"Congratulations"

"…what?"

"Your due date is October 10!" the doctor said.

"Dattebane!"

At that point, I felt so much elation. Minato and I are going to have our first child! I couldn't wait to go back home and tell him.

"Huh? A baby?" Minato asked.

"I'm going to be a mother, dattebane!" Kushina exclaimed.

"And I'm going to be a father" Minato said, still in disbelief.

"A mother, dattebane!"

"I'm going to be a father!"

"A mother, dattebane!"

"Imagine that, I'm going to be a father!"

Both Minato and Kushina laughed and hugged each other in elation; although not too tight, so as to not kill the baby.

The next few months were the best of the couple's lives. Trying to come up with names for their son, figuring out space in their apartment about where to put their baby, and plus, let's not forget all the clothes that the next Uzumaki baby will have.

By the time the beginning of October came around, Jiraiya came to stop by for a visit while Minato was reading his first book.

"OOO, You're reading my Tale of the Gutsy Ninja, huh? But it's still unfinished. The sentences are still childish, and the quality of the rest is bad." Jiraiya said.

"No, that's not true. The main character is amazing!" Minato replied.

"Oh?"

"Every episode feels like it's a part of your own life, Sensei. It's almost like an autobiography."

"Maybe so, but it didn't sell at all…Maybe next time I should use my strong point, and add in more erotic material."

"The way the main character never gave up, not even at the end, was really cool. The character is just like you, Sensei."

"You think so?"

"So, I was thinking…"

"Huh?" Jiraiya was puzzled about what Minato could possibly want from this book.

"When our baby is born, we want to raise it to be like the main character. So would it be okay if we named the baby after the main character in your book?" Minato asked.

Jiraiya, beyond surprised, exclaimed, "Hey, are you sure you guys want that? It's a name I came up with while eating ramen."

"Naruto"

Kushina came into the kitchen where the two were talking.

"It's a beautiful name." She smiled and blushed a little at the name.

"Kushina…"

Then Jiraiya laughed while scratching the back of his head. "If I name him, that makes me his Godfather, huh? Are you sure about that?"

"You're my sensei after all. You're a man with true skill. I can't think of a finer ninja than you." Minato reasoned.

"However, if you tell my son about your Icha Icha series books, then I will personally murder you." Kushina threatened. That threat wiped the shocked look off Jiraiya's face into horror.

"A-all right." Jiraiya stuttered nervously. It wasn't the first time that he was really nervous around Kushina, that's for sure.

Soon after the meeting, on October 10th, Kushina and Minato met with the Sandaime and his wife, Biwako, to go over some protocol for delivering a Jinchuriki baby. They had to meet in the cave outside of the village and set up some barriers, including a sound proof barrier. The Sandaime even assigned some of his personal ANBU to guard the couple.

On their way to the cave, Kushina ran into Uchiha Mikoto, who had already given birth to Sasuke earlier in the year.

However, when they finally reached the cave, Kushina's water already broke and she was intense pain. Unfortunately for Biwako, she had to carry Kushina the last half mile, which was a real feat considering how heavy she was.

"It's HURTS, DATTEBANE!" Kushina yelled. Thank goodness for the sound proof barrier, because Konoha could have heard her without it.

Right now, Kushina was lying down on who knows what with Minato desperately trying to keep the Kyuubi's seal from completely becoming undone.

"Um, I've never seen Kushina in so much pain. Is she…all right?" Minato nerviously asked.

"Oh course she's alright. Never mind that. Just stay focused on the Kyuubi's seal!" Biwako said. Meanwhile, Kushina continued to scream in pain.

"But, she's…" Minato nervously pleaded.

"You are the Yondaime Hokage! Act like one! A man would have dropped dead from such pain long ago. But women are strong!" Biwako reassured.

However, outside the cave, a strange man with a brown mask with black stripes and a black outfit finished off the final ANBU guard.

'Now, to capture the Kyuubi, and maybe even an added bonus' the man thought as he slipped through the cave's walls.

Finally, after so much pain, the couple could finally hear the screams of their new baby as he exited the womb. Feeling so much relief and joy at the same time, the couple relaxed for a little bit and looked onward at their son.

"Naruto…I finally get to see you" Kushina said weakly, still recovering from all the pain that came with the birth of her son. Minato proudly looked on as the baby was taken away momentarily to be cleaned off.

"All right, I know you've been through hell, but I'm going to completely seal the Kyuubi!" Minato said.

At that moment, however, Biwako and her assistant, Taji, were taken out by the masked man.

"Yondaime Hokage Minato, step away from the Jinchuriki. Otherwise, I will steal your son one minute after his birth" the masked man threatened.

'How did he get past the barrier and take out the Hokage's ANBU?' Minato thought.

At that point, the seal on the Kyuubi looked like it couldn't hold a fly. And it was only getting worse. Torn between his wife and his won, Minato looked frantically at the masked man, while trying to figure out a plan to save them both.

Once again the masked man threatened, "Get away from the Jinchuriki." He slowly started to back away towards the exit when Minato shouted, "Wait! Calm down!"

"Speak for yourself. I'm as calm as I can be, Minato."

As he started to run off, Minato flashed right in front of him and attempted to hit him. Upon doing so, he realized that he was passing right through him and his attack had no effect. However, he was able to rescue his son and flashed off upon discovering that the blanket holding Naruto was covered in exploding tags that were seconds away from going off. Quickly he flashed back to his home, where he laid Naruto to rest on the blankets prepared for his room.

"Naruto, you stay here. I have to go rescue your mother." Minato whispered.

Meanwhile, the masked man prepared to remove the Kyuubi from Kushina in a remote area.

"What do you want?" Kushina asked.

"I'm going to pull the Kyuubi out from you and destroy Konoha" the masked man replied calmly.

Kushina gasped. "What?"

"Because of your recent childbirth, the Kyuubi's seal has weakened dramatically. Now, extracting the Kyuubi from you will be a piece of cake. Do you know how long I have waited for this moment?"

With that, the masked man placed a genjutsu on the Kyuubi and ordered it to come out.

"Good. Now we head straight to Konoha" the masked man said.

Somehow, after the Kyuubi was extracted, Kushina was still alive. "Hold it" Kushina weakly threatened him.

"You Uzumaki ninja are amazing. Even after the bijuu is extracted, you are still alive. Wouldn't it be fitting for the Kyuubi to destroy its former container?" the masked man asked rhetorically.

However, as the Kyuubi attacked Kushina with the final blow, Minato was able to flash in and rescue her. Not long after, he flashed back to their home so that she could rest with Naruto at her side.

"Minato, thank you. Good luck." Kushina said weakly.

"I'll be right back" Minato said.

As the Kyuubi continued to attack the village, Minato finally arrived to on top of Hokage mountain at the peak of the Kyuubi's assault.

However, as soon as he arrived, the Kyuubi fired a Bijuu Dama right at Hokage Mountain. Using his Flying Raijin Jutsu, Minato sent it out of the village to the local mountain range.

However, the masked man got behind Minato before he could report to the Sandaime about what has happened. Wanting to counter, Minato swung his kunai into the man's face, or so he thought. Actually, his hand slipped through his entire body.

'How did I miss from point-blank range?' Minato thought.

Suddenly, the man grabbed him by the arm and started to suck him into another dimension. Wanting to escape quickly, Minato flashed behind the mountain into a desolate forest area when he first rescued Naruto.

'My attack missed. But then he materialized and tried to drag me in.' Minato thought about his opponent.

Suddenly, the masked man appeared before his eyes using a similar teleportation jutsu like Minato's, except for the fact that he goes into another dimension.

"Why are you doing this?" Minato asked.

"Why?" the masked man replied, "Well…you could say for fun, you could also say it's for war or it's for peace.

'This man has some dangerous ideology. There's no way I can go back to Konoha because he will just follow me there, and the entire battlefield will become chaotic. I just have to defeat him here and now' Minato thought as he started to race over to the masked man, who followed suit. Minato's first attack intended to ram the kunai into his body, but once again he slipped through the masked man and ended up caught in the chains the man wore on his wrists. Before he would use his jutsu, Minato flashed to another kunai on the ground.

'He intends on trying to suck me into him after materializing into his own body. However, the risk of his attack is right when he materializes. Therefore, the winner of this match will be the one who is the second faster.' Minato again charged right at the masked man; although, this time he threw his kunai right at his head, expecting it to pass through. He then created a Rasengan in his right hand waiting for the man to materialize. As soon as the kunai passed through his head, the man indeed grabbed Minato's arm.

'I win' the masked man thought.

His thoughts were interrupted, however, when Minato flashed to the kunai he just threw and slammed the Rasengan into the masked man, creating a shunshin marking on his back. As the man retreated back a little, his injury started to catch up to him. His arm was hurt badly, which made him release his hand from his body.

"I must say, you got me. I shouldn't have let my guard…" the masked man as he was interrupted once again when Minato flashed right in front of him, creating a contract seal on the man.

"With this, the Kyuubi is no longer yours." Minato said. At that instant, the Uchiha's genjutsu on the Kyuubi was released and its eyes returned to their original shape.

The masked man gave up, retreating back into his teleportation jutsu. As he was leaving, he gave Minato these last words.

"I must hand it to the Yondaime Hokage. You wounded me and managed to separate me from the Kyuubi. However, the Kyuubi and Naruto's Rinnegan will eventually become mine. I am going to rule the world, and there are so many ways to go about doing that." With that, the masked man disappeared from view.

"That tone of his, he's no joking around, but how does he know that Naruto can unlock the Rinnegan?' Minato thought. However, he needed to rush back to the town, while the others were distracting the Kyuubi.

They had managed to drive the Kyuubi outside the village, thanks to the help of the Sandaime and Enma. However, the Kyuubi was creating another Bijuu Dama, and nobody could stop it. Suddenly, Minato flashed on top of the Kyuubi with his summon, Bunta, before the Kyuubi could fire it on the village.

Finally, Minato was able to flash the Kyuubi out of the village, and this time he brought Naruto and Kushina together with him. Kushina was able to bind the Kyuubi with her chakra chains extending out her back. This, however, woke up Naruto as he started to cry again.

"Did I wake you up, Naruto? Sorry, "Kushina said quietly. Then she turned her attention to her husband, "I'm going to pull in the Kyuubi with me in my death. That way we can delay the revival of the Kyuubi. I'll be able to save of you with the little amount of chakra I have left." She had to catch her breath a little bit as she continued, "Thank you for everything you've done for me."

Naruto started to stop crying as Minato pleaded with Kushina, "Kushina…don't worry. You don't need to die in order to save us." Kushina looked up with an astonished look on her face. What possible seal could stop the Kyuubi and save the village? Unless…

"Because I've been able to develop a new fuuinjutsu that can seal the Kyuubi into Naruto, and you don't have to die at the same time," Minato explained. "We can seal with the Hakke Fuuin jutsu, and but we have to use the Death Reaper Seal."

"But, won't you die in return?"

"No, he won't have to."

The two spun their heads around to see that Uchiha Shisui had broken through their barrier and was walking toward them.

"I see you two truly care about your son, and I know my life is ending soon, so I'll do it" Shisui reasoned.

"Wait a minute, I thought you drowned years ago! How are you still alive?" Minato questioned.

"It doesn't matter right now. Besides, I'll be able to give this boy the power of the Rinnegan when he grows older. You see, when the powers of the Uchiha and Senju and combined, then the person has the ability to obtain the Rinnegan. Not only do I save your lives, but grant your son a new power. I'm about to die anyway" Shisui explained.

'So does that mean the masked man predicted all this would happen?' Minato thought. However, he personally knew that Shisui would do any mission for Konoha, so he knew he wouldn't dare to betray his village. "Fine then. Do as you wish."

"Thank you, Yondaime, Kushina-sama."

Shiki Fuujin, Hakke Fuuin (Reaper Death Seal, Eight Trigrams Seal)