The Price of Peace

Disclaimer: I don't own Naruto or Final Fantasy 7

CHAPTER 1

The day our story began, was October 10th, to Minato Namikaze this started off as the best day of his life. The yondaime hokage Minato Namikaze started his day off by finding out that his wife, Kushina Uzumaki/Namikaze, had gone into labor. Minato had prepared for this day. Minato knew his wife was due any day, so he had contacted his parent's Tsunade and Jiraiya of the sannin.

Many people didn't know that Minato had parents; everyone just assumed he was an orphan. Minato himself hardly believed his parents, when he was told that two of the strongest ninjas in history were his parents. Minato had sent out a letter to his parents, requesting his mothers help with Kushina, in anticipation of her labor. Minato had told no one but Hiruzen Sarutobi that the sannin were his parents. So he requested that no one learn of this, in case he made enemies. This was also the reason Minato made sure no one learned of his marriage to Kushina, except his parents and Sarutobi.

Minato started to worry that he had not sent his request for his parents in time. He knew they would arrive to Leaf Village that day, but not until later in the night, leaving Kushina without Tsunade during her delivery. Jiraiya and Tsunade no longer lived in the village because they couldn't bear what had happened there. During the second shinobi world war, Tsunade had lost her brother.

Then later during the third shinobi world war she had lost her best friend Dan. The pain from her losses was hard on her so they left with Tsunades apprentice, Shizune, by their side. Tsunade promised Minato to return every now and again to see him.

At this point, Minato's day had started to get bad. He knew his wife was a jinchuuriki so he had stayed with her during the birth process to keep her seal intact, but then something had gone wrong.

Kushina had just given birth to their son Naruto, when a masked man entered through the barrier Minato set up. The masked man took Naruto away from Kushina so he could take Minatos attention away from her. The masked man did this so he could release and use the kyuubi that Kushina contained to destroy the leaf village.

After the masked man had separated Minato and Kushina, he removed the Kyuubi from Kushina. The second the Kyuubi was released; he attempted to kill the masked man. Minato arrived at the scene to see Kushina clinging on to life. The stress from childbirth and the Kyuubi being removed practically killed her.

Upon moving Kushina and Naruto to a safe place, Minato went to the village to stop the Kyuubi. When he arrived, the masked man approached him and the two engaged in a fight that Minato quickly won. By winning, Minato separated the masked man from the Kyuubi. Here Minato learned that the masked man was Madara Uchiha.

After the Kyuubi was released it started to destroy the village looking for Madara Uchiha. Seeing no other way to save his family and his village from the Kyuubi, Minato made the choice to get Naruto from where he hid him. Minato sealed the Kyuubi into Naruto, which killed him in the process, but before Minato died he thought of everything he had done, everything he wouldn't be able to do, and everything he could have done.

Even after all that had passed through his mind, Minato was proud of all the choices he made. He realized with his dying breath that what he had done was the price he had to pay to maintain the peace, the price being his life.

Jiraiya, Tsunade and Shizune were casually walking towards leaf village, when they noticed a deafening roar and a large amount of youki. Jiraiya and Tsunade looked at each other and had a shared thought 'Kushina'. They quickly sped up towards Leaf village. When they arrived, they saw the quickly fading image of the Kyuubi, and became more worried about Kushina.

When they arrived at the location they saw the Kyuubi disappear, the sight was a hard one to take in. There in front of Jiraiya and Tsunade lay their dead son Minato and a heavily weeping Sarutobi. Tsunade couldn't handle it and walked away with Shizune quickly following her.

After they had left, Jiraiya turned to his sensei Sarutobi and could barely choke out the question "where is Kushina?" Sarutobi had sorrow in his eyes before answering, "She died. The stress from the birth and Kyuubi being removed was too much for her." At this news Jiraiya had to stop himself from breaking down. There was only one thing left he had to ask and the answer very well may be the end of him.

"What about Naruto-Kun? Sarutobi-Sensei" Jiraiya asked. At this Sarutobi finally turned around to face Jiraiya and even in this moment of despair, Jiraiya was able to breathe a sigh of relief. Jiraiya held out his hands and Sarutobi placed Naruto in his grandfather's arms. Jiraiya smiled at the pure face of innocence Naruto had and started to talk, "Hello Naruto-Kun it's nice to finally meet you" at this noise Naruto woke up and Jiraiya saw the bluest eyes he had ever seen. Naruto giggled and held out his hand and started to open and close it until Jiraiya leaned down and Naruto grabbed a lock of his hair and tugged causing Jiraiya great pain.

Once Naruto had fallen back asleep, Jiraiya looked to his sensei with an extremely serious face and flatly said "Tsunade and I are taking Naruto with us out of the village." Sarutobi would have refuted but saw Jiraiya's face. They had come to a compromise "at least bring Naruto-Kun back for the genin exam so he can be a ninja of the village and make friends." Jiraiya looked at him for a bit before he nodded, "very well." With that Jiraiya left to find Tsunade and Shizune so they could leave.