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In Desperate Times

Chapter 1

Naruto stood his ground as Obito sent in another wave of attacks, but he easily dodged the attacks moving left to right. At his side Killer Bee and Gyūki where also defending themselves from Kokuo's attacks with his tails. Naruto's eyebrows furrowed as he turned and looked at Obito, now noticing how latent his attacks were, but he paid no mind to it. Naruto skidded back an attack now hitting against him, he growled at Obito. Then began to form a Tailed Beast bomb at him. He wanted to end it as quick as possible before the other shinobi arrive, costing more lives. A dark orb now was gathering at the base of Kurama's bijuu form, growing larger until Naruto released the hold on it. The orb flew pass Obito as he dodged. Exploding in the distance, a large light gathering around the area of impact before a gushing wind rushed through the range of trees,the light disappearing quickly after.

Obito took his chance and began to quickly form his proper hand signs and call the Gedo Mazo, he had Naruto right where he wanted.

The previous attacks weren't meant to harm him to, but implant at least one silver rod into the body of the Jinchuurik. His mouth twitched, a smirk forming as he finished the last hand sign, which followed by slamming his hand to the ground. Just pulling Naruto out from this battle would insure his victory, Obito thought. This war couldn't be lose. The Gedo Mazo appeared crawling his way out of the soil. Naruto now rushed toward the being, intending to destroy it before it could cause damage.

Naruto now stood in front of the Gedo Mazo, his speed letting him reaching it in seconds.

His claw ascended down to inflict damage, however chains shot out of the Gedo Mazo's mouth halting the bijuu form attack, not allowing him to move. Naruto's eyes widened now panicking. He pulled against the chains trying to pull himself free but he couldn't. His mind wondered, How could he have gotten him? He didn't have any silver rods anywhere. But he stopped, looking at one of the nine tails. A small, nearly visible rod was there how it gotten there must had been from the attacks before, do concentrated he must have not seen it there.

The chains yanked, but Naruto quickly dug the nine tails into the ground, the only thing keeping him from being sucked into the creäture. With a frustrated call he yelled,

"Octopops!" The Eight tails turned now noticing the situation that Naruto was in. He had let his guard down and now Naruto was nearly being absorbed. With a flick of one of his tails he sent Kokuo back, as another reached to grab the Nine tails around his midsection and pull him back. The chains now yanked Naruto closer, his mind was practically going crazy. He had to get away, yet the bijuu form was finally disappearing he had probably a few seconds before he would be pulled in by the force of the chains.

"Octopops! Let me go! I have an idea, and before you say anything...I'll be fine!" he grinned, and looked down as the last of the bijuu charka was now gone. The chains now shot out, making its way around Naruto's body pulling him in, just as the Eight tails let go.

"Naruto!" Killer Bee yelled but he was already to late the Gedo Mazo was pulling Naruto in, but a flash of black appeared at the same time as it made his way into the mouth of the creäture. With a snap, its mouth was now sealed shut. Killer Bee's anger began to rise, he couldn't let Naruto be sucked into that thing with the Kyuubi's power, he saw red, it was time to pay. He couldn't let the other jinchuurik fall into the same fate as the others.

Naruto gasped, the last of his strength was leaving him, a heavy feeling of despair replacing it. Naruto shook his head he had to hurry and perform the jutsu before he lost all power. He quickly ran his hands through the seals, yet just before performing the last one he stopped. Another persons pale hand was on his arm, his head turned, eyes widening as well. The person that was with him was no other but Sasuke, his dark eyes scanning over Naruto worn body, before stopping at his blue irises. They were darker then usual, bags under his eyes shown how tired he was, but was never letting himself go down in any fight during the war.

"What are you doing Sasuke? Why are you even here!?" Naruto yelled, anger clearly written on his face. For years he has tried to find Sasuke and bring him back, but his answer was the same, never coming back and that he was going to destroy Konoha. He was here now...for how long though?

Sasuke sighed and wondered himself, why was he here? His body reacted before his mind had really processed anything. Naruto proceeded to finish the last hand sign and yelling,

"Forbidden Jutsu: Space-Time Ninjutsu!" A small light began to gather around the two as Naruto now lost his strength, he slumped forward. Sasuke felt his eyes to become heavier the jutsu had some sort of effect on him, he tried to resist yet it did nothing, everything went black. The lights where instantly glowing brighter before the light covered the bodies of the men. Seconds later the glow flickered and was gone along with the two.

Namikaze Minato was not having the best day, it has been a few months that he's been the Hokage, of course he enjoyed the job and he knew how much influenced he had on the village in such high position. However the paperwork was devastating, piling on top of each other, never letting down. The part he hated the most, of course it had to be done, it had to be read through, and be seen as approved or not. He sighed and ruffled his blond locks, the paperwork was finally getting to him, he finally was understanding why the Sandaime Hokage always had those bags under his eyes and his hardships of doing this paperwork, god he wished that there was another way to get it all done.

He huffed and looked out to the large window that was behind him. The window covered half the office Minato was in, the time of day momentarily by the place of the sun, could be guess is noon. The village was now alive as people made their way through it, to gather supply's or go shopping. Small groups of children were running through the dirt roads, chasing each other, and smiling. Minato wanted to keep it that way, letting the children not know of the pains outside of the walls. Allowing them to stay carefree until they had to understand their job as soon to-be shinobi.

Minato now turned back to his paper, mindlessly playing with the pen in his hand. Earlier he had asked the ANBU to located his seals that were placed outside the village, he could feel that some had expired its time of usage, and need to be replaced. Of course he had to be the one to replace them, but he was forced to say in the office until they were located in order to be placed again. He wanted to leave the confinements of this room before he would go crazy.

A figure then appeared in front of him, no sound was heard when he appeared, quickly bowing to the Hokage and lifting his head once again. A mask of a bear with red marking along the sides was placed on his face, hiding his identity.

"Yondaime, we have found the location of the seals, we request for you to-" The ANBU didn't have time to finish before Minato had shot outof his seat his white and red coat witch read 'Yondaime Hokage' fluttered behind him, and nodded. Thanking Kami that he could finally leave the room. In a yellow flash he was gone, the ANBU officers were also gone. The room was presently empty, large piles of papers were on top of the desk still waiting to be signed.

Minato was breathing in deeply as he took in the scenery if the forest, he felt as if he hasn't been out of the room for an eternity and was glad that he could finally stretch his legs, even if it was to replace some seals. He progressed to finish the last symbol of the seal, before placing it on the tree in front of him, sending a small amount of his chakra to activate it.

The seals were placed around the city, they were used to sense the chakra in every person, if one was slightly off he could sense it, locate it, and eliminate it if deemed as a threat. He then began to look up at the sky, replacing the seals had taken a bit longer then it should have but of course he planned it, seeming as if he want to make sure that he took his time, seeing to that the seals were carefully done. It was now late afternoon, the sky was an array of colors as night slowly set in, although something was off. A indescribable feeling was filling Minato's gut, then he saw it, two figures were falling, their body's were limp by the way they fell. Before he knew it, words were forming in his mouth,

"ANBU, hold your ground, I'm going to retrieved them." After the last word left his lips he was off, sending a Hiraishin Kunai off in the bodies direction, he flashed forward sending another one until he arrived and grabbed both of their still forms and landed in a small clearing in the middle if the forest that was made during Third Shinobi War. Letting the black haired male down, along with the blond, now noticing their features along with the clothing they wore.

The black haired male had sharper features then the other, he wore a white upper shirt that exposed part of his chest, another layer of clothing was tried with a purple rope, along with navy pants and a pair of shinobi sandals. A sword was placed neatly in between the purple rope that held it in place, the black haired male also had pale skin. Minato's eyes then traveled to the other one, the blonds locks framed his face now noticing the Konoha headband that he wore, Minato's eyes narrowed at the boy. The young blond also had dark circles under his eyes showing that he had very little rest. The boy's tan face littered with injuries around his face and hands, he wore a orange and black jumpsuit. Now looking more closely the boy with blond hair had three faint whisker marks on both sides of his face.

Minato's mind had to wonder, how could both of them fallen from the sky? He would had to ask them when they woke up. He turned his head again so he was looking down at their forms but instead was met with a pair of dark crimson eyes, tracking his every movement. Minato froze, the chakra sensation could be recognized anywhere. Those pair of eyes filled with hate, cold and calculating were the most deadly. Nevertheless, what worried Minato the most was the blond boy from before had those eyes, the same eyes as the atrocious demon.

Kushina stretched her arms and legs out as she entered the house, it had been a long day, cleaning and shopping had taken all day. The house was now spotless, when she actually looked, she was proud of herself, she wasn't really the housewife type, it was more of Minato's job of keeping everything clean and organized. However after becoming the hokage of the Hidden Leaf, he's been a lot busier and hasn't had the time to clean or gone shopping. So Kushina took it upon herself to do it, she can't wait to rub it all in Minato's face, telling him that she cleaned and went shopping? His face is gonna be priceless, she thought. Of course it depended in if Minato got home early enough.

Kushina then proceeded to walk to the kitchen, it was about time dinner should be getting ready, maybe some spicy Miso ramen would do it. Kushina, looked around locating the materials that she needed and began to gather them. Getting the pot she filled it half way with water, and turned on the stove waiting for the water to boil, before placing the spices and the ramen into it.

After a few minutes, the water was now boiling, Kushina reached over for the seasoning, stopped. Her hand began to tremble, eyes flashed to its red color instead of her usual blue ones.

"H-How?What's going on?" She muttered, the feeling of anger and protection washed over her. Where did the feeling come from? The beast was growing impatient, but quickly Kushina gathered her strength and used her power to restrained the Kyuubi internally. The feeling she just felt was real, but what could of cause him to lash out like that? She asked herself, whatever it was, the Kyuubi was trying to get to it. It was a strange feeling, the demon would never have feelings like that. He was after all, the embodiment of hatred along with the eight other tailed beasts.

She had to find it, but for now she'll keep it to herself, she thought. Kushina didn't want to burden Minato any more then what he already has to deal with. With that she continued to make the ramen, her eyes now her usual blue ones but a light crimson tint in the corners.

Minato swiftly dodged the attack from the other fair-haired male, as soon as the other had registered that Minato wasn't a friend he immediately lashed out to attack him with a punch. A light orange cloak had covered his body and slowly taking the form of the Kyuubi, yet this kyuubi looked different from it usual form it was a lighter color and had markings along its tails, spine and legs. Not to mention it was a lot smaller, only slightly larger then a regular person. Yet its form was still the kyuubi, the hate that radiated off its body was real. Another attack was made, this time hitting Minato. Sending him across the small clearing he had landed in before, hitting against a trunk of a tree. Minato's eyes scanned the demon looking for an opening to attack, but noting that the beast was protecting the other male. Carefully keeping its self clearly between him and the other. Growling, it began to form a small black orb, swallowing it and sending a beam of light right after, which Minato dodged. Looking back he saw that the small beam had crushed everything in its path, leaving scattered trees and bushes in it wake. Minato thought it was luck that they were out pretty far so the blast wouldn't affect the village.

He then proceeded to tell the ANBU silently to get around behind the monster to get the boy, he did this while his head was turn to the direction of the blast. Using his eyes and small hand signals he learned before to tell the men.

"What ever you are planing to do human is useless. I will crush everything before you know it was yours to begin with." The beast sneered, his eyes narrowing towards Minato.

Minato turned again now facing the beast, a rasengan forming in his right hand, pulling a kunai from his pouch behind him with his left. He skillfully threw one of his hiraishin kunai in the direction of the monster which was easily dodged. Minato then appeared right where the kunai was, it was flying over the monster. Immediately slamming the spinning chakra ball into the creatures back. The ANBU appeared quickly gather the black haired boy, and disappearing to the other side of the field, a kunai placed near the throat of the unconscious boy.

The beast regained it composure, straightening up, seeing the other male in the hands of the masked men, it roared,

"Only mere humans would think of something as stupid as a hostage, but to my partner that boy is of great importance. So you have won this round, but the next time I won't be as nice for I am after all the greatest of all hate."

With those words the creäture disappeared, along with the strange cloak that covered the boy, who know laid down on the grass, no movements at all just the slight indication that he was breathing and showed that he was indeed alive.

Minato reached up with one hand to wipe his sweat, the air hand become cold and dense during the fight, but what he didn't understand was the words the beast used...partner. The then heard a thump and looked over, the black-haired male had just pushed off the masked men, catching them off guard and ran over to the now unconscious blond. Pulling out the sword from before, holding it before him, intended to protect the other without a doubt. All of it was shown in his eyes, yet some sort of regret was in there as well.

Deserving his name, the yellow flash disappeared and reappeared behind the other swiftly hitting the other in the base of the neck, knocking him out.

Minato huffed, such a simple day turned into a very complex one, but it was time to get back and tell the Sandaime of todays events. He needed some help with a situation like this. Also calling for Jiraiya to see if he could also help with todays events as well as the blond males mysterious kyuubi.

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