Disclaimer: I do not own Naruto or anyone in that universe. Or would I really be writing stories like this?

This first chapter will be identical to the first chapter of Fox Children. This is merely what would happen in Fox Children if Minato survived instead of Sarutobi. So, I will be writing Both stories. There will be little difference between the two.

The fiery red fox kit growls and snaps at the strange pale man. He checks the straps holding the fox down and coos, "Now, now, demon fox. You are going to help me with my immortality jutsu! You should be grateful to be part of my experiments!"

The fox growls louder, struggling under the restraints as the man reaches for a scalpel. He sighs, "I know this will be a very long and bloody process, but bear with me. I promise you will die before this is over."

The demon fox kit snarls, "You are a dead man, ninja! Mom is going to tear you apart!!" Unfortunately, the ninja cannot understand him. "And you smell like snakes!!"

"My name is Orochimaru," the man explains idly as he adjusts the dim light in the room onto the fox. "Welcome to Hell."

The fox snarls defiantly as the sharp metal scalpel nears him. The snarls quickly turn to yelps as the blade pierces his back. "I wonder what makes fox demons immortal," Orochimaru mutters curiously. He flicks the blade deeper into the young fox expertly, blood spurting out of the wound. "I really do hate a messy work place. I'm sure you understand," he smirks as he catches the blood in a container below the fox's operation table. The thick red fluid drips off the table into the container. "Very good."

Orochimaru slowly eases the scalpel through the fox's lung. The fox coughs up blood and growls, "Mom is going to enjoy killing you, snake face." The blade slices the lung cleanly in two.

"That should quiet you down a bit," Orochimaru says pleasantly. "I cannot stand noisy workplaces. They are distracting." Blood oozes from the wound as the blade is yanked out.

The tin pot slowly fills with blood as the fox squirms to get free. The man places the blade into a small dish of water to clean it and picks up a pair of scissors. "This should do nicely." He looks down at the fox. "I'm sorry if I bore you, but I have a tendency to ramble when I work. It's a bad habit, I know. I hope you don't mind." He grabs onto a small tuff of fox hair and pull it up off the leg. He slices away the skin until the fur comes off in a nice neat square. He places it onto a napkin and dabs up the blood coming from the new wound. The fox gasps as breathing becomes harder and from bloodloss. Pain fills the baby fox's eyes. "Mom!!!" he whimpers loudly.

Several Miles Away:

"Jit? Where are you, Jit?" Kyuubi calls as she looks around the forest. "Son, this is no time to be playing hide and seek! We are near the human settlements!"

When she receives no answer, she sniffs the ground and very slowly follows his scent.

Back with Jit:

Orochimaru takes out a kunai and cleanly slices off the ear of the fox. "I've always wondered how foxes perceive sound," he says absently as he examines the bloody ear. He places it aside with the other parts he amputated, placing each one into a small jar.

Taking out a small hacksaw, he slowly cuts through the thin muscle and into the bone of Jit's right back leg. He removes the leg and places it in a jar. All the baby fox can do is whimper and cry in agony, his body starting to shake from the shock.

The Snake Sannin takes a firm hold on the shivering tail and slices it off with a single chop, followed by a loud yelp. He holds it up and examines it in the light. "Stronger than most fox tails, but the bone is a lot denser. That might be the cause. I'll have to look into that later." He slides the tail into a long tube.

Smiling down at the fox, he says, "It's okay, fox demon. This will be over soon. I just need a few more samples.

He releases the fox from its restraints and flips it onto its back. He carefully reattaches the restraints around the remaining limbs. Jit glares pitifully at the ninja and snaps at Orochimaru's finger, biting half of it off. The ninja grunts with pain and very calmly forces the fox's mouth open, but he already swallowed. Jit grins victoriously until Orochimaru's sadistic smile reappears. "It looks like I will just have to get the finger back from your stomach."

Orochimaru readjusts his grip on the knife and slowly cuts from just below the throat, down over the chest, and ending just before the waist. He peels the skin open and pins it to the table with small metal pins. "I am so glad that I decided to kidnap this particular demon," he mumbles to himself. "They can endure so much pain before dying."

"I…can't wait to see…how much pain you suffer before…dying, ninja!" spits Jit haggardly. Every muscle left in his body screams with pain. Orochimaru ignores his yipping and slices into the chest muscle until he reaches the remaining lung. He slowly cuts around it until it is by itself. He lifts it up and watches it inflate and deflate.

"I will leave that for later, fox. After all, I can't have you dying on me just yet, now can I?" he says with his usual creepy smile. Orochimaru wipes his gloves off on the now red surgeon's apron he is wearing. He picks up a small throwing star and uses it to slowly dig into the area near the heart. "I must see how this works," he mutters quietly. Jit is too tired to wiggle, all retorts now gone as pain overwhelms his young mind.

Orochimaru finally finds and cuts away all the tissue surrounding the heart, only the veins and arteries still connected to it. "Very interesting design, fox," he says more to himself than to the fox. "Not all that different from a human heart."

Jit mumbles, "Your heart…eat…"

Unfortunately for Jit, the snake ninja pulls the heart out of the chest cavity and lays it beside the barely alive body. "Now for the eyes," he coos cheerfully.

Less than a mile away:

Kyuubi hears the agonized whimpers of her kit. She stalks forward when the strong scent of kitsune blood reaches her nose. "If a single hair on Jit is injured, I am going to tear whoever did this to him apart!!" she roars.

Inside the underground lab:

Orochimaru ignores the noises of the kit and the shaking of the lab around him as he slices open the fox's skull. He looks at the small brain and chuckles, "And they say foxes are so smart." He shrugs and goes back down to the heart. Using his scalpel, he severs the arteries and veins connecting the heart to the fox, killing him.

Jit thinks as the life fades from his body, "Mom...make him pay." With that, his body stops shaking as the last breath leaves his body.

"Now for the process of classifying and labeling all the parts. This is my least favorite part," Orochimaru says with a frown.

The roof of the lab crumbles and disappears to reveal Kyuubi the Nine Tailed Fox. She stares in horror at her baby. "Jit…" she mutters in horror. Her eyes dart from jar to jar and back to her kit's mutilated body. Her eyes rest on the small man standing next to the table. "You!"

"This would be a good time for a retreat," Orochimaru says flippantly. He races from the room as fast as he can, but is cut off as a thick red tail burrows into the hall in front of him. He turns around and a second tail cuts him off. A third tail erupts under him, forcing the Snake Sannin to leap up into the ceiling. Razor sharp claws tear apart the roof around him until only he is left, on top of her tails. He fires off jutsus at the great Fox Queen to no avail. Every time he tries to escape, the Kyuubi's toxic chakra and her multiple tails cut him off.

"You killed my kit!!" she roars with pure fury. She pins him down with a single claw and uses the tips of her tail to methodically tear apart his organs, forcing miniscule amounts of burning chakra into various parts of his chakra network. He writhes in agony as he feels himself being burned inside out while the tails dissect him. She rips off his head and swallows it with a single gulp. The great demon fox sticks out her tongue and plucks the headband from its sticky surface. A leaf symbol is engraved on the headband.

She picks up the corpse of her beloved baby and cradles it with one of her tails. Fury and sadness course through her very veins. The anguished cry of a mother shakes the earth and is heard for hundreds of miles around. Placing the kit back onto the earth gently, she slams all nine tails into the ground. The shockwaves ripple through the ground quickly, tearing apart anything in it. The hidden lab collapses in on itself as the earth buries it.

Thumping comes from all directions. She looks up from her baby's body to see the quickly nearing forms of her clan members. Her Eight Tailed Fox King leads the twin sister of Jit named Bit and the Four Tailed and the Six Tailed foxes.

She turns her huge head as the other tailed foxes slowly converge on her location. Bit hops onto her father's head and stares down at her twin brother. "What happened to him?" she yips in horror. One of the Eight tails covers her eyes and puts her on the ground.

"Kyuubi," the Seven tails asks respectfully, despite the obvious rage in his voice, "What happened to little brother?"

"He was taken while I was sleeping. I awoke and followed his scent here, but the leaf ninja had already taken him apart and murdered him," Kyuubi snarls furiously. "What kind of creature could do that to him? He was just a baby!"

The Five Tailed fox stares at the corpse for a long moment then looks up Kyuubi. "Let's kill whoever did this to our brother, Mother! They Must Pay!!"

"They shall suffer the wrath of the Fox Clan!" roars the dog sized two tailed fox as loudly as she can.

The Eight and Nine Tailed foxes exchange grief filled glances and turn to the rest of the family. "They will suffer," Kyuubi says as blood red tears drip from her eyes. "Nobody kills one of our own and lives!"

The roars of the enraged Demon Fox Clan shakes the remaining landscape down to its core. They make their way towards the Leaf Village. "Leave none alive," growls the Eight Tailed Fox dangerously.

The Five Tailed fox snarls, "Wouldn't dream of it, father!"

In Konoha:

"Lord Hokage!" an Anbu exclaims as he appears in front of the Fourth Hokage. "The entire demon fox clan is headed this way!"

Minato frowns, "Why?"

"We don't know, sir! But they look mad!" the Anbu replies frantically.

He thinks about it as his frown deepens. "Are all the ninja in this village accounted for?"

A second Anbu appears and bows, "All but two, Sir! Lady Tsunade is gone on Sannin traveling rights granted by the Third Hokage, but Orochimaru is missing."

"Orochimaru, what have you done?" Minato mutters to himself. "Fine, gather Konoha's army and see if we can slow them down enough to reason with them. They must not reach the village."

The Anbu disappear in clouds of smoke. Moments later, ninja are being woken up in the middle of the night with reports of the Foxes coming.

Sarutobi and Jiraiya appear behind Minato. "What are you two doing here?" Minato asks tiredly.

"Your wife is giving birth," Sarutobi answers quietly. "Your son will be born any second now."

Jiriaya nods in agreement. "Surprisingly enough, tonight seems to be a baby boom! Almost every clan are having a child tonight or have had one within this week!"

"How many babies have been born this week?" Minato says as he closes his eyes, dreading the answer.

Sarutobi tilts his head curiously, "Nine, why do you ask?" His answer is a loud sigh.

"The Demon Fox Clan is coming, and they are on the rampage," he says simply.

Jiraiya pales and pulls his summoning scroll from his belt. "I will summon Gamabunta and get to the front lines."

"No," Minato states firmly. "I will summon the Toad Boss and see if I can reason with them. If I can't, then we will at least be prepared to stop them."

"If we can't stop them?" Sarutobi inquires wearily.

Minato turns and stares at him, "Than it is up to you to evacuate the civilians from the village while we slow them down."

The Fourth Hokage watches as ninja leap over or onto the village wall and rush into formations between the Foxes and the village. "May Kami help us all," Jiraiya whispers.

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