The Eyes Of The Kyuubi
Chapter 4
Standing at the top of the watch tower, a lone chunin was overlooking the parameter of the village. All was calm, just a calm breeze that was rustling the leaves in the trees. The chunin was on his last hour of watch before the switching of the guard would occur. It was an uneventful watch, nothing out of the ordinary had caught his eye. The only things out there were birds and squirrels, nothing to raise an alarm about. The chunin was about to walk over to view the west side of the tower when he heard the explosion. He grabbed the binoculars and looked towards the explosion; what he saw made him freeze in terror. The area where the explosion occurred was filled with deep red smoke, inside the smoke he could see two lights; they were as bright as the sun, but they did not have the sun's warmth; they burned with wrath and hatred.
They next thing the chunin saw were the nine tails waving like flags. Then came the deafening roar that could be heard all the way in the iron country. The chunin was able to break out of his frozen state and run to the warning bell; he rang it for as long as he could and shouted to everyone, but a large shadow covered him instantly. He looked up just to see the large hand of the Kyuubi completely decimate the tower.
The Kyuubi leaned against the wall and looked into the village. All it could see was red, red with rage against this so called "village" that had captured it and forced it into these meatbags. For thousands of years the Kyuubi was hunted and used to be a weapon; and so the Kyuubi will completely wipe out the Village Hidden in the Leaves. The Kyuubi lifted it's eyes to the mountain face of the First Hokage, that is what it started to destroy first; the very reason why this village came to be and why the Kyuubi hated it so much.
All Kushina could remember was the pain, the pain of the Kyuubi erupting from the seal. It was ten times worse than giving birth, she could not even scream. She then felt the loving touch of Minato and then the feeling of being teleported to a bed; she slowly opened her eyes to see she was beside her newborn baby, Naruto. She began to sob quietly as not to disturb the baby. She could feel her life force slowly begin to fade, but thanks to Minato's quick actions of teleporting her away, she could still feel a little of the Kyuubi's chakra inside of her that was still keeping her alive, for now anyways. 'Please be safe Minato' she thought as she wrapped her hands around Naruto.
Minato was still shocked from the revelation that this masked man had a Sharingan and a Byakugan. The implications of this discovery were beyond anything Minato could comprehend, but it would have to wait, as he still had to deal with the Kyuubi. Minato walked over to his fallen bodyguard and knelt down beside him and began to perform some medical jutsu that Rin had taught him long ago. But Snake stopped him by grabbing his hand, "Don't waist your chakra on me, I'll be fine. Save it for the beast."
"I can't just leave a fallen comrade Snake." retorted Minato
"I can handle myself, the village cannot without you. You must go! I will be right behind you Hokage-sama."
Minato hated to admit it, but Snake was right, the village needed him; but he just could not leave Snake behind. He picked him up by the arm and teleported to Kushina, and placed Snake on the couch. "If you wish to be stubborn than you can be stubborn here. Please watch over them." With that he teleported to the top of the Hokage tower and witnessed the destruction for the first time. The Kyuubi had taken out the western watchtower as well as the whole southwest corner of the village. He could see the Third Hokage and hundreds of shinobi trying their best to contain the beast to that part of the village. Minato began formulating plans in his head, but it was too late, the Kyuubi had spotted him
The eyes of the Kyuubi seemed to have become and even darker shade of red than they already were. It began focusing chakra at it's mouth, thus creating a large sphere in it's mouth. When the sphere was the size of a mountain, the beast launched it at the Fourth Hokage; thinking fast, Minato produced two of his famous kunai. The first he threw as far into the sky as he could, the second he threw at the incoming attack. As soon as the second kunai made contact with the sphere, it was teleported into the sky with a massive explosion that could be felt around the world. The Kyuubi began to charge at the Fourth Hokage but that was when the Third Hokage stepped in and distracted the beast. With his large expanding staff, he wacked the Kyuubi on the side of the head, which disoriented the beast for a moment; but that was all the time Minato needed to put his plan into action.
Minato bit into his thumb and went through and assortment of hand signs and then smacked his hand onto the ground.
"Summoning Jutsu!" Cried Minato
In a puff of smoke, a small scaled creature with wings appeared before Minato.
"You called sir?" the creature asked Minato.
"Yes Abdu. I need you to take this kunai as far west as you can. Or at least until you come to a clearing that is miles away from the village."
With that, the creature named Abdu took the kunai in its mouth and flew towards the west. Minato refocused his attention on the Kyuubi who was now swiping at the Third Hokage. Minato then produced his last special kunai from his pouch. He began running on the roof tops towards the nine-tailed beast; as soon as he was close enough, he jumped onto its back and stabbed it with his kunai. The Kyuubi roared out in great pain and began thrashing about to remove Minato from its back, but Minato refused to get thrown off. Minato held on until he was almost unable to, that was when he teleported the Kyuubi to the kunai that was put in a large field by his summon. As soon as they landed, Minato let go of the kunai and as he was flipping in the air, he went through the summoning hand signs once again. In one fluid motion, he landed and smacked his hand against the ground. From the poof of smoke came a much larger scaled creature that landed on the Kyuubi, pining the beast in place.
"It would seem I came at the right time." Said the scaled beast to Minato.
"Thank you Sir Trotter. Now please hold him there so that I can bring my wife to re-seal the Kyuubi." Minato teleported back to his house, picked up his slowly dying wife with their new born child in her hands and teleported back to the Kyuubi. Minato then prepared his wife for the re-sealing, but what he did not expect was the Kyuubi to break free. It all happened so fast, one of the claws slashed deeply into the back of Minato causing him to cry out in pain and fall to the ground. The Kyuubi was then going to stab Kushina but she then produced her chakra chains with the last of her strength to immobilize the beast.
"Hurry Minato…I can't hold it forever…you must seal it away…" Said Kushina in raspy breaths from almost completely exhausting herself.
"But you won't have enough strength to contain the beast. We need to find another way." Cried Minato. Both eyes of the parents turned to the new born baby in Kushina's arms. The realization dawned on them…they would have to put the Kyuubi inside Naruto. There was no other option, both of them would not have the strength to contain the Kyuubi within them, but because of Naruto's undeveloped chakra network, only he would be able to full seal away the demon. When they both looked back at each other, there was a mutual understanding in both of their eyes. Minato crawled over to his wife and slowly lifted himself up. Minato nearly fell unconscious from the pain, but he fought threw it. Minato finished created the seal on the belly of his son while Kushina used her chains to force the Kyuubi into the seal. With one last cry from the Kyuubi it was pushed into the seal, unable to free itself.
With all of it said and done, Minato and Kushina hugged each other and Naruto. Tears began to fall from mother and father as the told Naruto just how much they loved him and how he would grow up to be the best ninja in the world. That was when Snake arrived on the scene, what he saw broke his heart. He slowly walked towards the couple and when he was right beside them, Kushina handed him Naruto.
"Please watch over our son. He will need your protection Snake. Promise us." Said Minato
"I promise on my life Hokage-sama."
With those final words, both Minato and Kushina stopped breath and fell to the ground. Both in the embrace of each other.