Welcome to Namikaze Naruto: Son of the Kiiroi Senkō

This story is about what Naruto's life would have been like had Minato handled the Kyūbi differently. How would Naruto's life differ if instead of living in the shadow of his burden, he was in the shadow of his legendary father?

Chapter 1: Prologue

'Today is finally the day.' Thought Minato excitedly. After nine months of waiting and preparing, today was the day the love of his life would birth his son, Naruto. He couldn't wait to meet his son, to teach and guide him and he knew that Kushina felt the same.

Naruto couldn't be coming at a better time, the Third Shinobi World War came to an end a few months before Kushina became pregnant and it is a much safer time to raise a child. Granted life as Hokage was anything but calm, with all the meetings and late nights at the office, Minato only had a few hours of free time usually, but he would rather be busy than fighting a war.

Kushina mirrored his thoughts and was glowing with joy, family had always been important to her and the thought of raising her own made it hard for her not to constantly be happy, which in turn made Minato even happier. News of Kushina's pregnancy was kept relatively quite in the village only the elders, the Sandiame and trusted Jōnin knew about it. Despite both parents happiness at having a child and wanting to have a huge celebration, they had to take into account that Kushina is the Jinchūriki of the Kyūbi and that they needed to handle her labor with care.

Minato shook off the sleep and went to get ready, today he would be home with Kushina but they were going to get everything prepared for later. He needs to make the preparations for the barriers and find a team of ANBU to guard the spot. Sarutobi-sama suggested that they have the baby outside of the village walls incase something were to happen and he agreed with his predecessor.

Minato put on his blue jumpsuit and tapped his shins before putting on his flak jacket then his favorite piece of clothing, his white haori with flames at the bottom. For ceremony, Minato wears the traditional Hokage robes but for day to day Minato prefers the haori since it doesn't restrict movement and it looks badass.

Now fully dressed Minato walked into the kitchen to see Kushina in her orange shirt, sweatpants and her pink slippers cooking breakfast with a smile on her face. She loves cooking and she loves to hear how good her food is, and she's never disappointed when it comes to her husband and hopefully her son as well soon.

"Morning Kushina, morning Naruto." Greeted Minato hugging Kushina from behind and rubbing he large belly to greet Naruto. Kushina smiled and put her hand over Minato's and rubbed her stomach and they both laughed when they felt a kick from their son.

"Seems like sochi's awake." Said Kushina before going back to cooking and made both of them a plate. Minato went over to the table to eat before sweat dropping at Kushina's plate, which had almost three times the food that he has.

Noticing his look Kushina had a tick mark on her forehead, "I'm hungry and so is sochi dattebane!" Growled Kushina making Minato put his hands up in fear of her temper, she is after all the only person to constantly defeat him.

xXx

After eating and cleaning up the mess Minato went to his home workshop to work on the barrier seals for later. Normally he would use a genjutsu barrier and a detection barrier but was having second thoughts. If he were to only have those then a skilled ANBU could get in before he could do anything about it and that would not work not at all.

The closer they got to the birth the more paranoid he's been getting, and now Minato is drawing up four sealing tags, they would make it impossible for anyone to enter with chakra larger than a genin but anyone could leave. Then he surrounded the barrier with a failsafe containing a mid-level Raiton jutsu to stun and knock out whoever tries to remove it and doesn't know exactly how. The complex barrier would also have the formula for his Hiraishin (Flying Thunder God Jutsu) so if someone were to try and break it he would be there in a flash.

Minato smiled at his work and took the tags and placed them into his ninja pouch, he may have the day off but he has a meeting with Sarutobi-sama and Biwako-sama to talk about the plans.

Minato locked the door to his workshop with a seal that only responds to him and Kushina before going downstairs where he can hear Kushina talking with Sarutobi-sama and Biwako-sama.

"Ah Minato, looks like we can begin." Said Hiruzen ending the small talk between the two women so they can get started.

Minato took his seat next to Kushina and nodded to his predecessor and the Sarutobi matriarch, he grabbed Kushina's hand and offered her a smile before getting serious.

"Everything is ready, we have the location prepared and I have the barrier tags ready, all I need to do is put them in place." Reported Minato, both of the elders nod and the Sandaime smiles at the blond.

"Very good. Kushina, you are going to be escorted by my wife to the shelter. Minato will already be there and I'll be in the Hokage's office. Minato, have you picked the ANBU you want guarding you today?" Asked Hiruzen.

Minato nodded, "I have a team I want to pick, but I will be giving Kakashi the day off. He's been working nonstop and he deserves some time off after guarding Kushina everyday." Minato sent a worried thought to his last student, the loss of Obito and Rin was too much for him and Minato hoped that guarding his pregnant wife would lighten the darkness in his heart. However in his weekly report Kakashi hasn't had any change.

"Very well, I shall return to the office. Good luck you two." Said Hiruzen before leaving to return to work.

Minato watched the Sandaime leave before turning to his wife and kissing her passionately making her sputter, "I'm going to get the ANBU and finish the preparations, I'll see you there." Said Minato before leaving.

Kushina watched her husband leave with a smile, then turned back to Biwako to finish their earlier conversation. As tuff as Kushina was she was terrified of how much child birth would hurt, after all she doesn't that much experience with extreme pain in that area.

xXx

(Later that Night: Remote Location)

"It Hurts Dattebane!" Screamed Kushina as loud as she could, she was right in her earlier assessment in that she wasn't prepared for the pain, it was unimaginable.

Minato watched with worry, he's never seen Kushina in such pain. "Will she be alright?" He asked hoping that nothing was going wrong, he winced when he felt the Kyūbi fighting to get out of the seal.

Biwako scoffed at the Yondaime, "You're the Fourth Hokage, so stop being so terrified! If she were a man, she'd have long died from the pain! At least women are strong!" Exclaimed Biwako trying to break the man out of his worry.

Minato nodded and refocused on containing the Kyūbi which was not cooperating at all. 'You stay in there Kyūbi, Naruto please hurry!' And thats when he heard it, the cries of his son.

Minato turned to Biwako who was cooing a sleeping Naruto and walking towards him, Minato reached out to take him but he was moved away from him, "Ah ah, mother first!" She said making Minato pout although he looked to his beautiful wife. 'Thank you Kushina, you've made me the happiest man in the world.'

An exhausted Kushina turned to look at her baby boy, "Naruto-kun, its so good to meet you." She wanted to take him but was too tired to move.

Biwako knew full well what Kushina as going through and pulled Naruto back up, "Don't worry you will have plenty of time with him later." She said before walking over to take his measurements.

xXx

Outside of the cave where Kushina was giving birth to Naruto, Tobi knew that the only time a seal as strong as the one Kushina has would weaken is during childbirth. The only problem is that this barrier around them is messing with his sensory abilities, he can feel the area but he can't pinpoint it to use Kamui(1) to get inside. Tobi decided that it would be better to try than to wait around and hope for the best.

He teleported into one of the caves and found nothing, Tobi flared his chakra in frustration before teleporting again to the cave right next to this one. This time he heard voices, he then sighed in relief that he might not be to late. Now that he was in the right place he used his training to sneak into the room. Tobi watched as two nurses cleaned and measured a little blond baby, now was his chance.

xXx

Minato was still basking in the happiness of his sons birth, he turned to Kushina before becoming serious, "I know that you just went through a lot Kushina, but I'm going to re-tighten the seal now." Said Minato before focusing on the seal that was on Kushina's stomach.

Before Minato could do anything he heard someone collapse. Thats when he felt someone new and they had a lot of chakra. 'How the hell did someone like that get through that barrier?!'

"Yondaime Hokage Minato, step away from the Jinchūriki. Or this child dies before his first hour." Threatened Tobi holding a kunai to Naruto's throat who was now wailing at the tension in the room.

Minato started to become frantic and Kushina was grunting in pain since the Kyūbi was thrashing around inside the seal. "W-wait, Calm Down." Said Minato frantically. He needed to think of something he needed to fix the seal and save Naruto.

"Calm down? Why, I'm as cool as can be. Lets see what you can do, Yondaime." Said Tobi before throwing Naruto in the air, and lunging the kunai into the air to impale the infant.

Minato used his unparalleled speed in combination with the Shunshin no Jutsu (Body Flicker Technique) to catch Naruto before the masked man could touch him again. Tobi watched as Minato held his son, it would be touching if he didn't have a mission to take care of. 'Lets see how fast this one is.' Mused Tobi before activating several explosive tags that were on Naruto's blanket.

Minato teleported to one of his hideouts then tossed away the blanket and flashing away again to escape the explosion. Minato and Naruto made it just outside of the safe house, 'That man, he's after Kushina which means he's after the Kyūbi. I need to get Naruto somewhere safe then save Kushina.' Minato rubbed Naruto cheek to calm him before using the Hirashin (Flying Thunder God Jutsu) to take Naruto somewhere safe and put him in his crib.

xXx

(With Tobi and Kushina)

Kushina was being held up by jutsu formula using the Kaibi Hōin (Tail Releasing Method) to remove the Kyūbi. Kushina felt like her life force was being pulled from inside of her, it was agonizing and despite all of her training she could do nothing but watch as this monster ripped an even worse monster from her gut.

"Why…why are…you doing this?" Gasped Kushina. Why would anyone want to release the Kyūbi, Konoha has never used it as a weapon and she was the container because it was too dangerous to let roam. What good could come from releasing the fox?

"I want my pet back. Do you know how long I've waited for this moment?" Asked Tobi rhetorically knowing full well that Kushina did not in fact know that he was waiting for this moment all week. Which is when he heard Kakashi talk to his grave about it.

Kushina dropped her head in defeat and tried to focus on something other than the pain. However right as she did that her body lost all energy and she collapsed onto the bolder she was standing on.

She heard an extremely loud roar and looked up to see the massive form of the Kyūbi standing over her, growling and looking very upset. Tobi smirked under his mask and looked at the dying red head.

"I think it would be fitting for the prisoner to kill its jailor, no?" He asked before putting the Kyūbi under his Sharingan's control and sending a mental command to kill Kushina. The Kyūbi responded immediately and slammed its paw down where she was destroying the bolder instantly.

Luckily, Minato arrived in time to save her before that could happen. Minato landed on top of one of the trees and sent a bone chilling glare towards the masked man, who only chuckled in response causing Minato to teleport away.

xXx

(Inside Konoha)

Tobi teleported inside of the village with unparalleled ease, his Kamui gave him instant teleportation to any place without the use of formulas. So if he wanted to he could go right now to Iwagakure and summon the Kyūbi for a few minutes then go to Kumogakure do the same and come back here and repeat the process without much trouble. However, he has a plan for tonight and that involved using the Kyūbi to destroy Konoha.

He listened around and spread his senses to feel his former home, which was alive and full of happiness and excitement. It made him sick, these fools are living in a fantasy land and now he's going to make it a nightmare.

"Kuchiyose no Jutsu (Summoning Technique)!" Exclaimed Tobi while slamming his palm onto the ground. The Jikūkan Ninjutsu activated and erupted a huge plum of smoke and out came the Kyūbi. The strongest of the Bijū roared in a mindless rage before swinging its palm destroying buildings and killing dozens of Shinobi and civilians.

The shinobi quickly sprung into action attacking in teams hoping to distract the Kyūbi from destroying the village and killing even more people.

xXx

(Hokage's Office)

Hiruzen watched in horror as the exact thing that was supposed to be prevented was happening and hundreds of his villagers were being killed by the enormous Bijū. The elderly Sandaime removed his Hokage robes and adorned his battle attire while preparing himself to face off against the Kyūbi.

"Hokage-sama! The Kyūbi is attacking the village!" Alerted one of his ANBU in a panic.

Hiruzen tightened his arm guard before turning around, "Yes. I can see that." Replied the Sandaime before rushing to the battlefield.

xXx

The village was in a state of what only could be describe as chaos. Dozens of shinobi would line up to face off against the Kyūbi only to be easily killed as if they were only insects, which to the Kyūbi…they were.

Hiruzen arrived to a rooftop and overlooked the battle, not much can be done when there is an enormous monster destroying buildings with ease. Hiruzen formed his hand seals before bitting his thumb and slamming his hand onto the rooftop he was standing on and preformed the Kuchiyose no Jutsu (Summoning Technique). Erupting from the smoke was his long time partner: Enma.

Enma wasted no time before using the Henge: Kongōnyoi (Transformation: Adamantine Staff). Hiruzen grabbed the indestructible staff and twirled it with practiced ease. The best thing about Enma in his Henge is that he can still sense whats happening around him. And thanks to the countless hours of training with his partner, his is capable of knowing exactly when Hiruzen wants him to extend without even being told.

Hiruzen leaped into the air and extended Enma nearly a kilometer long and with strength only surpassed by his female student slammed the staff down onto the Kyūbi's head. The only affect that his attack seemed to have was making the Kyūbi angry. It roared and the wind from it's roar launched any shinobi in front of it away from the battlefield and most likely killing them when they hit the ground.

The Sandaime grimaced at his attacks lackluster affect before preparing another attack. He stopped however when the Kyūbi started to build chakra. That wasn't good.

xXx

(Atop the Hokage Monument)

Minato frowned at the Kyūbi, he knew what it was planning. After all, his very own creation the Rasengan was made after he witnessed a Bijūdama (Tailed Beast Bomb) during the war. Minato watched the Kyūbi for a moment before pulling out one of his signature kunai and running through a few seals preparing a jutsu to protect the sacred monument he was standing on.

As the enormous ball of destructive chakra came flying towards him destroying buildings even in proximity to the jutsu. Minato stood firm and raised his arms to activate his jutsu the Hiraishin: Dōrai (Flying Thunder God: Guiding Thunder).

A huge jutsu formula appeared next to Minato which looked to be consuming the Bijūdama (Tailed Beast Bomb). Minato closed his eyes to feel for his Kunai around the village and made a one handed ram seal. Off to the distance several kilometers away was a massive explosion. 'I have to be careful. With explosions this big there aren't many of my kunai that I can safely send those away to.' Grimaced Minato.

Minato was broke from his thoughts when he sensed someone behind him and quickly swung his arm around to plunge his kunai into their head. However the kunai and his arm merely pass right through the masked man's head only for him to grab it and try to suck Minato in with his jutsu. Minato sensed the danger and quickly teleported away.

'He really is as quick as a flash…next time the instant we touch!' Thought Tobi while making a one handed ram seal to teleport to Minato to keep him busy while the Kyūbi destroys the village.

xXx

Minato caught his breath and waited for the masked man to inevitably come to confront him. He only had a few options to deal with the calamity of a night this turned out to be. He only knows of a few seals that can contain the Kyūbi, and even then it would be very risky. Not to mention if he doesn't reseal all or some of it into Kushina soon she will die, and he will not allow that to happen. If he can deal with the man fast enough, then he can preserve chakra to save not only Kushina but everyone in Konoha.

MInato narrowed his eyes at the space in front of him distorting in a spiral pattern and out came the same masked man who manage to follow him almost instantly, without a jutsu formula. 'This is bad, he can teleport without markers or seals. That surpasses both the Nidaime and myself. Not to mention he entered the barrier without tripping any security, killed the ANBU, separated me from Kushina and controlled the Kyūbi…there is only one man who could have done all that.'

"Are you…Uchiha Madara? No, thats impossible, he's dead." Said Minato before grabbing a handful of his custom kunai and tossed them in the air making them land all around the open area they were about to fight in.

Madara chuckled and removed his hood, "Ya know…I sometimes wonder about that."

The Yondaime wasted no more time and teleported forward and stabbed the masked man in the chest, even with the Sharingan he couldn't counter the instantaneous movement of the Hiraishin (Flying Thunder God Jutsu). Minato jumped away when the masked man became intangible again and he started to fall through him.

Tobi took out his chain and attached it to his wrists and charged forward toward Minato. The Yondaime waited a moment for the masked man to run right over one of his kunai that was in the ground. Minato made a Rasengan instantly, 'When he's intangible, attacking is useless. However based on my attack earlier the intangibility is activated by reflex. And no Sharingan can counter my jutsu.'

The instant Tobi stepped over a kunai he was blasted into the ground by Minato's Rasengan. Minato applied the jutsu formula for the Hiraishin (Flying Thunder God Jutsu) onto the point of impact before touching again and applying a Keiyaku Fūin (Contract Seal) releasing the Kyūbi from the Masked Man's control. Minato wasted no time before teleporting back to the village.

He didn't notice or acknowledge that the Masked Man was still breathing.

xXx

Minato arrived to see that the Sandaime and the shinobi of the village were doing a valiant job in keeping the Kyūbi from moving further into the village. Minato teleported directly under the Kyūbi and used the Kuchiyose: Yatai Kuzushi no Jutsu (Summoning: Food Cart Destroyer Technique). Gamabunta appeared several hundred meters in the air and came crashing down on top of the Kyūbi, with Minato atop of Gamabunta's head.

Gamabunta shook off the dizziness of being summoned and looked around. "Gamabunta-sama, please hold the Kyūbi for a moment while I prepare." Asked Minato. Gamabunta's eyes widen at the mention of the Kyūbi before trying to hold him down only to be rewarded by a claw to the face nearly cutting his left eye out. The Kyūbi thrashed but was held down under the massive weight of the boss toad summon.

Minato atop gathered chakra from nature and his eyes his eye became yellow with a horizontal toad like pupils and around his eyes was the pigmentation of a perfect sage.(2) With the large amounts of potent chakra Minato easily jumped the Kyūbi and himself to a safe distance away from the village.

Unfortunately, it was also where Kushina and Naruto were. But Minato was not know for being the fastest shinobi alive for nothing as he saved Kushina and Naruto before the Kyūbi could hit the ground after teleporting.

Minato looked at the Kyūbi with determination, he knows what he needs to do. "Kushina, do you think you can hold it still?" Asked Minato hopefully. Kushina nodded and used her Kongō Fūsa (Adamantine Sealing Chains) to bind the Kyūbi.

Minato nodded and created the throne and placed Naruto on it and started flowing through handseals. First he used the Shishō Fūin (Four Symbols Seal) and sealed half of the Kyūbi inside of Kushina. Minato momentarily thought of splitting the yin and yang half of the Kyūbi but decided to evenly split the Kyūbi so that Kushina and Naruto don't have an imbalance of either. Kushina nearly passed out from receiving the Kyūbi back into her seal but was quickly rejuvenated by the return of it's chakra now in her system.

With renewed energy Kushina tightened the chains holding the Kyūbi and helped Minato in sealing the other half. "Kushina, I'm going to use a different seal on Naruto. I want to make sure he can use the Kyūbi's chakra later on in case someone like the Masked Man comes back." Explained Minato to which Kushina nodded in agreement, whatever made her baby safer worked for her.

Minato flashed through seals and used the Hakke no Fūin Shiki (Eight Sign Seal). He left it slightly open so that Naruto would be constantly receiving the Kyūbi's chakra and so that he could call upon it should he need to. The Kyūbi roared angrily at being sealed once more but could do nothing as he was sucked into the infants stomach.

Both Minato and Kushina dropped to their knees in relief but started to fuss over Naruto who was crying at the turn of events that he managed to survive in the first hour of his life.

Hiruzen and a few shinobi arrived to the area and rushed over to Minato and Kushina hoping that they were alright.

"Minato! What happened to the Kyūbi?" Asked Hiruzen, he didn't want to ask why Kushina was still alive seeing as that may be interpreted wrong.

"I managed to seal it inside of both Kushina and Naruto, since I doubt I could have sealed it all at once by myself." Explained Minato making Hiruzen's eye's widen, that must have took a lot of chakra. "I'll explain more later." Finished Minato before catching Kushina who finally succumbed to her exhaustion and passed out.

Minato picked up Kushina who was holding Naruto in her arms, even unconsciously terrified to let him go. He nodded to the Sandaime before teleporting home to get some well earned rest with his family.

Author's Notes

(1)- Any Jutsu that is the same in both the Japanese and English like the Rasengan, Chidori and Kamui, will be normal and with no translation like the Kamui is translated into Authority of the Gods. Based on the wiki at least.

(2)- Minato was a perfect sage and could enter it without the help of Fukasaku and Shima. Even though he says it takes him a while to enter it, in the manga it took like two minutes tops.

If you have read my other stories you will see the change in format, with the jutsu's being in Japanese and what not. That is because I have been talking with other writers (who are WAY better than me) and they told me that it works better like this. I would do it with my other stories but I don't want to change mid way through the story.

This was in my head for weeks! I didn't really want to put it out before I finished my first story but I was having trouble writing with this is my head so I thought it would be better to start this story and see if people wanted to read it. Hopefully you guys don't hate it too much.

Obviously much of it is the same as cannon, this is the prologue and the point of divergence is Minato quickly finishing the fight with Tobi and using Sage Mode to seal the Kyūbi into Kushina, saving her. As well as giving Naruto access to an abundant supply of potent chakra. And in the end both of them survived.

Note that this story will NOT be a neglect or extremely fluffy story. It will be my adaptation on how Naruto's life would be with his parents being alive. So if you want Naruto to be neglected by Minato and Kushina, this isn't for you. If you want constant family fluff, same deal.

Thank you for reading this and the next chapter should be out in a couple of days thanks for reading and PLEASE REVIEW!

Peace Out!