Chapter 11 The Fall Part 2

The state of Leaf village was in totally panic as most of the village ninja force had taken Tsunade's last order to heart and either rushed forward to engage the invaders or made their way either to the tunnels or to find their families. With the ninja force pulling out or busy fighting back, some the civilians who had not or could not make it to the tunnels had fallen to a more basic nature. Somewhere trying to find their families others were trying to escape, others had other ideas.

"A toast to the Leaf village." laughed a drunk man as he stood over a barrel of foaming beer, in his hand was a stein large enough to fit four normal bottles of beer. He lifted it over his head and poured the golden liquid down this throat. All around him multiple other people were drinking from slimmer glasses or straight from the bottles themselves. The bar had been just on the outside of one of the major medical walls and since it was in view of the ninjas on the wall it hadn't been looted. Now some of those same ninjas where lifting their own steins up.

"To the Leaf, what a hell of a run!" yelled a woman as the ground shook as another building exploded, this caused her to spill some of her beer. The explosion caused more laugher than anything else. "Look I spilled my beer, what a shame."

The room was filled with laugher as the back door flew open and Iruka stumbled into the room.

"Look we have another person, get this man a drink before he falls down!" yelled a twenty some year old.

"What is going on?" inquired Iruka in an almost scream, blood was still flowing down from his ears.

"Well what does it look like we are drinking." reported a woman as she handed an overflowing beer into Iruka's hand. "It's the end of the Leaf and whatever those things are likely going to kill us, or the red flue not sure which is worse but in the end I and everyone else here would rather go out shit faced then sober."

"Here…Here!" yelled almost everyone in the crowd

"Now if Beer isn't your thing we have other drinks and those who want to have sex there are rooms upstairs I am sure you can find someone." laughed the woman "It is the end after all."

"Iruka!" yelled a voice as a woman ran in through the door, like Iruka she was dressed in a jonnin vest but under that was her normal fish net top.

"Maybe her, she seems to know you," laughed the drunk woman

"Anko, is that you?" yelled Iruka

"It's me, come on we need you." answered Anko as she pulled Iruka into the street to where a dozen other ninjas where gathered. Among those gathered were some that Iruka recognized such as Hana Inuzuka, Inoichi Yamanaka, Shikaku Nara and Kurenai Yuhi who was holding her infinite daughter close to her body. The rest of the faces where unknown to him but they were a mix of the experience ninjas and those who had not even left the village in a mission.

"What is going on?" inquired Iruka

"We are getting out of the village, come on." ordered Anko

"What about the leaf?" inquired Iruka "What about those people?"

"We don't have time to deal with drunk people, we need to leave." Explained Anko "orders from Tsunade and Guy, we need to get out and if possible get whoever else makes it out together to fight back."

"A resistance?" inquired Iruka, as the sound of bells could be heard throughout the village.

"Glade to see you got the point." said Hana as she looked up as another group of those things flew overhead. "Now can we get going?"

The door flew off its hinges before crashing onto the apartment floor. Standing where the door had once been where two figure. Slowly they walked into the apartment stepping over the remains of the door and the frame, which was only good for kindling.

"Kushina couldn't you have knocked?" inquired Minato as his wife entered the apartment; both of them had taken human forms so not to scare their son. Still they were expecting to see him standing there, weakened from the virus with a weapon in hand, then they either would talk him down or if need be disarm him by force. Instead, they saw only an empty apartment with no sign of life aside from the bugs on the floor.

"Naruto?" said the woman's voice as she entered the apartment and began looking around. Minato scanned the apartment it was a tiny one bedroom with only four rooms. A kitchen so small that one had to stand to the side to open the oven all the way and a living room just wide enough to hold a normal size couch against one wall dominated most of the apartment. There was a cheap looking coffee table and a desk in one corner of the living room. All the appliances looked to be at least a ten years old if not older and showed their age. The bathroom was also tiny. In the bedroom they found a simple bed with a dresser in one corner the photos in the cheap frames showed it to be their son's place. On top of the bed was a nightcap which Kushina picked up and held close to her.

"Naruto, where are you?" cried Kushina as she inhaling her son's scent for the first time since he was born.

"He isn't here Kushina," said sadly Minato as he placed a hand on her shoulder.

"But they said that he was contained inside his apartment, Minato I want my son." cried Kushina into her husband's shoulder "Where is my child."

"We will find him." reassured Minato as he looked around the apartment; he could see that this placed had been torn apart in the past. Maybe it because his father had been a master carpenter and as such he had spent a lot of time around building sites but he could see the bad work where someone had placed mismatching wood panels on the cabinets. On top of that the titles in the bathroom also did not match and everything screamed cheap and substandard work. He could smell the mold coming from behind the walls, he did not want to think about what other chemicals his son could have been exposed to in the substandard housing.

"They let my son live in a place like this!" cursed Minato as he held the woman he loved close to his chest.

"We will find him my Red Hot Habanero." reassured Minato as he used a modified childhood nickname of Kushina, one that she always used to hate unless Minato was saying it. Now it was his pet name for her and in response, she punched him softy in the chest before kissing him. Minato scanned the area, all the medical seals on the window where still intact and there was no sign of canceling them. That meant that someone had to release the seal from the outside. A team of the medical core had to open it, and then he saw a medical bag located by the side of the couch. He searched his memories until he found a name from his son's ninja files.

"Sakura…Sakura Haruno." said Minato as Kushina lifted her head off his chest and looked at her husband. "Naruto's genin teammate Sakura Haruno is a medical ninja she could have released the seals on the door."

"Why does that matter?" inquired Kushina "How does that help us find our child?"

"Kakashi is their genin instructor and from what Shizune has said he now drives home that you never leave a teammate behind," explained Minato as Kushina's eyes widened as she began to realize what her husband was saying.

"They may be nearby, we have to find him." ordered Kushina as she instantly began to focus more on the sounds around her. Due to their transformation she could hear like she had never heard before, she could hear some rats moving inside the neighboring apartment.

"We will find him, he is still sick." reassured Minato "He couldn't have gone far."

Outside the Leaf village, Naruto Uzumaki sneezed as he jumped from tree branch to tree branch. This caused the others in his group to turn and look at him.

"Sorry, just a sneeze." apologized Naruto as they kept moving, they could still hear the sound of battle behind them and in the distance they could hear the ringing bells from the shrines located within the village walls.

"I hate those bells," admitted Sakura as Naruto looked at her as they kept moving.

"You always loved when they got those bells out in music class when we were in school," countered Naruto as Sakura's eyes widened a bit as she looked at him.

"How could he remember that?" thought Sakura as she looked at her teammate.

"You almost got into a fight with Ino when you came late and the teacher didn't have enough for everyone," added Naruto as the memory of that day came flooding back to Sakura. Her mother was sick and she had woken up late.

"And you gave me yours." finished Sakura as Naruto smiled. This caused a smile came unbidden across her face. The smile faded as she remembered why they started talking about bells. "I did like the bells but…Lady Tsunade banned the temples from ringing them for the dead because it lowered everyone spirits."

"I am sure the old lady is fine." reassured Naruto, both of them knew it was a lie but it made her feel better.

"Thanks Naruto…" started Sakura

"Will you two flirt when we are out of danger." snapped Tenten as both of them blushed but kept moving.

Yards behind them the battle between Kakashi and the demon bull creature was in a close quarter fight. Kakashi had the edge over the demon when it came to experience and speed the demon had the edge when it came to pure strength.

"Earth Style, rocky top!" yelled the bull creature as spikes of earth came shooting out of the ground. Kakashi spun around to avoid it but two spikes came out of the ground from where he had not expected he could not dodge them both. He picked the better of two bad choices as he twisted his body away from one spike which would have gone into his upper shoulder but because he did this he couldn't avoid the second spike which cut up his right leg.

Kakashi winced in pain from the deep gash to his leg but he kept his focus as he ran through hand signs. When he finished four spikes of his own shot out around the creature, two moved up and grabbed the creature's hands and the others wrapped around its legs. For a moment, the creature looked at his now restrained hands and feet.

"This will not hold me!" yelled the creature as with a burst of strength he broke the two arm restraints.

"Wasn't trying to," admitted Kakashi as the creature heard the sound of ripping paper, he looked down to see that when he had broke the restraints he had broken paper bomb seals which had been placed in the Justu. His eyes widened as both bombs exploded. The force from the blasts ripped the hands off the creature and when the smoke cleared, the creature was screaming in pain as he looked at the bloody stumps, which had been his hands.

"You monster!" yelled the bull creature "My hands…my God my hands."

"See you later." said Kakashi as he tried to run only to have his injured leg buckle under him. He looked down and study the wound for the first real time. It was worse than he had believed, so bad that he could see the bone through the ripped leg muscle. As he looked down at his leg a realization came to him as he hit his own radio. He grabbed a nearby fallen branch and using it as a crutch he slowly began to move into the woods.

"Kakashi to team." said Kakashi as he moved as best as he could on his wounded leg. "Tap if you hear me. Do not verbally respond."

Kakashi was rewarded with three taps on his radio meaning that they did indeed hear him.

"My leg was injured in the fight; these things will be on top of me soon. Looks like I will not be meeting up with you." said Kakashi "You're on your own now. Naruto, Sakura, Sai it has been an honor to be your sensei now go make me proud. Good luck and remember fight on."

With that Kakashi threw his radio aside, he paused for a moment studying the woods around him trying to decide where he would make his last stand. As he studied the woods he began to ornate himself and soon he realized where he was, with that knowledge he knew where he would make his stand.

The woods was dark and full of shadows as Meiko Namikaze sat in a tree by herself, she knew her mission was to spot and if possible capture any humans leaving the Leaf. Since their numbers where so low and most of their forces dedicated to the attack on the Leaf that left only a small handful to maintain the outer defense line. Most of those assigned where sent to guard the ANBU tunnel entrees while the others where spread out to watch the rest of the area. Meiko was one of those assigned to watch the area alone.

"I wonder what big brother is like." said Meiko to herself as she moved her legs back and forth under her. In the distance, she could see the fire and smoke rising from the Leaf village, it would take a long time to rebuild that city but she was looking forward to it. "Maybe Naruto can introduce me to some of his friends. I wonder if his friends have younger siblings it would allow me to meet some new people who were once human."

Then she heard a noise coming from her right, she turned toward that location only to see shadow figures moving straight toward her. She could not who they were but they were clearly human and judging by how they were jumping from tree to tree they were ninjas. She dove for her pouch and for her weapons when suddenly a kunai went flying past her head.

"Shit." cursed Meiko as she dodged another kunai, then she saw something flap behind the second kunai. Reacting on instinct she jumped toward the ground, however what she believed to be a paper bomb was nothing more than a leaf from the tree she had been in. She stumbled a bit, she was still not used to her new feet and falling from the tree was the longest fall she had done to date in her new form.

"This is for Kakashi-sensei!" yelled a blonde hair young man as he charged toward her with a kunai in his hand. For a moment, she thought it was a younger version of her father, but his eyes the eyes where all wrong. She ducked under the kunai rolling away from the young man before standing back up. Once on her feet she got a good look at him for the first time, he seemed to be a few years older than her. He was dressed in orange pants with a black stripe down the leg, he wore an orange and black jacket, which was open to show a green ninja vest. He stood maybe 5'7 or 5'8 and was built like her father, even the blonde hair was the same shade of bright yellow, on his cheeks where six whisker marks three on each cheek. Her heart rate picked up as she realized who was likely standing only yards away from her.

Before she could say anything a group of ninjas about his age landed beside the man. It was a mix of men and women but all of them had ninja vests on.

"Naruto we need to move." Ordered a young woman dressed in red with strange short pink hair.

"Na…ru…to?" said the demon fox as Naruto titled his head a bit as he looked at her, she was maybe a couple of years younger than him but he hadn't seen many of them before. She had bright red fur with the pointy ears sticking out of the side of her head. She had some white fur on her arms and since she was dressed in a tan top with matching shorts. She had long black stockings, which had multiple straps containing pouches on her legs. Over her top was a ninja vest not unlike ones wore by ninjas from the Leaf.

"Naruto we have to go!" ordered Sakura as the demon fox eyes widened even more as if she had just had something confirmed.

"Wait. Don't go!" yelled the fox girl as she stumbled a bit and pulled out a small flare from her vest.

"Stop her!" yelled Ino as Naruto reached into his pouch and pulled a kunai and threw it at the creature, who ducked down just in time to avoid the attack. Her eyes widened as if she could not believe what happened then she got her footing and shot the flare up into the sky. The flare bathed the entire area in a red glow.

"I have to end this fast," said Naruto as a clone appeared beside him.

"Wait, I don't want to fight you Naruto." stated the foxgirl as she held her hands up. "Listen let me explain my name is Meiko and I am…"

"To hell with you!" cursed Naruto as his rasengon formed in his hand.

"Shit the rasengan!" cursed Meiko as she held out her own hand and her own rasengan formed in her hand. It was clearly not as large as Naruto's and wasn't spinning as fast but it was clearly the Rasengan.

"How could she know the Rasengan?" thought Sakura. Naruto did not wait instead he bolted across the small gap between the two of them, so did this Meiko.

In the Leaf the flare coming up from the woods caught the eyes of many people, it wasn't because it was in the woods. Flares where going up all over the place as those demons outside the wall caught those humans who managed to get out of the leaf. What caught everyone's eye was it was not red which was the agreed upon color for contact or green for a call for aid but blue.

"Minato…could it be?" inquired Kushina only to see her husband disappear in a flash of yellow light. Not waiting another moment, she took off across the rooftops toward the flare, which meant their son had been spotted.

"Rasengan!" yelled Naruto

"Rasengan!" yelled Meiko as the two rasengans came within inches of hitting each other. That is when Naruto felt a hand on his arm. The arm pulled his rasengan down into the ground where the impact of two rasengans sent Naruto flying backwards causing him to crash into the ground yards. The others had to raise their hands over their faces to protect from the massive amount of dirt which was sent flying from the rasengans.

"Naruto!" yelled Sakura into the cloud of dust. As it began to lift, she saw Naruto slowly standing back up, his body was still recovering from his sickness and it took him longer than normal.

"What happened?" inquired Ino

"It can't be," whispered Shikamaru he had seen a blonde man appeared in a flash of yellow, he had white coat with red flames along the bottom. There was no way that it was possible and yet as the dust settled he saw the back of that white coat with the red flames on the bottom. The words 4th Hokage was gone but instead a Namikaze clan symbol with the flames contained in a circle took its spot.

"Meiko are you alright?" inquired Minato to his daughter.

"I am fine dad," said the demon through heavy breathing.

"Let me handle things from here, your mom is coming." Said Minato's voice as he stood up and looked across the field. For the first time he saw his son in person and for a moment he actually thought it was a younger version of himself but maybe that was to be expected Meiko did look a lot like Kushina. He wanted to embrace his son to take him in his arms in a hug but in order to do that first he had to do something he really did not want to do.

Naruto lowered his guard a bit as he looked into the face that couldn't have been there. It was a face that he had seen so many times in photos in the history books but seeing it in real life was something he didn't expect to ever happen.

"4th Hokage?" asked Naruto stunned, Minato disappeared in a flash of light and reappear behind Naruto. With one movement he brought a three pointed kunai up and wrapped his arm around Naruto's neck pulling him backwards against his chest. Not the way he wanted to hold his son for the first time in years but it was best way to restrain him.

"I am sorry I had to do this, just relax I have no intention to harm you" started Minato as he spun around so that his back was no longer to the group of ninjas. Sakura's eyes widened as she looked at the two of them side by side. They both had the same face structure, same shade of blonde hair, even the blue eyes where the same. If there was a clearer sign of the two of them being closely related Sakura could not think of it.

"Calm down." ordered the 4th Hokage to the struggling young ninja.

"You're the fourth Hokage, Minato Namikaze." said Shikamaru "You're a demon?"

"Until a few days ago, I was human," answered Minato as he moved back using Naruto as a shield. On some levels he did not care about Naruto's friends, his first goal was to get his son.

"Why betray the village, you're a hero." snapped Naruto

"Only way I could get my son back," answered Minato as he pulled his son ever closer. "You have grown since I held you when you were born, Naruto."

"What?" inquired Naruto

"You're my son," restated Minato as Naruto and his friends tried to process the information.

"Son? Did you say son?" inquired Naruto his entire body was frozen, his mind could not wrap his around the information.

"Yes, I am sorry for this but your mother is coming and I couldn't let you harm your little sister." Explained Minato

"Sister?" inquired Naruto as he turned his head slightly the demon had changed into a human girl maybe a couple years younger than them with deep red hair. The red hair was the same color as her fur and the bone structure looked the same.

"I told you to stop." defended Meiko from behind. "But I forgive you for that, you didn't know."

"I don't believe you; the 4th was a hero and wouldn't have taken part in the fall of the Leaf." snapped Naruto as Minato lowered his head. "You're a fake."

"You're your mother's son that is for sure. We will explain everything once she arrives." stated Minato as suddenly Naruto disappeared in a puff of smoke.

"A shadow clone."

"Yes." confirmed Naruto's voice as Minato looked up into a tree, there where now at least three dozen shadow clones spread out over multiple tree branches. There was at least two in them in each tree branch.

"I marked you," stated Minato as Naruto smirked.

"I don't know how you copied the 4th legendary justu but luckily the real Fourth Hokage trusted Jiraiya." explained Naruto as Minato looked each of the clones had a teleportation justu on its hand where he had placed the seal on his son. Minato's mind raced as he remembered when he first showed Jiraiya this justu.

Flashback

A seventeen year old Minato stood in one of the training fields outside the village, the woods was full of kunai. They where at all different distances and placed in different spots around the woods. Standing in the center was an older man dressed in red, his long white hair running down his back.

"Impressive." said the old pervert as he placed his hand under his chin "However what happens if a person makes a shadow clone after you mark them?"

"The seal is copied alongside them meaning that I can get to the clone just as easy as I could the real one." explained a young Minato with a smile as he sat down. "So it isn't that big of a problem. The main issue is that if a mark gets too far out of my range I cannot transport to them. I need to work on that."

End Flashback

"Naruto can make this many shadow clones?" inquired Minato to himself, each clone had a seal on it meaning it would be almost impossible to for him to find his real son. He could teleport himself behind each clone and hit them hard enough to break them but the best way to do that would be to stab them. That risked stabbing his real son and he couldn't do that and he didn't want to think what Kushina would do to him after that.

"Guys run." said one of Naruto's clones as all of them pulled out kunai. "I'll take care of this fake."

First, I hope you had great holiday season. Well Naruto meet his father and most importantly, he does not believe him. One issue I had with the anime was that Naruto believed Minato was his father almost at once. So I changed that. I hope you enjoyed it, until next time please keep reading. Thanks Wilkins75.