I decided to write this story as it just popped in my head. I have always been obsessed with twins due to the fact of a high chance I was one before my mother's miscarriage only a few weeks before she realized I was there and the fact my nana is one. So I thought why not Naruto if the yin and yang chakra can be split why not. Most stories with twins the parents survive (but ignore Naruto which I don't care for) but sadly it could not be as the wounds Kushina received are too great even for an Uzumaki and the Shiki Fujin requires a soul. I hope you all like this so read, review, favor, and follow the story.

I do not own Naruto cause if I did he would have been smarter and he would never have liked Sakura.

Every footstep

from birth to death

is our adventure,

don't waste it sitting

in fear

~ Ian Howell

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Chapter 1: How it All Started

Our story starts 14 years before our hero's own birth. Kushina Uzumaki was kidnapped by the Village Hidden in the Clouds (Kumo). Though she held little hope of rescue, because of being a foreigner to the village she now called home, she pulled strands of her own red hair dropping them unnoticed by those who had taken her.

Eventually she grew tired as the neared the edges of the Land of Fires boarders. Because of this she kept walking as the men around her started dropping until she staggered in to someone. This someone was the boy she once called girly in the academy. His name was Minato Namikaze.

He had come to her home to tell her the feelings he had for her on his sensei order to find her missing. He soon saw the beautiful red hair of the person he loved and followed it. It soon took him out of the village and lead far to the north, somewhere he knew Kushina would not go. Wasting no time he followed the hair only summoning a small toad to tell his sensei something was wrong.

That night Kushina knew her feeling were the same as Minato's own for her. Though she was born far from the Village Hidden in the Leaves (Konoha) he had come for her. No one ever had come for her. From that night on the love blossomed.

A few years later the Third Shinobi War began and the two each made a name on the Battlefield. Kushina became known as the Red Hot-Blooded Habanero with the red hair and hot temper. She was a master of kenjutsu, water ninjutsu, and as all Uzumaki's fuinjutsu. Minato became known as Konoha's Yellow Flash for his use and perfection of Hiraishin or the Flying Thunder God. He was also a fuinjutsu and ninjutsu master.

Because of Minato's now famed techniques Konoha won the Third Shinobi War. Life seemed to move on and soon after the end the Third Hokage, Hiruzen Sarutobi, decided it was time to retire. He only had one clear choice to take over to lead the village, Minato Namikaze. Minato only had one thing that must be done before, he wished to officially take Kushina as his wife. So a week before he took office the Third happily married the two in front of Minato's two surviving students, his own wife, Minato's sensei Jiraiya of the Sannin, and Kushina's best friend Mikoto Uchiha.

They thought their lives couldn't get any better but soon Kushina became pregnant. It was a great joy for this family but also a great fear as Kushina was the jinchuuriki of the Nine-Tailed fox demon. She had kept the beast at bay since she was brought to take over for the previous host Mito Uzumaki, the wife of the First Hokage. When she had born a child the demon had tried to escape its prison and it was bound to do so again. For this reason the pregnancy would be kept secret as few knew her status and the birth would happen outside the village in case the seal failed. The night of October 10th starts our true story.

"Come on Kushina another push and the first child will come to this world," said Biwako said. Minato looked at his wife wanting to hold her hand but had to keep the seal stable to allow his children to come into this world. Soon a cry was heard and Minato looked to see a little blond boy with a 3 whisker like marks on each cheek and when he opened his eyes you saw the sky blue eyes/

He wanted to cry and hold his son but he still had to hold the seal well Biwako helped deliver his second child. The boy, Naruto as they decided, was handed to a nurse to be looked at well the work continued. The nine tails was fighting hard now in Kushina weak state but Minato help strong knowing he was the only thing keeping his beloved and his children safe from the beast.

Luckily the second child did not take as long as Naruto had. This one had less hair then Naruto but you could see the same red hair Kushina had. The child did not have the same marks on it cheeks and when the child opened its eyes you saw the violet eyes of Kushina.

"It's a girl. I know Naruto was the boy's name but what of the girl?" Biwako asked holding the two children now.

"Amaya," Kushina said weekly before pain coursed through her as the Nine-tails tried to escape. Minato had to tear his attention of his two beautiful children to stop the beast but that worked to a disadvantage. Well trying to repair the seal he heard a scream and turned to see a dead Biwako, midwife, and Anbu. In their place stood a man in an orange mask holding his children in one arm and a kunai to them in the other.

"Back away from the jinchuuriki or do you not care about your children," said the man. Minato looked at Kushina and then back at the man. "I guess you don't."

The man then threw the children who held on to each other as if they were still in the womb. With the use of his Hiraishin jutsu he caught them only to find paper bombs wrapped on the blanket. He tore the blanket off and Hiraishin out of the hidden birthing center.

"Thank Kami you are all right," he said looking at his children. He then once again Hiraishin but this time to the cabin nursery these children were meant to share before going to the family home. He put them down in the large platform crib like bed and looked at them. They held to each other even know as if they didn't realize what was going on around them. "I will be back soon little ones and I will have your mother with me but I fear she won't be long for this world if I don't hurry."

He flashed to his wife and found his fear confirmed. The man in the mask had extracted the Nine-tails though by some Uzumaki miracle she was still alive. Minato quickly grabbed her and flashed to the cabin laying her with the children. He then grabbed the camera they had put there to document the first month of their children's life and took two picture knowing this was the only image they would have with their mother.

"Minato," Kushina said weakly.

"Yes my love," he said setting the camera and the developing photo (Polaroid camera) down.

"I know your plan. They will need a photo with you," she said.

"I don't know what you mean,"

"You may be smart but you can't fool me. I saw the research," at this Minato winced. "I am not mad,"

"You're not?"

"The village my not know of the Nine-tails but they need it. The Skiki Fujin is the best seal to use on them. Splitting the power and making them both…..," she just couldn't say jinchuuriki. It was not a fate she wished for her children as for unlike her the village would know of them. "Either way the seal requires the user's soul. I am too weak to use it and you are the only one that knows it other than me. So please take a photo with them and write. The masked man can be dealt with after,"

Minato nodded and then created a clone to take the photo. Like Kushina he curled next to them. The clone took two of just him and the children then 6 the family. The only family photo this family would ever have. Then Minato wrote his letter and wrote what Kushina said for hers. As he closed the letters he sealed the photos except four of the family photos. He then placed one photo in his vest and another in Kushina's pocket. The last two he sealed in another scroll to be delivered to those who they were for.

After that Minato went on to fight the masked man and after defeating him started the bigger challenge. The challenge to seal the Nine-tails yin chakra in to his beautiful daughter and the yang chakra into his stunning son. After bringing both them and Kushina to the grounds he set a quick seal barrier they got to work. Kushina held down the Nine-tails with the Uzumaki chakra chains and Minato began the sealing well writing the key to the twin seals on a scroll toad named Gerotora.

"Please also take this to sensei," Minato said handing him the scoll he had placed a note and 2 photos in. "He needs to give the second to my mother,"

"I will and it was an honor to serve you Minato," the toad then disappeared and they said their last words and completed the sealing. As the Nine-tails chakra entered the young children neither screamed nor cried as expected of a child not even 2 hours old. The barrier fell as soon as Kushina and Minato collapsed and Hiruzen ran to them finding Kushina gone to the next world and Minato not far behind.

"I'm sorry old man," he said with a smile "about Biwako and that you're going to have to take the hat back. Please watch after Naruto and Amaya. They are hero's and though I know the village may have trouble seeing them as such the will hold back the danger. Please make sure we are buried with the photos," then he passed as Hiruzen saw the photo of himself and Kushina around the two children.

"I promise to do everything I can Minato,"

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This is chapter 1 so tell me how you like it. This will be a Naruhina and most likely an AmayaShika because I love Shikamaru for some reason. I am sorry for the sadness but most twin stories they both survive and Naruto is basically neglected so yea. Next chapter will be up soon and after a bit gonna bounce between this one and Avian. I hope you like this and check out my other story Avian.

Also reason I picked Amaya was because it means Night Rain which I think goes well with Naruto meaning Maelstrom. Review and tell me how you like it.

~Covley Hatake