Disclaimer: Hello this Gora and I am here to tell you one very important detail. Make sure you pay attention because it is VERY important. I DO NOT OWN NARUTO OK!!! IF I DID THEN IT WOULDN' T HAVE TAKEN HINATA 500 CHAPTERS TO CONFESS TO NARUTO!!! Ok well that's about it, oh and some of the ideas that I am using for this story are not mine either so credit goes to whoever owns them as well. The only thing I own is a few of the OC's. Thanks for listening, bye.
Oh and before I start, No, I am not going to bother using the Japanese names for jutsu's and all that other stuff, I do not speak Japanese nor am I going to learn anytime soon. I may use honorifics such as chan and kun but that's about it. So if this is a turn off for anyone then you can stop reading now.
Chapter 1: The Beginning
The wind was howling and the sky was bleak. Before him stood a massive fox with nine-tails swinging violently behind it. As he stood upon his faithful friend and summons Gamabunta, the boss toad, the blond haired, blue eyed man thought to himself, "So it has come to this." Looking down at the small bundle in his arms, he said sadly, "I am sorry… Naruto."
He placed the bundle down and separated the cloth revealing a child, a new born infant. He strokes the child's face lovingly before standing up straight and then forming several dozen hand seals. The very fabric of space and time seemed to tear at the seams as he called out, "Sealing Jutsu: Death God Seal!"
Then, appearing behind the man, a sinister demonic figure wearing ceremonial robes, seems to almost fade into existence. Before him the fox's eyes take on an almost fearful look, but it still continues to rage on, attacking everything in sight. Then the now completely formed Death God, plunges its arms through the man and through him reaches out and grabs the fox, pulling it steadily toward them. The giant fox struggles with all its might, trying to break free of the Death Gods grip, but to no avail. Eventually the fox is pulled to the point where it is directly in front of the giant frog, and then, in a magnificent flash of light, the fox disappears, and on the infant's body, a spiral seal forms around his navel, and marks resembling whiskers appear on both the child's cheeks. The Death God, seeing that its job was done , pulls its arms back out of the man's body, dragging his soul along with them. Then as mysteriously as the Death God appeared, it vanished, taking the man's with it. The man, with the last of his strength, picked up the infant, just as Gamabunta vanished in a puff of smoke. Having neither the strength nor the will to try and land safely on the ground, he fell, clutching the boy to him protectively. He hit the ground with a thud and all around him people cried out.
"Minato!"
"Sensei!"
"Yondaime!"
However, their words fell on deaf ears as the man, Minato, the fourth hokage, slipped into the dark embrace that was death.
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"Where am I?" a voice seemed to echo throughout the expanse of completely empty room.
"How did I get here?"
"No, more importantly, why am I here?"
Another voice, this one almost completely silent, but still somehow able to be heard seems to answer the first voice.
"I should not… no I cannot be here. I made sure to dispose of all evidence of that art."
Again the second voice answers.
"Impossible! I cannot be set free! I do not deserve to be set free! I was supposed to be sealed forever!"
The second voice laughs at the first and then says something else.
"Wait! Come back! There must be some sort of mistake! I cannot be alive! It is impossible!"
The second voice says one last thing as it fades into the distance.
"… I understand. I accept my fate. I will not make the same mistakes twice. On my name, Lev, I shall help the one cursed by the very art that I sought to destroy. I shall once again use… those forbidden rituals…"
The first voice, Lev's, fades into nothingness.
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The entire room was abuzz with excitement, most of it was apparently because of the presence of the small infant who now lay uncovered in the middle of the long table. Many voices were heard, some saying things like "Kill the demon," and "The fourth must be avenged. Others were saying the complete opposite such as, "He must live," and "He is the fourth's legacy."
Amongst the many people now arguing over the supposed fate of the infant, only one was completely silent. An old man, smoking a pipe and wearing a ridiculously large hat merely sighs, takes a long breath from his pipe and thinks, "I am too old for this shit." Eventually the old man, Sarutobi, calls out in a stern voice full of wisdom and kindness, yet at the same time retaining a tone that demanded complete respect and cooperation. "Enough!"
The room fall's silent as the many people gather there stare at him. Taking another drag from his pipe, holding it in for a moment so that he may enjoy the full calming effects of the tobacco then exhaling, letting out a large cloud of smoke, Sarutobi remains silent for a minute, merely staring out at the collected group. Then after what felt like an eternity he spoke.
"I have had just about enough of this foolishness. This child is not the Kyuubi," he looks at a tall dark haired many with onyx eyes as he says this, "Nor a weapon," this time looking at a bandaged old man with only one arm, "Nor will he be killed," this time he gave a hard look at a pale skinned man with even paler eyes and long brown hair. He waits another moment then continues, "This boy is a hero, a legacy, and to my great regret, a human sacrifice." He stands up and walks over to the child, looking down at him over his long nose that at some time must have been broken, but obviously didn't heal quite right. The child, looks back at him with blue eyes full of wonder, mischief, and over all else, purity. He then looks back up and says, "If you lot are too boneheaded to realize this then I will have but no choice but to take action."
A women with shocking bubblegum pink hair stands up, nearly knocking over her chair in the process, and exclaims, "But Hokage-sama, this child is quite obviously the demon in the guise of an infant! I mean just look at it!"
This argument was not very sound to begin with but was rendered even more so when the child playfully giggled at the crazy pink haired lady and then stuck its hand its mouth, drooling as he did so.
Sarutobi shook with barely controlled rage as the other people gathered started to start arguing again. "ENOUGH," he cried out, the room falling silent once more. "I can see that none of you are going to be reasonable about this so I have no choice but to take action. From this moment forth, it is forbidden to speak of this child's fate to anyone outside this room, under penalty of death. I also declare this child as an official ward of the hokage."
The room seemed to explode with violent protest as Sarutobi sat down. "I really am too old for this shit," he thought as stared at the infant, who only continued to play with the blankets surrounding him, completely oblivious as to what was going on.
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Outside the hokages mansion where the people were arguing over the fate of the child, standing on top of the hokage's monument stood a figure, almost completely covered in dark robes, who was deciding also what he should about the child. The figure said silently to no one in particular, "So this is where the cause of my release can be found huh. Very well, I shall watch over the child… until the time is right." The figure seem to vanish into the wind, leaving no trace behind that he ever was there.