Naruto the Fox Ninja

Note: I don't own anything but this story. Also I don't know much about all the various names, so help in that regard would be appreciated

Near the Village Hidden in the Leaves a massive fox with nine tails is seen rampaging threw the forest headed straight for the village. The shenobi of the village did everything they could to try to slow down and stop the beast, sadly many of them died as the nine tailed fox was just to powerful for them

"What am I doing this?" thought Kurama "Oh yeah, that guy in the mask did something to control my body. GRRRRRR I'm going to kill him when I get the chance"

More and more ninja appear and hit Kurama with everything they have, managing to finally do some damage to him

"Gah! These pests are getting on my nerves" thought Kurama "I can't let them win or my kit will suffer, I'm just grateful that man didn't know about him or I don't want think about what would have happened to him"

As Kurama got close to a large mountain he used his tails to smash it to pieces and sent the rubble at the ninja, all the while keeping his son safe hidden within the base one of his tails

"Wait for the Fourth Hokage!" yelled the ninja as they surrounded Kurama in an attempt to trap him and began to barraging him with all kinds of powerful jutsu

Kurama saw that he was badly hurt and tried to run away, but due to the effects of the genjutsu that was used on him he wasn't able to. This allowed the Forth Hokage to use his Rasengan on him dealing a massive amount of damage and send him flying

"Gah!" cried Kurama as he landed hard on the ground "I can't go on for much longer...but what can I do?"

Kurama coughed up a large amount of blood and realized that from what he sensed from the man who struck him with such power was perhaps his best chance his son had to live. So he used his tails to set his son down behind him and transformed into a humanlike form and nearly collapsed from doing so

"My son, I don't have much time" coughed Kurama "but just know that you're the only thing I cared about"

The 3rd and 4th Hokage along with a large number of the best ninjas from the village were headed to where Kurama landed and heard him speak in his more human form in shock

"Son, please don't hate the people who stopped me, but make that man in the mask who forced me to attack pay for this" said Kurama in a soft voice as he collapsed onto the ground, having one of his tails touch his son so he could use the last of his power to change him into a human form and seal away his own power for his son to use latter on

The ninja didn't see Kurama's son, but heard what he said and saw him fall over and die with a sad smile on his face

"Is it over?" asked one of the ninja

"Let me check, it could be a trap" said the 4th Hokage who stepped out into the clearing

As he looked he saw that Kurama was indeed dead, but he also saw cowering not to far in the underbrush a very young toddler that he realized was the nine tailed fox's son

"It's alright, I'm not going to hurt you" assured Minato as he crouched down to see the child better

"Die!" cried the distressed child as he rushed at him and bit him on the arm hard enough to draw blood

The other ninja rushed in to help, only for Minato to pull the child into a hug

"I'm sorry about your father, but there's nothing that could have been done. It's who forced your father to attack us that led to this, so if you want to blame someone blame him" soothed Minato

The boy let go of his bite and began crying into Minato's chest, fear, hate, anger and loss clearly seen in his body language

"So the demon had a kit, we should kill it before it can cause any harm" said Danzo "Or at least use it as a way to defend ourselves

This frightens the child even more, causing Minato to declare "No Danzo, as the Hokage I will take responsibility in making sure that he is treated like everyone else"

"And how are you going to do that?!" challenged Danzo who didn't like where things were going

"Simple, as he is an orphan, I'm going to adopt him" replied Minato who then asked the child "Would you like that little one?"

"Uhuh" replied the boy with a small nod "Keep the scary man away though please?"

"Well then what are you going to name him?" asked Hiruzen, the 3rd Hokage

"Naruto" replied Minato "His name is Naruto"

"Nar-u-to" said the boy "I like it"

"That's good to hear" said "Minato "Now all we need to do is figure out what to tell the rest of the village"

"I think telling them a half truth should be enough" said Danzo "We'll say that you sealed the nine tailed fox in the boy and that's why he looks the way he does"

"You can say that all you want" said Minato "But there are a lot of of our shinobi are witness to what has happened here, so you're plan wont work"

"We could enact a law that makes the people believe it for at least for a short while" suggested Hiruzen "It'd give you a chance to raise Naruto without people trying to kill him for being a demon"

"Fine, but I'm sure that there will be those who will guess the truth" conceded Minato "But let me make this clear, Naruto is to be treated like everyone else even if he is a demon, is that understood"

"Yes Lord Hokage" replied the the ninja before they left

"Now lets get you home and cleaned up" said Minato as he picked up the boy who clung to him for support

"Hiruzen I leave the burial of the boy's father to you" said Minato "Make sure no one knows that it was actually the nine tailed fox"

"Understood" replied Hiruzen "I'll make sure he gets a proper burial"

"I wish Kushina was here, she always wanted to raise a child" said Minato as he arrived home with Naruto "You know what Naruto, that's what your full name will be, Naruto Uzumaki Namikaze or Naruto Uzemaki for short. Now lets get you cleaned up and in some warm cloths"

Naruto didn't fuss to much as Minato cleaned him up. It also gave Minato a chance to see just what Naruto looked like properly. He saw that Naruto had a very fox like appearance, but most notably was the nine small tails that sprouted out from his backside

"Guess I'm going to have to teach you how to hide those tails so others don't react badly" noted Minato

Naruto didn't like the idea of hiding his tails and grumbled and pouted about it

"Naruto you have to understand that a lot of humans don't take kindly to demons running around and try to get rid of them, it's for your own protection understand?" explained Minato

Naruto nodded, but still didn't like the idea. Then again he's only barely a year old and doesn't understand everything going on around him yet despite how developed he his

After cleaning Naruto up Minato manage to find some of the baby cloths Kushina had gotten before she died to illness and dressed Naruto in them. Thankfully they just managed to fit and Naruto didn't fuss to much when Minato tried to put them on. After that Minato made dinner for the two of them and had Naruto sleep with him in bed