from undoing the seal. He done this out of fear if he, Kazuo or anyone else able to work around seal, would be undo the Banishment Seal. This way, people would think twice in doing so, and only the one who cast it can remove it safely.

"I know and that's why it's the only way to keep Kazuo at bay for a while," explained Minato, "he won't want to leave his granddaughter without a family. He'll won't undo the seal until Naruko is trained enough that she can protect herself, but also protect her brother too. This will allow time to prepare for when he returns to get Naruto. By which time, you should be ready for anything that he might throw at you. And remember, with an Uzumaki, there's no such thing as overkill when it comes to that Clan. Even if there is only one of them, one Uzumaki can make more problems than a group, and take out a small village or army alone."

Hiruzen had to admit this jutsu was the only thing that would stop Kazuo from taking Naruto from them and give them time to set something up in the future to stop Kazuo or Naruko from taking Naruto from them. And Minato was right, there was no such thing as overkill with the Uzumaki, a signal Uzumaki could easily take out a small village or army alone. And that same moment though, after Minato asking him to make sure that the village look upon his son as a hero, and not as Kyūbi, the Four Hokage died knowing that the village would be protected for a little bit longer.

Before anything else could say anything else about this, Kazuo reappeared and so the ANBU went around the former Hokage. Making sure that Minato couldn't get to his son.

"Lord Hiruzen, what is going on here?" asked Kazuo, "I need to get Naruto somewhere safe."

"I understand, but we can't allow you to do it." Hiruzen told him behind the ANBU, as he gave Naruto to one of them and begun to walk forward, "Minato told me what happened, and whilst I don't fully agree with it all, I do understand why he done it. If we don't have the Kyūbi Jinchūriki, the Land of Fire could very will be attacked, which we could not allow."

"Hiruzen you old fool, this is my grandchild, I have every right to look after him." Kazuo told Hiruzen, "I'm the only one who can train him, especially after my fool of a son-in-law turned him into a Jinchūriki. Thanks to that, I could be the only one able to help master and control his chakra, otherwise it could be in his mid teens if ever before he learns to master and control his chakra. If you do this, you'll be making his life in a living hell."

"I'm sorry to say that if that means the protection of Land of Fire and the Hidden Village, so be it." the former Hokage said seriously, "You should know this as well as me, seeing that you lead your own Hidden Village."

"Yes I understand," admitted Kazuo, "but unlike you it would seem, I wouldn't use a newborn or a child who wasn't a genin."

"Under a different situation neither would I," acknowledge Hiruzen, "but with the situation as it is, I have no other option to do this. We'll have to do what we do to protect our Village and Land. And as weak as you are, you don't have the strength to fight and get him. So don't be a fool and fight us."

Kazuo sighed as he realized that Hiruzen was right, he was in no right fitness to fight right now, he could do only one option, and that is to make sure he could save his daughter and Naruto's and Naruko's mother. As this way he could at least have her protect her son, so knowing that if this didn't work, he could come back enough time to save his grandson. And if it did work, he could bring Naruko back to her mother in a few years once he trained his granddaughter, to make sure no one could use her again.

"If you won't let me take him with me, allow me to save his mother." Kazuo told Hiruzen, "Allow me save her, so that I know that Naruto will be loved and protected for and trained in our Clan ways. At least Kushina can teach him how to control and master his chakra, she'll be the only one who can thanks to her foolish husband. Allow my grandson, have one person I know who'll love and care for him, should people find out that he is a Jinchūriki."

"What do you have in mind?" asked the former Hokage, who was interested in saving Kushina's if it meant that Naruto would have at least one living parent, and someone who would love, care, train and protect him no matter what. And should people find out about him being a Jinchūriki, someone would be there for him whilst everyone might hate him.

"With how much chakra she has lost, and the damage her body has, I'm thinking of using Spirit of Altruism Jutsu on one of the dying, to transfer their life force and chakra into Kushina. This way she'll have the power to heal fully." Kazuo to Hiruzen.

"That's a Forbidden Medical Jutsu that has been banned to use for years now." the former Hokage said in shock, as he couldn't believe that Kazuo would want to use such a jutsu, "As it was used on too many innocent people in the past, so it had a powerful seal on the scroll it was on, so that no one can open other than a Hokage. I'm sorry, but I can't allow it to be used, not even for your daughter. Too many lives were taken because of this jutsu, and I swore that it would not be used ever again."

"But this is different…" begun Kazuo, but was stopped by Hiruzen, "It makes no difference Kazuo," Hiruzen explained softly, "if I use this, it'll be the start of the fall, as others well want to use it for others and so someone who shouldn't could relearn the jutsu and misuse it again. So no, I can't have the jutsu open, no matter what. I'm sorry."

"But without it, she'll be stuck in my stasis jutsu forever, stuck to look that for good." explained Kazuo, "Whilst I have been able to heal most of her injuries, without the life force and chakra, Kushina will be dead within half an hour to an hour."

"I'm sorry Lord Kazuo, I truly am, but I won't change my mind." apologized Hiruzen, "But as I said, if I allow you to use the jutsu, everyone else would want it and who knows what will happen. I promise you that we'll try everything to help her, but I won't be using the Spirit of Altruism Jutsu."

Kazuo was angry, he didn't ask for much whilst in this village, and he even helped with missions too. But now he was asking something back, they wouldn't be willing to help him. Not only that, they were keeping him away from his grandson. If he had the strength, he would fight them over that, but for now though he had to admit defeat and hope that things don't Naruto will be fine until he finds a way to get his grandson back.

"You better look after my daughter and grandson," warned Kazuo, "as if something happens to them, your village will be going down be going down and nothing will stop me."

"I know, and which is why I'm sorry for this." Hiruzen apologized as he gave the ANBU to cast a few jutsu that hold Kazuo in place, as done the hand signals for a jutsu and said, "Banishment Jutsu: Exile!" And with that he placed the pram of his hand onto Kazuo's forehead, where a seal appeared, a star within a sun.

"You bastard, what have you done to me!" Kazuo shouted in anger.

"I'm sorry Kazuo, but this is for the best for the village and our land." Hiruzen apologized sadly, "We need the Jinchūriki here, and we can't have you take him away. If there was any other way, I would take it but I don't. So you know, you have an hour to leave this village, or the seal will kill you. And don't bother trying to remove the seal yourself, if anyone other than I remove it, you'll die within a year or so of it being removed."

"What!?" Kazuo shouted as he tried to lunge himself at the former Hokage as he told him what he did. But he was held back the by the ANBU jutsu, and defeated that he can't do anything about it right now. "Fine you win, I'll leave." Kazuo admitted defeat, before he warned them all, "But you will pay for this one day, it won't be soon, but it'll be some time in the future, but your misdeeds of this day will be paid and you won't like the outcome of it."

And with that the ANBU released their jutsu from Kazuo, and the now banished man left the village, but with payback on his mind. Payback that he'll one day give to Hiruzen, and anyone who would dare hurt his family. Once Kazuo was gone, Bull asked, "Lord Hiruzen, what now?"

"Now we deal with our people, heal or bury them." explained Hiruzen, as he and the ANBU returned to the village to help with the survivors, and bury their dead. After which, rebuild the damage of the attack of the Nine Tails.

To be Continued!

Author's Note: Here ends the edit of the third chapter, I thank you for reading the story, and I hope that you enjoyed it. There wasn't much to edit in this chapter, as much of I wanted was already here and didn't need to add much. Now sadly this chapter hasn't been beta read, as the beta reader I was using has become busy and so can't help at the moment and he doesn't know when he can. As he got his own work and real life to deal with, and he also beta reading for someone else and can't do mine at the moment.