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This story and idea were strongly inspired by Psycho G story Sealed Legacy and I like to thank him for giving me permission to use some of his ideas in my story. And to thank him for giving me his blessing.

Disclaimer: Why the hell do authors put disclaimers at the start of every chapter? Shouldn't it common knowledge that only kishimoto owns Naruto? Whatever might as well join the club. So yeah don't own Naruto. But Psycho G does own Sealed Legacy and all the elements I'll be using from that story. So credit to him for letting me use them.

Update: This is the Updated Version of Chapter 1. Just telling you right now that not much has changed except for dialogue. So if you're coming from the other chapters feel free to reread this if you want.

Enjoy!

Chapter 1. Gift

Currently resting on a bed in a secure safe house hidden within the forest outside the walls of The Hidden Leaf Village was a woman in her early 20's with long red fiery hair and violet eyes. She was wearing a white high-collared sleeveless blouse, with the lower part of her blouse been ripped off revealing her navel, and a loose-fitting green dress tied around her waist to cover her lower half to make up for the lack of pants and sandals. The woman looked exhausted if her heavy breathing and slighty sweaty forehead were any indications.

This woman was Kushina Uzumaki. Wife to The Fourth Hokage, one of the last members of the Uzumaki Clan and now former Jinchuuriki of the Nine-Tailed Demon Fox, but also the mother of the baby she just gave birth to about 10 minutes ago.

Standing on the side of the bed with a downcast look was a man also in his early 20's who had bright blond spiky hair with two jaw-length bangs framing both sides of his face while several smaller bangs hovered a little over his blue eyes. His attire consisted off a long-sleeved dark blue shirt with two bands over each sleeve, blue pants and sandals with bandages tied around his ankles. The man was holding a sleeping newborn baby who had blond hair and whisker shape birth marks, his tiny body covered by a blue blanket.

This man was Minato Namikaze. Husband to Kushina Uzumaki, Fourth Hokage of The Hidden Leaf and now father to the infant sleeping in his arms.

"Minato..." Kushina said in a ragged voice as she looked at her husband with tired and worried filled eyes, "Please stop that masked man, he's going to use the power of the Nine-Tails to destroy the Leaf."

"Don't worry, I will." The Fourth said with a small smile as he laid his son next to his mother before he helped Kushina turn her body to face their sleeping child. He pulled a blanket to cover both of them. "In the meantime just stay here with Naruto, okay. I'm going to fix this mess."

The exhausted woman looked at her sweet baby's face and couldn't stop the tears from falling of her eyes. She raised a hand towards the baby's face and slowly pulled his face closer to hers. She proceeded to weep as soon as her forehead was touching Naruto's. "Thank you, Minato. Thank you for saving our baby, thank you."

The Fourth couldn't stop the tears from rising into his eyes at the sight of his wife and son together. Under different circumstances he would have cried tears of joy at the sight of his wife and son together like a true family. But the situation that they were in right now isn't anything to be happy about.

When he thought of the one who cause this whole ordeal Minato clenched his fist in anger. It was a man wearing a black hooded cloak, a white mask with a right eye hole and black flame designs, he is the one responsible for all of this. At first Minato figured the man was here to kill him but that all changed when the masked man revealed that his true target was the Nine-Tails Jinchuuriki, Kushina. For whatever reasons he wanted Kushina; Minato didn't care. He wasn't going to let this man take away his wife and the mother of his child no matter what.

But what greatly disturbed Minato was the fact the man somehow knew that Kushina was the Jinchuuriki for the Nine-Tails; something only he, Jiraiya, Hiruzen, Biwako and a very selected few others know about. Not only that but he also knew where and when Kushina was going to give birth, and that a female jinchuuriki's seal drastically weakens during childbirth. And add the fact that he killed the entire platoon of ANBU he assigned to protect them and made his way into the sealing chamber, undetected by the barrier or his sensory abilities, made this unknown assailant very dangerous. The man also murdered Kushina's midwives, Biwako Sarutobi, the wife of his predecessor the Third Hokage, and her assistant Taji, an ANBU medical ninja.

Things only went downhill after that.

The man then managed to get a hold of the newly born Naruto and warned Minato that if he didn't backed away from Kushina then he would kill the child right there and now. Minato tried to talk to man, to try and settle everything peacefully without anymore violence. The masked man just scoffed and called the Hokage a naïve fool before he threw the crying infant into the air and pulled out a kunai ready to stab the child. But just as he was about to kill the baby Minato used his Hiraishin jutsu and caught the baby instantly in midair. But the hooded man clearly planned ahead when he activated the explosive tags hidden within Naruto's blanket, forcing the Yellow Flash to use his signature jutsu once again to teleport to another location so to avoid been blown up with his son.

After that the masked man teleported himself and Kushina to a hidden valley where he proceeded to extract the Tailed-beast out of its weakened seal and put it under his control. With the Nine-Tails out and completely under his control he forced it to kill its jailor only for his plan to fail when a yellow flash appeared and then disappeared in the blink of an eye along with the red head. With the Hokage and his wife gone the hooded man proceeded to make his way towards the Hidden Leaf with the Demon Fox in tow.

As soon as he had Kushina with him Minato teleported them and their son to their now current location, a safe house only they and no one else knows about.

Hearing the sounds of the Demon fox destroying his beloved village; Minato blinked his tears away and relaxed his hands. His attention now returned to the situation in hand. The depressed look on his face was replaced with one of hardened determination. As Hokage, husband and now father he has a duty to fulfill; protect his village and his family. He turned around and walked across the room until he reached his closet. Opening it he then proceeded to put on his Jounin flak jacket, strapped a kunai holster full of his infamous tri-pronged kunai and tied his headband on his forehead. He finished of by putting on his signature Hokage trench coat.

"Minato…" The exhausted red head said as she turned her head just in time to see Minato put his cloak on. Red kanji for 'Fourth Hokage' was written vertically down the back of the coat with red flame motifs decorated the bottom edges. Kushina would always get this awe feeling every time she watched him put on that coak when his back was facing her, and today was no exception. The feeling only intensify when a slight breeze came in through the open window to give his flame motifs the illusion of actual flames.

"Thank you…" Kushina whispered."...and good luck."

"I'll be right back." Was all Minato said before disappearing in a yellow flash, leaving his wife and son alone in the room.

As soon as he left Kushina quickly use all her strength to try and get of the bed and on her feet. "I don't have a lot of time, I need to do this now and as quickly as possible before Minato returns!" Kushina thought in desperation. She already knows how this terrible day will end for her. But that doesn't mean she isn't going down without a fight. Without giving her son a parting gift.

She may have giving birth about 15 minutes ago, and had a tailed beast extracted out of her shorty after that but been an Uzumaki meant she possesses a strong life source and longevity. But even that won't save her from her inevitable death, her life force was the only thing that kept her alive after the masked man force the Nine-Tails out of her. She guesses she only has minutes to live, more than enough to time to do what she needs to do.

When she got of the bed and onto her feet it caused a slight movement on the bed, causing baby Naruto to wake up and start crying. Kushina quickly picked up Naruto and started rocking him back and forth while humming a lullaby.

"There, there, my little maelstrom, no need to cry," Kishina said in a southing voice as she continue to rock him back and forth while continuing her lullaby. "Mommy just needs to do something before daddy comes back, Ok?"

She continued her actions for a few more seconds until her baby stopped crying. She looked down expecting to see her son sleeping peacefully but instead she was greeted with him head up, wide awake and staring at her violet eyes with his blue ones. Kushina gave a silent laugh to her son and poked his whiskered cheek causing him to giggle a bit and grab her finger.

"Hehe…Seems that you also inherited your father's eyes but it seems you'll be stuck with my chubby face in return... If only you've gotten my red hair." Kushina said to herself before chucking a bit at the comment she made. "Sorry about that."

Baby Naruto just ignore his mother's words and continued to played with her finger until he eventually got tired and released it, closed his eyes and fell asleep in his mothers arms.

When she saw her baby finally sleeping Kushina quickly, but quitely, started walking towards the right side of the room until she stopped right in front of a blank wall. She adjusted herself so that her left arm was holding Naruto and her right arm was free. Placing her right hand on the wall she closed her eyes and focused her chakra, "Activate!"

She released what little amount of chakra she has left to activate the hidden seal; which thankfully only required the small amount. She opened her eyes but kept her hand on the wall until the seal would fully activate.

Glowing sealing arrays then started to spread and spin around the wall where kushina's hand was still placed on, they started spinning outward until they resemble a circle with a diameter of one meter. In the middle of the seal were more complex seals all intertwining with one another and spiraling outward until they reached the outline of the circle. Six magatama were placed around the circle along with other sealing arrays connecting them to the middle of the whole seal, one of the magatama glowed a faint orange.

The Uzumaki looked at the now activated seal and smiled; her left arm still holding Naruto and her right hand still stretched out in the middle of the giant seal key. Kushina's glad the whole activation only lasted 10 seconds and not longer. If one were to look closely they would see that the entire thing is not one seal but actually made up of tiny working seals. Every stroke, every curve, every line is made up tiny moving seals; all of them traveling at great speeds that it would take someone with a keen eye to even noticed they were moving in the first place. It's almost like the entire thing was a living being with the tiny moving seals acting like its blood cells and the middle its heart. Truly the work of a true Uzumaki Seal master.

"Almost done…" Kushina said in her mind. She turned her right hand clockwise and the result was instantaneous. The tiny seals completely stopped moving and the seal started to shrink in size until it was completely gone. Finally removing her hand from the wall, Kushina looked to her hand and saw the symbol of her clan imprinted on her palm with six magatama around it.

Kushina gave a relief smile at the sight. "It's done. Now t-" She didn't get to finish her thought before been grab from the side and somehow ending up outside a plain field surrounded by the forest's trees. When she turned her head she saw a tired Minato holding her and a now crying Naruto. A pissed of Nine-Tails could also be seen several meters behind them.

"Sorry about that Kushina….and sorry for waking you up, Naruto." Minato panted with a tired smile as he tried to calm the crying baby.

"Minato! What happened to the masked man?! Did you defeat him?!" Kushina asked.

"Can't explain… right now… can you… put up a barrier..." Minato asked tirelessly. "... please."

Kushina nodded as she summoned what little chakra she had left. Golden chains with kunai at their ends quickly erupted from her back and went to restrained the demon fox while at the same time creating a barrier around them to keep anything and anyone from entering or leaving.

"Alright Minato, quickly reseal the Nine-Tails back inside of me." Kushina said. Seeing the confused and shocking look her husband was giving her, she decided to explain, "I'm going to take the Nine-Tails down with me, we'll die together, that way we can prevent it from coming back for only for a little while. Giving you enough time to come up with a plan to stop it and raise Naruto."

Minato shook his head in response, "No Kushina, there's no need for you to die, because I figured out a way to stop the Nine-Tails." he solemnly said. "I'm going to make Naruto the hero who saved the Leaf Village. I'm going to seal half of the Nine-Tails chakra inside Naruto using the Reaper Death Seal."

Kushina eyes widened in shock and fear when she heard that, "Minato you can't use that jutsu! You know what will happen if you use it! The Shinigami will make it so your soul will never find peace and make you fight with the Nine-Tails for all eternity! Please why can't we just use my plan and save Naruto and the Village without going to such extreme measures?! Please Minato I don't want our son to have to carry such a heavy burden." Tears started falling from Kushina's eyes as she begged him not to do it. The though of her son suffering a lonely life without them to protect him only made the tears fall faster. "...Please don't do it."

"I can't." Minato looked at his wife with a sad smile, "Because even if we did go with your plan I could never forgive myself for letting you die, I wouldn't be able to live with myself knowing that. You already had the Nine Tails extracted from you so don't have a lot of time to live. The Nine-Tails will die yes, but what's to stop the same thing from happening again? That masked man will certainly wait till it's resurrected to control it and attempt to destroy the Leaf with it again. I'm sorry Kushina but we can't take that chance, this is the only way to insure something like that won't happen." He explained.

The red head only cried harder as she realized he is right. "This is the first time I lost an argument to you." She sobbed before chuckling a bit. "Proud of yourself?"

Minato chuckled lightly as he summon a sealing altar and placed the now sleeping Naruto on it. "First time for everything right?" He said before doing the necessary hand signs until he clasped his hands in a prayer like stance. A pale ghostly figure with horns, a blade on his mouth, beads in its hand and wearing white robes suddenly appeared behind him; but only Minato was able to see it, The Shinigami.

"I'm only going to seal the Yang-chakra inside Naruto that way he won't be influence by it's dark half." Minato explained before giving his a wife a smile. "Have faith in Naruto, he is our son after all and he is going to need the power of the Nine-Tails to protect the village and stop that man."

The Shinigami then extended its hand out of Minato's stomach and latched itself to the massive restrained Fox; ripping half of its chakra and sealing it inside the Fourth's Hokage's body. Minato grunted in pain at the feeling of having the demon's heavy chakra now within him. A sealing formula similar to the one Kushina had then appeared on his stomach.

The massive fox was now reduce to half its size after having half of itself taking away, causing some of the chains around his body to loosen. Seen an opportunity open up, the Nine-Tails roared ragefully and quickly went to the alter where the sleeping child was and attempted to kill him with its massive claws. "You're all fools if you believe I'm going to let you seal me inside some brat again!"

Only instead of killing the boy he ended up impaling Kushina and Minato; who jumped at the very moment they saw what he was about to do. They both manage to stop the claw from reaching Naruto, who was still sleeping peacefully. The Nine-Tail's claw only manage to make it a few inches away from touching the blond baby's face.

"Why'd you jump in, Kushina?" Minato painfully cough with blood running down his mouth, "You know it's a fathers duty to die for his son."

"Stop trying to act cool, Minato," Kushina painfully replied with a slight smirk and blood also running down her mouth, "You're forgetting that I'm his mother and that dying for him is also my role too, y'know."

Minato just shook his head and smiled at the answer only he knows she would give. "It's seems that even in the end we're both stubborn when it comes to this sort of stuff." He said.

Kushina couldn't help but slightly smirk but soon dropped it whe she quickly realizing something. "Minato, before you seal the rest of the Nine-Tails I need to give something to Naru-."

"Your going to give him the key to your clan's most guarded secret, aren't you?" Minato cut her off, already knowing what she was going to say before she even said it. "Is that right?"

Kushina quickly turned her head to look at Minato with wide shocked eyes, "H-How did you-"

"When I went to retrieve you at the safe house I noticed that you and Naruto weren't in the bed I left you both on." Minato answered, "I quickly realize you went to get the key you showed me a long time ago and were about to give it to Naruto, which I have to say was reckless of you to walk around in your condition holding our son after you just giving birth and had a tailed beast extracted out of you." Minato finished with a scold which caused his wife to look away and lower her head in shame and embarrassment.

"I'm sorry Minato," Kushina apologized with her head still down, "But you know I'm the only one capable of activating the seal and transferring it to Naruto. If I didn't do what I did then that seal would have stayed there forever without anyone knowing about it…without Naruto knowing about it. But I also did it because I believe he'll be able to figure out the meaning behind it and hopefully learn what secret my clan willingly died to protect."

Kushina then raised her head to look at Minato; determine fire reflecting of her violet orbs. "Like you said he's our son and I'm putting all my faith in him to find out what we couldn't just the same as you're putting your faith in him to protect the village from whatever is coming to destroy it. So if that makes me reckless; giving our son the means to find out what I couldn't then so be it. You know better than anyone else that I would have done it even if costs me my life." She stated with sheer determination.

Minato stared at his wife's determined face and eyes for a second before he gave her his trademark grin. "I knew there was a reason I married you, I'm not against the idea at all. There's no doubt in my mind that he will succeed in both of the tasks we're giving him. I know it won't be easy but if he's anything like the two of us then I know he won't stop until he succeeds." Minato said with absolute confidence in his sons ability.

Kushina stared at her husband's face for a moment before she did the only she can do in the situation, she cried. Except she shed tears of joy, joy of having fallen in love with a man who would never doubt her abilities, never leave her, never questioned her actions even if results with one or both of them getting hurt. A man who save her from her despair as a child and made her feel like she could do anything as long as he was by her side.

Kushina turned to their sleeping child and put her right hand on top of his small chest before closing her eyes. "Thank you, Minato. For making me your wife, for making me a mother and for everything else." She affectionately said with all her heart. She then felt a hand gently grasping on top of her own, she looked and saw it was Minato's; holding her as as they bid farewell to their son.

"No Kushina, it's me that should be thanking you, for making me this child's father and for helping me become Hokage. I couldn't have done any of those things without you at my side." He said as he proceed to execute the jutsu. "Now we should probably say our goodbyes to Naruto, we don't have much time left."

The Uzumaki then returned her eyes to her sleeping child, who sleept peacefully completely unaware and innocent of everything happening around him. "I love you Minato and..." Kushina sobbed harder trying to say her final words, "Goodbye Naruto. I'm sorry that we won't be there to protect you, to raise you, to be there with you but I'm leaving you with these words I always wanted to say to you the moment we first meet...I love you."

Minato also started to shed tears but kept his composure. "I love you too Kushina and.." He too closed his eyes and a small smile developed on his face with tears streaming down his face. "Goodbye Naruto. ..and like your mother I also wanted to say this...I'm sorry we won't be there for you but... I love you.." The Fourth Hokage then executed the jutsu. "...Now Eight Sign Seal."

Then everything was engulfed in a bright white light.

Well? What do you think? Come on people I need opinions, reactions, more opinions and everything else's people ask for. Just give me something!

Anyway if you haven't notice everything will be in English and before I get reviews and PM saying I should stop writing. Let me remind you that this is my story! My story! My Rules! You got that! Got a problem with it then save yourself the effort and click to another story that fulfills your criteria. I won't pretend like I know Japanese (No offense to those that actually do know Japanese, you guys have my utmost respect for mastering such a difficult language) because I don't know jack shit besides the usual: Sensei, Senpai, Onii-chan, Arigato, Gomen, Baka, Teme, Ano, MY NAKAMA, sugoi,daijoubu'OCHINCHINand the all so famous DESU and KAWAII. So yeah basically all the easy shit everyone already knows from watching pretty much any Anime. And yeah I would go to the NarutoWiki and get my jutsu translation and other crap from there but that will take freaking long, go ahead call me lazy. I'll have to switch In between The wiki searching for whatever I'm looking for and writing it down. Yeah I'm not doing that. I have limited time to write this story and do my real world stuff so cut me some slack. I can honestly say that the only Japanese I'll be using are the honorifics or sulfixes (whatever the hell you want to call them). So yeah the –kun,-chan and all that good stuff. And before you guys call me out I actually researched how to use the honorifics/sulfixes property aight. I'm still ignorant on how I use them but atleast I can humbly admit that I'm 1% less ignorant, ignorant still but 1% less.

Anyway if you're one of the people that skipped the top note and preceded to read and write an angry review saying how my story is shit then let me remind you that I'll be using some elements from Psycho G story, Sealed legacy. And before you accuse me of stealing I like to remind you that he gave me PERMISSION to use his ideas okay. Also I'll be using some other minor elements from other Anime. And when I say that I DON'T MEAN CHARACTERS OKAY. So no worries about this story having other people from other universes. We using Naruto-verse characters only.

Also here's a spoiler that will no doubt cause half of you guys to lose interest In this story, click away and fill my Inbox with hate mail, death threats and other stuff like how I'm unoriginal and crap.

This is NaruHina

Are you guys still here? Okay let me continue that yes this will be NaruHina. And the reason for it will be posted on my bio page when I have the time and motivation to actually put something on it. And before you go "Oh my freaking god! another NaruHina story,what's wrong with these dumb narutards and this pairings! That's it time to teach this guy a lesson by writing a shitty review on how his story will be complete and utter Shiet. HAHAHAHAHAHahahahahahahahahaha EAT SHIT TWINK XDXDXDXDXD" Let me tell you that yeah, you are right. this site is full of NaruHina stories and not the great ones either but once in awhile you'll encounter 1 or more that are just good, unfortunately I can't find alot of them. Although whether this fic could be consider "good" is up to you to decide.

And another spoiler warning is that no, Naruto will not have the almighty Purple eye of our lord and savior Masashi Kishimoto aka Rinnegan. Don't mind that people write stories of him having it but I just don't feel like doing something I think is overuse. Yeah that's right the guy who is writing his first story as naruhina is saying the Rinnegan is overuse. Sue me. But also because I want to try something different.

Anyway sorry for leaving such a long ass note but make sure to like, favorite, comment and subscribe if you want this story to continue. Also this is rated M for Mature for a good reason. And that reason starts with an L, and has an E and a N.

It's language alright so please don't get triggered when you see the words like: Fuck, shit and whatever other profanity you see, ok?

Oh and violence and blood. But not a crazy amount of blood or gore like some other people put in their stories. Basically if somebody gets stabbed then blood will come out, but not an entire fucking waterfall of it along with their organs.

Peace!