Prologue

Disclaimer; I do not own Naruto

Deep within a dark cave in an unknown land, an old man could be heard coughing harshly. The old man sitting on a chair with several cables connected to his back, he had frail wrinkled skin, long dull white hair that hung freely on his face, with a bang covering his left eye. His only visible eye was a deep red colour with three black tomoes in them. The old man slowly raised his right hand as though signalling someone, a few seconds later, the ground in front of him slowly rose upwards, and a plant like figure immerged.

"You called Madara-sama?" The plant like man asked in a deep dark voice.

"Zetsu, when is he going to attack?" The now named Madara asked. Not refereeing as to who this 'he' was.

"On the day the jinchuriki gives birth. Two weeks from now, the seal will be at its weakest at that moment" Zetsu replied. Madara nodded his head and dismissed the black Zetsu.

'Two more weeks before my successor shall be conceived' he thought with a bit of excitement. He suddenly hunched forward in a coughing fit, bring his hand forward, he grimaced at the sight of blood on his hand. Setting himself on his throne like chair, he looked down at his frail body with his Sharingan and frowned.

'Not much time left' he thought bitterly.

Some might say that he already had a successor in Obito, however that was not so. While he might have trained Obito and manipulated him into continuing with his 'plan' or so to speak, Obito was but a stepping stone for him to further his goals. Someone he would cast aside when his 'grand plan' was at play. He wanted someone of his own blood, someone who would one day surpass him in his prime, someone to carry on his blood.

'Who knows, he might even provide me with a good dance when the time comes'

So when he heard about Kushina Uzumaki being pregnant with triplets, he could help but be giddy at the thought of one of them being his successor. Being the child of a jinchuriki, an Uzumaki no less! The child of the famed Fourth Hokage and Kushina Uzumaki, the child was bound to be brimming with so much potential. He would inject the child with his and Hashirama's DNA, should the child survives, he would become a force unlike any other, a god amongst men! A true successor to Madara Uchiha

A small chuckle escaped from his old dried lips, which soon turned into a dark, loud, laugh that rang throughout the small dark cave.

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-Two Weeks Later-

"Ahhhhh!" The pained screams of a woman giving birth could be heard."Damn you Namikaze Minato! I'm going to remove that thing that makes you a man!" the red haired woman shouted again.

"Come on Kushi-chan just a little bit more" replied a very nervous and very worried blond haired man, who was by her side holding her hand.

"DON'T KUSHI-CHAN ME YOU-ahhhhh!" her pained runt was cut off when she felt all the pain she was feeling greatly relieved. The sounds of three babies crying brought the panting, exhausted, Kushina back to reality. She opened her blurry eyes and saw two nurses hold three blankets in their arms.

"Congratulation you gave birth to three-"whatever the nurse was going to say was cut off when a kunai lunged into her head, killing her instantly. A swirl like ripple suddenly appeared in the air, and before they could even question what it was; a man wearing a black cloak with an orange mask, with a single eye hole suddenly appeared from the ripple. And he had somehow gotten one of the children and was pointing a kunai at the young infant.

"Step away from the jinchuriki or this baby dies at the tender age of 3 minutes" the man demanded. Pushing the kunai closer to the child

"N-Now let's all come down" Minato said nervously, his mind racing through the many possible ways to save his child and family.

"I'm perfectly calm, maybe you should take your own advice!" The masked man responded back and to the horror of the two new parents, he threw the child in his arms in the air.

"Minato!" Kushina shouted in horrified alarm. Minato jumped from his position and in a display of speed worthy of his title, he disappeared and instantly reappeared in mid air, with his child in his arms. His eyes widened in horror when he heard the sounds of burning explosives tags, he saw that the explosive tags were tied to his child's blanket. Without a moment to waste, he quickly removed the explosive notes and disappeared from the house, to get them away from his wife and his other two new born children.

He reappeared a second later in one of his well hidden safe houses and placed the crying infant in a small little baby crib,

"Stay safe...Naruto" he said lovingly. A second later he vanished in a bright yellow flash. Moments later after Minato had disappeared, a dark clocked figure slowly made his way towards the child. He stopped right next to where the child was and hovered above him, blood red eyes glowed momentarily as the man looked at the child. The man gave a small nod, confirming something, before his eyes stopped glowing and he reached into the pockets of his coat.

He took out two injections from the pockets in his cloak, both with a red liquid in inside each. He took hold of the first syringe and injected it into the infant, the young child cried even louder in obvious pain, but the man ignored it. He took the second syringe and repeated the same processes. When he was done, he disappeared into nothingness, as though he was never there to begin with.

-Three Months Later-

Three months had passed since the masked man had released the kyuubi from the weakened Kushina, and summoned it in the middle of the village. A lot of people were killed; ninja and civilian alike, none were spared. The day marked the greatest disaster in the history of the Hidden Leaf Village. With the majority of the outer sector of the village being destroyed, and thousands of lives lost, the great Hidden Village had a long way to go before it could reach its former glory.

The Third Hokage, Heruzin Sarutobi, sacrificed himself and used the Shuki fujin to summon the death god and sealed the kyuubi within an infant, Hitomi Namikaze. He sealed the Yin half of the Kyuubi within the Death God's stomach and the Yang half within Hitomi.

Kushina spent two months in the hospital, recovering from childbirth and having the kyuubi forcefully extracted from her. Only a few people were told about Hitomi being the new jinchuriki of the strongest Bijuu. Everyone else were told that the Third Hokage died dragging the kyuubi with him into the Shanigami's stomach, which technically wasn't a lie, simply a half truth.

Whilst everything seemed to be going well, as the village was being slowly rebuilt and getting back to its feet, all was not well in the Namikaze household. The youngest child of Minato and Kushina Namikaze, Namikaze Naruto, was terminally sick. When Minato had come back to take Naruto from the safe house, after saving him from the masked man, 3 three months ago, he found him pale and breathing heavily.

Minato quickly rushed to the hospital to find help for his son, however even their best Medics couldn't find what exactly was wrong with the child. Jiraya had once suggested that maybe it was because Naruto's body had become reliant on the kyuubi's chakra within the womb and without it, was shutting down or was not function well, however that idea had quickly been shot down; if that had been the case then why was it that Hikari (their second child) was not suffering the same fate?.

In desperation to find a cure for his son, Minato had sent Jiraya to find and bring Tsunade back to the village. If anyone could find what was wrong with his son and cure him, it was her. That is where we currently find them now, in the hospital room with Tsunade standing in front of the bed where a baby Naruto was lying. He was plugged into several machines, cables and had a breathing mask on him. Hs small body was frail with very light pale skin; on top of his head a mash of bushy blood red hair could be seen.

He looked to be at death's door and the only thing keeping alive being the beeping machines that he was connected to.

"Shizune!" Tsunade called. A brown haired girl, who looked to be at least 9 years old, rushed into the room holding a large file in her hands.

"Yes Tsunade-sama?" The girl practically squeaked out.

"Get me his files; I want to see all the results of his blood test" Tsunade asked, as he ran her glowing hands over Naruto. Shizune handed the large file that was in her hands to her. Tsunade took the file and started looking through all the pages. After a little while, she closed the file and addressed the worried family ( who were looking at her intensely) with a serious face.

Tsunade saw Jiraya, who was leaning on the widow with arms crossed and a grim look on his face. Minato was holding his two daughters and looking at Naruto worriedly, Kushina however was the worst of all. Her hair was a mess; her eyes were puffy and red, showing that she had been crying, she had dark rings around her eyes. She was sitting on a chair which was right next to her son's side, looking at him with worry, love and guilt.

Tsunade coughed into her hand to gain all their attention, Kushina jolted up from her seat and looked at her, Minato moved a bit so that he was facing her.

"Shizune, could you leave us for a while" Shizune looked at Tsunade and was about to object, but when she saw her serious face she nodded her head and left the room. She knew better than to question her master when she was serious, whatever was going on had to be very important for her master to not only kick HER out but to be this serious, Tsunade rarely ever became serious

After making sure that no one was listening in on them and that her apprentice was out of earshot, Tsunade finally spoke.

"Your son is suffering from what I can tell, is that his body was injected someone's DNA, two people to be exact" she began. Everyone in the room gasped, she waited for a few seconds to allow them to digest what she had just said before she continued.

"His body is rejecting the new DNA, which is why he is in this state. By all rights he should have died, during the first few hours that his body had come into contact with the new DNA. However, because of his strengthened healing factor, his body has slowly been accepting the new DNA combining it with his own. His Uzumaki genes and a small amount of the kyuubi's charka within his body can been thanked for that" Tsunade finished. The room as silent for a few seconds before-

"WHAT!? YOU MEAN TO TELL ME THAT SOMEONE DID THIS TO HIM? I SWEAR TO KAMI, WHEN I GET MY HANDS ON THAT SON OF-"

"Kushina!" Minato called out, before said woman could continue with her murderous, angry, runt.

Kushina looked at her husband with anger clearly visible on her tired face. She saw the serous and worried expression on his usually calm face, he looked down at their sleeping daughters in his arms. The two babies stirred a bit from the noise and looked as though they were going to wake up, after a few seconds of waiting the two calmed down and went back to sleep.

"But that makes no sense, why would anyone do such a thing. More importantly who did it?" Jiraya asked, standing up straight and speaking for the first time.

"Whoever did it had to be someone very powerful to be able to break into my safe house without my notice, or it was someone close to us who knew about Kushina giving birth and the location of where she gave birth" Minato speculated, his eyes narrowing in deep thought.

"Oh? Why is that?" Jiraya asked

"When Kushina and I were separated, I took Naruto to one of my secret safe house, not even my personal ANBU guard knows about. The house is surrounded by several barrier seals that make it nearly impossible for anyone to enter that house without a special key that only me and Kushina have, not only that but anyone that tries to enter the house will set off an alarm that will worn me" everyone became silent after that, before Kushina spoke.

"Maybe it was the 'masked man', he managed to break into a house guarded by the best ANBU in the village and took naruto before any of us could even notice. His ability to teleport anywhere and become intangible would allow him to easily get inside" Kushina suggested. Minato shook his head negatively

"It couldn't have been him. I was with him during the whole ordeal"

"Maybe he sent a clone whilst he fought you" Jiraya added

"Whatever the case may be, it still doesn't explain why they did it" Minato replied with a frustrated sigh.

"Can you tell us who's DNA was used Tsunade-sama?" Kushina suddenly asked, bringing everyone's attention to the blond Sannin. Tsunade opened the file she was holding and skipped past a few pages before stopping at a seemingly random page. She was silent for a while as she read through the information on the page, Everyone watched as she suddenly froze, her eyes widened and she started going over the page again and again, until she dropped the file altogether.

"W-What does it say?" Kushina asked worriedly, after seeing her reaction.

"The results show that your son was injected with the DNA of Senju Hashirama and Uchiha Madara. Both DNA have almost completely merged with his own" Tsunade said. Her body was shacking slightly and Jiraya was doing the perfect impression of a gaping fish.

"It also show that the DNA will fully merge within two months, by then he can in all accounts, be considered as a Senju, Uchiha, Uzumaki and Namikaze"

"Talk about a long surname" Jiraya added jokingly. However no one even paid mind to him, all of them were still frozen in shock from what they had just heard.