Okay this is another one I am revamping.

It has already been removed on my other account and now it will be on this one. With a new name, formerly called A Life for a Life, it will now be called Guidance of a Father

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They say energy is infinite that it never quits over time. That is very true. Energy is much like that. But there is a rare exception every so often.

When two identical amounts of energy meet at the same time, there is a stall as they push at one another. Push to go forward to grow stronger...and sometimes they merge.

That is when miracles happen.

Sound Invasion, Konoha…

Knowing he is dying as he had just sealed two kages not to mention Orichimaru's arms. Hiruzen was tired and actually feeling happy that his time has come. With the unfortunate death of Minato before this, he sincerely hopes that his successor will look after the man's son. Naruto did not have an easy life and he knows the boy will mourn his death. Having done the best he can for the young blonde boy, he looked forward to seeing him grow even in death alongside the knucklehead's father.

Now as he watches the death god coming for him, both he is startled as something to the side opens. Crackling with power a window of some sorts opens. Fully recognizing what he sees as the battlefield was all to familiar from long ago. He sees the forms of his long gone friend and his wife who died to protect their child and home from annihilation. Already hearing the cries of the child that lies with them, signifying somehow he knows he is alone.

That is when the Shinigami speaks and that he should listen.

Human despite the deal you have with me he still lives albeit barely, his soul has not fully left him as there is a reluctance to go. The woman is gone already for I feel her joining me with great reluctance. But the man is not. I only require two souls. One for each summoning of myself.

You mean you will take me instead of Minato. But how time has passed and we….

Time is immaterial for me. I will bring his soul here and take yours instead. Your body will change and become his. Even now aide that comes for you will be here soon. Will you accept

Knowing full well of what could happen and what could change with the presence of this man in the village. The only answer that the elderly shinobi could come up with was simple. There is much Minato could do to straighten things. But most of all, the man would be there for someone who needs him now more then ever.

His son

Yes

As the being takes him to his resting place, he sees a familiar friend who even now is pulled from the past and re-emerges where he himself once lay. Even now the body stretching and becoming unrecognizable, the same with the one in the past, Hiruzen smiles as he notices a flame haired woman comes to him.

Her eyes bright and in tears, she hugs him while saying two words over and over.

Thank you

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Konoha, invasion aftermath

All shinobi and citizens running around trying to find the survivors, there were those digging out those trapped in the rubble. All unaware of the changing not to far, it took a young blonde girl by the name of Ino Yamanka to find the man dying on the stadium steps. Not to far from where the Kages sat, it would be assumed it was one of the many other shinobi who lay there partially disfigured from the battle.

Detecting signs of chakra and a pulse, the young girl hollers for some help. Only moments later the medics grab the man and wraps him in chakra holding bandages to keep it within him. Knowing full well he could be dying without it. Even noticing the blood from his chest, he was critical and if they had any chance to save him, they had to work fast.

As they transport him to join other critically injured, they never notice the gray hair turning blonde. Nor the moaning of names that for some if they heard would shock...even surprise them.

Kushina...Naruto...