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Thank you, BoxingBunny, BloodCherry, for being cleaning this chapter up.

And thank you Whispering Kage for helping me with plunnies.

Prologue

To be Sealed

Hours before, Kushina had gone into labor. Hours before the Kyuubi no Kitsune's chakra flared up enough that nearly every country in the surrounding continent could feel the massive oppressive chakra with killing intent behind it. Now, so many hours later, after making a path of terror through Rock Country, Kyuubi was there in Konohagakure with every intention of utterly destroying the village.

Now, it was upon them, and he really had only one option, for the Shinigami to take his life so many years early, sacrifice the happiness of his children or the whole of Konoha would be destroyed and possibly all of Fire Country.

It wasn't an easy course of action but it was something he need, no, had to do. He looked down at the two small bundles that had been taken from their mother. From what the midwife had said Kushina was gone, passing away shortly after pushing their last child into the world, she'd told the twins that she loved them and would be watching over them. It was something he wasn't going to be able to do.

God, their children were beautiful, so much like their mother already. Both the twins got their looks from him, between the golden skin and bright blue eyes, he only hoped they would have their mothers spirit. Kagome, was going to be a dark beauty with that raven black hair very much like Minato's mother, while Naruto was like looking into an infantile mirror, that blonde hair was common in Namikaze males.

They were so beautiful, so full of life and he could only feel sorrow, he couldn't and wouldn't be there to see their first steps, the first words from their lips. The joy of summer and the first understanding of winter, he would miss all of it, if the rumors about this technique were true… Then he wouldn't even be allowed to watch over them.

A deep ache burrowed its way into his heart and mind as he looked at the two precious lives before him. "Alright little ones, know this, I love you more than you could know, and I'm sorry for what I'm about to do, so please if we ever meet in the afterlife. Understand my reasoning…" Minato trailed of as tears seemed to well in his eyes. It was time to go; his ninja's couldn't hold the beast off long enough.

"Minato you don't have to do this! Let me take your place," Sarutobi started, the village needed Minato, needed him more than one could think possible after the war with Kumo and Iwa. Minato had become a divine light in the dark times of despair.

"Sarutobi, you know you're not an expert with seals. If I want this done right and for them to come out alive, I must do this!" Minato interrupted, before pulling the small blue and yellow bundle closer to himself. "I… I need you to ensure that they have a good life Sarutobi. I know that many will view them badly for what is going to happen, but they will be heroes, they will contain and control the Kyuubi. Literally splitting the bijuu in half will make things easier on them… When this is all over, there is a will from Kushina and I for those who were precious to us. It will be hidden in the secret drawer," Those soft eyes darkened, "Goodbye, Sarutobi." And with a flash Minato was gone.

Sarutobi looked at the space were the forth last stood before him, those eyes were hurting with a type of pain he himself couldn't imagine. He wasn't sure if he could do the same, to give up his very children, but he knew when he returned home that night, he was going to hold his children close and thank the gods for giving him another day.

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Minato stared up at the monster. Looking toward the prepared circle, he set the two babes upon the empty place in the middle of the seal. He watched slightly surprised as the whimpering two-some immediately curled into each other, much like they had when settled in their mother's womb. Then the sealing began, hand seal after hand seal…Snake, Boar, Ram, Rabbit, Dog, Rat, Bird, Horse, Snake. A white glow seemed to cover the three of them just after it ended; all the while wisp after tendril of pure chakra was pulled from the mass of angry killing intent. Minutes seemed to pass as the Kyuubi was compacted into a large white mass of withering energy and consciousness.

Minato groaned in a pained way as a gentle tug began to pull his soul from its container. He wasn't finished yet. He just had to finish it. The great mass of chakra began to splinter, dividing into two significantly smaller masses of orange and blue. The blue chakra seemed to shimmer lightly before barreling into his daughter's stomach, making her cry out in pain. Seconds later, the orange globe did the same to his son. For a few brief seconds, a pattern appeared above the two crying children; it was a large circle with a part that was black with a white eye hovering over Kagome's still crying form while a mirrored white part with a black eye hovered over Naruto. Within seconds the pattern faded from sight much like the Forth Hokage of Konohagakure.

It would be several hours later, before anyone found the twins of the Hokage's, his cold body wrapped around the two in a protective embrace. It would be even longer before the two would be taken into Konohagakure for fear that they were going to become demons themselves.

Eventually things began to calm, days passed and the council continued to argue about what to do with the Namikaze twins. Some stated that they should be killed, they both housed parts of a demon in them, Danzo and some of the older members who were in seated positions wished for the children to be used as weapons for Konoha. On the other hand some clans that had been avid supporters of the Yondaime wanted to simply help raise the two, so that they would be happy and healthy like their father would have wanted, and others such like Kakashi and Jiraiya thought that the two children should be put with them.

It seemed as if there would be a war (in fact more than a few Kunai and low level jutsu went flying that night) until the will was read, stating that both Kushina and Minato wanted Kaede Namikaze the last female in the Namikaze line to take over watching their children, and yet they wanted both Kakashi and Jiraiya to take part in the two youngsters' lives.

And so it was decided that the older woman would indeed watch over the two youngsters, the council never knew that by allowing the two to have something of a normal childhood, they would change the ways of Konoha, forever.