Tales of Shippuden

A/N: This is a Naruto/Tales of Symphonia crossover that I've thought of for quite a while and just like in my other story Dragon Ball Shippuden the different jutsus will be in Japanese unless it's a jutsu that I've come up whit and I don't know the Japanese name for, also the techniques from the Tales of series will be in English. One more thing, in this story forget everything you know about the Akatsuki! Now read and enjoy.

"Chosen One" Normal speech

'Chosen One' Normal thought

"Chosen One" Biju and Summoning speech

'Chosen One' Biju and Summoning thought

Disclaimer: I don't own Naruto or Tales of Symphonia

Prologue

Once upon a time.

There existed a giant tree that was the source of chakra.

A war, however, caused this tree to wither away, and a hero's life was sacrificed in order to take its place.

Grieving for the loss, the goddess disappeared unto the heavens.

The goddess left the angels with this edict:

"You must wake me, for if I shall sleep, the world shall be destroyed."

The angels bore the Chosen One, who headed towards the tower that reached up unto the heavens.

And that marked the beginning of the regeneration of the world.

Somewhere in a cave was a man wearing a yellow mask with a single eyehole in it reading on an ancient tablet before saying to himself "But, after the last Chosen One to succeed, succeeded 2,000 years ago the people of the world have slowly forgotten. And now only a few knows of this story." Suddenly he looks up from the tablet as though he just noticed something and he puts on a black cloak before he seemingly gets sucked into his own eye.

In a cave just outside the great village of Konohagakure could screams of pain be heard before their suddenly replaced by the crying of a newborn baby. An elderly woman picked the baby up while wrapping him in a blanket, not noticing the small red crystal in the child's hands.

"It's a healthy baby boy." The woman said before showing the baby to his mother while a man with blond hair was crying tears of joy and said "Ha ha…I'm a father now."

"Naruto…we finally meet." The child's mother said as she saw her son for the first time.

The man then walk over to his wife, placed his hands over a seal on her stomach and said "All right, Kushina. It's rough having just given birth…but we need to completely suppress Kyubi again."

"Yeah…" The woman, now identified as Kushina said before they suddenly heard a couple of screams. And they looked towards were the screams came from just in time to see the elderly woman and her assistant fall to the ground.

"Biwako-sama, Taji-san!" the man yelled as he noticed a masked man, standing over the two dead bodies and holding Naruto in his arms.

The masked man noticed the red crystal in Naruto's hand, picked it up and thought 'A Cruxis Crystal.' He then noticed the seal on Kushina's stomach and thought 'She's a Jinchuriki, this might work.'

He then put the sharp end of the Cruxis Crystal to Naruto's throat and said "Yondaime Hokage Minato…step away from the Jinchuriki. Or else this child will die after its first minute."

'How did he get past the barrier? Who is he?' Minato wondered as he tried to figure out what to do. Suddenly the sealing marks on Kushina started to spread out over her entire body, indicating that the Kyubi's seal was weakening.

"Kushina!" 'Kyubi's seal isn't…!'

"Hurry and step away from the Jinchuriki…don't you care what happens to your brat?"

"Wait…stay calm." Minato said, still trying to figure out what to do.

"Speak for yourself. I'm supremely calm, Minato." The masked man the suddenly threw Naruto into the air and as he came falling back down Kushina yelled "Naruto!"

But before the masked man could stab the child, Minato disappeared in a flash of yellow, grabbed Naruto and landed on the wall, using his chakra to stick to it.

"Leave it to the yellow flash…but what about next?" Minato then noticed several explosive tags attached to Naruto's blanket and he then yanked the blanket of while simultaneously doing his trademark jutsu, the Hirashin no Jutsu.

Minato and Naruto then reappeared just outside of a house which then blew up since Minato had left the blanket inside.

Minato let out a sigh of relief before saying "Naruto's not hurt." He then took out a piece of wood from the house that had imbedded itself in his leg.

'He forced me to use the Hirashin no Jutsu. His target was Kushina…he separated us. Gotta hurry.' He thought before using the Hirashin to get back home.

Meanwhile somewhere else outside the village was Kushina standing on a rock that was in the middle of a pond, surrounded by four taller rocks. She was unable to move thanks to the sealing marks that had stretched out to the other four rocks, making it look like she's in chains. (A/N: Yeah I know I suck at describing stuff like this.)

"What…do you want?"

"I'm going to extract Kyubi from you and crush Konoha." The masked man lied.

"What…?" Kushina said in disbelief.

"Minato's Hirashin no Jutsu allows him to transport between locations marked with jutsu symbols. The markings are incorporated into this sealing spell. Minato can protect you at all times. But he is far away right now. Kyubi's seal has weakened due to childbirth. Do you know how long I have waited for this?" Just then Kushina sees the man's eye, which is red with three black comma like marks in it, the Sharingan.

Meanwhile in Minato and Kushina's house was Minato just laying Naruto on the bed while saying "You'll be safe here. Please be patient, Naruto. I have to rescue your mother."

"Now…come on out, Kyubi." Suddenly, a giant nine tailed fox with orange fur came out of Kushina's body as it let out a triumphant roar.

Kushina slumped over on the rock she was on as the masked man said "Good…to Konohagakure." Kushina then looked toward the man and said "Wait."

"You Uzumaki shinobi are simply amazing…you don't die right away when the Biju is extracted? You were his Jinchuriki…I'll let you die by his hand." Kyubi then raised his arm and slammed it down on the red haired woman.

Luckily Minato had gotten to her in time as he appeared atop a tree with Kushina in his arms.

"You really are a flash…but you're too late."

"Minato…Naruto…is Naruto…all right?" Kushina asked weakly.

"Yeah…he's fine…he's in a safe place right now."

"Oh, good…Minato…stop that man and Kyubi…they're planning to hit Konoha." She said before they disappeared and the masked man said "He flew away…that's fine…now let's get to Konoha."

Throughout the village could many shinobi sense that there was something wrong, but no one could ever have imagined what was about to happen as the masked man got into the village, bit his thumb, weaved several hand signs, slammed his hands down on the ground and said "Kuchiyose no Jutsu."

Suddenly the giant nine tailed demon appeared in the middle of the village as it started attacking on the masked man's orders.

All high ranking shinobi immediately went to engage the demon, but they didn't stand a chance. Suddenly Minato, wearing his jonin vest and Kage robes appeared atop his face on the Hokage monument. "Noticed me?"

Kyubi then created a black sphere of chakra as Minato went through several hand signs while saying "I won't let you destroy this spot." Before the sphere was launched towards him.

Just as the sphere of chakra nears the Hokage monument, it suddenly disappears, before reappearing and exploding on the other side of the mountains.

'With this much power, I've got to carefully choose where I redirect his attacks. I've got to alert Sandaime-sama right away about what's going on.' He then noticed that the masked man was behind him and he quickly turned around intending to stab his kunai threw the man's head, but both Minato's kunai and his arm went straight through the man as though he wasn't there.

As soon as Minato's arm and kunai have completely passed through the man, he quickly materialized, grabbed Minato's arm and tried to suck Minato into his eye, but Minato was able to get away and back to where the destroyed house from earlier was.

'My attack passed right through him…a moment later, he made himself solid and tried to pull me inside of him…what was that jutsu?' Minato thought just before the masked man appeared in front of him.

"You shall not escape."

'He uses space-time ninjutsu too? So that's how he was able to grab Kushina and move so quickly. He managed to defeat the ANBU directly assigned to Sandaime-sama. Get past the highest level classified barrier. Knew that Kyubi's seal would weaken during childbirth. Plus was able to unravel Kyubi's seal, tame him. And slip in and out of konoha's barrier without triggering any alarms. As far as I know, there is only one shinobi who can do all that.' "Are you Uchiha Madara?" Minato asked as the man, now identified as Madara removed his hood.

"But no…it's not possible…he's dead."

"Hmm…I wonder about that."

"In the end it doesn't matter who you are…but why attack Konoha?" Minato wondered

"It seems…whimsical…but also somewhat planned. For the sake of the world's regeneration." Madara said as he held up the Cruxis Crystal.

'The world's regeneration? What is he talking about?' Just then as Minato looked at the crystal in Madara's hand, he remembered where and how the man had gotten it 'That crystal, he took it from Naruto, but where did Naruto get it?'

"Where did that crystal come from?" Minato asked.

"Your son was holding it when he was born and I took it from him so that I may return it to him when he's older."

"What are you babbling about?"

"I originally came here to protect the next Chosen One and fate simply smiled upon me when I noticed that his mother was a Jinchuriki." Madara said, confusing Minato even more.

'Chosen One? What is that supposed to mean?' Minato wondered before saying "What makes you think that Naruto is this…Chosen One?"

"When the Chosen One is born, the Angels give him a powerful stone called a Cruxis Crystal." Madara said before suddenly vanishing while saying "Now hurry and put Kyubi inside your son, so that the Chosen One can finally succeed in his quest for the first time in 2,000 years and save the world from declining."

Meanwhile had the Konoha shinobi just managed to get Kyubi out of the village, but he suddenly charged up another black sphere of chakra, but just before he could fire a large toad that Minato had summoned fell down on him, but the chakra sphere was still there and it was aiming straight at the Sandaime and the village behind him. However, just before the demon could fire, he disappeared just before a large explosion could be seen in the distance.

Minato and Kyubi had reappeared with the house and Minato had also managed to save Kushina and Naruto before the house got blown up.

"I've got to erect a barrier right away." Minato said before he realized something 'But not much chakra left.'

"I can still…do it… Minato." Kushina said before chains made out of chakra suddenly came out of her body and pinned Kyubi to the ground while also forming a barrier around them.

Suddenly Naruto start crying as Kushina said "Whoops…woke him up. Sorry…Naruto."

"Kushina."

"I'll take…Kyubi with me…to my death… so that…the interval until he…emerges again…is delayed. It's all I can manage right now, with my remaining chakra, to help you two. Thank you…for everything up 'till now."

"Kushina…you're the one…who made me Yondaime Hokage. Who made me your man. And made me this child's father. And yet I'm useless." Minato said.

"Minato…don't look so sad. I-I'm happy…I'm…you love me…plus…today…is the child's birthday…so. Most of all…if…I…were to imagine…me alive, and our future…together, as a family of three…then…I can't see us… being anything but happy. If I were allowed…just one…regret…I wish I could have seen Naruto…grow up." Kushina said before Minato got an idea.

"Kushina…there's no need for you to die to kill Kyubi. Preserve what little of your chakra remains for your reunion with Naruto. I'm going to seal rest of your chakra inside Naruto. It'll be part of a trigram seal. And then I'll take Kyubi with me…with the sealing jutsu that I can do, not being a Jinchuriki…the Shikifujin."

"But…that jutsu results in the casters death." Kushina protested before Minato continued "Furthermore…I'm only going to seal away half of Kyubi. Partly because it's physically impossible to seal such a large volume of power, but also because it's not strategically wise. If you take Kyubi with you, there will be no Jinchuriki until he reemerges and the Biju balance will be upset, which isn't good. With the Shikifujin, we can at least seal away half of Kyubi forever. And the other half…"

Minato then remembered something that his sensei, Jiraya once said.

Flashback

"Perhaps…you're the child of prophecy." Jiraya said

"Huh? The what?"

"In the future…terrible things are likely to befall the shinobi world. And the savior that shall emerge is this child of prophecy.

End flashback

Minato then recalled what Madara had told him.

Another flashback

"When the Chosen One is born, the Angels give him a powerful stone called a Cruxis Crystal." Madara said before suddenly vanishing while saying "Now hurry and put Kyubi inside your son, so that the Chosen One can finally succeed in his quest for the first time in 2,000 years and save the world from declining."

End flashback

"…I'm gonna seal inside Naruto. Using the trigram seal. I know what you're going to say…but remember what Jiraya-sensei said about world upheaval and the calamities that will accompany that. I have a feeling that this child will be the child of prophecy that he mentioned. He will open up the future as a Jinchuriki. I don't know how, but I'm sure of it." Minato finished.

"But…Minato." Kushina said, but before she could continue, Minato had already made the necessary hand signs for the Shikifujin.

"Let's believe in this child. He is our son, after all." Minato said as the god of death appeared behind him.

"After this Shikifujin, I'm going to seal your chakra inside Naruto. You won't have a lot of time to spend with grown-up Naruto, but I want you to help him when he tries to control Kyubi's power as a Jinchuriki."

"He's our son. Which is exactly why…I don't want him to bear such…a heavy burden." Kushina said as Minato looked down on her before she continued "But why…the Shikifujin? There's no need…for you to die…just so I can meet grown-up Naruto…especially for so short a time. I'd rather you stayed with Naruto…and watched over his development…see. Why does Naruto have to be sacrificed for the Biju balance…for country…for village? And why do you have to sacrifice yourself for my sake?"

"To forsake one's country…and one's village…is the same as forsaking ones child. You whose birth nation is no more ought to know that too well, no? How harsh life is for those without a land to call home. Besides which, our family is Shinobi. Finally…even if I were to live, I'd lose out to you."

Minato then got down on his knees as he continued "Even though you won't have much time with him… there's something only you can tell Naruto, something that I can't, that's a mother's role. So I'm not doing this just for you…I'm doing it for Naruto. I will die for my son…it is my duty as his father."

He then stood up as an arm suddenly shot out of him and hit Kyubi's leg as the gigantic fox thought 'You. Yondaime Hokage.'

"Seal." Minato said as half of Kyubi's chakra got ripped out of the large fox and went straight into the Yondaime.

Minato then summoned what looked like some sort of alter while saying "All right…now for the trigram seal, to seal the rest of Kyubi inside Naruto."

'A ritual alter. He's planning to seal me again? Not inside that baby.' Kyubi thought as he was still struggling to get out of the chakra chain's hold while Minato put Naruto down on the alter.

Suddenly Kushina started coughing and her hold on the huge fox weakened and Kyubi saw his chance and thrusted his foot forward to try and kill the newborn child, but Minato and Kushina got in way of his claw and got stabbed by it just in time to save Naruto.

From a distance atop a tree, Madara was watching everything that was happening "Now it's only a matter of time before the chosen's journey will begin." He said as he held up the Cruxis Crystal in front of himself and looked at it through the one hole in his mask.

Chapter preview

Zetsu "Hello, Chosen One."

Naruto "Wh-who are you?"

Zetsu "We are Akatsuki no Zetsu. And we have been assigned to bring you to the Martel temple."

Zetsu "Next time on Tales of Shippuden: The Martel temple

Character status

Minato: level: 40

Techniques: Rasengan, Hirashin, Shikifujin, Keiyaku fuin, Hakke no fuin shiki, Shisho fuin, Jikukan kekkai, Kuchiyose, Kuchiyose: Yatai Kuzushi.

Weapons: special kunai.

Kushina: level: 45

Techniques: Chakra chains, Chakra chains barrier.

Weapons: none

Kekkei Genkai: Chakra chains.

Madara: level: 40

Techniques: Doton: Moguragakure, Genjutsu: Sharingan, Izanagi, Jikukan ido, Kuchiyose.

Weapons: none

Kekkei Genkai: Sharingan.

Kyubi: level: 200

Techniques: Bijudama.

Weapons: none

A/N: Not exactly the shortest prologue, but I hope it didn't get to boring. Also in order to make sure that I got as much as possible right, I read through the manga while writing this. Also the Chosen One is always born into the Uzumaki clan, so the Martel temple is somewhere near Uzushiogakure. It might be a while till I'll update this story since I've got seven other stories to work on.