Hiruzin Sarutobi wastes no time.

In seconds he approaches the remains of the Namikaze family. It's not a pretty sight.

A face mangles in despair and self-loathing, Minato's face is one he never thought he would ever see on his successor. The tear-stain glass eyes of Kushina reaches towards the baby in front of the two. Never to touch, but ever does her hand reaches out.

Then there is the infant.

Hesitantly the Third Hokage reaches out to touch the blond hair new-born. From the gaping wound, he already knows.

The child is already dead.

"Oh no Yondaime-sama" Hiruzin did not know who said that as more and more voices join in. The others reinforcements arrive just to witness the body of their leader.

"Sandaime-sama is that?" A question came towards him as one of the ninjas finally notice what he is holding.

"No, the sealing failed," Hiruzin spoke softly. "The Kyuubi would reform in time. This is an S-rank secret Konoha lost their Jinchuuriki."


Kurama frantically infuses his chakra through the infant.

He has no idea what's happening outside the body but for now, he is working to bring back the infant to life.

He has known Naruto even back when he is just a small speck in Kushina's body already living and being altered by the nine tails presence.

He knows the body better then Naruto himself.

"Don't you dare fail me." Kurama infuses more chakra reinvigorating the body, forcing dying cells to heal and recreating missing delicacies via extreme application of chakra.

A Bijuu's chakra is so thick, so concentrated that its ability to take physical form as a living being even if it's just a giant mass of chakra.

Same as with how Naruto's Henge Jutsu literally breaks the laws of physics by altering mass and shape instead of a simple illusion.

Kurama can use this temporary recreate Naruto's body.

And what is a soul but a lump of spiritual energy? Is chakra not the mixture of spiritual and physical energy.

Even if more then three-quarters of his chakra gone is he not Kurama The Nine-tails the one with the most chakra out of his siblings?

There may be no physical energy within Naruto now. But what Kurama have is chakra in abundance.

"Breath." Kurama roars as he can feel his chakra pumps throughout his body.

Wait, his body?

Kurama can feel it a desperate cry for air needed as immense pressure forces itself around him. It is dark, and he can't hear or see anything, but he knows that if nothing happens the body would die.

An explosion of chakra swirl ripping through the fragile skin as Kurama reapply the Henge jutsu covering his body with malevolent bijuu energy in desperation to live. He forces himself to pass the dark prison as his form changing to that of a more comfortable form. He breaks free to find himself face to face with a stone.

A tombstone.

So Kushina and Minato are dead… same as Naruto.

Quickly he flung his chakra tail covering the hole he made and then he runs.

He needs to get as far away from this place he cans.

For some unfathomable reason, he is in the past.

A past where Obito and Zetsu are still at large.

With no Naruto to face them.

One wrong move then they would capture him again, forcing him becomes another sacrifice to bring forth Kaguya.

Kurama lets his chakra fade away.

His entire body burns like fire as the skin not used to the sheer power of his chakra burns and ruptures.

His body is bleeding all over.

The body that should have been Naruto's, he is no longer in some mind space he can feel it he can feel through this body all these senses is his own.

He opened his mouth to roar.

A baby voice screams through the night.


"A child here." A man in a cloak mutters as he finds the source of the crying. "Hmm red hair that's a rare color."

"Oh such marks on your face, did you get caught in the shrapnel of a building falling down or something? You must be lucky to be alive." The man comments as he sees the bleeding form of the baby.

"WAHHHHHHH!" The baby voice continued to cry.

"Then again this might be unlucky seeing how you are abandoned here." The man comments. "But damn I think those scars would never heal. No wonder they did not even bother wrapping you with cloth a quick death heh."

He proceeds to leave as his curiosity has been fulfilled.

But the cry stops him.

At the end that is still a new-born baby he just can't for what remains of his conscious to just leave the baby here.

He rips part of his cloak making a makeshift blanket and carefully carrying the crying baby.

"Well my good deed for the day, let's see where the orphanage is." The man mutters.


Omake: Naming

"Would you like to name the child." The orphanage matron asks him.

"Nah, I just found him. I have no relation to him." The man uncaringly replies.

"Still, you might as well, it can anything that you want within limits? We at the orphanage would probably do the same so it doesn't really matter who names him. Just in case any name you might want to give this child at least something for him to know of the man that saved his life" The matron urges him.

"Hmm maybe, Monati, Faguku, Haishi?" The man listed.

The matron blushes.

"Maybe naming him after characters from Icha Icha Paradise is a bit inappropriate." She shyly interrupted.

"Oh, so you are a fan as well? Small world, especially when it's a new book that came out a month ago" The man's face also reddens.

"Then how about Naruto?" He suggests.

"From the ramen topping? Well better than nothing." She nods.

"Actually, it's from the first work of the author of Icha Icha Paradise, it was not a…. let's say it was not a heavy romance novel. So it wasn't really popular compared to Icha which came out a month later and the 1st one was soon ignored." The man shrugs.

"What's the name of the book?" The matron asks.

"The Tale of The Utterly Gutsy Ninja."