Nani?'
A large tailedbeast bomb appears directly in front of Izuna afterhisteleportation to the village.
Wasting no moment, Izunaimmediately activates his Mangekyo Sharinganand uses the new ability of his Mangekyo Sharingan.
'Swift Release: God Speed'
He gets out of the way of the Tailed beast bomb.
'Susanoo'
Izuna covers his body with his Susanoo. The Tailed beast bomb collides with the nearby hill and explodes. The Susanoo protects him from the shockwaves of the explosion.
He dissipates his Susanoo as various questions flooded his brain.
'How? Why? What happened? I only left the village for a few days. It is too soon for the Nine-Tails attack. How is all of this happening?'
--Flashback-No-Jutsu--
A few moments earlier in Konoha, in a secret underground room,
Kushina lies on a large operation table as she moans in pain. Minato walks to and from outside the room with a tense expression.
Uwaah…Uwaah…
Cries of a newborn baby echoed in the room. Minato hurriedly pushes opens the doorand enters the room.
He is perplexed and stares atKushina.
"You did it."
Tears trickle from his eyes as he wipesthem and laughs in happiness.
"I am a father now."
Biwako picks up the baby and carrieshim for a checkup.
"It's a healthy baby boy!"
Biwako carries the baby to Kushina. Minato interrupts Biwako and tries to snatch him from Biwako's arms.
"Naruto!"
"No touching! The first face he should see is his mother's!"
Biwako ignores Minato and carries baby Naruto to Kushina and lays him beside her.
Kushina opens her eyes and lovingly stares at the baby.
"Naruto… It is nice to meet you."
"You need some rest now." Biwako lefts the room.
She takes Naruto in her armsand lovinglystrokes Naruto's head.
"There… there… Mamma is with you. Don't cry, baby."
Minato walks up to Kushina and held her hand.
"Kushina, are you feeling okay?"
"Yeah."
Minato tears up a little. "Thankyou…"
He helps Kushina to sit and embraces her back. Minato tickles Naruto's cheeks.
"Look at our Naruto, he has yellow hairs and blue eyes just like me."
"He will be a great Shinobi just like you, Minato. I really hope for Izuna to be present onthis occasion. He wanted to be present at the birth of Naruto. I don't know where he is at the moment." Kushina remarks and feeds milk to Naruto.
"I am sure he will be safewherever he is. He has grown fairly strong in the past few years. Both of us have seen his growth personally. I believe he will return soon to the village." Minatoconvinces Kushina.
Minato held the baby Naruto in his arms and passes him to Biwako.
"Biwako-san, please take care of Naruto for a while. I have to suppress the seal and reinforce it to prevent Nine-tails from overpoweringthe seal."
He turns to Kushina and bumps his fists together.
"Alright! It'll be hard since you just gave birth. But I will do my best to completelysuppress the Nine-tails."
Minato places his hand over Kushina's seal and enforces it.
A swirling portal opens inside the hidden room. A masked man in a black cloak appears in the room. He immediately stabs Biwako andthe nearby doctor and snatches Naruto from Biwako.
Aaaah…
A scream startles Minato. He turns around and spots the masked man. The masked man places his hand over Naruto and threatens Minato.
"Fourth Hokage, Minato. Step away fromthe jinchuruki. Otherwise, this boy's life will last not more than a minute."
Minato steps back and cautiously stareat the intruder.
'How did he get past the barrier? Who the hell is he?'
Argh…aah…
Kushina screams in pain as the Nine-tailsseals weaken even further and crawl all over her body. A blob of Chakra tries to escape from the seal.
"Kushina!"
'The Nine-tails seal is still weak?'
"I told you to step away fromthe Jinchuruki." The masked man forks out a kunai fromhis sleeves and held it against Naruto's neck.
"Don't you care about the life of your child?"
"Wait! Just calm down a little." Minato shouts frantically.
"Heed your own words, Minato. I am as calm as can be."
The masked man throws the baby in the air and tries to stab the baby.
"Naruto!" Kushina yells in panic.
Swoosh…
Minato disappears from his place and reappears on the nearby wall with Naruto in his arms.
"You really are the Yellow Flash. But what about this?" The masked man made a hand seal.
Srrrrr…
The paper bombs attached to Naruto's blanket triggers.
"Naruto!" Kushina yells.
Minato hurriedly jumps from the wall and removes the blanket and jumps out of the room.
Boom…
An enormous explosion destroys the entire room. Minato skids out of the explosion and protects Naruto.
Inside the remains of the room, the masked man places a hand on Kushina and sucks her in a swirling portal. He disappears from the place with another swirling portal.
"Good! Naruto isn't hurt."
Argh…
Minato pulls out a wooden splinter from his leg.
"I have to resort to 'Flying Thunder God Jutsu' already. He is after Kushina. He succeeded in separating us. I have to hurry."
Minato flicks away the splinter and teleports away from the site. He reappearsinside a room.
In a place on the outskirts ofKonoha,
The masked man places Kushina on a stone pedestal. He makes some hand signs and slams his hand on Kushina's seal.
A complex Fuinjutsu seal binds Kushina to nearby stone pillars and holds her in one place. Kushina pants heavily and questions the masked man.
"Why are you doing this?"
"I am going to extract the nine-tails from you and destroy the Konoha." The masked man replies to her.
"What?" Kushina stares at themasked man with wide-eyes.
"Minato's body flicker technique allows him to teleport between locations where he had placed technique markers. It appears that he also place one of that marking on your seal.
He is constantly protecting you, but I have separated you two now. Moreover, the Kyubi's seal has weakened after you gave birth. I have long awaited this moment."
The masked man activates his Mangekyo Sharingan.
--
Inside a room, Minato gently places the baby in a cradle and covers the baby in a blanket.
"You will be safe here. I'll beback soon, Naruto. I have to go save your mothernow."
--
The masked man enters inside Kushina's mindscape and faces the Nine-tails.
Growrrr…
The Nine-tails growl at the intruder.
"You are…"
Before Nine-tails could continue, the masked man put the Nine-tails inside a genjutsu. The eyes of Nine-tails turnsinto Sharingan and it successfully fell in a Genjutsu.
The volatile chakra of Nine-tailsleaks around the seal. The sealing chains around Nine-tails shatters.
Growrrr…
Nine tails growl again and pull off the remaining chains. The volatile chakra ofnine-tails leaks outside of the seal and cloaks Kushina in the Version 1 Tail beast Chakra mode.
The masked man makes a one-handed Ram seal.
"Now come out, Nine-tails."
The seal around Kushina disperses and a massive blob of dense chakra leaks from it. The chakra blob turns into Nine-tails, who jumps out in the air, growls furiously. The seal breaks completely and the Chakra Cloak around Kushina disperse. Kushina fells on the pedestal and weakly stares at the massive figure of Nine-tails.
"Excellent. Now it is time to face Konohagakure." The masked man walks towards Konoha.
"Wait!"
"The Uzumaki clan really issomething. You are still alive, even after having the tailed beast extracted. You were the Nine-tails jinchuruki. So, it is more fitting that I will kill you with it."
The Nine-tails lifts one of its paws and smashes it towards Kushina.
Boom…
Large amounts of dust and debris rise from the attack.
Swoosh…
Minato appears on a nearby tree with Kushina in her arms.
"You really do move like a flash, but this time, you're too late."
"Minato… Naruto… Is Naruto safe?" Kushina pants as she questions Minato.
"Yeah, he's fine. I left him ina safe place."
"Thank goodness…Minato, you must stop that man and the Nine tails right now. They're heading for Konoha.
"There he goes again. No matter. Our destination is Konoha." The masked man disappears in a swirl.
Minato appears in the same room as Naruto.
"Why?" Kushina questions.
"Don't worry about that, just stay by Naruto's side." Minato places Kushina beside Naruto.
Minato clenches his fists and opens up his wardrobe. Minato dons the Hokage's cloak and teleports from the place.
"Thank you, Minato. Go after them."
"I'll be back soon."
Near Uchiha compounds, a swirling portal opens up and a masked man jumps out from the portal.
He quickly makes some hands and slams his hand on the ground.
'Summoning Jutsu'
Nine tails appear inside the village in a large puff of smoke.
Growrrr…
The nine-tails growls violently and attacks nearby villagers and shinobis.
--
'Kyubi…it's Kyubi'
'Help…somebody help.'
'Don't kill me…don't kill me…Aah..'
Yells and screams echo in the village. The Nine-tails start a rampage inside the village and massacre people.
"Lord Third! It's an emergency. The Kyubi! It's in the village."
One of the Anbu inform Hiruzen.
"I know already, I'll deal with it. You and the others go and help civilians to evacuate to shelters." Hiruzen orders the Anbu.
'Did Kushina's seal break? Did we fail, even after taking all of these precautions? Biwako…' Hiruzen murmurs to himself.
"Summon all the Jounin commanders of the village. We have an emergency to deal with." Hiruzen orders another Anbu member.
Many shinobis engage against Nine-tails, but their attacks have no effect on Nine-tails.
Guy, Kakashi, Asuma, and others turn towards Nine-tail and get ready to face it.
"Stop!"
Danzo appears out of nowhere and stops them from engaging with Nine-tails.
"It's Hiruzen orders to prevent young shinobis of the village from engaging against Nine-tails."
"But! Sensei…"
"It's an order." Danzo interrupts them and flickers away with his root. Many shinobis surround them, form some hand seals, and slams their hand on the ground.
A barrier appears around the place and seals all of them inside it. Guy tries to punch and kick the barrier. But the barrier doesn't budge at all.
"It's futile. Just wait inside for a while." One of the barrier team shinobi remarks.
Minato teleports and appears in front of the Hokage Mountain. The Nine-tails notices Minato and starts to charge up a 'Tailed Beast Bomb'.
"So you noticed me. Huh…"
The tailed beast bomb travels quickly towards Minato.
"Not on my watch."
Minato clutches his kunai in both hands form a space-time barrier seal. The tailed beast gets sucked into the seal and teleports outside the periphery of the village.
Boom…
An enormous explosion occurs outside the village.
--At present--
Izuna spot the nine-tails rampaging around the village. Hiruzen, Sakumo, and various other shinobi are attacking the nine-tails to prevent it from further destroying the village.
'I need answers.'
He teleport to Shisui's location to ask from him. Shisui is evacuating the clan members as Izuna appear in front of him.
"Shisui, what's going on? How come the nine-tails is attacking the village? Isn't it sealed in a jinchuruki?"
Shisui is surprised to see me and immediately starts to question me,
"Nii-san, where were you? Two months passed since we last heard from you."
Izuna immediately stop him from bantering further.
"Shisui, go and helps clansmen and civilians to evacuate to shelter. I will deal with other matters. I will answer all of your questions after this situation is over."
Without waiting for any confirmation from Shisui, I sense the location of Minato and teleport to him.
Minato is engaged in a fight against a masked shinobi. Minato creates the enhanced version of Rasengan which I taught to him against the masked shinobi.
He throws a kunai towards the masked man. The kunai phases through the masked man.
'So, he is Obito.'
My Mangekyo Sharingan activates on its own and records the jutsu. The information about Kamui appears in my mind.
'Wait, I can copy the abilities of Mangekyo Sharingan too. Isn't that a bit of overpowered?.'
Minato teleports on top of the masked man and slams the
'Lightning Style: Vanishing Rasengan'
on the back of the masked man.
Boom…
A large explosion occurs and forms a large crater. Dust and debris block our vision. The masked man jumps out from the crater. His right hand is limping from his shoulder as blood trickles from it. His right hand is disabled for this fight.
'Swift Release: God Speed'
I disappear from my place and appear in front of the Masked Man.
'Fuinjutsu: Summon Suppression seal'
I suppress his summoning contract with Nine-tails. The masked man loses control over the nine-tails. The genjutsu cast on Nine-tails is dispelled. The Nine-tails continue to attack Konoha despite gaining control over its body.
Obito tries to shift space using the Space-time Ninjutsu 'Kamui' of his Mangekyo Sharingan.
"Not so fast. You aren't going anywhere."
I immediately make some hand sign and slam both of my hands on the ground.
'Fuinjutsu: Space Locking Seal'
Various sealing formulas start to spread quickly from my hands. The sealing formulas crawled in the air as they start to firmly bind the space. I lock the space coordinates of the surrounding area.
I seal the surrounding space, thus preventing the use of any space ninjutsu in this isolated area.
"Stay here. We need to figure out your identity and motive behind this attack. I won't allow you to escape so easily."
I start to walk towards Obito as I infuse some chakra in my palms and prepare to seal the Chakra of Obito. I have already sensed the presence of Black Zetsu hiding nearby.
'After I am done with Obito, you will be next. You manipulated my grandfather for the sake of your plans. I am sure my Grandfather isn't even aware of my existence. I don't even know my own backstory, I will get my answers from you. But first, let's settle the business here.'
"Izuna Uchiha, one of the elite shinobi of the Uchiha clan. I am Madara Uchiha, your ancestor. Why don't you join me in my cause and create true peace in this world?"
Obito tries to bluff me with his usual crap.
'Others may fall for your bullshit. But I am aware of the entire story of Naruto. I ain't buying that crap. But I will comply with you.'
"So, this is how you want to bring peace to the world. By releasing and controlling the Nine-tails on the Konoha Village. You found this village together with the Hashirama Senju and now you want to destroy the same village you developed from scratch."
"Konoha was a mistake. Hashirama was a fool, his idealistic way of thinking only lead to more wars. True Peace can never be achieved through such tender ways. Only absolute power will bring true peace to the world.
And gathering the tailed beasts is one of the ways to achieve power. Starting with Nine-tails, I will collect all the remaining tailed beasts and use them to bring salvation to this cruel world. Now, come and join hands with me. We will bring salvation together. Your powers will be a great help for our noble cause." Obito tries to entice me.
"Don't listen to him, Izuna. He is trying to buy time to allow nine-tails to rampage more in the village and destroy it." Minato warns me.
"It's over, Faker. I will unmask your actual identity now."
I stretched out my hand to shatter the mask of Obito.
"Found You."
A raspy voice interrupted us. A figure clad in a purple cloak tore a spatial rift and appeared on top of us. He is floating in the air without using any tool or Ninjutsu.
A chill ran through my spine as alarms start to ring in mind. My body froze on the spot and I couldn't even lift a finger. An invisible pressure starts to bore on us as my limbs start to bend from the pressure.
'Is he the backup of Obito? Was Obito stalling time for this guy to appear and interrupt us? Who is this guy? This level of power. I can't even fathom his power. Who is this monster? How come Obito knows him? If he is my enemy, then I am fucked!'
"He is very powerful, Izuna-kun. I can't even sense the depth of his power." Minato warns me as he is also pinned to the ground.
I look toward Obito to see his reaction. Obito is also pinned to the ground, similar to me. His expression is quite ugly behind that mask. Obito pukes out a mouthful of blood as he struggles to even breathe under this pressure.
'I guess Minato-san's previous attack had done a number on Obito. He is barely hanging to his dear life.'
I turn in the direction of Black Zetsu to see his reaction.
'Perhaps Black Zetsu might be aware of the identity of this newcomer.'
Black Zetsu is also stunned to see this newcomer. He is as clueless as me as he glances warily at the newcomer.
'Time Out! Will, anybody answers our doubts.'
The purple cloaked man floats towards us. He reaches near my 'Space Locking Seal' and touches it.
"A low-level Space sealing barrier. I never expected such a thing to appear in this backward low-level dimension."
He grasps my sealing formula with his hands and crushes it in dust easily.
"No way! That's the highest level Space Sealing Seal which I recently learned from the Uzumaki Heritage."
He stares at us for a second. I can't sense anything from this guy. I can only feel danger, a life-threatening Danger.
"Oh! Seems like it found a new host for itself in this low-level dimension. I never expected such a thing. This complicates things a little, and I don't like complicated things.
I will just kill this guy and drag his soul with the Grimoire."
The newcomer mumbles to himself as he decides. He stretches out his right hand towards me.
I felt a very strong, attractive force acting on me. I tried to resist the attractive pull. I riled up my Chakra without any care for the 'Sin Seal'.
'Mangekyo Sharingan: Susanoo'
I create my Susanoo, whose upper frame is properly built and has four hands. The attractive force weakens a little bit. I form a large pair of Katanas in Susanoo's hands and slash them at the cloaked man.
A purple barrier blocks my attack and my katanas snap in half.
"Interesting… quite interesting"
The purple cloaked figure is amused to see the technique utilized by these low-level beings of a backward world. He increases the attraction force.
My Susanoo starts to dissipate from the large attraction force and my body is pulled towards the cloaked man.
The cloaked man grabs my throat and starts to fly higher in the sky. I try to struggle from his grasp, but resistance is futile.
Minato and others look at me with wide-eyes.
--
Obito and Black Zetsu immediately escape from the situation.
Minato engages in a fight against the Nine-Tails. His chakra reserves are low from the previous fight. Nine Tails prepare another tailed beast ball to shoot at the village.
'Summoning Jutsu: Food Cart Destroyer Technique,'
Minato summons a giant toad on top of Nine tails and crushes it on the ground. Minato teleports to Kushina and newly born Naruto to check on them. Kushina clutches his hand and nods to him.
"Are you sure, Kushina? You have just given birth to Naruto. You are very weak now. Also, a powerful enemy kidnapped Izuna. The village is on the brink of destruction." Minato questions her.
"That's the more of a reason for me to seal Nine-tails. We have to save Izuna after that."
Kushina walks out of the secret room with baby Naruto in her arms.
'Adamantine Sealing Chains Barrier,'
Kushina incorporates the Adamantine Sealing chains in a barrier to restrain the Nine-tails.
"Minato, I will use the 'Four Symbols Seal' to reseal Nine-tails inside me."
Kushina had tears in her eyes as she tried to convince Minato.
--
Meanwhile, in the sky of Konoha,
The cloaked man holds Izuna in his hands. He grabs the right hand of Izuna, the 'Sin Seal' turns visible to naked eyes. A similar seal appears on the cloaked man's left hand.
Small chains come out from his seal and enter inside the Izuna's seal.
Aah…
Izuna yells in agony, his soul start to get ripped apart from his body. The cloaked man draws a transparent apparition out of Izuna's body.
"You will get out of your misery soon. Such dominant power is not meant for an insect-like you. Let this power return to its rightful master."
The chains around the Grimoire rattles. The cloaked man pulls Grimoire out from the separate space and inspects it.
"Hmm… It is still incomplete. Only two eyes are present around the seal, the rest of them are still missing. It makes things more complicated. Guess I will collect the rest of them later. For now, these two are enough."
The cloaked man pulls the Grimoire as the chains around it snap.
Argh…Aah…
Izuna wreaths in pain and struggle desperately. The Sin seal on Izuna's hand activates and tries to counter the chains of the cloaked man.
"Futile attempt!"
The cloaked figure suppresses the seal and gives the last push to rip apart the Grimoire. Izuna's consciousness fades away.
'No! I can't die like this. I haven't lived long enough.'
His desperate attempts for survival initiate a change in his Mangekyo Sharingan and evolve it further. The Silver sclera forms three inner rings around the star shape pattern of his Mangekyo.
Aah…
Large amounts of chakra rile up in his body. The force from the sudden burst of Chakra pushes away the cloaked figure and forms a complete body Susanoo.
Many dark markings and totems erupt from the seal and cover the Susanoo. The katanas of Susanoo fumes with the dark chakra.
Slash…
The Susanoo slashes the pair of katanas diagonally at the cloaked man. The cloaked man creates another barrier around himself to block the katanas, but the katanas slice through the barrier like a hot knife cutting through butter.
A large criss-cross slash mark appears on the cloaked man's chest. No blood spills from the wound, the darkness corrodes the wound. The impact of the attack pushes the cloaked man towards a nearby hill.
Izuna's Susanoo chase after the cloaked man. The cloaked man stands up slowly and cracks his neck.
"I never expected such a situation. This insect can use the powers of Grimoire subconsciously. Still, if that's his best bet, then I will end this soon."
The seal on the left land of the cloaked man shines brightly and covers his body in a warm yellow light. This light removes the corrosion from wounds and repels the dark chakra.
A floating Grimoire appears beside him and heals his injuries.
Roar…
The corruption on Izuna's Susanoo spread even further and encase it in black color flames. Dark flames coats katanas and the Susanoo swing them at the cloaked man.
A large pale white barrier blocks the swing and repels the flames.
Boom…
The shock waves from the impact of katanas blow away the nearby hill. A large narrow gorge appears in its place. The cloaked man shrugs off the attack and floats higher in the sky.
Wings sprout out behind Izuna's Susanoo, and he chases the cloaked man to clouds.
"It's over."
The cloaked man creates a large spear out of the pale light and aims it at Susanoo. The spears shoot at Izuna at a rapid speed. The Susanoo attempts to block the spear with the pair of katanas, but they snap in half because of the power of the spear.
The spear travels further and penetrates the Susanoo and stabs Izuna. Izuna pukes out a mouthful of blood. The 'Sin seal' absorbs the blood and shines brightly.
The two Sin eyes detach from the Grimoire and float in front of Izuna.
'Limbo Hengoku,'
Two Limbo shadows rip apart the dimensional barrier and float in front of Izuna. The Sin eyes shine brightly and attach to their chests.
Dark markings similar to Izuna appear on their body and cloak them in darkness.
Roar…Roar…
Both shadows roar violently and form Susanoo of their own. Their Susanoo is smaller than Izuna. One of the Limbo shadows forms a Scythe from the Chakra and the other Limbo form a large greatsword.
Both of them disappear and appear in front of the cloaked figure and attack him relentlessly.
"Oh! You can even summon Limbo Shadows from 'Border Prison Dimension'. But your power is still too weak."
The cloaked figure stretches out his right hand.
'Shinra Tensei,'
A large repulsive force pushes back the Limbo Shadows together with the Susanoo.
"You may be invulnerable to physical attacks and sealing because of the 'Sin eyes' but that doesn't mean you can change your nature."
Two clones of the cloaked figure appear beside him and engage in combat with 'Limbo Shadows'.
"In the end, they are still shadows and fears the light. Now let me take back, what I came for?"
The cloaked figure vanishes and appears in front of Izuna.
"Enough prancing around, it's time to sleep."
The cloaked figure coats his hand in strange white energy and grabs the last chain of Grimoire connected to Izuna's soul.
Aah…
The intense pain wakes Izuna from his slumber. In a desperate attempt to preserve his life, Izuna claws his left hand on the seal of the cloaked figure.
Aah…
The light burns Izuna's hands and the surrounding darkness disperses.
Haha…haha…
"Your Grimoire of Sin is of Dark Nature, and my Grimoire of Virtue is of Light nature. They are polar opposite to each other. What are you trying to achieve other than bringing harm to yourself?"
Izuna continues to clutch tightly around the seal. The 'Virtue Seal' on the cloaked figure's hand activates and releases an enormous amount of Light Chakra.
Izuna frantically absorbs this Chakra and his Susanoo changes again. The right side of Susanoo turns black from the dark Chakra, and the left side turns white from the Light Chakra.
'Light-Darkness fusion: Cosmic Obliteration,'
The Susanoo compresses the stolen Light Chakra and Dark Chakra in a large volatile ball and throws it at the cloaked figure.
The cloaked figure is stunned at this drastic change.
"This, How is this possible? Impossible, How can you combine the light and darkness?"
Boom…
The attack launches the cloaked figure towards space and explodes violently. The brightness from the explosion lights up the sky momentarily.
The Grimoire retracts back to the 'Sin seal'. The chains of the Grimoire have extensive damage to them. The Susanoo dissipates and Izuna's chakra reserves hit rock bottom.
Having drained the last bit of his Chakra, Izuna falls from the sky. His consciousness starts to fade. Izuna forces himself to stay awake and concentrate his mind on a space co-ordinate near Minato's location.
'Flying Thunder God,'
Izuna senses Minato's co-ordinates and teleports to him. They still have to deal with the rampaging Nine-tails.
'I don't want Minato and Kushina to needlessly sacrifice their life. I will protect them.'
Fwoosh…
Izuna teleports from the sky and falls on the ground.
The large nine-tails wrapped in 'Adamantine Chains' appears in his vision.
'I made it on time. I have to stop the Nine-Tails.'
Before Izuna could react the nine-tails stabbed its claw through Minato and Kushina.
"Nooo!"
Izuna yells and wobbles over to Minato and Kushina.
"Minato nii-san, Kushina nee-san. I won't allow you to die here. Naruto needs your love, he can't an orphan."
He stumbles and fell on the ground. The earlier fight has weakened him a lot. There is still a large gaping hole in his stomach which is healing slowly. His chakra reserves are almost dry.
"Izuna! Thankfully you are alive. That enemy is very powerful, he is way too strong beyond any of our league. I am glad you can somehow escape from him. I don't have enough time remaining. Take care of Naruto for me.
I am sure you will be a good brother to our little Naruto. I will seal the remaining half of Kyubi in Naruto and make him the new Jinchuruki of Nine Tails. I want him to grow stronger and face against that masked enemy. I will leave that cloaked figure to you." Minato leaves his last message to Izuna.
"Izuna-kun, you are my favorite kid. I want you to act as a role-model for our Naruto and I don't want Naruto to live a life full of loneliness. You must act as a big brother and parent for Naruto. Don't pamper and spoil him too much.
Don't allow him to stray from the path of shinobi and make sure to follow the taboos of a shinobi. You are the only person beside Minato whom I trust in this village."
Kushina leaves her message to Izuna and whispers her blessings to Naruto.
"Why, this must happen? I won't allow you to die here."
'Yes, I will use the ability of my left eye.'
Izuna activates his Mangekyo Sharingan and activates the ability of his left eye.
"Mangekyo Sharingan: Amenominakanushi"
Blood trickles from Izuna's left eye. The time stops in a radius around him. The 'Sin eye' awakens from the Grimoire and hovers above him. (A/N:- Izuna unleashes 'THE WORLD'. I don't want to do this, but my inner Jojo fan took over me.)
The Sin eye opens with the new pattern of Izuna's Mangekyo Sharingan. A bright blue light shines from the eye and falls on Minato and Kushina.
"This is… what is this, Izuna? I can feel that the surrounding space time is caught in an infinite loop. What kind of ability is this?" Minato questions me.
"This is the ability of my Mangekyo Sharingan. I can use it to gain absolute control over the space-time in a certain area for a period. I have set this space in a time loop. I won't allow both of you to die here."
Minato sighs and looks at me.
"Izuna, you can't maintain this time loop for eternity. There is a time limit to this power. I can sense it, the surrounding space is struggling to gain back the control over spatial and temporal laws. The world will set everything back to normal.
Besides, I have already made a death contract with the Shinigami of 'Dead Demon Consuming Seal'. My soul will be sealed inside the stomach of reaper soon."
"No, I have a way to stop that."
Izuna activate the ability of the Right eye and summon a Limbo shadow. He passes the 'Oni mask' to the Limbo. The limbo wears the mask and the other sin eye fuses with Limbo.
The Limbo creates a scythe of darkness, and slices open its stomach. The Shinigami behind Minato is stunned and its stomach is pried open. My Limbo swings the Scythe again and cuts off the connection of Minato with the Shinigami.
The soul of Minato is released from Shinigami's grasp together with the remaining half of Nine-tails. Izuna capture the Yin half of Nine-tails and seal it inside the Grimoire.
Various chains erupt from the 'Sin Seal' and pins down the yin half of Nine tails. They start to suck Chakra from Nine-tails, and the damaged dimensional chains linked to my soul start to repair themselves using Nine-tails chakra.
It flabbergasts Minato and Kushina. Kushina weakly points at me and questions,
"How… how are you able to do that?"
"It is another ability of My Mangekyo Sharingan," I reply to her.
"It is futile, Izuna-kun. Most of the vitality of Kushina's and mine body is lost. We won't live for long. The claw of nine-tails has pierced our body. The volatile chakra of Nine-tails is corroding our body." Minato remarks.
"I won't allow that to happen. I will heal your bodies and souls. I need time to do that. Give me some time, Minato-san. Until that moment, I will place you inside the isolated space of my weapon.
I show the 'Grimoire of Sin' to them. I have enough trust in them to reveal the existence of Grimoire.
Two more chains come out from the Grimoire. They tightly bind around Minato and Kushina to hold their body and soul together and prevent their soul from dissipating.
"We will leave the rest to you, Izuna-kun. You have done a lot for us. I want my Naruto to turn into a fine shinobi like you." Kushina smiles at me.
Both of them are pulled inside the Grimoire and are sealed inside together with their consciousness. Two pages appear inside the Grimoire with the picture of Minato and Kushina.
"What I have done is just my way of repaying some of your gratitude. Both of you taught me everything without holding back, I will pass all of your and my knowledge to Naruto.
He won't be a loser like his original self. I won't allow the villagers to discriminate against Naruto. If anyone stands in my way, then he should get ready to face King Yama in hell."
The tardiness from before kicks in and Izuna's head spins.
"I still have a task to do before I lose consciousness."
Izuna picks up the blood of Minato and Kushina from the ground.
'Fuinjutsu: Shadow body Blood clone'
Two lifeless clones of Minato and Kushina appear near Naruto.
'This will allow the villagers to know about the sacrifice of Minato and Kushina.'
Izuna's vision turns blurry and his consciousness fades away.
A few moments later,
Hiruzen together with some anbus and Sakumo arrives on the scene.
"This is…"
Hiruzen stares at baby Naruto, then at the lifeless body of Minato, Kushina, and Izuna.
He immediately rushes to them and inspects their body. Minato and Kushina are dead.
Hiruzen takes a deep breath and sighs in grief. He walks up to Izuna and examines him.
"He is still breathing. Come and immediately take him to the Leaf Village Hospital. He is a student of Tsunade, take him to her."
Hiruzen shouts and orders one of the Anbu guards. The Anbu quickly picks up Izuna and dashes towards Leaf Hospital.
Uwaah… uwaah…
The cries of a baby echoed. Hiruzen directs his attention towards the newborn baby and picks him in his arms.
"He looks very similar to Minato. So, he is Minato's and Kushina's newborn son." Hiruzen remarks at Naruto's appearance.
Looking further below on kid's navel, he spots the 'Eight Trigram Sealing Seal'.
'Minato sealed the Nine-tails inside his newborn son, despite knowing the intricacies of the matter. It seems there is much more to the matter, then it appears on the surface.
Only one person can provide answers to me. I have to wait for him to regain consciousness. I don't believe Minato is rash to take such an action.'
"Lord Third, what should we do at this moment?"
Sakumo bows before Hiruzen and waits for his further order.
"Go and help the remaining villagers. Make a tally of deaths and arrange for a funeral for them. We will have to conduct an emergency meeting due to this incident.
The village can't stand without a leader. Konoha had suffered huge losses in this incident. The death of the Fourth Hokage and the loss of many lives. We haven't even recovered from the losses of The Third Great Shinobi War and yet we faced such a catastrophe."
Sakumo nods to Hiruzen and instructs the nearby Jounins and Chunnins. Hiruzen flickers away from the place together with baby Naruto in his arms.
Two Anbus stayed there to guard the bodies of Minato and Kushina.
'I have to meet with Biwako and inquire about the details of the attack from her.'
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Inside one of the Underground Shelter,
Shisui frantically moves back and forth with a tense expression.
"Itachi, I met with Izuna nii-san earlier. He teleported to fight with Nine-tails right after I met him. I am worried about him. I hope he is doing well. I don't want to lose Izuna nii-san."
"Izuna nii-san will be fine. He is much stronger than both of us. He will be able to escape easily with the teleportation jutsu if the situation turns unfavorable. You have to believe in Izuna nii-san's prowess." Itachi assured Shisui. But he too had a tense expression on his face.
"I hope you are right. I believe in Izuna nii-san. It is just that I have a bad feeling about this whole ordeal."
Shisui silently stares at the Moon in the night sky.
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