Whirlpool of Sound.

Inspired by : The Uzumaki Otokage by Vanex, who had taken up a challenge from Mystic 6 Tailed Naruto

Kushina could not believe her eyes as her loving husband finished sealing the giant demon fox in front of them into their newborn son. Completely ignoring her pleas for the beast to be sealed within herself to destroy both herself and the beast.

Despite being exhausted from having the beast ripped out of her, and holding down the beast for her husband to seal it away, she slowly staggered her way to the ceremonial throne where her baby boy laid wailing to the uncaring heavens.

"Dammit Minato" she grunted out as she saw the spiral design of the seal on the boys stomach. Still trying to comprehend the man she loved between the man that ruthlessly told her Konoha needed a jinchūriki. "What was I to you…" she silently whimpered as she fell to her knees next to her newborn son. "…a wife to be loved or just a way to keep Konoha's weapon loyal"

Several thuds alerted her to ninja's landing close by, raising her gaze from her son, she saw Danzo and several men with blank masks. "Oh all the old men that could find me…" Kushina cursed under her breath. She might not like Hiruzen for the neglect towards her homeland, but she really, really didn't like Danzo the warhawk. And she already had a solid idea what the sorry excuse of humanity was thinking the way he eyed her son.

Before she could raise a protest and defend her son, darkness engulfed her.

As Danzo ordered his men to take the fourth's Hokage wife away. He knelt down beside the crying boy, inspecting the masterpiece on the stomach. Pleased that the young 4th Hokage at least made a new jinchuriki with such a strong heritage. He was almost giddy with the idea of molding the boy into Konoha's ultimate weapon.

"DANZO!"

Muffling a curse, he turned around to see his rival Sarutobi Hiruzen approach with a squad of ANBU. "What are you doing here" Hiruzen asked with a scowl.

"I was inspecting the seal Hiruzen" Danzo replied coolly, a believable excuse, being one of the best seal users after the 4th and his master Jiraya.

The deepening of the scowl and the frigid look in Hiruzen's eyes told Danzo he didn't buy it.

"And?" Hiruzen asked, keeping up public appearances for the approaching forces.

"The seal is a masterpiece, the boy is the container of the Kyuubi no Yoko" Danzo spoke a bit too loudly for everyone to hear, omitting the fact that the beast would be perfectly contained, leaving the more clueless members of the crowd to make their own conclusions.

'With a bit of pushing, confusion will turn to hatred, and Hiruzen will be forced to hand the boy over to me' Danzo though with an inward smirk, and judging by the gritting of Hiruzen's teeth, he knew Danzo's game.

Hiruzen walked away from the orphanage he just left Konoha's newest jinchūriki. Deep in thought, he wondered where Kushina was, to his paining heart they already found his wife Biwako buried beneath the rubble where Kushina gave birth. As family centric the Uzumaki's where, he was certain Kushina would not abandon her son.

It was just one of the many questions of the painful long night however, why did the seal break while Minato was there? How did Kyuubi so suddenly appear next to the great walls? A beast of such stature would be heard, seen and felt through the ground as it approached.

Yet somehow, the beast appeared next to the walls, like somebody summoned it. But no-one could summon Kyuubi… right?

Several weeks later: Underground hideout.

'A calculated risk' Danzo reminded himself as he, and two of his strongest ROOT waited in the dark room for a snake to appear.

"ku ku ku ku" Rang through the room, the haunting sound appearing from a pale snakelike man.

"Orochimaru"

"Danzo" Orochimaru replied "You have an intriguing request" the man spoke smoothly "But what do I get in return?"

In response, Danzo gestured to his men, one of which opened a large scroll, with a poof and a gust of smoke. Kushina lay before them.

"I have heard you are collecting people with Uzumaki blood for some reason" Danzo spoke, before he could go on, he was interrupted by the snake man "Live Uzumaki Danzo, with Kyuubi's appearance a couple of weeks ago, which sadly failed to destroy the village…" Orochimaru spoke with a mock sigh "…she is quite dead, jinchūriki don't survive the loss of their beast after all."

"Wrong"

Orochimaru eyes widened in surprise, and slowly made it towards the woman's body, expertly taking her vital signs, and to his surprise and joy, the wife of his rival for the Hokage seat was alive.

"ku ku ku ku" Orochimaru chuckled in joy "I accept your offer Danzo, come back in two weeks here, and I will give you the mokuton implant."

Nodding in agreement, Danzo watched the snake pick up the woman and disappear into the shadows.

"The roots must be strong for the leafs to prosper" Danzo spoke to himself.

Several more weeks later: Orochimaru's hideout.

With a cough and a curse Orochimaru checked the last ditch attempt to save his life. And once again, despite the prime specimen used, it had failed. His quest to immortality would ironically claim his life.

Cursing all way as he walked towards his study, Orochimaru was for once lost at what he could do. Ever since the takeover of his first host body, he knew something had gone wrong, and now he was slowly dying, every day he could feel his life force slowly leak out of him.

His first attempt to avoid that fate with to jump to another body, but nothing changed. After several other attempts he found out it only fastened the process, each take over harder than the first. Unsure if he could survive another one, he tried other things, medicine, experiments and artifacts.

But nothing worked.

As a last attempt he tried to tap into the potent life force of the Uzumaki clan. Sadly the said clan was betrayed during the second shinobi war, left to die by Konoha as Kiri and Kumo descended upon the strong island nation like a large pack of wolves after the village suffered significant casualties aiding Konoha.

And instead of aiding Uzushio like Uzushio aided Konoha, Hiruzen decided to let the whirlpool spin to its end. Konoha already had a new young jinchuriki host, and saw no further reason to aid their longtime allies.

Finding survivors was hard, long work. In the end he found two, both where however not related to the main family that truly enjoyed the benefits of the clan. So when Danzo came around with the princess of the main family, whose body was further strengthened by whatever Bjuu do to make their hosts stronger, Orochimaru was sure he found a solution.

But it wasn't.

That meant in half a dozen or so years Orochimaru would die. The very thought of that spouted another stream of curses from the normally composed man.

After a while, Orochimaru calmed down again and started to think about his future calmly. The time he had left was too short to properly build up a force to could destroy Konoha. Attempting to entice Iwa into attacking their archenemy was unlikely, they were rebuilding themselves from the damage the Yellow Flash did. Kumo suffered from a recent Bjuu rampage themselves. And Kiri was at the verge of civil war and Suna where Konoha's allies and had no reason to poke the giant. Always having been the weakest of the great five after the second war.

That meant he had to make a successor of his legacy.

"But who" Orochimaru murmured to himself as he leafed through his personnel files. Kabuto, the young genius came to mind, but Orochimaru did not trust the boy. The others were not that brilliant or had no reason to burn the leaf.

'Unless' Orochimaru thought 'I tell them half and full truths to make them hate the leaf' Chuckling to himself, he walked back to his lab, and soon started to awake a certain redhead.

Kushina groaned as she came to, her body feeling weak and stiff. Instead of the expected white from a hospital ceiling, she saw a dark roof. "Where am I?" the woman managed to croak out.

"Welcome to my hideout Kushina" a voice spoke silkily.

"Orochimaru" she spat as soon she saw the well-known snake traitor. In response, the man merely chuckled. "Why did you kidnap me" she demanded hotly as she tried to pull herself up.

"I did not kidnap you" Orochimaru replied smoothly. Hearing the disbelieving snort "People in the leaf where more than happy to hand you over in exchange for my services."

At this Kushina's eyes widened, replayed her most recent memories before coming to a conclusion "Danzo" she growled.

"Correct" Orochimaru mock praised. He wanted to speak more, but the woman before him started panicking,

"My son, what about my son?! Did that one-eyed bastard get his hands on my son?!"

"Your son?" Orochimaru blinked in confusion, before connecting the dots "The 4th used his own son" he chuckled out before taken by surprise by the death-glare from Kushina.

"That bastard lost his right to be my sons father the moment he decided to seal the kyuubi into my son for Konoha" Kushina spat as she wobbly got off the slab she lay upon.

"I need to find Naruto" Kushina spoke as she tried to hobble to the exit, before she was pushed back into the slab.

"It's far too late for that. "Orochimaru spoke calmly "The sealing happened nearly two months ago" At this Kushina's eyes widened in fear.

"Furthermore" Orochimaru plowed on "Do you truly think Danzo would allow you to return to Konoha?" The fire in Kushina's eyes told him she hardly cared. 'Time too bend the truth a bit' Orochimaru chuckled in his mind.

"Or Hiruzen for that matter" Orochimaru continued, taking delight in Kushina's confusion. "While he kept the boy out of Danzo's paws, he did spread the fact the boy is Kyuubi's jinchuriki." Kushina's gasp told him she knew exactly how hard the boy life would be.

Meanwhile Orochimaru took a mock thinking pose "It's almost like… he wants to give Konoha a scapegoat." Egging Kushina on to make the wrong conclusions, by the time she figured it out, he would be dead anyways.

"So what do you want from me?" Kushina demanded, motherly rage getting the better of her. "Turn me into an experiment?!"

Orochimaru shakes his head "I have much bigger plans for you Kushina" Seeing her enraged expression, he held up his hands in a pacifying gesture "I want you to become my successor"

The statement shocked Kushina from her rage "Why?"

"I am dying Kushina" Orochimaru responded calmly "I made a fatal error, and death is the price"

"Why me?"

"Because my time is short, and your potential is great"

"Then what about lackey's or Anko, as your abandoned student she would make a better successor?" Kushina pressed. At Anko's name Orochimaru's face darkened. "I did not abandon her, she made her choice to delay my pursuers."

"Then why do her memories claim otherwise?" Kushina asked skeptically, at this Orochimaru rolled his eyes.

"The Yamanaka clan can do more than just enter your mind, removing, adding and altering memories is child's play for experienced users."

"Oh" was the intelligent response.

Deciding to push her more "I am currently building my own village with respective forces, furthermore I already have spies in the leaf"

Seeing Kushina was catching on, he pushed on "I can order them to keep an eye out on your baby boy, and when you become my successor, you can take that power to take back your son. Perhaps even take revenge on Hiruzen for what he did to Uzushio"

Seeing the woman deep in thought, he asked once more

"So Kushina, will you become my successor?"

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…..

"I will"