Posted originally on the Archive_of_Our_Own at https://archiveofourown.org/ works/13578987. Rating: Explicit Archive Warning: Rape/Non-Con, Underage Category: F/F, F/M Fandom: Naruto Relationship: Hyuuga_Hinata/Uzumaki_Naruto, Uzumaki_Naruto/Uzumaki_Naruko/Uzumaki Kushina, Uzumaki_Naruto/Uzumaki_Naruko, Uzumaki_Naruto/Uzumaki_Kushina, Uzumaki_Naruto/Uzumaki_Naruko/Uzumaki_Kushina/Hyuuga_Hinata Character: Uzumaki_Naruto, Uzumaki_Naruko, Uzumaki_Kushina, Hyuuga_Hinata Additional Tags: Brother/Sister_Incest, Mother/Son Stats: Published: 2018-02-05 Chapters: 4/? Words: 34290 ****** The Ninja Overlord! ****** by DarkDragen Summary Naruto has always been looked down upon and mistreated, all because of the Nine Tailed Beast being sealed within him. What if Naruto things didn’t go as well as it did in the show, what if he came out of it darker and mistrustful of others. But at the same time, what if he finds someone who is willing to train him unlike his teachers were willing to do. And what if after failing his third attempt at passing the Academy, and the person who is training the person dies, he meets up with a few of the Overlord’s minions within the forest after he stole the Scroll of Seals. How would that change Naruto’s life, would he take the role of Overlord or would he keep following his dream to become the next Hokage? ***** Prologue: Kushina Uzumaki and Minato Namikaze - Part 1 ***** The_Ninja_Overlord!   By   Dark_Dragen   Summary: Naruto has always been looked down upon and mistreated, all because of the Nine Tailed Beast being sealed within him. What if Naruto things didn’t go as well as it did in the show, what if he came out of it darker and mistrustful of others. But at the same time, what if he finds someone who is willing to train him unlike his teachers were willing to do.   And what if after failing his third attempt at passing the Academy, and the person who is training the person dies, he meets up with a few of the Overlord’s minions within the forest after he stole the Scroll of Seals. How would that change Naruto’s life, would he take the role of Overlord or would he keep following his dream to become the next Hokage?   Disclaimer: I don't own Naruto or any of the associated characters. I may or may not own any jutsu that I come up with but as I doubt I'll make any money off them just tell me if you use them. I'm sorry about any spoilers from anything but that's the risk of reading fanfiction.   Warnings: I don’t know what is to come, as I’m writing this as I go along, but if you read some of my other stories, you can guess what is going to come. The story will be a bit more darker than in the manga and anime. Alive Kushina, Dark/Powerful/Smarter Naruto, Underage Sex, Smut/Lemons, Violence, Torture, Threesomes, Foursomes, Harem, Naruto having a sister, and Incest just naming a few things that’ll appear in this story. There’ll be OCs also, one of them being Naruto’s new teacher, who’ll help make Naruto smarter. Naruto will have two pet foxes, and will be at least two/three years old than the rest of the students we see at the start of the show.   Before you complain about this, please let me explain, the reason that Naruto will be two years old is to fill in the big plot hole in the show - and that’s his age. Before the show, he meant to have failed the Academy two other times, but yet he is still twelve years old. Now some of you will say that he could have entered the exams early as it is possible, I have to call BULL there. Sorry if anyone in the anime/manga that was going to enter the exams early, it wouldn’t be Naruto. As in the anime/manga there were so many others who could do so with ease, but NOT Naruto. So for this reason, he’ll be older in this story.   There’ll be some minor Third Hokage bashing, as with all his power, he done nothing to help Naruto that much. All he does is keep an eye on him, but seeing how he is treated by others after the learn about him having the Nine-Tail Beast within him, does nothing to make his life better. Or at least not from what I have seen so far. If you read Harry Potter, he reminds me of Dumbledore, have all that power but yet does nothing to help one child who needs his help.   Author’s_Note: Now the story came about when ChaosSonic1, asked me about if I watched Naruto a while back and I admitted that didn’t. But I have been recently talking to him again, this time on Discord, and asked again and this time I decided that I would give it a try. And as I watched it, I decided that I would give it a try, as there were parts of the story I thought I could do better.   Now before I start the story, I would like to say before people know about the past of Naruto, there are those who read my stories that may not know. So I want those people to know about it before we get to Naruto, and so there’ll be less flashbacks. Don’t get me wrong, there will be flashbacks if they are needed, but I prefer not to do them if I can help it. But for the start of this story, I’ll have to write about Kushina Uzumaki, as I’ll be make a few changes that’ll alter the rest of the story.   One last thing before I start the story, what are your thoughts about Naruto being old in this story? Been talking to a few people on Discord, and they aren’t too thrilled by the idea, but at the same time it would allow me to explain about Naruto failing three times. But I’ll allow you lot the final say, as I want to keep my readers happy, but I would like ideas to explain why Naruto failed three times and I want good ideas for this though. I’m trying to fell in the plot holes about Naruto’s childhood, and him failing his exams three times. The plot holes that I’m trying to deal with, will be in the last chapter about Kushina Uzumaki.   Prologue.   (Kushina_Uzumaki_and_Minato_Namikaze_-_Part_1,)   21st_of_January_1887_-_Land_of_Fire,_Konohagakure,_The_Academy:   “Alright now students,” said the Sensei to his eleven year old students, “we have a new transfer student joining our Academy today.” The new student was a round face young girl, which, with her red hair naturally framing both sides of her face, giving her the resemblance to that of a tomato. Which she was often got tease about. She was wearing a sleeveless kimono-style blouse that was yellow in colour and held closed with a green obi over a short-sleeved mesh shirt with a pair of dark blue shorts and brown shinobi sandals. Seeing how shy the girl was at the moment, the Sensei encouraged her by saying, “Come on dear, introduce yourself, don’t be shy.”   “I’m Kushina Uzumaki, ya know.” Kushina said fastly, as she covered her mouth once she did so, going red faced as she said ya know.   And not for the first time in her life, most of the kids begun to tease her about her looks and her hair. Whilst embarrassed about it, she wasn’t too bothered about it.   “Come on everyone, settle down.” the Sensei told them, and as he did, the young Kushina called out, trying to shut them up, “I’m, I’m going to be the first female Hokage of Hidden Leaf Village.” This got the stunned look on the student faces.   She knew it was a bit immature by saying this, but she was young and too ignorant about it all, and she wanted them to stop teasing her about her looks. She had come to Konohagakure, or as it was also known as the Hidden Leaf Village recently, as her own land, the Land of Whirlpools, was at war. She came from Uzushiogakure or it was otherwise known as The Hidden Eddy Village, and it was well known for a few reasons. The first was the people's notoriously long lives, where their village gained the epithet “The Village of Longevity.” The other reason was for them being renowned for their Sealing Techniques. In fact it was because of their Sealing Techniques, that the country was at war, as they won’t willing to give their secrets away. As they feared they would be used against them, or used in wars, which was the case now.   She was sent to the Hidden Leaf Village, as her father, Kazuo Uzumaki, once lived here, and thought it was the best place for her. You wouldn’t know it by looking at him, but he was in fact sixty but looks like he was in his early thirties. The reason was because he was from Uzushiogakure, and the reason of their long lives, it is because they age slower when they turn twenty-five. He once came to this village when he was a child, to become a ninja, as they didn’t have a Hidden Village to become one back at Land of Whirlpools. He was the reason why they have one, seeing he create a small Hidden Village so they could train their own.   Now the stun silence ended, when a blonde haired boy stood up and said, “Me too. I want to become a great Hokage, one that the whole village would respect.” Kushina give the boy a dark look, unhappy about her taking her moment, he was wearing a simple white suit of clothing with green trimmings and a hood. Her first impression of the boy was that he wasn't manly or dependable, and so didn’t have what it took to become a Hokage.   “Ok now, Kushina please take a seat at the back of the classroom and we’ll start the class.” the Sensei told the young girl, and once Kushina was seated, he went on to say, “Now class, seeing that Kushina is new here, let me do some catch up so she knows where we at and allow her ask any questions she might have.”   And so with that, the Sensei begun to tell Kushina what they had done so far in that year, and answered any questions that she might have had.   o0OoO0o   22nd_of_August_-_Land_of_Fire_-_Konohagakure,_Watanabe_Household:   By the end of the first day though, when the Sensei was gone, a few of the boys started to pick on her and begun calling Kushina Tomato and stumped on her dreams. For a few weeks, she grudgingly allowed this, until it got too much for her, and she beat the living day lights out of them. And from that day, anyone who bullied her and called her Tomato, she beat them up.   Before long, she gained a new nickname, instead of Tomato, it became Red Hot Habanero. She had to admit, she hoped that the boy the blonde hair, who she found out his name was Minato Namikaze and who she fancied, would stick up for her, show her he indeed had it to become a Hokage, but he didn’t. And this pissed her off even more, and those who made her angry got the brunt for it all. And so over time, she kept on fighting and the rapertion of Red Hot Habanero grew as she won each battle. Most of the fights were those trying to prove they were stronger than an outsider and a girl, or those who want to pay her back for hurting someone they cared about.   It was quite lonely for Kushina, as she was the only one from her clan, that came to this Hidden Village, and as people keep on calling her, she was an Outsider. And with how people were treating her, she felt like one too. It didn’t help that a few times, she saw Minato just standing there doing nothing but watching. Which just upset more. She hated her life at the Hidden Village, she had no one to go to, and people were picking on her because of her red hair, which she hated, and because she was an outsider.   But then a few months of being in the Hidden Leaf Village, she learnt why she was the only one sent there. It was because that even for a member of the Uzumaki Clan, her Chakra was stronger than the others. It had the special effect that it could hold the Tail Beasts, which is why she was here at the Hidden Leaf Village, to become the next Jinchūriki for the Nine-Tailed Beast, Kurama. As the last Jinchūriki, Mito Uzumaki, was dying and needed to transfer the Beast into a new Jinchūriki.   When Kushina first learnt of this, she was terrified by the idea, as she already was disliked by the Village and feared what would happen if they found out about her being the Jinchūriki. But she was was comforted by Mito, a short while before the transfer of Kurama, where Mito talked and reinsured her, and advised the young girl that love was the only way to tame the Nine-Tails and overcome its hate.   No matter how much she hated it, but after talking to Mito, Kushina agree with the current and become the next Jinchūriki for the Nine-Tailed Beast. Lucky, the procedure was done in secret, so that no one in the village knew about it. And she kept on with her life as if nothing had happened.   And which leads us to the current time, Kushina had became a Genin a week ago, and was taking some time off before her new training started. She had just came home to where she lived over the last few months, a family by the name of Watanabe.   “I’m home,” Kushina called out, but no one answered, so she looked around the house, “is anyone home?”   “Where is everyone?” Kushina asked herself, as she looked in the dining room, but finding no one there. But as she was about to leave, she saw some figures within the shadows that jumped out at her. Here she begun to run, and cried out, “Please, someone help me!”   But there was no one there, and so as she screamed, she was tied up and taken out of the house. As she was being lead out of the Village, through the backroads not to be seen, she found out her captures were from Kumogakure. Kumogakure, or as it was otherwise known by, the Hidden Cloud Village, was the Hidden Village for the Land of Lightning. It would seem that they had found out that she was the new Jinchūriki for the Nine-Tailed Beast. And they came to kidnap her, so they could test her to find out more about her special chakra, so that they could learn how to gain control of the Nine-Tails and harness it’s power for military purposes.   The reason for this, was that years ago, Kumo experienced the Kyuubi’s great power before long ago, when two of  Kumo’s ninjas by the names of Kinkaku and Ginkaku were swallowed by the Kyuubi alive. It was said that Kinkaku and Ginkaku were trapped in the beast’s stomach for and they were forced to eat the beast’s flesh from its stomach to survive. They didn’t know it, but the consequences of doing so was that by consuming Kyuubi’s meat, they would change too.   After two weeks inside the tailed beast's stomach, eating the beast, they were eventually able to force the Nine-Tails to regurgitate them. And upon their escape, they both came out looking like miniature versions of the beast, due to having acquired a portion of the fox's chakra. Seeing that they had became a Psuedo-Jinchuriki, the leaders of the Hidden Cloud Village, wanted to try and repeat this procedure. But to repeat this though they needed the Nine-Tailed Beast, as they suspected that it was its powers that give them Kinkaku and Ginkaku their power.  Which is why they tried to kidnap Kushina.   She knew that she had to do something in order to leave a trail behind, whilst she was being lead away from the village. The only idea she could come up with was pulling a few strands of her long red hair, and drop them onto the ground in the hopes someone would find them. She did this carefully, so that the enemy didn’t notice though. But the problem was that she was an outside, new to the village, and apart for a few people, no one knew that she was a Jinchūriki. She didn’t hold out much hope that anyone would come to rescue her.   Before long though, they were walking through the wood and was coming to the bounders of the Hidden Village, and she feared what would happen seeing that her fears were confirmed that no one was coming to rescue her and so she was done for. But little did she knew though, was that there was someone coming to her rescue. And she was forced to take the lead, she didn’t notice that someone took out the agents from the Hidden Cloud Village.   It was only when she heard a young say, “Are you alright?” as she looked up to see who it was, the moonlight raised to show it was none other than Minato Namikaze, who smiled as he went on to say, “I came rescue you.”   Kushina couldn’t help but smile at seeing the young boy, as she collapses to the ground. Where Minato raced over to her and caught her, and as he did, he smiled and said softly as he picked her her into his arms, “Everything’s gonna to be fine Kushina.”   “Hey wait, what are you doing?” Kushina asked in shock, before he jumped into the trees.   As Minato was using his Chakra to fly in the air, Kushina noticed her red hair that she left to be found, and she begun to say, “Hey, that’s my…”   “Your hair is so beautiful,” Minato told her, “so I noticed straight away.”   Kushina huffed at this, “So tell me, if that’s the case, why are you always ignoring me?”   “Because I know that you can take care of yourself,” Minato told her, shocking her, “and I know that you’re strong, both in body and in spirit.” And as he landed on a tree, he went on to say, “But this is different, this time this is a fight between villages. So this is different to all of your other battles, so I came to help.”   “Baka,” Kushina said as she hit him against his chest, “that makes no bloody sense. But still, why help now?”   “Simple,” Minato said as he looked down at her, “because I don’t want to lose you.”   “But I am an outsider though.” Kushina told him with a blank look.   “But that’s the thing, you’re not an outsider,” Minato informed her, “you live in the Hidden Leaf Village, and that means that no matter where you come from, you’re one of us now.”   Kushina couldn’t believe it, she couldn’t help but to blush at this a bit. In that one moment, her views for Minato changed, he became a great ninja in her eyes. And she realized that just maybe, he could help her make all of her dreams come true. In a way, in that moment, he changed the way she was. Now the red hair that she used to hate, and that give her so much trouble, had now given something she always wanted: Love.   Her hair had become the red thread of fate. And since then she begun to love her hair, and most of all, she fell in love with Minato. And in that moment, life as she knew it changed.   To_be_Continued!   Author’s_Note_-_PLEASE_READ_TO_THE_END: Now before I go any further, there’s something I want to ask, as you know this is going to be a harem story. So I want to ask if there’s any girls or women you would like me to add please let me know. But if there’s any that were killed in the show, and their deaths was the key plot to the reason for something that happens because of their death, I want ideas how to work around it.   Like the death of Rin Nohara, her death is the key to make Obito and Kakashi the people they were in the show. I would like her in Naruto’s Harem, as I thought she was cute and so would be sexy as an adult, but I don’t know how to change it so that she could stay alive, but have Obito become the way he is. So if there’s female characters like this you want in the harem, but they are dead, I would like ideas on how to work around it so that person is alive but keep the outcome of their death the same. Like Rin staying alive, but keep Obito becoming Tobi and the leader of Akatsuki.   Now that is out of the way, I would like to thank you for reading my new story and I hope you enjoyed the first part of this story. I know the main story is short, but this is the prologue for this story, so it will be short. And it should get longer as I go along.   I would also like to thank ChaosSonic1 for finally getting me to watch Naruto. As without him, I might not even thought about writing this story. Now the reason I started the end notes by asking who you wanted in the harem, is because I know that many of you might skip the notes. But I really wanted your help with this, as there might be women you want in the harem, but they are dead and their deaths were the key factors to what happens in the anime/manga. And if you want them in the story, I need ideas as to how to work around their deaths, but keep the outcome of their deaths.   Now I wasn’t planning to post this story until I had a few chapters done, like another new story I’m working on. But the problem is I need help, not only with the girls you might want to see in the harem, but also ideas. For the first few chapters, I’m writing about Kushina and Minato, and so I’m after fanfiction, episodes from the anime and chapters from manga, that would explain their past from when Kushina entered the Hidden Leaf Village to Kushina and Minato deaths. I’m also looking for fanfiction, episodes from the anime and chapters from manga, that would explains Naruto’s childhood. I even would like online novels about Naruto, ones I can read for free.   Now before any of you complain about me doing so much back story as most of you might know it, and not getting to the main story, there’s two reasons for me to do this. First there could be like me until recently, that knows nothing about the story and so some of my reader mightnot know about it, so I want to explain it to them. The other is that until Naruto failing his third time at the Leaf Village Academy, I’m planning to make a few changes to the story and so want to show them.   I know some of you say I can do flashbacks, but from my own experience, I don’t get good feedback when I do them. So unless I have to, like explaining one of the other characters past and not Naruto’s, I try and write out what happens to the main character and only do flashbacks only whenI have to. Any other time I write someone else’s past, is when it connects to Naruto somehow.   One last thing, seeing that Naruto was the one that created the Sexy Jutsu, I would like other Jutsus and Techniques that Naruto could create based on sex. Those to win over women, and make them only think of him, got one idea reading a porn comic, but I would like others. So I hope that you can help me with coming up with other Jutsus and Techniques that Naruto could use against women, either to make them happy or get them on his side, or have better sex.   Once again, I would like to thank you for reading my new story, and I hope that you enjoyed the story. If you did, I would like to ask that you spend a few minutes and leave a feedback to your thoughts to the story, and apart for what I have asked for, any ideas you would like to see to happen. So you know, I’ll not too happy with the title myself, but I couldn’t think of anything better. So if you can come up with a better title, please let me know. ***** Chapter 1: Kushina Uzumaki and Minato Namikaze - Part 2 ***** Author’s_Note: Before we start the next chapter, I would like to thank you all for reading the last chapter. In the first twenty-four hours, I got fifteen reviews, eighty-three favourites and one hundred and five followers. I hope to keep this up, and I hope you’ll help me. I’ll try and make this a good story. But be warned though, this story is not for kids, as there WILL be dark adult themes if you don’t like that, please stop reading now. So don’t say I didn’t warn you.   Now one last thing: this chapter is based on my own ideas, and using what I can on the wiki to fill in the blank spots. I don’t know how it’ll go, but I hope you like it.  Be warned though, if something doesn’t add up in this chapter, please don’t blame me, but the wiki that I got this info. I’m trying to clean up the information I found there, like Rin Nohara, Obito Uchiha, and Kakashi Hatake being the same age when passing the Chūnin Exams, and yet Kakashi passed his Chūnin Exams when he was about six. So in this chapter, he’ll be younger than Rin and Obito.   Now people suggested that Yugito and Fu should be in Naruto’s harem, but their deaths are important to the plot. As the Akatsuki took their beasts from and in doing so, the hosts of the tailed beasts are killed. So I don’t think there is a way to keep them alive, and keep to the plot. And the ways I could bring them back, I need to figure out a way to find their bodies. But if you can come up with a way, please let me know. Although I might mess around with the plot, seeing that Naruto is going to be the Overlord and that, so we'll see what happens.   So you know I’m thinking about using the idea from Starting Over By Sessyruby, things, and not seating about and listening to people, going on and on about things. And reading would be out too, as unless they find it interesting, they wouldn't be bothered with the book. Not only that, but he would also finding listening for a long time boring, so finding this out, it explains a few things in the manga and show.   One last thing, I've read a few stories where Naruto and his mother were distant relatives of the Senju Clan, and were some kind of royalty. So I was wondering if it was true, or it is fandom writing idea. Would like your thoughts about it, and what ideas you might want to see coming from it.   There’s more info I want your thoughts on at the end of the chapter, so please read the end notes too. So you know, until I get things dealt with in the next few chapters, I believe there’ll be a lot of things that I’ll want your thoughts on. So please read on my notes when I do them please.   Chapter_One.   (Kushina_Uzumaki_and_Minato_Namikaze_-_Part_2.)   21st_of_September_1896_-_Land_of_Fire,_Konohagakure,_The_Academy:   Twenty year old Minato Namikaze found himself in the Academy, heading towards the Hokage's office, as the third Hokage wanted a word about something. As he went, Minato thought about the last few years and about his wife Kushina; it had been a year since they’d gotten married. But it wasn’t all smooth sealing, as a few years after Kushina moved into Konohagakure or otherwise known as the Hidden Leaf Village, her own Hidden Village within the Land of Whirlpools, was destroyed. They were destroyed by some of the world's nations who banded together to do so, as they believed the village and the small island was too powerful to be allowed to continue. So not only was the Village was destroyed, but also the island itself was too. There wasn’t many from there that were able to survive, and those who did were now scattered across the globe to seek refuge, mainly around the shinobi countries.   Kushina was very upset when she’d gotten the news, as most of her family was killed; only her father, Kazuo Uzumaki, had survived. Of course, such a thing was not all that surprising; Kazuo was a Seal Master, after all, even creating his own never-before-seen seals. Those that did see them, of course, rarely lived to tell about it.   Kushina’s father came off as a kind hearted person, who loved his family dearly, and liked nothing more to be with them whenever he could. However, while he appeared to be a gentle soul, if you saw the fire behind the old man's eyes, they would tell you a different story. Kazou Uzumaki was a born and bred warrior, tested time and time again in wars and battles. Unfortunately, those who used to know him was died during the destruction of the Uzumaki Clan and their homeland. It was well known that he would deliver hell to those he believed deserved it. If you ever pissed him off, or hurt his family, than you would be dealing with a powerhouse hell bent on killing you. And may Kami have mercy on your soul, as he would not, he would go after anyone and everyone who would hide the person who hurt his family.   But after the destruction the Land of Whirlpools, he had changed. Something broke within him, as other than Kushina, his wife and other children were all killed - not only that but most of the people from his homeland were killed as well.   He knew that with so many nations behind the attack on his homeland and villages, there wasn’t much he could do about it. He knew that Land of Earth, Land of Lightning, Land of Water and a few of the smaller nations were behind the attack on the Land of Whirlpools. But no matter how much as he would like to pay them back, he knew that he could not, as he could be killed before he could get far. He couldn’t easily ask for help of his people, seeing that almost all the people the Uzumaki Clan were spread across the world, looking for somewhere to live now.   There was one thing that Kazuo told Minato he would do before he died, and that was to find whoever in Konohagakure had betrayed him and killed them. As the Leaf were the only ones who’d known most of the defences in Uzu no Kuni, seeing that they were their only allies at the time. And seeing how easy the nations got through their defences so easy, someone must of told them. So he would find them and kill them slowly and painfully for this.   Minato didn’t want to believe this, but it was only option that he could see that made sense. The official story was that the nations outnumbered the people of Uzushiogakure and that was why they had been defeated so easy. But Minato knew the truth; the Uzumaki Clan were infamous for their number of Seal Masters, and so they had one of the great defences in the world, so it wouldn’t be as easy as everyone was making it out to be to wipe the Land of Whirlpools out. But at the same time, he didn’t want to believe that his own village had anything to do with the destruction the Land of Whirlpools.   Whatever the case was, Minato tried to help Kushina through the pain. It was hard at times, as she would wake up in nightmare of her family being killed over and over again. He feared that the Nine-Tails sealed within her would escape during these times, but Kushina had reassured him, telling him that it was her love for him that kept the beast at bay.   Now, during these last few years, Minato had gone on many missions, and became a Jounin. One of them was an S-Class task where he’d been helping to defend a village that was being attacked by the Sanbi. During the fight, before they’d managed to push the beast back, he’d observed the mighty attack known as the Tailed Beast Ball. Upon seeing this, Minato had been visited by the urge to recreate the blast himself. And so, after three years of hard work, he had created the Rasengan. However, the spiralling orb, while strong in its own right, was only one part of his idea. The second was to combine the Rasengan with elemental transformation, although sadly he’d had no luck with that. At the very least, however, he was able to teach it to his sensei, Jiraiya, although that took a while.   Minato had travelled around the borders of the Land of Fire, as there were many, various skirmishes with smaller nations. It would seem that there was a decline in national power among the Five Great Shinobi Nations, which was slowly crumbling. There were many who believed that it was only matter of time before war broke out.   Minato suspected that this was the reason why the Hokage wanted to see him, as there was some new development to the fights. Now as he was walking down the corridor, he walked past a kid no older than five or six walking past him. The kid had spiky silver hair, which oriented to his left-side, dark grey eyes, he looked relaxed, but had a heavy-lidded expression his. He was wearing dark blue pants, a long-sleeve shirt, and he was also wearing a pair of fingerless gloves, which had metal plates on the backhands of them. He was also wearing a dark blue mask, which was covering the lower half of his face.   Minato had to wonder who the kid was, and why he was in this corridor, seeing that only office on this floor was the Hokage. Why would a kid so young would need to see the Hokage for? As he got to the door, he knocked and entered as he said as he knelt on his knees, “Excuse me, Hokage-sama, you wanted to see me.”   “Yes, Minato, I do,” Hiruzen Sarutobi informed the man. Hiruzen was a tan- skinned man, with dark brown, spiky hair and a small goatee. He was wearing a white haori, which had the words Third Hokage written on the back. Underneath it, he was wearing a red, full-length kimono that is tied using a white sash. “I would like to ask you for a favour. As you might have heard on your way back here, there has been some delays in picking the Genin teams.”   “I admit, I have heard about that,” Minato acknowledged, “and I was wondering what was going on.”   “The truth is that I was waiting for you to return from your latest mission.” the Hokage admitted, “You see there’s a student, Kakashi Hatake, whilst no one could deny that he is an extremely talented shinobi. He however is too much fussy about sticking to the rules, and clashes with his superiors and other students. And whilst he might excel in techniques, but as a person, he has much to learn. You see, as you might have heard, his father broke the rules, to protect his comrades rather than complete the assignment, but then took his own life.”   “I heard about that,” Minato told the Hokage, “but if what I heard is right, he was somewhat pushed into it, with people blaming him for what he did, even his own teammates blamed him. As his action of saving his team meant his mission was a failure, and we lost some land or something.”   “I heard such rumours about people pushing him to his death,” admitted the Third Hokage with a sad sigh, “but there is nothing I can do about it. Either way, with the death of his father, it cast a long shadow of young Kakashi and I fear what his future might hard for him.”   “So you want me to supervise over him?” asked Minato.   “That I do,” the Hokage told him, “I want you to make him realize that teammates are important and that sometimes breaking the rules are more important than friends.”   “I’ll try Third Hokage, but why me?” asked Minato.   “Out of all the Jounin here, I believe you are the only one who can break through to him how friends are important.” the Third Hokage told the Jounin.   “When do I meet them?” asked Minato.   “Tomorrow,” Sarutobi informed Minato, “we’ll be informing the class about the groups tomorrow. So you have until then to come up with a test to test if they are ready or not.”   “I understand Third Hokage.” Minato bowed his head, before bidding his goodbye to him and got up to leave.   o0OoO0o   An_hour_later,_Land_of_Fire,_Konohagakure,_Namikaze_Residence:   When Minato returned home to inform his wife of a year, he saw she was with his father-in-law, Kazuo. Whilst his father-in-law looked like he was in his thirties, Kazuo had in fact been in his sixties, he was five foot six, had long white hair, moustache, and a squared-off goatee. He would be often being since wearing armour that reminiscent of the period dress. Under this, he wore a long-sleeved, black outfit, the shoulders of which bore the crest of Uzushiogakure, which was incorporated into uniform of the Konoha shinobi, thanks to them being allies. On his back, looked what appears to be the curved handles of two swords, were shown to be bandaged up. He also wore a forehead protector with his former village's symbol etched into it.   Kazuo was holding his nine month year old daughter, Naruko, who already had a full set of blonde hair. Minato could only smile when he saw her, she was his everything, and would admit that like all father's, she had him around her little finger. He would do anything take his little girl happy. But he would kill any boy who dare come near his little girl, or try and date her before she was twenty's even then it would depend on who the boy was and how he treated her.   Now when Kushina saw her husband, she asked, “Welcome back dear, what did the Hokage wanted from you?”   “He wanted me to become a Genin Instructor.” Minato informed his wife.   “Congratulations dear.” Kushina congratulated her husband, but when she saw his face, she asked, “What’s wrong dear? I thought this is something you wanted.”   “Oh it is, trust me it is,” Minato acknowledged with a sigh, “but I'm only becoming Genin Instructor because the Third Hokage wants me to keep in check a child prodigy, by the name of Kakashi Hatake.”   “Hmm Hatake,” Kazuo hummed thoughtfully, as he tried to remember where he heard the name before, “wasn't there a man by the name Sakumo Hatake, who killed himself?”   “Yes and Kakashi is his son.” Minato told his father-in-law.   “Hmm, from what I learnt, he killed himself, or pushed into it because of a failed mission.” the white haired man told him and his daughter, “From my findings, the mission was to eliminate some important target, who the council feared was a threat to the Land of Fire. But the was the target was better protected than they were expecting, and so two of Sakumo’s teammates were severely injured, that without proper care, they would be dead. Whilst it is important for a shinobi to try and finish the mission, even if it means your own death, it is also important to know when to know when to give up to. Which Sakumo did, as he knew that there was a zero chance of the mission succeeding. So because of this, to the risk of his own life, pulled his team from the field and back to the Village where they could be healed fully.”   Minato was a bit shocked about how much his father-in-law knew, as he didn't know what Sakumo’s mission was. But then again he shouldn't be, as Kazuo used to be a Hokage himself and you didn't become one playing nice. Then he heard his wife asked, “So what happened to him, and why did he kill himself when he had a son to look after.”   “His damn teammates and this damn Village, that's what happened to him.” the form Hokage spat, whilst Minato normally would try and defend Konohaakure, he couldn't this time. As he didn't agree with how they treated Sakumo for doing the right thing. “Don’t get me wrong, they weren't the only ones, as he got blamed for the failure of the mission by many in the Land of Fire too, as the target retaliated and killed many people. But he got the worse of it from his own villagers and teammates, they seem to forget that at times when you have zero chance of the mission of succeeding, it was better to fall back and try again another time.”   “And that's why the Third Hokage wants me to teach Sakumo's son,” explained Minato, “as Kakashi is so stuck in following the rules and not making the same mistakes as his father, the Third Hokage fears the boy will forget that teammates are important and that sometimes breaking the rules are more important than friends.”   “I wish you luck as you'll need it.” Kazuo told his son-in-law skeptically.   “Father.” Kushina belittled her father. She knew that he blamed the Leaf Village for the destination of the Land of Whirlpools and their Hidden Village, and with good reason too, but she knew this was one of the few safe places they can live at. She and her father often argue about this, but seeing that she was happy here with her husband and daughter, her father backs down after a good rant about the village. But if she ever find out who betrayed her homeland and her Clan, she'll show them to fear the Red Hot Habanero. When her hair began to move, resembling the Kyuubi's tails.   “I know, I know, play nice with the backstabbing villagers.” Kazuo reminded himself what his daughter keeps telling him, but he would never forgive them for their part of his homeland being destroyed. Should he ever find out who helped to destroy the people of Uzushiogakure, they'll be begging for death by the time he was finished with them.   “So when are you going to meet your new team?” ask Kushina.   “Tomorrow,” Minato informed his wife, “I'm meant to test them to see if they are ready to become Genin or have to return to the Academy and wait another year before trying again.”   “So how are you going to test?” asked Kushina.   “Well seeing that Kakashi has problems with teamwork, I'm going to test them on that.” Minato explained to his wife, and with that he explained his plan to Kushina and Kazuo. After an hour, the three went on with their day, or in Minato’s case, he was getting ready for the next day where he would meet his new students.   o0OoO0o   22nd_of_September_1896_-_Land_of_Fire,_Konohagakure,_Training_Ground_Three:   It was afternoon of the next day, and Minato was waiting for the three students to arrive. As he waited, he thought back to what he had learnt about the three. The first was of course Kakashi Hatake, it was the one that he saw the day before, he was a child prodigy, he was only six years old and he had already finished the Academy, six years sooner than normal. Kakashi was very independent and self-confident, from his records, appeared to be arrogant and condescending of others. Despite this though, Kakashi was very perceptive and intuitive, quickly realising the situation for what it was and could make plans up to deal with the situation. But after his father's death though, Kakashi became more stern, aloof and cold toward others, following all the rules to the letter, chastising any who disobeyed them and willing to abandon his comrades to finish mock missions.   Next was Rin Nohara, she was nine years old and was another student who finished the Academy early. Now from here records, the young girl was of average height, with long brown hair, that came to her shoulder, that framed her face, and brown eyes. She also had a rectangular purple marking on either sides of her cheeks. Her records also stated that as an Academy student, she wore a simple outfit consisting of a light-coloured blouse with a bow tied in the middle and a simple, sleeveless haori.   The records went on to say that Rin was a sweet and friendly girl who cared deeply for her comrades as well as her village. Rin was an intellectual individual, witnessed by her ability to be able to learn as well as use high- level medical ninjutsu at such a young age. This impressed Minato, as there won't many who wanted to learn medical ninjutsu now days, so she would be a great asset should she make it as a Genin today.   It was also stated that Rin was a devoted person to her friends, so much that she wouldn't abandon them, some of her teachers stated that she might even put her own life great peril if her friends were in danger. She also had a very strong will, as during her last year at the Academy, she was put through some the harshest of Genjutsu that was allowed, but she wouldn’t break.   Now the last member of his new team, Obito Uchiha, from his records, he was of an average height, with black eyes and short, spiky black hair. It was noted that he normally wore a long sleeved blue uniform and a blue jacket with an orange collar and trimmings. The jacket was fastened to the rest of the outfit by two buttons on the collar and had the Uchiha clan crest at the back. He also wore a white belt, shinobi sandals, and a pair of goggles with orange lenses connected to ear protectors.   Also from his notes, Obito lives with his Grandmother, since his parents were killed during a mission. So seeing that having no parents, people in Konohagakure seem to look down on you, even among his own Clan, seeing that they were low in power. Obito's childhood was marked by dreams of being acknowledged. This motivated him to become a ninja so that he could, in turn, become Hokage and have the entire village, and more importantly his Clan, to finally recognise him.   His notes also informed Minato that Obito was the bottom of his class, and was often late to his lessons. The only reason that the boy was able to pass the Academy this year, was because of his best friend, Rin Nohara, who helped him pass the exams. Without her he would still be at the Academy.   Now as he was reading the notes about the people he was about to test   Kakashi Hatake and Rin Nohara appeared on the Training Ground. Upon their arrival, he asked, “Where is Obito Uchiha?”   “He is running a bit late sensei.” Rin informed her new sensei, where Kakashi huffed at this, who was annoyed by the other boy’s behaviour.   Minato sighed at this, and so he said, “If he isn't here within the next hour, you'll be fail today's test and will be sent back to the Academy. Where you'll have to try and become a Genin next year.”   “What?” Rin asked in shock, “But I thought we were Genin already.”   “No, passing the Academy is the first step of becoming one,” Minato informed the two of them, “the final step is passing my test. My test today is if you're ready or not, and by the looks of things it doesn't seem so.” the two ninjas looked at each other, and were cussing Obito for his lateness. “Now whilst we wait for our lost ninja, let's introduce each other. I’ll start off, I'm Minato Namikaze, and I'll be your sensei until you become Chuunin. Now I like things in a straight and organized fashion and done as quickly as humanly possible. And whilst you're under my care, it'll not be often that your training will be fun, but it'll hone all your skills. I Promise you that."   "Finally, someone who just likes to get things done" Kakashi said and approached his new sensei fully now trusting him.   “Oh don't get me wrong, there'll be some fun, as they say, all work and no play makes Jack a dull boy.” Minato informed the boy, “We’ll be having team building training, some of it we'll be fun, other times it won't. Anyway, I love my wife Kushina and my daughter Naruko. My dreams are to keep my family safe and one day become the Hokage. Now you Kakashi.”   "My name is Kakashi Hatake.” Kakashi introduced himself, “There’s not much to say about myself really. I prefer to stay to myself so others to drag me down. I also like to keep to the rules and routine, I don't like wasting my time. So Uchiha running late bothers me. I have no real dreams,”   Looking at Rin, Minato said, “Now you Rin…”   “My name is Rin Nohara.” Rin introduced herself, “Like Kakashi, there’s not much to say about myself, but I like to spend time with my friends. I specialize in medical training, and I dream of becoming the best medical ninja out there. I dislike getting dirty.”   “Hmm, that’s good, now all we have to do is wait for your follow teammate and then we can begin.” Kakashi informed them both. It was at that moment that Obito came running into the training ground.   “You’re late Obito.” Kakashi scolded the black haired by.                                                               “So you finally got here,” Minato told the boy, “you must be Obito.”   “We’ve been waiting for you.” Rin told her friend.   “I’ve made it.” Obito said as he caught his breath.   “Yeah but you were late.” Kakashi told the boy.   “We have done our self introduces,” Minato informed Obito, “all that’s left is yours.”   “Well I’m Obito Uchiha,” Obito introduced himself, still out of breath, “and I’m going to become Hokage one day. I’m going to get my trademark goggles and Sharingan, carved into my stone face for all to see.  So that I can glare down over the neighbouring lands! I'll scare the hell out of them with my Sharingan stare, and no one will dare attack our village.”   “Put in that request once you become Hokage, and activate your Sharingan.” Kakashi informed his new teammate, “And besides, they can’t carve your Sharingan whilst you’re wearing your goggles.”   “So they can carve them on top of my goggles.” Obito came back with that comment.   “But then it would look like your eyeballs are popping out.” Rin pointed out to her friend with a giggle.   Obito huffed at this, as he finished off, “I love playing games and I got some good skills. Not many people think I can do much but I do try my best and hate to be put down.”   “Anyway, I'm glad that someone on my team shares my dream of becoming Hokage.” acknowledged Minato. “Now I'm Minato, and from today I'll be your superior”   “Alright you three, let's have our first practice together.” Minato informed his new team,   “Yes sensei!” the three of them cried out together.   “No in this training session, I want to see how good your teamwork is.” Minato informed them.   “Teamwork?” Rin asked in confusion.   But Minato didn’t seem to hear her, as he went on to say, “Now all you have to do is to take these two bells away from me, and the practice will be over. Simple right?”   “Two bells mean…” Kakashi thought out loud as he realized what was happening, as Obito looked confused.   “Exactly.” Minato confirmed Kakashi’s thoughts.   “Huh? What does it mean?” asked Obito, not getting it whilst Rin did.   “One of us will be dropped from the team.” Kakashi informed Obito, as he couldn’t understand how the other boy couldn’t understand what was going on.   “What!?” shouted Obito in shock.   “Good observation.” Minato commented, “Okay, now let’s start.”   And so the three of them tried to get the bells, it took a few hours, to do so, but they finally got them. During this time, Kakashi realized that Minato changed how he act towards each of them, based on how skilled they were. Realizing this, whilst he worked as a team, Kakashi used his teammates to get the bells. He didn’t know if his sensei knew this or not, but at the end of it all to their surprise, they all passed. It would seem that this was all a test to see if they were worthy of becoming Genin. It would seem that when they past the final exams at the Academy, they didn’t become Genin like they thought, but this was the final test to see if they come one. If they failed to work as a team, they would ALL be sent back to the Academy.   After the bell test, Minato punished Obito for being late. But not only Obito, but also the rest of them too, which they thought was unfair. But Minato explained that he wanted to show Obito that every action has consequences, not only to himself but to those around him. So Minato informed them that depending on their actions, not only would they be punished, but the rest of the team would be too. This was so that they would think about their actions, and the consequences of them.   To_be_Continued!   Author’s_Note_-_PLEASE_READ_TO_THE_END: Here ends the next chapter of my new Naruto story, I thank you for reading the story, and I hope that you enjoyed it. I’m still amazed that it went so well, it blew me away how many people faved and followed this story in the first twenty-four hours of it being out. So thank you, and I hope I keep getting the same attention for the rest of the chapters   So you know, when I posted this story, I got thirty-one reviews, one hundred and sixty-one favs and one hundred and ninety-four follows. I also got five C2s. Now I would like your help to get more with more with this chapter…   A question for you all, been looking at a thread, about if Kakashi was a good teacher or not. And many say that Kakashi done a lot for Team Seven, and treated each best as he could. But tell me, other than tree walking and some so called teamwork, which I didn't see myself, what did he do for Naruto and Sakura? He spent most of his time worrying about Sasuke and training him.   Seeing that I want to explain what happens before the Fox attacks, the Leaf Village, I’m still looking for ideas as to what happens next. So if you got fics and episode I could have a look at, please let me know, as I really want my readers who knows nothing about Naruto, understand what is going on. Not only that, but I would like to know myself, so I know what to change too.   Now since the last chapter, give me a video to watch might have fucked up my plan to make Naruto a few years older. The video I was given was when the Nine- Tailed Beast attacked Leaf Village, and shows Sasuke as a baby as his brother takes him to a shelter to protect his baby brother.   So would it make any difference to the main plot, if Sasuke was born about two to three years after the attack? ChaosSonic1 said that with Sasuke being a baby at the time of the attack, then Sasuke would not be alive during the Uchiha massacre, which would give Naruto a rival for supremacy in this fic and also increasing his strive to be better than Sasuke.   I don’t understand it myself to be honest, I have learning problems, and understanding this is a bit hard for me. To me, Sasuke would be five and Naruto would be eight years old for when the massacre, so Sasuke would still wants to get strong and be better than Naruto, as until he gets his training, he would have problems with his Chakra and still be a fool who don’t take his lessons seriously. So he would see Sasuke as a rival. I could be wrong, but hey, wouldn’t be the first time.   But he and others on the discord did give me a option as to why Naruto failed three times, although I don’t like it too much: One of the reasons I was given by those I talk to on discord is this: all students are only allowed to take the exams three time, the third failure means they're stricken from the program altogether with no takebacks. So given how Naruto is the same age as his classmates, and doesn't show any past familiarity with Neji, Tenten, or Lee who are from the previous year (hell Lee was the dead last of his year meaning if they were in the same class Naruto was doing better than Lee,) that tells me one thing. The teachers had Naruto take the tests early, before the others in his class otherwise could. The reason why is this way he fails all three times and therefore can never become a ninja whether the Sandaime likes it or not. Given how Sasuke was not given the same opportunity, this can only mean malicious intent on the Academy's part.   The problem that I have with this idea is this, until my plan to train him with a trainer, he isn’t the type to keep such things to himself. In fact, because of how people treating him, and how much a dick Sasuke is towards everyone, Naruto would like nothing more but to rub it into everyone's face. So whilst some might think he is a liar, others would not, and would demand to be tested early, Sasuke would be one of them. So whilst the idea seem good, it only leads to the problem I lead out. I want some good ideas, as I want Naruto to be trained by someone else for a few months before the third exam.   I have put a poll up if I should age him or not, so if you want to age him go to my profile and vote. But be warned though, if I get enough reviews telling me that Sasuke being the same age important to the plot, I will go with the reviews say and not the poll. But if nothing is said, I’ll go with the poll.   Now someone asked me about making Sasuke as a female, I’m giving it some thought, but I would like to hear your thoughts. Do you think I should turn him into a her? As I am going to do it with Haku, as he does look like a female than he does a male, so doesn’t make much of a change in the story.   When I first watched the few first episodes of Naruto Shippuden, I find that the two odd years’ worth of training with Jiraiya was shit. Don’t get me wrong, he did get better in fighting and maybe controlling his chakra, and a few other things, but that’s just basic training. SOMETHING that should have been done by KAKASHI… this just proves just more to me how bad of a teacher Kakashi really was. But still, I think he could have taught him a few new Jutsus during their time together.   Now I would like your thoughts on something, I got a few good ideas for Rin, but I would like to know how would a ninja make Kakashi think he killed someone? Not only that, but for there to be a body too.   ***** Chapter 2: Kushina Uzumaki and Minato Namikaze - Part 3. ***** Author’s_Note: Before we start the next chapter, I would like to explain that if you are confused about the year I’m using, I done so as there was no year set for the story. So I just used a year that my friend told me that ninja’s were around. And those who are bothered by the year because of the tech, this is fanfiction so tech can be around at any time.   After some thought about how to write this chapter, and realizing coming up to three chapters about Naruto’s parents, I realized that I needed to speed things up. So this chapter will be the last chapter about Kushina and Minato, this chapter will have Naruto’s birth, Minato’s death and Kushina being put into an animated stasis.   Now before we begin the next chapter, there's two things I want you all to think about: the first is that I'm planning to form a Civilian Council. I know, I know, you're thinking it has been done before and it's cliche, but I'm hoping to make it different. Up to now, it has been up to the Hokage and his advisors, bit after the Nine Tails attacks, the Third Hokage was busy with the aftermath, and needed the money to fix the town up. So instead of giving them all the money back to the civilians and Clan Heads, they created a civilian council and allow them to have a voice in what happens in the village outside anything dealing with the ninja side of things.   Now here is where I need your help, I need ideas as to how things should work with this new council. I was thinking that it would have six civilians and six shinobi/kunoichi within the council. It would be fair, and they would vote on what happens, should it be a draw, the Hokage would have the final vote. The only time there wouldn't be any votes is in war time or in a state of emergency, at this point Hokage will have full power as to what happens in the village. But I would like more ideas, and your thoughts of this.   Now the next idea is that in the next chapter, I'm going to have Kazuo work with Orochimaru for a while. The plan is still in the works, which is why I'm asking for your thoughts and help about this. But the way I was thinking was that Kazuo goes to Orochimaru to make his grandchildren stronger, and gain info to payback all those who betrayed or hurt his family and clan. What I want is ideas as to how Kazuo can help Orochimaru, and vice versa, I was thinking that that each will make the other stronger somehow, and so I want thoughts and ideas on how. And seeing that this is for the next chapter, I need the ideas ASAP.   I’m also after ideas as to how make Naruto’s childhood a bit more darker, other than him being ignored, mistreated at time and people not giving him the time. The idea I got is that he is bullied, not by the adults like many writers have done, but by the kids. And instead of stopping it from happening, the adults turn a blind eye to it all, allowing Naruto to get bullied. They only step in when they have to, when those loyal to Hokage and agree to treat Naruto fairly, would they step in. And because no one steps in to help him, Naruto becomes darker.   Important news, the last part of this chapter is unedited for two reasons: first off my Beta Reader’s email account was hacked and so he couldn’t get onto it. The second reason is that my Beta Reader is in his final year at school, and so he hasn’t got much time to edit my work. So I am now looking for a new Beta Reader to replace him, I need someone who can help with spelling, grammar, flow of the story, writing dialogue and sentence structure: you can add, remove and alter my work to make it better. I would also like it if possible to add your own twist to the story once I am done, but that’s not important, but would be a bonus for me if you could.   Chapter_Two.   (Kushina_Uzumaki_and_Minato_Namikaze_-_Part_3.)   10th_of_October_1900_-_Land_of_Fire,_Few_miles_from_Konohagakure:   It has been four years since Minato gained his team, and he and his family were a few miles away from Konoha. The reason they were so far from the village, was because Kushina was with child again. For a Jinchūriki, the seals that keep the Tailed Beast within them are at their weakest during childbirth, due to the nurturing of the child in the womb taking precedence over the reinforcement of the seal. So there was a risk of the Tailed Beast escaping and going on a rampage.   Some might wonder why women were made into a Jinchūriki, when such a danger existed. But some female Jinchūriki might not want children. Those who do want to have children, as long as the proper preparations are taken, having a child or even multiple children wouldn’t be a problem. As long as the woman had someone who can keep the seal steady and make sure the Tailed Beast can’t escape, as well as restore their chakra that was taken to full power afterwards. Not only that, but they would need a small Sealing Team there, just in the case of if the Tailed Beast had indeed been able to escape. But as long as they took these preparations, there was no reason that a female Jinchūriki can’t have children.   Which was why he along with Naruko, Kushina and Kazuo were at a hut miles away from the Leaf Village. The hut was built by Minato months before Naruko was born, so that Kushina would have a safe place to give birth to their daughter. The hut was built in a canyon on top of a butte, which was was under a power barrier, so that nothing could get in or out of it until it was down.   Now whilst Minato and Kazuo were there to keep the seal steady and make sure the Tailed Beast didn’t escape, there were four Seal Masters around the hut so if the Fox did escape they could seal the Beast up again before it could do too much damage. There were also the ANBU who were loyal to the Third Hokage, protecting them all. Now Nuruko was there as well so that she could greet her little brother once he was born.   They have been at the at the hut for a week, as their son was suspected to be born at any time. No one other than those there, knew about this, as it meant to kept secret so that no one could try and use this opportunity to try and control the Nine Tailed Beast for their own use. On the seventh day at the hut, Minato was sitting in a soft chair, watching Naruko talk to Kushina’s belly, telling her little brother Naruto to hurry up, as she wanted to play with him. Minato couldn’t help but laugh at his four year old, and told her, “Naruko dear, it’ll be a while before you can play with him.”   “That’s right dear.” Kushina agreed with her husband.   “I know that Mummy, Daddy,” the little blonde haired girl acknowledged, “but the sooner that he gets here, the sooner he can grow old so we can play with each other.”   The two parent’s couldn’t help but laugh at this, it was the kind of thing that they suspected to come from the four year old. But as Minato sat back and watched his daughter and wife play with each other, his bright smile became a sad one as he thought about how they got here, and the loss that they had to deal with along the way. It all started a few months after Minato gained his team, when it was announced that the problems that was happening around at the time had become so bad that it was now known as the Third Shinobi World War.   Thankfully he nor his team were called upon just yet, as it was only the start of the war. But for him though, his obligations were split between training his students and helping with the war effort. But seeing that they could be called at any moment, he was forced to teach them war tactics and how to fight on a war front. It was hard work seeing that Obito and Kakashi could never pay nice with each other, while Rin was forced to play peacekeeper between the two. It was his wife that pointed out the problem with Obito and Kakashi: Obito fancied Rin but she fancied Kakashi, However Kakashi had no feelings for her. So because Rin fancied Kakashi, and was better than him in almost every way, Obito hated him. Sadly for Minato, there wasn’t much he could do about it.   Over the first year things were going on as normal. The war was still raging on, but as of yet, his team wasn’t called into it. During the year, Kushina has grown close to his team, bringing lunch to them when they were in the village training. But because of Rin’s cuteness, Kushina grew the closest to her, much to Rin’s dismay, as his wife could be overbearing at times. However, Rin dealt with it like a good Shinobi, considering it helped that during her free time, Rin was able to play with Naruko. Over the year Rin and Naruko became close, so close that whilst not related by blood, they thought of themselves as sisters. And should anyone hurt one of the two, may Kami have mercy on their souls, as the Red-Hot Habanero would not.   By the end of the year, Minato thought his team was ready to become chūnin and so he decided to put them through the exams. Sadly, only Kakashi was able to pass it by defeating Might Guy in the third and final exam, and so becoming a chūnin. So Minato spent the following year training Obito and Rin harder, so they could pass the exam the following year, which they did. Just as Obito and Rin became chūnin, the seven year old Kakashi became a jōnin, the youngest one ever. It was a few days later when shit hit the fan for Minato and his team, as they were finally called into the war.   Their first mission in the war was to destroy the Kannabi Bridge, as it would hinder Iwagakure from using Kusagakure as a relief point. But on the way to do so, shortly after entering Kusa, they encountered an Iwagakure scout. Upon encountering scout, Kakashi tried to eliminate him with his new jutsu, the Chidori, but the attack speed left him vulnerable to counter-attack, forcing Minato to step in, save Kakashi, and kill the scout himself.   Minato remembered that after that attack, there a scout from their own Village that appeared with orders that Minato was to head to the frontlines. So Minato then transferred leadership of the mission to Kakashi, but not before telling the young jōnin, to not use the Chidori again. If he knew what he knew now, Minato would be in two minds about what happened next. As he would have told them to wait and keep out of sight, and they would carry on with the mission once he returned.   The reason that he was being called to the frontlines, was because that the Konoha shinobi were outnumbered and most of them were killed, but with his arrival and help, the surviving shinobi were able to wipe out the opposing Iwagakure forces. Thanks to him, they were victorious in this battle, which was against a thousand ninja, and it would later convince the Third Tsuchikage to accept a peace treaty with the Hidden Village.   Minato sighed sadly as he remembered that when he rendezvoused with his team afterwards, he found Kakashi and Rin were surrounded by Iwagakure forces. He soon found that Obito was dead, with Kakashi and Rin injured and barely able to fight. And so within his anger, Minato slaughtered the shinobi. Once he rescued them, he allowed them to recover, and as he did, he asked what happened.   Kakashi and Rin informed their leader, that shortly after he left for the frontlines, all three of them continued to trek further into Kusa. But as they did, they were found and surrounded by the scout’s teammates,, who kidnapped Rin in order to find out what their mission was.   Kakashi informed Minato that Obito immediately suggested that they rescue Rin, but Kakashi elected to abandon her, as he believed it was more important to finish the mission as ordered, before concerning themselves with her safety. Obito refused to go along with this order, as he believed that teammates were more important than following orders, and so he was going to rescue his friend Rin. But before leaving, Obito told Kakashi that Sakumo, Kakashi’s father, had been a true hero and that, whilst it was bad to abandon one's mission, those who would abandon their own teammates in order to complete a mission, were worse than scum. So Obito left the new jōnin, to carry out the mission alone.   Minato had a tear in his eye now as he remembered Rin taking the story from Kakashi and informed him that, during the kidnap she found out their names were Taiseki and Kakkō. And that Kakkō attempted to interrogate her by using genjutsu, to find out what their mission was, and if she knew anything about Konoha's war efforts. But thanks to her strong will though, they weren’t able to break her, which till this day Minato was proud of. As not many at her age would be able to withstand interrogation under the right genjutsu.   Rin went on to explain that Obito was somehow able to locate the cave the enemy was using as a hideout and where she was being kept, but was found by a camouflaged Taiseki before he could launch a rescue. Here Kakashi told Minato that Obito’s words had gotten to him, and that he was wrong all this time and so he went to help his teammate to save Rin. He arrived in time to save Obito from Taiseki with his White Light Chakra Sabre, which he had inherited from his father. During the attack though, Kakashi had lost the use of his left eye.   Minato remembered with a sad fond smile, that both Rin and Kakashi smiled sadly as they informed him that in his his desire to help Kakashi, Obito awakened his Sharingan. It was thanks to this that Obito was able to see through Taiseki's camouflage and kill him. After defeating Taiseki, they rescued Rin. The problem was her other captor, Kakkō, who had caused the cave to collapse around them. Because of this, the team ran for the exit, but on their way out, due to his damaged eye, Kakashi was struck in his blind spot and had difficulty avoiding the falling rocks. Thankfully though, if you could call it thankfully, Obito noticed that Kakashi was about to be hit by a large falling boulder, so Obito pushed him out of the way, and in doing so, took his place.   Rin and Kakashi informed that the right side of Obito’s body had been crushed, and they had no way to free him, but the young black haired boy didn’t seem to care. He was happy that his friends were safe, Obito accepted his fate. In fact he made an offering, to replace Kakashi’s lost eye, he gave his left Sharingan as an apology for not getting him a present earlier when Kakashi became a jōnin. Not because he didn’t want to, but because he wasn’t sure what to get the new jōnin. So this was a way to thank his friend for the help, and something he could give as a present that could help make Kakashi stronger. So as the team’s shinobi medic, Obito asked Rin to do the transplant. It was hard, but knowing that time was against them, Rin wasted no time given the very grim circumstances, and had begun the procedure immediately.   After Rin transplanted Obito's Sharingan into Kakashi, the young jōnin confronted Kakkō. During the fight, his White Light Chakra Sabre was destroyed, but he was able to kill Kakkō with Chidori; due to the Sharingan's heightened vision, Kakashi was finally able to handle its speed.   Kakashi informed his team leader that he went back to where Obito and Rin were, but Iwa reinforcements soon arrived and started constricting the rubble. Here Obito had asked him to take Rin away and keep her safe, which Kakashi did, leaving Obito behind. As they left the cave, they were surrounded by Iwagakure forces, and they were forced to defend themselves for as long as they could, holding the shinobi off until Minato eventually tracked them down and finished off the rest himself.   Once they were healed up and ready to head out, they left to finish the mission to destroy the Kannabi Bridge. When they had done that, they returned to Konoha to mourn Obito's death and give him the burial that he deserved. Despite many from the Uchiha clan being against Kakashi wielding a Sharingan as he had no blood-ties to them, Fugaku Uchiha, the Uchiha Head at the time, chose to honour Obito's dying actions and let Kakashi keep his gift.   Kakashi changed a lot since then, changed from being a loner, to someone who was committed to themselves to teamwork and always placed his teammates' well- being above the mission objective. He started to believe that goals can be accomplished more effectively together, asking for help when he needs it, providing help when it is requested of him, and even praise allies when they deserve it. An abuse of one's teammates is the only thing that can makes Kakashi cast aside his normally stoic demeanour, causing him to attack without mercy or his usual sense of sportsmanship.   Thinking about this brought more tears to Minato, and his daughter saw him and asked, “Daddy, why are you crying?”   “Oh I’m thinking about the past sweetheart,” Minato told his daughter, “and I remembered some sad moments that all.”   “Okay daddy.” Naruko told her father as she hugged him.   Kushina watched the father and daughter, and she suspected what was wrong. He was thinking about the deaths of two of his students, Obito and Rin. Obito died protecting his friends, whilst Rin died a few months later as she threw herself in front of an attack from Kakashi.   From what she was told, during a mission, Rin was kidnapped by Kirigakure, otherwise known as The Village Hidden in the Mist, for some unknown reason. Upon hearing about this, Kakashi went out and rescue his teammate. But on the way back to Konoha, Kakashi informed them that Rin revealed that Kiri had sealed the Three Tail Beast into her body with the intention to, once she inevitably lost control of it, have it unleashed on Konoha and destroy the village from within.   In order to prevent this from happening, Kakashi told them that Rin begged him to kill her, but he refused, unwilling to break his promise to Obito to protect her no matter what, and hoping to find some other solution. Before Rin could argue against this, Kirigakure ninja had caught up with them and tried to retrieve her, where Kakashi fought them off with his renamed Chidori, the Lightning Cutter.   During one of his attacks, Rin jumped in front of Kakashi's attack, and the young jōnin was unable to stop it and so stab his former teammate and friend. As she died, she told the masked boy that she was happy, as he would be safe. The young Hatake boy told them that the trauma of this caused his Sharingan to evolve into a Mangekyō Sharingan shortly before he passed out from exhaustion and heart break. He was later found by Konoha reinforcements, but none could explain the slaughter of all the Kiri forces.   When news of Rin’s death came to them, she and Naruko were heartbroken, as Kushina thought of her as another daughter, and Naruko thought of her as an older sister. It took a while, but over time the pain lessened, but Naruko would cry when she heard the name of her older sister. Which is why they don’t say their names around her, not until she at least gets older. She and Minato try and not think about them often, as they still cry when they do too.   They know that as a shinobi, death was just a matter of time the moment you become a genin, it was rare for one to die as one, but it is possible if you had bad luck. The possibility of death goes up so high once they become chūnin. But to die so at such a young age, not having the chance to live life, fall in love and have their own family was painful, even to a seasoned shinobi like Minato and Kushina. Sure as shinobi they were taught to suppress their feelings, but as a parent yourself, to see child die, a shinobi or not, it was hard for them. Minato was upset as he wasn’t there for Rin, he believed that if he was there, he might have been able to save her by removing the Tail Beast. But he was away on another mission for the Third Hokage.   Kushina remembered that as time passed both the Third Hokage of the Hidden Village of the Leaf, from the Land of the Fire, and the Third Tsuchikage of the Village Hidden by Rocks from the Land of Earth, decided to end the Third Shinobi World War by signing a peace treaty with each other. Both sides had begun to grow weary of sacrificing more lives to an ongoing stalemate war, so decided that a peace treaty over the objection of military hard-liners in their respective villages, would be the only way to stop the war. Ōnoki, the Third Tsuchikage, was at first reluctant to accept the peace treaty, he only accepted it after seeing Minato Namikaze, single-handedly stop an invasion consisting of a thousand Iwa shinobi.   Now after the war ended, there were a few people within Konohagakure who were upset at the losses of their ninja, Danzō among them. Even Kushina was one of them in part, as if the Third took a firmer hand in the war, Rin and Obito might have been alive today. But she also knew that whilst she was upset with the Third, she also knew that the others seemed to forget that within a war, there’ll always be losses on both sides of the war, and there wasn’t much he could do about it. However though those who were upset with him, wanted the Third Hokage to step down as Hokage.   Kushina learned that in the place the Third, they wanted Danzō to become the Fourth Hokage, who was unlike the Third, he wasn’t soft hearted. The Third was kind and a pacifist, and wasn’t willing to make the difficult decisions. Those who want him out thought that if the Third took a firmer hand to things, some of their problems, even the war could have been avoided. So with someone like Danzō who was raised in times of war, was the ideal person for the next Hokage, as Danzō beliefs were of that the interests of the village, should be placed above all else, even ethics and morals. Anything and everything to protect the village, handling any threat that would hurt their village in anyway possible. Something Kushina didn’t want, as it could start another war, something she didn’t want.   But Kushina knew that as long as the current Hokage is alive, he could decide who becomes the next Hokage. So seeing that he is forced to step down, he had to think about who he wanted to become the Fourth Hokage. The Third had hoped that his prized student Orochimaru could succeed him as the next Hokage, but despite his best efforts, he could never convince him of the Will of Fire: that Konoha was a family that the Hokage had to risk everything to keep safe.   Hiruzen considered Jiraiya as his successor, but Jiraiya did not believe he was responsible enough to be the next Hokage. But Jiraiya did suggest to Hiruzen that he could use his, Jiraiya's, former student, Minato Namikaze, who had proven himself time and again during the Third Shinobi World War. Hiruzen realized that her husband was a good choice, not only was he powerful, but he also had the Will of Fire that Hiruzen. And so her husband become the Fourth Hokage. For the first few months, the former Hokage helped her husband with the transition of power by advising him on how to handle individuals and other village matters. He even retained some of his own ANBU, who helped protect her and her family.   Now before they knew it, Kushina learnt that she was going to give birth once again. This time it was going to be a baby boy, Naruko was happy that she was going to get a baby brother soon. Now they were going to call him Naruto, from Minato’s former sensei, Jiraiya, book: Tale of the Utterly Gutsy Shinobi. Minato enjoyed the book, finding the main character very much like Jiraiya. He decided to name his and Kushina Uzumaki's then-unborn son "Naruto" after the main character, hoping that their Naruto would be just as determined as the character (and thus its author.) Jiraiya tried to convince them not to since that would make him Naruto's godfather, but Minato and Kushina insisted this was a good thing.   During her pregnancy the former Hokage asked Minato for a favour, to give Kakashi bodyguard duty, to protect her. Kushina learnt that since the death of his friends, Kakashi fallen to darkness, and Third hoped that protecting her would pull him back. Hoping that the nightmares the young man had would stop, and he would become a better person once again. Instead of the cold and ruthless person he was at the moment.   As Kushina was thinking about the past, she suddenly felt a pain in her belly and seconds later her water broke, letting her know she was going to have Naruto soon. Knowing this she screamed in pain, and shouted, “Minato! Get Biwako! My water has broken.”   Biwako Sarutobi was the former Hokage’s wife, and a medical ninja that was looking after Kushina during her pregnancy with Naruto, like she did with Naruko. She was the only one able to keep the secret about the seal that was currently keeping the Nine Tail Beast weak during this time. Biwako had long, brown hair which she kept in a high ponytail, dark eyes, slightly visible creases at the corners of her eyes and her mouth. She wore a purple kimono-like dress, along with a white haori and sandals.   Now hearing that his wife was in labour, Minato went outside to get Biwako, who was taking a break from keeping an eye on his wife, waiting for this moment. He just wished that Kazuo was around, he was patrolling the canyon to make sure no would get her his daughter.   So once he got Biwako, they left Naruko with an ANBU to play with, they took Kushina to the sealing chamber under the hut. This was where she would give birth to Naruto, as it had powerful barriers to keep the Tailed Beast in should it escape from Kushina.   o0OoO0o   Birthing_Chamber:   “I forgot how much pain Kushina went through when she had Naruko.” Minato said thoughtfully as he remembered the time when Naruko was born.   “And like I told you then, she’ll be fine,” Biwako reminded the Fourth Hokage, “forget about that and stay focused on the Nine Tail Seal. Remember you are now the Fourth Hokage, start acting like one and get a grip on yourself. As I told you last time, most men would drop dead from such pain, women are much stronger.”   As she said this, Minato could feel the Nine Tail Beast trying to break from the seal, so he had to put a bit more power into the seal. ‘Damn, the Fox is just as strong as last time,’ Minato thought to himself, remembering Naruko’s birth, ‘it is still trying to break free.’   “Come on dear, you can do this.” Minato encourage his wife, this lasted for about half an hour. Minato was encouraging his wife, as he kept the seal together. If he was honest with himself, the damn Tailed Beast seemed to be more power this time round. It was taking everything he had to keep the Fox sealed within his wife.   “I can see his head Kushina, we’re almost there my dear.” Biwako told the mother to be.   “Just hang there, you're doing great.” said the medical ninja that was helping Biwako with the birth.   “Naruto my boy, hurry up and get out!” Minato called out as he felt the Fox almost breaking free. As he pushed more power into the seal, then he yelled at the beast, “And you stay in there Kyūbi!”   Just then, Naruto was born, and Biwako told the medical ninja to give her some hot water so she could clean the baby up, and making sure the after birth was taken from Kushina. As there was no other problems she had to deal with now.   “Today I’m a father again.” Minato said with a smile, as he hold out his arms to hold his child.   “Yes, you have a healthy baby boy Minato.” Biwako told the father, before she past him and reminded him, “Remember what I told you last time, mother’s first father’s second.   “So Naruto, we finally meet.” Kushina told her new son with a painful smile.   “Now, now let me check to make sure your son is okay.” Biwako told the parents.   “Kushina, I know it is a silly question that you just give birth, but are you alright?” asked the Fourth Hokage.   “I’m ok.” his wife told him.   “Alright, now I realized what you have just been through, but we have to reseal the Nine Tails.” Minato told his wife as he put his hands on his belly. But before he could, he heard something and as he looked around, he saw Biwako and the other medical ninja Taji collapses onto the floor, dead. Calling out in shock Minato cried out, “Lady Biwako! Taji!”   Behind them was a man wearing a black hooded robe, and a white mask with one eye hole and what Minato thought was black flames on one side of the mask. “Fourth Hokage Minato, step away from the Jinchūriki,” the masked man told the Hokage, “or the child will die within his first minute of living.”   ‘How the hell did this person get past the barrier?’Minato thought darkly worried for his wife and his new born child. ‘Who, who is this bastard?’   Just then Kushina screamed out in pain, and Minato grasped, “Kushina!”   ‘Damn it, the Nine Tail Seal is breaking!’Minato thought worriedly as he saw seals on his wife was spreading, as he knew they were slowly breaking. He knew if he didn’t do something, the Nine Tailed Beast would be free, but at the same time, his son was in danger too, he didn’t know what to do.   “Step away from the Jinchūriki,” repeated the masked, “don’t you care what happens to the brat?”   “Please wait, please stay calm,” Minato told the man, as he raised his arms and stepped away from his wife. He didn’t want to, but he didn’t want to risk his new son or his daughter who was above them. Whatever happens, once he got his son, Minato could give chase to this man and get his wife back.   “Speak for yourself, I am as calm as I can be.” the masked man told Minato, as he threw Naruto into the air.   Seeing this Kushina cried out in fear, “Naruto!”   But as the masked man jumped to get Naruto, Minato used his Flying Raijin Jutsu to teleport to get to his son before he hit the ground. He thanked the gods that he decided to put the seals around the room, just in case the Fox did escape, and he needed to fight it. The young man never thought that he would need it to save his son like this.   “Leave it to the Yellow Flash of the Leaf,” remarked Minato, “but what about the next one.”   And with that, the masked man triggered the seals on the blanket, that set the them alight. Minato saw this and so he dropped the blanket, as Kushina cried out to her son. When Minato dropped the blanket, he ran out of the chamber, and the hut, along the way he told the ANBU that was with Naruko to come with him. It was a good thing that he did, whilst he wasn’t sure what kind of damage the Paper Bomb would make, he was glad he told the ANBU to follow them with Naruko. Just in case. Just as he told the ANBU to follow them, the hut blow up right behind them.   When they barely made it out of the house, he sighed in relief and looked at Naruto and Naruko, glad they both were ok. “Good both Naruto and Naruko are fine. What about you Bull are you okay?”   “I’m fine Lord Hokage, but what about you.” said Bull, as he pointed at the Fourth Hokage’s foot, where a piece of wood was stuck in it.   Minato looked at his foot, and for the first time since they left the hut, felt the pain coming from it, “It hurts but nothing I’m not used to.” Minato rasped in pain, as he pulled the wood from his foot, ‘Who was that guy? He made me use the Flying Raijin Jutsu.’ Something that a rare few could do, but then again he was using it save to son, ‘Not only that, but his target was Kushina, as she was the Jinchūriki. But how? We were very careful to not allow anyone to know that she was one. Whatever the case, whoever he is, he was able to succeeded in separating us. I need to hurry and take the kids to the safehouse and then find her.’   Just then, Kazuo appeared in a puff of smoke, seeing the hut on fire, he worriedly asked, “What happened here? Where's Kushina?”   So Minato explained to his father-in-law what happened, before finishing up by asking, “Where were you?”   “I found three of the ANBU that meant to be protecting you all killed, so I searched the area to see if the others were okay, and to see if I could find the killer.” Kazuo explained Minato, “But I found them all killed, so I kept on searching, as I never thought once that he would be able to get past the barrier, as it was created to withstand the Tailed Beasts. So whoever it is must be, was either very powerful or very skilled, to had gotten past it.”   “Or both.” Minato acknowledged fearfully, not wanting someone that powerful to get their hands on Kyūbi.   “Yes or both,” admitted Kazuo darkly, before turning to look at his Grandchildren and asked Minato, “what are you going to do now?”   “What do you suspect?” Minato asked sarcastically, “I’m going to take Bull and my children to the safehouse I set up, where no one knows about, and then I’m going to find my wife and kill the bastard who would dare hurt my family.”   “Good to hear,” Kazuo smirked at this, “and I’ll help you. No one dares hurt the little family I have left, and get away with it.”   “Good, now let’s get Naruto and Naruko somewhere safe.” Minato told Kazuo, and with that he used the Flying Raijin Jutsu to take the five of them to his safehouse. Although, once they got there, Minato had to take a Food Pill to replenish his chakra. Because he used so much chakra to get the five of them there,   o0OoO0o   Meanwhile,_Unknown_Location:   Meanwhile with Kushina, she found herself at a location she hadn’t seen before, tied up to four stone pillars by black chakra. As she was being tied up, she was breathing heavily and she said, “Aright, what do you want from me?”   “I'm going to extract the Nine Tails, and Crush the Leaf Village.” the masked man informed the Jinchūriki.   “No you can't.” Kushina told the man.   “Like you could even stop me, or your husband for that matter, in fact he can’t get here easily.” the man told her, with a smirk under the mask, “Minato’s teleportation jutsu, allows him to move instantly between locations that are marked with jutsu formulas.” the masked man informed the young mother, “Which is where the formula is incorporated into the seal that has the Nine Tails sealed. So that way your husband could protect you at all times, but he's far away. And your Nine Tails seal is now weakened, thanks to your childbirth, so I can now use the beast for my own needs.”   “Please don’t do this,” begged Kushina, “the Nine Tails is uncontrollable and would kill and destroy everything around it.”   “I know, which is why I want it.” the masked man said darkly, “Do you have any idea how long I have waited for this day? A long time, and nothing is going to stop me to get what I want now I’m so close.” And with that, the masked man started to undo the seal on Kushina’s belly. As he did, Kushina began to scream in pain as an orange chakra cloak appeared around her, along with a few tails as well.   After a few minutes of Kushina screaming in pain, in the seal begun to open, and in doing so, made it so that a black hole was open.   “Now come on out NINE TAILS!” the masked man cried out as he pulled a black like entity. This black entity, soon turned into orange chakra, and then into the Nine Tailed Beast itself.   “Good, now we’ll head of to the Hidden Leaf Village.” the masked man told the beast. Normally one wouldn’t be able to control any of the Tail Beasts, more so with the Nine Tailed Beast. But the masked man wasn’t a normal man, he was an Uchiha and had the Sharingan, eyes with great power. One of these powers were if you were strong enough, and knew the right ability, you could control any of the Tailed Beasts, even Kyūbi.   With the Nine Tails out of the seal, the black chakra rope disappeared, and fell onto the rock, whilst not dead, Kushina was weakened and unable to move much. She only had enough power to push herself up, and call out with one word, “Wait!”   “You Kushina are just about amazing,” the masked man acknowledged, “you don't die right away when the tailed beast is extracted. You were the Nine-Tails Jinchūriki.” and with that the man had Nine Tails attack Kushina, and in doing so said, “So I'll let you die by his hands.”   And with that, Kyūbi used it right paw to squish his former prison. But at the last second, Minato appeared and saved his wife, whilst Kazuo appeared in front of them, ready to protect his daughter and her husband.   “You really are as quick as a flash,” commented the masked man, as he saw Minato save his wife, “but you are too late, I’ve got what I wanted.”   With Kushina though, whilst she was weak, she was worried about them and so asked, “Our children, are they okay?”   “They’re fine,” Minato reinsured his wife, “they are with Bull at the safehouse.”   “Ah good,” Kushina sighed in relief, “Minato that masked man, is with Kyūbi, they are heading towards our village.”   Both Kazuo and Minato wanted to fight this man, but they knew that alone they wouldn’t win. Not only was there the Nine Tails to deal with, but the masked man too, who had to be very powerful to break the Nine Tail Seal. Sure it was weakened thanks to Kushina giving birth to Naruto, but it still needed someone powerful enough to break the seal itself. Whilst they couldn’t see the masked man’s face properly, Minato thought he saw that the man had a Sharingan, and if that was true, two of them fighting him wouldn’t be enough, especially with Kyūbi there.   Realizing this, Minato called out to his father-in-law, “Kazuo, go and warn Hiruzen about what is going on. I’ll take Kushina to the kids and come back as soon as I can.”   “Understood.” Kazuo replied, knowing that a full out fight without backup would be foolish here, and so decided to get it, whilst Minato took his wife to the safehouse to be with their new-born son and to be with their daughter.   o0OoO0o   So as his son-in-law used his Flying Raijin Jutsu to get to get to his safehouse, Kazuo used the Body Flicker Technique to get to Hiruzen’s office. When he got there, he heard the former Hokage, “It can’t be.” As he felt something he hoped he wouldn’t in his life time, the Nine Tails chakra.   “Lord Hiruzen, we have a problem.” said Kazuo.   “Lord Kazuo,” the former Hokage said in surprise, not suspecting him there when his daughter was meant to be giving birth, “what are you doing here? I thought you would be with your daughter, seeing that she should be giving birth at any moment.”   “She did, but they were attacked.” Kazuo explained urgently.   “What!?” Hiruzen asked in worry, “What happened?”   “I don’t know the full story, but the ANBU that you sent to protect her and my family were killed by a masked man.” explained Kazuo, “Then he kidnapped Kushina, where he freed the Nine Tails. We were too late to stop it, but instead I came to warn you, whilst Minato went and took Kushina to a safehouse.”   Hearing this, Hiruzen stood up in shock and fear at what he heard, as he went to the cupboard in the office to take out his armour, so he could go out to fight the Chakra Beast. They couldn’t allow it to run free, as they didn’t know what would happen if they did.   “Do you know who this masked man was?” asked the former Hokage, as he put his armour on.   “Sadly no, just that he is coming here to attack the village.” Kazuo half-lied to the former Hokage, he knew it was an Uchiha, he wasn’t sure if he was a someone from the Clan within, a Rogue Ninja, or a off branch that lived out of the village. So he didn’t want make a problem with the Uchiha Clan from the village, as whilst he didn’t care much about the village, he did care about his family. So if he blamed Uchiha Clan from the village, it could create problems that could get back to his family, something he didn’t want.   “Okay, in that case I want you to patrol the village, and when the masked man or the Nine Tails attacks, I want you to keep them busy until I or Minato come to help you.” explained Hiruzen, “Whilst you are doing this, I’ll get ANBU and the other ninjas not on missions to take the civilian to the settlers and have them meet up with us.”   And so the two parted, Kazuo went and patrolled the village for the masked man and Kyūbi, whilst the former Hokage went to the ANBU Headquarters to get the ANBU to get them to get the villagers to the settlers. But as he got to the ANBU Headquarters, the Nine Tails appeared and started to attack the village. But as he got out to the front of the Headquarters, an ANBU met him. He was wearing a dog like porcelain mask, and had on black clothing, a grey flak jacket, metal arm guards and gloves, and ninja sandals with spikes, three ninja pouches on their back-waist and a signature spiral tattoo on their shoulder. They also had a sword on their back.   The ANBU walked up to Hiruzen and said, “Lord Hiruzen, it’s the Nine Tails, it is attacking the village.”   “I know, I’m going to try and restrain it,” Hiruzen told the ANBU, “I want you and the others to protect the villagers and bring them to the settlers. Use any shinobi that you can find to help you.” And with that the ANBU the Body Flicker Technique to gather the others to protect the villagers.   ‘So what Kazuo told me was true,’the former Hokage thought to himself,‘someone has freed the Nine Tails and set it upon the village. I had hoped it wasn’t true. But why? Why would someone want to do this, and how are they controlling the Beast? Is a member of the Uchiha Clan behind all this?’   “You should have ordered the Uchiha Police Force to guard the civilians, and keep them in the back with the rear guard.” Hiruzen heard a familiar voice behind him.   It was his old friend and rival, Danzō Shimura, he had black, shaggy hair, and his right eye was bandaged, which he said was because of a battle wound. His good eye was brown. Now Danzō had an x-shaped scar on his chin ever since his youth. He was wearing a white shirt, with a black or dark grey robe over the top of it covering from his feet, to just over his right shoulder. The robe conceals his right arm which was bandaged.   Over the years they fought often about how to run the village, Hiruzen wanted to do thing peacefully and talk before taking action. But Danzō wanted him to take a firmer hand to things, show the Elemental Nutrition their strength, show that they couldn’t be walked all over. Both of them had different ideas as to what a ninja should be.   “But why?” Hiruzen asked his old friend, “We can use their Visual Prowess of the Uchiha to suppress the Nine Tails!”   “But they can also manipulate the Nine Tails too!” countered Danzō, “You have heard the rumours of the unrest within the Clan. If they decided to betray the village and take control of the Nine Tails, they could use it to their advantage and destroy the village. It would be like the second coming of Madara Uchiha.”   Hiruzen could only sigh at this, as he too was thinking the same thing. But at the same time, they needed every able shinobi to deal with the Nine Tails. Before he could say anything though, the ground shook, and the former Hokage knew he had to go, “I'll leave you to protect the civilians. You may order the ANBU and the security units as you wish. And make sure to guard the youth of the village as well.” He knew that the Uchiha Clan wouldn’t like this, but he couldn’t risk one of them taking control of the Nine Tails for themselves.   “I understand.” Danzō told Hiruzen, and with that, the former Hokage left to deal with Kyūbi.   o0OoO0o   So as Danzō got the ANBU and the Uchiha Police force protected the village, something the Uchiha Clan didn’t like as some of them wanted to fight too, Hiruzen joined Kazuo and the other ninja battling the Nine Tails. Minato too, entered the battlefield once he knew his family was okay.   Once he landed on his stone head, which was on Hokage Rock, he looked upon the destruction of the village caused by Kyūbi, he then thought to himself, ‘As the Hokage of this village, I shall protect the village of my ancestors. My home... This is what I have to do right now. I won’t allow you destroy my home Kyūbi.’Just then Kyūbi roared and looked in his direction as if he heard his thoughts. ‘So you notice me then err?’   Just as he thought this, he noticed that the Beast had created a Tailed Beast Ball, and was just releasing it towards him. “I won’t let you do this.” Minato told the Beast as the Ball headed towards him, hand seals for the Flying Raijin Jutsu. Just before the chakra ball hit Minato, it hit an invisible wall instead, and it looked like time and space warped the area and the ball was swallowed into nothing.   Just as this happened there was a huge explosion far off, and upon seeing that, Minato thought to himself, ‘With that much power, I'll have to choose carefully where I redirect his attacks.’   Just then Minato could sense that someone was behind him and about to attack, so flicking his wrist, a kunai flew into Minato’s hands. But just as he went into the attack, the kunai went right throughthe masked man, as if he were merely a ghost. As the kunai went through him, the masked man grabbed Minato’s arm, to stop him from attacking again.   “I am your opponent, and you have lost.” the masked man told Minato. As the man said this, space seemed to wrap around Minato and he was being pulled into the masked man’s striking range. But before he could, he used Flying Raijin Jutsu to escape the pull disappear. “Hmm, he got away, he’s so fast,” the masked man whispered in awe, not suspecting someone to be able to pull away from his Kamui Jutsu. “Next time I’ll take him much quicker, as soon as we touch.”   o0OoO0o   As the Fourth Hokage landed flat on his back at the other end of the village, he said to himself, “Damn it, my attack went right through him.” Minato couldn’t believe it, he had never heard of a jutsu that could do such a feat, to render an attack completely useless like that. “But he then made himself solid again and tried to pull me towards him. What was that jutsu?”   Just then, the space within the air seemed to split and had created what looked like a whirlpool, which the masked man then walked out of, and said in a dangerous tone, “You shall not escape me again, Hokage.”   ‘So he could use a teleportation jutsu too?’Minato thought to himself, ‘That must be how he was able to get inside the chamber, as well as to escape with Kushina so quickly. He also defeated the ANBU black op, which was assigned by Lord Hiruzen and got past the highest level classified barrier, as well as knew that the Nine Tails Seal would be weakened during childbirth.   ‘What's more impressive than that, he was able to undo the Kyūbi’s seal as well as tame him too. He was also able to slip in and out of the villages barriers without triggering any of our alarms. As far as I know, there's only one shinobi who can do all this.’Then out loud he asked the masked man, “Are you Madara Uchiha?” At this the masked man pulled his hood down, but Minato went on to say, “No that would be impossible, he is dead after all.”   “I wonder about that.” the masked man told Minato.   “In the end though, it doesn't really matter who you are." Minato told the man, "But why attack the Hidden Leaf village?”   “What would you like to hear?" asked the masked man, "I could say I did it on a whim, or that I planned it all. Or that it's for war, or even for peace.”   'Whatever the case, he's no ordinary opponent!'Minato acknowledged to himself, ‘He can control the Kyūbi, and his teleportation jutsu can even suppress both Lord Second's and my own. Not only that, but he has dangerous ideology. If I don't settle this now, we'll have an even bigger problem than Kyūbi. If I teleport myself to the village, he'll follow me, and that might cause the village even more trouble.’Minato didn’t like that idea, as it would put too many people at risk, ‘If he's anything like Madara, he won’t be able to keep the Nine Tails under the summoning jutsu for too much longer. I’ll have to just entrust the village to Lord Third, and just take this guy down, right here, right now.’   Before Minato could say anything else, the masked man said, “Now that I have freed Kyūbi, there is no hope for any of you!” And with that, both men struck...   Just as Minato used his kunai to attack, the kunai went right through the masked man. However, the chains that were behind the man, had wrapped around Minato and were tightening. But the Fourth Hokage used his Flying Raijin Jutsu to teleport himself out of arms way.   ‘My physical attacks have no effect on him.’ Minato thought to himself as he teleported away from the man a few meters, ‘He makes himself solid when he attacks me. I have to allow myself to be struck, and at the same time i’ll strike him as well. But he knows that he's vulnerable when he attacks, and considering the time remaining for the summoning Nine Tails jutsu. He won't want a lengthy battle either. In other words, the only choice is to strike at the same time as he strikes me. Still, he takes a risk when he attacks. So whoever attacks an instant faster, will win this match.’   And so, a second later, Minato went in for the kill, using the kunai that he uses for his Flying Raijin Jutsu. And when he did,, the kunai went through the masked man as he suspected it would. He then created a Rasengan as soon as the kunai was fully through the masked man and when he was about to attack Minato. Minato then teleported to the kunai and hit his target with his Rasengan. Once the masked man was hit by the Rasengan, he hit the ground with a small impact. Little did the masked man know it at the time, but Minato had marked him with that attack so that he could use the Flying Raijin whenever the Fourth wanted.   ‘Damn it, he teleported himself to his kunai.’ the masked man realized as he hit the ground.   And at the same time Minato said, “Flying Raijin Level Two.”   As soon as he hit the ground, the masked man jumped away and onto one of the boulders that was close by. Whilst he could still move, he didn’t get totally off scot free - he was in pain and his left hand was liquidizing and falling off him.   “You got me." the masked man acknowledged, surprised that someone was able to hurt him as much as Minato was able to, not in a long while since someone was able to do this. "You really are a slippery one. I never should have let my guard down around yo-.” before he could finish what he was saying, Minato appeared in front of him and hit him in the stomach.   “The Flying Raijin,” the masked me said in pain, and realized what happened, he said, “of course, he must have marked me somewhere.” Then as he looked down he saw a seal appear on him, it was the one seal he didn’t want to see, ‘Blast it, a contract seal.’ the masked man thought to himself, before looking to Minato and saying, “Trying to separate the Nine Tails from me are you?”   “With this, Kyūbi is no longer yours to control.” Minato told the masked man.   Whilst the contract seal worked, Kyūbi was still on a rampage, but this time for a different reason, two reasons in fact. The first was that someone dared to control it, it the mightiest of the Tailed Beasts, he was unhappy about that. The second reason was that it has been sealed for so long, within two different people in the last hundred years or so. And seeing that it was so mad, it needed to let out some steam and this would do. But the thing was that the shinobi and kunoichi of this village was pushing it away from the village, and into a nearby forest. Kyūbi wasn’t making it easy for them, as it had killed a few of them before they could push it back into the forest.   Now with the masked man badly hurt, and without his left arm, he knew he wasn’t strong enough to continue this fight, and that for now, the Tailed Beast was out of his reach.   “You are worthy of your title, Fourth Hokage," acknowledge the masked man, "injuring me so badly and separating the Nine Tails from me. But know this, one day he willbe mine.” and as he said this, he used his own teleportation jutsu to get away, and being injured, Minato couldn’t do much to stop him. But his parting words sent chills down Minato, “One day I shallrule the world, there’s so many other ways to do so.” And with that the masked man was gone.   ‘Given his tone of voice, he isn’t joking around,’ Minato thought darkly, ‘one day he’ll try and take over the world.’   But there was little he could do about this, he had to deal with Kyūbi. If he didn’t do something about it, the Tail Beast would destroy the Leaf Village and all its inhabitants. And if that happened, there would be no one to stop the masked man when he finally returns, since there would have to be someone alive to do so. After thinking about all this, he used the Flying Raijin to teleport himself back to Hokage Rock, and to join the battle against the Nine Tails.   o0OoO0o   As Minato got to the battlefield, his first thoughts were, ‘This is bad, real bad.’ Things weren’t looking good, the village was severely damaged and would take time to be fixed. There were a lot of dead bodies of people he knew, or they were in the process of dying. Luckily though, there were a lot of minor injuries and not everyone was fatally wounded. The only good thing that had happened it seemed, was that the Tailed Beast was now outside the village, but the main problem at the moment was that Nine Tail was about to let lose another Tail Beast Ball from its mouth. To stop this, Minato summoned the Boss Toad, Gamabunta, on top of the Nine Tails and jumped on top of Gamabunta head.   Once he appeared to save the villagers, he could hear that they were whilst shocked, were quite happy to see him. But Minato was looking around the village, the final words that the masked man told him kept going through his mind, “But know this, one day he willbe mine.”   Minato couldn’t allow this to happen, he HAD to do something to prepare for when he returns. The problem was that there was only one way he could think of, something his wife wouldn’t like him for, but as the Hokage, he had to think about his village not only his family. “Forgive me Kushina,” Minato said in the air, before looking down to Gamabunta, “Gamabunta, I need you to hold the Nine Tails down for a little bit longer.”   “I'll give it my best Minato," Gamabunta told his summoner, "but it's going to tough, even for me.”   ‘I need time to build up my chakra,’Minato thought to himself, as he build up his chakra, ‘it’ll take a lot to teleport Kyūbi away from here.’Lucky though, Minato needed only a twenty seconds to build up enough chakra to teleport the Nine Tails to where his safehouse was.   But as he did this, Kyūbi let loose the Tail Beast Ball that it was forming and the attack had hit the safehouse. There was nothing he could do about it. But lucky for Minato though, Bull was able to teleport them out of the safehouse mere seconds before the Tail Beast Ball had hit them.   “Thanks Bull, now I need to put up a barrier immediately.” Minato told Bull, but stopped and thought to himself, ‘I don’t have much chakra left.’   “I can do it, Minato.” Kushina told her husband, she launched Adamantine Sealing Chains from her body and into the ground, chaining the Nine Tails down as well. The chains also sealed the Foxes power for a while, Kushina hoped that they would last long enough so that Minato could seal Kyūbi back into her before she dies. But as she did this, Bull sat on the ground with his legs crossed, and put up his own sealing barriers to help her, so that there was less stress on her to keep the Nine Tails from escaping.   “Kushina!” called out Minato. Kushina was on her hands and knees, coughing in pain. She was using too much chakra and she was still recovering from childbirth. At this point, Naruto and Naruko both woke up and started to cry. “Woke you two up did I? I’m sorry Naruto and Naruko.” Kushina said softly.   “Kushina.” Minato whispered softly, worried about his wife.   “I’ll take Kyūbi with me to my death.” Kushina told her husband, “So that we can delay the revival of the Nine Tails for a while. It's all I can manage now, with the little chakra I have left. But I'll be able to save you three, that's all that matters to me. So thank you, for everything that you have done for me.”   “Kushina…” Minato said with a sad voice, “It was because of you, you’re the one that made me the Fourth Hokage. You made me the man I am today. And you made me a father of two beautiful children. And yet…”   “Oh Minato,” Kushina consoled her husband, “don’t give me that sad look of yours. I... I’m happy, because you love me. And what’s more, today is the birthday of our second beautiful child. But most of all, if I imagine me alive, and our future, the four of us together as a family. I can't really picture us anything but truly happy.” Here a few tears started to form in Minato’s eyes, as his wife went on to say, “I guess if I was allowed one regret, I wish I could see Naruto and Naruko all grown up, I wish I could see that.”   Kushina, there's no need for you to die, in order to kill the Nine Tails." Minato told his wife, as tears were flowing down his face, "Preserve what little chakra you have left to heal, so that you can teach Naruto and Naruko what is needed.”   “Minato, what are you planning?” the redhead asked her husband.   “You’re too weak to become Kyūbi’s Jinchūriki again,” Minato told his wife, “so I’m going to split Nine Tails power into two, and use the Eight Sign Seal to make Naruto and Naruko its new Jinchūriki.”   “You can’t do that to them Minato, you have no idea what this’ll do to them should anyone find out.” Kushina informed her husband, “It was only by luck that I was able to hide what I was from everyone, if anyone found out that I was a Jinchūriki. My life would have been so much different, worse than anything that you can imagine.”   “That’s why you need to live, to make sure others don’t learn about it.” Minato told his wife, “Allowing you to die with Kyūbi is strategically unwise. If you die with the Nine Tails, there won't be a Jinchūriki around when he remerges. There will be an upset in the balance of power between the Tailed Beasts. But what’s more important than that… Is that you’d have died for nothing.”   “I don’t care about the upset in the balance,” his wife told him darkly, “you have no idea what it’ll do to the children if you did this to them. Forget for a moment that should everyone at the very least mistrust them, even hate them should people learn about them being Jinchūriki. Their chakra will be harder to control and master because of making them into a Jinchūriki at a young age.”   “There was a reason why they waited until I became a genin before they made me a Jinchūriki, at least I would have the basic control over my chakra, and so my chakra and Kyūbi’s chakra wouldn’t mix. By making them Jinchūriki as children, their chakra will mix and make it harder to control and master.” Kushina tried to make her husband see sense about all this, “You know that my clan’s chakra is hard enough to control as it is because of how much we have. But adding Nine Tails chakra before they have mastered their own, it’ll be even harder for them. Please think about this.” Kushina begged her husband to reconsider.   “That’s why they’ll have you and Kazuo,” Minato told his wife, “so they’ll have you to teach them and help them along the way.”   “Please, think about this,” Kushina begged her husband, “what you’re thinking of doing will most likely make their life’s with full of hardships should anyone learn about this. As a father, think about this, what kind of father would do such a thing to their children willingly.”   “Yes I am a father, but I’m also the Hokage of the Hidden Leaf,” Minato told his wife sadly, “it’s not like I want to do this to them. I reallydon’t want to do this to them, and if I had any other option I wouldn’t do this to them. But as the Hokage, I also need to think about the village too, since the founding of this village, we always had a Jinchūriki which held the Nine Tails. Should the other leaders of the other villages learn that we don’t have one, they might see our village, our nation... as weak. They will try to take us over. We need a Jinchūriki to keep the balance, not only with the power of the other Tailed Beasts, but between our nations too.”   “Fuck the other Tailed Beasts, fuck the nations too,” Kushina spit at him. “I’m a mother, I would rather see them all go to ash for all I care. All I care about is if our children are safe and happy. I would even prefer to see everything destroyed before seeing them hurt in anyway. I know if they decide to become shinobi/kunoichi, their lives will be hard ones, and maybe short ones. But it would be their choices, they would pick it... not me, not you, but them.   “But I would nevermake it harder for them by making them Jinchūriki at such a young age. It’s bad enough at the age I was when I become one, but I willinglybecame a Jinchūriki knowing the effects that would come with it. But you’re not willing to give the option to make that choice, you’re forcing it upon them.”   “I know, and as I said, if I had any other option I would take it.” Minato informed his wife, who like her, hated the idea of what he was going to do to his children, but he had to think of not only of his own family. But for the village as well, who as a Hokage, they too were his family and so, he needed to look after them. “But there’s another reason as to why I’m doing this, do you remember what Jiraiya told us, about the Child of Prophecy.”   “How is it that you were the one that was meant to save the shinobi world.” Kushina reminded Minato, she didn’t believe in this prophecy, as she believed that Jiraiya didn’t tell them everything about this so called prophecy, that the Great Toad Sage from Mount Myōboku told Jiraiya about. Jiraiya told them that sometime in the future, the shinobi world would be facing troubling times. That someone or something would put the world into calamity, and that Minato was the one who could save it. But Kushina suspected that there was more to it, that Jiraiya lied about the full prophecy for some reason, and didn’t want the full thing to be known. She felt as if it had to be something about the one who would cause the calamity. It could be that the one within the prophecy would either cause it, or save them from it.   “Yes and about the world being in upheaval, and all of the calamities that will accompany it.” Minato told his wife seriously, “Now I've become convinced about two things today. First, I think that the masked man attacked us today, will surely one day bring catastrophe to this world. And second I think that the one who'll save us, to stop him, is not me but this child, our own Naruto will save us all. This infant, whose godfather is Master Jiraiya, will clear the way for the future as a Jinchūriki, with Naruko next to him helping him.”   “But what if by doing this, making our children Jinchūriki, they are the ones that create the calamity that the Toad Sage foretold?” Kushina countered, worried by the fact that Minato would be making their children Jinchūriki and the consequences could be what starts the the calamity that the Great Toad Sage saw in his version, and that they were the ones that would destroy the world as they knew it. She then went on with her concerns, “And what if the actions of this masked man, was merely just the beginning? That by attacking us and savagely taking the Nine Tails from me, and nearly killing me in the process, we would be forced to make our children into a Jinchūriki, is the very thing that’ll lead to the calamity that was foretold by the Toad Sage?”   “I know you are worried, but I don’t think you’re right.” Minato reassured his wife, “I don’t why, but I can sense that Naruto is the one, the person who’ll protect the world and create a better future. I just know it. He is our child after all, why wouldn’t I believe in him?” Minato finished cheekily.   Kushina couldn’t believe it, her foolish husband was going to condemn their children for sake of a gut feeling, she just simply couldn’t believe it. He most likely believed that the villagers would see them as heroes, and so, treat them as such, but she knew differently. Unlike her who was in fact a Jinchūriki and knew what she was talking about, her husband had no idea of the fear of someone discovering what she was, the fear that they would turn against her, people hating her because she was a Jinchūriki, the prison warden for Kyūbi.   She had been lucky to hide what she was… who she was keeping inside her.  But she knew that if people found out what she was, they wouldn’t care that she was keeping them safe by keeping Kyūbi within her, all they would see of her would be the Nine Tails and not its warden. She had heard how bad things could get from other villages that had a Jinchūriki, and she didn’t want the same thing to happen to their children.   Then a thought came to her, and so she asked, “How are you going to split the Nine Tails power to make them into Jinchūriki?”   “I’m going to use Reaper Death Seal, it’s the only way to do this.” Minato told his wife simply, as he performed the sign seals for the Reaper Death Seal, knowing that his wife would try and stop him.   “What? Why?” Kushina exclaimed in shock at what he was doing, “Why sacrifice yourself? Sacrifice our children to a possible hardship? Why burden them so heavily? With something that could hurt them, have people look at them in fear and disgust, make people hate them and believe they shouldn’t be alive. All to simply maintain the balance between the Tail Beasts? For the sake of the country? For our village? There's no reason to sacrifice Naruto and Naruko for that!”   “Forsaking one's nation, and abandoning one village… it's the same as abandoning one's own child.” The Fourth Hokage attempted to explain his reasoning for what he was doing, “Your should understand, since your very own homeland was destroyed. You know how harsh life can be for someone without a nation.”   “But my nation was destroyed because people feared that we were too powerful, this is something different entirely.” Kushina tried to explain, “Let me take in the Kyūbi again and allow me to die with it. So that our children do not have to carry such a burden as being Jinchūriki.”   But Minato didn’t seem to hear her, as he went on to say, “Besides, we're a family of shinobi, we are born to serve and die our nation and village. Finally, even if I did live, I could never be a substitute to you, you are their mother. They need you more than they do me, especially Naruko.”   Then as he bent down to pick up his children who were now back to sleep, he said, “I'll die for my children, it is my duty as their father.”   “Damn you Fourth Hokage!”they heard Kyūbi sneer out as Minato summoned the Ritual Altar and female Scroll Toad, Akane, which was pink and mint green with dark markings around her eyes and mouth, and a circular mark just below her mouth. As a scroll toad, her abdomen can extend to reveal a scroll which whilst concealed, gives her the appearance of wearing an obi.   Akane was shocked at first until her summoner informed her what was going on, as Minato sealed the first half of the Tailed Beast Yin chakra into his daughter. There was nothing Kyūbi could do about this, as the chains made it hard for the fox to move, so when its power was cut in half, it also shrank in half of his normal size.   ‘Damn it, another Ritual Altar!’ Kyūbi cursed as it saw Minato summon another Ritual Altar and Scroll Toad, a male one named Gerotora, this one was black and orange instead of pink and mint green. ‘He's planning to seal the rest of me in the other baby.’   But before Minato could seal the rest of Kyūbi into his son, he heard Kushina cough as she tried to get closer. But because she was running low on chakra, and in pain from childbirth, she couldn’t move far. Minato then called out, “Kushina, are you okay!?   But as he did this, seeing that the chains were loose enough for Kyūbi to move, it went in to strike, and it cried out “HE’S MINE!”   But faster than a blink of the eye, both Minato and Kushina were in front of the attack, even with Kushina in pain, and had one of Kyūbi’s claw speared into them. But in turn, they had saved their new-born son from being killed. “I said I was his father, dying for him is my duty.” Minato told his redheaded wife.   “Yes, but I'm his mother, so it's my duty too.” Kushina told her husband.   “Why you!”sneered the Nine Tails darkly, unhappy he wasn’t able to kill the child.   “I think this is the first time I lost an argument,” Kushina joked in pain. “I guess this just proves how serious you about doing this.”   “Thank you Kushina.” Minato thanked his wife. Kushina was in too much pain to correct him, it’s not that she wanted this, but seeing that they were about to die, there wasn’t anything she could do to stop this. She couldn’t seal the fox back into her like she wanted, so this was the only option left to her. But she did have another, to tell him to behave and a few words about how to act in the future, and about gaining friends he trusted and do well in school, and about money. After she was done, Minato sealed Kyūbi’s Yang chakra within Naruto.   With the Nine Tails sealed within the children, the claw within them disappeared and Bull quickly drop the barrier, which allowed those who were on the other side to run up to the Fourth Hokage and his family. These people were Kazuo, Lord Hiruzen and a few trusted ANBU. Kazuo ran up to his daughter first, to make sure she was okay as the former Hokage went to check if the Fourth Hokage was okay. As Kazuo healed his daughter the best he could, Kushina whispered what happened, and asked her father to get her children out of the village, so that they could lead normal lives where no one knew about them. Kazuo knew that as long as Kushina could get some more chakra into her soon, she would be fine, as their Bloodline of healing would kick in and she would heal herself, but without it, she would be dead in hours.   However, before he could help his daughter, Kazuo had to get his grandchildren out of there, even if his daughter dies, this was something she wanted. But because of fighting the Nine Tail earlier, and trying to break down the barrier too, he was low on chakra and could only teleport one child to one of his safehouses that he had not far out of the village.   Once placing a medical jutsu to place his daughter in a state animated stasis, to keep her from getting worse, Kazuo picked up Naruko, who was the closest to him, he looked at them and said, “Listen, we don’t know where this masked man gone, or if he is returning or not, so I think it would be for the best that I take Naruto and Naruko to one of my safehouses that has someone ready to keep them safe until we get this sorted.” This was true, Kazuo was a shinobi, so whilst he hoped for the best outcome to his missions, he also prepared for the worse should something goes wrong and had to hide for a while until the heat is gone. And knowing the risks of his daughter giving birth, and that someone mightone day try and use it against Kushina, so he prepared a place and someone he trusted to protect his family should the worse comes to the worse.   Thinking that nothing was wrong, Hiruzen said “You’re right Lord Kazuo, it is best that they are taken somewhere safe.”   “I’ll be back in a few minutes, I don’t have enough chakra to take both of them at the same time.” Kazuo informed the others, hoping that Minato in the state he was in would not realize what was going on.   Oh how much Kazuo want to kill the man for what he done to his grandchildren, sure his clan use children to become Jinchūriki but never, no never new-borns, not even at times at this. His clan would use those who had become genin or someone holder, to become the new Jinchūriki. Making one as young as this was monstrous, and something he would never thought of doing. As the child’s chakra would be out of sorts, and hard to control and master, whilst not impossible for a new-born not to be affected by the side-effects, it was rare. If they did, it would take much longer for a child to master and control their powers.   “I understand, I’ll make sure that young Naruto is safe until you come back.” the former Hokage informed Kazuo, who with a puff of smoke was gone.   o0OoO0o   Once Kazuo was gone, Minato coughed and told Hiruzen, “Lord Third stop, both you and I know that I’m done for, it is only matter of time before I’m dead.”   “My boy, I have to try.” the former Hokage told Minato.   “Don’t waste any time, save your power you’ll need it for when Kazuo returns.” Minato informed him.   “What do you mean?” asked Hiruzen.   So Minato explained the best he could about what happened, how he split Kyūbi’s chakra and how he placed both halves into his children and in doing so making them the new Jinchūriki Nine Tails. He went on to explain about how his wife was against this, and most likely asked her father to take them away from the village, to protect them from anyone who might use or hurt them.   “So for the village, you need to keep Naruto here.” Minato told Hiruzen, “Should the other villages learn that we don’t have a Nine Tail Jinchūriki, they might attack the Land of Fire.”   As much as he hated to admit it, the Fourth Hokage was right, whilst he wanted Naruto to be with his family, the village needed him too. As one of the reasons that the Land of Fire haven’t been attacked often since the last Shinobi War, was because of the fear that they might use their Jinchūriki against them. To lose that fact, was only asking for trouble, something Land of Fire didn’t need right now. As people see them as weak, because the Land of Fire is considered as a peaceful land, so without a Jinchūriki, they could be openly attacked.   But there was one problem, and so asked Minato, “Whilst I don’t like, I can admit that we need a Jinchūriki, but how can we stop Kazuo, he is the active Uzukage of the Hidden Village of the Whirlpool. Whilst we can stop him tonight seeing he is as weak as us, what about the future once he regains his strength, what is stopping him then?”   “You should use the Banishment Jutsu that I created,” Minato informed Hiruzen, “if you use that, it’ll keep him from being able to re-enter the village.”   “That’s a Forbidden Jutsu,” the former Hokage told Minato, “as anyone other than the caster removes the seal from the person, the person would die within a year or so of the seal being removed.”   “I know and that’s why it’s the only way to keep Kazuo at bay for a while,” explained Minato, “he’ll want to look after and train Naruko, so you would have time to prepare for when he returns to get Naruto. By which time, you should be ready for anything that he might throw at you. And remember, with an Uzumaki, there’s no such thing as overkill when it comes to that Clan. Even if there is only one of them, one Uzumaki can make more problems than a group, and take out a small village or army alone.”   Hiruzen had to admit this jutsu was the only thing that would stop Kazuo from taking Naruto from them, and give them time to set something up in the future to stop Kazuo or Naruko from taking Naruto from them. And Minato was right, there was no such thing as overkill with the Uzumaki, a signal Uzumaki could easily take out a small village or army alone. And that same moment though, Minato died knowing that the village would be protected for a little bit longer.   Before anything else could say anything else about this, Kazuo reappeared and so the ANBU went around the former Hokage. Making sure that Minato couldn’t get to his son.   “Lord Hiruzen, what is going on here?” asked Kazuo, “I need to get Naruto somewhere safe.”   “I understand, but we can’t allow you to do it.” Hiruzen told him behind the ANBU, as he gave Naruto to one of them and begun to walk forward, “Minato told me what happened, and whilst I don’t fully agree with it all, I do understand why he done it. If we don’t have the Kyūbi Jinchūriki, the Land of Fire could very will be attacked, which we could not allow.”   “Hiruzen you old fool, this is my grandchild, I have every right to look after him.” Kazuo told Hiruzen, “I’m the only one who can train him, especially after my fool of a son-in-law turned him into a Jinchūriki. Thanks to that, I could be the only one able to help master and control his chakra, otherwise it could be in his mid-teens if ever before he learns to master and control his chakra. If you do this, you’ll be making his life in a living hell.”   “I’m sorry to say that if that means the protection of Land of Fire and the Hidden Village, so be it.” the former Hokage said seriously, “You should know this as well as me, seeing that you lead your own Hidden Village.”   “Yes I understand,” admitted Kazuo, “but unlike you it would seem, I wouldn’t use a newborn or a child who wasn’t a genin.”   “Under a different situation neither would I,” acknowledge Hiruzen, “but with the situation as it is, I have no other option to do this. We’ll have to do what we do to protect our Village and Land. And as weak as you are, you don’t have the strength to fight and get him. So don’t be a fool and fight us.”   Kazuo sighed as he realized that Hiruzen was right, he was in no right fitness to fight right now, he could do only one option, and that is to make sure he could save his daughter and Naruto’s and Naruko’s mother. As this way he could at least have her protect her son, so knowing that if this didn’t work, he could come back enough time to save his grandson. And if it did work, he could bring Naruko back to her mother in a few years once he trained his granddaughter, to make sure no one could use her again.   “If you won’t let me take him with me, allow me to save his mother.” Kazuo told Hiruzen, “Allow me save her, so that I know that Naruto will be loved and protected for and trained in my clans ways. At least Kushina can teach him how to control and master his chakra, she’ll be the only one who can thanks to her foolish husband. Allow my grandson, have one person I know who’ll love and care for him, should people find out that he is a Jinchūriki.”   “What do you have in mind?” asked the former Hokage, who was interested in saving Kushina’s if it meant that Naruto would have at least one living parent, and someone who would love, care, train and protect him no matter what. And should people find out about him being a Jinchūriki, someone would be there for him whilst everyone might hate him.   “I’m thinking of using Spirit of Altruism Jutsu on one of the dying, to transfer their life force and chakra into Kushina.” Kazuo to Hiruzen.   “That’s a Forbidden Medical Jutsu that has been banned to use for years now.” the former Hokage said in shock, as he couldn’t believe that Kazuo would want to use such a jutsu, “As it was used on too many innocent people in the past, so it had a powerful seal on the scroll it was on, so that no one can open other than a Hokage. I’m sorry, but I can’t allow it to be used, not even for your daughter. Too many lives were taken because of this jutsu, and I swore that it would not be used ever again.”   “But this is different…” begun Kazuo, but was stopped by Hiruzen, “It makes no difference Kazuo,” Hiruzen explained softly, “if I use this, it’ll be the start of the fall, as others well want to use it for others and so someone who shouldn’t could relearn the jutsu and misuse it again. So no, I can’t have the jutsu open, no matter what. I’m sorry.”   “But without it, she’ll be stuck in my stasis jutsu forever, stuck to look that for good.” explained Kazuo, “Whilst I have been able to heal her injuries, without the life force and chakra, Kushina will be dead within half an hour to an hour.”   “I’m sorry Lord Kazuo, I truly am, but I won’t change my mind.” apologized Hiruzen, “But as I said, if I allow you to use the jutsu, everyone else would want it and who knows what will happen. I promise you that we’ll try everything to help her, but I won’t be using the Spirit of Altruism Jutsu.”   Kazuo was angry, he didn’t ask for much whilst in this village, and he even helped with missions too. But now he was asking something back, they wouldn’t be willing to help him. Not only that, they were keeping him away from his grandson. If he had the strength, he would fight them over that, but for now though he had to admit defeat and hope that things don’t Naruto will be fine until he finds a way to get his grandson back.   “You better look after my daughter and grandson,” warned Kazuo, “as if something happens to them, your village will be going down be going down and nothing will stop me.”   “I know, and which is why I’m sorry for this.” Hiruzen apologized as he gives the ANBU to cast a few jutsu that hold Kazuo in place, as done the hand signals for a jutsu and said, “Banishment Jutsu: Exile!” And with that he placed the pram of his hand onto Kazuo’s forehead, where a seal appeared, a star within a sun.   “You bastard, what have you done to me!” Kazuo shouted in anger.   “I’m sorry Kazuo, but this is for the best for the village and our land.” Hiruzen apologized sadly, “We need the Jinchūriki here, and we can’t have you take him away. If there was any other way, I would take it, but I don’t. So you know, you have an hour to leave this village, or the seal will kill you. And don’t bother trying to remove the seal yourself, if anyone other than I remove it, you’ll die within a year or so of it being removed.”   “What!?” Kazuo shouted as he tried to lunge himself at the former Hokage as he told him what he did. But he was held back the by the ANBU jutsu, and defeated that he can’t do anything about it right now. “Fine you win, I’ll leave.” Kazuo admitted defeat, before he warned them all, “But you willpay for this one day, it won’t be soon, but it’ll be some time in the future, but your misdeeds of this day will be paid, and you won’t like the outcome of it.”   And with that the ANBU released their jutsu from Kazuo, and the now banished man left the village, but with payback on his mind. Payback that he’ll one day give to Hiruzen, and anyone who would dare hurt his family. Once Kazuo was gone, Bull asked, “Lord Hiruzen, what now?”   “Now we deal with our people, heal or bury them.” explained Hiruzen, as he and the ANBU returned to the village to help with the survivors, and bury their dead. After which, rebuild the damage of the attack of the Nine Tails.   To_be_Continued!   Author’s_Note_-_PLEASE_READ_TO_THE_END: Here ends the next chapter of my new Naruto story, I would like to thank you for reading the story, and I hope that you enjoyed it and if you did, could you spare a few minutes to leave a review. If you leave a long review, could you do me two things: one is that you don’t make it in a huge block, next if you make smaller blocks, could you put a space between each paragraph.   You see I am a dyslexic, and I have problems when there’s big blocks of writing or no space between paragraphs. So please, should you write long reviews, please don’t do them in one huge block, and please put a space between each paragraph. It'll be easier for me to read them.   I would like to thank jonathyn for beta reading this chapter, I hope that you notice are much better this story is now. Or I hope it is lol. As I told him, this is the first time in a long while since I was able to make a story above the 10k words, and as I told him: I often find the perfect end around the 7k or below words. Anything above that, I ever can't find the right words to make it up to 10k or it doesn't look right for that chapter. Which is is why I finish my chapters around the 7k or below mark. So if you don't see another 10k+ chapter for a while, you now know why.   Now before we go farther, the last poll is closed for this story, and it says that Naruto is older: 66 said make him older, and 34 said keep him the same as the show. Now I have a new poll for you, and that’s about turning three of the characters into females: should I do it or not? The three are Itachi, Gaara and Sasuke. You’ll have until next chapter to decide the outcome of this. You have three options: make, don’t make or make both Itachi and Sasuke females. You might only need to use two of your three votes depending on what you vote.   Yes make Sasuke a female. No don’t make Sasuke a female. Yes make Gaara a female. No don’t make Gaara a female. Make Itachi a female. No don’t make Itachi a female. Make both Itachi and Sasuke females.   Was reading Uchiha Heiress Remix and saw the word ki once or twice, and once I looked it up, I got interested. Whilst not part of Naruto, I was thinking of using Chi/Ki in my story, so that those who can't, Rock Lee, and those can, use chakra or fight against those who use chakra, the samurai, could have ki as long as they train in using it. What are your thoughts about this?   Whilst I'm thinking of using Rin as a harem member, I have a slight problem of coming up with a reason as to why she would return from the 'dead' either her death was faked, or she really was killed. I need a reason for her to return. So if any of you might have any ideas, I would like to hear them.   As you might have guessed, I’m planning to have Naruto’s Grandfather return a year before Naruto’s third attempt in becoming a Genin. At which point Kazuo learns about how the Village is treating his grandson, and so takes it upon himself to train Naruto, and teach him how to control and master his Chakra. So I would like a few ideas as to how the training goes. I want Naruto to become a Seal Master, at least be good in them. So if you know and fics that can help me please let me know.   I have another idea that goes one above, during his training with his Grandfather, they go into the forest out of the way of the Villagers. During the first few weeks/months, Naruto meets up with someone who he hasn’t seen since he saved her from some bullies, Hinata. Over the first few meetings, Hinata normal way when she is around Naruto, she either faints or runs away. After talking to his Grandfather, and learning one of the reasons that Hinata was running away from him or fainting, is because she seems to like him. So to help her to get rid of her shyness, Kazuo suggest or Naruto comes up with the idea of giving Hinata a mask. With the mask, with a letter saying that if she wanted to talk to Naruto, she could wear it and pretend to be someone else.   At first I was thinking that Hinata wasn’t sure about the mask, as she wasn’t sure if she could do it. But over the next few days, Hinata debated with herself if she should go with Naruto’s idea of the mask. Whilst she might be able to do it, if she could, she could slowly gain the confidence and self esteem to face her family and become stronger in her own rights.   I was thinking that during this time, as she was training to become stronger, Naruto could use the new identity Hinata, to corrupt her. I was thinking that without the mask she was the same as before, shy towards Naruto and have low confidence and self esteem, but with the mask she was someone different and would be able to do what she couldn’t without it.   What are your thoughts of this idea, and how could I make it better or change it.   ***** Chapter 3: Aftermath - Part 1. ***** Author’s_Note: Before we start the next chapter, I would like to say that whilst it might seem that Naruto might be a bit of out of character, there is a reason for it. In almost every anime I can think of, Naruto and My Hero Academia, two top of mind, each of our heroes,want nothing more but to be either the next Hokage or the next All Mighty. But yet before they get their training, or powers given to them, they don’t train fuck all to get to this point or with Naruto not that I have seen. They just hope it’ll happen and do very little to get on their own.   So whilst Naruto can’t learn Jutsu on his own, seeing how dangerous it can be, and that he is more of hands on type of person instead of reading he’ll have a few problems until someone helps him. But before he starts The Academy, he’ll be training to make his body stronger at the very least, so he wouldn’t be as weak as I see him before he passes the Academy. So whilst he might not be powerful when it comes to chakra power at the start, he’ll be at least somewhat powerful physically. Not too strong, but at least able to defend himself well enough. He’ll still do pranks, and won’t be at least book smart as everyone else, seeing that he would rather be doing things than reading seeing that he is a kinesthetic learner, but he’ll be smart in his own way.   So I’m looking for fanfiction where he has trainers who knows he is kinesthetic learner, and so they teach him the right because of this. Any and all stories that you can think of that can help me, I would like to hear them, as it’ll help me write this story better.   Now before we begin the next chapter, the last poll is closed for this story, and here are the votes for which male characters should become female. So you know, if you didn’t want one of them to become female, you should have voted. As I said, unless you can give me a good reason for not to make it happen, the final votes are that FINAL! I did give you the chance to have a say.   Yes make Sasuke a female: (Reviews: 8) Votes: 40 No don’t make Sasuke a female: (Reviews: 6) Votes: 16 Yes make Gaara a female: (Reviews: 9) Votes: 74 No don’t make Gaara a female: (Reviews: 4) Votes: 17 Make Itachi a female: (Reviews: 6) Votes: 35 No don’t make Itachi a female: (Reviews: 5) Votes: 17 Make both Itachi and Sasuke females: (Reviews: 2) Votes: 59   So from now on Itachi will now be known as Izumi, whilst Sasuke be known as Satsuki. I need help with a female name for Gaara, if any of you got any ideas, I would love to hear them. Possible Sora unless you lot can think of a better name.   Chapter_Three.   (Aftermath_-_Part_1.)   11th of October 1900 - Land of Fire, Hidden Leaf Village, Hokage’s Office:   It was afternoon after the attack on the Hidden Village by Kyūbi, and the Third Hokage, Hiruzen Sarutobi, was in his former office meeting up with the Ninja Council, to talk about the night before. The Ninja Council was formed of the Elders, Danzō Shimura, Homura Mitokado and Koharu Utatane, along with the Heads of the Four Noble Clans, Aburame Clan, Akimichi Clan, Hyūga Clan and the Uchiha Clan.   The Ninja Council was formed shortly after the last Shinobi World War. Third Hokage realized that before he was forced step down as Hokage, things was getting a bit too much. He was making mistakes, mistakes he thought if he had others to help other than the Elders of the Village, he wouldn’t have made in the first place. So he formed the Ninja Council, so that he and future Hokage would have others to help them make the decisions needed, be it right or wrong ones. At least they would have more options to go with, and hopefully do a better then he did.   The Head of the Aburame Clan, was Shibi Aburame, in fact he only became the new head this morning, when they learned that his father and the former Head of the Aburame Clan was killed during the attack the night before. The Clan is known for at birth, the members of this clan are offered to several special breed of insects as a nest, residing just under their host's body, acting as human hives for the insects. These insects will then live in symbiosis with their host from that point on. Because of this, its members are characterised by their use of insects as weapons.   Now Shibi, like all members of his clan, has his eyes obscured by dark glasses which feature a single tassel hanging down from one-side. He has very spiky short black hair and a thin moustache. He was wearing a high collared outfit, hiding the fact that some of the insects like wader out if their host and his choice of clothes prevent everyone from freaking out. It would seem that like his father, Shibi keep his hands in his pockets, usual Aburame trait they have.   Next was the Akimichi Clan, they are known for their techniques revolving around the manipulation of their body weight and size through the use of Yang Release. They even have their own Food Pills, convert excess fat into chakra, at the cost of one's health. It is also said that because of their techniques, it is rumoured that they would always have to be overweight, otherwise they can't use the Clan's Techniques. Now their Clan Leader was, Chōza, who like Shibi was appointed to the Head of the Clan, that morning when his and former Head of their Clan was killed in the attack from night before.   Chōza Akimichi is a tall, plump man with long, spiky red hair and purple markings on his cheeks - with the latter being a common trait in the Akimichi clan. He wears a samurai like outfit which entails a black suit completed with armour that has the kanji for "food" on it. He also wears a rope belt, hand- guards, and instead of a forehead protector - a hachimaki tied around his head.   The next Clan was the Hyūga Clan, the members born into this clan possess the Byakugan, a kekkei genkai that gives them extended fields of vision and the ability to see through solid objects and even the chakra circulatory system, amongst other things. Members of this clan also possess the unique ability to expel chakra from any of the tenketsu in their body. They are considered to be one of the most powerful Clans in the Hidden Leaf Village.   The Clan Leader was Houzu Hyūga, who unlike the other Clan Leaders so far, was the current Leader for the last forty years, he is a man of short stature with long, grey hair that reaches down to his back, and like all members of his clan, he possesses featureless white eyes. He was wearing the traditional robes which consist of a loose fitting kimono that is held closed with a simple sash under a brown, waist length haori.   The last Clan Member was the Uchiha Clan, who was the oldest of the Clan's there, as they were the ones that helped to found the Hidden Village decades ago. They were reputed to be the village's strongest because of their Sharingan and natural battle prowess, more so than the Hyūga Clan. Sadly after helping to form the village, the Uchiha grew increasingly isolated from the village's affairs, something the Third Hokage was trying to change. It didn't help with them being mistrusted by many because of the Clan's past and how they get their most powerful skills, to embracing hatred.   Now the Clan Leader for a few years, was Fugaku Uchiha, who apart for being Clan Leader, also lead the Konoha Military Police Force. Fugaku had short, brown hair that reached to his shoulders and onyx-coloured eyes, with visible creases below them made more pronounced whenever he adopted a stern look. He was wearing the standard flak jacket, along with a black shirt with the Konoha Military Police Force symbol on the shoulders, shin-guards and a black, open- front apron with white diamonds on the bottom.   “Before we begin this meeting, let's give a few moments of silence to our fallen.” Began the Third Hokage, as the group give a few moments of silence to our fallen, after watch he asked, “Do we know how many are dead from last night's attack or how much damage was done?”   “Not of yet,” Lord Hyūga told the acting Hokage, “we’re still clearing the ruined buildings, so far we have about two hundred villages and ninja dead. The villages are severely damaged and will take time and money to rebuild the homes and districts that Kyūbi destroyed.”   Hiruzen sighed at this, whilst they had enough jobs coming in to keep the village running, but now with how damage the village seemed to be. They didn’t have the work coming in to fix the damage to the village, to do so, they would have to charge more for their jobs and take give little less pay to those who are doing the jobs to get the village fixed up.   “I know that we might have a situation when it comes to fixing the village, but I might have a way to help with fixing the village.” Lord Sarutobi began to explain, “Whilst some might not like it, until we get the village fixed, we’ll have charge more for the jobs we do. And we’ll have to give little less pay to those who are doing the jobs.”   “Lord Third, you do know that there’ll be an outcry about this?” asked Aburame, who didn’t like the idea, but could understand why it had to be done.   “That I do Lord Aburame,” admitted the acting Hokage, “but until we have a better way to rebuild the village, it has to be like this for a while.”   “I might have a suggestion,” Danzō spoke out, “some of the more wealthiest of the villagers came to me saying that they are happy to help us out.”   “But for a price, right?” asked Houzu.   “Of course, Lord Hyūga,” Danzō admitted dully, as if this was something they should all suspected anyway, “we don’t do things for free. So why should they?”   As much as he hated it, Hiruzen had to sigh as he admitted that Danzō was right, they couldn’t demand them to give money to the village without giving something back. “So what do they wanting parting with their money?” asked Hiruzen, not sure if he was going to like the answer to this, and he wouldn’t.   “To be part of the council, so that they have a say as to what happens to the money and a say in happens to the civilian life of things in the village.” explained Danzō.   “But there’s never been a civilian on the council since the village was founded.” The Third Hokage told Danzō, “This village is a ninja village and should be run by shinobi and kunoichi. As they know better how to deal with other ninjas better than a civilian ever could.”   “That is true and I’ll admit that’s how it should be,” admitted Danzō, allow with everyone else agreeing, “but the civilians don’t mind that either. But what they do mind about is that we also have a say in how the non-ninja situations are run, and that’s what is a lot of them is unhappy about. They want a voice within the council, someone to look out for them. To stop a Civil War from happening, I would say we allow a few, six at most to join council.”   Hiruzen knew this was long time coming, for a long time the civilians of the world who won’t born with chakra, resented those who did have it. At first it was okay, they had those looking after them, but then came about the Shinobi Wars, where those who had no power was caught up in them. So over time ninja was despised by the fact they had power and that the civilians did not, ninja were blamed for the outcome for many things, and thought that without them, the world would be a better please. Even some shinobi and kunoichi thought the same. So it was no surprise that the civilians wanted a voice, but he didn’t think it was the right thing to do, as they would get in the way of things.   Whilst Danzō was right, to stop a Civil War from happening they would need to have a few civilians on the council, the Third was against the idea. As it always been a ninja council, and it should stay like it, as there were some things that civilians know, or tell them how to run things. But times were changing and knew that he would have to change with them, so with a sigh he said, “I’ll give it some thought, but don’t expect me to agree with it, as this is a Ninja Village and so should be run by shinobi and kunoichi. But I can see your point too, so until we get a new Hokage, we’ll let things be, and let whoever the new Hokage deal with it.”   “Lord Third, whilst I agree that the village should be run by the ninja council only, we need to do something to stop a Civil War from happening with the civilians.” said Koharu Utatane, the other elder in the room. Her grey hair was pulled back in a twin bun locked by a traditional Japanese hair pin with two pearls dangling off the side, and tassels were added to the other end. She also had long beaded earrings, and was wearing a simple long kimono, closed by an obi, a jacket, and a slash over it. Koharu was squinting at everyone like she normally does, as she barely opened her eyes at any point in time.   What those there didn't know was that adding civilians onto the council, was part of Danzō’s plan to take over the village. He knew that it would take time and would need others help to make it happen, the civilians would be his main problem. As until he got into power, whilst they had no power they make up in sheer number of people, and all they needed was one lucky hit or knowledge in fighting, and they could defeat a ninja with a good fight and luck.   So until he got where he wanted, he would need the civilians on his side, and once he was in power, Danzō would get rid of the weak and the useless of the civilians. There was another reason he wanted a few civilians on the on the council, to keep whoever the next Hokage is busy, and so that when it comes to a vote which he thinks is important to succeed or fail, he could use them to make it happen. For now they were just pawns in the bigger game he was playing.   “This wouldn’t be a problem if you allowed the Konoha Military Police Force fight instead of dealing with the civilians, you wouldn’t be having this problem.” Fugaku Uchiha told the Hokage darkly, not happy with the fact that his Police Force was forced out of the fight.   “And that brings us back to the point of today's meeting, that last night's attack.” Third told them all, before admitting to the Uchiha Leader, “As much as I hate to admit it, it is you clans past that stopped you from the attack Lord Uchiha.”   “What has my Clan’s past got to do with it?” Uchiha sneered angrily.   “It has everything to do with it Lord Uchiha,” explained Hiruzen told him, “whilst your name didn’t come up, we had a report of a masked man controlling the Tailed Beast. And what Clan has that kind of power?” He asked rhetorically, “Whilst we didn’t know if anyone in your Clan was responsible or not, we couldn’t risk it, or risk them joining whoever was controlling the Kyūbi. So instead of keeping you out of it altogether, I had Danzō protecting the villagers.”   Uchiha wasn’t happy with the answer, whilst he couldn’t deny it, his Clan did have a bad reputation because of Madara Uchiha doing what happened the night before. But that didn’t mean anyone this his Clan responsible for what happened the night before. But he could see why the Hokage did it, even if he was insulted that the man would think they would do such a thing. Sure they had their problems with the man and the village, but they would not risk their own like whoever was controlling the Tailed Beast the night before.   Not only that though, should his wife every found out that people knew that her friend was a Jinchūriki and tried to kill her to get the Nine Tails, will they would be having a slow painful death. Kushina and Mikoto were best of friends, should you hurt the other, well may Kami have mercy on your souls, as they sure would not. In the last few years, their daughters Naruko and Izumi have been playmates since they were born, and the mothers got even closer because of it. They were more like sisters than best friends.   Now whilst it was an open secret that each of the Great Five Nations had at least one Jinchūriki, what was not known was who that Jinchūriki was. For the safety for that Jinchūriki, unless they got into battle and used their powers, the identity of the individual was considered as a S-Class Secret. Revealing who the Jinchūriki was unless needed to know or revealed in battle, or the Jinchūriki tells someone themselves, had the penalty of death.   There were only two reasons that Fugaku and Mikoto knew that Kushina was a Jinchūriki, the first reason was that Kushina told them she was one. And informed them that they couldn’t tell anyone unless they and those they told wanted to die because of it being a S-Class Secret. The only reason was that if it wasn’t for Kushina telling him, was that when he became a member of the new Ninja Council, they were told about who the Jinchūriki was. Only because the Third Hokage wanted help to protect her should anyone find out what she was. Knowing what his wife would do to him, or those in their Clan should Kushina be found out she was a Jinchūriki, he had no problems keeping it a secret. He would prefer death by Hokage should he ever tell anyone, as death by his wife’s hand wasn’t something he wanted at all. He felt sorry for whoever did this should his wife found out who did this to her sister.   “You do understand how everyone is going to see this don’t you Lord Third?” Fugaku asked the acting Hokage darkly, “As we won’t part of the main attack force, defending the village, they’ll think that we were part of the attack.”   “Just tell them that I had Danzō have you looking after the villagers, just in case the Nine Tails attacks the settlers.” the acting Hokage told him, giving him a cover story to use.   “Like that well make them believe that.” sneered Fugaku, not liking this one bit.   “I’ll back that story up if asked, if that isn’t enough, I’m sorry Lord Uchiha.” apologised Hiruzen, there was so much he can do without everyone know it was possible that it was someone in the Uchiha Clan was behind last night's attack.   “I do have a question though Lord Third.” Shibi acknowledged, “If it wasn’t Lord Uchiha telling someone in his Clan about who the Jinchūriki,” at this Fugaku give a sneer and a dark look towards the bug man, “as far as we know no one outside this Council knew that Kushina was a Jinchūriki. And seeing that this is a S-Class secret, with the penalty of death, it is unlikely we would say anything to anyone else. Now you may not like it Lord Uchiha, but as much as you hate to admit it your Clan has the means and the opportunity to do this.”   “I wouldn’t say anything to my Clan,” Fugaku informed darkly at his Clan being accused of the attack, “if my wife ever found out that about it, she would slowly and painfully kill me and whoever done it for killing her best friend and sister.”   “How would your wife know about Kushina?” asked Chōza, which everyone wanted to know, as they were worried that if she knew about it, anyone could have learnt about it.   “Because Kushina told us herself, as my wife and her got so close, Kushina decided to inform both of us. Well mainly Mikoto, but as I was her husband, she told me too.” the Uchiha Clan Leader informed them all, resting some of their fears, “Anyway, what would our motive be for controlling the Nine Tails?”   “The past,” Danzō informed them, “as they say some wounds can't heal. There could be some of your Clan who can't forget the past and decided to use Kyūbi to destroy the Hidden Village. It is possible that whilst you might not have told anyone who the Jinchūriki is, they found out another way and so freed and controlled the Tailed Beast last night.”   As much as he hated to admit it, Fugaku some of his Clan couldn't forgive the past Hokage for how he treated the Clan. Whilst he and the others tried to live and let live and not allow their Curseto control them, there were a few who want payback on the Village for the past. “In that case I'll begin a full investigation to find out who it was, and if it was a member of my Clan, they'll be punished accordingly.”   “I have no problems with that Lord Uchiha,” acknowledged Hiruzen, “but if or when you find them, I would like my ANBU Investigation Team question them. We need to know how they found out about Kushina, who they told about her and what else they found out and told about it.”   Fugaku had no problem with that, as whoever did this done more harm than good to the Clan. He and other Clan Leaders had tried for a long time to make a better reputation for their Clan, but this one action done a lot of harm to their work setting them back a long while. Fugaku didn’t know if they could come back from this and might have to go down another path. “As long it is painful and you give them back so my wife can deal with them, you can question them.” Fugaku informed the acting Hokage, knowing that the village should be protected, and was upset that his wife’s best friend was killed.   Lord Third only nodded at this, to acknowledge he would do this, Houzu Hyūga asked, “So what happened with Lord Fourth and his family?”   Here the Third Hokage knew he had to be careful as to what was said here, as he said, “As you know Lord Fourth was killed by the Tailed Beast. Whilst not killed, Kushina was placed in a medical animated stasis, that until we find a way to help her, she’ll remain there until we can help her.”   “What happened to her?” asked Fugaku, wanting to be able to tell his wife what happened to her sister.   “Apart from being exhausted from children breath and the Nine Tails severely hurting her, she also had a severe case of Chakra Exhaustion.” explained Hiruzen, “Not only because of trying to keep the Nine Tails within her, but been forced to defend herself. After her father healed what he could, Kazuo placed his daughter under an animated stasis jutsu. As she Chakra Exhaustion, and so her healing ability wasn’t working as it would and unless there was a way to give her a huge chakra transfer, it wouldn’t able to heal her.”   “Can’t we use one of the Chakra Transfer Jutsu to give her what she needs?” asked Shibi.   “Sadly no,” the acting Hokage half-lied, “as there aren’t many people who can do the Chakra Transfer Jutsu. And those who could, if they tried, they would have been killed and most likely Kushina still wouldn’t been healed. As you all know, Kushina has a huge chakra reserve, more so than anyone else in her Clan and more than anyone in this village. And add to the fact of all the chakra she was getting from Kyūbi, she would need a lot more chakra than any other person to survive. So until we find some way to help her, she’ll have to remain in the animated stasis jutsu.”   None of them knew what to say to this, not even Fugaku, so instead he asked, “What about Naruko and Kushina’s unborn child, what happened to them?”   Seeing no need to lie about this, at least not inform them about Naruko, the acting Hokage said, “Naruko was taken by her grandfather to a safehouse, and Kazuo is banished from ever coming back to the village.”   “What way?” asked Houzu, shocked to hear this, he was one of the most respected shinobi in the village.   “Because he wanted to take Naruto from the village, and not to return him Lord Hyūga.” explained Hiruzen.   “What’s wrong with that?” asked Chōza, “It’s not like there’s anything to keep them here, and it is Kazuo’s right to do so. He’s not a Leaf shinobi, he could take his grandchildren away if he wanted.”   “What I’m about to tell you all Lord Akimichi, is now considered a S-Class secret.” explained Hiruzen sincerely, “For the Fourth Hokage to defeat the Tailed Beast, he had to seal it into Naruto, making his son the next Jinchūriki for the Nine Tails. And as you know, for Land of Fire, or one of the other four key Elemental Nations, having at a Jinchūriki in their Hidden Village, is a sign of strength and a deterrent for the smaller villages from attacking us. If Kazuo took his grandson away, and the other villages learnt that there’s no longer a Jinchūriki in the Hidden Village of that Nation. It would be a sign calling out to say come on and attack us.   “And whilst we might be able to defend against the weaker villages that don’t have a Jinchūriki, what about those who do have one, or ally themselves to a village that as one. They would attack in full force and there would be nothing in stopping them, but with our own Jinchūriki here, they would have second thoughts about attacking us.”   As much as most of them hated to admit, and would prefer Naruto to be with his family, they also saw how important it was for the new-born boy to be in the village. Whilst a handful see Naruto as nothing more as a tool now, and would love nothing more as a tool, the others see him a new-born who had been dealt a bad hand. And saw him as someone was keeping them from going to war, something none of them wanted. They also knew that whilst the Clan Leaders at the very least see him as a Warden keeping the Tailed Beast locked up, most of their own Clan and Villager would see him as Kyūbi Reborn. So it was a good thing that this was considered as a S-Class secret.   “I have to ask, what is stopping Kazuo from returning and taking Naruto from the village one day?” the Aburame Clan Leader asked.   “Seeing he was a risk to the Hidden Village, I was forced to use a Forbidden Banishment Jutsu that Lord Fourth created.” explained the Third Hokage, “So unless I undo the seal myself, he would die within a year. So seeing that he has to look after his granddaughter for the time being, it’ll be a few years until he’ll try something. Which by that time I hope we’ll be ready for whatever he does, and able to stop him.”   “So what is going to happen to the young boy?” asked Fugaku, as he knew that if he didn’t at least ask his wife would give him hell. “Mikoto and I will more than happy to take him in, in fact Mikoto would insist in taking him seeing how close she and Kushina were.”   “I’m sorry but that won’t be possible,” this came from Danzō, “we don’t know if one of your Clan was behind this attack or not. And if they were, we don’t know how they found out if you didn’t tell anyone about Kushina. So until we know fully how the attack happened, and until who is behind it and who helped, it would be unwise for anyone to have the boy, especially your Clan.”   Fugaku was about to protest a Danzo’s decision when Hiruzen stops the Uchiha Clan Head. “I’m sorry Lord Uchiha, until the investigation is done, I have to agree with Danzō.” Hiruzen unhappily agreeing with Danzō.   “Fine.” sneered Fugaku, not liking this one bit and upset they would think he was behind this when he had done everything in his power to keep peace between his Clan and the Village. “But you are the ones going to explain it to Mikoto when she wants to know why she can’t adopt her best friend’s son.”   “So what is going to happen to the child?” asked Houzu.   “For now Lord Hyūga, he’ll be placed into the orphanage where he’ll be raised there.” the acting Hokage informed them. “But will be on discreet surveillance by one of my trusted ANBU, knowing that most of the village do not see things our way.”   “You do know people will want to adopt him as soon as they find out that he’s the son of Lord Fourth?” Shibi pointed out to the Third Hokage.   “I do, which is why I’m making it a S-Class secret to who Naruto’s parents are,” Hiruzen informed them all, “as just before he died, Lord Fourth told me via shadow clone that he wants his child to have a normal childhood. So from here on out, he’ll be known as Naruto Uzumaki.”   There was many of an outcry by the Clan Leaders, hating the fact they were been forced to hide the identity of Naruto's parents, and mostly his birth right. Its something all four of the Clan Heads could agree with, whilst Namikaze wasn’t a Clan, he was the Fourth Hokage and Minato was Naruto’s father, something that shouldn’t be hidden. Not only that, but the Uzumaki was an old Clan, one that help build the Leaf Village, and rumoured to be related from Legendary Senju clan. It wasn’t something to hide away, Naruto had the rights to know about his ancestors and what they did for the Hidden Village, and what happened to his Clan.   “Come on, you don’t think people will realize who he is just by that name?” Chōza asked sceptically.   “And why should we hide who his parents were?” asked Houzu.   “First off, as to why to hide who Naruto’s parents are, that’s because of who his mother and father is,” the acting Hokage inform them, “as not only because he was the Fourth Hokage, but his actions during the last Shinobi World War. As for his mother, because of her Clan and her abilities. They both made many enemies, and although now dead, they’ll want to pay Naruto back for the sins of the father and mother. So it is for the best that he doesn’t know who they are, until he is older to be informed, or should he become a shinobi, until he becomes a chūnin.”   As much as they hated to admit it, that did make some sense, for that moment they did forget about the Fourth’s enemies. So it made sense that Naruto waited to learn about his family, as it made sense in a way.   The Third Hokage went on to say, “As for people know who he is because of a name, that is easily explained off. As you know, it is common practice to name orphans with no known family name, the name of people or Clan who are well respected. So we just tell people we named him after Kushina or the Uzumaki Clan if they ask.”   Whilst they didn’t like the idea of hiding Naruto’s identity, they could see why it would happen, and a way to explain away that he wasn’t the Fourth’s son. For the child’s protection, it was better this way. Anyway, with nothing else to say, Houzu asked, “Do you know who’s going to become the Fifth Hokage now that Lord Fourth is dead?”   “No, Lord Hyūga,” admitted Hiruzen, “but after this meeting, me and the Elders are heading for Entei to talk to the Daimyo to talk about it.” Entei was the capital of Land of Fire, it was a huge city, with a huge torch in the centre of with a huge flame burning from it, and decorated with statues of Guardian Lions by the City’s gates and the Daimyo’s castle. “So if there’s nothing else for today, I’ll declare this meeting adjourned.”   There was nothing else to say at the moment, they all still had to deal with the aftermath the attack night before. Trying to find out who is dead, and finding any survivors if there was any. Once they knew the full effect of the attack, they would meet with the new Hokage to talk about it all, and what to do next. Once they done that, they left as Hiruzen and the Elders got ready to meet the Feudal Lord at Entei.   o0OoO0o 20th of November 1900 - Land of Fire, Kaho Village:   It has been over a month since Kazuo left the Hidden Leaf Village with his Granddaughter Naruko, during his time his thoughts were slowly going down a darker path more than normal. It all started when his Clan and homeland was destroyed, by three of the of the Great Five Elemental Nations, along with a few of the smaller villages helping them. He even suspected someone in the Land of Fire, mainly someone in the Hidden Leaf Village, he suspected Danzō. He lost everything from that night, not only his Clan and homeland, but his wife and two of his children, and he wanted nothing more than take revenge on those who was responsible for it.   The only thing that stopped him from doing anything, was his daughter Kushina. He didn’t want to leave her without a father, and than over time she got married to Minato and had Naruko and life was good for a while. But than last month, when his daughter was giving birth to his second grandchild Naruto. But that’s when everything went to hell, his daughter was attacked by a masked man, who wanted to release Kyūbi from her. He was able to do this and controlled it.   He didn’t know who it was, but he did know that it was someone with the Mangekyō Sharingan, as that was the only way to control a Tailed Beast. Now most would think that it was someone within the Uchiha Clan, as they were the only known Clan within the Elemental Nations that had the Sharingan. But he knew differently, as far as he knew no one in the Uchiha Clan had the evolved version of the Sharingan.   Not only that, but there was an Uchiha Clan outside of the Elemental Nations, one that moved out of the Elemental Nations when Madara Uchiha tried to destroy the Hidden Leaf Village all those years ago. They now go by some name, to hide their relations with the Uchiha Clan in the Elemental Nations, and don’t use their Sharingan. Whilst unlikely, it was possible that one of them was behind the attack, he would have to look into that.   But with the attack of the Nine Tails, he lost almost everything, all he got left was Naruko. The damn Leaf Village now took almost everything that he had was taken from him, thanks to Minato and Hiruzen. Both of them for keeping him from his daughter and his new-born grandson. All because they didn’t want to use a Forbidden Jutsu to save his daughter, as it would kill someone. It wasn’t like he was going to kill anyone healthy, but those who were dying from the attack, so that their death would have some meaning.   Not only that, but thanks to his asshole of son in law, as he told the Third Hokage to stop him from taking his grandson and disappear. As Minato wanted the Village to keep a Jinchūriki, to use him as a deterrent to stop others from attacking them, like some kind of animal, waiting to be broken and tamed. Now normally he would go back in a few days once he regained his strength and show them the old rule in the old days before his homeland and Clan was destroyed: Don’t Fuck With A Uzumaki.   But they got him when he was weak and used a Banishment Jutsu that he and Minato created and was classed as a Forbidden Jutsu. The Jutsu would place a seal on the person and would stop them from re-entering the Village. But that’s not why it had become a Forbidden Jutsu, it was because should anyone other than the person who cast it remove, the person would die with a year or so. But because he needed to take care of his granddaughter, he couldn’t do anything to help his grandson.   But that didn’t mean that he wouldn’t stop thinking about his grandson, oh no, the old Uzushiokage won’t stand for this. No, he was a man who had lost everything, he homeland, his family, his Clan, and now his daughter and new- born grandson. ‘No more…’was his thought these days, he wasn’t going to allow no one to take more from him, no he’ll make those who took from him pay… no matter what.   But it’ll take a while until Naruko was older and well trained, but once she was old enough, he’ll help her become strong and have her help him rebuild the Uzumaki Clan. First, find the remaining Uzumaki within the Elemental Nations, and when the time was right, get Naruto and Kushina back, and have the three rebuild the Land of Whirlpools. As by this time, he’ll be dead or dying, as he’ll be the one to get his grandson and daughter back. They were his family, and other than Naruko, he and her should be the only one to rescue grandson/ brother and daughter/mother.   But those were plans for the future, for now he had to look after the baby Naruko, who was sleeping in her baby basket right now, something that Kazuo was happy about. Over the last month had been hard for the young girl, she lost her father, mother and her new-born brother. She woke up often crying for her mummy and wondering where the rest of the family. He didn’t know what to tell her, sure he could lie to the girl, but Kazuo believed she deserved to know the truth and so told her the truth the best he could.   Now he felt somewhat awful, but he was going to use this to make her help him take revenge on those who hurt him and her. He knew it was wrong to use his granddaughter in such a way, but part of him, the dark part of him that has awoken, knew that it was needed. As he couldn’t do this by himself, and it was something both him and her needed, to have some closer to what happened and done to them. But he will make sure that she’ll be happy, and treated will and go for nothing, also no one or nothing will hurt her or use her like he was doing.   Whilst in Kaho, he realized that he had to leave the Land of Fire, and the shinobi and kunoichi of the Hidden Leaf Village would be spying/keeping an eye on them whilst they were in this nation. So within the next few weeks he and Naruko will leave Land of Fire, and go to one of the other nations closest to it, so that he could keep an ear out and learn what he could.   He had a few in mind, ones that none of those in the Hidden Leaf Village would think of looking for there, as they had Hidden Villages that helped to destroy his homeland and Clan. So they wouldn’t suspect him of all people to go there, and they better pray that they should never they find him. As it might be the last thing that they might ever do, as whilst they might not have done anything to them, the village did. And he’ll make the Village pay, and nothing and no one will get in his way, he’ll make the Leaf Village hurt as it hurt him. The only person who’ll not get hurt should they find him was Naruto.   For now, Kazuo to prepare to leave the Land of Fire, and had little time to do so. As within the next few weeks, he and Naruko will no longer be there.   To_be_Continued!   Author’s_Note_-_PLEASE_READ_TO_THE_END: Here ends the next chapter of my Naruto story, I would like to thank you for reading the story, and I hope that you enjoyed it and if you did, could you spare a few minutes to leave a review. If you leave a long review, could you do me two things: one is that you don’t make it in a huge block, next if you make smaller blocks, could you put a space between each paragraph. Now I hope I done good with explain why there a group Ninja Council instead of a few people and give a reason as to why there's going to be civilians on it. Let me know.   The chapter is shorter than I had planned it for, as I have got writer's block to what I want to happen to Kazuo and Naruko, and so I would like your help with and ideas you might have to write the next chapter. Now the original idea was for Kazuo working with work with Orochimaru, to give his grandchildren the power ups. But I was talking to someone who has making me rethink it:   Orochimaru betrayed the village after the Kyūbi’s attack and did lots of things. Working for Akatsuki, experimenting on people and killing those that didn't survive or show worth. I get his purpose in an Overlord fic as useful, but he does not serve as an ally to anyone. He only wants to help himself and would sooner kill the grandfather and take Naruko under his wing for his purpose before working alongside him.   They said I could use Orochimaru as a foil to Konoha and let the Uzumaki do their own thing. Danzo kept in constant contact and worked with Orochimaru besides, so I don't want that. The grandkids already have the power ups they need, they just need discipline and training to use what they have.   They also said that Orochimaru is a sucker for Jutsu theft and the old man has a lot of Sealing apparently nobody has seen. And Orochimaru is trying to create a Slave seal through his Cursed Seal... So how isn't that useful to Orochimaru? And while the grandpa has no qualms with hurting people, he is a sucker for family backing family. Orochimaru has no qualms about killing families to get something he wants, like say Karin's mother because Karin had a Healing Power and was a pureblood Uzumaki?   The thing is I was after Kazuo using Orochimaru to get the Snake Summoner research and use his lab, but after hearing what was said, I need to rethink things. I still want Kazuo getting Orochimaru’s research, as I want them for the Wood Release research, and the research of bring the dead back to life. So I would like your help for ideas how the two could work together, so I could use the idea still. I would like ideas not only how they could work together, but if they do, what would happen over the years.   If you can or cannot think of a way for Kazuo to work with Orochimaru, I would like you ideas for research/experiments that Orochimaru is working on. I would like to hear all sorts of ideas, and some detail to them. As I want to use Orochimaru a bit if I can, and so I would like him to have more research and experiments he can have. Either way I’m BEGGING for help here, whilst I got the future chapters planned, I have NO idea how to do the next part with Kazuo and where to go with it. I want to show a bit of what happens with him, and how he rises his granddaughter, and for that I need ideas which I don’t have at the moment.   I’m sorry for the long notes, I got a review saying that they stopped reading because of them, but as I said to them, I’m new to the Naruto world, and so I need help which is why I do these long ones. If you don’t like them I am sorry, but I’m hoping that this will be the last chapter for them. I’m not saying they won’t happen again, but I’m hoping they won’t be as often like every chapter like they have been so far. Only when I need to do them.   There has been one or two of you wanted Naruto to stay at his original age, if you wanted that, you should have voted. I put up the votes for two reasons, one is to help me decide where to go when I am in two minds about where to go within the story. The second reason is connected to the first reason, I want to hear what my readers want within the story. Whilst it is my story to do as I wish, I do take in what my readers want into consideration and if I like it put it into my story. As for my votes, unless you give me a good reason why it shouldn’t happen, for example, plot or another good reason, I’ll be going with the monetary of the votes. So when there is a vote and you want something to happen, like not wanting Naruto to be older, or one of the male characters not to be female, then you should have vote against it in the first place. Don’t complain afterwards that you want it changed when the votes are in.   Lastly, I need help with three things, both related to Naruto becoming the Overlord. The first is that I want ideas for Forbidden Jutsu that he could learn once he becomes the Overlord, I need hand singles, names of the Jutsu (English version names please,) and what they do and how they would look like once cast.   The next is how would Naruto meet the minions, this been the main problem since I remembered that the Third Hokage has the crystal ball that he uses to spy on people. I got one idea, and that’s for Naruto to steal the damn thing at the same time as he steals the Seal Scroll, but I would like other ideas too.   And last is that I’m planning to have five minions instead of four, one hive for each of the five main element countries: Earth, Fire, Wind, Water and Lightning. Whilst I’ll be using the original minions for the Lands of Earth, Fire, Wind and Water, but I need an idea for the minions from the Land of Lightning, what they look like and what their powers are. Please drop_by_the_archive_and_comment to let the author know if you enjoyed their work!