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As soon as Naruto left his sight, Kakashi teleported out of there, hurrying back to the Hokage's office, where Minato will surely want to know what's been going on with the cheerful boy.
The one eyed man found his teacher alone- except for a few ANBU guards- towering over his desk and mumbling about devilish papers. Kakashi coughed, moving Minato's attention from the white pieces of it to him; Yondaime's eyes lit up, seeing his favorite student. Don't tell Rin that.
"Kakashi! I thought you were busy with guarding duty!"
'You mean babysitting, right?' Kakashi inwardly groaned. Kakashi's posture went rigid, remembering about his talk with Naru-chan.
"Sensei.. Naruto has been hearing a voice in his head." Minato stood confused for a second, before his eyes grew wide, his grin freezing in place.
"What?" They both knew what it meant; either his son was going crazy or the Kyuubi spoke to him. Neither was a good thing. Minato was wishing with all his heart it was the former scenario.
"He will be telling you about it later, but I thought I should notify you." Minato sighed, slumping down in the chair.
"Thank you." After a minute of Kakashi just standing there and the blonde Hokage thinking, Minato decided to go home.
"I'm going now, I can't just sit around." Saying that, he used a seal he had in his house and Hirashined.
Naruto was very confused, sitting in his favorite chair which he named Rika, with his parent shooting nervous glances across of him. He grinned, trying to crack the tension. Kaa-san, seeing his confusion, responded with a kind one.
Minato coughed a few times, preparing himself mentally for what he was about to say.
"Naru-chan…" Naruto turned to his otou-san, smiling widely.
"Hai, otou-san?" Minato's lips twitched upwards, remembering the respect lesson the young boy received from Fugaku, after calling him Fu-jiji.
"You remember how your kaa-san and I always told you how special you are?" The blonde twerp furrowed his brows before chuckling.
"Hai! Kaa-san always says I'm kawaii!"
"Oh Naru-chan, you're the cutest being alive!" Kushina chimed in, chuckling with a fits of laughter. Minato smiled a little, before remembering the talk they had to have.
"Well, aside from that, you have a little… no, a very big friend who's living in your body." Naruto's eyes lit up.
"Ku-chan?"
"Who's Ku-chan?" Minato asked, not following the situation well. Naruto pointed to his stomach.
"Ku-chan is bwig fox that's in my twummy!" The Yondaime paled, feeling all of his blood freezing.
"Ye.. Yes. How did you… ?"
"Ku-chan says he's my fwend an' that he'll neva leave me!" A friend? What the heck has the fox been feeding their son with? Naruto nodded. "Ku-chan wants to talk with you~." A moment and a chakra surge later, Naruto's whisker scars deepened, his eyes went red and his whole smile face fell down.
"Good day to you, puny humans." A cold, harsh voice said.
Minato's first reaction was to scream bloody murder; Kushina's was no different. The Kyuubified Naruto gave a smirk, folding his arms.
"Don't worry, I'm not gonna kill anybody. Not today, at least." Kushina, even shivering, managed to say something:
"What do you want with Naruto?" And how did you get sealed inside, Minato added mentally.
"I want him to live." Because of their bewildered faces, he sighed and continued "I came from the future. Don't interrupt me, human." He growled to Minato, who was just about to tell him 'bullshit'. "Now, that future is just a past. You may say it's a different timeline now." Minato and Kushina listened carefully, lured in by his words.
"In my timeline, Minato sealed me in Naruto after that masked guy made me attack Konoha." So he knew! And, Minato concluded, he was about to do that, before… "Both of you died that day, using last bits of your chakra to implant yourselves into Naruto." Kushina's eyes watered, while Minato stayed silent. His brain was overworking. That would mean he used Shiki Fujin right? Minato gulped, imagining how awful must that be, with no Naru-chan around to liven up their days… Kyuubi growled again. "Naruto was an orphan, and he didn't found about his parents until he was sixteen, where you, Minato, stopped him from releasing me." Minato nodded again, knowing that this was also a plan of his; he knew he was the only one, beside Kushina, who can help him with controlling Kyuubi.
Kyuubi huffed.
"It was interesting at least; the first thing he did was punching you." Minato cringed. Was it so bad to be a Jinchuuriki?
"Don't worry, he didn't go ballistic; he dealt with it well. He proclaimed he was gonna become a Hokage and that everybody will have to acknowledge his existence then." Minato couldn't help it, he felt proud of his different-timeline son. But, what did he mean with the last thing he said? "He's the most idiotic and stubborn person I've come across, I'll tell you that." Kushina gave a soft smile, her hands reaching her husbands. Minato, seeking comfort, took it lightly in his own.
"When he was twelve, Akatsuki, an organization the masked bastard worked with, started collecting us." Minato gaped; he heard something about Akatsuki from Jiraya. Kyuubi shrugged.
"Konoha's twelve killed almost all of them. Except the masked guy and the plant-thingy. Then, a war started." There, they both twitched; they have seen the war. They didn't want that for their child, not for Naruto. "Shinobi Alliance against the masked bastard." Minato's eyebrow rose.
"Shinobi Alliance?" Kyuubi started chuckling:
"Yes, all countries united, with the purpose to protect Killer Bee, the Hachibi Jinchuuriki, and Uzumaki Naruto." Uzumaki? What happened to Namikaze? Why was their son wearing his Kushina's maiden name?
"Around that time, the kit and I became… friends. I gave him my powers and he promised to give us our freedom."
"Us? As in… ?" Kushina chimed in. Kyuubi sighed, his eyes turning glazy.
""Naruto he… He saw us as living beings, something only that guy did… The nine of us entrusted him our names and loyalty, hoping he was the Promised One." Minato's eyes bulged.
"You mean, he is the prophesized child? The one that will end the cycle of hate?" Kyuubi grinned, which looked evilly on him.
"He convinced me to believe in him, what more do you need?" Kushina grinned proudly. When Kyuubi gives Naruto's mind back, she is so gonna make him ramen. Kyuubi's red gaze darkened, became much sadder.
"He did it, you know. He ended the war, beaten the masked bastard and ended all of the hate- without having to sacrifice all that was good in this cursed world." Minato was sprouting a grin, for one ear to another. Oh, how proud was he! His son, the legend, the savior! A cute hero, mind you.
"But, he did have to give one thing in return." Kushina was feeling the anger behind those words and just knew nothing good could…
"That idiot gave up his life, just so he could save the rest of them!" Kyuubi growled, his hands shaking. Minato was ghost white now, and Kushina was trembling terribly.
"The moron that he was… and still is, he decided one life was nothing compared to others."
"But it was! To me… to the Bijuu's, he was our friend, our savior… Our most precious person!"
Minato watched the silent tears in the Kyuubified body of his son; it seemed like he was truly hurt because of their blonde angel's act. Hitting the table with his fist, Kyuubi continued:
"So I came back… We all did. Using our powers, we came back in time. We want… No we need to save our Jinchuuriki. This world has taken much from us already. I am not ready to part from my kit, not yet." Kushina solemnly nodded. Before anybody of them had a time to think, she got up, navigated around the table and hugged him.
"Thank you." Giving him a tear filled kiss on the cheek, he squeezed him harder. Kyuubi, baffled and feeling uneasy, sent a warning look to Yondaime.
"I told you this so that you could protect him. And if you fail to do that…" There was no need for him to finish the sentence; Minato already knew what will happen from that glint in his blooded eyes. Acknowledging his warning, he stood up too.
Naruto's eyes went back to sparkly blue, though a little bit hazy. He looked over to his weeping mother and pale father, before giving them his famous grin.
"Dinner!"
A/N: Did you like it- this chapter and my explanation at all? It has some cannon, but mostly is just made up stuff. Do review and tell me how could I make it better, or what did you like the best.
There are a lot more stuff that what Kurama said, but that's for another chapter!
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OracionMist: OH GOD, you're reading my mind. Dammit, and I was up for a surprise! ^^ Yeah, Kurama will join the protect-Naru group, and for now only his parents know what really happened. No worries, feelings and act towards him are still the same. Yeah, I think I OOCed Kurama way too much. But, oh well!
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