A/N: this fanfic is being made as a way for me to get ideas that I have and that I get a kick out of, I hope you all enjoy some of my ideas!
Disclaimer: I do not own Naruto.
Chapter 1: A New Tale Begins!
A cool October breeze lingered over most of the Land of Fire on the night of the 10th, in Konohagakure however the air was hot burning with killing intent and jutsu as the Nine-tails attacked. Burning pyres of soot and smoke could be seen for miles out the village was in ruin, houses collapsed, and businesses crumbled under the might of the beast. The shinobi didn't fare well either, hundreds were dead and more were dying by the minute.
In a cave secluded from the rest of the village, a new mother with firey red hair lay on a bed holding her newborn girl whose hair was as passionate red as her mother's. A man stood nearby with a calculating look on his face, sharing the same nose shape as the child. After a look inspiration and realization dawned on the man's face he'd speak up with a solemn tone.
"Kushina, may I have young Naruko? The Nine-tails has been taken from you, we can make young Naruko a hero. Someone to protect the village, our legacy"
The woman would speak up shortly after, her eyes widening at what was hinted at. "Minato. You couldn't mean what I think you are implying right"
"I fear this may be the only way, you are on your deathbed and cannot contain the beast. And it is my duty as Hokage to protect the people of this village, it is not a sacrifice I ask our daughter to make lightly. She will still have Jaraiya the man who took me in to act as her father." the man now known as Minato would say warmly.
With a sad huff and a tear in her eye, Kushina spoke up. "Do what you think is right, I love you both dearly, please make sure she is not injured"
The baby known as Naruko was passed from mother to father, vanishing before Kushina's eyes leaving the dying woman to sulk alone worried for her daughter's future.
Back on the battlefield, an elderly man in black robes covered by traditional shinobi battle armor would bite down on his left thumb causing blood to seep out slowly before wiping it across his right palm, slamming his hand on the ground causing ink-like seals to spread on the ground. Out of a cloud of smoke originating on the seal placed on the ground by the elderly man a tall monkey in a tiger-striped outfit would be summoned, seeing the situation the large primate wordlessly transformed into a staff. The old man seeing his companion transform would signal towards men and women wearing colorful masks depicting various animals to scatter, as the people in animal masks moved out of the way the old man's stance widened. Aiming the tip of the staff at the beast attacking the village, noticing the distinct pinwheel pattern of the Sharingan. The man makes a jabbing strike at the monster while doing so the staff would elongate and push the beast 100 meters outside of the broken village walls.
The beast itself apeared to be infuriated at the audacity of the elderly man. Opening its wicked maw wide red and blue energies would begin to swirl together coalescing into a massive purple sphere. With a quick snap of its unhinged jaw, it closed, launching the orb towards the village only to be stopped in its tracks as black seals appeared in the air catching the ball, as the orb of chakra was swallowed by the wall of seals shinobi all around could see an explosion way off into the forest that surrounds Konoha.
Quickly arriving in a yellow flash to the now isolated scene from where the beast was pushed back, Minato would stare down the bijuu. A tearful shine enters his cold blue eyes as he begins to start making hand signs, whispering to himself as he makes the signs.
"Snake, Boar, Ram, Rabbit, Dog, Rat, Bird, Horse, Snake."
Shinobi all around are rushing toward the scene the first to arrive is a tall man with long disheveled white hair and a wart on his nose. Seeing the scene at hand he summoned a giant toad to pin the Nine-tails in place, trying to give Minato his much-needed time to act. Speaking up in a shout as he realized what Minato was doing, stoic determination crossed his face.
"Minato, are you sure this is the only way? Maybe we can..."
He was cut off mid-sentence as Minato shouted.
"Yes Jiraiya sensei I'm sorry but raise Naruko!" Minato shouted as he looked back at Jiraiya.
"Shiki Fūjin" was the next thing to come out of Minato's mouth as he grunted in pain. From Minato's perspective, a ghastly blue hand reached through his stomach, behind him he could feel the chill of the Shinigami's breath beat on his neck, see the pale colorless hair fall over his shoulder, and hear the beads clack behind him. The hand being channeled through Minato carried out his will reaching into the bijuu, the condensed red chakra was visible as he pulled the soul out of the Nine-tails. As the energy was condensed into his hand he quickly shoved it all into the small baby in front. The energy in the air was vile and putrid as it was being forced into Naruko she wailed in pain, the experience shocking her hair white. Left behind was a series of seals surrounding a swirling circle resembling a whirlpool. As quickly as it came the Shinigami left leaving a collapsing Minato holding his child in his arms whispering one last statement.
"I love you, Naruko Uzumaki"
The elderly man from before arrived just after this all happened with a parade of the shinobi in animal masks, the old man when he stopped had a tired expression on his face from the scene in front of him. Speaking up with a worried tone.
"Jiraiya is the child now the host of the Kyuubi"
"Yes sensei, I am going to raise her as if she is my granddaughter. I do not find myself confident that after this event that people will treat her with the care she deserves." Jiraiya said with an uneasy voice.
Reacting in a shocked manner not expecting this level of responsibility from Jiraiya the old man spoke up. "Very well but I will have to inform the clan heads about who she is, I see that I must take back my title as the 3rd Hokage now."
Some days later Jiraiya can be seen holding baby Naruko while sitting at a park bench next to a younger-looking blond woman with a blue diamond on the center of her forehead, the blonde woman was holding a pink-haired baby looking at Jiraiya solemnly.
The blonde woman spoke. "You may be a pervert but my son and his wife died last night as did your student, I honestly don't know if I can raise my granddaughter myself either"
"Tsunade are you suggesting what I think?" Jiraiya said with an excited grin
"You idiot I didn't mean it like that, I just think we should raise the children together. I'd hate to put young Sakura in an orphanage and I don't trust you to raise girls, we can just tell them to call us tosan and Hassan. They never have to know the wiser" Tsunade stated simply.
"They'll have different clan names how do we explain that?" Jiraiya questioned
"Easy, we tell Naruko she's a Senju as we are closely related to the Uzumaki, it will work out," said Tsunade.
Jiraiya spoke defeated. "If you say so Tsunade-hime, I'll trust you on this but I still think they will figure it out when they're older."
In the Hokage's office, Lord 3rd stood pacing back and forth seemingly thinking about the attack a few nights prior. The Sharingan he saw in the Kyuubi's eyes was troubling, now that he thought about it he didn't see any non-ANBU Uchiha present, this was a problem he was going to have to keep an eye on Fugaku. Perhaps he'd contract ROOT to take an investigation into the clan. After a while, his musing was interrupted by his two loyal pupils entering his office.
"Jiraiya, Tsunade, what do you two need at this current moment?"
Tsunade would be the first to speak up. "Sensei we need a marriage certificate and young Naruko's papers. We decided to raise the two girls together as members of the Senju clan."
after a moment's pause, the 3rd Hokage would talk. "I'm sorry what, It's straining enough with the shinobi clans that Jiraiya is raising the jinchuriki do you think they'd be pleased that you two guys plan to bring back the Senju clan, with the jinchuriki no less?"
Tsunade's voice will raise and her fist will clench. "The Uzumaki clan are relatives of ours, it feels only right to do so! If the clans have a problem they can bring it up with the new Senju clan"
Lord 3rd wishing to avoid a verbal fight with the two sanin would give in. "Fine, it is on you two to rebuild the relationships with other clans."
Reaching into a metal filing cabinet behind him the 3rd homage would image through it for several minutes finding everything he needed. Grabbing the papers required as well as some white-out and some ink he'd place it all on the table next to a quill pen. Pointing at the documents and where the two sanin needed to sign. The two sanin would nervously sign the documents in front of them before changing the name on Naruko's papers to say Senju. As well as a contract explaining that the shared Senju-Uzumaki compound would all belong to the Senju clan as of today. When finished all three let out a breath they didn't know they were holding.
Jiraiya would finally speak up letting out a chuckle. "On behalf of the Senju clan I thank you sensei."
Tsunade grabbed her now idiot husband by the ear. "Yeah yeah, thank you sensei I'm going to go get us settled in." Pulling Jiraiya's ear as she walked away.
On the road walking to their new home Tsunade insisted they go shopping for furniture and for the girls, as far as she was concerned shopping is easy when you have a seal master with you to put it all in scrolls. First, they stopped by a small hardware store picking up a plethora of supplies to both garden and to baby proof the house, the second place they shopped was a store for babies clothing store buying onesies and baby shoes for the children, next, they went to a grocery shop and bought formula as well as food for themselves, lastly was the furniture store, Jiraiya's least favorite spot so far, buying all new furniture large enough to furnish a mansion it seemed. Now with a light wallet and too many full scrolls for his liking, they headed to the compound.
Once at the compound Jiraiya let out a loud whistle in surprise, he knew Tsunade grew up here but he had never really thought to come here. The large walls had beautiful flowering trees growing out of them the grass in front looked like it had its little ecosystem, pushing beyond the gated wall felt like entering a magical place. Uzumaki style seals bud the true scope of this compound to those outside of it. On the inside sat one massive hollowed tree-like structure and several smaller houses, the architecture was very open with few walls on the outsides of the buildings opting for vines and natural growth to keep privacy. The tree structure itself had small rooms and balconies built off of it.
"Magical isn't it? I never thought I'd return here after all these years. My grandfather truly made something beautiful." Tsunade said while starting to cry silently from joy
"I'd say Hime, the children seem to even love it here they seem to not be able to stop smiling, it seems to not even be cold in here is that by design?" Questioned Jiraiya.
"I think so growing up it never rained, snowed, or froze over in here. I guess it was done through my grandmother's sealing."
taking more time to take it all in, they soon headed inside of the tree watching closely as the lizards would run between branches playing with one another. On the inside the ground floor seemed to have a spiraled staircase leading up the whole way stopping at the very top of the tree where what looked to be the bottom of a house-like structure sat. Walking up the stairs to the building at the top of the tree was a circular house surrounded by a balcony that overlooked the whole village. 3 bedrooms were present this is where they decided to settle down. Over the next few days, they'd arrange the furniture and baby-proof the place. Naruko and Sakura seemed to never cry while here like they found the energy here calming.
Several years would pass till the girls were 5 their childhood home being a blessing to them, growing up thinking they were twins born in August. during that period they'd make several friends at the park from other clans. The first friend they made was Hinata Hyuga, she was a timid girl who was always being bullied. One day the girls decided that it was wrong that people would bully her for her eyes which they thought were beautiful. Another group of friends they grew quite fond of was the next generation of the Ino-Shika-Cho trio, though the two boys would often prefer to just chill than to play a game with them. They also made friends with the youngest child of the Inuzuka clan head, his name was Kiba and he gave Naruko a run for her money when it came to being loud and causing trouble.
It was August already, and Naruko and Sakura were excited about their 6th birthday. They were told they could start ninja training after their 6th birthday. The two girls wanted to try and have all the clan children over, even the ones they weren't yet friends with for a sleepover.
Naruko would run into the kitchen from her bedroom. "Kaasan, can you invite all the clan kids this year? I want to have a big sleepover and make lots of new friends!" she said with conviction.
Sakura who was nearby and overheard her sister would also speak up. "Yeah Kaasan that sounds super fun, you and tousan won't even know we are here."
Naruko shouted again. "Yeah! You'll never know! We'll even camp outside!"
Tsunade let out a chuckle saying. "Fine but don't expect everyone to show up okay, a lot of them have never even met you."
A/N: I hope you guys enjoyed the first chapter I know it's moving very fast at the current moment but I wanted to get it to a point to set up the main body of the story!