Hello and welcome to Nadaime Kyuubi

This is an AU and will contain:

Fem Naruto, Kyuubi Naruto, abuse, neglect, and attempted rape.

This is darker then I usually write so please enjoy a story told to me by the slightly less kind voices in my head.

Naruto is owned by Masashi Kishimoto.

-{}- is a POV shift.

line is scene shift.

"JUTSU NO NAME" is a jutsu.

"Foolish monkeys," is Bijuu or powerful people speaking.

'thoughts' are thoughts.

Underline is Time Stamp

October 10th 50 VE (Village Era)

8:34 pm

Night of the Kyuubi

The night the Kyuubi no Youko attacked the village of Konohagakure was something that no one who lived through it would ever forget.

It was October the tenth, the air was rather warm for that time of year, completely free of clouds and a full moon far above. No stars decorated the black sky, as if they had given up trying to fight with the pale brilliance of the moon.

Most of the population of Konoha had gone inside earlier once it became dark out. The only beings still awake and alert were the Shinobi forces that protected the village. Of the Shinobi, only a few had more than a second's warning to look around for something wrong before a large explosion of white smoke erupted just inside the circumference of the defensive wall at the edge of the first row houses.

The Sandaime Hokage lifted his head from the pile of paperwork just in time to look out the window in search of the source of unease he felt pressing in on him from all sides when it arrived.

'It can't be…' he thought in frightened awe as he beheld the orange demon that was now silhouetted against the moon, casting a dark pall over a large portion of the village. Not a second later, one of the ANBU was by his side.

"Third Hokage-sama!" the man cried from his kneeling position, "It's the Nine-Tails. The Fox has come out of nowhere and attacked the village!" Fortunately, the Third Hokage was already prepared.

"I know!" he replied briskly as he fitted his gauntlets to his wrists and dropped his formal robe to reveal his black armor. "Hold it back, send the Genin and extra Chunin to gather and protect the civilians!" he ordered.

"YES, SIR!" the masked ANBU answered with determination before disappearing in a much smaller burst of white smoke.

The old Hokage felt worry stab through him as he looked out over the village and the lands behind the wall. His wife had been out there helping Kushina give birth. If the fox was here, something deep down told him he wouldn't be seeing her again. Not while on this earth. She was dead or he was about to be, that is what he felt.

Outside, the Fox roared in fury and lashed out with its multiple tails. Buildings as tall as three stories or more were reduced to nothing but ruins under its immense might. As per their orders, men and women in masks and regular Shinobi uniforms raced around the feet of the demon, snatching up anyone who might get in the way of this fight or the debris.

Some of the brave souls distracted the monster by literally throwing themselves at it. The Fox didn't even bat an eye as entire teams of Shinobi stabbed, cut, and used jutsu to attempt to slow its rampage.

The Fox gave off a burst of blood red Chakra when one defender got too close and instead of unleashing a column of fire as he intended, the man roared in agony before his body seemed to tear itself apart. Two others leapt in tandem only to be destroyed as the Fox's tail brushed them aside like flies.

Ignoring the hairless monkeys dying around it, the Fox moved a few paces into the village.

Suddenly stopping, it stared intently at the mountain that the village was backed up against. Opening its toothy maw, the creature collected black and white chakra just inside of its mouth. With another roar the black projectile was launched from its mouth.

As soon as it passed the beast's mouth, the black ball of death gained size until it was as large as a house and flew straight at the head carved furthest to the left on the mountain. Instead of impacting and either crushing the rock wall or exploding on impact, the black attack was stopped by eight lines of what looked like Kijin floating in the air, catching it like a net. The ball then seemed to disappear into thin air taking the Kijin along with it. With a flash, the entire mountain was then backlit by an explosion far in the distance.

"It's Minato!" a man shouted the obvious to his companions as they cheered the survival of one of the villages most beloved landmarks. Their revelry was cut short by the Fox's bark of rage and its renewed attack on the village.

"EVERYONE MOVE OUT!" the third Hokage shouted out to the Shinobi around him.

"SIR!" they all acknowledged as they charged to what was most likely their death. Around the feet of the Kyuubi screams rent the air as more and more Shinobi and the occasional civilian who was in the wrong place at the wrong time were crushed, thrown, batted, and even eaten by the Kyuubi as if they were little more than dolls.

The Sandaime quickly bit his finger and formed a hand sign, "Come forth, Kuchiyose no Jutsu Monkey King Enma!" A puff of smoke appeared as he slammed his hand down and a large monkey with long, white hair and sideburns appeared.

"Wow," Enma the monkey king said, looking at the spectacle in front of them, "Guess you need the Kongou Nyoi."

"Yes," the Sandaime acknowledged as the monkey was again covered in a burst of smoke. The Sandaime then grabbed the large bo staff the animal had become and launched himself at the Fox along with the rest of the Shinobi.

The wave of Shinobi swarmed the Fox, throwing everything and the kitchen sink at the monster. Kunai, shuriken, and Jutsu impacted the Fox's hide, ultimately doing little more than irritating the enraged beast.

-{}-

Looking decidedly disgruntled, the Fox marched five 'paces' to the right. Buildings came down under its wake and one building still containing a few civilian's half collapsed in a cacophony of screams. A team of Shinobi, too injured to be on the front line against the fox moved in to find survivors.

"Mom?" One of the injured Shinobi, a Kunoichi, turned to find her son bleeding from a cut across his nose. Looking around, she realized that the building she had crashed into was her own.

"Iruka," she exclaimed, falling to her knees so that she was level with her son. Her words bubbled a little through the unnoticed blood in her mouth, "Are you hurt?" Her son, Iruka stared at her in horror for a second before screaming to another nearby Shinobi who had just arrived.

"DAD! MOM'S-"

"I'll take care of your mother!" his father yelled over the noise, glancing down to see his wife starting to weave a bit as the blood lose started to take hold and make her legs unsteady. "You get out of here," he ordered.

"NO WAY," Iruka shouted indignantly, ignoring a new cloud of dust as the building across the street crashing to the ground. "I CAN'T LEAVE YOU AND MOM ALONE!" the boy shrieked foolishly. He couldn't leave the most important people in his world to fight that monster alone.

"CUT THE CRAP!" his father shouted, having no tolerance for disobedience at the time, "It's our job as parents to protect you! Now get out of here!" Iruka was about to argue with his father when another Shinobi who wasn't too hurt to run snatched him from his mother's arms and raced for the nearest civilian bunker.

"NO!" Iruka screamed as the last image of his parents was seared into his mind. Mom was giving him a large fake smile despite the blood while his father stood tall with his back to his son, facing the inevitable as the Fox continued unabated through the lines of the defenders.

-{}-

Crashes and explosions littered the night as the Shinobi attacked the monster in their midst. A team of Shinobi attacked from the right, "Maruishi Tounyuu!" (boulder throw technique) all four shouted at once, causing a patch of rubble to be launched at the Fox.

With a roar of anger, the Fox slapped the animated stone out of the air. The impact shattered the boulder, turning the stone into a deadly rain of smaller projectiles that peppered the Shinobi forces around it. More screams lit up the night as their own attack wiped out the Doton users and their nearby allies.

The Sandaime was suddenly in the Fox's face swinging the staff his monkey summons had turned into with all of his might. The attack collided with the Fox just under its jaw bone, sending its entire head to the side and causing a dreadful ringing in its ears.

Shaking the noise from its head the Fox's red eyes glared at the old man, hackles raised and baring its teeth in a snarl of hate. The Sandaime could see his determined and afraid reflection in the beast's eye.

The Fox suddenly broke eye contact with him and reared up to howl at the moon as if it was in agony. The Shinobi looked at each other in cautious hope. 'Did the lord third hurt it?' was the question on all their minds.

Before they could get their wits together the Fox suddenly leapt to the side, moving so fast that for a moment it was nothing but a blur. Crashing through the defensive wall, the fox twisted around as if looking for pursuers. The Sandaime looked around for the reason the monster had fled. He couldn't see anything, nor did his eyes couldn't find his successor.

"WE'VE DRIVEN IT OUT OF THE VILLAGE!" he shouted deciding to take the initiative despite not knowing why, causing the Shinobi around him to roar with approval, "DON'T STOP NOW, TRAP IT!"

The Fox growled and roared in frustration as she was followed. Rearing up, the Kyuubi formed another large black ball over its mouth to disperse her pursuers.

"Kuchiyose no Jutsu!" roared a voice above and to the Fox's right. Before the Kyuubi could turn to look, a large toad appeared from thin air and crashed into her side. As the toad took ahold of her arm and crushing the Kyuubi to the ground, the Fox instantly started to struggle like a landed fish, her tails lashing the air or smacking into the amphibian's side in an attempt to free herself.

"IT'S THE FOURTH!" shouted one of the faster Shinobi that had just arrived on the scene alongside the third. On the toad's head was someone the Kyuubi truly hated, the Yondaime Hokage, Minato Namikaze.

"HOLD THE NINE-TAILS DOWN FOR A MINUTE!" the human shouted to the toad as he started running through a couple of hand signs.

"I MAY BE BIG," the toad answered as he strained to hold on, "BUT I'M NOT A MIRACLE WORKER!" The Fox under him struggled again, intent on getting her attacker off her body.

The Yondaime kept flipping through hand seals while he answered, "I NEED A SECOND TO GATHER ENOUGH CHAKRA TO TAKE HIM AND THAT BLAST OUT OF HERE!" he shouted down to the toad.

Beneath them, the Fox felt a burst of anger, not at her situation, but over the fact that they couldn't even tell the gender of the one they were fighting. Did she look anything like a tom? NO, her fur was the softest, smoothest, and shiniest thing in existence!

The Bijiuudama in her mouth had by then reached full strength, the fat lump of frog guts dropping on top of her had slowed the process. With the attack ready, she aimed it at the nearest group of Shinobi and let it fly. The second before she did, however, there was a flash and the Shinobi disappeared. In their place was a set of mountains that she vaguely recognized as some that stood a few miles from the village she had just been in.

The second she oriented herself, the Kyuubi was surrounded by chains that formed a gridded dome over her. More wrapped themselves around her body, tails and all, constricting her. The Kyuubi gave a massive heave and growled as the chakra signature in the chains told her who had did this to her.

"KUSHINA!" cried a voice to her left and she glanced down to see the hated red head that had been her former prison panting on the ground. She looked terrible, her body was trembling and her sweat was making her dress so wet that she might as well jump in the river and complete the 'bath'.

The Fox suddenly felt her heart clench as she saw the Yondaime kneeling beside her. In the man's hands were two cloth swathed babies. 'Why are those here?' she wondered, fear clutching at her heart. 'They could get hurt!' she cried internally as one of the bundles started to wail. The two humans were talking in voices too low for her to hear while ignoring the cries of the little one.

Instead, Kyuubi's worry grew; if she knew humanity then they would now try to seal her, maybe in one of those adorable mounds of pink flesh the Yondaime was holding. Despite hating the bald monkeys, they were simply too adorable when young for her to wish death upon. Sealing not only imprisoned her, it imprisoned the child in a life as a weapon, she couldn't force that upon baby.

A thump announced the arrival of someone else on the scene. Kyuubi looked over to her right to see that the old monkey they called the third had arrived. All three humans started arguing while she strained against her bindings.

"OII!" A shouting voice pulled everyone's attention as someone else joined the scene. The fourth monkey was the more confusing than the rest, his first action upon landing was to sucker punched the Yondaime.

Even Kyuubi had to sweat drop at the sudden entrance and attack.

"YOU'RE SUCH AN IDIOT, MINATO!" the older man shouted at the the downed blond, "ARE YOU REALLY SO IRRESPONSIBLE THAT YOU'D ABANDON MY LITTLE GIRL AFTER SHE GAVE BIRTH TO YOUR CHILDREN!"

Kyuubi narrowed her eyes, who the heck was this? The man was tall, wrinkles lined the monkey's face at the eyes and mouth, his hair was almost completely white.

Worry and fear suddenly screamed at her as her instincts told her that this man was probably a seal master, the fourth and her former jailer were already seal masters skilled enough to make her life a living hell, she didn't need another one there to help them take her a back.

She held no doubt that she was about to be sealed, maybe in a way that was worse than impaled on a ball in someone's mind if the three were going to work together. The white haired man suddenly gently took the two babies from their father, laying them down side by side.

"Hikaru-sama," her container spoke sharply, her tone was frightened and confused but she seemed to care for the newcomer, "Why are you sealing it in my children? I can take the Kyuubi back into my seal. You don't have to use them."

"No Kushina-chan," the seal master replied, "You are too injured, Minato-baka and Hiruzen-san are too weak to survive the process to begin with, and the seal I have in mind will require the life of the one who uses the seal. It must be the two of them since the benefits of splitting the Kyuubi for this seal outweigh the cost."

Kyuubi panicked completely and thrust at her chains in desperation while the humans argued below. 'Cut me in half!' she screamed both in her head and out loud in a feral roar that shook the ground. 'Screw what I said before, impalement sounded better than what these idiots were planning on doing!'

The seal master moved as if her was oblivious to her fear as he started running through hand signs. Slamming his right hand on the ground, the man summoned a octagon-shaped slab of stone with candles on the points and a large, padded alter in the center. The sight of the preparations coming together caused Kyuubi's panic to soar to new heights.

"We can find another way," Minato said, moving forward. The Kyuubi never thought she would love the blond monkey but in that moment if he could convince them otherwise she would have happily mated with him in thanks.

Kushina gave a cough and blood dribbled down her chin from the violent action drawing the attention of everyone. The white headed seal master looked at Minato without stopping his hand signs.

"We don't have time," he responded grimly, "Kushina-chan can't hold on much longer. I need to do this now while you two stabilize her." After a quick glance at the oldest monkey, Minato nodded his reluctant approval to the seal master.

As the Fox watched on, helpless as the man finished his seals and formed the final Tiger seal, her fate was decided when he shouted, "SEAL!" over one if the babies. The Kyuubi screamed as she felt her chakra get split down the middle. Surprisingly, it wasn't nearly as painful as she had thought it would be; it still hurt but it wasn't agonizing.

Her body shifted in size as half her power left her. The once great Fox was less than half the size she had been before and looked like she had lost more weight than would be healthy for anyone. She was so thin that her arm bones were poking out and ribs were clearly defined.

Before she could move, the chains tightened to her newly emaciated body. The Uzumaki woman gave her a tight smile as she made sure nothing could interrupt the sealing.

As her chakra flowed through the seal master, she could feel the Shinigami himself standing behind the man. She snarled feeling a vindictive sense of joy as she knew that at least this guy wouldn't live to boast about his success. Half of her chakra flowed through the man and into one of the bundles, causing the baby girl to start crying in discomfort as her coils expanded to contain the Kyuubi's might.

Moving over to the second child the man repeated the lengthy hand signs and screamed, "SEAL!"

The Kyuubi howled in agony as she felt her body explode outward into a cloud of chakra that then vanished, channeled through the old man's body and into the body of the second Uzumaki baby. The seal master stood on his unstable feet for a second or two as the seal suddenly took all of his strength from him and he crashed limply to the ground.

Minato looked on as Hiruzen rushed to the fallen Seal master and gently turned him over so that he was facing the sky.

Kushina started crying as the weight of the night hit her. In the space of a few hours she had given birth, had the Kyuubi ripped out of her (she still needed medical attention for that), held the beast down, and lost her surrogate father.

On the altar, the two babies started crying louder, gaining the attention of the adults.

"Now comes the difficult part," Minato said ironically as he stood up from his wife moved over to pick up both children. Raising a Jinchuuriki was dangerous and time consuming, Shinobi from outside the village would try to get one of his children alone. Having Jinchuuriki siblings would make things hard simply because they were siblings.

As he picked up the first child, a terrible idea came to him.

'Would that work?' he wondered, conflicted as he looked down on the child in his arms and the child still on the altar. Remembering the one eye of his opponent that night, he realized that this might be the only way.

Walking over to Kushina, he handed the first baby over to her and returned to pick up the second. "Hiruzen," he called over to the third Hokage, "I need your council." Minato walked back to his wife and helped her to her feet, she was unsteady and he had to take back their daughter before she fell over.

Hiruzen nodded, willing to offer any advice needed.

October 10th 50 VE

11:05 pm

Night of the Kyuubi

As the threat of attack faded away with the sealing of the Kyuubi, the village of Konohagakure was returned to relative calm as most drew a breath of relief and others started working on making sure nothing else was going to crumble and fall that night.

The fighters started to make their way through the rubble strewn streets in search of beds to rest. Tiredly, they knew that in the morning they would all undoubtedly have to put aside their blades in exchange for hammers and saws to start fixing the ruined sections of the village.

Inside the Hokage building, on the other hand, was a scene of controlled chaos. The council chambers were filled with the various council members present in Konoha at the moment. Every clan head was there along with the heads of the hospital, academy, Jonin, and ANBU corps. On the other side of the room were Danzo and the elders along with four civilians who represented the various markets needed to maintain Konoha: the weapon trades head smith, import and exports manager, head of agricultural, and the head of the textile guild.

The two groups were seated on either side of a room while the seat at the head of the table was glaringly empty, awaiting the Hokage to mediate their meeting.

After waiting for over half an hour for news, the head of the Nara clan posed a question. "What if the Fox killed Minato-san?" Shikaku asked his fellows. He then winced as his suggestion brought outraged cries from the other side of the table.

"NO WAY!" the head seamstress and import manager shrieked at the same time while the blacksmith snorted out, "Not a chance!"

"He did fight the Kyuubi no Youko all by himself after he used his Hiraishin to teleport it away from the village," Hiashi Hyuga pointed out. "Even if Hiruzen-sama followed, he would have been fighting the fox on his own for almost-"

"For not long enough to get hurt too badly," came a voice from the chair at the head of the table.

Everyone's attention turned to the chair to see Minato and Hiruzen both suddenly stationed there. Hiruzen was looking at the fourth Hokage in a way that shouted reluctant acceptance.

"Hokage-sama!" the entire group was surprised to see both of them sitting there. For the civilian side, it was joyous that Shikaku's suggestion was wrong. On the Shinobi side, they were surprised that at least one of the two strongest men in the village wasn't dead from the encounter.

They didn't mean to be disrespectful, far from it, but they did know that these two had fought the Fox basically by themselves after the Fourth had teleported it away from the village. It was good news that they were both accounted for but it begged the question, 'what happened out there?'

As if sensing their questions, Minato smiled at them. "I'm sorry we're late, Hiruzen and I needed to discuss a few things in the aftermath of the attack," 'and get Kushina to a discreet medic.' Minato moved around his chair and sat down with a heavy sigh.

"The Kyuubi no Youko has been sealed," he announced, watching their reactions to this news.

All of the civilian council leaders looked up in shock while the elders narrowed their eyes. The head of the hospital sighed in relief since that meant they weren't going to be getting more patients after this. The Jonin and ANBU leaders were unexpressive.

The Clan heads' reaction were varied. The Nara, Hyuga, Aburame, and Yamanaka clans were silent as they expected more information to be presented, while Tsume Inuzuka laughed out loud and Chouza leaned back with a relieved sigh.

"When can we start looking for a suitable person to become a jinchuuriki?" Unsurprisingly, the question came from Danzo of the elders. All the clans looked at each other while they went over who in their own clans could contain the beast, as it would be an extremely powerful boost to their standing to have control over the human sacrifice yet a dangerous task for whomever was chosen.

"That won't be necessary," Minato interrupted, disturbing the clan's thoughts. "The Fox was sealed into a person already." As expected this brought a round of shocked exclamations from those assembled.

Raising his hand, Minato called for silence, "I know this isn't what most people would have wanted. Who the Jinchuuriki would be is an important decision that shouldn't be rushed both for the safety of the chosen and the village. However," Minato fixed each potential troublemaker with a glare, "there simply wasn't enough time to find someone better to take on this burden."

That did make sense, unlike the Hidden Sand or the Hidden Cloud they didn't have inanimate objects to seal the biju into temporarily.

"I assume," Homura, the male village elder spoke despite the younger man's glare, "that the beast was sealed within you or someone else of some standing and that the process was looked over by someone more experienced than just a barrier guard?" Everyone heard the subliminal questions, 'who is the jinchuuriki? Are they safe to be around?'

Minato shook his head but winced internally at the lie as he replied, "A baby who was convenient is the new jinchuuriki and if it wasn't safe then we wouldn't have brought him here."

Gesturing to Hiruzen, the Yondaime pointed out the bundle in the older man's arms. The bundle drew everyone's attention immediately. The head of the hospital almost released killer intent at the source of all the people suffering back at her hospital. The elders remained silent though something told them there was something wrong with Minato's story.

"This child is the hero of the night. Along with my close family friend and seal master, Hikaru Mainoru, he has saved us from the rampaging of the demon fox," Minato stated, looking for dissent in the civilian ranks, trusting the Shinobi side to understand what he was saying between the lines.

The Jonin commander saw the container and the thought of all the comrades lost that night to the thing inside the brat, it made his stomach burn. Checking himself, Masaru decided that he would keep that thought to himself for now.

"He is going to be placed in the care of an orphanage, under the direct eye of the ANBU," Minato continued, "I am also appointing Hiruzen as my regent while I take leave on an important mission."

That got everyone's attention to jump. Shikaku looked up as he readied himself for the most troublesome news of the night. If Minato was planning on leaving now, then the threat would have to be nothing short of village wide disaster.

"YOU CAN'T JUST LEAVE!" the seamstress shouted while the Import/Export merchant started babbling about loss of bargaining points. The clan heads weren't all that much better, only Hiashi managed to remain outwardly calm as the rest started demanding to know why he would abandon them now. Minato let them bluster and shout, up onto about someone suggested that he was insane, then he intervened.

"I need to chase down the man who used the Kyuubi No Youko to attack the village." His firm tone that cut the rest of those talking off. "Before the Fox attacked the village, my wife, the previous Jinchuuriki, was giving birth to my daughter."

The council was shocked by the news; they didn't know that Minato was married, let alone expecting. "When a jinchuuriki goes into labor," Minato continued, "the seal on the beast inside is weakened and required me to hold it closed." He smiled fondly remembering his children before a frown overtook his expression, "Just after birth and before I could close the seal, we were attacked by a rogue Uchiha."

Clan head Fugaku jerked his head up in alarm and anger, "How dare you accuse one of my clan of this. No one has ever-"

"The man who attacked my family," Minato interrupted, "held my child at kunai point and abducted my wife to forcibly remove the Kyuubi from her body then used an advanced form of the Sharingan to force it to attack the village." At this point the council was torn between looking at the Uchiha in rage and their remaining surprise at Minato's new family.

Before anyone could start throwing ideas around on how to punish the Uchihas, Minato spoke up again, "The man only had one eye visible, the rest was hidden by a mask so he could have just been someone who stole an eye from a corpse somewhere." He looked around at the waiting council, "He also implied that he was Madara Uchiha during our fight."

"That's not possible," Fugaku insisted.

"We all know that Madara is dead," Shikaku pointed out, trying to calm the now nervous council members.

"All I know for sure was that his hair was the right color for an Uchiha and one of his eyes was a Sharingan," Minato answered. "I do not think the Uchiha clan was behind tonight. No matter who this person is, he used time and space manipulation jutsu and was capable of making the Fox attack us. He needs to be found and I'm the only one who's fast enough to defeat him when that happens."

"For this mission," Minato started, "I'm going to be leaving with my family for cover. No one would suspect me if I have a disguise and wife with a child since no one but those here even know I'm married, most will probably think I died tonight. The mission will take a long time, most likely even years. As such, we will let it be believed that I perished tonight fighting the Fox."

"So you want us to let everyone think you've died?" Chouza asked as he wrapped his head around the night's events.

"I'll need every bit a stealth for this mission," Minato replied. "The attacker could escape in less than a second and didn't seem to be locked to a Kunai like me, I need to either catch him off guard or when he attacks before I can even touch him and eliminate the threat he poses before returning to take up the mantle of Hokage."

"I suggest a quick break to digest and discuss these revelations within smaller groups," Elder Koharu Utatane suggested. They needed time to get their thoughts in order after the facts about the last few hours were laid before them.

The Hokage nodded, knowing that they would take this time for plotting but also knowing that if he didn't allow this then they would make it harder for him to leave. As it stood, leaving was going to be difficult and painful enough as this plan required him to leave Naruto behind.

The council wouldn't like this decision, but the elders will it, he was sure. Privately they were seeing the golden opportunity they were being handed as the third Hokage would be easier to handle than the fourth. The civilians trusted the elders' agreement to this plan and while they did it with bad grace, they accepted the plan as well.

The head smith was chosen to announce their support. "We don't like this plan," he started in his harsh baritone, "however, if this man is as big a threat as you say he is then we can see why it's necessary. We can only wish you the best of luck on this mission." Minato nodded to their half of that table for the support.

'Look out for them,' he silently thought to his predecessor standing behind him. He desperately wanted to turn around in his chair and say those words to his face but knew it would be stupid to do so. The Shinobi side gave their approval as well with Shikaku chozen to speak for them.

"While it will be troublesome for us when the story of your death reaches the public, we will support this decision of yours to hunt down the rogue Uchiha." He delivered his words in an unpassionate tone that clearly showed some annoyance despite what the words meant. Minato sweatdropped as the Nara's mood reached him loud and clear.

"Thank you," he said a little tightly as he stood. "Now, if you'll excuse me, I have to get ready to leave," and with that, he disappeared in his renowned flash. After he left, the rest of the council broke up to return to their respective duties. Hiruzen left carrying little Naruto to find the matron of the orphanage. He didn't see the looks six people shot at him, or rather, the bundle they couldn't quite see in his arms.

October 11th 50 VE

1:15 am

Night of the Kyuubi

At the Namikaze home, Minato arrived just in time to find his lovely wife Kushina was sitting up in bed, feeding little Mariko. The nurse who had been sitting by her side until Minato walked in had done a good job. Despite the late hour, Kushina looked a lot healthier than before.

Minato felt a sudden stab of pain and sadness as he realized that Naruto hadn't been breast fed by Kushina today, and probably never would now.

"Kushina," Minato said, burying the painful thoughts for now. His wife looks up at him and smiles happily.

"Minato-kun," she greeted, maintaining the smile covering her worry. "Where is Naruto? You ran off with him after clearing. He needs to be fed and put to bed." She turned away from him and gently pulled the now sleeping Mariko off her nipple to start swaddling her tightly.

Minato didn't know how to say it to her. "I," he paused as he thought about her reaction, "Kushina, I-"

"He's dead, isn't he," Kushina said suddenly, smile gone, "That's what you're trying to say. Something went wrong with his seal and now Naruto-" she clutched at her mouth to silence the panicked words spilling out her mouth.

When Minato had dropped her off at home and left with both Hiruzen and her son, she had started to think of hundreds of terrible things that might have happened to the both of them. Now that Minato had returned without Naruto, every single frightening thought she had been holding off since letting her son out of her sight hit her like a ton of bricks.

Minato rushed forwards to hold her as she cried. "It's alright Kushina-chan," Minato assured her, "Naruto is alive, he's with the Oldman right now."

Kushina stopped panicking and slowed her breathe as she fought to bring her emotions under control. "Then why isn't he here with you?" she asked after a moment as she rubbed away the tears that had formed in her eyes.

"Kushina-chan, "Minato started to tell her his plan, "I need you to leave the village with me." Kushina jerked her head up to look at Minato in shock; that wasn't about what she had asked him about.

He quickly explained his reasons, "The village agrees that I need to hunt down the man who caused all this. If both of us and Mariko go undercover, we can protect her and I can find him."

Kushina frowned, "That would just put Mariko in danger. We can't properly raise her on the road. Besides, Naruto needs us a just as much as Mariko since they both have some of the Kyuubi inside of them."

Minato shook his head, "The village needs to have a Jinchuuriki here to protect everyone. I know there are things that Mariko might miss out on when we're on the road, but she will be able to go to so many places, learn all kinds of things that she never could here."

He paused before adding, "We would be protecting the village by entrusting Naruto to Hiruzen while we train Mariko in the Kyuubi's chakra during the mission."

Kushina looked at him; she didn't want to raise one of her children on the road and leave another behind, but what Minato was saying did admittedly satisfy both their duties to the village and her desire to protect those within it, mostly.

"Please," Minato asked, staring into her eyes and giving her a pleading look, "Don't make me have to leave you behind. I need to go and Naruto at least needs to stay. If I'm alone it would be harder to hunt down the man who attacked you and pulled the Kyuubi out."

Kushina felt like tearing her hair out. She knew that most jinchuurikis were treated like weapons in most villages. She then paused and thought about it; this village had treated her alright, sure not all had known about the Fox inside of her but those that had hadn't treated her badly.

"I won't be of any help to you," she tried bitter reason, "my life was saved but my Chakra coils were damaged, the nurse said that it might be permanent."

"You know how to use the Kyuubi's chakra," Minato pointed out, "even if you can't do demonstrations we can teach Mariko, together."

She sighed and leaned back into her pillow. She never could say no to him. "We will have to pack lots of onesies," she said after a moment.

Minato smiled in bitter relief. Before talking to her he had felt like he was leaving a part of himself behind, but right now all he could feel was happy. He felt extremely guiltily about what he had accomplished, but he was still happy to know that at least he wasn't leaving these two behind with Naruto.

Standing up, he started packing. He wanted to be gone before day break if possible.

Around the same time, Hiruzen pushed open the door to the orphanage. Inside was a tired looking middle aged blond woman wearing a thrown on purple shirt and tan pants. The woman looked up at the sound of the door opening only to sigh.

The room around her had a large counter top where she did initial paperwork and received anyone coming or going from the orphanage. This floor was the only one tiled in soft tones of alternating pink and blue.

"Not another one. Who's this one belongs to?" She had seen far too many children made orphans that night.

"No one knows, Kodachi," Hiruzen answered smoothly, "He is the jinchuuriki that Minato created to save us from the Fox." Minato had wanted his son to be recognized for his role in saving the village and as such the Sandaime planned on making an announcement about it later, but as the matron of the orphanage, Kodachi needed to know first.

Kodachi blinked and then looked at the bundle in the old man's hands again. This was the source of all this night's suffering? If she didn't know any better she would have thought, it was just another baby whose parents had died that night.

"I need you to take care of him," the third Hokage said, giving Kodachi at least a gender to call the monster by. Slowly, the Matron moved around the counter and held out her hands for the child. Hiruzen softly deposited the babe in her arms.

"Don't worry," Kodachi responded, keeping her voice neutral, "He will be taken care of."

Hiruzen nodded. "Thank you," he replied, content in the knowledge that Naruto would be looked after. He had a speech to write to tell the people what happened here this night and what little Naruto's role in it all was.

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Kodachi waited until Hiruzen had left before going to the door that led to the "infant" section of the orphanage. She walked down the hall, past a room full of cribs, past a room that had large, extra thick carpet and a splattering of soft toys like plush animals and some plastic blocks. She didn't stop until she reached the end of the hall and turned left.

The hall had two doors at its end, both were white and looked rather heavy. Judging by the lock on the door, these rooms must have contained something important, the hazard sign on them also kept people away. The door she stopped at was one of these white doors. Despite the fact that it was in the back of the building, the door and room beyond looked rather clean.

The room was about fifteen feet by fifteen feet with a flat white floor and a medical bed as the only things contained within. Kodachi kept these 'isolated' recovery rooms for when one or two of the kids got sick with something that she definitely didn't want the other children to catch. When a child would get sick and the hospital would recommend rest along with medications, she would have them sleep here to protect everyone else in the orphanage.

Slipping into the room, she pulled up the guard rails on the bed and set the still swaddled baby down on the bed without a sheet. 'It doesn't need a sheet,' Kodachi assured herself as she took a step back, 'That damn Fox doesn't need anything but food. Anything else would be too dangerous to give it.'

Nodding at her mental excuse, Kodachi left the room. She didn't return for several hours when one of her assistants questioned the sound of crying she had heard from the back.

October 11th 50 VE

6:15 am

Night of the Kyuubi

Minato stood with Kushina at the edge of the village. The place they were standing was by a relatively small hole in the wall caused by one of the Fox's tails when it had been strapped down in Kushina's chains. Nearby was the ruins of the Namikaze safe house that the third Hokage promised would be reconstructed by the time they got back.

Strapped into a Boba wrap around Kushina was Mariko. She was currently asleep as her mother's slow oscillations and soft humming lulled her. Besides the three of them, only the third Hokage was standing there.

"Take care of Mariko-chan," Hiruzen said as the fourth Hokage pulled a pack full of sealing scrolls onto his back.

"Of course I will," he replied with a strained smile, "You think I won't?" Hiruzen shook his head, he knew that the necessity of leaving tiny Naruto behind was tearing at Minato's soul and pulled the younger man into a hug.

"I'll watch over him," he said softly into Minato's ear, "Kakashi as well."

Minato was surprised by the hug, but returned it when Hiruzen spoke to assure him. Those two were the hardest things he had to leave behind and it helped him almost beyond words to actually hear Hiruzen's assurances. As he pulled away, Kushina moved forwards to give Hiruzen an awkward hug around Mariko before pulling back.

"I guess, we'll see you soon Oldman," she stated with a wry grin, emphasized by her still very pale complexion. Hiruzen chuckled as he held Kushina at arm's length.

"I expect to get messages from the both of you as often as you can write them," he ordered with a mock serious face before relaxing into a smile as he glanced at Kushina's torso "and perhaps a letter from Mariko when she learns how."

Kushina laughed softly. "I'll send you some of her drawings," she replied, reaching down to pet her daughter's soft head. Hiruzen smiled in affection at the young mother. It had to be agony to leave knowing that you were leaving one of your children behind. He had often left Asuma back at the village when he had missions during the war, but he had his wife Biwako to look after him and had returned as soon as he possibly could.

To leave Asuma in another's care for a long time would have most likely been too much for him to bear. He saluted the couple in front of him for their strength. The three of them all stood together in silence, none of them wanted to break the sense of unity or tension between them but at the same time they all wanted to say something to mark the moment.

When the silence started to reach uncomfortable levels, Minato nodded decisively. "We should be going," he said, looking at the hole in the wall. No one had slept that night and they needed to be over three Kilometers from the village before resting.

"Right," Kushina agreed, looking at her husband, "Goodbye jiji."

Hiruzen shook his head at her, "Goodbye, tomato head." Kushina didn't react apart from a sudden stinging in her eyes as she marched off towards the wall. Minato nodded to Hiruzen before jogging to get ahead of his wife and child.

October 11th 50 VE

? am

Night of the Kyuubi

Inside the wall around the village, inside of a building, inside the council room, inside of the child inside the room inside the building inside the wall, was a cage. From within the cage a silted red eye opened and took in the surprising mindscape around her. The mind of a baby was often blank or unfocused as they simply did not understand the world around them yet.

The Kyuubi no Youko, however, was startled to find the world around her cage wasn't some blurry, washed out hodgepodge of colors and sounds like most would expect to see. Instead, the room she found herself in was a large traditional Japanese bedroom. The same one she remembered that her previous container and her mate had built in their safe house together.

There was even a copy of the fourth's seal against the wall where he had placed it in real life for emergency teleportation to and from the house. The same room she had accidentally smashed when the fourth Hokage had teleported the two of them to the house so that he could seal her into his two children, she realized.

Her cage wasn't even a proper cage in her opinion, it had walls with bars, true enough, but the top was open. She was lying in a crib of all things, an easy escape able thing for one such as her.

Smirking, she lifted herself to hop out of the crib only to find an invisible barrier on top of the crib. Still, it was a far sight better than when she had been locked inside of Mito or Kushina to be sure. Being stuck in this baby prison was still rather undignified, but better than her treatment before now.

Looking around some more, she realized that the crib she was placed in was where Minato would have placed the twins alongside Kushina before going to deal with her mind controlled rampage.

"How could the baby have memorized the room in such a short amount of time?" she wondered out loud. If he did then she was impressed, no baby she had heard of could contain that level of mental development so early.

Turning from her inspection of the room, the Kyuubi took in her own shape. She knew something hadn't gone according to plan since she wasn't split down the middle of her yin yang chakra. In fact, she was still comprised of both yin and yang chakra at about half a tanks worth.

Her soul was still complete she realized with a sudden happy bark. Whatever that old seal master had done, it hadn't split her spirit. She chuckled as she felt herself start recovering her chakra. Soon, she would be full again.

One problem with sealing a Biju in a human was that if you only sealed the chakra then the Biju would recoup what it had lost while the chakra away from the soul would eventually run out. They had created a jinchuuriki and a phax jinchuuriki out of the fourth Hokage's children. She chuckled as she imagined the looks on their faces when they find out that little tidbit.

"What's going on outside now?" she pondered, putting those vindictive thoughts aside for the moment. As if reacting to her words, the sliding doors directly across from her opened and she could see a wall beyond.

"-from the rampaging of the demon Fox." The voice of that stupid Fourth Hokage came, rather distorted, from beyond the doors. The Kyuubi settled down eagerly to listen. This host had just become the best one she had ever been sealed in, she could actually see and hear the outside world with ease.

As she listened to the meeting between the Fourth Hokage and his council, she became concerned. She agreed that the Uchiha had to die, she would have preferred all of them to die but her vote apparently didn't count, but for a father to leave their child to these wolves was just unacceptable. She could literally feel the dark emotions boiling inside of them throughout the meeting thanks to her empathic sense.

"Why don't you send someone else to kill him!" she shouted at the doorway into the real world. That hairless monkey was justifying leaving his pup while he ran off with the vixen with the excuse that he was the only one fast enough?!

"Maybe he has some practice running away from responsibility," she grumbled bitterly as the meeting ended and her container was taken by the old man to the orphanage. Her concern turned into extreme worry for the child as she saw the cold look in the matron eyes. Her fears were confirmed when the Matron left her container, 'Naruto,' she interjected his name, in a room all alone.

Kyuubi tried to look around the room but she couldn't control baby Naruto, maybe because his body wasn't developed enough to move of his own volition or most likely the seal prevented it, so she was stuck looking straight ahead at the ceiling.

An hour later her Naruto had soiled his diaper and been screaming for the last forty minutes. She decided then and there that if no one else was going to care for him then she would, he simply didn't deserve what was happening to him on her account.

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