Seals of Fate

For every action there is an accompanying reaction. A timeline is a series of events that comprises a story, to alter one event could have drastic consequences on all events going forward and even have some effects on events going back if the butterfly effect is taken into account for the lead up to the alteration. Or you could just have a few small, inconsequential happenings due to the newly induced changes. You never know really until you explore it, because those small inconsequential happenings could snowball into a catastrophe, or fizzle out anti-climatically. Our story takes place in the world of the shinobi, the world of Naruto, similar to the world that we all know, however this world's history is drastically altered by a few event going differently. Obito's supposed death never occurring but an event causing him to gain his Mangekyo nonetheless is the one of the primary changes, occurring before the start. An altered mission that originally resulted in the death of Rin and Obito going insane as a result, is the second major change. There are smaller changes as well, changes done previous to our starting point, which itself an in medias res beginning with Rin coming to after being rescued after Sanbi implantation. Let's see how things go.

Disclaimer: I do not own Naruto, Naruto is owned by Kishimoto. Haku and Zabuza would have survived the Land of Waves if I owned Naruto. Beyond that, I don't know what I would do with them.

Chapter 1

Prologue and Commencement

Birth of a new path

Pain.

That was all Rin could feel as the blackness the Kiri nins had put her in while implanting the Sanbi into her receded.

She could see 3 figures gathered around her as she laid in a bed that was most likely in an inn. Her teacher Minato as well as her teammates Hatake Kakashi and Uchiha Obito. Minato-sensei's presence was very odd because he was forced to separate from his students on short notice to execute a task pertinent to the current mission.

She noticed that Kakashi had begun wearing his headband like a makeshift eyepatch to keep his implanted sharingan eye suppressed except for when he needed it. The story on how he got it involved stumbling across an Uchiha missing nin earlier in the mission. He was glad he decided to break the rules and extract the traitor's sharingans in case they might be needed for implants, especially after he lost an eye during this mission they were currently on.

Pragmatism at its finest.

Obito looked as though he had been forced to watch someone die and then seen them alive like nothing was wrong. Rin noticed a few peculiarities with Obito who looked as though he had just gotten up from a pretty severe breakdown and a bad beating. The next oddest thing she noticed was his sharingan, which he had on at the moment, like he was trying to make sure if what was in front of him. Obito had managed to activate his bloodline limit a few months ago on a c-rank gone wrong. Before she had been abducted, Obito had two tomoes in both sharingans, but now it was something entirely different from the standard tomoe symbols.

They looked like a manji with only 3 blades. Like a 3 bladed propeller blade.

Obito looked as though his entire world had been shaken by something and Rin had heard of cases where an Uchiha's sharingan would undergo mutations based on the proper stimulus. No one had figured out how or why, and no Uchiha was willing to be a testing dummy.

Obito's sharingan had the colors reversed: the blades were colored red and cornea was black. Rin decided she could ask another day on what caused this mutation.

Rin found her team to be a strange one as the members of it were all orphaned. Minato-sensei had lost his parents shortly after becoming a genin, Kakashi lost his mother when she gave birth to him and lost his father when he committed Seppuku to reclaim some honor he had lost. Obito's father died before he was born while his mother died on a mission before his final year at the academy and was helped by his aunt Mikoto when he needed something afterwards.

Rin had lost her parents before she was even old enough to remember them. The only reason she knew her family name was Nohara was because one of the caretakers at the orphanage she grew up in had been familiar with her parents.

Once Rin and Obito reached through to Kakashi and helped him to start breaking free of his obsession with following the rules as a result of his father's suicide due to the shame of breaking them to save a comrade at the cost of failing the mission, a bond had begun to tie the three together. They would have their arguments and disagreements, but all of that would pass as their family of choice continued to keep on moving forward.

Before the new Sanbi jinchuriki could continue her thoughts, her hearing decided to snap to work and she heard: "You're awake, good, we thought we were gonna lose you for a while there." The ever reassuring voice of Namikaze Minato relaxing her mild panic at sound suddenly being heard again. Before she could ask anything Minato began to explain that to Rin that they were able to save her from the Mist Nins, but they were unable to get there in time: as a result Rin was the newest jinchuriki of the Sanbi, the three-tailed Turtle.

However before she could begin contemplating her life, Minato began to explain some of the ups and downs that came with being a jinchuriki, as well as the fact that he replaced the intentionally faulty Biju containment seal on her with one that would properly work.

Rin was thinking about everything and came to a conclusion: though the events that granted her this was tragic, she was not going to allow it to consume her. She was going to take this turn of events and make the power she had been so GRACIOUSLY given by Kiri into her own like the other jinchurikis she had heard of, who received the power from their villages when they were much younger than her 14 years old. The ninjas who had forged themselves into legends like the Magma Monkey Sage Roshi, the Red Steam Fortress Han, and, most infamously, Killer B of Kumo's most recent A and B tag team.

She was not letting go of her dream to be a medic nin, even though she would have to put a lot more effort into control training. In fact it just made an alteration to that dream: to be the first Jinchuriki capable of being a focused Medical Ninja.

Once they knew she was well enough to travel the group set out for the Hidden Leaf.

But along the way a voice had begun to make itself known within the young kunoichi's head.

Perhaps you might be a better host than my previous one, young one.

'I have to be going crazy, I could have sworn I heard a voice in my head.'

I assure you, your sanity is as strong as ever. It is just the shock of hearing my voice for the first time.

'How can I be considered sane and normal if I'm hearing voices?'

I said you were sane, not normal.

'Fair enough. But how long have you been in my mind?'

I haven't been in your head long, young one. I have only been here as long as the last month at the most. Even I'm not quite sure, my mind is a haze due to the sudden extraction and then implantation into your body.

'Within the last month? Wait a moment you said you were implanted?!'

With that one statement, realization dawned upon Rin as she realized who was implanted into her.

'You're the Three Tailed Turtle, Sanbi no Kame!'

It took you that long to figure out who I am?! I believe it took you less time than most would take, you truly are an observational prodigy and a great mind of this age. Truly I have never seen another jinchuriki with your observational prowess.

'Back off on the sarcasm, I'm trying to be nice and it surprised me!'

I have had very little opportunity for personal enjoyment, I usually entertain myself by taking what you humans call 'pot shots' at my jinchurikis when they start hearing me.

'Huh, whenever I hear about Biju I always think about the stories about you being demons, Nature's wrath made flesh, angry animals. But hearing you right now you sound mellow and quite eloquent, even having a sense of humor beyond what is assigned to you which is typical demonic sadism from folklore.'

Aren't you afraid that I'll try to force my way out of the seal and go on a rampage?

'I don't think I should really be afraid unless something awful happens while Kushina-sensei teaches me to control your chakra. Unless you actually are planning on breaking out to go on a rampage, are you?'

A mental silence ensued as the turtle let his thoughts gather at what his newest host had just said.

I was just joking, being sarcastically hopeful when I said I hoped she could be different, Kurama is right about most humans being the same and unchanging, often for the worst. But one piece of wisdom that Son Goku shared with me is that the ones worth protecting are the ones who acknowledge us as being sentient beings rather than mindless monsters, and though there may be ages in between meeting one, often times it makes protecting humanity as a whole worth it just to see another. After all this time I finally found another who acknowledges me as such.

Maybe things can be different with this girl.

No I'm not planning on forcing my way out.

'Then maybe we can be friends, if that's okay with you?'

You do realize that even if I'm not planning on trying to kill you by forcing my way out of the seal, we still are in a prisoner and the warden of their prison style relationship? Because of that it is unlikely that we will be reaching a true understanding until a few years down the line.

'I hope we can reach that agreement, I'd hate to be stuck with you while trapped in the sort of relationship that Kushina-sensei possess with the fox.'

I know that the man leading you is called Minato, as my mind became aware of my new conditions before I began speaking to you, so I assume this Kushina is another of your teachers. Because unless there is an inside joke at play here, Kushina is a feminine name if I remember correctly. Though I can't help but marvel at the coincidence that I was implanted into a student of the jinchuriki who contained one of my brothers.

'WAIT! The Fox is your brother?!'

All of the Biju are siblings.

'Okay, did not expect to hear that. So in favor of trying to move this conversation along: do you mind expanding on that?'

…No, it's something I don't like talking about.

'Fine I can respect that. Do you have a name?'

Yes, but I only tell it to those I trust absolutely.

'Fine, but do you have something you would rather be called other than Three Tails, or Sanbi, or any variation on those two?'

No. you may call me whatever you want. But I do suggest you focus on the others they are starting to get worried.

"RIN!" a shout of her name startled her out of the near trance like state she had been in ever since she started her conversation with the monstrous Sanbi.

She looked over to see a panicked Obito with a look of despair on his face that made him look much older than his 13 year old face should.

"Rin, are you alright?" asked Minato-sensei.

"Yeah, I'm fine." Rin responded, trying to sound convincing enough.

"Are you really?" the man asked again.

Rin sighed "No, the turtle started talking to me."

Her teammates' eyes went wide and Obito asked: "You mean that it you talked to the Three Tails?"

"Yeah I had a whole conversation with it." Rin answered

"And?" Minato asked sensing that she hadn't said something she wanted to.

"We are already got a better relationship than Kushina-sensei and the Fox." Rin said with a small smile on her face

Xxx

Time skip

2 years later

October 10th

4 hours before the Delivery

Rin and her team had just returned from an A-ranked mission 2 days ago, just in time to get last minute preparations for what was about to happen today.

Much had changed in two years' time. The lessons from Kushina-sensei to Rin had allowed her to start training to actually control Sanbi's power. Her medical prowess had begun to increase once she began learning how to take away the poisonous component of her Sanbi enhanced chakra during the conversion process to alter her chakra into healing chakra.

Obito had changed a bit as well, shortly after the mission, he severed his ties to the Uchiha clan, not out of hatred but out of irreconcilable differences between his principles and the vocal majority of the clan. Mikoto and Shisui had been the only ones to actually try to get him to reconsider his position, but whatever had happened during the mission had made him wary of his clan.

His physical appearance and attire had also changed slightly, ditching his goggles and ear protectors entirely and allowed his hair to grow out slightly.

But all of that paled in comparison to the power he revealed to them that the mission had awakened: The Mangekyo Sharingan. The power by which Madara had legendarily been able to control the Kyubi and use it to battle the First Hokage.

The primary ability he had that made his unique compared to others was his possession of a space-time technique called Kamui, allowing him to phase parts or the entirety of his body into a pocket dimension allowing things to go through him like he was a ghost. The technique also allowed him to open up spatial holes to suck up anything in the near vicinity, including himself if he choose, and send it to the pocket dimension he had named the Kamui World. Minato had allowed him access to the research concerning the Flying Raijin for the purposes of better developing Kamui. The eventual; result had been Obito developing the Kamui Marker with a few pointers, allowing him to target his warps towards whatever held the seal.

Kakashi had changed little but his reputation had become legendary among the elemental nations as the Copy Ninja, master of 1000 jutsu that he had seen and copied with a Sharingan he had in his eye socket despite not being an Uchiha.

He had also gained the moniker The Lightning Wolf, a title based on his family canine association and his mastery over the Lightning Release. He had developed a Chidori variant called the Chidori Current in an attempt to begin reverse engineering the effects of Kumo's Lightning Armor. The most recent result was a far more efficient version of his Chidori Current called the Lightning Cloak.

All three had been taken in to their teacher's home, easing some of the voids that some of the three orphans still possessed in their lives, keeping their strange family together and happy. All three had taken up learning Minato's fuinjutsu arts, each one excelling at it in their own way. Obito had decided to make the area his niche among the group, pouring everything he was into learning how to do it and do it well. Kushina gave him extra lessons to help him attain that goal.

Recent events included the Jonin promotions of both Obito and Rin as well as Kushina's pregnancy and she was due to give birth to a son tonight. Minato-sensei had become Hokage 3 months before Kushina became pregnant. Minato liked to be optimistic about the world and everyone in it, but something had happened before he became Hokage that made him weary to certain possibilities and start preparing for them.

One of his acts had been to officially adopt his three students as members of the Uzumaki clan's Konoha branch, making them his children by adoption and the siblings to his and Kushina's son. He also had made a will with specific instructions that if anything happened to both him and Kushina, his students were to take custody of his son, having already been given his name: Uzumaki Naruto, after the main character in Minato's sensei Jiraiya's novel the Tale of a Gutsy Ninja to honor his teacher, and given the boy his mother's clan name. The young Jonins had been given the status of legal guardians to Naruto should anything happen, they were made the executors of Minato and Kushina's estate as well with specific orders regarding it.

He also planned ahead in case something happened to Kushina and he was forced to seal the Kyubi inside Naruto, with orders to be carried out by whoever succeeded him following his death in the worst case scenario, whether it be the newly appointed Fifth Hokage or the Third Hokage retaking the hat, on penalty of death for disobeying the final order of the Fourth Hokage.

Apprehension stuck heavily in the minds of the three young shinobi as the clock's hands ticked towards the moment that their adoptive mother and teacher entered labor.

What would this night bring?

Will things be alright with the looming of the possible threat of the Kyubi's freedom?

Unfortunately, life is unfair.

4.5 hours later

"Kakashi, Rin. Grab onto me. We are going to have to try it." Said Obito as he readied himself to make use of Kamui Warp, one of his Mangekyo jutsus, to escape the guards left to prevent the young ninjas from joining the battle against Kyubi. Kurenai and the others had begun to carry out a distraction to prevent the escorts from being able to stop the young Jonins.

Once everything was in place as Kakashi planned, he waited till the factors were perfect, before screaming "NOW!" at his best friend, who responded with the announcement "Spiraling body flicker!" to throw them off to the real nature of Obito's teleportation method. Any Konoha jonin who was aware of the Mangekyo's existence would also be aware of the fact that almost all techniques linked to it were named after a traditional god that usually could be linked to what the jutsu entailed.

The vortex appeared from his eye and sucked the three into his Kamui World, a dimension that existed linked to his Kamui technique.

Obito immediately made a hand seal and began sensing. Within the Kamui world, the real world was linked to the alternate dimension in a mirrored sort of way, a straight jump to the Kamui world would put Obito in a place that represented where he was jumping from and should he make use of Kamui phasing, the parts of himself being phased into the Kamui World would be represented in the spot mirroring where he was phasing in the real world. He could jump to a specific part of the Kamui world under certain conditions and he could jump directly to another location in the real world but required that he already be familiar with the location or if he was using some form of sensing or marker detection to make a jump to.

He found what he was looking for after a moment of searching, Minato-sensei's chakra as well as Kushina-sensei's chakra. Obito was inexperienced at detecting chakras due to the relatively recent discovery of Kamui Warp, but he could definitely tell that Kushina's chakra was far weaker than it should be even though the fox was extracted. He was scared because of what experience with sensing he did have especially with weakened chakras told him that she was hurt and hurt bad, possibly even dying or too late to be saved.

Pushing those thoughts aside, he told his friends: "Get ready."

Once he knew they were grabbing him, he molded the chakra to create the Kamui portal and the three were pulled through.

Xxx

A dull ache permeated Minato's entire body as he stood holding both Kushina and Naruto after teleporting the kyubi to the outside of his hideout where he left them. He could tell that Kushina was hurting very badly as a result of the extraction, most likely she would die if she did not get intense medical treatment for the damage done to her chakra system. The moment he had to catch his breath and steel himself for what was about to happen and what he had to do was given to him by the feedback the Kyubi was suffering due to being forcibly teleported by the Flying Raijin had left it dazed and unable to react.

Before he could begin acting, a familiar sound occurred and from a distortion emerged from it was his three students. "SENSEI!" Minato was shocked at his students being here after he told them to stay back. "What are you three doing…" before Minato remembered his fight with the masked man who was able to control the fox with a Sharingan, presumably the Mangekyo Sharingan. 'Obito possessed the same dojutsu, perhaps he could enact a form of control over the fox to buy time for what I have planned.' "… Never mind, Obito, I need you to switch to your Mangekyo and attempt to place the Kyubi in a Sharingan Genjutsu, don't ask why at the moment I'll tell you in a moment. Rin, check on Kushina and see if you can stabilize her. Kakashi, keep sharp and make sure no one attempts to interfere."

Obito did as he was told and began attempting to put the fox under a genjutsu with his mangekyo, a few attempts at the task while the fox was making eye contact with him caused the monster to reel back and start roaring.

When it stopped and opened its eyes, the slitted eyes of the creature was dilated before shrinking to reveal a sharingan pattern in its eyes. Kakashi, Rin, and Obito were shocked at the development and the Kitsune's sudden docility.

"How?" Obito questioned while Minato finished summoning the sealing altar, before they began hearing Rin sobbing until she spoke understandable words: "I'm so sorry sensei, but there is nothing I can do. Her chakra system has deteriorated too far. She has maybe a few minutes left."

Kakashi and Obito both looked at her with tear filled eyes, while Kushina struggled to get up: "If that's all I have left then I rather use them to help save my family and my village." She stiffly went through hand seals before forming her Adamantine Sealing Chains to form a barrier and to assist in binding the fox for a sealing.

Minato spoke up: "I need all of you over here. Rin, help Kushina get over here." All of them listened and obeyed.

Obito got there first to which Minato responded: "Obito, place the seal for the Kamui Marker on Naruto. I'm gonna make a socket to go around the seal I'm going to place on Naruto to fully contain the fox within the type of seal I'm going to place, we're going to merge the formula for your marker into its architecture." Obito nodded and placed his hand on Naruto stomach and molded chakra to create his Kamui marker and once he was done, Minato placed his hand and channeled chakra to his son's stomach and to make the socket.

Minato spoke again "Kushina, you and I are going to seal a part of our chakra into his seal as fail-safes. Mine to repair the seal should it be compromised, and yours to help him when he inevitably fight the Kyubi for control of its power. If you have anything you want him to know when he meets you, think it as you're transferring the chakra." Kushina wanted to argue and tell him to seal it in her to allow Kushina to take the fox down with her to give them time to prepare to seal the fox when it returned, but the look he had told her it would not work anyways, and deep down she knew he was right.

Obito asked "Sensei how did you know that the hypnosis would work?"

Minato responded: "The Fox was extracted by a rogue Uchiha who claimed to be Madara, he put the fox under a genjutsu to control it and summoned it within Konoha. I defeated him and severed his connection to the Fox but he is still alive and promised to be back. I guessed it would work after remembering your Mangekyo."

After his explanation, the process of sealing their chakras was complete. "Finally I need you three to place your hands on the socket and sync your chakra with mine, it will make it so that your chakra, without irregularities present, can be used to open up the architecture and modify it should the need arise." The three students nodded and did as they were told.

Minato began talking once they finished: "Here comes both the hardest and easiest part: I have to use Shiki Fuin to seal the fox. I wouldn't have to use it if the Kyubi wasn't uncontained, I have methods that could be used to transfer it. Shiki Fuin is the only sealing method I have that can drag the fox into the socket we created and seal it with the seal it will create. After the seal is created I'll summoned a scroll toad and place the Key on it have it go to Jiraiya-sensei."

They wanted to argue but they knew it wasn't an argument they could win. Rin spoke first: "Goodbye Sensei." before hugging him, Obito and Kakashi joined in and told their own tearful goodbye.

The Yondaime Hokage eventually pushed away to begin the sealing. He rushed through the hand seals and summoned the Shinigami, the god of death, once he finished. The harvester of souls moved its hand to Naruto, placing its hand on his stomach in the middle of the pre-prepared socket pushing its hand in and sprouting out through the socket as well and rushing to the fox and grabbing it and beginning to pull it into the seal.

The cold presence of the Shinigami's touch caused Naruto to cry and snapped the fox out of the genjutsu controlling it.

Within the depths of Rin's seal, the Three Tails sat in contemplation within its cell, happy to see his brother again through Rin's eyes but saddened it was due to him being locked away again.

It has been a while Kurama.

To the Turtle's surprise a voice answered back

Isobu? It is you isn't it. Indeed it has. But where am I? The last thing I remember is being extracted from that Uzumaki woman by that masked bastard. Wait, why is there a baby on that altar that looks like the sealing altar? NOOOO! I WON'T BE IMPRISONED AGAIN!

The turtle could only watch in horrified realization of what his brother planned on doing

DON'T DO IT! That child is innocent!

NONE OF THIS PUTRID, DISGUSTING RACE THAT REFUSES TO CHANGE IS INNOCENT! I WILL KILL THEM ALL!

The chains still binding the fox had weakened due to Kushina's declining state and her fractioned chakra. With a mighty effort, the fox broke free and lunged its claw forward to kill the Uzumaki child they sought to seal him in.

Minato and Kushina both rushed forward using their bodies to protect Naruto, impaling themselves to keep their son safe.

Minato pulled the last of his chakra to summon the scroll toad Gerotora, and placed the key to the seal on the scroll toad's unwrapped body. The toad wrapped the scroll that was part of it before vanishing to store himself within Jiraiya.

And with that the Kyubi was pulled into the seal and Namikaze Minato and Uzumaki Kushina passed from this world. Kushina passed to the pure world while Minato passed to the Shinigami's stomach, the two lovers separated for eternity most likely.

All while their newborn son cried for his now dead parents.

Rin picked him up and held him trying to calm him, the moment she turned her back the altar unsummoned itself. "There, there. Nee-chan's here to take care of you."

Naruto calmed down somewhat at that, while his new siblings moved to begin carrying out their sensei's final order to them. Conceal Naruto's jinchuriki status from others to protect him from the harsh treatment he would inevitably be subjected to should that information be known, and from any of those who would seek to use said treatment to break him and turn him into their weapon.

Their newest mission had begun.

The last mission given to them by their sensei.

They would not fail.

No sooner than a minute after they left to establish the alibi they were told to give, the Third Hokage Sarutobi Hiruzen and a group of jonins arrived at the remains of the hideout to discover the carnage, and the bloodied and broken bodies of Minato and Kushina.

Xxx

An hour later

Hiruzen sat in the council chamber, reinstated as the Hokage in the wake of Minato's death.

The matter at hand was the rogue actions of his three students that had escaped from the area they had kept the young ninjas. They had returned 4 minutes ago, carrying a baby who was Minato and Kushina's son that they only revealed that to Hiruzen, a scroll containing Minato's final orders to Konoha, and finally a storage scroll they claimed contained somethings they would want to see.

The words of the letter it was contained in somewhat displeased Hiruzen on what he wanted to do after he was told of the Nine Tails' newest jinchuriki.

It placed a total gag order on any information regarding the existence of the newest Nine Tails Jinchuriki, under penalty of death in any situation should the Hokage release the information in any way besides key exceptions that could not be manufactured or engineered.

Hiruzen wanted to tell the public of Konoha that it was safe from the Nine Tails because it was imprisoned inside a child, but the order had forbidden it.

It also extended the gag order to any jinchuriki that Konoha was forced to create afterwards and to any they took in from other villages.

But distressingly it gave confirmation that key members of both ANBU and the Hokage Guard Platoon had been given orders to kill the sitting Hokage should this order be violated, with only Rin, Obito, or Kakshi having the authority to overturn the order.

"What is in the storage scroll?" he asked them. Obito unsealed the contents and quite a few gasped in shock: the dead bodies of multiple ANBU as well as Sarutobi Biwako, Hiruzen's wife. "What is the meaning of this?" cried one of the clan heads

Kakashi responded: "We escaped from the guards to find the place where Kushina was giving birth, when we arrived we found all these dead bodies along with little Naruto there crying his eyes out and two scrolls: one for us and us alone and then one for you Hokage-sama and Hokage-sama alone." Hiruzen nodded.

Before he could respond, Danzo cut in: "I find it hard to believe that Kushina would leave the care of her child, the last known Uzumaki, to three 15 year olds, especially an Uchiha miscreant. I move to have custody of Naruto removed from them and placed with someone else, perhaps Ari Seto." Hiruzen sighed mentally, thinking to himself: 'I know better than to trust you on that Danzo, Ari-san was the public identity of Ant, one of your highest and most loyal subordinates in ROOT before I ordered it disbanded before the end of my previous term.' "Danzo your motion is denied and if you suggest or try to pull it again, you will be dismissed from any position you hold." Danzo frowned but nodded.

Obito looked extremely angry and offended, before calming down and downing a predatory smirk: "I find it strange that you directly mentioned that one of the reasons you wanted Kushina's will overturned was because I'm an Uchiha. I wonder why you would mention that in particular. I wonder if it has anything to do with the fact that your inferiority complex tells you that even if Tobirama-sama didn't chose Hiruzen-sama to be the Sandaime, my relative and Shisui's great-grandfather Uchiha Kagame would have most likely been his next choice before you despite his hatred and distrust of the Uchiha. A hatred and distrust you not only inherited but have taken to such extremes that you know even Tobirama-sama would disapprove of."

The council went quiet as crypt, everyone's eyes went wide as they slowly turned to Danzo to see the normally stoic elder burning with rage with an expression on his face that screamed that Obito was right in his accusations and had nailed Danzo completely.

Before the cripple could respond, he was cut off by Hiruzen: "Shimura Danzo, respond to Obito and you're finished." Danzo grit his teeth and snarled: "As you wish Hokage-sama."

Before anyone else could cut in, Rin spoke: "Hokage-sama, could we be excused? We have things to take care of, especially this little one." Hiruzen nodded and added: "You may, if anyone has any other business, it can wait till an early morning session tomorrow." Everyone nodded and began leaving.

Hyuga Hiashi left his chair and began to make his way to his compound to check on his wife Hitomi, who was pregnant with their first child, and to regretfully inform her of their friends Minato and Kushina's passing, along with the good news of their son's survival. As he left the door, the voice of an old friend called out to him: "Hiashi." Hiashi turned to see Uchiha Fugaku walking over to him. "Fugaku." Hiashi responded acknowledging the old friend.

Fugaku responded "I hope your clan didn't suffer any heavy losses, mine suffered some minor losses when the Fox first appeared, and everyone else went to helping with the evacuation effort."

Hiashi nodded before responding: "Mine had a similar situation. I'm just thankful Hitomi wasn't harmed." Fugaku nodded: "I'm thankful that I don't have to tell Mikoto that two of her dearest friends passed away on the same night."

Hiashi nodded before saying something else: "I never knew young Obito could be that vicious. The few times I had actually had extended contact with him he seemed to be He almost seemed to be a different person."

Fugaku nodded before grinning: "I always wondered why Mikoto was always so found of Obito, I never knew he could be that way. He used to boast about wanting to be the first Uchiha Hokage, and I couldn't help but think what an embarrassment he would be, but after tonight I think he would do the job just fine."

Hiashi nodded before he went to end the conversation: "I'm sorry old friend but I must end this here."

Fugaku nodded before responding: "I must as well, see you tomorrow."

Danzo left plotting how to take control of Naruto and get a war to gain jinchuriki to strengthen themselves against the loss they just incurred. 'Perhaps Kumo would be a worthy pawn, they have always desired an Uzumaki to breed. Perhaps they will take the bait. I'll get a war with them and the last Uzumaki for when the Fox returns and to breed a new Uzumaki clan for my purposes once he is old enough.'

End chapter 1

Holy HELL! THIS TOOK FOREVER TO FINISH. This document was created on 4-9-2019 and wasn't finished until 10-20-2019. No notes I'm exhausted.

Final editing finished on 1-1-2020. Upload occurred later that day.

Change Log (3-10-2020): I fixed a flub regarding the story. Specifically, the original began an explanation into the Kamui Marker but for some reason it was cut out. Probably due to working while I was half asleep or punch drunk.

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