Sacrifices

I DO NOT OWN NARUTO!

Chapter 1

The daughter of the late Madara Uchiha, Kushina Uchiha-Uzumaki, though, she never knew she was his daughter, she had just given birth to her two beautiful babies.

The little tan boy, with a tuff of Red hair, Purple eyes and 3 identical whisker marks on each cheek, she and Minato had named Naruto meaning maelstrom, also the main character of Minato's sensei, Jiraiya's book; 'The Tale of the Utterly Gutsy Shinobi', whilst the small tan girl with a red tuff, purple eyes, and the same whisker marks as Naruto, she and Minato had named Natsumi.

Whilst Kushina was recovering, Biwako and Taji were silently cradling her children and Minato was just finishing up getting her seal, holding the Kyūbi, stable.

Suddenly there was a noise, and a thump that sounded eerily similar to that of a dead body hitting the ground. She and Minato both whipped their heads around in search for what was wrong, when they both spotted it…

The Sandaime's wife, Biwako Sarutobi as well as Taji lying there unmoving, a shadowy cloaked figure that donned a orange mask with a black flame-like pattern on the left side, and a single eyehole loomed over the top over the now deceased bodies, with both of their children in his grasp.

He spoke in a calm even tone."Yondaime Hokage Minato, step away from the jinchuuriki, or your children will die at the ripe old age of one minute."

As Minato was trying to figure out whom this masked man was; he was unaware that the seal holding the Kyūbi was slowly breaking, until Kushina cried out in pain.

"Kushina!" shouted Minato with worry and alarm. 'The seal's not done.' He thought glumly.

The masked man repeated again, in his calm tone."Step away from the jinchuuriki, or do you not care if your children die?"

"Hold it, j-just calm down!" Minato tried to reason.

"You should take your own advice Minato. I am perfectly calm." The stranger spoke, mockingly. He proceeded to toss both children into the air.

"NARUTO, NATSUMI!" Kushina yelled with terror and worry as she saw her babies in the air and the mysterious man aiming a kunai at each of them.

There was a yellow flash as Minato teleported to his children, safely moving them from harm's way

"I see, you live up to your moniker 'The yellow flash'." The masked man stated.

"But… now what?" he questioned.

It was only then that Minato realised that the babies' blanket's had several explosive tags covering them, thinking fast Minato safely removed the blankets and Hiraishined to safety, whilst the tags exploded covering the now open area in smoke and debris.

"Minato! Natsumi! Naruto!" Kushina cried with worry.

Meanwhile Minato had Hraishined himself and his children to their house, he had tucked them in whilst thinking of what the masked man could be planning.

'He tried to separate Kushina and me, and is here when the jinchuuriki's seal is at its weakest. Could he be after Kyūbi...?' he came to his realisation and yelled in frantic panic.

"Shit! If he is I'll have to go try save your mother, I can't let Kyūbi fall into anyone else's hands."

-Masked man and Kushina-

After a while of staring at Kushina he entered the seal, where he proceeded to use his sharingan to control the Kyūbi. On the outside he spoke three terrifying words. "Come forth Kyūbi!"

Then it all happened, an enormous roar and a vile red chakra, the Kyūbi appeared in all its glory.

"We head for the village now" he commanded it.

"S-stop!" he heard Kushina weakly yell.

He was quite surprised; she was still alive even after the extraction of the fox. He voiced his thoughts.

"You Uzumaki truly are something special, even ripping a bijuu from you won't kill you, it's only fitting for the Kyūbi to kill its former jinchuuriki."

Kyūbi reared its paw back and struck… The smoke settled only to reveal Minato holding Kushina away from the attack. Kushina looked around urgently and then asked with worry. "Where's Naruto and Natsumi!?"

"Relax; I have hidden them somewhere safe." Minato replied soothingly. Kushina settled down at this.

"Thank god! Minato stop him, he has the Kyūbi and is heading for the village!" Minato stopped in his tracks. 'Useless bitch couldn't even hold the Kyūbi back!' He raged internally.

He Sighed.'Oh well she's on death's door anyway, I'll just make Naruto and Natsumi weapon's for the village.' he thought the end part with glee, at the prospect of the village having two weapons. He then vanished with Kushina.

-House Naruto and Natsumi-

Minato and Kushina appeared in a yellow flash.

"Why?" Kushina questioned quietly.

Minato placed Kushina into the bed with Natsumi and Naruto.

"Never mind why... just stay with Natsumi and Naruto." Minato replied sternly.

"...Natsumi...Naruto..." Kushina started to weep.

"Minato, thank you and good luck." she said softly.

Minato faced away from her and put his cloak on.

"I'll be back before you know it!" he proclaimed cheerfully, on the inside though he was seething. 'Stupid whore, I can't let him reach the village or villager's they are the most important thing, as well as keeping the weapon! KuKuKu...'

-Hiruzen-

Hiruzen was sitting in an office doing paperwork covering for Minato when he felt something vile. 'It couldn't be could it?' he thought to himself. Suddenly an ANBU appeared in front of him.

"Sandaime-sama, it's the Kyūbi! The Kyūbi attacked the village out of nowhere!" The ANBU shouted frantically. 'It's as I feared…' Hiruzen thought.

"I know I'll hold it back, you go gather and protect the civilian's." Hiruzen ordered.

"Hai sir!" with that said the ANBU left.

The Sandaime had a bunch of questions running through his mind. 'Did Kushina's seal fail? Were all the safe guards we put up really not enough?'

-Kyūbi-

Kyūbi spotted Minato after he teleported to the Hokage monument. It immediately started to charge up a bijuudama and fired it at him. Minato however countered this by going through a string of handseals at a very impressive pace.

The bijuudama seemingly absorbed into the monument whilst Minato held out one of his Hiraishin kunai. The bijuudama then exploded, safely outside of the village. The masked man appeared and engaged Minato in a short fight, just as the masked man was starting to warp him, Minato teleported away.

-Minato-

As Minato appeared back where he saved his children from the exploding tags, his thoughts were analysing the masked intruder. 'My attack just slipped right through him, then he became solid and started sucking me into some kind of dimension or something, what the hell was that move?

The air distorted in front of him in a black vortex, the unknown masked shinobi started to appear in front of him.

"You won't get away from me." The masked man told him having just fully appeared, whilst Minato was in deep thought about what was going on.

'Does he use space time techniques too? Whatever it is must be how he moved so far after taking Kushina. He defeated the anbu under the direct command of the Sandaime; got through our most powerful, top-secret barrier we have, and must have been aware that Kushina's seal would be weakened during childbirth. Then with the seal broken, he took the Kyūbi then he stormed straight into Konoha and didn't even pause to deal with the barrier. There's only one man I can think of that makes sense.'

"Are you, Madara Uchiha?" Just after Minato questioned him, the masked man slipped off his hood showing short spiky black hair, but Minato came to a conclusion. "No... You couldn't be; he's long dead..."

"Oh, I wouldn't be too sure about That." stated the masked man. Minato looked at him questioningly.

"It doesn't matter who you are, but why have you attacked Konoha?"

"Oh you know... It's fun, it's part of my plan, to start a war to bring peace." The mystery man answered seriously.

Minato looked at him with narrowed eyes, thinking about his opponent. 'Whoever he is he's incredible, he can control the Kyūbi, wields space time Ninjutsu superior to the Nidaime's and my own and clearly has evil intentions. If I don't kill him now he will become a greater threat than the fox!'

"There's no hope for any of you!" knocked Minato out of his thoughts.

The masked man charged him with a chain cuffed to his wrists, Minato met his charge as he went to stab him with his kunai, the masked man however simply fazed through him, the chain proceeded to wrap around Minato, binding him tightly.

Minato teleported to his kunai again, and dashed at him with one still tightly in his grasp. They charged each other again. Minato threw his kunai, it phased through the masked man's head, when it was completely out of his head Minato created a Rasengan, still charging forward.

Just as the masked man grasped his arm "gotcha-" Minato vanished, reappearing above him.

"RASENGAN!" shouted Minato as he smashed the technique into the masked man's back. The masked man seethed. 'Damn it, he teleported to the kunai he just threw!'

"That was hiraishin level two!" Minato declared proudly.

Minato teleported to stab him in the back, and placed a seal on him.

"A contract seal, are you trying to pull the Kyūbi from my control?" His masked opponent queered.

"Oh, I already did, it's no longer your weapon." Minato stated. 'It's mine! KUKUKU!' he thought with glee.

"You earned your title Yondaime Hokage, you wrestled control of the fox and injured me in one move, but the fox will be mine; one day, the fox and the world will bow to my will, there are still many doors open to me." With those last few parting words he vanished, in a black vortex.

'Something tells me he wasn't lying…' Minato though warily.

-Kyūbi-

"Hold it off until Yondaime-sama arrives!" yelled one of the many shinobi to his fellow comrades, said person looks on in complete and utter terror when he sees that the Kyūbi is charging up its own attack, 'The Bijuudama!'

'This is awful.' is the thought running through Minato's head as he sees Kyūbi charging up its bijuudama.

A loud cry of "Kuchiyose no jutsu!" rung out, and all of a sudden the toad boss, Gamabunta

appeared in all his glory, the Yondaime atop his head.

He looked around and noticed the battle that was going on and the fact that he had been summoned on top the greatest known bijū, the Kyūbi.

"The Yondaime has arrived!" exclaimed one of the shinobi.

Minato thinks back to what the masked man stated. 'The fox and this world will bow to my will.' He bows his head.

"Hold the fox down for a minute!" Minato yells to Gamabunta urgently.

"Look I may be big, but I'm not a miracle worker!" Gamabunta exclaimed.

"I need enough chakra to take him and the blast out of here!" Minato yells again. Suddenly, he and the fox vanish.

"Minato... Did he teleport the fox and himself?" Hiruzen questioned.

*Boom!*

"Out there!" shouts Hiruzen to the ninja present, seeing the giant explosion in the distance.

-Minato and Kyūbi-

Minato gently puts Kushina down. *huff, huff* "I've got to put up a barrier..." Minato says to Kushina. 'My chakra is almost drained...' Kushina thought in urgency.

Chakra chains shoot out of her back, and she raps the fox in them.

"UWAAAAAAAH!" baby Natsumi and Naruto cry in Minato's arms.

"Kushina!" an alarmed Minato yells.

Kushina trembles in exhaustion. *hah, hah* "Sorry Natsumi... Naruto... I didn't mean to wake you..."

Minato looks on with fake concern. "Kushina..."

"I'll drag the Kyūbi... Back... And die with it inside me... That'll... Prevent it from coming back... For a while..." *Huff* … "It's the only way to save the three of you with the little chakra I have left." Kushina panted out, already on deaths door.

She smiles sadly. "Thank you for everything." 'No, I can't let her do that, we need the Kyūbi!' Minato thought in alarm.

Minato thought quickly. "Kushina you made me your husband, made me the Hokage and made me these children's father, and I..." Minato started to say, however was interrupted by a sadly smiling Kushina.

"Don't look sad Minato I'm happy... Happy, that you loved me; happy that it's... Our children's birthday... If I had any regrets it's that I won't see Kiyomi and Naruto grow up."

At these words Minato got even more alarmed. 'Damn it, I can't let her take the weapon!' he screamed mentally, but composed himself.

"Kushina..." he drifted off. "You don't need to take the fox down with you; we can use the last of our chakra to see Natsumi and Naruto one more time!" he tried to reason.

"Huh?" Kushina said with a questioning look. 'Just a little more convincing…' Minato thought mentally, he took a deep breath and started doing some handseals, which Kushina overlooked.

"I'll split the last of your chakra, and seal it into each of them with the Hakke no Fuin Shiki, then ill lead the Kyūbi away with a seal a non-jinchuuriki like me can use; the Shiki Fujin!" he exclaimed just as he finished the seals, the Shinigami appeared.

Kushina's eyes flew open wide. "But... That, user will be-!" she exclaimed.

Minato continued on interrupting her. "But, I'll use it to be able to split the fox's power. It's just too great, it's physically and conceptually impossible to completely seal it all. I can't let the Kyūbi be revived without a Jinchūriki; it would destroy the balance of the bijuu. But with the dead demon seal I can permanently split its power in half and seal half inside Natsumi and the remaining half, will be sealed inside of Naruto with the Hakke no Fūin Shiki!" Minato finished explaining his 'excellent plan.'

"No! Minato! Absolutely not! They are our children; that's why I don't want them to have this burden, my burden… and on their own!" Kushina yelled vehemently. Minato looked shocked.

"But why... why the Shiki Fujin you don't have to die as well, just so I can meet them for a few minutes when they're older! I wanted you to be there for him to raise them. So then why, why are you sacrificing NATSUMI AND NARUTO!" Kushina snarled "and for what!? The balance of the BIJUU!?" she hollered at him.

Minato looked shocked, which then turned to an appalled look. "Turning your back on the country, the village, is just as bad as abandoning your child! You should understand, you saw your village fall apart. You know the pain of growing up without a 'home of your own!' And you know that we are a family... of shinobi!" Minato exclaimed

Kushina looked pissed. "Don't bring my village into this Minato! They only fought so that the children could get away from the attack! If there's one thing Uzushiogakure taught us, it is that family is the most important thing! Village be damned; it's just a bunch of buildings! Buildings can be rebuilt, but peoples live cannot be returned. You think this will be Natsumi and Naruto's home, if they are jinchuuriki? They will hate them; I wasn't because no-one knew! This is different, people have been killed, the village attacked! The information won't be a secret. The village will vent its anger!" Kushina yelled in fury.

Minato continued on. "I could never be a substitute for a mother, things that Natsumi and Naruto need to be taught that I could never do myself. That's the mother's job and I need you to carry it out. Even if you only have the briefest of moment's to carry it out. It's not for you, it's for Natsumi and Naruto." smiled Minato.

"Don't change the subject! It's not for Natsumi or Naruto! They'll be on their own! And hated! How could you do this?! Is the village more important to you than your own children?" Kushina shouted angrily.

"Be honest now Minato." She said quietly.

"Very well, Kushina!" Minato snarls. He continued. "The village is the most important thing! We need a weapon to protect it!" he stated.

Kushina shocked look, changes to rage, and then pure undulated hatred.

"I see, than I hate you. Minato Namikaze! I was actually starting to consider you my husband! But you're no longer my husband! You're not Natsumi's or Naruto's father! And you won't ever be now! As far as I'm concerned you're just a sperm donor!" Kushina yelled in pure hatred and fury.

Minato is shocked, but then he chuckles. "I never loved you anyway! I used you for breeding a weapon!"

At the thought of what her children would go through, and being left alone, hated, possibly even die. The emotional trauma effected Kushina. If-looks-could-kill…

Kushina gave a hollow chuckle. "I used you first, bastard! I wanted my children to be stronger than any; I couldn't find my destined mate, so I settled for the strongest. Senju! Haha! You didn't know though… did you? No, the Kyūbi informed me of your lineage, I only agreed for my children's sakes. You never even had sex with me."

"HAHAHA!" she cackled madly before continuing. "It was simple to get pregnant; all I had to do was put you in genjutsu, than erase the memory and implant false memories if you broke free.

Though you never thought to break out because they were used for pleasure, and you didn't need to suspect anything. Afterwards I got a semen sample and was artificially inseminated. That's it!" "KHAHAHAHA!" she finished cackling madly, as if insane.

Minato shook with rage, he'd been out-played, and he never even gotten laid to the whirlpool bitch, she was a fine piece of ass too.

He quickly tells the Shinigami to split the Kyūbi's chakra into yin and yang; he seals the yin half into Naruto.

"Damn you, cursed Yondaime!" Kyūbi shouts with hatred.

Kushina's chains weaken due to losing more chakra. 'Damn can't get my revenge... sorry Musume, Sochi.' Kushina sadly thought.

Minato notices the chains weakening. 'Damn it useless bitch!' he thought. The Kyūbi takes a chance and tries to stab Natsumi in order to not have the last of "his" chakra be sealed. Minato and Kushina appear and block the claw from reaching baby Naruto; it pierces them through the stomach however.

"You might have thought you won, wait until you see my surprise!" Kushina snarls.

Minato looked furious. "Does it look like i care about surprises right know?." He states.

"Kuchiyose no jutsu!" he yells.

"Ahhh, the Kyūbi and the Yon...dai...me...what the hell happened to you?!" the little toad yells in question and shock.

"Gamatora, I'm entrusting you the key to both of the seals. Please hurry to Jiraiya-sensei and store yourself within him." ordered Minato.

-Hiruzen-

"I see… Minato is making a new "weapons" for the village by making his children jinchuuriki and saving the village, too bad his plan of turning them into weapons are going to fail." Hiruzen says.

-Minato-

"Got it." replies Gamatora. 'Now that the Shiki Fujin and first half is sealed, all I have to do is repeat the Hakke no Fūin Shiki and seal some of Kushina's and my chakra, I don't want Kushina trying to corrupt the weapons, but they'll be too loyal by then and they'll need her to help control the fox' Minato thought.

He talks "Natsumi, Naruto listen me your weapons, you have no emotions, no fear, show your enemies pain and always protect your village no matter what!"

Kushina decides to speak up one last time before he seals the Kyūbi "Natsumi, Naruto" she chuckles "see you in a few minutes" she smiles

"Hakke no Fūin Shiki!" with the barrier down, the Sandaime collectes baby Natsumi and Naruto from the sealing alter, and Wait for a few minutes until a he senses someone familiar behind him.

He speaks "It's good to know that his plan has failed now that you're back here again, isn't it...Kushina"

She Smiles

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To Be Continued...