Hey every one sorry for the long absence from everything. Not sure how else to describe it besides saying that it has been a long few years (year months I really don't know). Thought I haven't written in quite some time I thought I would try something a little different for my comeback. This is the start of what I am hoping is going to be a very long story in the Naruto Universe. Naturally I do not own anything except and OC's that I may or may not add throughout the story. I am also not sure what pairing I am going to go with for this story but my two favorites are narusaku and naruten. If yall have any opinions on what I should do please let me know. Basic idea is Minato survives sealing the kyuubi into Naruto. I would try and give a real description but 1. I suck at them 2. It's more fun if you don't know XD. So anyways let's get this started hope you all enjoy!

Chapter 1 – A different outcome.

Minato stood atop the Hokage monument observing the kyuubi no yoko ravaging his village and was trying to find a way to stop its rampage.

"Why is this happening? What it that masked man's goal in doing all of this? Is he just trying to spite the leaf or is there something more."

Minato thought to himself having already had his little match with the masked man being unable to kill him left him greatly disturbed. As he was organizing his thought he witnessed the kyuubi charging an enormous amount of chakra at the ends of its tails and above its mouth. Knowing what was coming next Minato pushed the thoughts out of his head for the time being and prepared for the incoming attack. When the beast unleased the mass of chakra towards him he used his hirashin no jutsu to send the attack away from the village much to the kyuubi's annoyance.

Minato let out a sigh of relief that he was able to successfully divert the attack knowing just how destructive it was. He stood atop his own head carved into the earth and made his decision. He steeled himself as he teleported to the small safe house where he had brought Naruto and Kushina earlier. As he made his way to the room where the two most important people in his life where he was surprised to see the tall white haired man standing in the doorway awaiting him.

"Jiraiya-sensei! I had no idea you were here this might not as hopeless as it seems. With you here I'm sure we could re-seal the Kyuubi back into Kushina….." Minato began,

"Minato! I'm sorry to tell you there is no way we can save Kushina at this point. She was been weakened far too much by the removal of the kyuubi. Though there may be another way." Jiraiya stated as he felt himself losing his control on his emotions. He was truly saddened having to tell his student his wife was going to die and there was nothing that could be done about it but it wasn't the time for wishful thinking or any of that. They needed to stop the monster before it was able to cause any more damage to the village.

"What are you thinking sensei?" Minato asked listening intently.

"We will have to seal the beast into Naruto." Jiraiya said as calmly as he could, he had no idea what Minato was going through and had to try and keep him calm.

"Sensei…. Why Naruto? Why don't I use the….."

"Absolutely not Minato! It would be a waste of life for you to use the reaper death seal! Naruto is the only Uzumaki left that we know of and the life force that gives him makes him able to survive the sealing of such a powerful beast." Jiraiya said.

"Sensei I can't seal the entirety of the Kyuubi into Naruto the only seal I know could only contain half of it in a stable state. I would have to take at least have into myself…." Minato started.

"You are correct Minato if it was only you sealing the beast into the boy. If we both place a 8 trigrams seal on him creating a sixteen trigrams seal it would be enough to seal all of the beast and have you here to raise the boy and teach him to be a proper shinobi!" Jiraiya said still trying to keep his cool but slowly failing.

Minato stood for a moment considering his masters words. He had resigned himself to sealing the best in himself with the reaper death seal in order to rid the world of the fox for good but what his sensei was saying made sense. Unsure what to do he walked past Jiraiya and into the room where Kushina and Naruto were laying on the bed. Kushina was holding her baby boy in her arms when she looked at Minato.

"Minato… I hear everything. I may not like the idea of Naruto becoming the jinchuuriki but if that means he get to grow up with his father alive then…. I guess I am ok with it… Don't be sad for me Minato you've made me a mother and shown me nothing but love. I can die happy knowing you will look after our son. My only regret is not being able to be there for him when he grows up." Kushina finished with a long sigh tears threating to fall, "But I will be coming with you to bring that oversized fur ball down ya know!"

Minato cracked a small smile hearing his wife's verbal tick and seeing her ready for what was about to happen. He took one last breath and teleported everyone in the room to the Sandaime Hokage who was currently engaging the best to drive it out of the village.

"Minato! Where have you been!" Hiruzen asked still holding Enma who was transformed into the adamantine staff.

"No timed to explain Sandaime-sama, we have a plan to deal with the best but I am going to need you to get everyone away from here!" Minato stated giving Hiruzen a pleading expression.

Hiruzen studied Minato for a moment and then seeing the determined expression on his students face the former hokage knew the Minato and Jiraiya would be able to deal with the beast so he choose to trust Minato's judgment. Calling the retreat he gave one last glace towards his former student and his successor and prayed that they would come out of this alive.

"are you ready Minato?" Jiraiya asked.

"No, but this has to be done." Minato responded summoning the sealing alter, "Kushina can you hold it back?"

"Of course I can baka! This overgrown fleabag won't know what hit him ya know!" Kushina said in a weak voice as she summoned her chakra chains to hold the beast back.

Minato place Naruto on the alter and he and Jiraiya began forming there hand seals. After a moment both Ninja placed their hands together and shouted "Fuinjutsu! Sixteen Trigrams Seal! Fuin!"

With a loud crack and a puff of smoke the Kyuubi no Yoko was gone in a flash. Every stood still for a moment as every released a deep breath as all that could be heard was the screaming naruto. After everything had happened Kushina began to collapse as Minato flashed to here and held her in his arms. With tears streaming down his face he could feel Kushina's life force leaving her as she began to fade.

"Kushina…" Minato began trying to stifle his tears and speak clearly.

"Minato can you let me say goodbye to Naruto…." Kushina said weekly as Jiraiya brought over the small bundle of life to its mother as Naruto instantly calmed and began staring at his mother, "Naruto, there is so much I wanted to teach you, and so much I wanted to see while I watched you grow, I'm so happy that I could bring you into this world with Minato, I wish the circumstances were better but I can die happy knowing the Minato will be here to guide you…."

"Kushina…. I'm so sorry that I'm a failure… I should have been able to stop this from happening…" Minato said sobbing.

"Minato you showed me more loved then I could have dreamed of receiving. I'm truly happy I could make you a father. You are a hero Minato. I don't want to hear any more of this self-pity for you ya know!" Minato said weakly punching Minato in the arm, "well I guess this is goodbye Minato….. Please protect our son and show him how to be a great man like his father….." Kushina finished as she finally succumbed to her fate.

Minato held his wife and child in his arms tears flowing down his face. Looking down at Naruto he managed to calm himself a little.

"Naruto, I promise I will be the best father I can to you!" Minato said as he was still choking on tears.

TIMESKIP 5 YEARS

Naruto stood in the small training ground outside of his house. He had taken to dressing similar to his dad wearing his blue long sleeve shirt and pants but with the distinct orange Uzumaki symbol embroidered on the back of his shirt. Naruto was currently trying to get used to throwing his father's strange kunai. It had been a month since Naruto had turned five and his Dad had been helping him train ever since, though they were only doing basic conditioning, taijutsu and shirkenjutsu, Naruto still enjoyed the training time he got with his father. Though Minato spent much time with Naruto being the hokage made it difficult so when they didn't get the time to train Naruto took to sitting with his dad in his office when he would let and reading some of his books or scrolls. Today however Minato had an important meeting with the elders so he asked Naruto to practice his kunai and shuriken while he was away. Naruto however decided to nab a few of his father's kunai and try and practice with those instead.

"Man this is harder than I thought!" Naruto thought to himself, "But I have to prove to dad I'm ready to use them even if he thinks I'm not ya know!"

Minato had instructed that he would allow Naruto to practice with his special kunai after Naruto had mastered (or at least to the basic extent) of using regular kunai which meant hitting all ten targets at least 10 times in a row. Naruto could only hit seven out of the ten targets most of the time with regular but he thought he was ready for his dad's but found he could hardly hit even one. Unbeknownst to Naruto however Minato had returned from his meeting and had been watching his son for some time. As he saw the look of frustration on Naruto's face he decided he would go help his son, after playing a little joke on him for not listening. Minato got a mischievous grin on his face as he watch Naruto go to throw his last kunai. Just as he was about to start his thrust Minato flashed behind him causing Naruto to jump in fear and shock.

"Dad! Not fair you have hirashin! And it's not funny to scare me like that ya know!" Naruto protested standing back up as the shock had caused him to fall over.

"Naruto, I know you want to get better and you are doing well but you must learn patience in order to become a great shinobi. Once you master your basic kunai training then I will teach you the trick to using my kunai. Just promise me you will not shrug off the basics." Minato said in a caring tone, "Also you must learn how to appreciate a good joke because the look on your face was priceless!"

"DAD! It's not funny but I do understand the importance I just wanted to try and be more like you ya know?" Naruto said still aggravated his dad caught him off guard.

"It's ok Naruto, you are so much like your mother it's almost frustrating sometimes. But you know I didn't start at the top I had to learn all of this stuff just like you." Minato said with a smile, "why don't we take a break I have something I wanted to talk to you about."

"But dad I'm getting so close with the kunai!" Naruto pouted

"What if we go out for ramen? How does that sound?" Minato suggested grinning at his son's sudden change in mood.

After a quick hirashin to Ichiraku's Naruto and Minato sat down and order there food. Once the food arrive Naruto quickly began to devour his bowl and Minato began to laugh at his son's antics. After a few moments Minato tossed a leaf onto Naruto's forehead.

"Naruto, you have so much potential. You could easily become a greater shinobi than me but you must learn patience. Every shinobi must master the basics first or you will be doomed to make simple mistakes either costing you or someone close to you there life. Listen to me Naruto I know you don't like it and I know it's boring but do you know what we do with things we don't like?" Minato asked.

"We work until we are so good at them that we don't have to think about it anymore!" Naruto exclaimed

"That's right Naruto! Now I'm sure you are wondering what the deal with the leaf is, right?" Minato asked as Naruto simply nodded his head, "Well what would you say to me teaching you a justsu?"

"Yes dad please teach me something awesome like your hirashin! I can be the Orang Flash and we can be the ultimate tag team ya know!" Naruto beamed jumping excitedly.

"Maybe one day but you're not quite ready for that one yet, but before I can teach you this jutsu you need to be able to control your chakra, do you remember what chakra is?" Minato asked his son.

"Chakra is created when two other forms of energy are molded together. Physical energy is collected from each and every one of the body's cells and can be increased through training, stimulants, and exercise. Spiritual energy is derived from the mind's consciousness and can be increased through studying, meditation, and experience. But what does that have to do with it?" Naruto asked

"Well Naruto chakra is essential to preforming any jutsu and in order to preform them to the highest levels and to avoid accidents one must first be able to control their chakra easily so I'll make a deal with you, if you can make that leaf stick to your forehead using your chakra I will teach you how to walk up walls and walk on water." Minato said as he demonstrated the exercise he wanted his son to complete.

"Alright that's soo cool! You got yourself a deal dad I'll work really hard and have this down in no time!" Naruto exclaimed, "also dad do you think I can skip studying tonight?"

"Naruto you once told me you wanted to be the greatest hokage. Now tell me, what is the hokage?" Minato asked his son.

"The hokage is the leader and the protector of the village! He is one of the wisest and strongest shinobi in the village and it is his job to pass knowledge and give protection to the future generation so they may continue to pass on the will of fire!" Naruto said happily.

"So how are you going to accomplish that if you are too stupid from skipping your studies?" Minato asked laughing and ruffling his son's hair.

"Alright dad, so am I reading more on history today?" Naruto asked a bit dejectedly.

"Cheer up buddy, no I think you've study that enough for now I actually wanted you to start on something a little different." Minato said handing Naruto a small book.

"'the basics of fuinjutsu', dad what is fuinjutsu?" Naruto asked confused.

"fuinjutsu is the art of sealing Naruto, and it is one of the shinobi's most versatile tools if mastered. Your mother and her clan were known for their prowess in the art even feared for it." Minato explained.

"So mom was really good at this? Then it must be awesome! Alright dad I'll be the best there ever was ya know!" Naruto exclaimed.

"Alright Naruto lets head back, go ahead and read the first few chapters in that back and turn in for the night, we are upping your training tomorrow so we need to be up bright and early!" Minato said as he pat his son on the back.

Well that a wrap for this chapter everyone tell me what yall think if I decide to continue the next chapters will be considerably longer. I apologize to any who are waiting for an update on my other stories (thank you if you are). I will try to get them updated but with everything going on I don't want to promise anything soon. Thanks for reading

Bb out.