I don't own Naruto.

WENT WRONG AND ENDED WRONG

"Yondaime. Step away from the Jinchuriki." A masked man demanded in a deep monotone voice while holding an infant against his torso, a hand hovering threateningly over its small head.

"Naruto!" Minato shouted, eyes wide in panic . 'H-How did he get passed the barrier?'

"Get away from the Jinchuriki." The masked man said, wiping out a kunai from his sleeve and held it close to the infant's throat. "Don't you care what what happens to your kid?" he added sinisterly.

"Wait! Just calm down!"

"Minato," the man chuckled in amusement. "I'm as cool as can be." The man responded calmly before throwing the crying infant into the air.

Minato narrowed his eyes and moved in a flash, catching his son before the man could plunge him with the kunai.

'As expected from the Yellow Flash of Konoha.' The man thought, eyeing the blond on the ceiling. 'But what about this?'

The masked man performed a quick hand seal, the sound of sizzling reaching Minato's ears the next second. He glanced down at his son and noticed several active paper bombs attached to the blanket.

"Naruto! Minato!" Kushina shouted from her place at the altar.

Minato never before in his life had he removed a piece of clothing so fast. He disappeared in a flash of light with his son in town. Unfortunately with Kushina nearby he had to take the bomb ridden blanket with him.

"Fast." the masked man hummed nonchalantly. He began making his way to Kushina. "No matter, now it's just the two of us."

The redhead glared daggers at the man, never feeling as helpless as she did now. Exhausted from both giving birth and keeping the Kyuubi at bay, there was no way Kushina can defend herself from this enemy.

Placing his hand on her head the masked man disappeared along with Kushina. The two reappeared on a rocky platform where the masked man wasted no time in retraining Kushina, tieing black chakra chains around her wrist and nearby rock pillars to keep the weaken Jinchuriki on her knees.

Kushina was breathing heavily and was on the verge of passing out but managed to focus her eyes down toward the masked man. "Why? What do you want?" she grounded out.

"I'm going to take the Kyuubi from you and destroy Konohagakure." the masked man stated bluntly in a monotone.

Violet widened disbelief. 'Destroy Konoha? Why?'

A quiet laugh broke Kushina from her thoughts. A Sharingan eye peered from the mask's small opening.

Fear griped her chest as the Uzumaki felt herself getting more and more lost in the red gaze before she finally ended up in a deep trance. She felt nothing, vision blurred with the three tomes. Despite her hazy mind Kushina managed to heard the beast within her roar.

The masked man's eye glowed brightly. "Now come out...KYUUBI!"

Kunshia's mouth opened in a silent scream as she felt the massive form of the Kyūbi forcibly and harshly ripped from her stomach. The chakra shot out into the sky, slowly forming ears, a muzzle filled with razor sharp teeth, arms and legs, and nine swinging tails. Now drained of the Kyūbi's chakra Kushina fell down limply with a thud.

The masked man watched the beast let out a menacing roar of freedom. "Good...now-"

Kushina rasped, struggling to get to her feet.

"Uzumaki shinobi are amazing." the masked man chuckled. "You don't die right away after the Tailed Beast is extracted."

The giant fox glanced at the down woman and growled.

"You were the Kyuubi's former host." the man stated, staring at the beast before turning his eye toward Kushina. "I'll use him to kill you."

Both never noticed a small part of the Nine-Tails' chakra separating from the rest and darted behind a rock pillar moments before the fox fully formed.

Which is why it the biggest surprise when suddenly a much smaller demon fox appeared in front of the masked man, ready to slash him in half.

Earlier

Deep in the subconscious of its host, the Kyuubi snarls in glee as he felt the seal weakening. Soon he will be granted his long awaited freedom. But there's just one problem; the masked Sharingan user. The blasted Uchiha stood in his way, with those damned ocular powers of his. Turning his blood red orbs below him the fox's expression changes to a grim one as he stares at its one chance at getting out of the seal.

"Get ready now, do not fail me." The fox spoke to a figure below the strongest Bijuu.

"I won't fail you." It spoke in a deep, flat voice. The Kyuubi's eyes widen as a odd sensation begins to overwhelm his mind. The Sharingan was trying to control him, and quickly succeeding.

"GO! KILL EVERYONE WHO THREATENS MY FREEDOM!" The Kyuubi roared in rage as his eyes began to gain three tomes.

Red eyes were shown on the figure which began to glow dangerously as three tails appeared and danced behind it.

The area distorted before both were pulled out of their prison.

Present

The masked man couldn't really comprehend what he was seeing through his doujutsu. Snapping out of his shocked daze the masked man quickly activates his powers and made his body intangible, the fox passing harmlessly through him. The fox, unprepared, crashes into the water from his momentum before quickly righting himself and snarls at his target.

The masked man jumped back to gain distance and to study his new attacker. His Sharingan glanced to the gigantic fox behind before focusing on the smaller one in confusion. "What is this?" he whispers.

The fox looked as large as a horse and appeared like a carbon-copy of the real one with orange fur and blood-red eyes. The real difference was the fox's drastically smaller size and three tails.

The smaller fox suddenly flickers from his view, causing the masked man to gasp at the creature's speed. Activating the power of his visual powers once again, the man's breath hitches when he already found a long furry arm going through his torso. The fox, better aware of the man's ability, instantly disappears in a burst of speed and tries attacking again with numerous slashes with its claws.

But it was all futile as the masked man takes this time to observe the demonic creature. 'I don't believe it.' He watches with his Sharingan as another swipe went through his head. 'A Kyuubi. . .spawn?'

The clone growls as it misses another strike and goes through the man once more and decides to try a different tactic. Jumping a distance and landing on all fours the clone's tails raises over until the tip is nearly touching its snout. The masked man gasps upon recognizing the stance just when the clone gathers a huge amount of chakra and shapes it into a small sphere at the base of its maw. Swallowing the compressed ball of chakra the fox's form seemed to shiver slightly as smoke trailed from its mouth. Then the clone opens its jaws wide as bright light emits from the mouth before a whirling explosion occurs as a beam of pure energy blasts straight toward the masked man.

The masked man grunts in annoyance before swinging his arm heavily, batting the attack to the side and sending the beam off course and leveling a large portion of forests grounds. Trees were incinerated instantly.

Meanwhile, off to the side, Kushina watched all the events with utter amazement. What she was seeing was surreal. A Kyuubi clone. She couldn't make heads or tails of it. Kushina gasps when she was suddenly lifted up by a pair of arms. She quickly relaxed once seeing the worried eyes of her husband. "Minato." the redhead smiles weakly.

The Fourth Hokage offers Kushina a smile as well before glancing at the ongoing fight between the masked man and the. . .Kyuubi? Blue eyes jerked to the large Bijuu before going back to the smaller fox. "What on Earth?" he mutters before quickly being pulled out of his musings by his wife.

"Where's Naruto?" Kushina asked, concerned for their newborn son.

"He's fine, I'll take you him right away." Minato informs before activating the seal to the Hiraishin, husband and wife vanishing in a flash.

The masked man grunted cradling his badly burnt arm. Even if this arm was made out of the cells of the First Hokage, it was foolish and reckless to stop an attack of that caliber in a rather physical manner in which he had. But he couldn't afford to over use his Sharingan, especially now-

The Kyuubi clone rushed at him again at that moment.

His Sharingan eye narrowed, anger rising. "You're becoming an annoyance!" The masked man hissed, his crimson eye locking onto the fox's own causing it to freeze in its tracks, caught off guard as the masked man ruthlessly took control of the fox's mind and will.

Slowly the clone's eyes gained three tomes, now bowing its head slightly.

The masked man breathed deeply as he had trouble controlling both demons at the same time. Exhaling, the man toward toward the clone, stopping a foot in front of the smaller demon. He scanned its whole body, to its feet, head, and its three tails, in amazement.

"I suppose I'll make use of you." His Sharingan morphed into that of the Mangekyou. "You are going to kill Minato Namikaze for me."

The air felt strange within Konohagakure no Sato. Like a sense of. . .foreboding. All the shinobi could feel it, even the children; they all just couldn't figure out who or what was causing such a sensation. Well, that was about to change as the masked man with the Sharingan landed silently in an empty street.

"Kuchiyose no Jutsu!"

The moment his palm slammed down on the ground sealed their fate. A large explosion of white smoke erupted, causing a slight panic among the villagers, thinking they were under attack. The smoke quickly cleared to show how right they truely are.

In the middle of the village, the size of a mountain, stood the strongest of the nine Bijuu. Teeth large as a grown man, claws big razor sharp and big as trees, nine massive tails danced behind the monster. Its shining red eyes glanced at the small humans before its feet.

"KYUUBI!"

After that one scream of terror the fox rears his head back and roars its arrival in Konoha. Hundreds of houses were quickly reduced to rubble as the Kyuubi simply sents its tails through them, dozens of people were stomped on like mere insects.

As the shinobi try to counterattack with ninjutsu the Kyuubi let them bounce off its massive form harmlessly and crushed the shinobi with one of its tails. When more shinobi advanced toward the demon the fox just released a challenging snarl.

This was the scene Minato found upon teleporting on top of the Hokage Monument, on his own stone face. His cold blue eyes shone with fury as he watched the chakra monster cause catastrophic to his beloved village.

"You will pay." he growled through his teeth as the image of the masked man appeared in his mind's eye.

Minato tensed when he felt a presence suddenly appeared behind him. Whirling around Minato managed to catch a glimpse of crimson before he felt something ram harshly against his side, sending flying off the monument.

Minato was flipping out of control through the air, his skull throbbing slightly. Noticing the ground quickly becoming too close for comfort Minato reached out and grasped on to the side of a roof, using his chakra and momentum Minato stopped his descend and spun himself on top of the roof. Landing on his feet the Fourth breathed deeply. Whatever hit him, had hit him hard.

Minato senses scream at to leap back, the whole building he was standing on a moment ago was destroyed to rubble as something crashed into it.

Minato landed on another roof and wasted no time to quickly whip out a three-pronged kunai, his narrowed eyes train in on the figure moving behind the dust cloud. Once it clear the Kyuubi's Clone stood on all fours snarling at his target.

The Fourth's eyes narrow further in confusion. "It's you. Why are you doing this?" Minato tried to speak to him but the clone just snarled before rearing his head back. Chakra quickly gathered around the fox's mouth and compressed into a large purple sphere. Minato went through several hand signs when the fox swallowed the sphere, steam flowing from its mouth.

"Not going to happen." He finished his task just when a beam of pure energy was blasted toward him.

"Hiraishin: Dōrai."

A giant seal formula formed in the air between the Fourth and the attack; the beam colliding against the barrier with a loud boom. Minato clenches his teeth from the pressure of the Bijūdama.

He ran more of his chakra through the seal, willing it to open up a small wormhole in space. The beam began to get smaller and smaller as it was sucked into the seal before disappearing fully. Minato focused on one of his seals for the Thunder God and teleports the beam to one of his markers.

A moment passed before a large explosion sounded a few miles away from the village, followed by a bright flash of light. Pausing Minato tries to think of a plan regarding the masked man, the Kyuubi's rampage, and his clone coming at him with claws at the ready-

Minato ducked under the swipe before delivering two hard punches to the fox's chest before spinning and roundhouse kicked the demon in the head. The clone was sent skidding across the roof before he dug his claws into the tiles, stopping his movement. The clone howled in rage, causing a shock wave to rock the building they were standing on.

Minato reacted in an instant and sent a three-pronged kunai flying at the fox. In a blink he had drilled a spirling ball of chakra into the creature's chest, sending it flying back. Minato sent another kunai twirling past the fox before appearing behind it with another chakra sphere, sending the fox flying across the roofs head-over heels. Another kunai was flicked over the fox's body that was spinning out of control in the air, Minato appearing before it once again, this time with two blue chakra spheres in each hand and slammed said spheres into the demon's body, bringing the clone back to planet Earth in a heavy crash from the powerful combo attacks.

With the Fourth Hokage a fight can end before it can even start.

Impassively Minato looked on as the dust settled from the crater. From within the fox was lying motionless on its stomach with large, bloody welts, and even bloodier drill-based puncture wounds framing its form. The wounds were healing at a steady but rapid rate before his very eyes, telling him this wasn't over.

The fox twitched before slowly moving to its feet. Tilting its head to look at Minato from a nearby roof the fox growled before making its way out of the sizable creator, its gaze never leaving Minato's. Once it crawled out it growled at Minato again, the growl growing into a loud roar of rage.

Without blinking Minato sent another kunai at the fox but the Kyuubi clone sent off a pulse of red chakra that resulted in a small shockwave, sending the kunai off course.

It was at that moment Minato realized that their battle hadn't gone unnoticed by the much larger demon fox. Minato cursed his situation when the Kyuubi turned his head in their direction, staring right at them.

At him.

"Dammit." Completely distracted by the two demon foxes as they edge toward him Minato was unprepared when he felt a hand grab his shoulder in a painful vice grip.

"It's over." A dark malevolent voice spoke in his ear before getting sucked through what felt like a typhoon head first. Desperately seeking his nearest marker Minato activated the Thunder God just in time to escape from the jutsu. The masked man grunts in irritation. "Yellow Flash."

Turning the clone he walks up to the fox who remained crouching on all fours. The masked man raised his hand but paused when the clone snarls at him, shaking its head as it tries to break off the masked man's control. It was succeeding alarmingly.

Sharingan narrowed the masked man forms a single hand seal and muttered. "Obey." A rough whining noise escaped the fox before his movements stop completely, now looking at the masked man with a dead stare; its wounds from Minato's deadly assault now healed.

"Good." Placing his hand on the head of the Kyuubi clone the masked man teleports the both of them away from the area, leaving the Kyuubi to continue its onslaught on the village.

Minato landed on the ground by one of his markers outside the village, wincing slightly as he stood up. Sadly, Minato had no time to compose himself as the enemy masked ninja with the Sharingan appeared before him once again via his worm, with the Kyuubi clone in town.

"Found you." The masked man said with dark amusement.

The Fourth raises his kunai and held it in a reversed grip, eyeing his two opponents. The one with the Sharingan was unlike anyone Minato ever encountered before. His abilities are unknown and unheard of, making him very dangerous. Especially if he could control the Kyuubi and moved the beast to the village so quickly without anyone noticing. The name Madara Uchiha crossed his mind before shooting it down. There's no way the founder of the village could be alive in this day and age. And yet...

"You're dangerous." Minato stated in a cold tone. "As Konoha's Fourth Hokage, I'll see to it that you're dealt with." Kunai held in front of ice blue eyes, Minato lowered his stance and got ready for the batte of his life.

The masked man breathed a laugh. "Tell it to the fox."

The ground beside the Sharingan user burst inward as the Kyuubi clone appeared directly above Minato, arm swinging down in an arc with intent to turn Minato into a bloody mess. The blond Hokage moved to the side as a clawed hand connected with the space he was standing moments ago.

Blue eyes widened as the earth caved in and a small shock wave whipped his hair around. The fox suddenly vanished from view, the Hokage losing sight of him for a moment before ducking under a clawed palm thrust from behind.

Quickly spinning on his heel Minato swung his arm to the right to stab the demon in the chest. Only for the fox to disappear again in another burst of speed just before the kunai could pierce him. Minato flicked his wrist, sending his kunai twirling above his head. In a flash Minato teleported to the marker and avoided another strike from the fox. Now above the demon Minato created a blue orb in his right hand.

"Rasengan!"

As Minato thrust the chakra sphere forward the Kyuubi clone slowly turned his head to face him. Minato's eyes widened when he saw a small black purplish ball in the mouth of the fox.

'Damn!'

It was too late to cancel his jutsu as the fox spat its attack at Minato. The Fourth's Rasengan made contact with the Kyuubi clone's mini-Bijūdama. The two deadly spheres of pure chakra grind against eachother for a moment, each side holding it own.

However, the pressure and the disability between the two techniques quickly became too much and a beam of light shot toward the sky before exploding outwards and envelop Minato and the Kyuubi clone in a dome of destructive power. On the sidelines, the masked man stood and took a nervous step back the explosion got too close for comfort. As the blast died down the man's Sharingan widened when a large crater was revealed after the light faded .

"Well now." he stated quietly at the near one hundred foot drop to the earth's core. His head snapped to the right when he heard a series of thumps and grunts coming from the direction of a nearby forest. Tree branches rustled as the grunts and growls became more louder and louder. And closer.

Suddenly Minato dashed out of a bush, the demonic canine right on his heels. The Fourth quickly spun on his heel and stuck with a knee into the clone's stomach. He then leaped back before the fox could swipe at him with his claws.

Minato jumped high into the air formed formed a single hand seal.

"Boom." he whispered.

The tag he placed on the fox moments ago exploded, the fox roaring in agony behind the huge clump of smoke. Minato wasn't done there as his hands blurred into another sequence for his next jutsu.

As he saw sight of the angry red eyes of the Kyuubi clone Minato muttered. "Kuchiyose: Yatai Kuzushi no Jutsu."

In a puff of smoke a huge green toad, twice the size of a building, emerged and dropped down right on top of the Kyuubi clone. Minato's feet settled on the ground and he gave his right arm a quick once over.

The entire sleave of his blue shirt was burned off up to the bicep. The arm itself supported minor burns across the surface. Not only that, but Minato felt the bone in his lower arm was very frail, cracked even.

The Fourth Hokage's eyes narrowed and shook his injured arm slightly when the large toad seemed to be having trouble keeping the fox down with its massive weight.

His eyes then widened when the fox roared and expelled a violent wave of red chakra powerful enough to send the toad flying back and disappear back to its own world. As soon as the summoned animal no longer bound him the fox appeared in front of Minato in a swirl of wind and went to slam its clawed hand on to the blonde's skull.

Tossing the kunai ten feet into the air with a mere flick of his wrist Minato flashed above the fox. He predicted the fox would go for another frontal assault so when he felt, rather than saw, the demon appear above his head. He waited at the last moment before twisting his body sharply in mid-air, dodging the fox's attempt to catch Minato's head with its jaws.

As the Kyuubi's clone passed his body twisted again several times to build up momentum and delivered a swift but powerful kick to the back of the canine's head. The fox was sent crashing to the ground below, debris kicking up from the impact.

The Kyuubi's clone growled and he stood back up to his feet, quicker than Minato had a anticipated and launched himself at the Fourth with a powerful push of his legs that indented the small crater even more. Such strength.

Minato reacted in time and dropped another three-pronged kunai, the weapon descending to the ground, and vanished in a golden flash to the marker before the Kyuubi clone could crash into him. Landing on the ground in a hunch Minato quickly leaped back to dodged another strike form the clone before sidestepping out of the way of an apparent shoulder tackle that would have knocked the breath out of his body.

A small victorious smirk grew on Minato face. The Fourth had placed a large number of destructive seals on the earth. He had set it up throughout the whole battle. And the Kyuubi clone was still well within range.

Forming the ram sign Minato activated the seals. Kanji suddenly appeared at the feet of the fox who snarled as they started to glow red. An explosion that rivaled a Bujuudama along with a burning inferno erupted around the fox. A dome of orange-red fire ended the fate of the Kyuubi's clone.

As Minato exhaled his breath hitches when he noticed the fires of the explosion were starting to shrink. Although, not out of dissipation. The Kyuubi's clone was...eating the flames. The fire swirling into his open maw as if it were a vacuum. Minato nearly backpedaled in a rare moment of shock. Once the last of the embers were devoured the fox his jaws snapped shut with a loud clang. The injures he sustained were healed in seconds before he raced toward Minato once again, slashing at him faster than ever.

Minato was forced on the defensive due to the fox's speed, getting very irritated for the fight lasting so long. Too long. It was time to change that.

"Kage Bunshin no Jutsu." Two Shadow Clones appeared on either side of the Fourth in the poof of smoke.

Twenty feet away from Minato's battle with the Kyuubi's clone, the masked man stood watching everything unfold. He frowned behind his mask from Minato's actions. 'What are you up to?' he thought, missing the sly glance Minato sent in his direction.

Minato and his clones shot off in an incredibly fast pace toward the demonic fox in a zig-zag formation. The trio of blondes encircled their target, the fox snarling in anger when one of them pull out a smoke bomb and threw on the ground in front of the demon.

A huge cloud of smoke instantly envelopes the fox and the three Minatos who wasted no time and took advantage of the fox's poor vision. With a three-pronged kunai in hand they repeatedly slash the demon across his body, again and again.

The Kyuubi's clone could do nothing but howl in utter rage and released a deadly pulse of chakra that blew Minato and his clones back, along with the smoke. The three blondes dig their heels into the ground until they came to a stop, watching impassively as the Kyuubi's clone growled fiercely at them; wounds quickly healing.

The fox stomped in their direction and Minato immediately flashed through five hand signs, his clones dashing to the left and to the right, flanking the fox.

'So, you're going to finish this.' the masked man mused, unaware of a black figure slithering close to his foot.

"Katon: Goukakyuu no Jutsu!"

A massive sphere of fire roared to life and raced toward the demonic fox who easily brushed the attack aside before consuming the flames at a rapid pace.

That's when Minato made his move.

On the clone's tail bone a white light glowed briefly. The masked man raised an eyebrow before his attention darted to the glowing kajin on his own leg.

'Hiraishin!'

It was instantaneous.

Minato's clones appeared on both sides of the demon, each drilling a Rasengan into its back and chest. The creature shrieked, harshly brought to the ground with an explosion of chakra occurring as a result.

But that wasn't the end of it.

A third Minato drop down from the air with another Rasengan, this one twice as big as the previous, and brought Minato it down on to the clone with another loud explosion of blue chakra, shaking the very battlefield from the power as the clone's howls echoed for miles.

Simultaneously the real Minato flashed in front of the masked man with a spiraling sphere of chakra already planted his gut, grilling and testing cloth and skin. The man with the Sharingan could only open his mouth in a silent scream as pain dominated his senses.

The signature jutsu of the Fourth Hokage sent him flying straight through a tree and craving a trench once landing, all the while spinning violently. Rolling to his feet the masked man didn't get a chance to breath before Minato drove an open palm into his gut with enough force to make his body nearly fold. He looked down to find that Minato had placed a seal array on him.

A fucking contract seal.

The Kyuubi. . .was no longer in his control.

It was over, just like that.

He had lost.

In Konoha

The ninja were doing everything they can to stall the Bijuu. They threw every weapon know to man at the beast; kuani, shuriken, swords, daggers, fuma shuriken, staffs, arrows, explosive tags, poison tags, electric tags tied to kunai. Everything.

They launched ninjutsu after ninjutsu; Fire, Earth, Wind, Water, and Lightning. Useless. They literally brushed off the beast. No harm. They barely gain its attention. Powerful combinations were used. Ineffective. The fox's movement was barely altered as it continued to rampage in the heart of Konohagakure. The strength of the strongest Bijuu was too great for the ninja to stand against.

Swaps of its hand-like paws cratered buildings to rubble and debris. Its large tails whipped around its gargantuan form continuously, carving the ground and leveling sections of the village just by their flowing, swinging, deadly dance. Each roar send a shock wave of pressured air and wind that enveloped and blasted all in its path into debris and destruction.

The Kyuubi was bringing the most powerful hidden village closer to his knees in minutes; effortlessly. Konoha was done for before the might of the great Kyuubi no Yoko.

The red eyes of the Sharingan glowed the brightest red as the fox suddenly reared back its massive head back, its large tails arching over its head before with the tips hovering over its large open maw.

The veteran shinobi knew that stance, fear and panic feeling their beings as negative and positive chakra gather to form a large purple ball of energy.

This was it.

There was absolutely nothing they can do to defend against a Bijuudama . They couldn't run or defend against this attack, they will be obliterated in an instant. This will be the end for them, for the village.

The fight in the them had disappeared as the sphere of power grew bigger and bigger, and closer to the mouth of the beast. There was no use even praying. The Kyuubi was done with its destructive assault, now the demon will wipe them off the map.

The fox was about to unleash the might of a Tailed Beast's most devastating attack with a flick of its tongue when it suddenly froze, all of its movement halting, as if stunned. The energy sphere pulsed before dissolving harmlessly into the air.

The fox lowered its head slowly, eyes closed, letting out a mighty exhale, causing a few buildings already on their last legs to come tumbling down.

The Kyuubi stood motionless for a moment before its massive head lifted up and two large red slited eyes snapped open, glowing an ominous red.

"Heh heh heh," the Kyuubi chuckled in dark amusement, the noise booming across the village.

It grinned widely, "Come little humans," Those blood eyes centered on the shinobi surrounding it, causing cold terror to fill their beings once more.

"Shall we continue?"

An enormous staff suddenly struck the Kyuubi's side with tremendous force, which was enough to push the giant beast through the East walls and away from the village. The Kyuubi regained its footing in no time and went to clamp its jaws around the staff with intent to snap it in two.

The staff quickly retracted and avoided the fox's jaws. The Kyuubi's eyes follow the staff as it continued to retract. When it finally stopped with the owner standing on the broken debris that was once part of the East wall. The Kyuubi snarled.

"You."

The Third Hokage stood tall and proud with his staff by his side. The staff was twice his height but the way the old man held it showed how comfortable he was in using it.

Sarutobi stepped forward with a steely glare at the monster fox. He bellowed, "HIDDEN LEAF SHINOBI DO NOT FALTER! WITH THE MIGHT OF OUR WILL OF FIRE THIS BEAST WILL FALL BEFORE THE GREATNESS OF OUR FLAMES! NOW STRIKE HIM DOWN!

The words from the veteran Hokage brought in a newfound vigor and strength in the shinobi. They charge at the Kyuubi with a loud war cry, the demon meeting them with a savage snarl in anticipation.

Sarutobi let out a low breath. He may have succeeded in driving the fox out of the village, but they'll only be able hold it back for so fox. The Kyuubi was simply too powerful. They would need a miracle.

'Minato,"

The Kyuubi roared, causing a massive shock wave to blow away many Konoha shinobi with the force of a hurricane. Its red eyes glowing in unrelenting rage.

'Where are you?'

A single Sharingan eye was burning a hole into a certain Hokage's head. The masked man had his jaw locked tightly with veins throbbing in his temple and the side of his neck in barely contained anger.

The skin on his abdomen was badly burnt and damaged from the drilling, whirling properties of the Rasengan. His stomach felt like it was on fire and his body felt heavy from the amount of pain he was feeling in his gut.

He was infuriated.

He had been so, so close. The plan he had been working on for years was in perfect motion, then just like that, it all came crashing down around him, in a flash.

It was utterly infuriating.

Minato glared at the injured masked man coldly. "It's over. The Kyuubi is no longer under your control and you're wounded. You have lost."

Under his mask the Sharingan user bared his teeth. "This is NOT over." he growled. His Sharingan morphed into that of his Mangekyou before a swirling vortex appeared and began to pull his entire body into the wormhole of distorted space.

Minato frown heavily as the masked man's last words rasp out, "I'm going to take over this world, and there are so many ways to go about doing it."

He had disappeared completely without a trace.

What an incredible space-time jutsu.

Minato could nothing about it now. He still had to deal with the Kyuubi. And take care of its clone.

He turned around with a cold resolve to end the creature once and for all.

The fox was struggling to stand, legs trembling as it barley managed to lift its torso off the ground, growling in anger and frustration.

Sensing his approach the demon fox turned its head and snarled at Minato, red eyes burning in an tenacious hatred, finally getting on all fours. It stomped challengingly at the blonde, ready to continue their fight despite its injured state. But Minato could see its injures were healing at a rather rapid pace right before his eyes.

Its legs have stopped trembling already.

Minato leaned forward to charge but froze when he felt an incredible pressure settling on his shoulders. He could sense a monstrous amount chakra being build up from distance.

He turned his head to the west.

Minato felt his eyes go wide.

"No."

In a heartbeat, in a blink, he was gone from the area. 'Everyone, I'm coming.'

A blur was all it was as it ran through the forest. The surrounding area was distorted in its eyes due the immense speed it traveled at. Red eyes stare sharply ahead; ignoring everything else.

A low growl bubbled out of its throat and picked up the pace.

A boom echoed across the area, a small whirlwind picking up and scattering leaves from branches. Some smaller trees were caught ablaze by simply passing them from the high-speed it was going.

The Kyuubi clone let out another low growl. The one with the blond hair was good.

While its injuries were all but healed by now the fox could still feel the lingering, fathom pain caused by that spiral-based technique drilled into its being.

That had hurt. The man was strong.

A fight between them could untimely result in its defeat if the fox wasn't careful. It couldn't afford to be destroyed yet.

The one with the Sharingan had put a damper on their agenda by seizing control over the Kyuubi the moment they were freed from the seal. Trying to kill him wasn't easy either, which had led to the clone falling under the masked man's spell as well. It was. . .angering to say the least. Being controlled like a puppet. It understood better why it was created; why the Kyuubi desires their annihilation.

It was also why the clone felt its presence would be more significant by being near the Kyuubi in case something that were to happen, humans have means to control them, after all.

And the one with the blonde hair was the biggest threat of them all.

If that Sharingan user hadn't interfered the blonde would have been dead already, caught complete unwariness by the clone bursting through the seal and slashing him in half. Just like that, it would have been over.

The conditions of its creation would of made sure of that.

When its host became pregnant the Kyuubi had come up with a plan to escape from its confines. During the final month of its jinchuuriki's pregnancy the Kyuubi clone was spawned by the original while the latter was still trapped in the seal. Up until the night of the birth the clone had possessed very little chakra, so its presence was undetected from any outside force. But that was the Kyuubi's aim; to keep anyone from finding out the existence of the clone.

With the birth in-process and with the seal weakening the perfect opportunity had arrived for the clone to slip past the seal and kill Minato while the blonde was heavily preoccupied with the whole process.

That was the plan.

It would've been quick and simple.

But that damned Sharingan user ruined it!

So. . .

The Kyuubi had to quickly improvise.

It gave up more of its chakra to the clone, granting it three tails of its strength. The Kyuubi would've gave more, but there hadn't been much time before failing under the masked man's control. And the clone had to improvise too once freed from its prison; kill the masked man; then kill Minato; then kill everyone.

Its red eyes gleamed when it finally caught sight of its creator.

Yes. The Sharingan user was gone, and Minato will be brutally ended.

When he at least expects it.

The clone put a halt to its run; digging its clawed-hands in the ground, craving a sizable trench in the Earth as it brought a stop to its monument.

It reared its head back before letting out a loud, savage roar which caught the attention of all the shinobi present.

Expression of shock adorned all their faces when they spotted it.

The Kyuubi grinned in a cruel fashion upon seeing its clone in one piece; very pleased.

The monstrous fox took advantage of the stunned shinobi and reared its large head back, quickly gathering a large, potent amount of energy into the center of its gaping maw.

Down on the ground Sarutobi took notice of the Kyuubi's actions. "Oh, no."

Before he could react a large sphere of powerful energy was formed, the fox looming with its wide open jaws, ready to swallow the sphere and unleash it upon them.

Meanwhile, the Kyuubi's clone just stood and waited. Its eyes caught sight of a low twinkle in the sky before zeroing in on what appeared to be a three-pronged kunai.

It snarled as a flash signaled the arrival of the owner not a millisecond later.

"Kuchiyose: Yatai Kuzushi no Jutsu!"

The next thing everyone knew a towering toad appeared over the nine-tailed Bijuu and crashed on top of its body, effectively pinning the demon fox to the ground.

The clone made its move.

It could see Minato stationed on top of the red toad's head, preparing another technique. It was going to finish this now while the blond-haired man was distracted. And fast.

Gathering chakra around its jaws the clone tensed its hind legs, the ground cracking from the pressure before exploding into the air. Soaring over Minato's head, about twelve feet above him the clone fired the newly made purple sphere.

Time seemed to have slowed as the sphere rocketed toward Minato. At the same time the Kyuubi snapped its jaws shut around its own sphere.

One second passed.

Minato could feel the enormous amount of chakra from both foxes about to erupt. The Kyuubi's form bloated while the Tailed Beast Bomb above its head neared closer to his position.

Another second passed.

On his way over here Minato had tried to formulate a plan to subdue the Kyuubi, and later, its clone as well. In time he would have come up with something. But he didn't.

There wasn't enough time to think. Things were going too fast. He had to act now.

He had to go by instinct.

And he had to protect everyone.

"Hiraishin."

In a blink he was gone with the Kyuubi no Yoko.

One moment all was quiet, in the next. . .

BOOOOOOOOM!

"Minato, what are you. . ." Sarutobi whispered, eyes fixed on the giant dome of light that erupted a few miles away from the distance. He watched the light die, a heavy, heavy silence occurring once more.

'Hiraishin,' he thought absently, 'You've saved us, Minato.'

"Such power. . ." Gamabuta rumbled, a scowl on his face after the light had died down completely. The giant toad turned and looked down at the Third Hokage, "Hiruzen-"

RAAAAWW!

Before the chief toad of Mount Myōboku could utter another word he was suddenly covered in a roar of fire, the flames completely surrounding him in an explosion of fire within mere moments.

The intense heat and pressure was enough to blow back the Third Hokage who had been standing too close to the giant summon. After quickly gaining his footing Hiruzen could do nothing but stare in horror as Gamabuta was lost in the giant fireball of the hellish flames.

The chief toad thrashed and bellowed in agony and his saving grace came in the form of a large burst of smoke that transported him back top his home world, Mount Myōboku, preventing the fireball from incinerating him at that moment.

After the toad had disappeared the flames quickly died away. Sarutobi caught the sound of a low, deep, angry growl.

The next thing he knew, five long gashes appeared on his torso in an explosion of blood, the force of the blow sending him rocketing backwards, through a large piece of debris before rolling to a stop.

The shinobi were stunned. "Lord Third!" Someone shouted before finding himself suddenly choking on something. Looking down he found that he throat had been savagely torn open, the skin ripped away until all that was left was his hanging voice box. The man gagged before falling limply to the ground, a pool of his own blood quickly forming around him.

A bloodied, clawed hand with orange fur then stomped on his head, the skull of the now dead shinobi caving in slightly as the Kyuubi clone stood over his corpse in all its glory, its eyes glowing an evil red with bloodlust. The shinobi felt fear gripped their hearts and drop into their stomachs when those bright, murderous eyes ran over every single one of them.

"As you can see," the demon spoke with a hint of amusement, "You're all going to be dead before you take your next breath."

It then disappeared in a show of speed to resume its massacre.

Meanwhile, Sarutobi was struggling to recover from the surprise blow he received from the demon. He managed to sit up and look down at his wounds with a pained, frustrated grimace. From his left shoulder, all the way near his left hip, were five crude, messy slashes through his skin from the claws of the creature that was currently picking off shinobi left and right in bloody fashions.

The former Hokage growled, "Dammit."

The creature was fast. It had caught him off guard. In his haste to get to Minato, Sarutobi had forgotten about the Kyuubi clone; a mistake he was heavily paying for as blood trekked down his wounds at an alarming rate.

The Third Hokage was kneeling now as he took a calming breath and set a concentrated amount of his chakra to his wounds. After less than twenty seconds the slash like wounds were reduced to scab-like states. It wasn't perfect but at least he had stopped the bleeding. For the most part.

He was hurt, but he can still fight.

Sarutobi narrowed his eyes in deadly resolve. He'll kill this creature; whatever the cost.

With his staff in hand he lunged at the fox. The clone saw him quickly approaching and rushed to meet him. A few shinobi tried to intervene but the fox's tails snapped out and violently push them aside, spending them colliding into raised debris and into their own brethren.

Sarutobi aimed a swiped over its head, the fox blocking the staff with one of its tails as Sarutobi quickly turned and struck out a side kick. Before it could connect the tail parried with the staff suddenly stretched to the side, the staff moving along with it which disrupted Sarutobi's balance enough for the fox to weave away from his leg. Sarutobi's eyes widened when the fox went to bite the outstretched limb.

Quickly twirling his staff Sarutobi stabbed it to the ground and used the solid hold to twist his leg away just in time before the fox's jaws clamped down on the limb with tremendous force. Twisting in mid-air again Sarutobi's foot clipped the fox's lower jaw sending its head to the side. The moment his feet touched the ground Sarutobi leaped back.

That was a mistake.

The fox recovered quicker than he had thought and wasn't prepared when two of its tails whipped out and snagged his feet and yanked.

Having his both his legs pulled from under him Sarutobi was left momentarily suspended, the fox looming over him with its mouth opened wide, an orange glow emitting from the back of its throat. Sarutobi widened his eyes when a torrent of fire came bearing down on him.

Suddenly, from his staff a large arm manifested and grabbed the fox's throat in an iron grip, forcibly steering the fox's head away from Sarutobi, the fire attack passing over him. However, the arm hadn't reacted fast enough and Sarutobi was nicked on the shoulder from the searing flames.

Another arm grew from the staff and gripped the fox's skull before slamming its head to the ground with great ferocity, brining its whole body on the its side.

With the clone dazed Sarutobi jumped back and gained considerable distance, wincing from the burn on his left shoulder.

He watched as his staff exploded in a cloud of smoke, revealing its true form: The Monkey King Enma.

"I'll wreath the life out of your very being demon!" Enma roared.

Possessing white fur and long unkempt white hair, long sideburns and a goatee, Enma wore a black suit with mesh armor underneath, over which a sleeveless kimono shirt with white fur trimmings; his long tail was also white.

As the Monkey King, Enma was a very strong summon that possessed immense strength, which Enma currently made great use of with the Kyuubi clone, the fox rolling along the ground in an effort to get the Monkey King off its throat. But Enma was determined on not letting go, rolling along with the fox while still squeezing harder, and harder.

Despite his summon keeping the fox grounded Sarutobi had no qualms that it wouldn't be long before the Kyuubi clone broke free of Enma's hold.

The fox may not be the real Kyuubi, holding only three tails, Sarutobi could see as clear as day that the fox was dangerous. And as big of a threat as the one with Minato. If this fox here was truly a clone of the Kyuubi then that made it, in a sense, a Tailed Beast; it couldn't be killed.

He had to seal it.

Right now.

Sarutobi began forming seals with a firm resolve, having faith that Minato will put a stop to the Kyuubi's reign of destruction and terror once and for all, and having faith that Konoha will be rebuilt, with new leaves blooming for years to come.

Even if he were no longer here to witness it.

RAAAAAAAWWWW!

A loud roar sounded causing Sarotobi to look up, only to find his summon flying straight at him. Performing a quick sidestep, Sarutobi managed to avoid Enma's large body from crashing into his own, which would've been a painful collision. The Monkey King came to a stop by flipping over and landing on his feet, wincing and snarling as he did so.

When the old man stole a glance at his state Enma shouted a warning, "Pay attention Saru! He's coming!"

Snapping back to the fox the Third Hokage's eyes widen when a purple sphere was already in the demon's mouth, ready to hurdle it at him. He quickly held his hand out to Enma who understood the gesture and jumped toward Sarutobi, transforming back into his staff form as he did so just as the clone sent its Bijuudama rocketing toward them.

Twirling the staff the second he caught it the Third Hokage let loose a mighty swing and send the sphere off course, the sphere sailing far off in the distance before detonated, vaporizing a large section of trees.

The Third Hokage let out a breath. If his Adamantine Staff wasn't as hard as diamond. . .

RAAAAAAWWWW!

The Kyuubi clone stomped in his direction, ready to charge him. Sarutobi readied himself, sliding into his stance with a cold expression.

For a brief moment everything was still. From the corner of his eyes Sarutobi could see a few of the remaining shinobi preparing their ninjutsu and weapons, readying to assist the old man in any, and every way possible. To the end.

The Third turned his eyes back to the demon and waited.

.

.

.

.

The clone dragged its front hand forward before becoming a blur of motion as it headed straight toward Sarutobi at a deadly speed.

Then it suddenly stopped; frozen completely like a statue in mid-step.

Sarutobi was utterly confused by the clone's actions, as were the surrounding shinobi. The old man blinked and could now see pure disbelief in its red eyes that were once glowing in animosity just moments ago.

Then, he felt it.

The constant, looming, threatening, negative, deadly, enormous, terrifying, enmity, powerful presence of the Kyuubi had just. . .vanished completely.

It took a second for him to realize the cause, 'Minato. . .you did it.' Minato had sealed the Kyuubi no Yoko into a vessel at last. He had won. The Kyuubi was gone.

Sarutobi blinked.

And. . .so was the clone.

Earlier

Far from the village resided a quite forest full of tall trees with the greenest of leafs anyone in their life would see in the Land of Fire. For the past couple of hours it had been dead silent. Mother Nature herself had sensing the dreadful, fearful, cold, malicious atmosphere that had been occurring a few miles away. All was silent to hide from the sense of terror, doom, and death in the air. All was motionless in an effort of the fates to keep that terrible force away from these peaceful forests.

Unfortunately, there are some things in the world that fate had absolutely no control over. Or, at the very least, never saw coming.

"Hiraishin."

In a blink, a flash, the serene changed; the very thing that made had Nature still and scared was now in the very center.

Minato found himself panting as he keeled with one harm wrapped around his wife, and the other wrapped securely around his infant son.

He manged to say between breaths."S-Sorry, Kushina. I had to take him out of the village quickly, and this was the only marker that was far enough." Minato took a glance at the monster fox looming over them, "Are you able to. . .?"

Kushina smiled tiredly at him, "Yes, I can still do it." Grunting in effort, Kushina summoned forth her Adamantine Sealing Chains, the durable chains sprouting from her back and quickly subduing the Kyuubi's movement, trapping its limbs and tails tightly with no chance of escape.

The Kyuubi tried to resist but could only growl in anger.

Kushina gasped at the strain from keeping the beast at bay with her current state. "O-Okay. Now what?"

"I. . .don't know." he said in a defeated tone. "Everything was happening too fast; alot of things were happening. I had to act, and I was hoping to. . .come up with something in the meantime. . .but I-"

"It's okay." Kushina smiled weakly. "I get it. All of this, it sucks."

A small chuckle escaped Minato's mouth, "Yeah. Big time." he offered her a small grin in amusement.

Silent reigned between the husband and wife, with the infant Naruto still tucked in the former's arm, sleeping soundly as his parents pondered on what to do with the massive tailed beast snarling at their backs as it continued to try and break free of its restrains.

"I could have it re-sealed into me." Kushina said.

Minato looked at her, conflicted, "Yes. But you could die this time, your body has been through enough trauma already."

"I know. If I die, then I'll be able to take the Kyuubi with me to my death. So it's okay. I can save everyone this way."

"No." Minato said firmly. "I can't lose you."

"Don't be selfish dammit! What other choice do we have? If you have any better ideas than tell me!" she snapped.

Minato gained a hurtful look, "Think about what you're doing, you'll be-"

"Saving you." Kushina then looked at the sleeping Naruto, an expression of pure fondness and affection adoring her face. "And our son."

She looked at her husband with a meaningful smile. "Thank you for everything you've given me, Minato. Since I've meant you, my life has been filled with nothing but happiness and love. You have become the light that led my heart out of the darkness that once plagued me from my burden as a host. You saved me. You became my whole world."

"I. . .I"ll never be able to repay all you've done for me, but right now. . .I can save you, and make sure you're alive to raise Naruto, to be there for me, to guide him and watch him grow up. If I must die tonight, then I will, in order to protect my family. I love you both so much."

"My only regret. . .is that I would not able do the same as you, and that is to watch Naruto grow up. It's okay though. I know you'll take good care of him, and shower him with that same love that made me feel so happy."

Minato couldn't stop the tears that leaked out of his eyes at the warm, loving smile Kushina was giving him. He felt his throat and chest constrict from all the emotions he was feeling.

"Come on Minato," she gave a little laugh, "you look like a cry baby." she chided.

Minato could only let the water run down his cheeks and offer a sad smile, "I know." he chuckled softly, "But I can't help it."

Kushina lost all amusement on her face, "It's time for you to go now, Minato." she whispered.

Minato felt his mind go into overdrive. This couldn't be the only way for this to end, there had to be another way, there had to be something else he could do to save the village and stop the Kyuubi.

'Think.'

Kushina sealing the Kyuubi inside herself to her death would only be a temporal solution. Even if she took the fox with her to the afterlife the beast would reform a few years from now. By then the fox could appear anywhere, and without a proper host ready for the sealing.

Time paused a moment as Minato finally began to think for rationally now, his mind speeding a mile a minute. There can't be no proper host for the Kyuubi, unless they possessed the Uzumaki bloodline. Their blood and special chakra were unlike any other shinobi clan in the world; their powerful genetics that allowed them long live and strong, durable bodies surpassing all.

They were born to house incredibly dense chakra such as the nine-tailed beast.

His eyes drifted to the snoozing baby in his arms.

'Uzumaki blood.'

Immediately, conflicting thoughts almost over came him before he forcibly banished them from his mind. Naruto, his own son, would be perfect. However, his small body was too small to handle the full throttle of the Kyuubi's power.

'But maybe he didn't have to.'

His eyes gained a gleam with newfound hope as an idea began formed in his head. Images of the masked man passed his mind's eye, serving to strengthen his quickly resolve in his decision.

Two birds, one stone.

The image of the Kyuubi's clone roared to life before his vision. 'Lord Third, I'll leave him to you.'

'Uzumaki blood, the dangerous masked Uchiha. You are the best solution, Naruto, my son. I know you can face the burden I'm about to place on you. With the power of the Kyuubi, Naruto, I know you'll do great things. You'll protect Konoha, and defeat that man, and protect the world.'

He smiled. 'I know you can, because you are my son. I believe in you, Naruto. I love you. And I'm sorry.'

He turned to Kushina, "Listen. . ."

Present

The Kyuubi Clone ran face first into the barrier, not having noticed it due to the speed it was traveling at. Recovering instantly the fox began clawing at the near invisible barrier, the clone's anger increasing each passing second. The clone snarled in fury before jumping back and prepared to fire off a Tailed Beast Bomb.

Suddenly, the barrier dissolved like shattered ice.

The clone rushed onward without a thought, not wasting anymore time. Something was very, very wrong. The clone had been so distracted by the other shinobi that it'd forgotten about Minato. And now the fox could no longer sense its original, and that could only mean. . .

The clone came to a stop to a terrible sight.

'No.'

Minato lied lifeless on the ground, his wife, the former host, lied beside the blond. They were both covered in blood; large gaping holes were present where their stomachs would be. They were not moving at all. They were dead.

But the clone's attention was directed somewhere else entirely.

Red eyes were locked onto what appeared to be a ceremonial bed; a crib; more specifically, the infant that was asleep inside the crib. The fox let out a growl of disbelief, sounding more like a moan, its eyes catching sight of a seal array around the infant's stomach.

The fox's wide eyes slowly narrowed, before becoming unnaturally wide in rage.

A strong burst of killing intent suddenly flooded the area, causing the baby to awaken and release a cry of distress. The Kyuubi clone stalked toward the crying infant, growling and snarling and snapping its teeth in rage, stepping over the body of the baby's father and now loomed over the infant, red eyes burning crimson.

The clone was releasing a spike of chakra of great ferocity, the energy responding to its anger as the potency cracked the very ground it stood on. It growled loudly. Now that the fox stood within such close proximity of the child, it could sense the presence of the Kyuubi.

There was no doubt.

This human child. . .was the new host. The Kyuubi was sealed inside him; its original was sealed inside the infant.

The Kyuubi's clone trembled.

.

'Those.

.

Damn.

.

Motherfucking.

.

Piece of shit HUMANS!'

The Kyuubi's clone howled, reeling its arm back with claws poised to shred and maul. The clawed hand was brought down heavily, and all the fox could see next was red.

Sarutobi was running through the trees as fast as he could. His lungs burned and his leg muscles strained badly but he didn't let up his pace, not even a little, he couldn't afford to. He had to get there as soon as possible. He had to get there now.

If Minato had done what he think he did. . .

And if the Kyuubi clone got there first. . .

Kami, just let him make it in time!

Hiruzen burst through the trees and into a large clearing, only to come to a complete stop at the sight before him.

Minato and Kushina lied dead on the ground, covered in blood and dirt, defeated. Hiruzen then quickly ran his eyes through the rest of the area and saw no signs of the clone. With a heavy heart his eyes lingered on to the empty, ceremonial crib; noting the blood stains on the inside, and no baby. . .

The former Hokage couldn't stop the tears that gathered in his eyes as he walked toward their bodies, other shinobi trailing behind him in sober silence.

Hiruzen stood over the fallen Yondaime and keeled by his body, soft, heavy eyes trailing over the large hole in his stomach, and then to the large, claw-like cuts to his throat.

He bowed his head, "I'm sorry I couldn't get here sooner. I am so, so sorry." he whispered. "I'm sorry I couldn't save your child."

Minato had saved Konoha from the Kyuubi by sacrificing his own new born, he had done his part, but Sarutobi failed to do his. He wasn't able to defeat the clone, because of that he had failed Minato, he had failed Kushina, and worst of all, he had failed their sacrifice to the village; their legacy.

If he had been stronger, faster, he could have made it in time to stop the clone and save that innocent little life.

If only he could. . .

"T-Third." A soft, weak voice called.

Sarutobi snapped his head over to the sound to find two jounin sitting up a very pale, barely alive Kushina Uzumaki.

"Kushina!" he exclaimed in surprise before quickly making his way in front of her. However, the moment of happiness and relief disappeared when he took a close up look at the severity of her condition, and her injury.

Sarutobi looked at her face and the former Hokage could tell that Kushina had only moments before she joined her husband in death. Her eyes were bleary and grey; she was only managing to hang on by a mere thread.

"Kushina," he whispered, his eyes soft and full of regret, "I'm sorry. Please forgive this foolish old man, for not being able to save you and your family."

"Third," Kushina said with a rasp, "You don't understand. Minato, he. . .he. . ." Her voice lowered to a whispered and Hiruzen quickly moved his near her shoulder with his ear facing her mouth.

"He what Kushina?" The old man could tell that what the dying redhead was trying to tell him was important. And she was determined to tell him with her dying breath. "Kushina," he pressed gently, "What are you trying to tell me?"

"When Minato sensed the other fox coming here, incase it tried to kill Naruto, Minato, after. . .after sealing the Kyuubi. . .he. . ."

Kushina silently whispered the cause of her concern to Sarutobi. By the time she finished, the old man had his eyes wide in disbelief, slowly moving back to reveal his face filled with shock.

"Kushina," he breathed, bewildered, "Are you sure?"

The woman gave him one last smile. "His name is Naruto. . .named after the hero in. . .Jiraiya-sensei's book; Naruto Uzumaki."

With that, Kushina's eyes lids closed for the last time, leaving Hiruzen still stunned and horrified at the revelation concerning the fate of her son, and the Kyuubi's clone.

1 hour later

"WAAAHH! WAAAHH!"

A clawed hand lowered the screaming infant to the ground before pulling back, the clawed fingers curling as a deadly snarl erupted from the owner, and the appendage was brought down swiftly.

Red.

Again.

Red.

And again.

Red.

. . .

"DAMN YOU YONDAIME!"

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